Funding totaling AUD$58.3 million (over USD$38,781,000) has been announced through a recent round of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme, supporting projects including quantum computing devices, more durable perovskite-based solar photovoltaic cells, and terahertz biosensing.
The funding was announced through the scheme, which is part of ARC’s Discovery Program and supports researchers “to design ambitious research programs around a team of postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students” in various fields.
Among the funded projects, AUD$3,023,860 (over USD$2 million) over five years will go to Queensland University of Technology Professor Hongxia Wang, for a project aiming to make perovskite solar cells more durable and therefore economically viable, using molecular engineering and doping techniques to maintain good photoactivity in the perovskite, and to replace gold electrodes with superior low-cost carbon alternatives that have well-tuned and highly efficient electronic and surface properties.
