The Australian National Fabrication Facility

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

ANFF in numbers

24+yrs

215,956 hours of tool usage recorded

3,162

clients helped.

20,620

supplies manufactured

3,569

instances of process training, an increase of 35% on the previous year

630

publications that acknowledged ANFF in the calendar year 2022

62%

involving international researchers from 60+ institutes.

172

experts on hand to assist clients

Casebook

View the 2023 Casebook

ANFF – Connected

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

Breakthroughs with every beat

Breakthroughs with every beat Biotech startup Dynomics creates scalable, authentic cardiac organoids to unlock the root causes of heart failure. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading

March 17, 2025

Moving in the right direction

Moving in the right direction Drivers and pedestrians often need help getting from point A to point B. Paper maps have gone the way of

March 11, 2025

The future of farming on ocean waves

The future of farming on ocean waves University of South Australia researchers’ floating vertical sea farms harness the sun and sea to power self-sustainable greenhouses

March 4, 2025

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.”