Professor David Lewis: Future Manufacturing Flagship Fellow

• Current Flagship activities 
• Background
• Current interests and project areas
• Previous areas of interest 

Prof David Lewis's Fellowship will run concurrently with his position as Professor of Materials Science, and Director, Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University.

Current Flagship activities

Prof Lewis will use his industrial product development experience to contribute to the Future Manufacturing Flagship at a strategic level, to maximise the commercial impact Flagship projects have on Australia’s manufacturing industry and the wider community.

His activities include: 

• evaluating projects within the research portfolio with the aim of creating and identifying alternate paths to commercial impact
• developing tools to assist in project evaluation
• working with research leaders to maximise the value of the project outcomes to Australian manufacturing industry.

Prof Lewis will facilitate direct collaboration between Flinders University's Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, South Australia, and CSIRO through co-supervised students, and joint research programs and activities.

Background

Prof Lewis's research career has centred on understanding and leveraging the relationship between the behaviour of molecules and structures at the molecular and nano scales with the macroscopic properties they display. 

This has led to a number of innovative solutions being successfully licensed, developed and implemented into new products and technologies.

Current interests and project areas

Prof Lewis's is involved in:

• Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology
• nanotechnology and polymer science
  • applications of nano-cylinders (and their modification), which would lead to novel approaches to desalination, artificial kidneys, mineral isolation and gas separation through high flux, selective transport of molecules and ions
  • microelectronics devices and electronic packaging and low-cost solar cell
  • learning lessons from nature and applying them through physical solutions.
• innovation – systems, approaches and tools that research organisations and companies can use to be more effective at converting research and ideas into new products and technologies.

Previous areas of interest

Prof Lewis has expertise in:

• microwave processing of materials
• radiation degradation of polymers
• materials and processes for microelectronic applications
• ophthalmic lens materials and performance enhancing coatings
• photochromic systems.

Learn more about Future Manufacturing Flagship overview.

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