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UNSW School of Materials Science and Engineering

Locality: Kensington, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9385 7298

Address: UNSW - School of Materials Science and Engineering - E10 Building 2052 Kensington, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au

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23.01.2022 A new study by FLEET researchers Doctoral Student Stuart Burns, Doctoral Student Oliver Paull, Dr Daniel Sando and Professor Nagy Valanoor comprehensively reviews the magnetic structure of the multiferroic material bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3 BFO). The review advances FLEET’s search for low-energy electronics, bringing together current knowledge on the magnetic order in BFO films, and giving researchers a solid platform to further develop this material in low-energy magnetoelectric memories.

22.01.2022 STUDENTS: CSIRO is offering a generous PhD program and scholarship in Mineral Resources! If you are interested in this opportunity be sure to apply before the 31st of October (link below). Get in touch with Dr Judy Hart for more details. https://jobs.csiro.au//Various-CSIRO-Postgradua/671669000/

21.01.2022 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: Transport for NSW is offering some excellent paid cadetships and scholar programs which are an excellent opportunity to advance your career and gain exposure to a range of work and projects across the organisation. Applications close on the 5th of October so be sure to apply! Links below: Cadet Programs (years 3+ of your degree):... bit.ly/3kfWaQS Scholar program opportunities (year 1-2 of your degree): bit.ly/35D2Nc4, See more

19.01.2022 Our growing e-waste problem could be turned into an asset thanks to groundbreaking research by Scientia Professor Veena Sahjwalla and the SMART Centre UNSW who used it to create high performance steel coatings

16.01.2022 Today it is R U OK day and we encourage you all to check in with your colleagues, classmates and friends and ask R U OK? Check in today and check in regularly, it makes a massive difference. Find out more information at: https://www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask It has been an exceptionally difficulty period for many with the onset of Covid-19, so don't beat yourself up about it. Make a tea and check out some of the resources available at UNSW Wellbeing: https://www.wellbeing.unsw.edu.au/

15.01.2022 Open Day is this Saturday! Come along and chat with our academics and students and get a tour of the campus in this interactive online event. Be sure to register at the link below and we look forward to meeting you soon!

14.01.2022 Watch FLEET honours student Coco Kennedy produce a sample using pulsed laser deposition in the quest for low energy electronic technologies of the future Find out more about the pioneering work of the multi-disciplinary FLEET group at: FLEET: Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies

13.01.2022 Technical staff are the unsung heroes of research; they keep everyone safe, stocked with supplies and in awe of their mastery of finicky scientific equipment. This week we are sadly saying goodbye to Rahmat Kartono, one of the best in the business! Rahmat started his journey with the school in 2004 as a PhD student working on alloy-gas interactions under the supervision of Professor David Young. After finishing his studies he started overseeing a range of labs as a Senior Technical Officer. Rahmat always went above and beyond in supporting us with his active participation in our high school visits, lab tours, lab demonstrations and Open Day. He also made an immense contribution to the planning and and set up of our new building in 2015. Rahmat leaves the school to relocate to sunny QLD and we wish him the very best

13.01.2022 Congratulations to Associate Professor Kris Kilian for winning a $1.5 million grant from the US National Cancer Institute to pursue groundbreaking melanoma research! The project involves creating melanoma mimics in the laboratory, where patient cells are patterned into hydrogels, soft materials that contain greater than 50 per cent water and mirror properties of human tissue, using bioprinting and techniques adapted from the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The long-term goal of the research is to establish simple methods, where tissue specimens from a skin biopsy or surgical resection can be grown in a dish at a hospital, with multiple drugs tested to find the right combination for each patient! Read the full article at the link below:

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Bernadette Pudadera, Coco Kennedy and Aurpa Bhuiyan for placing first, second and third in the 2020 Materials Australia Student Awards Competition (NSW branch)!! These students competed against 9 top performing students from universities around NSW in front of an expert panel. A special thank you to Associate Professor Sophie Primig and Dr Rachel White (ANSTO) for hosting this excellent event and to the event councillors and sponsors: Soto group, Gravitas,... United Steel, ANSTO for their continued support. Here are the winners and their supervisors: 1. Bernadette Pudadera @ UNSW Sydney, supervisor Dr Pramod Koshy: Platinum Electrode Dissolution 2. Coco Kennedy @ UNSW Sydney, supervisor Prof Nagy Valanoor: Superdomains in Highly Strained Bismuth Ferrite thin films 3. Aurpa Bhuiyan @ UNSW Sydney, supervisor Dr Pramod Koshy: Glass Crystallization in Nuclear Waste Storage 4. Lisa Morgan @ UoW, supervisor A/Prof Yue Zhao: Investigation of the addition of an organic component to chromium (III) phosphate coating on Aluminium/Zinc coated steel

