Sydney Nano
Monthly Newsletter - February 2021
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Message from the DirectorFebruary has been a month of great endeavour at Sydney Nano. Last week our inaugural Grand Challenges presented their exciting progress to the Grand Challenge Steering Committee in their final year of funding. I am deeply appreciative to the committee for their participation and guidance to the scheme. I am very excited to announce the generous donation from David Anstice to support our Nanohealth Initiative, highlighted in The Australian article focused on the Sydney Nano Health Network. Also exciting is our new Sydney Nano Kickstarter Engineered nanoparticles for treatment of Parkinson's disease led by Prof Carolyn Sue, Northern Clinical School-Kolling Institute and linking into our Nanohealth network. I offer big congratulations to John Bartholomew awarded a LIEF grant. John leads the Quantum Integration Lab located in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub. Expressions of interest are now open for our ECR Members to become Sydney Nano ECR Ambassadors, these roles offer exciting leadership opportunities. I also encourage Members to have their PhDs and PostDocs registered as Sydney Nano Participants to enjoy our institution’s benefits. Stay tuned for more to come in the upcoming weeks.
Professor Ben Eggleton
Director Sydney Nano
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A new Kickstarter: Nanoparticles target Parkinson Disease
Sydney Nano endorsed a new node within our Kickstarter scheme emerging from the NanoHealth Network initiative led by Prof Carolyn Sue, Northern Clinical School – Kolling Institute: Engineered nanoparticles for treatment of Parkinson's disease.
The team will engineer nanoparticles to target dopaminergic neurons and deliver agents that preserve mitochondrial function as a form of treatment for Parkinson's disease. It has been shown that this approach may enhance mitochondrial health and function by maintaining good quality mitochondria. The project will confirm mitochondrial localisation and enhanced mitochondrial function in in vitro models of Parkinson's disease, so that the development of a neuroprotective treatment for Parkinson's disease in humans can proceed.
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Alumni donation to Sydney Nano Health Initiative
Sydney Nano has received a generous donation from University of Sydney alumni and retired pharmaceutical executive now CSL director, David Anstice to support our Nanohealth Initiative. The Sydney Nano Health Network is based on a pan-university scoping study of existing expertise in the field of nanoscience and technology for health application and has been established comprising six nanohealth clusters.
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Dr John Bartholomew awarded ARC funding boost for new research equipment
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has awarded Sydney more than $4.2 million for cutting-edge research infrastructure that will enable academics to further research in areas such as advanced materials and manufacturing.
Sydney Nano Member Dr John Bartholomew was awarded $699,000 LIEF grant to lead a project for a one-stop facility to enable nanofabrication of complex circuits and expects to pioneer novel superconducting and hybrid quantum technologies. Dr Bartholomew leads the Quantum Integration Lab located in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub.
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Sydney Nano ECR Ambassador roles vacant
Sydney Nano offers leadership opportunities for our ECRs in becoming a Sydney Nano ECR Ambassador (ECRA). ECRAs support the Deputy Directors Member Engagement internally and represents Sydney Nano nationally & internationally, and ensure integration and alignment of Sydney Nano across their Faculty/University School to meet the research and education strategies of Sydney Nano and the University. As ECRA you hold a citable leadership role, gain practical management skills and build a cross faculty network of ECR peers.
Please find more details about the role and express your interest here.
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Enhance your grant application - Sydney Nano as Research Environment
If you are interested to enhance your grant application through your membership at Sydney Nano, you might want to add a description of Sydney Nano capabilities in the “Research Environment” or any other relevant part. Please find below a description of Sydney Nano that might be of help. Feel free to change to reflect your intentions and address grant specific requirements. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.
The University of Sydney Nano Institute (Sydney Nano) is one of the multi-disciplinary initiatives of the University of Sydney. Sydney Nano’s purpose is to foster and enable multi-disciplinary research across all disciplines to produce transformative scientific outcomes in nanoscale science and technology that generate new knowledge and impact society and the economy. Sydney Nano comprises of a network of over 300 academics on all levels from across all faculties. The Chief Investigator(s) is/are a Member of Sydney Nano. His/her/their association with the inspiring and vibrant community of CI’s at Sydney Nano enables the project to add other disciplines if required and provides the opportunity to tap into the unique support framework of the institute.
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Sydney Nano Taste of Research Awards 2020
Congratulations to the two winners; Annamaree Kenny, supervised by Prof Wojciech Chrzanowski (Chemistry) and Adam Bova, supervised by Xiaoke Yi (Engineering), of our inaugural Taste of Research Awards 2020.
The Award (AU$2,500) was open to all high calibre undergraduate coursework students undertaking research with leading academics in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology who were members of Sydney Nano. The recipients will develop research skills, gain experience, and contribute to finding real-world solutions through six weeks of research on a full-time basis in January to February 2021.
