News Archive

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship to Prof. Justin Gooding
Prof. Justin Gooding awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships worth $2,875,097 on his project: The first generation of single entity measurement tools for analysis.

New VC Prof. Ian Jacobs visits the School of Chemistry
Our new President and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ian Jacobs makes his inaugural visit to the School of Chemistry

NHMRC Program Grant Success for Justin Gooding
$7 Million awarded to a 5 year NHMRC Program on nanomedicine with Prof. Justin Gooding and collaborators at the lead by fellow co-director of the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, Prof. Maria Kavallaris

Nature Communications paper from Chuan Zhao on a cheap Ni/Fe water splitting electrode
Electrodeposition of hierarchically structured three-dimensional nickel–iron electrodes for efficient oxygen evolution at high current densities (Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 6616 - link).

Angewandte paper from Pall Thordarson on the capture and reporting of protein and drug payload in a polymersome
Polymersomes Prepared from Thermoresponsive Fluorescent Protein--Polymer Bioconjugates: Capture of and Report on Drug and Protein Payloads (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, doi: 10.1002/anie.201412406)

Dr. Joe Brophy wins RACI Archibald D. Olle Prize
Dr. Joe Brophy wins RACI Archibald D. Olle Prize for his book: "Melaleucas - the botany, essential oils and uses"

JACS paper from Chuan Zhao on electrocatalytic oxygenation at surface-oxidised carbon nanotubes
Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution at Surface-Oxidized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, doi: 10.1021/ja509879r)

Dr. Renxun Chen from UNSW is awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Dr. Renxun Chen, PhD UNSW, currently Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Naresh Kumar and Prof. Mark Willcox, is awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at Rutgers University!


Welcome to our new Head of School, Professor Scott Kable
Professor Scott Kable, Head of School of Chemistry UNSW.