ANA’s Activities:
The Australian Nanotechnology Alliance and Future Materials have announced a strategic alliance aimed at bringing collaborative and networking opportunities to industry and researchers. Future Materials' head office has moved to Brisbane and centred with the ANA. Shortly joint events will commence in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, ACT and South Australia. The ANA’s Interim CEO, Carla Gerbo, will lead both organisations.

US based Lux Research released their latest nanotechnology report revealing $US147 billion worth of nano-enabled products produced in 2007, with the figure set to grow to $US3.1 trillion by 2015. The Lux figures are imperative to Australian decision makers with Australian nano enabled goods potentially being valued at $60B by 2015. ANA, with funding from the Australian Office of Nanotechnology (AON) and the Qld Govt, is undertaking a national program of Nanotechnology workshops aimed at educating and showcasing nanotechnology to industry. The ANA aims to undertake these workshops in both metropolitan and regional centres over the coming 12 months

ANA Executive Event Series is set to be boosted after Davies Collison Cave agreed to partner with the ANA for events in Sydney and Melbourne. The Series is also undertaken in Brisbane and is aimed at bringing discussions on nano into CBD boardrooms to encourage collaboration between industry and researchers.

IN THIS ISSUE

New Podcasts – Theme: Technical Textiles

• Professor Robert Lamb, Director – The Australian Synchrotron
• Dr Bill Humphries, Acting Chief & Science Director, Textile & Fibre Technology - CSIRO

New Vodcasts (Video Casts)
These vodcasts are a new educational tool developed by the ANA to provide information on nanotechnology applications to industry.

• Professor John Bell, Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Built Environment & Engineering, QUT: Nanotechnology in Solar Technology
• Dr Jose Alarco, Director & Co-Founder, Very Small Particle Company: Working with Nanomaterials
• Craig Mounsey, Managing Director, CMD Product Design & Innovation: Commercial Applications for Nano Composite Materials
• Dr Philip Teakle, Director, Teakle Composites: Fibre Composites
• A/Prof Thiru Arquinthan, Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites, Uni of Southern Qld: Fibre Composites in Civil Engineering

Events:

• September 10. Experts Exchange
• September 11. Material Science (including Nanotechnology), A Technology Bridge for Manufacturing (Marine). (Gold Coast)
• September 25. Nanotechnology – Enabling Smarter Water Treatments.
  Speakers: Dr David Garman, Executive Director, Environmental Biotechnology CRC and Dr James Stening, Orica (Sydney)
• October 20. Professor Max Lu, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials: Enabling innovations to plug into the Sun (Melb)
• October 28: Energising Innovations – Sustaining our scarce energy resources.
  Speakers: Professor Max Lu (ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials), Richard Cottee (Qld Gas Company), and Sylvia Tulloch (Dyesol)

Nanotechnology Reports:

• Nanotechnology oversights: An agenda for the Next Administration (US July 2008)
• Where do innovations come from? Transformations in the US National Innovation system, 1970-2006
• Overhyped technology starts to reach potential: nanotech to impact $3.1T in manufactured goods in 2015 Lux Research US

Publications of Interest

• NanoMatters – June 2008
• CSIRO Solve Magazine – June 2008
• Materials Australia Magazine – May 2008
• Lightspeed, Australian Synchrotron News – July 2008