By Andrea Morello, UNSW Sydney Quantum entanglement — once dismissed by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance” — has long captured the public imagination and puzzled even seasoned scientists. But for today’s quantum practitioners, the reality is rather more mundane: entanglement is a kind of connection between particles that is the quintessential feature…
UNSW Sydney has announced the Green Fellowship program, an ambitious scheme to attract the world’s brightest academic minds to help solve some of the planet’s biggest problems. Named in honour of UNSW’s Scientia Professor Martin Green, who pioneered much of the technology underpinning solar panels, the fellowships will be open to exceptional international academics whose…
MIQ grant applications close on Friday The state government has reminded those interested that they have until 1 pm on January 24 (Friday) to make submissions for round seven of the Made in Queensland Grant Program. “Over 150 advanced manufacturing projects have already been supported, with the program set to create 5,000+ jobs in the…
UNSW Sydney in association with start up Diraq have reached a milestone in the hunt for the perfect quantum computing storage qubit to allow faster and more efficient quantum computing applications. The team demonstrated hole-spin qubits – positively charged particles in semiconductors – using industry standard silicon manufacturing processes. Hole-spins qubits have the potential to…
This week inventor and electrochemist Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos and her team at University of NSW Sydney are hosting an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the vanadium redox flow battery (VFB.) Running on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tyree Energy Technologies Building, the 40th Anniversary Flow Battery Innovation Symposium will look at opportunities…
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…