AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE MATERIALS PROCESSING AND DEVICES (AIIM P&D)

The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials Processing & Devices Facility (AIIM P&D) is an Australian first. It will offer the innovative processes and facilities required to take multifunctional materials from fundamental research to proof of concept, using novel fabrication methods.

Funded by the Australian Government, the facility will be located on the state-of-the-art Innovation Campus with multi-million dollar investment focusing on nano-science and nano-technologies.

The AIIM P&D Facility will build upon UOW's existing world-class research capabilities and enable:

• innovative materials research that links with novel materials processing research to develop next-generation materials and diverse applications
• proof-of-concept for multifunctional materials development projects (including prototype development, manufacturing scale-up and early-stage clinical trials)
• R&D of new electromaterials fabrication and processing methods, which can then be applied to next-generation multifunctional materials being developed by UOW and others around Australia
• accelerated market application of next-generation multifunctional materials (by bridging the gap between lab-based studies and manufacturing scale-up and proof-of-concept)
• postgraduate training to produce the personnel required for technology transfer to industry
• enhanced national and international collaboration

The AIIM P&D Facility will house world-class equipment and facilities and will involve the development of Synthesis/Processing "machinery" focused on:

• Fabrication
• Workshops & Engineering Design
• Organic Synthesis Materials Processing

 For more information please contact

Professor Gordon Wallace
Executive Research Director
ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
phone: +61 (2) 4221 3127
fax: +61 (2) 4221 3114
email: gordon_wallace@uow.edu.au

Dr Toni Campbell
Chief Operating Officer
phone: +61 (2) 4221 3504
fax: +61 (2) 4221  5267
email: toni_campbell@uow.edu.au