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Hub Overview
Sydney is Australia's strongest quantum and nanofabrication center, built around two universities a few kilometres apart. UNSW Sydney is a global leader in silicon-based quantum computing, where spin qubits are fabricated atom by atom toward a practical quantum processor. The University of Sydney runs the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, home to the Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, with adjoining cleanrooms from the New South Wales node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. Together they cover quantum devices, photonics, nanoelectronics, and biomedical nanomaterials.
The two anchors sit close together: UNSW at Kensington and the University of Sydney at Camperdown, both inside the inner city. Their shared ANFF cleanrooms open the same fabrication tools to academic groups, startups, and industry, which makes Sydney a practical base for anyone needing device prototyping rather than only materials synthesis. Macquarie University and UTS add further photonics and sensing groups across the metropolitan area.
Research Map
Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Sydney area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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Company
Key Institutions
University of Newcastle
2 nano groups
University of Wollongong
2 nano groups
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
1 nano group
Macquarie University
1 nano group
Australian Centre for NanoMedicine
1 nano group
Sydney Nanoscience Hub
1 nano group
University of Sydney Nano Institute
1 nano group
University of Technology Sydney
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Sydney area.
Callaghan
University
Callaghan
A University of Newcastle research centre developing printed and flexible organic electronics, including organic photovoltaics, photonics and biosensors fabricated at the interface of semiconductors and polymers.
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University
Callaghan
The Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials at the University of Newcastle applies nanotechnology and materials science to challenges in energy, the environment and health, translating advanced nanomaterials research into commercial products.
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Lucas Heights
Lab
Lucas Heights
The national nuclear science and technology organisation of Australia, operating large-scale materials characterisation infrastructure including the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and the Centre for Accelerator Science that are widely used for nanomaterials and advanced materials research.
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Macquarie Park
University
Macquarie Park
A Macquarie University research centre specialising in lasers, optics and nanophotonics, with capabilities spanning nanoparticle imaging, advanced spectroscopy and laser-based microfabrication through the ANFF OptoFab node.
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North Wollongong
University
North Wollongong
Aiming to explore the science of nanomaterials having an electron or charge transfer functionality; to prepare such nanomaterials, study and develop theories for their behaviour, and exploit these new behaviours in useful applications.
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University
North Wollongong
The thrust of the institute's activities to date has been to develop more processable Inherently Conducting Polymers and to integrate these functional materials with other host structures with desirable mechanical properties.
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Sydney
Lab
Sydney
The Australian Centre for NanoMedicine combines Medicine, Science and Engineering to deliver therapeutic solutions to research problems in medicine. Through a commitment to research, education, knowledge transfer and commercialisation, ACN is dedicated to the prevention, diagnostics and curing of diseases.
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University
Sydney
The University of Sydney has recently completed construction of the Sydney Nanoscience Hub - one of the most advanced research and teaching facilities globally in the field of nanoscience.
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University
Sydney
Sydney Nano is the University of Sydney's latest step in the creation of flexible, interdisciplinary institutes that are devoted to bringing the best people and infrastructure together in the support of frontier research.
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University
Sydney
The group's research enables nanodevices and integrated systems with ultralow energy consumption, minimising all the parasitic energy (electrical, thermal, mechanical) losses which make devices power-hungry and less performant. Low energy consumption needs to be complemented with efficient energy storage and an appropriate system design. Nanomaterials like graphene and novel 2D materials are key enablers.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Sydney area.
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Caringbah
ATA Scientific specialises in marketing and servicing analytical and scientific instruments with a products focus on the Particle Sciences, Biotechnology and Spectroscopy. They include instruments applicable to nano particle, micro emulsion and bio-surface research.
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Frenchs Forest
A system developer, distribution and consulting company specialized in nanotechnology product implementation and applications, primarily coatings.
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Biomedical
Gladesville
Commercializes a nano and micron sized ceramic spheres technology that provides encapsulation and controlled release of active molecules for a variety of applications including drug delivery, cosmeceuticals and speciality chemicals.
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Materials
North Wollongong
Battery materials company commercialising silicon-carbon composite anode materials that integrate nano-silicon into a graphite-carbon matrix to increase the energy density and charging speed of lithium-ion batteries.
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Redfern
Supplier of state-of-the-art optoelectronics, piezoelectric and spectroscopy technology, serving Australia and New Zealand's scientific research and industry community.
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Seven Hills
Develops supercapacitors, high-power, high-energy storage devices that rely on the separation of charge at an electrified interface that is measured in fractions of a nanometer.
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Silverwater
Semiconductor manufacturer developing and producing gallium nitride and indium gallium nitride laser diodes, LEDs and microLEDs using a proprietary low-temperature remote-plasma chemical vapour deposition (RPCVD) epitaxy process.
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Warriewood
Supplier of analytical and sample-preparation instrumentation to the nanotechnology, materials science, microscopy and life sciences communities, including electron microscopes, X-ray diffraction and fluorescence systems, atomic force microscopes and nanomanipulation tools.
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