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Research Programmes
Fundamental and applied work on how graphite forms and how the nanostructure impacts graphite's use in batteries and fuel cells.
They are some of the toughest coatings available on the market being used in cutting bits, hard drives, razors and to protect car engines.
Critical for batteries, tyres, pigments. We conduct fundamental studies on how carbonaceous materials form.
Disordered carbons are the most industrially significant carbon. We have studied the fundamental nanostructure and how they are so versitle.
Graphite is used as a nuclear moderator and glassy carbon is used to seal pebble bed reactors. We have studied how carbon changes under neutron bombardment.
Supercomputers enable computational experiences to be done and advanced visualisation using 3D printing, VR headsets and immersive displays enables viewing these complex nanostructures.
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
Optical spectroscopy is critical for probing the nanostructure of materials and gases. We are currently developing Raman detection of hydrogen with LIDAR technology.
Materials under pressure
Materials under pressure
Working with collaborators at RMIT and ANU we explore how carbon, silicon and other materials behave under extreme conditions both temperature, pressure and shear.
What is Carbon Materials Science?
What is Carbon Materials Science?
Carbon science is about understanding and improving carbon materials. There are two broad classes of carbonaceous materials:
ordered carbons such as graphite, diamond, fullerenes, nanotubes, schwarzites, carbon onions, nanohorns, nanocones, nanoribbons, amongst others
disordered carbons such activated carbon, glassy carbon, diamond-like amorphous carbon, carbon black, soot, carbon fibres, nanodots, amoungst others.
We ask questions such as
How are the atoms arranged?
How do the atoms assemble?
How can we tune their properties?
How can we create new carbon materials?
How can we design better or new carbon materials?
How can be reduce the cost of making carbon materials?
For further reading, we recommend the Carbon Webinar series we assembled during COVID and this series of lectures by Dr Swati Sharma.
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