Energy, Mining & Resources
Generating abundant clean energy is essential for sustainable living. So too is the efficient supply of critical minerals. So we’re enhancing both. From exploration to delivery; for our homes, businesses and industry.
Matching world-class research expertise in earth sciences, mining engineering and artificial intelligence with broader strengths in science, economics and social planning, we’re finding better ways to power our world.
Impact stories
The future of power: optimising and storing renewable energy
ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s premier chemistry and materials scientist, Professor Shizhang Qiao, is advancing renewable energy through his first-ever innovations in catalysis and aqueous batteries.
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Green Hydrogen: pioneering a path to a carbon-free future
ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide researchers are taking their innovative Green Hydrogen technology to the next level.
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Waves to watts: converting wave power to electricity
Climate change and coastal erosion are two big, intractable problems facing ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. Fortunately, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s wave power research group offers an innovative approach to solve both issues.Ìý
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Growing the graphene industry
With the goal of developing a sustainable graphene-based industry in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and world-wide, the team at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s ARC Graphene Research Hub has made several significant breakthroughs in graphene manufacturing and utilisation.
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Renewable energy
The Discovery Pod | Season 1, Episode 6Ìý
Cracking the code – finding new ways to power our nation and drive the manufacturing economy.
Professorial Lecture Series: Assoc. Prof. Carl Spandler
Unearthing rare earths: Why mining critical metals is vital to our future, and why ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ is well placed to profit.
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Harnessing low cost, sustainable, activated carbon from waste
In what is believed to be a world-first, an Adelaide-based start-up has developed a new, low cost, sustainable method of producing activated carbon.
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What's really going on during fracking
How do fluids such as water, gas and petroleum move in the earth?
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ÌýPh.D. is a civil and environmental engineering full professor and the Director, Institute forÌýSustainability, Energy and ResourcesÌý(ISER).
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