Nanofabulous Seminar: Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronics Applications
2023-09-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Zoom link: click here
Meeting ID: 827 8633 2548 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Focused Ion Beam machining of 3D quantum materials
2023-09-14 16:30 - 17:30 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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Meeting ID: 860 4541 7242 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: DNA origami for biotechnological applications
2023-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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Meeting ID: 821 4587 5296 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Matter to Life: Bottom-Up Assembly of Synthetic Cells
2023-11-09 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Prof Joachim P. Spatz
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/en
11:00am 9/11/2023
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
Zoom link: click here
Meeting ID: 863 5742 5847 Passcode: [REDACTED]

ANFF Direct Write Lithography Workshop (DWL)
2024-02-16 | RMIT’s Kaleide Theatre, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Are you a micro- and nanofabrication engineer, technician or researcher looking to stay ahead of the game?
Elevate your expertise by participating in a one-day Direct Write Lithography Workshop.
What to expect:
Insightful sessions — Hear from leading engineers and researchers how they incorporate cutting-edge micro- and nanofabrication techniques.
Tools and techniques — Learn about the latest hardware and software developments from leading tool vendors.
Networking opportunities — Connect with fellow engineers, technicians, tool vendors and service experts to exchange ideas and share experiences.

MCN/ANFF-VIC New Capabilities Workshop
2024-07-23 - 2024-07-24 | New Horizons Bldg (Rm 407/408), 20 Research Way, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Following what has been a multi-year $13.7M update to MCN and ANFF-VIC instrumentation and infrastructure, we are organising a two-day event on the 23-24th July at Monash’s New Horizons Building to help raise awareness of the new capabilities and catalyse new research activity. Please save these dates and register your interest in attending using the link below.
The event is FREE and will be conducted in a hybrid (in-person/zoom) format, but there will be awesome incentives for those who attend in-person, such as free assisted sessions with process engineers on the new capabilities, delicious refreshments and the chance to chat with applications engineers and staff on the finer details of your fabrication and character needs.
New capability talks, including:

Heidelberg MLA150 – Direct-Write Maskless Lithography
3D Micromac AG – Femtosecond Laser Dicing/Marking/Ablation
Eulitha PhableR 100 – Displacement Talbot Lithography
Witec – Confocal Raman Microscopy
Bruker – AFM Conductivity Probing (PF-TUNA)
Oxford, ULVAC & SAMCO – DRIE/RIE & PECVD
Chemspeed et al – Robotic/AI Materials Discovery Glovebox
AJA – Combinatorial Sputtering
and many others…

For more details, visit the Evenbrite, here.
Download the Workshop Program HERE

Nanofabulous Seminar: A new imaging modality in nanomaterials and life sciences
2024-08-15 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Prof Raymond R. Dagastine
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Tiny Bright Things, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia

Nanofabulous Seminar: Engineering biology for human and environmental health
2024-12-18 11:00 - 12:00 | VIC
Prof Ariel L. Furst
Chemical Engineering at MIT, USA.

11:00am, 18/12/2024
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
Zoom link: click here
Meeting ID: 846 8564 5925 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Approaching Angstrom Scale Resolution in Lithography Using a Universal Resist Platform
2025-04-29 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Dr Mohammad S.M. Saifullah
Patterning & Lithography Lead, Eulitha AG, Switzerland;
Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Nanofabulous Seminar: Advancing Confocal Super-Resolution Imaging: From STED to FSTM
2025-05-06 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Prof Junle Qu
Center for Biomedical Photonics,
College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering,
Shenzhen University, China

Nanofabulous Seminar: Nature inspired, microfluidic systems engineering via Shaping of fluids
2025-05-29 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Dr Prasanna Gandhi,
Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Director of Suman Mashruwala Advanced Microengineering Laboratory,
Professor-in-charge of IITB-Monash Research Academy

MCN New User Inductions
2025-07-07 09:30 - 15:30 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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Nanofabulous Seminar: Unveiling the Impact of Nanoscale Membrane Deformation in Cells
2025-07-14 11:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Dr. Wenting Zhao,
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Seminar Flyer: here

Nanofabulous Seminar: Development of Smart Micro-/Nano-formulations for Tumor-targeted Delivery
2025-07-15 15:00 - 16:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Dr. Liang Ee Low,
Lecturer in Monash University Malaysia
Seminar Flyer: here

