Advanced materials

Development of smart materials
Positioning as key leader for future adaptive and smart materials in the area of functional polymers and adaptive polymer materials.

AIBN's Five Pillars of Research are designed to enable AIBN to innovate solutions to solve society’s problems through sustainable materials, healthy living and translational success.

Stem cell ageing and regenerative engineering

Precision nanomedicine

Advanced materials

Agriculture nanotechnology

Advanced Biomanufacturing

Limitations in the physical properties of existing materials represent a major barrier to the next generation of technological advances. Our researchers work at the nexus of physics, chemistry and engineering to design advanced nanoscale materials with unique and highly valuable properties. Such ongoing advances in polymer chemistry and functional nanomaterials have positioned AIBN as a key leader in the development of future smart materials.

Nanocellulose reinforced elastomers

Jan 2011–Jan 2018
Self-assembly of block polymers for applications in nanofabrication and for tuning interfacial interactions

Jan 2017–Jan 2019
Novel Biologically-Responsive MRI Agents

Jan 2017–Jan 2019

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Solar technology breakthrough at UQ

Published on: 18 February 2020

The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a flexible ‘skin’ over hard surfaces has moved a step closer, thanks to a significant breakthrough at AIBN.

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Professor Darren Martin

Group Leader

Martin Group
Professor Michael Monteiro

Senior Group Leader

Monteiro Group
VC's Research and Teaching Fellow
Professor Lianzhou Wang

Senior Group Leader

Wang Group
Professor Andrew Whittaker

Senior Group Leader

Whittaker Group

AIBN Deputy Director (Research)