Sydney Nano
Monthly Newsletter
February 2023
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Message from the Interim DirectorWhat an excellent month of celebrations and achievements for our community. Firstly, congratulations to our members who have been awarded prizes, grants, or started exciting new positions - you can learn about these achievements below. These past few weeks I have had the opportunity to showcase and celebrate some of the incredible research being undertaken by queer scientists as part of Sydney WorldPride 2023. Sydney Nano also held our first event for the year, an excellent lecture by Prof Khaled Salama on integrated biosensors. You can catch up on the recording here.
In March, I look forward to hosting our first Town Hall for the year. Join us over morning tea to learn about the latest news and updates from Sydney Nano. I also strongly encourage any Sydney Nano PhD students and EMCRs to attend our upcoming bootcamp. This 3-day course will provide you with essential research, strategy, and communication skills to empower you for the next step in your career.
Associate Professor Alice Motion
Interim Director, Sydney Nano
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Applications open now for the Future Leaders and EMCR Development Node Bootcamp!
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Join our upcoming Town Hall On Thursday 23 March, Sydney Nano will host our first Town Hall for the year. Interim Director A/Prof Alice Motion will first provide a timely reminder of the different research programs we offer and how you can apply. We will also hear from Frontier node leader Prof Kate Jolliffe about their research on 'breaking space-time barriers with nanosensors', an exciting upcoming NanoHealth pitch event, the Future Leaders Program, and the Research and Prototype Foundry. Join us from 9:30am for morning tea and to hear more about the great research and opportunities being led by our community. Register here.
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Prof Khaled Salama Distinguished Lecture
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SOAR Prize Success! Congratulations to our Sydney Nano members who have been awarded the prestigious Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Prizes, aimed at supporting outstanding University of Sydney early and mid-career researchers to fulfil their potential. Congratulations to:
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Prof Deanna D'Alessandro named Director of Net Zero Initiative Congratulations to Prof Deanna D'Alessandro on being named the Director of the Net Zero Initiative (NZI)! Launched in early 2022, the NZI harnesses the University's research expertise to develop new technologies and systems to support the world's decarbonisation, particularly in renewable energy, climate change modelling, low emissions technologies, and carbon capture and conversion. Prof D'Alessandro commented that “we need to ensure that technology is being appropriately and ethically designed. That it is actually solving an issue without unintended consequences, and good ideas are accelerated on merit, value and societal benefit – not just because they are low-hanging fruit." Congratulations Deanna! Read more here.
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New ARC College of Experts! Congratulations to Prof Lina Markauskaite (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) and Professor Neal Suresh Peres Da Costa (Sydney Conservatorium of Music) on being elected as new Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Expert members! The College consists of 269 individuals who play a crucial role in evaluating funding proposals for the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP). Read more here.
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A/Prof Brian Hawkett awarded Cooperative Research Centre Project (CRC-P) GrantThe CRC-P grants are designed to support short term, industry-led collaborative research. One project, led by A/Prof Brian Hawkett, will advance the use of super-paramagnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) for image guided cancer surgery and therapy. Specifically, the project aims to develop commercial scale manufacturing of Australian biotech company Ferronova's FerroTrace SPION platform. Congratulations Brian! Read more here.
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Upcoming Events - Thurs 2 March 12pm - 1pm | International Subawards (non-lead) Research Funding Informational Webinar | Hosted by the Office of Global Engagement
- Thurs 2 March 2pm - 3pm | Seminar by A/Prof Torben Daeneke (RMIT) - "Liquid metals - new catalysts for NH3 production and other reactions" | Hosted by the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | More information
- Tue 14 March 11am - 1pm | International Women's Day 2023 Event: "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality" with keynote speaker Antoinette Lattouf | Hosted by Diversity and Inclusion, the Women at Sydney Network, and the SAGE Program | More information
- Fri 17 March 11am - 12pm | Seminar by Dr Hongjie An (Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University) - "Nucleation and Stability of Nanobubbles: from Experiments to Theory" | Contact Prof Chiara Neto for more information
- Mon 20 March 6pm - 7:30pm | 2023 Iain McCalman Lecture by Dr Kate Owens (USyd) - "How can Australia successfully transition and adapt its interconnected social and technological systems as the climate crisis intensifies?" | More info & register here
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Award & Grant Opportunities
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In case you missed it...
- Fitness Passport is coming to the University! To finalise our partnership and start our program, Fitness Passport requires the University to meet a target of 1,350 staff sign-ups by Friday 17 March. Review and sign up here.
- The University of Sydney has announced a $7.4 million investment to expand its quantum technology facilities to establish the Future Qubit Foundry at the Sydney Nanoscience Hub. Read more here.
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Media Highlights
- Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Professor Yuan Chen from the Faculty of Engineering about Australia investing in electric vehicles.
- Campus Morning Mail reported that Professor Deanna D'Alessandro from the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science was appointed the Director of the Net Zero Initiative.
- The Sun (UK) quoted Dr Mike Seymour from the Business School in an article about the “AI arms race” and the potential spread of misinformation using deep fake technology.
- Forbes quoted Associate Professor Justin Beardsley from the Faculty of Medicine and Health about fungal viruses in relation to the show Last of Us.
- ABC Online interviewed Associate Professor Justin Beardsley from the Faculty of Medicine and Health about how fungi infections impact humans.
- Crikey reported that Professor Deanna D'Alessandro from the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science spoke at ANU's Climate Change update. MyScience reported Professor D'Alessandro had been named Director of the Net Zero Initiative.
