Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform

Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform

Advanced materials, manufacturing and fabrication are driving the next wave of innovation and research translation in Australia through the transformation of specialised materials into high-performance products and solutions.

Our priority is to work across the innovation ecosystem, from designing novel materials, system digitisation, all the way through to their implementation into prototypes and products. Increased and accelerated impact generation can be enabled by digitisation of processes across the value-chain such as Industry 4.0 to address complex challenges. Integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence paradigms into these approaches is a key opportunity. 

Advanced materials are diverse in form and function – key areas of interest include Nanomaterials, Quantum materials, Metamaterials, Functional and Stimuli-responsive materials. Incorporation of these materials and systems into processes, devices and other real-world solutions will continue to support innovation.  

The capability of the Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform is ideally placed to contribute to the sovereign needs outlined in the National Manufacturing Priorities and The Action Plan for Critical Technologies. We seek to address inter-disciplinary challenges across sectors and provide innovation that spans disciplines.

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Our vision

Professor Xavier Mulet
Director, RMIT Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform

“Our ability to collaborate across the EIPs will enable us to deliver impact for our partners from advances in materials, manufacturing and fabrication innovation.”

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Creating impact

Read some examples of Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform collaborative research projects and how it has supported RMIT researchers, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to solve issues.

Food for Thought: Pioneering the Future of Food
Join us for this multidisciplinary two-day event showcasing research from both Australian and global perspectives on food's evolving connections to society, health, and our future.
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PRINT-Cell – Type1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, which destroys insulin producing islet beta cells, affects over 120,000 Australians. Being able to create insulin-producing cells, rather than relying on human donors, is the ‘holy grail’ of diabetes research.
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Case study | Working with the Water Industry to Recycle Biosolids

Finding better ways to manage and re-purpose polluting biosolids, sewage sludge from wastewater, is a pressing issue for the water industry.

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Researcher story | Professor Kalpit Shah

Professor Kalpit Shah applies research in the area of advanced thermochemical conversion systems.

The Factory in a Box prototype similar to circuit board

Researcher story | Dr Ben Cheng

Working with colleagues from mechanical engineering, computer science, and information technology and with the support of several platform funding grants, Cheng has been working closely with local industries to understand their difficulties in establishing their own Industry 4.0 (I4.0) information systems.

Research and innovation priorities

The Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication Platform works across the National Manufacturing Priority domains with researchers and partners.

The outputs and outcomes are focused on: Enabling the rapid transition of fundamental research to minimal viable products such as prototypes and devices.

  • Developing digitised products, digital twins and interfaces between the cyber and physical.
  • Platform technologies across length scales and sectors to create sustainable innovation.
  • Capturing value through multidisciplinary approaches from the design stage to the solution implementation.
  • Deploying Machine Learning, Modelling, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence in material discovery, process optimisation, system development or operation.

Aligned networks and centres

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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