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Making light of metals
The light metals aluminium, titanium and magnesium are taking a load off transport and other everyday objects.
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Clean speed ahead with catalysts
Catalysts could help solve some of the world’s biggest pollution problems.
Sponsored by the bequest of J R Anderson, FAA.
It's an advanced material world
Advanced materials promise to meet the needs of consumers who demand products that are lighter, cheaper, faster and better than ever before.
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Nanotechnology – taking it to the people
The business of working with the ultra small promises to become mega big. But what you’ll actually see in the marketplace may not look all that different from what’s around us today.
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Probing past and future materials with neutrons
Over a hundred years after the Kelly gang were captured, researchers have been able to say how the famous armour was made.
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Nanoscience – working small, thinking big
Nanoscience has the potential to reshape the world around us. It could lead to revolutionary breakthroughs in fields as diverse as manufacturing and health care. What is involved in working at the nanoscale?
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 Advanced Powder Technology Pty Ltd
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Astronomy in the deep freeze
Astronomers are going to the coldest place on Earth to search for the heat radiated by distant objects in the universe.
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 the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy
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Making every drop count
Would you drink a glass of treated effluent? That question is part of a heated debate about water recycling, as people try to find solutions to the lack of water supplies brought about by climate change and a growing population.
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Putting a finger on it – the loops and whorls of biometrics
Automated measurement techniques to verify a person’s identity are attracting widespread attention. In Australia, Woolworths and the banking industry are already using fingerprint identification technology.
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Buckyballs – a new sphere of science
When buckyballs bounced onto the scene in 1985, they became an overnight sensation. More than a decade later, scientists are still trying to score goals with these extraordinary molecules.
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy
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Communicating with light – fibre optics
The Australia Prize for 1997 was awarded to two engineers and an applied mathematician for their outstanding work in fibre optic communications and high-speed modem design.
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