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Research News
	Making sense of complex materials Understanding the connection between the structure of a material and its properties can be very challenging, especially when you’re talking about a complex and irregular three dimensional material like rock. Researchers at the Australian National University, however, are meeting this challenge by applying innovative new ways of modelling such structures. They make sense of them by understanding them as networks of voids and connecting passages. Besides providing insights on how more oil might be extracted from rock, the technique is also producing some spectacular images. ---more

Tin Tacks
	ARNAM – bringing Australia’s materials researchers together At the end of June a diverse group of researchers met at the University of Queensland for two and a half days to share ideas on an incredibly wide range of investigations into advanced materials. ---more

Know your material
	Working with free radicals What can you do with free radicals? We’re not talking about free-spirited revolutionary anarchists, we mean free radicals in the sense of highly reactive chemical entities. Free radicals are molecules with unpaired electrons that aggressively look for a mate so they’re likely to take part in chemical reactions. ---more

Sensational Materials
	Gold from bacteria Bacteria play an important role in the formation of gold nuggets in Australia according to new research by the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME). ---more


	Lead-free solders for electronic circuits Reducing the toxic pollution of landfill sites from lead in the circuits of dumped electronic equipment is the aim of a research agreement between The University of Queensland (UQ) and a major Japanese metals company. ---more


	T-ray vision Superman had X-ray vision. Now the University of Wollongong has T-ray vision. A team led by Associate Professor Roger Lewis from the Faculty of Engineering has created a ‘camera’ that produces images using terahertz radiation instead of visible light. ---more

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