At the forefront of material development, Dr Peter Wich is developing unique materials for future nanomedicine applications in drug delivery and personalised medicine.
Three leading researchers have been awarded Australian Laureate Fellowships to tackle some of the world’s big issues, including ageing, clean energy and quantum computing.
Dr Rona Chandrawati’s work on colourimetric nanosensors aims to make testing for chemical compounds in food, health and the environment cheap, scalable and accessible.
UNSW engineers have shown that micro-submarines powered by nano-motors could navigate the human body to provide targeted drug delivery to diseased organs without the need for external stimulus.
UNSW Sydney engineers have led the way to ensure oral medicines targeting specific diseases or parts of the body are protected from the acidic conditions of the stomach.
In research worth $3 million, UNSW researchers are collaborating with several industry partners to develop sustainable remediation technologies to clean up emerging contaminants in water.
A system that stores renewable energy as hydrogen and is safer for home use than lithium-ion batteries is on the horizon for researchers at UNSW Sydney.
Recent UNSW SHARP hire, Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh was part of an international team that has accomplished what has been a major goal in nanophotonics for many years – long-lived and directional squeezed light.
An innovation in liquid metal chemistry could help one tenth of the planet’s population get access to clean drinking water at very low cost following breakthrough research from UNSW Sydney and RMIT.
