Providing instrumentation, education, services and collaboration in the characterization of engineering, earth and biological materials.
Shared instrumentation facilities: Benefiting researchers and universities, and sustaining research excellence —
read the full MRS Bulletin on how the Characterization Facility facilitates research
CharFac is now partially supported by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program. NNCI support will “help scientists and engineers in diverse fields solve challenging convergent research problems.”
Support from NSF will allow us to recruit more users and therefore keep the usage cost as low as possible.
Statement to include in all publications and presentations containing/describing results obtained in the CharFac: "Parts of this work were carried out in the Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, which receives partial support from the NSF through the MRSEC (Award Number DMR-2011401) and the NNCI (Award Number ECCS-2025124) programs".
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