The funding will go towards the installation of a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) with double aberration corrector, which will have technical specifications that will provide it with “great versatility, precision and resolution”.

This microscope opens the door to the study of carbon-based nanostructures, highly electron-sensitive inorganic compounds, as well as purely organic materials and many fields of research that could benefit from its use.

This funding is granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation for its investment in two Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ITCS), awarding 5.8 million euros to the University of Zaragoza.

The remaining 2.2 million euros will go towards the start-up of Caesaragusta IV, a new Supercomputing system that will allow the Caesaragusta supercomputer of the “Spanish Supercomputing Network” housed in the Aragon Supercomputing Centre (CESAR) of the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) to be upgraded.

The Rector of the University of Zaragoza, José Antonio Mayoral, and the Regional Minister of Science, University and Knowledge Society, Maru Díaz, highlighted “the transcendence” of this funding that will allow both facilities to act as “motors of socio-economic development at a regional, national and international level“.

Laboratorio de Microscopías Avanzadas

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