On Friday Germany and Australia pledged $660 million to help create a green hydrogen export supply chain to Europe. At the same time UNSW Sydney researchers have released a first report exploring the feasibility of collaboration on exporting hydrogen and green metals – here is the executive summary of their study. The global steel industry…
UNSW researchers have developed a new gel based on silk from moths with potential to regenerate damaged tissue, and which they hope can one day be used to help patients recover from a heart attack. The team’s paper (linked) in Advanced Functional Materials describes “a novel silk fibroin microgel platform that enhances cell growth and…
UNSW Sydney engineering researchers have created a system based on a solar PV panel and a photocatalyst, able to create ammonia from wastewater and likened to a leaf. According to a statement from the university on Monday, a team led by UNSW Scientia Professor Rose Amal and Professor Xiaojing Hao used a “nano-structured thin layer…
Quantum computing processor developer Diraq has announced an additional $7 million USD in Series A funding, bringing the total round funding raised to $22 million. The company attracted further investment from strategic investors including Main Sequence, Taronga Ventures, Uniseed and UniSuper, Co:Act Capital as funding from foundation shareholder and research partner, UNSW, Sydney. Diraq’s Series…
Provaris Energy seeks swift restart to compressed hydrogen tank construction Australian green hydrogen developer Provaris Energy is working with secured lenders to have construction resume of its proprietary compressed hydrogen transport tank for the company’s proposed H2Neo carrier vessel. Earlier this month the company revealed the bankruptcy of Norwegian-based Prodtex Industri AS which operates the…
UNSW Sydney biosensing engineers have developed technology to make portable RAT test strips just as accurate as PCR tests carried out in a laboratory. While lab-based PCR tests take two days to show the COVID-19 virus, the test strips offer rapid, on-the-spot disease detection. Senior researcher Professor Ewa Goldys, with UNSW’s Graduate School of Biomedical…
National Innovation Policy Forum to be held in Canberra next week The National Innovation Policy Forum and 2023 Ralph Slatyer Address on Science and Society will be held on Monday, November 27. The forum at the Great Hall at Parliament House, Canberra, is hosted by Cooperative Research Australia, and brings together Australian innovation leaders from businesses…
Funding totalling $26 million has been announced through ARC Linkage Projects 2023 Round 1 across 50 projects, including for next-generation microchip manufacture, anodes for next-generation lithium batteries, and addressing superalloy microstructure defects. The Linkage Projects scheme backs projects that “initiate or develop long term strategic research alliance” and provides funding of between $50,000 and $300,000…
University of NSW Sydney researchers have developed a cost-effective way to make ammonia which could soon be used on farms, according to the university. Building on previous research, currently used under licence by startup PlasmaLeap Technologies, the team’s method improves on the high temperatures, high pressure, and extensive infrastructure required by the dominant Haber-Bosch industrial…
A new synthetic hydrogel developed by researchers at UNSW Sydney has a number of claimed benefits, with the team eager to explore its commercial potential as a substitute for animal-derived products. In a statement from the university, hydrogels are described as a family of substances that provide tissue such as seaweed and cartilage with their…
