Sydney Nano
Monthly Newsletter
September 2021
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Message from the DirectorAnother fruitful month for the Sydney Nano team, with more to come. We worked closely with the Westmead Research Hub on ' Science Outside Your Comfort Zone', leading impactful discussions with colleagues across Medicine, and externally with CSIRO. Looking ahead, we have a number of excellent opportunities open with Sydney Nano, including EOI's for 2022/23 Deputy Director positions, and an opportunity to join a scoping group for the newly-formed Quantum Initiative. For our students, our Taste of Research awards are once again open, a fantastic opportunity to learn from an inspiring academic, and learn about life as a researcher. Congratulations to our ECR Support Fund awardees, HDR Development Award Recipients, and to Prof. Anita Ho-Baillie and team on a Eureka Prize Finalist position.
The University has generously provided staff with two concessional days next week, I hope we can all take the time to recharge, afresh for the exciting months ahead. Take care.
Professor Ben Eggleton
Director, Sydney Nano
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Sydney Nano 2022/23 Deputy Director: EOI Open
We're seeking interest from our Members to become a Sydney Nano Deputy Director. Reporting to our Director, Prof. Ben Eggleton, Deputy Directors will join our Executive Committee. It's an exciting opportunity to oversee the implementation of Sydney Nano's strategy under a dedicated portfolio:
- Academic Partnerships
- Industry, Innovation & Commercialisation
- Infrastructure & Enabling Capabilities
- Member Engagement
- External Engagement & Academic Development (Previously 'Outreach & Training' - not vacant)
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Sydney Nano Scoping Group on Quantum Initiative: EOI Open
A whole-of-University group is being established to undertake a strategic mapping and consultation process to identify quantum technology enablers and address emerging challenges and opportunities.
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Science Outside Your Comfort Zone: Catch up
Almost 100 people attended the inaugural 'Science Outside Your Comfort Zone' event initiated by Westmead Research Hub. Featuring Prof. Ben Eggleton and a brilliant panel, topics discussed included NanoHealth, the SDGs, multi-disciplinary research and more. Catch the recording.
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Taste of Research Awards: Now Open!
Sydney Nano's Taste of Research Award is back. Valued at AU$2,500, successful candidates will have the opportunity to develop research skills, and contribute to finding real-world solutions through a six-week period of research. Open to: USYD undergraduate coursework students undertaking research with leading academics in a related field to nanotechnology. Please share with your networks. Applications close Sun 24 Oct. More info, including T&Cs and to apply.
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2021 ECR Support Fund Recipients
Congratulations to Dr Nicholas Hunt and Dr Qingbo Xia on receiving a Sydney Nano ECR Support Fund! This supports ECR Members with their research expenditure, such as open-access fee support, conference or workshop attendance, and other professional training. Interested? Apply for Round 2 by 31 October.
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2021 HDR Development Award Recipients
Congratulations to Pooria Lesani and Bryce Mullens on receiving a HDR Development Award! The award supports HDR students with research development opportunities, including attending conferences & workshops, professional training, and open- access journal publication fee support.
Interested? Apply for Round 2 by 31 October.
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Sydney Nano LinkedIn
We're migrating our Sydney Nano LinkedIn profile page for easier access and to align with broader University of Sydney pages. To stay connected and hear about emerging research, member news, and more, make sure you're following us!
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Eureka Prize Finalist: Prof Anita Ho-Baillie
Congratulations to Prof. Anita Ho-Baillie & team for being awarded as a Eureka Prize Finalist. The team are evolving solar energy, using pervoskite cells that are more energy-efficient, cheaper to produce, and can be printed on any surface. Read the article.
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Gelion to make next-gen batteries in Sydney
Gelion, a University of Sydney spin-out, has partnered with Battery Energy Power Solutions to make and distribute the Gelion Endure zinc-bromide batteries. Led by Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer, the team is turning foundational science into commercial solutions, meeting challenges of the renewable energy transition. Read the article.
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H2O Hackathon
Join the H2O Hack from 11-15 Oct on 'solving water challenges from space’, an exciting opportunity to develop novel ways of using existing and emerging space tech to secure Australia’s future water security. Find out more, including the opportunity to win $20,000.
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Sydney Nano Ambassadors for #SciCommSept!
Our Sydney Nano Ambassadors are making waves in their publicity, and have taken part in the SciCommSeptember challenge, a social media challenge to make science more accessible! Meet Karuna, Laura, and Queenie, and ensure you're following us to hear from all six!
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Media Highlights- Prof. Michael Biercuk featured in ABC's Q&A Science Special last Thurs 23 Sept - avail on iView
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Member Publications- Xie, T., Rochman, J., Bartholomew, J.G., (...), Cone, R.L., Faraon, A. Characterization of Er3+:YV O4 for microwave to optical transduction(2021) Physical Review B, 104(5), art. no. 054111.
- Ruhoff, A.M., Hong, J.K., Gao, L., (...), Mackie, G., Waterhouse, A. Biomaterial Wettability Affects Fibrin Clot Structure and Fibrinolysis(2021) Advanced Healthcare Materials.
