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National Graphene Institute

The National Graphene Institute is a research institute and building at the University of Manchester, England, that is focused on the research of graphene. Construction of the building to house the institute started in 2013 and finished in 2015.

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The creation of the institute, including the construction of the building, cost £61 million. Funded by the UK Government (£38 million) and the European Union's European Regional Development Fund (£23 million), the building is the national centre for graphene research in the UK. It provides facilities for industry and university academics to collaborate on graphene applications and the commercialisation of graphene. The building was opened on 20 March 2015 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. == Building ==
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The five-storey glass-fronted building provides of research space. This includes of class 100 and class 1000 clean rooms, one of which occupies the entire lower ground floor (in order to minimise vibrations) The outside of the building consists of a composite cladding, with an external stainless steel 'veil'. remaining open until 1868 when it was used as an extension to the Manchester Southern Hospital for Women and Children. The building was demolished in the 1960s, and the site was used for the construction of the Lamb Building. The excavations that took place in February 2013 by Oxford Archaeology North, prior to the construction of the institute, uncovered the remnants of the club building along with a row of five cellars belonging to 1830s terraced housing. A sink removed from the site has been incorporated into the institute's new building.The stone sink was plumbed in with both cold feed supply and waste pipework by A .Armstrong of Balfour Beatty who completed both the mechanical and Electrical installations throughout the new build of NGI As the main clean room of the new building is now located below ground level, the remains of the Albert Club were not conserved. ==Gallery==
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File:Excavations at the site of the National Graphene Institute 19.jpg|Excavations at the site of the institute. File:National Graphene Institute.jpg|The National Graphene Institute under construction in August 2014. File:National Graphene Institute 2016.jpg|The building in 2016. == References ==
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