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News|17 / 07 / 2017, 24 / 08 / 2017

What’s underneath your next project?

In today’s competitive market, keeping work skills up-to-date and continuously advancing your professional development is crucial in maintaining a competitive edge.

With many other obligations such as work and personal and family commitments, having the option to learn online and study in your own time is critically important. Equally as important is the need to learn through a motivating and interactive online environment.

Purdue University Assistant Professor Rajamani Gounder co-led research that could bring improved catalyst designs. Photo: Erin Easterling/Purdue University

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News | 23 / 08 / 2017

New catalyst could improve diesel exhaust quality

A new reaction mechanism that could be used to improve catalyst designs for pollution-control systems has been discovered. It could further reduce emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust.

Researchers at Macquarie University have trialled a new accurate, rapid and inexpensive way to assess metal-contaminated sites.

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News | 23 / 08 / 2017

More accurate and cost-effective way to assess metal contamination

The high costs associated with mass sample analysis means many metal-contaminated site investigators try to limit the number of laboratory measurements.

myPortal Scheduled Maintenance Notification

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News | 23 / 08 / 2017

myPortal Scheduled Maintenance Notification

MyPortal Scheduled Maintenance will be from 6:00pm to 10:00pm AEST on Wednesday, 23 August.

Jeff Connolly (left) and Prof Aleksandar Subic at the announcement of Siemens' $135m industrial software grant to Swinburne University of Technology. Photo: Siemens

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News | 22 / 08 / 2017

$135m partnership between Siemens and Swinburne

Swinburne University of Technology has received a $135 million industrial software grant from engineering company Siemens to digitalise Swinburne’s Factory of the Future, creating Australia’s first fully immersed Industry 4.0 facility.

An interdisciplinary international team at Aalto University, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Beihang University have developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing.

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News | 22 / 08 / 2017

Inkjet printing for graphene-like materials

New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics.

CSIRO PhD student Elena Virtue in the organisation's high bio-containment facility in Geelong. Photo: CSIRO

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News | 21 / 08 / 2017

Rethinking PhDs with unis, industry and CSIRO

The CSIRO has joined together with UNSW and industry partners to create a new Industry PhD program (iPhD).

Self-healing rubber links permanent covalent bonds (red) with reversible hydrogen bonds (green). (Image courtesy of Peter and Ryan Allen/Harvard SEAS

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News | 21 / 08 / 2017

New type of rubber has self-healing properties

Typical rubber trends to crack at certain stress points when force is applied but hybrid rubber develops crazes throughout the material so there is no localised point of stress that can cause catastrophic failure.

Balancing the Masculine to Counter Disruption

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News | 18 / 08 / 2017

Balancing the Masculine to Counter Disruption

Kristyn Haywood describes the importance of adopting a balanced work place culture and the impact to company performance when it is not managed properly.