Tag: UNSW Sydney

Australian technology company Silex Systems has been awarded $5.1 million in funding from the Defence Trailblazer for the Concept to Sovereign Capability Program, a strategic partnership between the University of Adelaide and UNSW Sydney (UNSW) funded by the Australian Government Department of Education.

The University of Adelaide and UNSW Sydney have launched the Defence Trailblazer program, an initiative that seeks to boost Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities by upskilling the workforce and accelerating leading-edge science and technology. 

Engineers at UNSW Sydney have created a new, more efficient method of recycling solar panels that can efficiently recover silver, the university said in a news release. 

Over 35 industry partners are joining the $240 million Defence Trailblazer program, which will accelerate defence innovation and strengthen Australia’s national security. 

UNSW Sydney Professor Andrew Dempster, director of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER), said he believes many people are unaware of how simple it is to send something into space, citing the use of cubesats, which are lunchbox-sized satellites that can undertake space-based experiments.

Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a way to build flexible electronic systems using ultra-thin skin-like materials in an effort to improve the efficiency of organ-on-chip technology. 

Engineers at UNSW Sydney have taken a major step towards solving a long-standing problem about giving qubits – the basic units of quantum information – more breathing space by developing a jellybean-shaped quantum dot.

The Sydney Quantum Academy, a partnership between four Sydney universities, has welcomed Australia’s first National Quantum Strategy launched on May 3 by Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic and Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley.

The new ARC Research Hub for Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructure Systems (RIIS) has opened at UNSW Sydney, intending to improve infrastructure systems in the urban, energy, and resources sectors.

UNSW Sydney researchers have secured $3.7 million from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) new Mid-Career Industry Fellowships program, augmented by a further $1.8 million from participating industry partners, with enabling the manufacturing of scalable quantum processors as one of its objectives.