Materials and advanced manufacturing

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

uqccla15 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:42:56 +0000

24 June 2024In the race towards Net Zero 2050, every discovery helps. But this breakthrough could revolutionise energy production and waste consumption. This is how it occurred.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Designing technology for tomorrow

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:48 +0000

20 May 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

How first-aid gel made from snake venom could control battlefield bleeding

uqccla15 — Sun, 19 May 2024 22:52:17 +0000

3 May 2024A partnership between the biomaterials research team and the US Department of Defense has harnessed two proteins from deadly snake venom that can help stop bleeding at a faster rate than ever before.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:43:17 +0000

11 March 2024A new nationally representative survey has revealed Australians are deeply concerned about the risks posed by artificial intelligence.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Bioplastics vital in fight against ‘wicked' plastic pollution

uqccla15 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:12:38 +0000

31 January 2024Bioplastics can help address the “wicked problem” of plastic pollution, but companies and research institutions need to take a holistic approach, says Associate Professor Steven Pratt.

Health and wellbeing

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Hemanshi Galaiya: STEM for kids and building a future for Kenya

uqccla15 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 23:18:23 +0000

6 October 2023A Q&A with Hemanshi Galaiya, who is completing her PhD with the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

Building better bioeconomies

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

��̽�� heats up the space race

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:06:02 +0000

8 September 2023A custom-built furnace that can heat materials to almost 3000 degrees Celsius has been installed at The University of Queensland to develop components for Australia’s burgeoning space industry.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

uqccla15 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 02:11:25 +0000

31 August 2023��̽�� boasts an extraordinary range of unique and mind-blowing capabilities. From supercomputers to cyclotrons for nuclear medicine, these are some of our most fascinating gadgets.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

How far to the next charging station?

uqccla15 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:46:38 +0000

25 July 2023You’re ready for your first long road trip with your new electric vehicle, but there are nagging questions in your mind. These tips might help.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

uqccla15 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:58:33 +0000

17 July 2023US Congress will investigate the supposed existence of a secret UFO retrieval program. Here's what you should know.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

The desert lab and its spinifex secrets

uqccla15 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:54:04 +0000

1 February 2023A new desert-based laboratory has tapped into traditional knowledge to develop nanomaterials from spinifex.

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

5 simple steps to a more sustainable life

uqccla15 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:50:40 +0000

7 September 2022There are a lot of easy changes we can make at home to improve our sustainability, and ��̽�� startups are leading the way in creating sustainable products and services. See how.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Jolt needed to drive electric-vehicle uptake

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:09:43 +0000

23 August 2022St Baker Fellow in Electromobility Dr Kai Li Lim takes a look at what needs to happen before electric vehicles become more viable in Australia.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

What are ��̽��’s longest running research projects?

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:23:05 +0000

30 August 2022Ahead of Research and Innovation Week, we explored the University's longest running research projects. From viscus liquids, to women's health, these are the projects that have been running for decades and in one case almost a century!

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Superworms: how plastic-eating larvae sparked a scientific breakthrough

uqccla15 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:43:58 +0000

17 June 2022Superworms — beetle larvae that can eat and digest plastic — set the world alight this week. Now go behind the scenes to learn how Dr Christian Rinke made this incredible discovery.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

How a successful rocket test unveiled a new era in hypersonics

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 May 2022 23:43:10 +0000

6 May 2022The month of March will go down in history as a milestone in hypersonic technology research, after a rocket was successfully launched by The United States Air Force and ��̽��.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

uqccla15 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:39 +0000

28 April 2022After water, sand is the most exploited natural resource on the planet. But how can we reduce the amount of mineral waste created during its extraction?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

How ��̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

uqccla15 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:09:48 +0000

25 March 2022Tucked away under ��̽��’s Hawken Engineering Building, an unassuming-looking metal tube is playing an important role in exploring our solar system’s most distant planets.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

What will a mining-fuelled energy transition mean for the Pacific Islands?

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:52:28 +0000

30 November 2021As demand for critical metals grows, the impact of increased mining on Pacific Islands nations with critical deposits is to be explored in a new international research project.

