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Through the looking glass: the strange atomic structure of glassy materials
The mechanical, electrical, chemical, optical and thermal properties of glass, as determined by its chemical composition and atomic structure, make it a highly useful material with a myriad of applications.
Workshop on Isotope Engineering and Nuclear Characterisation of Novel Nanostructured Functional Materials
Fine tuning materials for energy storage using architectural design and structural engineering
Energy researchers from UNSW have reported progress using controlled architectural design and structural engineering as a method to fine-tune materials to have simultaneous high power and high energy density for the electrochemical storage in portable devices.
Mud and magnetism provides insights into materials and environment: AINSE young researchers
Introducing a novel molecular orbital interaction that stabilises cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
A large international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Research on proton conductors holds promise for development of clean energy materials
Frontiers of synchrotron research suggest even brighter future for materials science and engineering
Research explores how the magnetic moments of atoms in materials are arranged and interact
The unique magnetic properties and nontrivial quantum effects were observed and measured in an advanced material with potential application for quantum computing.
Specialist expertise and capabilities at ANSTO enable an understanding and improvement of current and advanced nuclear fuel materials
With a well-established portfolio of nuclear research and the operation of Australia's only nuclear reactor OPAL, ANSTO scientists conduct both fundamental and applied research on fuel for current, advanced, and future nuclear technology systems.
Using the power of computing to analyse the structure of materials in extreme environments
Pass the salt: can sodium power the 21st century
Atomic structure of new cathode material for sodium ion batteries helps explain long life
Detecting nuclear material
The new gamma imaging technology developed at ANSTO has been used to detect the presence and location of nuclear material for the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification.
ANSTO's material scientists honoured
Defence Materials Technology Centre honours achievements of two ANSTO collaborators.
Seeing inside an advanced material
Synchrotron technique clarifies the location of calcium in a promising material with a relatively high superconducting transition temperature.
Engineering of atomic structure improves a promising cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Researchers from the University of Wollongong have improved a high voltage cathode material to deliver structural stability and an unprecedented electrochemical performance for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in work that is extendable to other types of energy storage materials.
Investigating a prospective light-weight fire retardant material with superior properties
Scientists from UNSW and ANSTO have characterised the structure of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, carbonites, and nitrides (MXenes) materials, that could be used as a lightweight fire-retardant filler and in energy storage devices.
Research captures dynamic atomic interactions in a promising sodium ion battery material
Investigators from UNSW and ANSTO have provided insights into the dynamic interactions of atoms in a promising material for sodium-ion batteries.
New advanced material shows extraordinary stability over wide temperature range
Researchers from UNSW have found an extraordinary material that does expand or contract over an extremely wide temperature range and may be one of the most stable materials known.