Registrations now open for Thinking BIG with Nano
Registrations are now open for Thinking BIG with Nano, a workshop tailored for early-career researchers and late-stage PhD candidates.
The event will showcase research translation in nanotechnology and provide facilitated training in taking ideas from concepts to a viable business.
The Australian Nanotechnology Network and the Australian National Fabrication Facility in partnership with RMIT University present ‘Thinking BIG with Nano’.
Final schedule announced for Nanofabulous Winter Workshop 2018
We have now finalised the schedule for next weeks event, please view this attachment to find out more.
The document also contains last minute information that will make it a little easier to find us.
Prize draw – IP outcomes survey
ANFF-VIC is asking all users to fill out a 2-minute survey of IP outcomes between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018.
In exchange for your input to this survey, you will be entered into a prize draw to win a $500 user credit to be applied to a future project at MCN. The survey closes on the 28 July.
As a requirement for ANFF’s ongoing operational support through the Federal NCRIS program, ANFF nodes around the country are asked to report back to the commonwealth on IP-outcomes derived from research activity at our respective sites. These metrics are particularly difficult to track as they are not accompanied by standard acknowledgements etc. that are traditionally used to highlight work conducted within our network.
As a result, we need your help to accumulate these statistics by filling in this quick survey outlining the types and numbers of IP outcomes you have generated as a result of your activities within ANFF-VIC.
Please find the survey here.
New faces at MCN
The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Centre has welcomed two new staff members to its ranks in the past few months, with Tatiana Pineda Rivera and Hazem Abdelmaksoud joining the team.
Tatiana has recently joined our lithography and characterisation team of process engineers. Having moved from Mexico to France to study, received her PhD in 2009 from the Université Grenoble Alpes, where she specialised in surface and colloid science and microfluidics. In 2011, Tatiana came to Australia to join Professor Paul Mulvaney’s Nanoscience Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
Hazem has taken up a joint role, working with both the MCN and MCN Tech Ambassador, Victor Cadarso. At MCN, Hazem is responsible for wet etching benches in the cleanroom and leading biochemistry lab inductions for users.
ANFF-VIC Staff selected in veski program
Dr Karyn Jarvis, a Research Engineer at the ANFF Victoria Biointerface Engineering Hub, has been selected as a participant in the veski STEM sidebyside program.
The initiative, led by veski and Monash University with the support of the British Consulate General Melbourne, supports women in the STEM industries. Keep your eyes peeled for more information.
View the program description here.
Open-access XPS Database exceeds 1600 spectra
La Trobe University’s open-access XPS reference library, XPSSurfA, has now exceeded 1600 reference spectra within 120 datasets.
Unveiled by researchers at La Trobe University’s Centre for Materials and Surface Science (CMSS) less than a year ago, the open-access online database of XPS spectra, providing a global reference point of in-depth materials analysis to researchers from around the world.
The database holds XPS information on a range of materials from pure metals to polymers, to compounds and oxides to exotic materials. The database is ever growing and evolving being filled with new data straight from CMSS’s Kratos Analytical AXIS Nova instrument.
All XPSSurfA records and data files in the database are available via Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License. This means any data file in the database can be downloaded to view, reuse, compare and publish alongside the user’s own research with appropriate attribution.
The XPSSurfA database is an initiative led by CMSS with the support of the NCRIS-funded organisations, the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and the Nectar Cloud.
Work with MCN via BioMedVic
Biomedical Research Victoria (BioMedVic) is currently seeking new projects for its Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) that introduces high achieving undergraduates to the world of research by providing hands-on experience of working in a lab.
Within the program, research organisations and industry partners engage with undergraduate students via BioMedVic to realise 6 or 12-month research projects. BioMedVic identifies and matches undergraduate applicants that best suit the supervisor’s requirements.
Supervisors are invited to submit applications to host students in their laboratories through the UROP scheme. UROP is a paid employment program and entry into the scheme by students is highly competitive.
Contact BioMedVic to find out more.
2018 Technology Ambassadors announced
The Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility has expanded its list of Technology Ambassadors (TAs), making 2018 the biggest year yet.
The scheme now features 11 leaders in their field, up from 9 in 2017 and 2016.
Since the TA scheme was initiated in 2011, Ambassadors have been selected from a broad range of disciplines, each with their own unique demands for micro/nanotechnology.
In addition to their core research activities, ANFF-VIC TAs use their considerable expertise to create new processes that benefit the ANFF-VIC user community and undergo in-kind cooperative activities reflecting the current and emerging needs of researchers in their respective fields.
New Technology Ambassadors:
Qialiang Bao
ARC for the Future Low-Energy Electronic Technologies (FLEET)
Anthony Chesman
CSIRO
Victor Busto Cadarso
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Monash University
Kenneth Crozier
Physics and Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne
The year’s list of renewed TAs:
Alastair Stacey
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
Fiona Glenn
Manufacturing Business Unit
CSIRO
Saulius Juodkazis
Centre for Micro-Photonics
Swinburne University of Technology
Lingxue Kong
Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM)
Deakin University
Grant van Riessen
Institute for Molecular Science
La Trobe University
Udo Bach
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Monash University, Clayton
Wenlong Cheng
Department of Chemical Engineering
Monash University
Nanofabulous Winter Workshop 2018
Registration for the ANFF-VIC Nanofabulous Winter Workshop is now open for Industry!
Three full days of morning sessions and afternoon practicals lay in wait – view the event details and full schedule by clicking here.
Invited Keynotes include:
Andrew Wear – Dept of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Director (MedTech and Pharma)
Ken Sloan – Monash University, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Enterprise)
Stephen Tomisich – Trajan Scientific and Medical, Chairman & Group CEO
Rosie Hicks – The Australian National Fabrication Facility, CEO
Pricing for the event, being held 23-25 July at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, is as follows:
Ticket purchase comes with an invite to a BBQ-style dinner at MCN on the evening of the 23 July.
Click here to view the event flyer and registration form.
Qiaoliang Bao named as a 2018 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow
FLEET-nano collaboration recognised: Congratulations to Qiaoliang Bao, 2018 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow
Qiaoliang Bao works at the nanoscale, trapping photons in atomically-thin, two-dimensional materials, where high binding energies create a quantum state known as a superfluid.
The aim is a new generation of superfluid transistors that will ‘switch’ using much less energy than conventional electronics.
Such work requires access to the best nanofabrication and characterisation facilities, and Qiaoliang’s team at Monash University’s Faculty of Engineering works closely with the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN), the flagship facility of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF).
Qiaoliang has been recently named as an ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow Ambassador. The program forges a strong Australian nanofabrication community, improves procedures, and creates ‘champions’ of ANFF facilities.
