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...

Professor Nathan Bindoff and his team at the University of Tasmania are using Raijin to investigate how the Southern ocean drives the Earth's climate systems. "The Earth's poles are actually warmer than you would expect, and the equator is colder than you would expect, on the basis of the way the...

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) are using Raijin to design ultrasensitive biosensors for use in research and medical diagnosis. Led by Professor Andrew Greentree at RMIT University, the team are using computer modelling to design new devices, including...

Australian researchers are using NCI's supercomputer Raijin to develop a way of improving the humidity tolerance of a new type of solar cell technology. The new solar cells, based on a compound with perovskite structures, are cheaper to make than traditional silicon cells but their use in real world...