CSIRO can develop new, composite materials that can improve the design and fabrication of products, introducing new qualities such as lightness and corrosion resistance.
Your VCE Chemistry 1 students can discover the properties of materials in a more in-depth way than is possible in most school laboratories. The Polymers and Nano-Chemistry workshop run by CSIRO in Victoria will come to your school, or you can visit our centre in Highett.
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.
