Collaborations With....

IPRI is involved in a number of strategic research collaborations.

Within Australia our key collaborative activities have been consolidated by the establishment of the "ARC Centre for Nanostructured Electromaterials". This centre has now been expanded to become the "ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science". The Centre was formally opened in February 2006 and is a collaborative partnership between IPRI, Monash University, The Bionic Ear Institute, and St Vincents Health in Melbourne. The main aim of the centre is still to explore the science of nanomaterials having an electron or charge transfer functionality: to prepare such nanomaterials, study and develop theories for their behaviour, and exploit these new behaviours in useful applications. An ethical dimension is also included to monitor the impact of such developments on the community as a whole.

Other key domestic linkages are with Dr Paul Dastoor's group at the University of Newcastle and with selected Co-operative Research Centres: CRC for Cochlear Inplants and Hearing Innovation and the CRC for Functional Surfaces.

In the International arena IPRI has strong links with the Nanotec Institute at the University of Texas, Dallas; Professor Alan MacDiarmid's group at the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Dennis Tallman at the North Dakota State University, with the group at Trinity College, Dublin and extensive links with the National Centre for Sensor Research at Dublin City University.