12.01.2022 Wishing a warm welcome to Dr Tushar Kumeria, our new Scientia Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Early Career Fellow. Tushar’s research focuses on porous nanomaterials and composites for drug delivery, sensing, and tissue engineering and using novel materials with biology to create advanced nanomedicine and biosensing tools. Tushar has hit the ground running by winning the ATA Scientific Encouragement Award! The award will be used to purchase optical sensing rigs that will be used in the development of smart optical sensors using porous photonic crystals.

10.01.2022 One of the strangest materials of the 20th century is pykrete, a composite of frozen water and wood chips. The addition of wood or even toilet paper makes this material tougher than concrete and during WW2 the allies considered making aircraft carriers out of it! While these ships weren’t needed to win the war, pykrete is indeed used to build structures in cold climates, including a winter port in Antarctica. Creating your own pykrete and then comparing its performance again...st frozen water in a drop test (like those shown in the below video) is a great way to learn about composite materials. Composites are composed of two different materials which produce a material with different characteristics of each individual material. In our example, toilet paper and frozen water individually have low toughness and compressive strength, but these values are far higher in pykrete. Composites are a big part of materials science and engineering and include materials as common as concrete a composite of cement, gravel and (often) metal rebar, and aerospace materials like carbon fibre a composite of carbon fibres and epoxy resin. If you would like to conduct this experiment at home, get in touch and we will send you some more detailed instructions! See more

08.01.2022 Congratulations to our 2nd year undergrad student Ally Bradley for securing our 2020 Infrabuild Steel Research Activity Ally has been selected based on her strong written application, high marks and highly professional Zoom interview. The selection panel members were AProf Sophie Primig, our new industrial partner from Infrabuild Steel Kevin Halbe and their HR representative Charlie Polley. Ally will receive a $5k annual stipend in 2020-2022. On top of that, she will have opportunities for paid summer internships in the Rolling Mill and Meltshop at Infrabuild Steel, for research assistantships and hopefully a future Honour’s project in Sophie’s team.

08.01.2022 A new breakthrough by the SMART Centre UNSW promises a new recycling strategy for polymer-laminated materials like coffee pods, closing the loop on an important stream of waste! Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Doctoral Student Abdullah Al Mahmood and Dr Rumana Hossain described this new process in the latest issues of Springer Nature and the Journal of Cleaner Production.

03.01.2022 Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla has just been featured in the July edition of In The Black Magazine for her research ushering in the circular economy Read more: bit.ly/2WMZvh3

02.01.2022 It has been a hard year for hands on events, but this hasn't stopped a group of FLEET members delivering their outreach workshops to students in Emmanual Primary School! The Zoom session consisted of workshops like the marbled milk experiment where dishwashing liquid is added to milk and food dye, creating beautiful sciencey patterns (below). This event was produced by FLEET members Vivasha Govinden, Pankaj Sharma, Qi Zhang, Karina Hudson, Coco Kennedy, Matthew Rendell, Fan Ji, Cecilia Bloise and Richard Winkler. Read more about it at: http://www.fleet.org.au//engaging-science-outreach-in-the/

02.01.2022 This Thursday at 3pm, our alumni Dr. Solmaz ‘Soli’ Jahangir is kindly providing a wellness workshop Feel and Fill for our current students. The program is designed to enhance emotional awareness, creative intelligence and social connectedness through a variety of fun and creative exercises. If you are interested, please fill out the RSVP at Soli’s company site Braveworks: REGISTRATION: https://calendly.com/bravewor/feel-fill-workshop-unsw-team

01.01.2022 Welcome to our new academic Dr Benjamin Pace. Ben joins the school as an Education Focused Lecturer and has research interests in biomedical and energy material applications of thin films, as well as in mineral based composites used as soil amendments for carbon sequestration and agricultural applications. We are very excited to have him on board!