The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) is a new research building to be built on a green field site within the Australian Synchrotron Precinct.

MCN will have a total building area of approximately 3,400 square metres, and is designed specifically to accommodate the inter-disciplinary research work that incorporates office and cellular team based work places, laboratory spaces and highly specialised clean rooms which are the core of the total facility, where highly sensitive equipment and apparatus are used for the investigation and preparation of nanoscale structures and materials.

The clean rooms will have air-filtering and conditioning specified to the highest standards to provide ultra clean filtered air, tightly controlled and stable environmental conditions for the efficient and successful operational requirements that will be demanded for Nanofabrication research.  Essentially the clean rooms follow the ‘house-in-house’ principle being individual rooms or pods within an overall enveloping outer larger pod or pavilion building.