18 Apr 2019
Creating a super thin light absorber
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
02 Apr 2019
Materials design using machine learning
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
12 Mar 2019
New materials for smart filters
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
10 Oct 2018
Producing the electronics of the future
Researchers from one of NCI’s newest Affiliate Partners, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), are using the NCI supercomputer to discover the building
28 Sep 2018
Enhancing catalysis for industry impact
A major use case for high-performance computing in research comes from the detailed modelling of atomic interactions. Whether for materials design or chemical analysis, being able to understand the
29 Sep 2017
Nanoparticles for industrial catalysis
Professor Tiffany Walsh and her team from Deakin University is working with international collaborators to understand what makes certain kinds of nanoparticles good at catalysing chemical reactions
04 Aug 2017
Exciting New Compounds for Light Harvesting
In our transition to a more-carbon neutral environment, the development of new building materials for the collection of solar energy is a big goal. Incorporating passive solar energy collectors into
01 Jun 2017
New materials for energy storage
Energy storage and energy generation technology is improving thanks to the work of Professor Maria Forsyth and her group from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science. "What we do in
12 May 2017
Scientists find most efficient way to pack grains and drugs
Scientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains and pharmaceutical
28 Mar 2017
Exploring the physics of two-dimensional materials
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney are investigating the properties of a wide variety of 2-dimensional materials. These materials, made of one atom thick sheets, have radically
