Nanofabulous Seminar: Nature meets Nanotechnology: Development of Novel Bio-composites from Renewable Resources
Proteins form the very basis of life. They regulate various activities in all known organisms, from replication of the genetic code to transporting oxygen, and are responsible for regulating the cellular machinery and determining the phenotype of an organism.
From a material science point of view, proteins can serve as excellent building blocks for developing new structures, composites, and novel materials. In this talk, I will cover some of our efforts in this direction, demonstrating our bottom-up technology to form various new materials, including light-emitting devices, photothermal materials, smart-wound dressing, antibacterial coating, heavy-metal sorption materials, and more. The role of Jellyfish, an important renewable resource for many of our applications, will be discussed.
Professor Shachar Richter
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering & Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
11:00am, 09/03/2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
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Meeting ID: 883 5189 4360 and passcode: 897020
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Nanofabulous Seminar: Micro- and nanotopographies for biological applications
Dr Victor Cadarso from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance at Monash University will be giving a presentation on “Micro- and nanotopographies for biological applications”.
11:00am, 07/02/2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
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Meeting ID: 826 1534 5345 & Passcode: 465451
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Nanofabulous Seminar: Single-electron tunneling through dopants in thin-Si devices
Daniel Moraru has been working on the development of a unique research direction for semiconductor nanoscale devices, aiming for atomic- and molecular-scale electronics by utilizing dopant atoms (or dopant clusters as “molecules”) in silicon. Through such research, he and his group have been contributing to the advancement of a field coined as “dopant-based electronics”. In his lab, research is performed from different perspectives, from first-principles simulations of atomistic effects to Si nanodevice fabrication and electrical characterization at the level of single-electron tunneling.
Dr Daniel Moraru
Associate Professor
Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan
Faculty of Science, Swinburne University of Technology
11:00am, 02/03/2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
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Meeting ID: 812 9011 2054 & Passcode: 443815
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Announcing: New ANFF-Victoria Strategic Plan
We are delighted to present ANFF-VIC’s new Strategic Plan for 2023-2028, outlining the goals we have identified as necessary in realising our node’s potential and our mission to drive development and translation of Australian innovation in the micro- and nanotechnology sectors.
This plan sets a trajectory for the next five years that builds upon the success of ANFF-VIC and the MCN whilst leveraging significant developments within local precincts such as the Southeast Melbourne Innovation Precinct (SEMIP) and aligning with the Victorian Government’s vision for next generation research ecosystems as well as with the three Strategic Pillars of ANFF.
Download the full plan here.
Upcoming Nanofabulous Seminar dates/speakers
Happy new year! The MCN’s Nanofabulous Seminar series is kicking off 2023 with a number of exciting talks. Check out the flyer link below and keep an eye on the events page for seminar details. Many more to come…
Nanofabulous Seminar: Micro-nanofabrication and Microscopy with light noble ion beams
The Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at the University of Melbourne operates a Zeiss ORION NanoFab helium ion microscope (HIM), one of only four in Australia. HIM is a scanned ion probe instrument that is similar in many respects to that of the well-established scanning electron microscope (SEM). The fundamental difference is clear in the name, with our source being one of (typically) helium ions generated from the gas field ion source, rather than electrons as in SEM. This affords benefits to the microscopist: we can image insulating materials without coating while maintaining high vacuum and high beam energy, we have outstanding surface sensitivity normally reserved for very low-kV SEM, and being an ion beam we can perform high spatial resolution fabrication switching between helium and neon as our source.
After an overview and introduction to the technique and its benefits, I will overview some of the key areas of research HIM has excelled at supporting in recent years at the MCFP and in Australia, with an aim to demonstrate cross-disciplinary applications. We will look at graphene and 2D nanomaterials, thin polymer coatings on carbon fibres, carbon nanospheres, cellular biology including bacteria and biofilms, through to micro-nanofabricated structures such as ultra-nanocrystalline diamond coatings, 2-photon-polymerisation printed structures, and plasmonic devices and nanostructured molecular gratings fabricated using the instrument.
Dr Anders Barlow
Platform Technologies Specialist
MCFP, the University of Melbourne
11:00am, 17/01/2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
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Meeting ID: 823 4174 1876 & Passcode: 638277
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MCN Private Industry Laboratory — now accepting EOIs
Attention startups and SMEs, MCN is now offering an option for the leasing of a small (approx. 30sqm) private laboratory, an initiative aimed at hosting translational activities leveraging a broad spectrum of MCN capability.
