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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
Last reviewed: 14 October, 2008





