New facilities for solar cell development and biomolecular discovery solutions are among QUT projects funded in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Program grants.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Projects
- Professor Hongxia Wang will lead a $1.63 million project to develop a platform with essential suite of facilities for enabling upscaled demonstration of emerging photovoltaic materials. The proposed infrastructure bridges the gap between lab research and commercialisation and is expected to boost industrial viability of perovskite solar cell fabrication.
- Professor Stephen Blanksby will lead a $1.52 million project to make next-generation (cyclic) ion-mobility mass spectrometry available to Australian researchers for the first time. New capability to rapidly assign molecular structures to materials is expected to drive biomolecular discovery across both plant and animal kingdoms and accelerate advances in materials science.
Linkage Projects
- Professor Hongxia Wang will also work with Greatcell Solar Australia on a $1.1 million project to develop new methods for creating stable perovskite solar cells with green solvents for large scale production. Outcomes are expected to advance Australia’s manufacturing capability in the global photovoltaic technology market, predicted to reach US$34.8 billion by 2027.