A big thank you to our ANU Open Day volunteers: Zuzana, Tom, Jack, and Misty. Armed with a classroom Van de Graaff, flying pie tins, and an Anna doll, they demonstrated the principles of static electricity that generate 15 million volts at HIAF and accelerate protons to plutonium. ⚡⚛️

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Our Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) PDS 2010 system provides ultra-thin, pinhole-free and uniform Parylene coatings for a wide range of advanced applications including #medicaldevices #electronics #aerospace and #defence.

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Congrats to ecoJet Engineering, a recipient of pre-seed funding from ANFF-C. This company innovates high-performance turbomachinery technologies for scalable energy solutions.
#NCRIS #ANFFNetwork #EnergySolutions #Fabrication #Commercialisation

🌊 Wonderful to see many #NCRIS people at the National Marine Science Strategy launch. The strategy aims to enable the #ocean economy while addressing threats to Australia's #coasts and oceans. TERN Australia helps monitor coastal ecosystems and sea-level inundation.

It was great to host our ANFF colleagues from Optofab Adelaide. As different nodes with specialised capabilities, it was a great opportunity to show ANFF-SA’s Mawson Lakes facilities.

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Congratulations to Lumina Corp, a recipient of pre-seed funding from ANFF. This photonics technology firm designs compact optical components to control light on a microchip.
#NCRIS #ANFFNetwork #Photonics #Quantum #Commercialisation

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Congratulations to Photon Foundry, a recipient of pre-seed funding from ANFF for its optimised single-photon emitters for quantum technologies. #NCRIS #ANFFNetwork #Nanofabrication #Commercialisation #Quantum

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#NCRIS #ANFFNetwork #AdvancedManufacturing #Nanotechnology #Microfluidics #Translation #Commercialisation #Newsletter @anff-sa.com

SA-made precision mirrors head to USA for LIGO upgrade

✈️ SA-made precision mirrors head to USA for LIGO Laboratory upgrade

Innovations supported by Adelaide University researchers and South Australian advanced manufacturing.

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#NCRIS #FutureIndustriesInstitute #spacescience #ANFF #advancedmanufacturing

Grains of sand prove people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge rocks A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and transported.

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#Geoscience #NCRIS #AuScope #Geochronology #Research #CurtinUniversity #JohndeLaeterCentre

Advancing Subsurface Monitoring Through AuScope and CO2CRC — AuScope A collaboration between AuScope and CO2CRC is strengthening Australia’s capability to observe and interpret subtle subsurface processes associated with CO2 injection and storage, while also delivering...

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#NCRIS #Geoscience #CO2Storage #SubsurfaceMonitoring #Research

Contributing to open and accessible training with 500+ bioinformatics resources — Australian BioCommons The Galaxy Training Network offers tutorials covering everything from genomics to machine learning. These self-paced resources combine videos and worked examples, allowing researchers to master…

Looking to level up your data analysis skills? 💻🧬

The @galaxyproject.bsky.social Training Network now features 500+ free tutorials (with 37 contributed by our very own BioCommons team!). Plus, all workflows are now integrated with WorkflowHub 🔗 buff.ly/R2oSQoL

#Bioinformatics #NCRIS

#AuScope #Geoscience #NCRIS #WomenInSTEM #Leadership

Building on that foundation, IMOS’ second decade focused on expanding capability, strengthening partnerships, and translating ocean data into real-world impact.

#NCRIS #20YearsOfIMOS

We had a fantastic time hosting a group of interns from Nova Systems at the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.

This group learned how we use the accelerator and the space irradiation beamline to test the radiation hardness of aerospace devices.

#NCRIS #NCRISImpact #NSQN #HIAFSIBL

Fabrication pushes innovation towards success Ideas often start in small ways. With the right support, they can change the world. Across Australia and internationally, innovators are using micro‑ and nanofabrication to turn promising ideas into r...

Innovation rarely arrives fully formed. More often, it takes the right tools, expertise and persistence to move from possibility to progress. Micro‑ and nanofabrication help promising work move forward with confidence. #NCRIS #ReCreateIt #Q-Sera #Phaseslides #ONJCRI #TheGoodsideProject #SANano

HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons - Annual Summer School | ARDC The Summer School is an annual event run by the ARDC for researchers and Indigenous data custodians to learn digital research skills through learning activities, networking and mentorship.

