Other landmark facilities

ANSTO’s National Deuteration Facility is Australia’s first biological and chemical deuteration facility.

 

Deuteration is a complex but very useful process used for determining the role of molecules. By adding another neutron to the nucleus of hydrogen atoms they become the unusual non-radioactive isotope deuterium, which is found in heavy water. When used to replace normal hydrogen in molecules, deuterium can show researchers how they are structured and interact in a unique way. Learn more

 

The capacity to characterise matter to see its detailed structure and functioning at an atomic and microscopic level has helped researchers to make breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, from engineering and agriculture, to medicine and archaeology.

 

The Australian Government has commited $50 million to characterisation through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructur e Strategy (NCRIS). The four complementary national facilities supported by NCRIS make advanced equipment and expertise accessible to researchers around Australia on the basis of merit, at reasonable rates. Industry-based researchers can also access the facilities for proprietary research at commercial rates. Learn more

The Australian Synchrotron, in Clayton, Melbourne, is a world class electron-emitting light source. 

 

It is used to generate images and provide elemental, structural and chemical information from diverse samples relating to medicine, agriculture, bioscience, engineering, forensics and environmental science by accelerating electrons to create light beams a million times brighter than the sun.

 

ANSTO is a foundation investor in the Australian Synchrotron and operates the facility through a wholly owned subsidiary, Synchrotron Light Source Australia.

 

Neutron scattering science at ANSTO and accelerator science at the Australian Synchrotron tell researchers different stories about how things work at the molecular level providing a comprehensive picture. Learn more