Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104116

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140104116

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

It’s a fine line: analytical and experimental optimisation of drawing metal-in-dielectric nanowire composites to manufacture engineered metamaterials. Exploitation of ‘smart materials’ is a major opportunity for 21st century Australian manufacturing if cost effective bulk production is available. Metamaterials are ideal building blocks for such new-age materials, being dielectric/metal composites structured on sub-wavelength dimensions, offering diverse properties unavailable in natural materials. Fibre drawing is a proven mass-production technology for translating the structure of a (macroscale) preform to microscale and has recently been applied it to fabricate microscale metamaterials. By overcoming fundamental instabilities, this project will transform the technique to manufacture nanoscale structured composites and demonstrate practical metamaterial-based optical devices with unique properties.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2014

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $495,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nanomanufacturing | Rheology | Composite and Hybrid Materials | Materials Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Composite and Hybrid Materials | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Materials Engineering | Nanomanufacturing | Rheology

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