Others had indeed grasped this need already:

    http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/Integrated-facilities/eBIC.html

    http://nramm.nysbc.org/

They're massively oversubscribed, of course - the upside is, a microscope is a lot cheaper than a synchrotron, though the point has been made persuasively that they'll be most effective if they think like a beamline - that's the idea of hosting it at a synchrtron.

phx

On 15/04/2016 00:44, Ho Leung Ng wrote:

Are there central facilities that can provide access to the latest EMs and collect data, like our beloved synchrotrons?


Ho

Ho Leung Ng
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
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