Building better bioeconomies

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

uqccla15 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:58:35 +0000

2 December 2021Hardy microscopic bacteria are working to turn the red mud by-products from alumina refining into life-sustaining soil.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Engineering safe behaviour to save lives

uqccla15 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:22:20 +0000

30 September 2021How transport engineering is helping us stay safe in the era of automated vehicles (AVs).

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

What is COVAX-19? Australia's most advanced COVID vaccine candidate

uqccla15 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:56:46 +0000

23 June 2021The most advanced of our local COVID vaccines in development is a shot called “COVAX-19” by South Australian-based biotech, Vaxine.

COVID-19

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Antivenom's fatal flaw

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 06:21:32 +0000

21 February 2018A ��̽�� researcher is working to change a toxic attitude towards antivenom manufacturing, which adds to a mounting death toll and plunges communities into poverty.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Impact

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Resourceful solutions

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:10:19 +0000

5 January 2018In the first collaboration of its kind, ��̽��’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining is advising and working with some of the world’s leading mining companies to improve the lives of people affected by resettlement.

Business transformation

Impact

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

60-year odyssey

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 01:36:04 +0000

4 January 2018An almost-forgotten tapestry commissioned for the Sydney Opera House during its construction was finally displayed in its intended location 60 years later, thanks to ��̽�� School of Architecture’s Associate Professor Antony Moulis’s dedicated 10-year research quest.

Impact

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Hot modernism Cool resource

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:08:51 +0000

4 January 2018Through an exhibition, book and digital archive, ��̽�� architects not only engaged with the community, but also convinced local firms to share their records publicly, and inspired the state government to consider establishing a heritage working party.

Impact

Materials and advanced manufacturing

My robotic co-worker

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:26:12 +0000

30 April 2021How ��̽�� researchers are helping the Australian defence force design autonomous machines that will one day work alongside us.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Batteries on wheels

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:20:25 +0000

30 April 2021If electric vehicles stored energy from the grid that you could sell later for a profit, would you be more likely to want one?

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals

uqccla15 — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:24:05 +0000

23 April 2021The ‘stickiness’ of microscopic liquids can now be measured thousands of times faster, potentially leading to better understanding of living cells, disease diagnostics and pharmaceutical testing.

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

��̽�� powers greener alternative to lithium ion in Brisbane manufacturing deal

uqccla15 — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:18:43 +0000

23 April 2021Faster-charging and more sustainable batteries with a life up to three times greater than lithium ion are being built with technology developed at The University of Queensland.

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Queensland Science making a difference

uqsoutra — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:25:07 +0000

13 October 2020WATCH: Discover how ��̽�� researchers are contributing to some of the biggest challenges the world faces – the health of our communities, and environments; the quality and quantity of food available; abundant clean energy; and sustainable economies.

Agribusiness

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

��̽�� tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis

uqsoutra — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:40:24 +0000

6 October 2020Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be used for cheap, accurate and mobile COVID-19 testing, including at airports and remote testing centres.

COVID-19

Health and wellbeing

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

Cars rule as coronavirus shakes up travel trends in our cities

uqsoutra — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:39:03 +0000

21 July 2020As with other parts of the global economy, COVID-19 has led to rapid changes in transport trends.

COVID-19

Social impacts

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Materials and advanced manufacturing

How ����̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

How first-aid gel made from snake venom could control battlefield bleeding

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

Bioplastics vital in fight against ‘wicked' plastic pollution

Hemanshi Galaiya: STEM for kids and building a future for Kenya

����̽�� heats up the space race

����̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

How far to the next charging station?

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

The desert lab and its spinifex secrets

5 simple steps to a more sustainable life

Jolt needed to drive electric-vehicle uptake

What are ����̽��’s longest running research projects?

Superworms: how plastic-eating larvae sparked a scientific breakthrough

How a successful rocket test unveiled a new era in hypersonics

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

How ����̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

What will a mining-fuelled energy transition mean for the Pacific Islands?

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

Engineering safe behaviour to save lives

What is COVAX-19? Australia's most advanced COVID vaccine candidate

Antivenom's fatal flaw

Resourceful solutions

60-year odyssey

Hot modernism Cool resource

My robotic co-worker

Batteries on wheels

‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals

����̽�� powers greener alternative to lithium ion in Brisbane manufacturing deal

Queensland Science making a difference

����̽�� tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis

Cars rule as coronavirus shakes up travel trends in our cities

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

��̽�� heats up the space race

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

What are ��̽��’s longest running research projects?

How ��̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

��̽�� powers greener alternative to lithium ion in Brisbane manufacturing deal

��̽�� tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis