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I'm Arie Van Riessen, from Curtin's Electron Microscope Facility.
My team and I are in the business of making the unseen, visible.
For 25 years, the Electron Microscope Facility team has brought this cutting-edge technology
into focus for the pioneers of science. Not only on campus, but also for external organisations.
These are people who use the equipment for ground-breaking research, from discovering
previously unknown life forms, dating billion year old crystals, to creating new medical
treatments.
The electron microscope was an essential tool in designing the ideal ceramic membrane for
producing oxygen.
This innovation is making the production of oxygen using membranes commercially viable,
and it won the 2013 University Commercial Innovation Award.
In 2014 we expect delivery of a 3 million dollar Atom Probe, the first of this kind
in the state.
This amazing instrument builds a 3D image of a sample, literally, one atom at a time.
Over the years it's been our mission, the serious work of making this multi-million
dollar facility as usable as possible to those at the frontiers of research.
It's always been work we enjoy, enabling each new visitor to contribute to the university's
growing reputation by helping them image with these powerful microscopes.
And that's something we like to see.