NFFA : nanoscience foundries and fine analysis

The Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis Project (NFFA) is a FP7-funded Design Study for the definition of a novel European distributed research infrastructure with an advanced standard in modelling, synthesis, characterization and fine analysis facilities. NFFA will provide an advanced platform in nanoscience and nanotechnology by integrating the benefits of advanced fine analysis methods (based on radiation sources at the Large Scale Facilities, LSF) with advanced synthesis and nanofabrication also at the atomic scale. Both academic and industrial users will have access to state-ofthe-art instrumentation and methods for designing, synthesis and fabrication in research programs benefiting from access to LSF: Free-Electron-Laser, Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Beams for advanced fine analysis experiments in a wide energy and time domain range. Conversely, all fine analysis experiments at LSF that require nanoscale or atomic scale precision in sample definition will greatly benefit from prior or simultaneous access to NFFA centres providing synthesis, complementary experiments and adequate metrology. In full agreement with the EU policy in matter of Research Infrastructures, NFFA will operate in open access mode based on scientific merit of proposals and free of charge.