Bragg Centre Facilities Open House 2026

Join us for a tour of the Bragg Centre’s nine experimental facilities and discover for yourself just what goes on within the Bragg Centre for Materials Research!

The tour will give you behind-the-scenes access to our world-class facilities and provide a taste of the inspiring materials research going on at the Bragg Centre. You will also meet the experts that run our facilities, and learn the answers to questions such as;

• How can we take a picture of something that is smaller than a single hair?
• How could we find out the size of an Aero bubble without ever cutting into it?
• How do you make a film that is only 1 atom thick?
• How clean is a nanotechnology cleanroom?

Book onto a two hour guided tour, with slots leaving every 15 minutes.

This tour is open and accessible to everybody across the University. You do not need to be a scientist or involved in Research to enjoy this opportunity to learn about our Bragg Centre Facilities!

Featuring:

- The X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Facility
- The Royce Deposition System
- The Versatile X-ray Spectroscopy Facility (VXSF)
- The Small & Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS) Facility
- The Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Facility
- Leeds Electron Microscopy & Spectroscopy (LEMAS) Facility
- Leeds Nanotechnology Cleanroom
- The Advanced Coatings Facility
- The X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) Facility

Important Information
This tour involves walking in the Sir William Henry Bragg Building. The tour will also involve standing for the majority of the event. If you have accessibility concerns please do contact the BraggCentre@leeds.ac.uk and we will explore how we can support your engagement with this tour.