MCN New User Inductions
2025-07-21 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-08-04 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-08-18 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-01 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-15 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-06 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-20 09:30 - 15:30, 2025-11-17 09:30 - 15:30 and 1 more date | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

Nanofabulous Seminar: Toward Autonomous Science: Nanotechnology and the Rise of Self-Learning Machines
2025-07-31 10:00 - 11:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Prof Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr.
Director, the São Carlos Institute of Physics
The University of São Paulo, Brazil
Zoom link: click here
Meeting ID: 874 0886 6047 and passcode:[REDACTED]
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Nanofabulous Seminar: Mainstreaming Lab Sustainability – MCN’s Actions, Global Relevance, Shared Responsibility
2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Dr. Tatiana Pinedo Rivera
Senior Process Engineer & Team Lead
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN)

MCN Refresher Induction
2025-10-13 10:00 - 11:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

ANFF-C Manufacturing for Startups series 2025
2025-10-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Webex (online seminar)
ANFF-C is pleased to announce that Dr Catherine Lopes will present this upcoming webinar. Dr Catherine Lopes is a renowned leader in Data & AI, with over 25 years of experience driving innovation, governance, and transformation across banking, energy, consulting, and government sectors…. see here for full event details

MSE-MCN Distinguished Seminar – Body-Interfaced Biosensors - Professor Wei Gao
2025-11-06 10:00 - 11:00 | G30–New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
The rise of personalized medicine is reshaping traditional healthcare, enabling predictive analytics and tailored treatment strategies. In this talk, I will discuss our progress in developing wearable, implantable, and ingestible electrochemical biosensors for real-time molecular analysis. These bioelectronic systems autonomously access and sample diverse body fluids—including sweat, interstitial fluid, gastrointestinal fluid, wound exudate, and exhaled breath condensate—enabling continuous monitoring of key biomarkers such as metabolites, nutrients, hormones, proteins, and drugs during various activities. To facilitate scalable, cost-effective manufacturing of these high-performance, nanomaterial-based sensors, we employ laser engraving, inkjet printing, and 3D printing techniques. The clinical utility of our biosensors is being evaluated in human and animal studies, focusing on applications such as stress and mental health assessment, precision nutrition, chronic disease management, and personalized drug monitoring.
Additionally, I will highlight our efforts in energy harvesting from both the body and the environment, opening the door to battery-free, wireless biosensing technologies. By integrating electrochemical biosensing with advanced bioelectronics, we aim to revolutionize personalized healthcare, offering new possibilities for diagnostics, continuous monitoring, and therapeutic interventions.
This is an in-person-only seminar, jointly organised by Monash School of Engineering and Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
10:00am, 06/11/2025
G29/G30, Ground Floor, New Horizons – 20 Research Way, Clayton

Labs Who Care: Towards Sustainable Laboratories Workshop
2025-11-10 09:30 - 15:00 | University of Melbourne, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria, 3053, Australia
This free, hybrid event is proudly organised by the ANFF Sustainability Expert Working Group. As you may remember, last year we launched Labs Who Care, a movement and community focused on integrating sustainability into all aspects of lab life. This year, we’re building on that momentum with new collaborations, including with Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS), who have recently launched a Lab Sustainability Group.

4th DWL Workshop
2026-02-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Webex (online seminar)
Registration open for: DWL Workshop and Webinar Series
The 4th DWL Workshop, proudly sponsored by ANFF, will be held on Monday February 2, 2026, at the University of Sydney. Join researchers, scientists, and micro/nanofabrication experts for this one-day event exploring the latest in direct write lithography (DWL) including electron, photon, ion beam and more! Educational webinars will also begin in November 2025.
Click here to register and for more information
Want to present at the workshop?
We’re calling on researchers, scientists, and experts in micro and nanofabrication to share their insights at the “Innovative Research in Direct Write Lithography Workshop.” If you’re working on new techniques, applications, or advancements in direct write lithography, we want to hear from you. For details on how to submit your abstract, click here.
* Please be aware that the webinar you’ll be watching is a pre-recorded session. After the presentation, there will be a live Q&A segment.
Keynote speaker at the 4th DWL Workshop:

Gerald G. Lopez, Ph.D. Director of Operations and Business & Center Associate Director Singh Center for Nanotechnology
University of Pennsylvania | MAEBL Co-Founder and Board Chair | EIPBN Operations Trustee
