Sydney Nano
Monthly Newsletter - June 2021
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Message from the DirectorIncredibly we have already reached the halfway point in the year. Our professional team at Sydney Nano is now back to full strength with a number of recent recruits, who I will introduce in our next newsletter. In addition, we welcome our new Student Ambassadors, congratulations on the award of their scholarships. We are now seeking Members who have an interest to become International Ambassadors to enhance our exciting Academic Partnerships program. I am very pleased to announce the endorsement of our inaugural ECR Development Nodes; Nano-Fab and Nano DeLiver who are seeking collaborations with other ECRs from various disciplines, please do join if you are interested. A number of Sydney Nano ECR Awards are currently open for EoI from ECRs and PhD students. We have a ‘Meet the Author’ event on Tuesday 6 July with Dr Hansheng Chen - Bridging microstructure and magnetic properties of rare-earth permanent magnets. Finally, our congratulations to Prof Hala Zreiqat and Prof Antonio Tricoli, both awarded Fulbright Future Scholarships in 2021. Stay safe and I look forward to joining everyone back on campus soon.
Professor Ben Eggleton
Director Sydney Nano
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Inaugural Sydney Nano ECR Development Nodes seeking collaborators
ECR Development Nodes aim to provide Early Career Researchers with the opportunity to build and lead a multi-disciplinary research teams to gain practical experience in leadership and academic skills with mentorship from senior colleagues. NanoFab, led by Dr Anusha Withana and NanoDeLiver, led by Dr Nicholas Hunt are seeking ECRs from various disciplines.
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1. Nano-Fab
Nature Inspired Nanofabrication for Sustainability
The node aims to draw inspiration from nature to develop bio-mimicking and bio-integrated smart devices, materials and spaces using additive manufacturing or fabrication methods on the nanoscale.
ECRs with expertise in Sustainable Design, Social Sciences / Social Acceptance, MedTec, Arts/Aesthetics and Psychology are encouraged to contact Anusha Withana.
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2. Nano-DeLiver
Delivering genes and nanoparticles to cure liver disease
The node will develop transformational quantum dot-based nanotechnologies for targeted delivery of gene therapy (CRISPR/Cas9), proteins and therapeutics to the liver. ECRs from Engineering, Medicine & Health, Chemistry, Ethics and Business with interest in drug delivery, gene therapy, therapeutics for metabolic disease, organ-on-a-chip models are encouraged to contact Nick Hunt.
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Student Ambassadors 2021 - 2023
Congratulations to incoming Sydney Nano Student Ambassadors awarded Sydney Nano Secondary Scholarships and mentored by Sydney Nano Deputy Director Outreach & Training, Prof. Alice Motion,
- Laura Haidar – School of Physics
- Timothy Newman - School of Physics
- Karuna Skipper – School of Chemistry
- Jed Austin - Discipline of Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, Business
- Queenie Yip - School of Biomedical Engineering
- Bryce Mullens - School of Chemistry
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Sydney Nano International Ambassadors
As part of our continuing interest to establish valuable international academic partnerships, Sydney Nano is seeking EOI's from Academics on Level B - D to become a Sydney Nano International Ambassador, reporting to Deputy Director Academic Partnerships, Prof. Wojciech Chrzanowski in one of the six identified regions:
- China
- Europe
- India
- North America
- South East, South Korea & Japan
- Emerging Regions (Latin America, Africa)
Submit EOI by 1 August.
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Sydney Nano Awards
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NANO INSTITUTE ECR SUPPORT FUND (ESF)
The ESF is a merit-based award funded by Sydney Nano to partially support ECR Members and Participants with their appropriate research expenditure. Apply here.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NANO INSTITUTE HDR DEVELOPMENT AWARD (HDA)
The HDA is a merit-based award funded by Sydney Nano to partially support PhD students under the supervision of a Sydney Nano Member in their appropriate conference and training expenditure. Apply here.
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Advances in solar panel technology
Sydney Nano Member and Deputy Director, Prof. Anita Ho-Baillie’s research aims to revolutionise the renewable energy industry.
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Australian Fullbright Scholars 2021
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Members Publications
- Wang, X., Zhai, C., Gan, Y. Stress-dependent electrical impedance behaviours at fractal rough interfaces (2021) Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 9(2), art. no. 025014.
- Hochstetter, J., Zhu, R., Loeffler, A. et al. Avalanches and edge-of-chaos learning in neuromorphic nanowire networks. (2021) Nat Commun 12, 4008
- Zhao, Z., Tang, B., Yan, X., (...), Gale, P.A., Jiang, Y.-B. Crown ether-thiourea conjugates as ion transporters (2021) Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering.
- Jain, D., George, M., Harris, B., Fleming, S. (2020) Approximate normalized frequency (V-parameter) and modal cut-off wavelengths of M-type optical fibers Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, art. no. FM4D.2.
- Runge, A.F.J., Hudson, D.D., Tam, K.K.K., de Sterke, C.M., Blanco-Redondo, A. The pure-quartic soliton laser: Leveraging high-order dispersion in mode-locked lasers (2020) Optics InfoBase Conference Papers.
- Pansani, T.N., Phan, T.H., Lei, Q., (...), Kalionis, B., Chrzanowski, W. Extracellular‐vesicle‐based coatings enhance bioactivity of titanium implants—surfev (2021) Nanomaterials, 11(6), art. no. 1445.
- Lin, D., Hsieh, C.-L., Hsu, K.-C., (...), Feng, S., Kong, K.V. Geometrically encoded SERS nanobarcodes for the logical detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma-related progression biomarkers (2021) Nature Communications, 12(1), art. no. 3430.
- Ouyang, L., Jiang, J., Chen, K., Zhu, M., Liu, Z. Hydrogen Production via Hydrolysis and Alcoholysis of Light Metal-Based Materials: A Review (2021) Nano-Micro Letters, 13(1), art. no. 134.
- Chen, Y., Song, Y., Zhang, C., (...), Chrzanowski, W., Cai, W. Celltrack R-CNN: A novel end-to-end deep neural network for cell segmentation and tracking in microscopy images (2021) Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2021-April, art. no. 9434057, pp. 779-782.
- Brunner, M., Garvey, C.J., Warr, G.G., Atkin, R. Conformation of poly(ethylene glycol) in aqueous cholinium amino acid hybrid solvents (2021) Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 602, pp. 334-343.
- McDonagh, B.H., Staudinger, C., Normile, P.S., (...), Glomm, W.R., Singh, G. New insights into controlling the twin structure of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (2021) Applied Materials Today, 24, art. no. 101084.
- Chen, L.-J., Humphrey, S.J., Zhu, J.-L., (...), Yang, H.-B., Gale, P.A. A Two-Dimensional Metallacycle Cross-Linked Switchable Polymer for Fast and Highly Efficient Phosphorylated Peptide Enrichment (2021) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143(22), pp. 8295-8304.
- Miao, S., Jiang, H.J., Imberti, S., Atkin, R., Warr, G. Aqueous choline amino acid deep eutectic solvents (2021) Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(21), art. no. 214504.
- Nguyen, T.N., Guo, J., Sachindran, A., (...), Seifitokaldani, A., Dinh, C.-T. Electrochemical CO2reduction to ethanol: From mechanistic understanding to catalyst design (2021) Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(21), pp. 12474-12494.
- Huang, J.E., Li, F., Ozden, A., (...), Sinton, D., Sargent, E.H. CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid (2021) Science, 372(6546), pp. 1074-1078.
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