Nanotechnologies have the potential to offer a wide range of economic, social and environmental benefits.

National Research Flagships offer full and top-up Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships to high quality students who wish to work on a Flagship research project.

CSIRO today signed a five-year, $25m strategic research alliance agreement with one of Australia’s leading public companies – Orica Limited.

An ambitious new research collaboration designed to track the health of Australia’s marine and freshwater ecosystems was launched today.

CSIRO are improving health and well-being through the development of manufactured biomedical devices, materials and technologies, for local and global export markets.

CSIRO are developing new products and processes for the efficient use and conservation of natural resources and waste industrial products.

The Future Manufacturing Flagship invites applications for PhD scholarships commencing in early 2010.

How old meets new as the ancient technique of spinning is used to produce a very modern material – a carbon nanotube yarn in this video. The ability to spin carbon nanotubes into a yarn that retains the carbon fibres’ remarkable properties could have a range of important applications, from medicine to the aerospace industry. (5:00)

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In a world first, Mr Ken Atkinson, an Australian scientist, has spun yarns from minute fibres of carbon, without the need for a binder to hold the yarn together.

After developing a manufacturing process for making wool blend air filters and seeing his work applied in commercial products, Dr Jürg Schütz is now investigating filters containing carbon nanotubes.

By unlocking the secrets of ocean processes, ecosystems and resources, CSIRO is addressing national challenges in which oceans play a central role. (4 pages)

This one-page information sheet provides an understanding of the potential risks associated with nanoparticle use in the community, workplace and environment.

Read answers to commonly asked questions regarding the use of nanoparticles in sunscreen, and on our Nanosafety research.

Flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells: your questions answered.