Melbourne Platform for Surface Characterisation of Structured Materials

澳大利亚经济正通过纳米技术和生物技术部门的发展逐步扩大其制造业基础。这将导致生产更多样化的、经过精心改造的产品。这些出口机会的一个关键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的纳米技术经济，而且像澳大利亚这样的小国有许多利基市场。该提案有助于建立质量控制和表征基础设施，这将促进下一代制造的纳米级器件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.