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.
