Thursday 12 May 2016 A collaborative research project between the University of Sydney and the Californian Institute of Technology has solved a long standing geological mystery – just how the distinct bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain came to be. Using NCI's Raijin supercomputer, the...

Wednesday 25 May 2016 A breakthrough by an Australian collaboration of researchers could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices, and boosting applications of technology to a host of new areas, such as...

Raijin is helping researchers to track variations in the Sun's activity over recent millennia. Dr Andrew Smith at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been making trips to Antarctica for almost two decades, bringing back ice cores for analysis. He is searching for...

Nanopillars such as these can produce light using electrons bouncing around inside them. See this paper for more information. Discoveries in nanotechnology are leading to new classes of optical devices, so-called optoelectronic devices, being developed. Translating electric signals into optical ones...

In a time where global positioning devices are cheap and plentiful, it's actually becoming harder than ever to define where exactly 'here' is. For example, global processes such as plate tectonics ensure that 'here' is never quite in the same place. As demand for centimetre precision increases, this...

ARC Future Fellow Professor Michelle Coote and her team from The Australian National University have used Raijin to double the efficiency of solar cells. In a dye-sensitised solar cell, the dye absorbs sunlight, causing the dye to change form and release an electron which generates electricity. A...

Researchers from UNSW are using NCI's supercomputer to pinpoint the 'sweet spot' of new carbon capture materials. Current materials for capturing carbon from power plant exhaust tend to bind CO2 too effectively. This causes problems when the carbon needs to be released again for sequestration or...

Researchers are using Raijin to perform the deepest ever search of our galaxy for neutron stars. The discoveries will help test Einstein's theory of general relativity. "It's not possible to test Einstein's general theory of relativity easily in our solar system because our stars are just not heavy...

ARC Future Fellow Dr Katya Pas from Monash University is using Raijin to pioneer the potentially industry-revolutionising field of ionic liquids. Current industry processes, such as making paper from cellulose, use toxic organic solvents that break down and evaporate at high temperatures. "Ionic...