Facilities
![Ceremonial key-handover on 11 October 2012 Left to right: Erlangen public authority chief Dieter Maußner, EAM Co-coordinator Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, and EAM Coordinator Prof. Wolfgang Peukert](https://fps.cms.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/files/2021/07/weihung-300x201-1.jpg)
FPS was developed from research Area A1 of the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials (EAM) and represents a central part of FAU’s interdisciplinary research on particle technology. It provides around 1,400 m2 of laboratory space including 4 chemistry labs, 1 technical hall and > 60 workplaces. Additionally, FPS is equipped with unique devices, mostly financed according to DFGs major instrumentation programme including various aspects of synthesis and characterization as well as processing of nanoparticles: