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HDR Opportunities in Materials

Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) and Nanotechnology

• Natural Composite Materials (PhD or Masters)
• Organising Composite Materials (PhD or Masters)
• Self-Assembling Materials using Inkjet Printing (PhD or Masters)
  
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  For further information contact: Dr Marc in het Panhuis (panhuis@uow.edu.au) or Ph: 4221 3155

Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM)

Superconductivity 

• High temperature superconductors
• Vortex pinning and magnetic flux dynamics
• MgB2 superconductors
• Current limiting mechanism in various superconductors
• High critical current magnesium diboride superconductor wires
• Molecular dynamics study on the mechanism of superconductivity
• Ru-based superconducting ferromagnets

Thin Film Technology

• Pulsed laser deposition of thin films and multilayers
• Role of interfaces for in hybrid thin films and multilayered structures
• Superconducting thin films and structures for electronic devices and telecommunication applications
• Magneto-optical imaging in superconductors and other magnetic media
• Nano/micro-dosimetry: superconducting thin films against cancer
• New technologies for high performance coated conductors: flexible superconducting thin film wires
• Development of different buffer layers for coated conductors
• Development of superconducting mulifilamentary leads with ultra-low thermal conductivity for cryoelectronic applications
• Surface and depth profile analysis and spectroscopy of thin films and multilayers

Energy Materials

• All solid-state lithium rechargeable batteries
• Application of nanowires as chemical sensors
• Functionalised nanostructures for hydrogen storage
• Hybrid electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems
• Miniature lithium ion battery for implantable medical device applications
• Catalyst materials for hydrogen/air fed proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Terahertz Science

• Terahertz emitters
• Terahertz spectroscopy
• Terahertz imaging and sensing
• Nonlinear interaction of terahertz waves with materials
• Terahertz spintronics
• Quantum transport on carbon nanotubes, graphene, and low dimensional systems
• Generation and detection

Thermionics and Thermoelectrics

• Heat transport and management on nanosystems
• Thermionic power generation and refrigeration
• Magnetic cooling
• Designing of  nanothermionic systems

New Materials Design

• First-principle calculations
• Mechanism of various sensors
• New type of superconductors
• Colossal magnetoresistance materials
• Gapless materials
• Multiferroic materials
• Ferroelectric magnets
• Electro-resistance materials
• Ferromagnetic materials
• Ferroelectric materials
• Single crystal growth
• Dielectric materials
• Thermal electric materials
• Optical materials

Nanomaterials

• Nanostructured materials for Energy Storage Devices
• Nano-structured films obtained via solution based methods
• In-situ spray pyrolysis approach for fabrication of multifunctional nano-structured ceramics and composites
• Nanostructured semiconductor materials for chemical and biological sensors
• Nanostructured materials for super-capacitor and ultra-capacitor application.
• Magnetic coupling in nano-particles

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For further information contact: Director of ISEM, Prof S X Dou, shi@uow.edu.au or Head of Postgraduate Studies, Prof C Zhang, czhang@uow.edu.au