{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100171"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100171","attributes":{"code":"FT250100171","administering-organisation":"Monash University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Monash University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-06-30","anticipated-end-date":"2030-06-29","grant-summary":"Multi-functional electrochemical imaging with a miniaturised lab-on-a-tip. This project aims to understand the functional properties of nanomaterials in minute detail by making and utilising a unique new probe: the lab-on-a-tip. This project expects to generate new knowledge in energy conversion and storage by simultaneously measuring multiple functional properties of such materials at a microscopic scale. Expected outcomes of this project include an enhanced capacity to design new high-performing, longer-lasting and safe energy technologies. This should provide significant socio-economic and environmental benefits, by developing next-generation electrochemical devices that efficiently convert electrical energy into chemical energy and store it safely as carbon-neutral fuels derived from carbon dioxide.","funding-current":986583.00,"funding-at-announcement":965638,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Cameron","familyName":"Bentley","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-7867-6068 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Cameron","familyName":"Bentley","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-7867-6068 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"340103","name":"Electroanalytical Chemistry","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3406","name":"Physical Chemistry","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"340604","name":"Electrochemistry","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"280105","name":"Expanding Knowledge In the Chemical Sciences","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["England","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Australian and global research is enabling the continual emergence of diverse electrochemical technologies that can reliably generate, convert and store energy from renewable sources. It is an ongoing goal to design new materials to make these technologies more efficient, cheaper and safer, and to do so, we must understand the functional properties of these materials in minute detail. This proposal presents a new tool that makes use of a special probe to measure the functional properties of materials in unprecedented detail, which can be related to microscopic structure to guide development of more effective renewable energy technologies. My miniaturised “lab-on-a-tip” is an enabling technology, with the proposed research poised to generate blueprints for the next generation of electrodes for use in electrolysis for clean energy production. The development of this technology would have wide ranging socio-economic and environmental benefits, including: supporting environmental initiatives on climate change mitigation; providing safe, clean, secure and sustainable energy production and storage; and placing Australian industry in a strong position to compete internationally on the emerging carbon neutral energy market. To facilitate adoption/translation, the project outcomes will be promoted at (industry) workshops, through social media and through an established network of potential industry partners and  stakeholders via the GETCO2 ARC Centre of Excellence."}}}