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Materials research with impact

Get experience and knowledge in advanced research and materials application with this two-year Master of Research (Advanced Materials), and help further scientific knowledge in areas such as:

  • Clean and sustainable energy conversion and storage
  • Advanced electronic materials and devices
  • Polymers, composites and biomaterials

This course will give you hands-on experience with advanced processing technologies and innovative analytical methods used within the Australia Institute of Innovative Materials (AIIM). Based at the Innovation Campus in Wollongong, AIIM is UOW’s purpose-built facility designed to transform multi-functional materials research into commercial reality.

AIIM has complementary expertise in theoretical and experimental materials science as well as engineering, chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and electronics.

AIIM gives students access to industry-leading research organisations:

Areas of research

Electronics

Electronics

Using advanced materials in the development of novel electronics

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Energy

Energy

Harnessing the properties of advanced materials for energy applications

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Health

Health

Applying advanced materials to health protection

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Course information

  • The first year of the program covers research training and discipline specific coursework.
  • The second year of the program is focused around a major research project and thesis.

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  • Undergraduate or coursework Masters degree with a weighted average mark of 65 or GPA of 3/4.
  • English language requirement IELTS 6.5 (bands 6.0 or greater).

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International students

Session Fee: $16,104
Full Course Fee: $64,416
High performing international candidates will receive an International Postgraduate Tuition Award (which pays their tuition fees) for any future studies at UOW.

Domestic students

Exempt for the normal time limit of the course.

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THE WORLD OF INNOVATIVE / ADVANCED MATERIALS

The University of Wollongong has a well-established international reputation in materials research led by its flagship Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM). Researchers at AIIM carry out pioneering research on a broad range of exciting new materials and composites, from superconductors and electronic materials through to polymers and biomaterials.

If you want to be part of a materials revolution, then this degree is for you. You’ll learn how to make new materials, tailor their properties and then combine them into devices and prototypes that can change the world for the better. It’s these break-throughs that are driving a new wave of advances in renewable energy, new electronics and biomedical devices and implants.

Advanced materials research stories

Next-level ceramics

Next-level ceramics

Trialling nanoceramics in cutting-edge medical applications

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Sodium-ion batteries

Sodium-ion batteries

Developing next-generation energy storage technology

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Mesomaterials for health

Mesomaterials for health

Developing a glucose-detecting copper mesoporous film

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Magnetic nanoparticles

Magnetic nanoparticles

Designing nanomaterials to clean up oil spills

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Wearable thermoelectrics

Wearable thermoelectrics

Harnessing the power of our bodies for wearable tech

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