Crown Research Institute GNS Science has beat off competition from Europe and the United States to supply a nanotechnology fabrication machine to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney. <\/p>\n
Known as an ion implanter, it is being shipped to Sydney this week in a container. <\/p>\n
When installed at ANSTOs facility at Lucas Heights on the outskirts of Sydney, it will be used to make advanced materials for use in hi-tech industries. ANSTO is the headquarters for Australias nuclear science expertise. <\/p>\n
The instrument will implant charged atoms into the surface of materials by accelerating them at various energy levels. This gives the implanted material a range of desired properties such as super-hardness, ultra-smoothness, improved electrical conductivity, and greater corrosion resistance. <\/p>\n
Potential applications for these new materials include industries such as medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, energy production, and transport. <\/p>\n
Leader of GNS Sciences Ion Beam Technology Group, Andreas Markwitz, said this was the largest single project his group had undertaken in its 15-year history. <\/p>\n
The instrument, measuring 3m by 2m when assembled, was designed and built at GNS Science in Lower Hutt. The only outside component was a 2.4 tonne electro-magnet built by Buckley Systems Ltd in Auckland. <\/p>\n
\"There are probably fewer than 10 companies in the world that could build an ion implanter such as this from scratch,\" Dr Markwitz said. <\/p>\n
\"This will open the door to other lucrative offshore work and we are already looking at the possibility of supplying a similar instrument to India.\" <\/p>\n
The ANSTO deal was particularly attractive because it allowed GNS Science to book time on the implanter in Sydney to further its research and development in nanotechnology. <\/p>\n
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