The mission of the centre is:

  • to innovate, accelerate and translate scientific materials discoveries to transformative technologies
  • to invent, design and optimise materials from soft and condensed matter
  • to develop comprehensive pathways towards controlling and tuning materials properties and function.

Research challenges

Frontier materials

Designing and inventing new materials from small-molecule systems to complex macromolecular structures through fundamental science.

Value-added materials

Improving existing materials performances, and functions at the crossover of physics, chemistry, and engineering.

Fabrication and prototyping

Exploring the design space of products and devices to enable generative and evaluative discovery.

Characterisation and testing

Pushing new technologies towards the frontiers of ultimate structure analysis and particle-matter interaction.

Our director

Professor Dmitri Golberg

ARC Laureate Fellow, physicist and materials scientist Professor Dmitri Golberg is a globally renowned, highly-cited (Thomson Reuters) researcher. He is a recipient of Tsukuba Prize (2005), Thomson Reuters Research Front Award (2012), “Seto” Prize by Japan Microscopy Society (2016), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) President Award (2017), and QUT Science and Engineering Faculty Frontier of Knowledge Award (2019). His works primarily focus on synthesis and analytical in situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of nanomaterials for diverse structural and “green” energy applications.

View Professor Golberg's profile

This research supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The LABS

Meet some of the people changing our world for the better, with a behind the scenes snapshot of science that can:

  • transform diamonds into high powered, energy efficient electronics
  • change plastics into truly biodegradable food for organisms
  • teach robots how to navigate the world like humans do.
Download The LABS (PDF file, 17.9 MB)

Contact us

3138 4587
Find us at
Level 2, E Block
Gardens Point