We had 17 high level applicants and it was a very competitive selection process. Based on the positive resonance, Sydney Nano intends to run this award in 2021 again
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Sydney Nano Publication Award 2021
Sydney Nano Publication Award, valued at $1,000 each, is once again open for applications. Papers must be authored or co-authored by a Sydney Nano Member or Participant and research must be aligned with Sydney Nano's strategy and academic framework. The publication must include an acknowledgement of Sydney Nano according to The University of Sydney Nano Institute Nomenclature Protocol. This may be in the form of an additional affiliation. Please submit your application by 31 Oct 2021 by completing this form.
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The Conversation - Engineers have built machines to scrub CO₂ from the air. But will it halt climate change?
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Thomas Maschmeyer
Professor Thomas Maschmeyer has been ranked among the top chemists in the world by http://AcademicInfluence.com. Thomas is founding Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability (School of Chemistry), and is Executive Chairman of Gelion Technologies. He was also Founding Director of Sydney Nano (then called the Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology).
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Join Sydney Nano
Members are encouraged to have their PhDs and PostDocs registered as Sydney Nano Participants to enjoy our institution’s benefits.
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Members Publications- HHu, L., Zhao, Q., Huang, S., (...), Yuan, J., Wu, T. Flexible and efficient perovskite quantum dot solar cells via hybrid interfacial architecture (2021) Nature Communications, 12(1), art. no. 466.
- Forder, T.N., Maschmeyer, P.G., Zeng, H., Roberts, D.A. Post-synthetic ‘Click’ Synthesis of RAFT Polymers with Pendant Self-immolative Triazoles (2021) Chemistry - An Asian Journal.
- Bochicchio, B., Yeo, G.C., Lee, P., (...), Quaglino, D., Weiss, A.S. Domains 12 to 16 of tropoelastin promote cell attachment and spreading through interactions with glycosaminoglycan and integrins alphaV and alpha5beta1 (2021) FEBS Journal.
- Zhao, S., Huang, J. Study by Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy on the Acidity and Shape-selectivity of Zeolites (2021) Gaodeng Xuexiao Huaxue Xuebao/Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, 42(1), pp. 165-178.
- Mitchell, L., New, E.J., Mahon, C.S. Macromolecular Optical Sensor Arrays (2021) ACS Applied Polymer Materials.
- Tong, A., Sorrell, T.C., Black, A.J., (...), Yeung, W., Zoellner, H. Research priorities for COVID-19 sensor technology (2021) Nature Biotechnology.
- Thorn, D.C., Bahraminejad, E., Grosas, A.B., (...), Holt, C., Carver, J.A. Native disulphide-linked dimers facilitate amyloid fibril formation by bovine milk αS2-casein (2021) Biophysical Chemistry, 270, art. no. 106530.
- G Lahori, D., Varamini, P. Nanotechnology-based platforms to improve immune checkpoint blockade efficacy in cancer therapy (2021) Future Oncology, 17(6), pp. 711-722.
- Jiang, H.J., Miao, S., Imberti, S., (...), Atkin, R., Warr, G.G Liquid nanostructure of choline lysinate with water and a model lignin residue (2021) Green Chemistry, 23(2), pp. 856-866.
- Dai, Z., Tang, W., Wang, T., (...), Yang, X., Han, L. Stable tin perovskite solar cells enabled by widening the time window for crystallization (2021) Science China Materials.
- Zhu, R., Hochstetter, J., Loeffler, A., (...), Nakayama, T., Kuncic, Z Harnessing adaptive dynamics in neuro-memristive nanowire networks for transfer learning (2021) Proceedings - 2020 International Conference on Rebooting Computing, ICRC 2020, art. no. 9325377, pp. 102-106.
- Zwicker, V.E., Sergeant, G.E., New, E.J., Jolliffe, K.A. A colorimetric sensor array for the classification of biologically relevant tri-, di- And mono-phosphates (2021) Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 19(5), pp. 1017-1021.
- Ying, M., Tang, R., Yang, W., (...), Liao, X., Huang, J. Tailoring Electronegativity of Bimetallic Ni/Fe Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation (2021) ACS Applied Nano Materials.
- Yates, J., Daiyan, R., Patterson, R., (...), Ho-Baille, A., Chang, N.L. Techno-economic Analysis of Hydrogen Electrolysis from Off-Grid Stand-Alone Photovoltaics Incorporating Uncertainty Analysis (2020) Cell Reports Physical Science, 1(10), art. no. 100209.
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Media Highlights- The Australian reported on the Sydney Nanohealth initiative donation and focus areas of six clusters
- The Science Show Robyn Williams interviewed Prof Anita Ho-Baillie, Hooke Chair of Nanoscience about the promise of perovskites to open up new ways of generating solar power
- TV5Monde interviewed James Der Derian; Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of International Security, on Quantum computing’s very important geopolitical consequences
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