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At Deakin University our researchers are making a positive impact on the lives and well-being of communities — not just in Australia, but around the world — through exceptional innovation and research.

Using our industry, government and institutional networks, we are building our global research footprint across four key themes, supported by four world-class Research Institutes and 13 Strategic Research Centres.

Improving health and wellbeing

Covering the broad spectrum of health, our research is helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of people and communities on a global scale. From medicine, ageing, chronic illness and disability, to nutrition, physical activity and child health, we're continually striving to uncover new frontiers through persistent curiosity and ground-breaking research.

Designing smarter technologies

Deakin is a world leader in carbon and short fibre, metals and steel research, electromaterials, corrosion, nanotechnology, composite materials and energy storage systems. Our open access carbon fibre/composite research facility, Carbon Nexus, is supporting the transition to advanced manufacturing, while engineering and IT researchers are providing robotics, simulation modelling and haptics solutions to clients across many sectors.

Enabling a sustainable world

Deakin leads one of the world’s most prestigious environmental and marine science research programs. Our scientists are helping to protect Australia’s vulnerable flora and fauna from disease, from rapid development and from climate change. In the agricultural sphere, teams of experts are providing water management advice and designing smart solutions to global challenges such as food security, sustainable agriculture and environmental sustainability.

Advancing society and culture

Our research is helping to advance understanding of intercultural relations, politics, migration, racism and governance. In education, researchers are cultivating society and culture by informing policy across all educational sectors, with an emphasis on developing partnerships and working toward achieving equity and social justice. Our creative arts researchers are also breaking new ground, often at the intersection between research, art and technology.

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1 August 2019 - 31 July 2020

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Deakin University published between 1 August 2019 - 31 July 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count Share
80 17.99

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject Count Share
Life Sciences 23 2.82
Chemistry 39 11.87
Physical Sciences 25 5.49
Earth & Environmental Sciences 11 1.49

Highlight of the month

Independent nanofilms show their strength

© bubaone/Getty

© bubaone/Getty

Free-standing films made from nanomaterials called MXenes, which possess exceptional strength and electrical conductivity, could be used in a range of flexible electronic devices.

Single flakes of two-dimensional MXene nanomaterials, made mainly from titanium and carbon, show outstanding strength and electrical conductivity. However, when the flakes are combined to make MXene films of a useful size, poor alignment between the flakes results in the films having a much lower strength and conductivity.

Now, a team led by Deakin University researchers has developed a scalable method to make flexible MXene films several metres long, which possess record-breaking strength and conductivity.

The researchers produced large MXene flakes. This ensured that, when a liquid suspension of the flakes was applied to a surface with a blade, the dragging motion of the blade helped the flakes to neatly align.

The resulting free-standing film is promising for electromagnetic shielding or as current collectors in batteries for flexible electronics.

Supported content

  1. Advanced Materials 32, 2001093 (2020). doi: 10.1002/adma.202001093

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1 August 2019 - 31 July 2020

International vs. domestic collaboration by Share

  • 36.31% Domestic
  • 63.69% International

Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (60 total)

  • Deakin University, Australia
  • Domestic institution
  1. Monash University, Australia (10.23)
    2.68
    7.55
  2. The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia (4.85)
    2.15
    2.70
  3. University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia (3.20)
    0.74
    2.45
  4. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia (3.04)
    1.52
    1.53
  5. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia (2.86)
    1.74
    1.12
  6. The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia (2.50)
    0.98
    1.53
  7. La Trobe University, Australia (2.29)
    1.42
    0.87
  8. The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia (1.80)
    1.17
    0.63
  9. Australian National University (ANU), Australia (1.72)
    0.51
    1.21
  10. University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia (1.23)
    0.69
    0.54

Top 10 international collaborators by Share (911 total)

  • Deakin University, Australia
  • Foreign institution
  1. Polymat, Spain (2.76)
    0.83
    1.94
  2. Drexel University, United States of America (USA) (2.74)
    0.86
    1.89
  3. CIC Energigune, Spain (2.54)
    1.02
    1.52
  4. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain (2.24)
    0.99
    1.24
  5. Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, Spain (1.80)
    0.83
    0.97
  6. Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China (1.78)
    0.29
    1.49
  7. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (1.47)
    0.76
    0.72
  8. University of Delhi (DU), India (1.47)
    0.45
    1.02
  9. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (1.38)
    1
    0.39
  10. Beijing Normal University (BNU), China (1.21)
    0.34
    0.88

Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.

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