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

3rd ANFF Labs Who Care Workshop

Lab Sustainability The ANFF Sustainability Expert Working Group (EWG) is excited to invite you to the 3rd Labs Who Care: Lab Sustainability Workshop, happening on

August 13, 2026

Job Opportunity: ANFF-SA Facility Manger

ANFF-SA is a world-class micro and nanofabrication facility providing access to cutting-edge research infrastructure as part of the wider ANFF network. The facility includes additive,

August 10, 2026

NeoDuoFlo receives ANFF-C pre-seed funding

Congratulations to our Gate 1 recipient, NeoDuoFlo®, the brainchild of Franki Coulthurst, an experienced neonatal intensive care nurse looking after the tiniest but mightiest members

July 31, 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.”