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The Deakin Institute for Frontier Materials is supported by highly specialised, state-of-the-art equipment and facilities that enable rapid discovery, analysis, and translation of advanced materials.
The Deakin Advanced Characterisation Facility unites Deakin’s Electron Microscopy, X-ray (InSitX), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) capabilities on the one campus. It provides advanced characterisation training, services, teaching, and collaborative research for Deakin, university partners, and industry.
The fastAlloy Lab at Deakin Institute for Frontier Materials is purpose-built to accelerate the discovery and development of new metal alloys.
Based at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus, this integrated rapid prototyping lab features a vacuum suction eight-station arc melting furnace guided by AI, enabling researchers to develop and test new alloys in weeks rather than months.
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility at the Deakin Institute for Frontier Materials is equipped with a versatile range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for the detailed characterisation of molecules and materials.
InSitX is a world-first x-ray facility with synchrotron-like capabilities that provides unprecedented capacity to explore the structures of new materials outside of a synchrotron.
Based at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus, InSitX focuses on the application and development of new in-situ and in-operando X-ray experiments to realise material design and discovery.