Offering the potential to: Drive an electric vehicle from Melbourne to Sydney on a single charge Create lightweight batteries for drones and submarines Unlock new avenues in aviation and maritime industries Produce batteries in Australia with Australian lithium, without using cobalt and rare earth minerals. Images Supporting information Media release below
Australian scientists flag dramatic improvement to next-gen perovskite R&D Full paper and images available. Details below. Tests on new designs for next-gen solar cells can now be done in hours instead of days thanks to a new system built by scientists at Australia’s Monash University, incorporating 3D-printed key components. The machine can analyse 16 sample…
Australian invention promises massive boost to lithium production CSIRO and Monash University’s Matthew Hill received the Solomon Award for developing ‘magic crystals’ with dozens of applications from cleaning gases and liquids to mining and drug production. Cheaper cleaner lithium mining for future cars and batteries is the newest application. It’s being developed with US company…
Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing and Amaero Additive manufacturing (3D printing) Powder bed 3D printing Blown powder printing The people Previous success stories Melbourne’s 3D jet engine technology flies into production in France (press release from Nov. 2016) The world’s first printed jet engine (press release from Feb. 2015) Visual materials
$25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize goes to young Melbourne researcher One of Australia’s most creative young medical researchers has won a $25,000 prize to help her develop her ideas on how diet could prevent stroke deaths. Connie Wong thinks we may be able to prevent early deaths following stroke with a fibre-based diet. She…
2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists. Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, have been awarded to 14 outstanding fema…
Marking International Women’s Day, five of the world’s women leaders in science each received the $US100,000 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science at a ceremony in Paris.