The laboratory has secure electronic access with a dedicated fume cupboard, essential services (e.g. power, CDA/N2, water and vacuum), bench space for 3–6 staff and ample wet/dry storage.
Link to EOI instructions here. Submissions open through 6th January 2023.
Nanofabulous Seminar: Reversible interfaces for stretchable and recyclable electronics
Soft electronic composites retain their electrical conductivity under strain. Hard, conductive filler particles are embedded in a soft, insulating matrix. Strain deforms the filler network and alters the conductive connections between the particles. Tobias will discuss the hierarchical network structure of carbon and metal fillers in printable conductive composites and discuss the role of network geometry and contact resistances. Reversibility at the particle-particle interfaces emerges as a key requirement: only if the particles can re-form electrical contacts over many cycles does the material retain its conductivity. An application from the field of smart automotive parts will illustrate typical requirements on soft conductive materials.
Reversible interfaces aid the recovery of the materials in a product’s lifecycle, too. Electronics and batteries invariably combine different materials, and their reuse or recycling generally involves separating them. Discussion how reversible, functional interfaces can make this economically and ecologically feasible and bring us a step closer to sustainability in electronics.
Prof Dr Tobias Kraus
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Saarbrücken, Germany
11:00am, 18/11/2022
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
Zoom link: here
Meeting ID: 839 3750 1277
Passcode: 145263
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MCN Seminar: Two-photon polymerization 3D printing for micro-/nanostructures
UpNano GmbH is a high-tech 3D printing company headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The company manufactures and sells high resolution 3D printers under the NanoOne platform which are capable of printing parts with a wide-range of resolutions and volumes, from 160nm lines to 40x40x40mm and 4” wafer batch production.
Typical user applications are microfluidic chips, bioprinting, microneedles, micro optics and medical devices. The combination of a very strong 1000mW femtosecond laser and the unique vat-design enables novel material development with polymers normally not associated with 2-photon printing.
Henrik Akesson is the Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Sales at UpNano GmbH. Trained as an engineer in Sweden, he spent 15 years in the Asian semiconductor and display manufacturing industry solving key issues for Samsung, SONY, LG, TSMC, Intel, SHARP and others. He was an integral part of the flat screen revolution and the continuous production achievements that were made at the time. During this work, he discovered the potential in 2-photon polymerization as a better means to create structures in 3D than the classic laser lithography. After 10 years in Germany and Austria, working in commercial, sales, and business development roles in software and 3D printing, he is now a frequent speaker and a champion for the micro-factories concept where whole production and assembly lines can be made in millimeter size for micron parts.
Henrik Akesson,Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Sales at UpNano GmbH., Germany, will be visiting MCN and giving a presentation on “Two-photon polymerization-3D printing for micro-/nanostructures”.
1:00pm, 16/09/2022
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
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MCN Seminar: Multidisciplinary (mission directed) research in nanotechnology at the University of Sydney
Sydney Nano is a multidisciplinary initiative at the University of Sydney headquartered in the state-of-the-art Sydney Nanoscience Hub. Professor Eggleton will introduce the Sydney Nano research framework, which emphasise collaborative mission directed projects that address major societal grand challenges with examples from the life sciences, and sustainability. In the second part of the presentation Professor Eggleton will review research from his research group on the topic of photonic sensor fusion, with emphasis on recent development of novel photonic radar sensors for vital sign detection.
Professor Eggleton is a Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. He is the Director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute and co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN). Eggleton was founding Director of CUDOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems and served as Director from 2003-2017 and of Sydney’s Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), serving as Director from 2009-2018. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Engineering and Technology, the Optical Society of America (OSA), IEEE and SPIE. Eggleton received the 2020 W.H. (Beattie) Steel Medal which is the most prestigious award of the Australian and New Zealand Optical Society, for outstanding career contribution to the field of optics in Australia or New Zealand. His team won the 2020 Defence Science and Technology Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia. Eggleton was President of the Australian Optical Society (2008-2010), Editor-in-Chief for Optics Communications (2007-2015), served on the Board for IEEE Photonics Society (2015-2017) and is Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics. Eggleton secured more than $65M in competitive research funding. Eggleton published 500 journal publications (24,000 citations, h-index of 81- Webofscience and 44,000 citations, h-number of 112 – google scholar).
11:00am, 27/09/2022
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
Or to attend via Zoom link: here
Meeting ID: 827 9337 9565 and passcode: 557617
