Congratulations to members of the ARC Future Fibres Hub for being awarded the 2019 Deakin Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Industry and Employer Partnerships. The award was in recognition of the transformational impact Hub research has had on the fibre industry over it’s operations to date. Some of these outcomes include: Two products…
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As part of National Science Week, the Hub and Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials were proud to host a breakfast event at Waurn Ponds Estate on Monday 12th August. The guests, from academia, industry and the general public, enjoyed a delicious breakfast and early morning discussion before we launched into the proceedings. The guest speaker, Dr…
Read moreCongratulations to Hub Director Professor Xungai Wang – new Editor-in-Chief position The Journal of The Textile Institute, first published in 1910, is the oldest research journal the textile field and one of the leading international publications devoted to research and innovation in all areas of textiles, including, science, engineering, economics, management, marketing and design. The…
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We recently welcomed Katelyn Cordell for a six week visit. Katelyn is a fifth year PhD candidate from the University of Southern Mississippi in the United States where she works with Hub international Partner Investigator Professor Jeffrey Wiggins on polymer precursors for carbon fibre. Katelyn started her visit by attending the Future Fibres Symposium, followed…
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The Hub was well represented at this interesting conference A large team from Deakin University attended the Australian Circular Fashion Conference in St Kilda on 21st March: Xungai, Joe, Nolene, Alessandra, Chris, Emma, Marzieh and Surya were joined by Catherine McMahon – Manager Major Projects at the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University. Some of…
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An interesting one-day conference was hosted by IFM and the Hub on Friday 22nd February. The conference was organised by a visiting delegation from the Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, Hochschule Hannover, as part of a German government funded initiative designed to grow an international network on bioeconomy research. The delegation also included colleagues from…
Read moreCongratulations to Joe Razal! A/Prof Joe Razal was recently awarded an Endeavour Executive Leadership Award. These awards, from the Australian Government Department of Education and Training, aim to increase international research engagement through funding recipients to spend some time in an overseas laboratory, developing their knowledge and expertise. Joe will use the award to visit…
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The Hub has been out and about recently with the Avalon Air Show, Geelong’s Innovate Expo and a Royal Society of Victoria event on Fashionable Science. The Royal Society of Victoria holds regular lectures on a range of interesting scientific topics. On February 28th the lecture was on Fashionable Science and featured 4 scientists working…
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The Hub was proud to host the 3rd Symposium at Deakin on the 18/19th February. This year featured four fantastic international guest speakers – Prof Greg Rutledge from MIT spoke on process-structure-property relationships in electrospinning, Prof David Kaplan from Tufts University shared many fascinating research projects his group is undertaking on silk materials. Prof Jeff…
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