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| 2013: Minister Assiting for Industry and Innovation dropped by the AIIM facility to check our fit-out in February. Here she talks to the Mercury about the research being undertaken in Wollongong. >View here Source: Illawarra Mercury |  |
| 2013: The Mercury's Lisa Wachsmuth visited IPRI to chat with Dr Robin Gorkin about Australia's first 3D Bio-Plotting equipment. >View video Source: Illawarra Mercury |  |
| 2013: Dr Stephen Beirne and Robert Gorkin speak to ABC Illawarra about the future projections of new technology such as 3D Bio-Plotting equipment, recently acquired by ACES. >View video Source: 97.3 ABC Illawarra |  |
2012: ‘Welcome to ACES’: An introductory video about our research and facilities. >View video |  |
2012: Associate Professor Marc in het Panhuis demonstrates the process by which materials solidify to become hydrogels for application in bionics, tissue engineering and soft robotics. The feature was created as part of ACES’ 2012 vodcast series. >View video | |
2012: Dr Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, a researcher in the ACES Energy program, talks about her work on metal-air batteries. This feature was created as part of ACES’ 2012 vodcast series. >View video |  |
2012: This video features ACES PhD Candidate Tristan Simons’ winning presentation of the Deakin University Three Minute Thesis competition. >View video |  |
2012: Professor Ray Baughman, ACES IAB member, talks about the latest development in artificial muscles, which may be used in self-powered intelligent textiles that automatically react to environmental conditions like sweat or heat. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) are part of a team spread across four continents to develop the new hybrid muscle yarn. >View video. Source: UT Dallas | |
2012: Professor David Officer speaks to UOWTV about ACES’ solar cell research, explaining that artificial chlorophylls are used to collect light to turn into electricity. >View video Source: UOW TV |  |
2012: ‘Polymer Nanofibre Artificial Muscles’: This animated multimedia, produced by the Bionic Muscles team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), demonstrates how individual nanofibres are suspended over a trench and stretched using an atomic force microscope. >View video. Source: BionicMuscles YouTube Channel |  |
2012: ‘Carbon Nanotube Torsional Actuator Mechanism’: This animated multimedia, produced by the Bionic Muscles team at ACES, demonstrates how torsional artificial muscles made of carbon-wall nanotubes can be electrochemically charged, causing its yarn to swell or partially untwist.>View video (for best sound clarity, use headphones) Source: BionicMuscles YouTube Channel |  |
2012: ‘Carbon Nanotube Torsional Actuator Mechanism’: This animated multimedia, produced by the Bionic Muscles team at ACES, demonstrates how carbon nanotube yarns swell as ions are absorbed into their porous structure. >View video. Source: BionicMuscles YouTube Channel |  |
2012: ‘Robotic Fish Powered by Conducting Polymer Artificial Muscle’: This animated multimedia, produced by the Bionic Muscles team at ACES, demonstrates how a bending artificial muscle built from polypyrrole conducting polymer can be used to propel and steer a robotic fish. >View video. Source: BionicMuscles YouTube Channel |  |
2012: ‘A Review on Mechanical Properties of Hydrogels’: This animated multimedia produced, by the Bionic Muscles team at ACES, explains the enhanced performance of tough hydrogel materials, which now show comparable mechanical properties to natural tissue. >View video. Source: BionicMuscles YouTube Channel |  |
2012: Decoding Nano (DIISRTE): the Australian Synchotron interviewed Professors Gordon Wallace and Mark Cook as part of its 2012 video series. >View video |  |
| 2012: Professor Geoff Spinks presented a special lecture to patent examiners at the headquarters of IP Australia. Much of ACES' research aims to develop nano-materials to exploit the unique properties that occur at the nano-scale. In this introductory lecture Professor Spinks explains the important role that nano-structured carbon materials play in the development of materials with enhanced mechanical properties. >Email Professor Spinks to get your DVD copy of the lecture |  |
| 2011: 'The brave new world of medical bionics': the latest developments in medical bionics at one of the biggest nanotechnology events of the year. Professor Gordon Wallace, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, UOW speaking at a joint online briefing out of the Nanotech Expo 2011 in Tokyo with Professor Keiichi Torimitsu, Molecular Biological Systems Research Group, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and hosted by Dr Go Yoshizawa, Lecturer, Tokyo University Graduate School of Public Policy, I2TA Project. >view recording made available via UStream |  |
| 2010: Professor David Officer, Dr Tracey Clarke and Dr Attila Mozer, talking with UOW TV about a New Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant of $320,000 over three years to work with Konarka Technologies in an effort to increase the efficiency of organic polymer solar cells. >View interview. Source: UOW TV (starts at 2min 6 secs) |  |
| 2010: Making Hydrogen Fuel From Water: Researchers from the UOW have developed new technology with the potential to make hydrogen fuel from water. The process would occur using sunlight from solar panels on suburban homes and schools. The research group has obtained patent status in Australia for the technology, and has applied for a patent to protect intellectual property rights in the United States. Dr Gerhard Swiegers from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute says researches have been able to mimic the process of photosynthesis that occurs in plants. >Hear Gerhard being interviewed on ABC Radio (with Nick McLaren) |  |
| 2010: Professor David Officer explains how research at ACES/IPRI is attempting to produce clean energy. Plants take sunlight and use that energy to make both food and fuel by splitting water. Our research is looking to mimic plants in that we are making materials that will (i) convert sunlight to produce electricity, using organic solar cells and (ii) take sunlight harvested from the solar cell and couple with a water splitting device to produce hydrogen as a potential power source. >View video |  |
| 2009: Professor Gordon Wallace, Director of IPRI explains how researchers at the at the University of Wollongong and research partners at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science are working with electromaterials at the nano level to address important medical challenges. This includes new biologically driven structures that can power the new generation of "smarter" bionic implants. The video uses animation to explain complex ideas. >View video |  |
| 2009: Troy Lowe, a PhD student at IPRI, talks about fabricating micro-sized pH sensitive electrodes made from Iridium and using these to detect local pH changes near the surface of zinc and zinc alloy. This work is part of a larger project to understand corrosion mechanisms of metal coatings.>Audio file (13.6MB MP3 file) |  |
| 2009: Alberto J. Granero, a PhD student from IPRI talks on elastic conducting rubber-carbon nanotubes fibres/strings/composites. The aim of his project is to produce conducting strings or fibres that are biocompatible in order to be used in medical applications, for example implanting artificial body parts like muscles. >Audio file (6.6MB MP3 file) |  |
| 2009: Dr. Simon Moulton from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) recently gave a seminar on his QEII Project "Strategies towards in-vivo Targeted Drug Delivery for Epilepsy Control". For enquiries regarding his research please contact the IPRI on (02) 42213127. >Audio File (13.1MB MP3 file) |  |
| 2009: Professor Gordon Wallace speaks about research being carried out at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, located in the AIIM Facility at the University's Innovation Campus. >Multimedia slideshow (2.45min) |  |
| 2007: Professor Gordon Wallace, Director of IPRI talks about Nanotechnology >View video (5.33MB .wmv / 3:10 mins) "Being involved in the medical applications of nanotechnology is like a dream. Working with people like Professor Clark who developed the Bionic Ear, using nanotechnology to look at new challenges in bionics and how we can make nano materials to solve those things like spinal chord regeneration." Source: www.innovation.gov.au |  |
