The Australian National Fabrication Facility

Providing access to micro and nanofabrication services to enable Australia’s innovation agenda.

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The Australian National Fabrication Facility

Providing access to micro and nanofabrication services to enable Australia’s innovation agenda.

ANFF in numbers

24+yrs

208, 262 hours of tool usage recorded

2983

clients helped.

13078

supplies manufactured

4685

instances of process training

640

publications that acknowledged ANFF in the calendar year 2024

61.5%

publications published in the top 10% tier of journals.

135

technical staff members, with 20% being female

458

hours of training provided by ANFF Enlightened

2025 Casebook

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case reports.

ANFF-C

Commercialisation Support “Helping great ideas get to market”

Access to facilities

Work within ANFF facilities can be done through direct access or fee-for-service.

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A one-stop nanofabrication shop

ANFF acquires cutting-edge micro and nanofabrication equipment, ensures its upkeep, and makes it accessible to anyone that wishes to use it. The network is able to exceed the aim of simply making equipment available, thanks to its expert engineers.

Our 100+ process specialists push ANFF’s services further and lower the barrier to successful innovation by providing a mixture of advanced training, expert assistance and process development support that isn’t available anywhere else, while continuing to make access to micro and nanofabrication equipment easy.

News & Events

Job Opportunity: Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) at RMIT Technologist – Thin Film & Plasma Processing

The Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) at RMIT is seeking to appoint a Technologist – Thin Film & Plasma Processing to support the (MNRF), providing specialist

September 7, 2026

Near Field Circuit receives ANFF-C pre-seed funding

Congratulations to industrial designer Jim Hannon-Tan, our latest recipient of an ANFF-C Gate 1 Investment. Jim is developing Signet 01, a sterling-silver ring that turns

August 28, 2026

Valetudo receives ANFF-C pre-seed funding

Congratulations to Valetudo, a company named after the Roman goddess of health, who have been awarded our ANFF-C Gate 1 Investment. Just like their namesake, Valetudo plan to

August 27, 2026

Testimonials

“The advanced equipment and dedicated staff at ANFF enable the fabrication with remarkable quality down to nanoscale,” said Dr Jihua Zhang,

“It’s extremely important that ANFF have helped to bring Fibre Bragg Grating capabilities to the Australian community. I’m really excited, it’s been at least 10 years since we’ve had this kind of access to the facility, and had the opportunity to work genuinely collaboratively.”

"Our work in creating medical sutures containing anti-inflammatory treatments has been supported by ANFF Materials. Together we could see that more than 80 per cent of the anti-inflammatory stayed within the hydrogel, and therefore indicates distinct promise for use in real tissue. We look forward to taking this research further.”