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New grant introduces state-of-the-art capability in stress engineering for Australian industry

New facility will greatly enhance Australia’s capability in stress engineering for industry

ANSTO will share expertise in hydrogen capture and delivery in new ARC linkage grant

ANSTO is collaborating on a project funded with an Australian Research Council linkage grant that will develop new materials and better systems for efficiently storing hydrogen gas.

Investigating the impact of radiation and radioactive contamination on forensic trace evidence

More progress understanding how COVID-19 invades the body

Using the Australian Synchrotron, an international team of researchers has characterised an important interaction that helps the SARS-CoV-2 virus invade human cells.

Radionuclides in medicine

Radionuclides have been used routinely in medicine for more than 60 years. Nuclear medicine uses radiation to provide information about the functioning of a person's specific organs to diagnose or treat disease. The radionuclides used in medicine have half-lives ranging from a few minutes to several days to minimise the patient's radiation dose.

Students will:

use MS Excel to construct simple graphs of decay of three unknown medical radionuclides
use their graph to calculate the half-life of the radionuclides
determine the identity and use of each radionuclide using the background information provided.

Technical Information

Technical information for the Powder Diffraction beamline at the Australian Synchrotron.

ANSTO supports mining and minerals processing industries

Capabilities

For over 45 years, ANSTO has provided consultancy and process development services to the mining and minerals processing industries in Australia and globally.

Reducing, reusing and recycling mining waste

Two approaches use existing low cost and low energy technologies to reuse stockpiled waste from mining operations - capturing carbon dioxide in the form of valuable carbonate minerals.

Reconstructing a history of palaeoclimate in south-eastern Australia

The role of trace elements as palaeoclimate proxies has been explored in ANSTO-led collaborative environmental research.

Groundwater

Research to provide critical knowledge on groundwater residence times, important catchments and aquifers in order to ensure sustainable yields of groundwater resources.

Instrument scientists in the making!

Flexible, see-through everyday electronics in sight as powerful printable transistor unveiled

Aiding the global research effort on COVID-19

Melbourne researchers map the structure of a key COVID-19 protein using the Australian Synchrotron

Two international agreements signed

Historic memorandums of understanding on the peaceful use of nuclear with Thailand and Canada.

Microscale clues provide insight into cataclysmic Tongan volcanic eruption

In an effort to understand why the Tongan Hunga volcano eruption was so explosive, internationally-recognised volcanologist Prof. Shane Cronin of the University of Auckland and associates rely on beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron to support comprehensive research on the Hunga event.