An RMIT University-led team has designed and manufactured a surface, made of silicon and covered in tiny “nanospikes”, which is showing promise in controlling transmission of potentially dangerous viruses. According to a statement from the university, the results of a study that made the cover of nanoscience journal ACS Nano show 96 per cent of…
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By Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention the vast array of electronics that have become integral to many people’s daily lives. The 21st century chip manufacturing industry has been…
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The US Food and Drug Administration has told biotechnology company Mesoblast that it now has sufficient clinical data to support a submission to approve the company’s remestemcel-L drug for treatment of pediatric patients. Remestemcel-L is being developed for inflammatory diseases in children and adults, including steroid-refractory acute graft versus host disease, and biologic-resistant inflammatory bowel…
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Exports have resumed from dairy company Norco following a disruption caused by the 2022 Northern Rivers floods. Norco’s Lismore site was flooded in February 2022 and reopened in November last year. According to a statement from federal agricultural minister Murray Watt on Wednesday, the first international shipment from the Lismore factory since then is currently…
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The first in a series of AUKUS Innovation Challenges, the AUKUS Electronic Warfare Innovation Challenge, has been launched today through the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA). The first AUKUS Challenge will seek innovative solutions to shared electronic warfare challenges from industry and research institutions in Australia, the United Kingdom and United States. ASCA will lead…
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Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA has established small scale commercial production for its 5N purity aluminium nitrate (Al-nitrate) precursors at its Stage 1, Precursor Production Facility (PPF) in Gladstone, Queensland. The facility is now producing high purity aluminas (HPA) which are used as anodes in lithium ion batteries and is in final commissioning of process…
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Synthetic fuel producer Zero Petroleum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the South Australian government to explore opportunities for producing fuel from green hydrogen produced in the state.. The company demonstrated its product at the recent Adelaide Motorsport Festival, with a motorcycle powered by the company’s synthetic fuel racing around Victoria Park race…
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The NSW Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility will become operational later this year. Brent Balinski speaks to David Fox from the AMRF – a sponsor of this title’s current Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign – about what it aims to achieve. Later this year, the First Building in Bradfield City Centre, containing stage one…
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Boeing has begun construction at the Toowoomba site where it will build the MQ-28 Ghost Bat, the first first military combat aircraft to be designed and made in Australia in more than a half century. Queensland was selected as the state to host the build of the uncrewed plane in 2020, with Wellcamp Airport selected…
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5B, a Sydney-headquartered designer of prefabricated, relocatable solar PV systems, is deploying a 26 megawatt solar farm using its Maverick blocks at Bellevue Gold’s gold mine in Western Australia, which will form part of an 89.7 megawatt hybrid power station. The off-grid facility includes 528 5B Maverick arrays, and the combined wind, solar, thermal generation…
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