A unique cutting-edge carbon fibre research facility Carbon Nexus officially opened at Deakin University in Geelong last week. It houses laboratories, a pilot scale carbon fibre line and a smaller single-tow…
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Sometimes in research the answer is right under your nose. In our case, we spent nearly two decades developing exotic materials as artificial muscles – to now show in a paper published in Science today…
Materials shape human progress – think stone age or bronze age. The 21st century has been referred to as the molecular age…
Australian industries have reached a turning point. With old industries on the way out, the Australian manufacturing sector’s biggest challenge is to move from a low-cost mass production model to one that…
Spider silk coated in nano-tubing could become a new material used in everyday electronics. Known as the the toughest material…
Coating liquid metal droplets in a nanoparticle mix creates an extra strong non-stick conductive material that retains its…
Engineers have demonstrated the ability to quickly transform the texture of a plastic, switching from a rough to a smooth…
Earlier this year, an international team of scientists reported that a sample of natural “quasicrystal” found in a Russian mountain range had formed 4.5 billion years ago and arrived on Earth as a meteorite…
An international research team has discovered a new material, superdense aluminium, which has never before been seen on Earth…
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