Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE140100193
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$700,000.00
Summary
Super High Resolution Correlative Microscopy: New Research Capability for Bioengineering, Clean Energy, Mineral Processing and Environmental Sciences. Super high resolution correlative microscopy: new research capability for bioengineering, clean energy, mineral processing and environmental sciences: This project will establish the first facility for super high resolution correlative microscopy in Australia. This facility will underpin breakthrough science by providing the capability to combine ....Super High Resolution Correlative Microscopy: New Research Capability for Bioengineering, Clean Energy, Mineral Processing and Environmental Sciences. Super high resolution correlative microscopy: new research capability for bioengineering, clean energy, mineral processing and environmental sciences: This project will establish the first facility for super high resolution correlative microscopy in Australia. This facility will underpin breakthrough science by providing the capability to combine and overlay conventional and super high resolution light microscopy information with electron microscopy information on identical sample locations. This new capability will foster advances in the fundamental understanding of multiscale hybrid organic and inorganic structures and spur the development of advanced (nano)materials and devices with broad applications in bioengineering and biofouling, advanced materials for life sciences, clean energy, water and the environment and mineral processing.Read moreRead less
Unravelling the dominant drivers of ion specificity. This project aims to understand what governs the sensitivity of many technological and biological processes to the precise nature of the salt present in solution. The term ‘ion-specific’ encompasses all the circumstances in which the influence of a salt in solution depends on the precise chemical nature of the salt, not just the electrical charge on the ions that form the salt. As such, ion-specific effects abound and have important consequenc ....Unravelling the dominant drivers of ion specificity. This project aims to understand what governs the sensitivity of many technological and biological processes to the precise nature of the salt present in solution. The term ‘ion-specific’ encompasses all the circumstances in which the influence of a salt in solution depends on the precise chemical nature of the salt, not just the electrical charge on the ions that form the salt. As such, ion-specific effects abound and have important consequences in most situations involving solutions, including cellular functions and battery technology. This project will enable us to understand and control the influence of specific ions, building on our recently described fundamental ion-specific series with colloid science experiments and quantum simulations. This project should overcome current challenges in predicting ion-specific effects leading to progress in a wide variety of applications of colloid and interface science, from sensor interfaces to self-assembly.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE120100021
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$150,000.00
Summary
A diagnostics platform for advanced plasma-chemical analysis. A wide range of production processes involve the use of plasmas to modify materials, but they are not well understood. This project will give Australian researchers the tools to look inside plasma processes and fully characterise them for the first time, unlocking new knowledge and providing new insight into the plasma processing environment.
Nanoparticle regulation of DNA replication and repair pathways. This project aims to understand how physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles influence how cells respond with respect to maintenance of their DNA integrity. It will use an innovative set of cross-disciplinary methodologies to link what nanoparticle parameters can lead to a benign fate in the environment. The project expects to generate new knowledge of how our ecosystem can be fundamentally impacted by nanoscale materials. ....Nanoparticle regulation of DNA replication and repair pathways. This project aims to understand how physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles influence how cells respond with respect to maintenance of their DNA integrity. It will use an innovative set of cross-disciplinary methodologies to link what nanoparticle parameters can lead to a benign fate in the environment. The project expects to generate new knowledge of how our ecosystem can be fundamentally impacted by nanoscale materials. The intended outcome of the project is to position Australia as a world leader in the manufacture of environmentally benign, advanced nano-scale materials. This is expected to provide economic benefits for Australian manufacturing while ensuring preservation of environmental health.Read moreRead less
The role of fat crystal wettability in altering dairy emulsion properties. The role of fat crystal wettability in altering dairy emulsion properties. This project aims to control fat crystal wettability, to create tailored dairy products with desirable stability, shelf-life and texture. Fat crystals are an essential component of dairy emulsions (fat droplets dispersed in dairy/milk serum) and control product processing, shelf life and texture. Their structuring role involves partial coalescence: ....The role of fat crystal wettability in altering dairy emulsion properties. The role of fat crystal wettability in altering dairy emulsion properties. This project aims to control fat crystal wettability, to create tailored dairy products with desirable stability, shelf-life and texture. Fat crystals are an essential component of dairy emulsions (fat droplets dispersed in dairy/milk serum) and control product processing, shelf life and texture. Their structuring role involves partial coalescence: the formation of complicated network structures of fat droplets. Unless fat crystals are partially wetted by water, they will not be present at the fat droplet interface, and partial coalescence will not occur. Expected outcomes are new dairy products with optimum stability and texture.Read moreRead less
Smart hybrid nano-biomaterials that mimic the pharmaceutical food effect. Smart biomaterials will be developed which when taken orally will act in our gut to improve drug and vitamin uptake. The breakthrough science will drive new pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals for the future health of Australia, and economic benefits will result through increased exposure to the global market for delivering biomolecules.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120100042
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Study of oriented attachment of nanocrystals at oil-water interfaces. This project will study the fundamental issues for crystal growth, which will dramatically facilitate the development of effective pathways for the synthesis of advanced nanomaterials for nanodevice and nanotechnology. The obtained outcomes will enhance our knowledge in crystal growth and colloid sciences.
Harnessing lipid nano-assembly for next generation functional foods and pharmaceutical products. Nature assembles lipid molecules from our diet into useful structures in our gastrointestinal tract with remarkable precision and versatility. By understanding and harnessing these processes we can design new lipid-based nanomaterials leading to more effective functional foods and pharmaceutical products with reduced side effects.
The mechanism of scale formation and inhibition in alkaline industrial process streams. Scaling, which reduces flow and heating efficiency, is a serious problem in single stream alumina Bayer plants. This project will potentially save the Australian alumina industry many tens of millions of dollars a year by the development of more effective on-line scale mitigation strategies based on the fundamental understanding of the processes involved.