About

The Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) was established in 2001, and is a strategic alignment among key researchers at the University of Tasmania, RMIT University and the University of Western Sydney forming a consortium of Australian experts working in the area of separation science. This consortium has the following aims:

1. To maintain an outstanding level of international renown in research on separation science in Australia,
2. To coalesce and enhance Australian research on separation science into an organised structure operating with a coordinated research plan which addresses and exploits the most exciting and innovative themes in modern separation science,
3. To provide enabling research and research training of the highest quality which supports and advances all major areas of Australian science.      

Australian research in separation science has long enjoyed an excellent international reputation, earned by the individual activities of talented researchers. ACROSS offers an organisational and resource base through which these individual researchers can work in a coordinated and synergistic manner under a series of structured and interlocking research programs. This avoids duplication of effort, allows resources and expertise to be shared and provides value-added opportunities to Australian industries and research organisations and also establishes much needed national training facilities in separation science.

Research in ACROSS has been structured into focused programs to provide both fundamental and applied research outcomes in separation science. ACROSS draws together multi-site, internationally prominent and genuinely collaborative research teams, having complementary skills and synergistic resource-base expertise, and committed to focused programs of national significance.

To read more about ACROSS, please have a look at our Annual Report 2013 (PDF 1.46MB).

Research Themes

Pre-separation

• Computer-assisted method development
• Separation mechanisms and theory
• Extraction media, preconcentration and derivatisation

Separation

• New separation media
• Multidimensional separations and coupled techniques
• Microfluidics and electrofluidics
• instrumentation and platforms

Post-separation

• Detection technologies
• Data handling