2008 Fellow Amanda Barnard has won the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for her work on modelling and predicting the shape, structure and stability of nanoparticles under different environmental conditions.
The AUD$50,000 prize is one of the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
Amanda Barnard hopes to predict which nanoparticles will work most [...]
Solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems-cheap and reliable solar power; faster computers; customised materials; vast data storage; more powerful microscopes; new medical therapies-depend on what happens at the very small or nano scale.
To that end, leading international specialists in the increasingly important field of nanophotonics-how lasers and light (photonics) interact with the very small (nano-)-are meeting in Melbourne. Read the full article →
Nano solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems-cheap and reliable solar power; faster computers; customised materials; vast data storage; more powerful microscopes; new medical therapies- announced at an international conference in Melbourne this week. Read the full article →
World’s largest solar cell maker speaks in Melbourne
AUSTRALIAN solar technology leads the international industry, Dr Shi Zhengrong will tell a plenary session of the Nanophotonics Down Under 2009 Devices and Applications Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Monday. Read the full article →

- Small Australian technology powering China’s green revolution
- 300 movies on a DVD
- Copying plants
- Doubling the efficiency of solar panels
- Talk with the world’s largest producer of high efficiency solar cells
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