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Understanding how and why chemical reactions occur has always been of huge importance. In particular, chemical reactions are essential to the development of many of the materials that surround us such as plastics and functional materials.
While we have great knowledge of these processes we still have a long way to go. One researcher at the Research School of Chemistry — Professor Michelle Coote — alongside her research team, are making leaps and bounds in our understanding of chemical reactions.
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Before the Research School of Chemistry opened in 1967 Australia did not have a chemical research institute that matched the quality of international institutions.
Students of chemistry traditionally travelled to the United Kingdom or USA to study for their PhD and for postdoctoral appointments. It was this challenge that drove the building of the RSC.
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ANU Future Fellow Dr Nicholas Cox has been awarded the Robin Hill Award from the International Society of Photosynthetic Research.
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ANU has won $500,000 in new funding for innovation in the 2016-17 CBR Innovation Development Fund.
The funding will support four ANU projects, from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Research School of Chemistry and Research School of Physics and Engineering.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said capturing more than a third of the $1.45 million funding recognises the work on innovation being done at ANU.
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An international study led by The Australian National University (ANU) will help underpin the development of next-generation medical treatments and industrial applications such as removing pesticides from waterways.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Colin Jackson said the study significantly improved scientific understanding of the way that enzymes can change their function.
Enzymes are the molecular machines that speed up chemical reactions in biology and are required for many medical and industrial innovations.
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ANU will establish an international research program to improve ways to store renewable energy that can be integrated into the electricity grid under a new $8 million partnership with the ACT Government.
The ACT Government and ANU will jointly invest the funds over five years for a new Battery Storage and Integration Research Program.
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Australian scientists have developed a new system for catching drug cheats in sport which they say could be available in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Scientists at the Australian National University in Canberra have worked with a commonly occurring bacterial enzyme that detects a range of drugs not regularly tested for.
Researchers said it could detect drugs in an athlete's system well after the point at which other methods could not pick them up.
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Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) could lead to new ways to detect performance-enhancing drugs at the Olympics and other major sport events.
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On Saturday the 13th of August, the RSC started off National Science week with one of our biggest outreach events ever, “The Chemistry of Scouting”. Approximately 1100 boys and girls from Scouts and Girl Guides descended on the RSC for a day of talks and fun interactive chemistry activities. The participants ranged in the morning from age 6 to 10 years, and in the afternoon from 11 to 25 years old. Some scouts came from as far afield as Wollongong, Melbourne, Yass and Bungendore, whilst most participants were from the Scouts ACT Branch.