The ENIF facility is accessible to all qualified researchers at UNL, other universities, industries, and other laboratories upon payment of the appropriate charges. All users are required to take all appropriate safety training from University Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and obtain appropriate training and instruction from the facility specialist specific to each instrument. To complete training, users must demonstrate sufficient proficiency before and during equipment usage.

Most instruments require a reservation before use. In the unlikely event that more than one researcher simultaneously needs equipment, members of the UNL community receive priority.

In some cases, research collaboration is possible for common research interests and/or if researchers need the equipment's capabilities and experienced examination of samples but cannot use the facilities for themselves. Limited full-service handling and examination of materials are available for these researchers according to the availability of the facility specialist.

Acknowledgement Text

Agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, providing partial support of our Nebraska Nanoscale Facilities and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, require that the following words be included at the end of any acknowledgment section of a paper in which experimental work was done in NNF-NCMN facilities:

The research was performed in part in the Nebraska Nanoscale Facility: National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (and/or NERCF), which are supported by the National Science Foundation under Award ECCS: 2025298, and the Nebraska Research Initiative.