As a result of the generous sponsorship of Rio Tinto Limited the Deans and Heads of Engineering of all the Australian Universities were circulated a letter requesting submissions for a poster competition showing the higher degree research currently being undertaken in nanotechnology.

The winning entries listed below highlight the exciting research opportunities in nanotechnology that are being made available to the next generation of Australian scientists.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigation of Nonanuclear [3x3]MnII Supramolecular Grids
Laura Weeks
School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences
Flinders University of South Australia

Mesophases Evolution of the Mesostructured Hybrid Titania Thin Films
Indriana Kartini
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland

Looking Down into a Nano-Materials World: A Silicate Under Stress
Kayleen Campbell
Division of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland

Surface Physico-Chemical Studies of Immobilised Oligonucleotides
Phuong-Cac Nguyen
University of South Australia
Ian Wark Research Institute

Nanoscale force measurements on synthetic and industrial gibbsite at low and high pH
Felicia Lee
Curtin University, Perth, W.A
CSIRO (Minerals), Perth, W.A

Flame Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Murray Height
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Effect of Core-Shell Nanostructured Electrodes in Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells
David Menzies
School of Physics and Materials Engineering
Monash University

Phthalocyanine-Siloxane Copolymers: New Developments via Interfacial Methods
Chris J. Embery
Nanotechnology Research Group
School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences
Flinders University

Field Effect Sensing for PCR Applications
Meng Taing
Griffith University and CRC for MicroTechnology