New facility set to ‘revolutionise UK research’ into tiny particles

Core Mis

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CoreMIS centre in Oxfordshire will give scientists access to suite of microscopy and spectroscopy instruments

A new £750,000 facility housing ‘state-of-the-art’ microscopes has been opened in Oxfordshire by the government’s chief scientific adviser, Dame Angela McLean.

The UK Centre for Multimodal Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CoreMIS) offers users access to electron microscopy, fluorescent microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and x-ray techniques that can be combined for detailed analysis of samples within a single instrument.