{"id":117329,"date":"2023-05-25T06:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/?page_id=117329"},"modified":"2024-01-31T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:57:37","slug":"chem-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/work-with-us\/chem-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin-ChemCentre Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chemcentre.wa.gov.au\/\">Curtin-ChemCentre <\/a>Alliance brings together Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s excellence in research with ChemCentre\u2019s chemistry expertise and 135-year history of achievements as the state\u2019s premier chemical science facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/chemcentre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117416\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Operating from analytical laboratories housed at the Resources and Chemistry Precinct at Â鶹ֱ²¥, ChemCentre is a Western Australian Government entity with a rich history of collaborative research including:<br>\u2022 The&nbsp;Becher Process \u2013 the backbone of the world\u2019s mineral sands industry<br>\u2022 Trace element, lupin and broadacre research that has promoted agriculture in our state<br>\u2022 Techniques to determine acid sulfate soils, beneficial uses for mineral by-products, the fate of oil spills and chemical \u2018fingerprinting\u2019 environmental contaminants<br>\u2022 Establishment of new or value-added industries in WA including honey, forestry and medicinal cannabis<br>\u2022 Forensic fibre database, synthetic cannabis, novel psychoactive substances and proteomic techniques that have advanced forensic science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A future focus of the&nbsp;alliance&nbsp;will be on new research, enabling the strengths of our combined capabilities to be put to the task of solving the bigger challenges. This will mean larger projects, with more funding and duration, building on a trend of ChemCentre research and innovation of recent times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curtin-ChemCentre Alliance brings together Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s excellence in research with ChemCentre\u2019s chemistry expertise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":117279,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"page_components":false,"support_toggle":true,"support_content":{"customised":false,"content":false}},"featured_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117329\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}