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We look forward to hosting our first user meeting on June 5th, featuring presentations from researchers making use of a broad spectrum of equipment and techniques in the lab. Please register here if interested in joining us for conversation.  Continue Reading »

We are excited to announce our first-ever (MC)² user meeting to be held in NCRC on Monday, June 5, and are seeking current lab users to present about how their research makes use of the center’s characterization equipment. Continue Reading »

(MC)² will host a lunch-and-learn seminar on our new Thermo Fisher Spectra 300 TEM on Wednesday, March 8th, in anticipation of opening training to users soon on the microscope. The seminar will be held in the NCRC Building 32 Auditorium (Rm 1501) from 12-1 PM. Continue Reading »

The winners of the annual (MC)² image contest have been selected. We thank all the lab users who submitted and hope to feature some of the other images in various forms in the future.  Continue Reading »

Congratulations to the winners of our latest image contest, and thanks to everyone who participated. We plan to hold the contest annually in the future with the next iteration to be announced in Spring 2022.  Continue Reading »

In 1987, Dr. John Mansfield joined the University of Michigan as the laboratory manager of the north campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL) and then, from 2005 as the laboratory manager and associate director, successfully growing an initially small transmission electron microscopy facility with 3 TEMs and 1 XPS system, into a much larger materials characterization facility currently serving over 450 users. Continue Reading »