Volcanic ash is entirely different from the bushfire or backyard barbeque ash that most Australians are familiar with. It's abrasive and corrosive rock, formed from small particles of fragmented lava which travel vast distances, leaving a passage of devastation in its place. To help reduce the...

Encouraged by computations carried out on Raijin, ANU chemists have created a star-shaped molecule previously thought impossible to make. The work could lead to more efficient ways to make medicinal agents, said lead researcher, Professor Michael Sherburn from the ANU Research School of Chemistry....

Researchers are using supercomputing to stop fungal pathogens in their tracks and help secure our food crops. Alison Testa from Curtin University has developed a sophisticated, self-training software that can help to identify which fungal genes are responsible for crop disease. "There are several...

Antonio Tricoli and Noushin Nasri test their mobile sensor. Photo by Stuart Hay/ANU. Smart phones are getting smarter by the minute. They already help us plan transport routes, check the weather and take pictures. What if they could also diagnose diabetes or lung cancer? Dr Antonio Tricoli and his...

Researchers from Adelaide University have used Raijin to work out how to control the transport of molecules across membranes using a 'light switch'. These artificial smart membranes harbor 'photoswitchable' peptides that change shape depending on what light wavelength they are exposed to. "The...

Researchers have used Raijin to find new ways to understand how organic surfaces get dirty. A combination of organic synthesis, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging, density functional theory calculations and access to the NCI's supercomputing facility has led to this revelation. The work is...

Researchers from University of Technology Sydney and Australian Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) are using Raijin to predict the existence of new high temperature, strong and ductile alloys. The new alloys could be suited to a wide range of applications from aircraft engine materials, to...

Dr David Poger from the University of Queensland has been using Raijin to understand bacterial membranes. "Using Raijin I simulate a simplified model of the lipids that form bacterial membranes," explains Dr Poger. "I take a patch of membrane and change the molecules from one model to the other and...

Among the 10 PB of research data collections hosted by NCI is the fascinating Geoscience Australia Australian Marine Video and Imagery Collection. This collection comprises 7 TB of video footage and still photographs of the seafloor offshore from Australia and Antarctica, collected on more than 20...

NCI's supercomputer-grade NeCTAR cloud node is helping researchers design more efficient solar cells. PhD candidate Bjӧrn Sturmberg from the University of Sydney has set up a custom environment on the cloud to research a new type of nanostructure for use in 'tandem' solar cells. The aim is to use...