Research Projects — Structured Matter

Amino acid-based star polymer for polymer therapeutics
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe

Building advanced polymeric nanotubes for targeted drug delivery
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe

Continuous assembly of polymer (CAP) films via different controlled polymerisation methods
Team: Greg Qiao, Frank Caruso, Edgar Wong, Anton Blencowe, Georgina Such

Engineered nanostructured materials via continuous polymer assembly for advanced bioapplications
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe, Edgar Wong, Georgina Such, Frank Caruso, Zhiyuan Zhu

Enhancing dissolution of harmful minerals in the body
Team: John Provis, Annie Yan, Frank Caruso, Suhandy Winata

Fundamentals of acoustic cavitation and ultrasonic processing: The effect of surfactants
Team: Sandra Kentish

Hydrometallurgical extraction of gold and other valuable metals
Team: John Provis, Jannie van Deventer, Dingwu Feng

Interfacial nanofluids
Team: Xuehua Zhang, Haijun Yang, Hemayet Uddin, Yuanhua He

Ion exchange equilibrium behaviour and temperature
Team: David Shallcross

Low-CO2 concretes via geopolymer technology
Team: John Provis, Dingwu Feng, Laura Gordon, Susan Bernal, Rackel San Nicolas, Adam Kilcullen, Suhandy Winata

Nanolens arrays for sensitive high-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Team: Xuehua Zhang, Greg Qiao, Haijun Yang

Nanoporous materials for biomedical devices, drug delivery and bioseparations
Team: Andrea O'Connor

Optically-active biologically-based macromolecules for efficient chiral recognition
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe, Frank Caruso

Polymer characterisation facility (PCF)
Team: Greg Qiao, Frank Caruso, Zuehua Zhang, Andrea O'Connor, Geoff Stevens, Anton Blencowe, George Franks, Sandra Kentish, Raymond Dagastine, David Dunstan

Polymer deformation in flow
Team: David Dunstan, Nicolas Bertin

Preparation of biodegradable drug-polymer conjugates with desired release rate
Team: Greg Qiao, Jiangtao Xu

Probing dynamic interactions in soft matter using nanofabrication methods
Team: Ray Dagastine, Geoff Stevens

Quantification of stored red blood cell deformability
Team: Shane Usher, Peter Scales

Self-assemble of amphiphilic block polymer for PEM application synthesised by living radical polymerization
Team: Greg Qiao, Paul Gurr

Stereospecific macromoelcular architectures for the development of next generation soft nanomaterials
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe

Synthesis of plasticisers for geopolymers
Team: Greg Qiao, John Provis, Jiangtao Xu

The development of unique cyclic polymers
Team: Greg Qiao, Anton Blencowe

Tissue engineering of soft tissues
Team: Andrea O'Connor, Geoff Stevens, Sally Gras, Katharina Ladewig, Michelle de Silva, Phong Tran, Terry Hartnett

Ultrasonics as a new platform technology in dairy processing
Team: Sandra Kentish

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