- ABC News (Weekend Breakfast) interviewed Associate Professor Alice Motion from the Faculty of Science about the relationship between art and science.
- Sky News interviewed Associate Professor Omid Kavehei from Sydney Nano and the Faculty of Engineering on the global semiconductor industry and Australia's efforts to boost manufacturing.
- The Conversation published an article by Associate Professor Justin Beardsley from the Faculty of Medicine and Health about his experience on an international team that charted the ‘threat of killer fungi.’
- ABC News (Weekend Breakfast) interviewed Associate Professor Alice Motion from the Faculty of Science and the Charles Perkins Centre about 'An evening with 500 queer scientists' to promote the profession as forward-thinking.
- The Courier Mail, New York Post, and News.com.au quoted Dr Michael Seymour from the Business School about what jobs are at risk from digital humans, and the articles refer to a report from the Business School on AI. Triple M reported on the story. 2GB interviewed Dr Seymour about the report.
- The Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Associate Professor Sandra Loschke from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning about improving buildings' energy efficiency and environmental performance.
- ABC Radio Newcastle interviewed Associate Professor Justin Beardsley from the Faculty of Medicine and Health about fungal pathogens and the HBO show The Last of Us.
- The Guardian, The New Daily and Australian Associated Press reported that the Australian Academy of Science is calling for a nationally coordinated approach to carbon dioxide removal, quoting Professor Deanna D’Alessandro, Director of the Net-Zero Initiative from the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science.
- Associate Professor Alice Motion wrote an article for Chemistry World describing the Cloak project
- Associate Professor Alice Motion interviewed Professor Celine Boehm and Dr Kai Yi-Kai Tea for ABC News (Weekend Breakfast) in the lead up to Sydney WorldPride 2023.
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Member Publications- Ahnood, A., Chambers, A., Gelmi, A., Yong, K.-T., & Kavehei, O. (2023). Semiconducting electrodes for neural interfacing: a review. Chemical Society Reviews, 52(4), 1491–1518.
- Ali, R., Shao, H., & Varamini, P. (2022). Potential Nanotechnology-Based Therapeutics to Prevent Cancer Progression through TME Cell-Driven Populations. Pharmaceutics, 15(1), 112.
- Cao, Y., Sohn, B.-U., Choi, J. W., Sahin, E., Chen, G. F. R., Ong, K. Y. K., Ng, D. K. T., Eggleton, B. J., & Tan, D. T. H. (2023). Optimization of Bragg soliton dynamics for enhanced supercontinuum generation in ultra-silicon-rich-nitride devices [Invited]. Optical Materials Express, 13(2), 377.
- Chao, I., Yang, Y., Yu, M., Chen, C., Liao, C., Lin, B., Ni, I., Chen, W., Ho‐Baillie, A. W. Y., & Chueh, C. (2023). Performance Enhancement of Lead‐Free 2D Tin Halide Perovskite Transistors by Surface Passivation and Its Impact on Non‐Volatile Photomemory Characteristics. Small, 2207734.
- Gholipour, B., Elliott, S. R., Müller, M. J., Wuttig, M., Hewak, D. W., Hayden, B. E., Li, Y., Jo, S. S., Jaramillo, R., Simpson, R. E., Tominaga, J., Cui, Y., Mandal, A., Eggleton, B. J., Rochette, M., Rezaei, M., Alamgir, I., Shamim, H. M., Kormokar, R., … Reznik, A. (2023). Roadmap on chalcogenide photonics. Journal of Physics: Photonics, 5(1), 012501.
- Gilchrist, A. M., Wu, X., Hawkins, B. A., Hibbs, D. E., & Gale, P. A. (2023). Fluorinated tetrapodal anion transporters. IScience, 26(2), 105988.
- Liang, Y., Zhao, J., Yang, Y., Hung, S.-F., Li, J., Zhang, S., Zhao, Y., Zhang, A., Wang, C., Appadoo, D., Zhang, L., Geng, Z., Li, F., & Zeng, J. (2023). Stabilizing copper sites in coordination polymers toward efficient electrochemical C-C coupling. Nature Communications, 14(1), 474.
- Marlow, J. B., Atkin, R., & Warr, G. G. (2023). How Does Nanostructure in Ionic Liquids and Hybrid Solvents Affect Surfactant Self-Assembly? The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(7), 1490–1498.
- McKay, L., Kong Lai, C., Athanasios, N. J., Choi, D.-Y., Madden, S. J., Eggleton, B. J., & Merklein, M. (2023). Chip-based SBS for image rejection in a broadband microwave photonic mixer. Optics Express, 31(3), 4268.
- Talebian, S., Mendes, B., Conniot, J., Farajikhah, S., Dehghani, F., Li, Z., Bitoque, D., Silva, G., Naficy, S., Conde, J., & Wallace, G. G. (2023). Biopolymeric Coatings for Local Release of Therapeutics from Biomedical Implants. Advanced Science, 2207603.
- Wang, Y., Jin, J., Wang, H. J., & Ju, L. A. (2023). Acoustic Force-Based Cell–Matrix Avidity Measurement in High Throughput. Biosensors, 13(1), 95.
- Zhao, H., Zheng, Z., Zhou, H., Chang, L., Tsoutas, K., Yang, L., Alavi, S. K., Liu, Y., Akhavan, B., Bilek, M. M., & Liu, Z. (2023). Cathodic arc deposition of high entropy alloy thin films with controllable microstructure. Surfaces and Interfaces, 37, 102692.
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