Future Manufacturing Flagship

Want titanium for your cranium? Each year, the CSIRO Titanium Challenge calls on university students to learn about what a totally awesome material titanium is - and to show us what we could do with it!

US Energy Department Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CSIRO to explore ways to improve efficiency for powders used as feedstock in the production of titanium components.

The Victorian Direct Manufacturing Centre is a novel model where the government of Victoria, CSIRO and industry to share risk in innovation to make Victorian manufacturing more globally competitive, productive and green.

Dr Jasieniak leads research to develop inorganic nanoparticle inks for manufacture of high performance printed solar cells.

CSIRO is researching ways to make semiconducting, inorganic nanoparticles which can be used to develop new consumer devices and printable solar cells.

CSIRO are researching consumer electronics, infrastructure and niche areas of distributing energy in order to create world-leading Australian businesses in the field of polymer electronics.

The Future Manufacturing Flagship is taking titanium technologies from ore to more, building on Australia's world ranking reserves of ore, with our portfolio of advanced metal production and fabrication technologies.

CSIRO supports the development of an Australian titanium metal production industry through advanced metal production technologies.

CSIRO is leading development in additive manufacturing and machining technologies for premium materials such as titanium.

Dr Kevin Winzenberg researches development of small organic molecules for use as semiconductors in electronic devices such as solar cells and transistors.

Our vibrant, multi-disciplinary Flexible Electronics team draws upon the specialised skills of scientists from a range of areas.

CSIRO carries out research into organic photovoltaics and integrated plastic electronics, using our specialist experience in nanotechnology, conducting polymers, and control of polymer structure on a molecular level.

CSIRO Titanium Technologies taps the skills of 80 specialised scientists and engineers, drawn from across CSIRO, to help build a cost-effective titanium industry.

CSIRO aims to stimulate an Australian titanium industry with applied research on production of feedstock products including titanium sheet and wire.

Taking titanium from ore to more via advanced metal production and direct manufacturing technologies.

A group of leading Australian scientists has come together to develop lower-cost flexible optoelectronic solutions that could transform the Australian consumer electronics industry.

Dr Geoff Houston undertakes commercial activities for the CSIRO flexible electronics portfolio, promoting the technologies to commercial partners across the globe.

Dr Scott Watkins is applying CSIRO’s world-class understanding of polymer science to create new electroactive materials for the next generation of plastic electronics and energy devices.

You want something impossibly smooth, round or flat? At CSIRO Optics we've been manufacturing with precision for more than fifty years.

The February 2011 issue of Process highlights a number of projects where CSIRO’s expertise is being applied to increase the economic and environmental viability of mineral processes. (12 pages)

Dr Ezio Rizzardo, CSIRO Fellow, uses his expertise to devise living free radical polymerisation that revolutionises the production of polymers with controlled structure and architecture.

World leading research from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship as part of the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) aims to develop flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells. (5:29)

Carbon nanotubes, or CNT’s, are tiny straw-like cylinders of pure carbon that are potentially useful in electronics, optics and other areas of materials science. (4:44)

Nanotechnologies have the potential to offer a wide range of economic, social and environmental benefits.

Dr Tracey Hinton is a research scientist with CSIRO Livestock Industries working to develop new methods to deliver bioactive drugs.