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Industry sectors
Nuclear techniques are useful in many different sectors including:
- Advanced materials: ceramics, polymers, biomaterials, semiconductors, magnetic, superconducting and battery materials, opto-electronics
- Agriculture: plant cells, plant tissues, plant cell and root uptakes, soil analysis
- Biomedical: new diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic techniques
- Defence industries: new materials, sensors, heavy metal analysis
- Environmental technologies and services: analysis of soils, fresh and salt water, air and atmospheric samples, pollutants, toxins and contaminants, environmental remediation
- Food technology: analysis of food ingredients and packaging materials, product and process development
- Forensics: broad range of analytical capabilities, development of new techniques
- Manufacturing: metal alloys, catalysts, engineered components, stress analysis, fibres and textiles, adhesives, polymers and plastics, surfaces, interfaces and coatings
- Medical: new diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic techniques, high-throughput structural biology
- Minerals: mineral exploration, mineral processing
- Nanotechnology and microtechnology: advanced nano- and micro-device manufacturing, micro-circuits, sensors
- Oil and gas: exploration, pipeline reactions, fuel processing, fuel cells
- Pharmaceuticals: analysis of proteins, nucleic acids and viruses, cell imaging, quality control monitoring, bio-mimetic materials (artificial skin or organs), identification of drug targets, assessment of drug candidates
- Scientific instruments: detector technologies, measurement techniques, medical implants, delivery systems
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