Sector: Science, Technology and Innovation
Country location: Republic of Korea
Grantee: Swinburne University of Technology

Project Description

Graphene – plasmonic nanostructure hybrids have recently received enormous attention for potential applications in ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering platforms, sensors, catalysts and photovoltaics. However, the interaction between plasmonic nanostructures and graphene is at its infancy, and efforts need to be made to understand the physico-chemical interactions between these materials to realise its full potential. This project seeks to build upon the existing expert partnership between Swinburne University in Australia and Sungkyunkwan University in Korea in graphene plasmonics (James W. M. Chon, Swinburne) and nanostructure fabrication (Byungkwon Lim, Sungkyunkwan) to produce important breakthrough optical materials for future technologies. The planned reciprocal visits by the two experts will involve conducting hybrid nanostructure fabrication and nonlinear optical measurements that are not available in each country, exchanging existing knowledge. This visit will strengthen the science and technological partnership and collaboration between the institutions in the two countries, meeting the objectives of Australia - Korean Foundation Grant program.

Key dates:

• Research Visit and Seminar, Sungkyunkwan University, 05 December 2016
• Research Visit and Seminar, Swinburne University, 03 April 2017

Social media: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/cmp/research_onspa.php

Australia-Korea Foundation grant offer: $17,952.00

Total project value: $17,952.00