Melbourne Platform for Surface Characterisation of Structured Materials

澳大利亚经济正在通过发展纳米技术和生物技术部门逐步扩大其制造业基础。这将导致生产更多样化的精心改造的商品。这些出口机会的一个主要贡献者将是纳米技术部门，因为目前没有一个国家拥有真正以纳米技术为基础的经济，澳大利亚等小国有许多利基市场。这项提议有助于建立质量控制和表征基础设施，为下一代制造促进纳米级设备和传感器的原型和设计。

The Australian economy is gradually expanding its manufacturing base through the development of the nanotechnology and biotechnology sectors. This will lead to production of a more diverse range of elaborately transformed goods. A key contributor to these export opportunities will be the nanotechnology sector since at the present time no country has a real nanotechnology based economy and there are many niche markets available for smaller countries such as Australia. This proposal helps to build quality control and characterisation infrastructure that will facilitate prototyping and design of nanoscale devices and sensors for next generation manufacturing.