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Summary of Materials World Network Proposals
Victoria
The University of Melbourne
LX0668851 Prof F Caruso; Prof NL Abbott
Approved Project Title: Materials World Network: Nanostructured
Polymer Templating of Liquid Crystals
2006: $100,000
2007: $100,000
2008: $100,000
Primary RFCD 2918 INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING
Collaborating Countries
USA
Administering Institution The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
Liquid crystals have a range of technological applications, with the
most successful being displays used in computers, watches and calculators.
These applications are dependent on controlling the interfaces of liquid
crystals. This project will combine the areas of liquid crystals and
polymer adsorption for the preparation of a new class of intelligent
nanomaterials with well defined properties. These engineered materials
are of interest in industrial applications, including the development
of chemical and biological sensors and drug delivery vehicles. This program
also strengthens the ties between two world class nanotechnology groups,
capturing new opportunities in nanostructured materials.
LX0669165 Prof AB Holmes; Prof CK Ober; Prof G Malliaras
Approved Project Title: Materials World Network Synthesis and
Processing Optoelectronic Materials in Supercritical and Condensed
Phase Carbon Dioxide
2006: $25,000
2007: $25,000
2008: $25,000
Primary RFCD 2505 MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Collaborating Countries
USA
Administering Institution The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
The Australian partner will have leveraged access to the skill base and
facilities of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, and the NSF
MRSEC that leads the world in frontier technologies in advanced materials.
The partnership will deliver to Australia progress in national priority
goals "Frontier Technologies" and new manufacturing technologies
in environmentally friendly media that will enhance the national research
priority "An Environmentally Sustainable Australia". New transferable
skills will be acquired by the participants in the project. Technology
transfer could result in the formation of spinoff companies to exploite
the intellectual property arising in the project.
Western Australia
The University of Western Australia
LX0668968 A/Prof TG St Pierre; Dr RC Woodward; Prof
JS Riffle; A/Prof RM Davis; Dr M Saunders
Approved Project Title: Materials World Network for the Study
of Macromolecular Ferrofluids
2006: $50,000
2007: $50,000
2008: $50,000
Primary RFCD 2914 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
Collaborating Countries
USA
Administering Institution The University of Western
Australia
Project Summary
This work will develop an understanding that will allow us to optimise
the properties of ferrofluids (magnetic liquids) to suit particular applications.
Although the primary application that will be investigated is the treatment
of retinal detachment, the results will be applicable to a wide range
of applications including ferrofluid based actuators, electromagnetic
micropumps and fluid based valves and sealing systems. During the course
of this work, young Australian scientists will be trained in a cross
disciplinary environment in a variety of aspects of both nano and bio
technology that are a key part of the National Research Priority: Frontier
Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries.
