NECL is a service  provider network that comprises the laboratories in Portugal with relevant equipment  for the study and characterization of advanced materials under extreme conditions of temperature (low and high temperatures), intense magnetic fields (static and pulsed), intense electric fields, high hydrostatic pressures, and  sub-femtosecond ultrafast dynamics. The services are relevant in diverse fields of knowledge with emphasis on studies of materials with applications in nanotechnology,  pharmaceutical, health sciences, geology, among others.

At NECL we care about critical resources and recycle helium used for our research experiments!

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IFIMUP

Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics is a physics Research Unit of the University of Porto.

C2TN

Centre for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies is a research center from Instituto Superior Técnico located in Sacavém, Lisbon.

BioISI & CQB

BioISI-MagNano and Centro de Química e Bioquímica-SSC are research centers from Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon.