AMBER
AMBER

Ireland: Eastern and Midland (Ireland)

Overview

AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) is a Science Foundation Ireland funded centre, that provides a partnership between leading researchers in materials science and industry. We are researching materials that will transform everyday products of the future, from mobile phones to knee implants, batteries to beer bottles. AMBER links industry to research programs. The  aim of the centre is to develop products that directly impact citizen’s quality of life, such as the development of next generation computer chips and new medical implants and pharmaceuticals that will improve patient care.

AMBER is jointly hosted in Trinity College Dublin by CRANN and the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, in collaboration with University College Cork and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. AMBER brings together Ireland’s leading material science researchers working across the disciplines of Physics, Chemistry, Bioengineering and Medicine; with an international network of collaborators and companies.
… The Advanced Microscopy Lab [http://ambercentre.ie/facilities/#aml] houses a critical mass of high end charged particle microscopes for imaging, characterization and nano-fabrication.

The AML contains a suite of instruments that covers the entire resolution range from transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopies, with spatial resolution up to the atomic scale, to scanning electron and ion beam microscopes for surface imaging and analysis. Many of these microscopy techniques not only support analysis but also can be used for fabrication purposes in the nanoscale range. All of these techniques are managed by a dedicated team of highly trained staff with many years of academic and industrial experience, who can advise on the most appropriate method. Additional metrology, such as XPS, FTIR, and AFM is available.

The equipment suite includes the aberration corrected, atomic resolution, Nion UltraSTEM200 microscope, which was funded by Science Foundation…. We offer the opportunity to collaborate on large scale materials challenges, nationally or internationally [http://ambercentre.ie/engagement/#engagement-overview].
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Sectors
Aeronautics & space - Chemicals - Consumer goods/products - Energy - Environment - Agro-food - Electronics - Healthcare
Technology
Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Monitoring and control - High performance computing / cloud-based simulation services - Additive manufacturing - Intelligent/ sensor-based equipment - Electronic and optical functional materials - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - High performance materials (strong, light weight, resistant) - Materials for energy storage and generation - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Surface engineering and coatings - Polymers, bioplastics - High value food & feed additives - Biobased chemicals - Biofuels - Optoelectronics (optical networks, optical sensors) - Printed/flexible electronics - Memory and storage - Equipment technology - Heterogeneous components & more than Moore (MEMS, NEMS, sensors, transducers) - Heterogeneous integration/embedded systems - Nanomedicine - Nanomembranes - Nanostructured coatings - Nanoparticles Nanowires and tubes - Nanoemulsions and pigments - 2D materials - Photodetectors (solar cells, photo-diodes, photo-transistors) - Laser based applications
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