- Lai, C.K., Choi, D.-Y., Athanasios, N.J., (...), Merklein, M., Madden, S.J. Hybrid Chalcogenide-Germanosilicate Waveguides for High Performance Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Applications(2021) Advanced Functional Materials.
- Stefani, A., Skelton, J.H., Tuniz, A. Bend losses in flexible polyurethane antiresonant terahertz waveguides (2021) Optics Express, 29(18), pp. 28692-28703.
- Cho, Y., Bing, J., Kim, H.D., (...), Ohkita, H., Ho-Baillie, A.W.Y. Immediate and Temporal Enhancement of Power Conversion Efficiency in Surface-Passivated Perovskite Solar Cells(2021) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
- Stamper, C., Sabatini, R.P., Bernardi, S., (...), Ho-Baillie, A.W.Y., Lakhwani, G. Magnetic optical rotary dispersion and magnetic circular dichroism in methylammonium lead halide perovskites(2021) Chirality.
- Choi, J.W., Sohn, B.-U., Sahin, E., (...), Eggleton, B.J., Tan, D.T.H. An optical parametric Bragg amplifier on a CMOS chip (2021) Nanophotonics, art. no. 20210302.
- Tang, R., Sun, H., Zhang, Z., (...), Zheng, R., Huang, J. Incorporating plasmonic Au-nanoparticles into three-dimensionally ordered macroporous perovskite frameworks for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction(2022) Chemical Engineering Journal, 429, art. no. 132137.
- Li, H., Zhang, Y., Jones, S., (...), Warr, G.G., Atkin, R. Interfacial nanostructure and friction of a polymeric ionic liquid-ionic liquid mixture as a function of potential at Au(1 1 1) electrode interface(2022) Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 606, pp. 1170-1178.
- Najafi-Ashtiani, H., Jing, F., McCulloch, D.G., Akhavan, B. ITO-free silver-doped DMD structures: HiPIMS transparent-conductive nano-composite coatings for electrochromic applications(2021) Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 231, art. no. 111268.
- Windsor, M.S.A., Busse, M., Morrison, D.E., (...), Hill, L.R., Rendina, L.M. Selective delivery of remarkably high levels of gadolinium to tumour cells using an arsonium salt (2021)Chemical Communications, 57(70), pp. 8806-8809.
- Duong, T., Pham, H., Yin, Y., (...), Weber, K., Catchpole, K. Efficient and stable wide bandgap perovskite solar cells through surface passivation with long alkyl chain organic cations(2021) Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(34), pp. 18454-18465.
- de Sterke, C.M., Runge, A.F.J., Hudson, D.D., Blanco-Redondo, A. Pure-quartic solitons and their generalizations—Theory and experiments (2021) APL Photonics, 6(9), art. no. 091101.
- Zhang, X., Lin, Z.-I., Yang, J., (...), Chen, C.-K., Yang, C. Carbon dioxide-derived biodegradable and cationic polycarbonates as a new sirna carrier for gene therapy in pancreatic cancer(2021) Nanomaterials, 11(9), art. no. 2312.
- Al Halawani, A., Abdulkhalek, L., Mithieux, S.M., Weiss, A.S. Tropoelastin promotes the formation of dense, interconnected endothelial networks (2021) Biomolecules, 11(9), art. no. 1318.
- Lin, J., Graziotto, M.E., Lay, P.A., New, E.J. A Bimodal Fluorescence-Raman Probe for Cellular Imaging (2021) Cells, 10(7).
- Liang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhang, H., (...), Li, F., Zeng, J. Bias-Adaptable CO2-to-CO Conversion via Tuning the Binding of Competing Intermediates(2021) Nano Letters.
- Suo, S., Moscardini, M., Becker, V., Gan, Y., Kamlah, M. Cyclic thermo-mechanical performance of granular beds: Effect of elastoplasticity(2021) Powder Technology, 394, pp. 705-713.
- Tobing, L.Y.M., Soehartono, A.M., Mueller, A.D., (...), Fan, W.J., Zhang, D.H. Interplays of Dipole and Charge-Transfer-Plasmon Modes in Capacitively and Conductively Coupled Dimer with High Aspect Ratio Nanogaps(2021) Advanced Optical Materials.
- Xu, Y., Shen, Y., Michaels, T.C.T., (...), Klenerman, D., Knowles, T.P.J. Deformable and Robust Core–Shell Protein Microcapsules Templated by Liquid–Liquid Phase-Separated Microdroplets (2021) Advanced Materials Interfaces.
- Chan, K.K., Giovanni, D., He, H., Sum, T.C., Yong, K.-T. Water-Stable All-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals with Nonlinear Optical Properties for Targeted Multiphoton Bioimaging(2021) ACS Applied Nano Materials.
- Hakobyan, K., McErlean, C.S.P., Müllner, M. RAFT without an "r-Group": From Asymmetric Homo-telechelics to Multiblock Step-Growth and Cyclic Block Copolymers(2021) Macromolecules.
- Jaiswal, A., Rani, S., Singh, G.P., (...), Saxena, S., Shukla, S. Additive-Free All-Carbon Composite: A Two-Photon Material System for Nanopatterning of Fluorescent Sub-Wavelength Structures(2021) ACS Nano.
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