Australian Synchrotron

Scientific Programme

Advanced Materials and Hard Matter

• MOFs, Batteries, Energy generation and storage, Magnetic and electronic materials
• Solar cells, Electrical and electronic materials sensors

Manufacturing, Engineering and Cultural Heritage

• Manufacturing processes, 3D Printed materials, Palaeontology
• Art history and restoration, Engineered microstructures
• Archaeology and rock art, Advance alloys and ceramics

Earth, Atmosphere and Environment

• New mineral structures
• Fluid flow through rocks, Volcunology, Mineral processing
• Geochemistry, Metals in the environment, Mineral formation and processing
• Geochemistry, Mineral formation and processing, Astro-geology
• Soil science, metals in the environment, Mineral formation and processing, Atmospheric chemistry

Chemistry, Catalysis and Soft Matter

• Chemical crystallography / Organometallic complexes
• In situ / In operando chemistry, Coordination complexes and MOFs
• Polymers, Surfactants, Nanomaterials, Organic electronics
• Catalyctic systems, In situ chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organic electronics

Biomedicine and Health

• In vivo and In vitro Bio-imaging, Medical implants
• Cellular imaging, Role of metals in disease
• Biomaterials, Pharmaceutical forumlations, Food and nutrition
• Structure and speciation of metal based drugs, Nutrition

Life Science and Structural Biology

• Protein and Biomolecular Crystallography, Drug discovery
• Protein and Biomolecular Structure and Function
• Metaloprotein Structures