Materials and Engineering Science ANSTO website:http:www'ansto'gov'auanstomatengsciindex'html

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Materials and Engineering ScienceANSTOwebsiteh
ttp//www.ansto.gov.au/ansto/matengsci/index.html

• Suzanne V Smith
• svs_at_ansto.gov.au

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Radioanalytical and Chemical Analysis

• Expertise
• Experience in development of targetry, design and
  execution of radiotracer studies.
• Development of routine methods and training in
  use of relevant techniques is also available.

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Radioanalytical and Chemical Analysis

• Facilities
• Gamma counter
• (0 - 2000 keV small and large sampling)
• Alpha, beta and gamma spectrometry
• (28 and 50 efficiency)
• Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy
• Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
  (ICP-MS), and
• Clean room facilities.

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Nanotechnology Controlled Release of Drugs.
Selective Inorganic Sorbents
Microporous inorganic adsorbents that have unique
metal ion binding affinity. Investigating their
application for radioisotope separation.
Image Victor Luca
20 ?m
Novel technology for production
nanoparticles. Encapsulation and release of
molecules under controlled conditions
0.05 ?m
Images Alexandra Bush
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Microbiology

• Research/synthesis of bio-inorganic composites
  (live rocks).
• Characterisation of biological systems.
• Culturing of fastidious microbes - magnetotactic
  bacteria
• Novel bioreactors culturing cells requiring
  high pO2
• E.g hepatocytes

Top magnetotactic bacterium with a chain of
magnetosomes (dark inclusions). Bottom higher
magnification of the magnetosomes in the cell.
Images from Tony Taylor
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Integrated Suite of Characterisation Capabilities
and Expertise

• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• spatial/topological info., resolution 3.5 nm
• chemical info., spatial limit 1 micron
• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• spatial/structural/topological info., resolution
  0.1 nm
• chemical/valence/bonding info., spatial limit
  10 nm
• Structure and texture analysis
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• Neutron diffraction
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)

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International Collaborations Radiometal tracers

• Apply ANU/ANSTO patent - radiolabelling
  technology
• Harvard Medical School, USA Humanized
  Antibodies
• Cambridge University, UK Humanized Antibodies
• TRIUMF, Canada RNA
• Apply ANSTO Radioplatinum Patent Technology
• Paterson Cancer Institute, UK
• Harvard Medical School, USA
• NECSA, South Africa