Funding is requested to acquire and install at the Regional Institute for Applied Scientific Research (IRICA) the first high-resolution electronic scanning microscope (HRSEM) in Castilla-La Mancha. A HRSEM is an advanced variant of SEM, its resolution is closer to that of transmission microscopes (TEM). However, it maintains the flexibility and ease of preparation of specimens characteristic of scanning microscopy, making it a technique of greater industrial use and easier to use for many research groups. It also presents the possibility of obtaining resolution images around 1 nm using STEM (SEM with transmitted electrons) in sufficiently thin samples, in particular biological material prepared with ultramicrotome or nanoparticle dispersions in thin films. In addition to these image performance, the new HRSEM would be equipped with powerful compositional analysis (EDS) and crystallographic texture (EBSD) tools. Being, therefore, a truly useful instrumentation in science and engineering of (bio)materials._x000D_ The team that endorses the proposal is highly interdisciplinary and consists of 12 groups from different areas of Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Biomedicine, currently working on one of the most recognised emerging technologies, nanotechnology.