🌞That’s a wrap on the ARDC Summer School! A big week of digital skills, FAIR + CARE & learning to use national #HASS + Indigenous research data infrastructure. Catch the highlights in the wrap‑up article👇
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Clean hydrogen made from seawater and sunlight could help power Australia’s net‑zero future.
Discover research led by Prof. Zongyou Yin @scienceanu.bsky.social, supported by expert microscopist @rfwebster.net from our UNSW facility – enabled by NSW govt & #NCRIS.
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HIA has been successful in our bid to join the European Union and CERN's RADNEXT 2030 project as an associated partner.

Thank you to Daniel Söderström from CERN for visiting HIAF and InSpace's Anupam Kumar Pilli for coordinating this with us.

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#AURIN #UrbanResearch #AURINNetwork #AURINImpact #HardToGetData #HardToDoAnalytics #ConnectedByWater2026 #ConnectedByWater #AWA #WaterSector #WaterConferences #DigitalResearchInfrastructure #NationalResearchPriorities #UrbanAnalytics #NCRIS #NCRISimpact

#AURIN #DSpark #UrbanResearch #AURINNetwork #AURINImpact #DsparkMobilityData #AFL #HardToGetData #HardToDoAnalytics #DigitalResearchInfrastructure #NationalResearchPriorities #UrbanAnalytics #NCRIS #NCRISimpact

The #NCRIS Directors that manage Earth and Environment national infrastructure were in the field today, finding out about the #researchinfrastructure used by Griffith University & Seaworld to study jellyfish for #conservation and restoration projects around Australia's coast.

Optical Fibre Technology Advances GPS‑Free Navigation with AEA Grant Modern navigation still has a single point of failure – and it’s more fragile than most people realise. When GPS drops out due to jamming, obstruction or simple unavailability, navigation becomes a se...

🧭 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘗𝘚 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵? Researchers at Adelaide University are working with Northrup Grumman and Norseld to develop hollow-core optical fibres for next-gen optical gyroscopes. #NCRIS #ANFFOptoFabAdelaide #Photonics #Navigation #AdvancedManufactiring #Gyroscope

🌟 Equipment Highlight 🌟

Accretech Wafer Dicer SS20 is a precision dicing system. Supports multi-channel dicing (up to 4 dicing channels at different angles) and circular cutting. Flexibility for diverse device geometries and research applications.

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WEBINAR: The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills, roles and careers — Australian BioCommons Join Dr Simon Breeden to discuss the background, development and impact of the Technician Commitment, an internationally recognised initiative that is driving culture change for the technical communit...

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#ResearchInfrastructure #NCRIS #AustralianScience #ResearchCapability #ScienceInfrastructure #DataInfrastructure #ResearchSupport #STEMWorkforce

How can we boost the careers of bioinformaticians, software engineers, core facility staff and the people behind Australia’s Research infrastructure?

Register for our #NCRIS Partners webinar, which will explore 'The Technician Commitment' in driving cultural change for the technical community.

Hear from AURIN Director Prof. Pascal Perez on how AURIN supports housing, climate, energy and health research. Watch the video: http://bit.ly/4bF0E1A🎥

#AURIN #UrbanResearch #AURINNetwork #AURINImpact #HardToGetData #HardToDoAnalytics #DigitalResearchInfrastructure #NCRIS #UrbanAnalytics

The way Earth’s surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

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#EarthScience #ClimateScience #CarbonCycle #Geodynamics #ResearchInfrastructure #NCRIS #AuScope

💥 Free ANFF-SA workshop on our newly installed Bruker ContourX-200 3D Optical Profilometer.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 4th February 2026
⏰ Time: 10am-12pm (30minute sessions)
📌 Where: ANFF-SA ISO-class cleanroom at Adelaide University’s Mawson Lakes campus

Enquiries: julia.smithson@adelaide.edu.au

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Industry innovations forged through ANFF ANFF helps its industry partners develop real, usable technologies by giving them access to the right tools and expert support. Across the country, industry leaders are using this support to advance b...

WearOptimo, Diraq, R. McMahon Watchmakers, Syenta, Hysata and Vaxxas are pushing Australian tech forward with support from ANFF — from biosignal wearables to quantum processors to green hydrogen and needle‑free vaccines.
#NCRIS #Innovation #Fabrication #MedTech #GreenTech #Quantum #Semiconductors