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The projects are loosely grouped
into six research themes: clean energy;
nanotechnology; water; advanced
computational engineering, simulation and
manufacture; infrastructure engineering; and
biotechnology and stem cell research. Many
projects cut across several of these themes.
One project, which spans the clean
energy and nanotechnology research themes,
is investigating the use of ink-jet printing
to produce semiconductors and organic
electronic devices such as solar cells and thinfilm transistors. The challenges of this project
are understanding the ink-jet process using
nanoparticle inks, and applying this to develop
new methods of clean energy generation.
Another green energy project, supported
by Orica Limited, is exploring ways to
improve the efficiency of carbon capture and
sequestration as well as looking at how to
reduce the fossil-fuel consumption involved in
producing ammonia – a major industry in India.
In the biotechnology arena, another
student is researching a type of protein found
in the toxin of marine cone snails, with the aim
of synthesising new drugs to treat a chronic,
nerve-related pain that affects up to one-sixth
of the world’s population.
I N P R I NT
www.publishing.monash.edu/books
Dancing in my Dreams:
Confronting the
Spectre of Polio
New Tricks: Reflections
on a Life in Medicine and
Tertiary Education
The Hanged Man and the
Body Thief: Finding Lives
in a Museum Mystery
Kerry Highley
Richard Larkins
Alexandra Roginski
This first history of polio in Australia
“What is the essence of leadership?”
In 1860 an Aboriginal labourer named
arrives in an environment of increased
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