Materials

Materials science research aims to discover new materials and manufacturing processes to use in the next generation of medical devices, communication systems, energy production and more. At the most fundamental level, researchers are modelling the behaviours of individual atoms within complex molecules to understand their intricacies.

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06 Jul 2022

Battery technologies of the present and future

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2020-2021 Annual Report. Every item and process in our lives is made up of technologies, discoveries and inventions that have been combined

Research Highlights

16 May 2022

Modelling new materials for a sustainable future

Chemistry

Materials

Industrial processes and the combustion of fossil fuels have well-established detrimental impacts on public health and the environment. To help lessen these processes’ contributions to climate change

Bushfire among trees in Australia, November 2019

Research Collaborations

04 Nov 2021

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Earth and Environmental Science

Health

Materials

Technology

NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s

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Research Highlights

27 Apr 2021

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the 2021 Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). The highly competitive Grants will allow researchers to work on some

A strip of grass leads to an upright tyre.

Research Highlights

27 May 2020

New rubber creates path for greener tyres

Chemistry

Materials

THE CHALLENGE The idiom ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ has been a part of our lives for decades. Three little words have gone on to save countless tonnes of rubbish from landfill, and remain an important

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Research Highlights

10 Aug 2019

New materials for future technologies

Materials

Materials scientists working at the cutting-edge of chemistry and physics need to drill down to the atomic level to properly understand the compounds they are dealing with. Materials scientists used

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Case Studies

24 Jul 2019

Materials

Materials science research aims to discover new materials and manufacturing processes to use in the next generation of medical devices, communication systems, energy production and more. At the most

A scientific diagram showing incoming light beams being carried sideways through the layers of a complex molecular material.

Research Highlights

18 Apr 2019

Creating a super thin light absorber

Materials

If you look at the sun through a sheet of paper, you can see the light shining through. Now imagine you take that sheet of paper and shave it into 720 separate layers, each 90 nanometres thick

Overlay of the predicted global minimum crystal structure (purple) with the experimentally determined crystal structure for molecule 1. Hydrogen atoms are hidden.

Research Highlights

02 Apr 2019

Materials design using machine learning

Chemistry

Materials

The complex task of developing future materials, built on the stable crystal forms of new molecules with outstanding properties, relies on the speed and power only available through supercomputing. By

The atomic structure of a Metal Organic Framework, with interlaced atoms offering gaps, effectively creating the porous structure.

Research Highlights

12 Mar 2019

New materials for smart filters

Materials

Technology

Gas mask technology has existed for over a century yet the way they work has not changed very much. Originally, the filters used activated charcoal to adsorb – to chemically attract impurities to the

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Materials

Battery technologies of the present and future

Modelling new materials for a sustainable future

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

New rubber creates path for greener tyres

New materials for future technologies

Materials

Creating a super thin light absorber

Materials design using machine learning

New materials for smart filters

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