Nanosciences at Monash

Nanoscience occurs across many different faculties at Monash. The case studies are listed according to the researcher's department/school.

Prof Sam Adeloju	Phosphate and nitrate nanobiosensors for water
Dr Walid Daoud	Self-cleaning Nanocoatings. Applications of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in green chemistry and sustainable energy. Renewable membranes for filters, sensors, and energy generation and storage. Conductive polymers and ceramic oxides for photovoltaic devices. Surface functionalization of organic fibers. Development of biodegradable industrial polymers.

Peptide-based drug design and biomembrane nanotechnology

Prof Xiaou Dong Chen	Drying technologies for food and biological materials, ink-jet spray drying technology and freeze concentration technology; powder agglomeration technology, falling film evaporation technology and crystallisation processes
Prof Gil Garnier	The application of colloids and polymers to surfaces, adhesion, composites, and the process of paper making.
Dr Ravi Jagadeeshan	Molecular rheology of polymeric liquids, brownian dynamics simulations of flow-microstructure interactions, bio-polymer dynamics in rheometric flows, computational modeling of coating flows of viscoelastic fluids
Dr Bradley Ladewig
Dr Cordelia Selomulya	The design of biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles and the development of nanostructured catalysts for fuel conversion
Dr Huanting Wang	Synthesis of zeolite nanocrystals and their application for zeolite-polymer nanocomposites, Development of oxide nanofibers for next-generation ceramic membranes, Synthesis of novel nanoporous carbon materials for membranes and catalysts, Self assembly of colloidal nanomaterials, Separation membranes, Development of high-temperature and low methanol crossover membranes for proton exchange membrane fuel cells
Prof Paul Webley	Adsorbent synthesis and testing and adsorption processes specifically focusing on gas separations and storage
Prof Dongyuan Zhao

Dr Udo Bach	Development of solar cells based on nanostructured semiconductor materials & organic electronic materials
Prof Alan Bond	Working in nanoscale: applications to point-of-care diagnostics
Prof Milton Hearn	Novel high-resolution separation method
Prof Douglas MacFarlane	Preparation and characterization of ionic liquids and other types of ionic materials for a range of applications in electrochemistry, green chemistry, solar cells, batteries and biotechnology, including protein stabilization and biopreservation
Dr Patrick Perlmutter	The application of Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) to accelerate chemical reactions
Prof Leone Spiccia	Dye-sensitised solar cells, water splitting and medical imaging
Dr Terry Turney	The design, production and application of functional nanomaterials

Prof Brian Prieslty
Ms Margaret Stebbing

Dr Diana Bowman	Regulatory framework of nanotechnology
Prof Graeme Hodge	Regulatory framework of nanotechnology
Dr Karinne Ludlow	Regulatory framework of nanotechnology

Dr Qi Zhi Chen	Nano in the field of bone and heart tissue engineering and regeneration
Prof Maria Forsyth	Corrosion mitigation and electrochemical devices
Dr Rimma Lapovok	Novel properties of nano and ultrafine grained light alloys produced by Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE); Constitutive modeling of materials behaviour and superplasticity; Micro and macro models of damage mechanics in application to technological processes of deformation - forging rolling, extrusion etc; FE stimulation of non-isothermal plastic flow; Phenomenologcial theories of the fracture of metals
Dr Varghese Swamy	Fundamental behaviours of functional nanoscale materials
Prof George Simon	Polymer nanocomposites
A/Prof Kiyonori Suzuki	Magnetic properties of nanostructured materials
Dr John Forsythe	Manufacturing nanofibrous scaffolds which can assist in the repair of damaged neural pathways
Dr Bjorn Winther-Jensen	Manufacturing nanofibrous scaffolds which can assist in the repair of damaged neural pathways
Prof Yi-Bing Cheng	Nanostructured titanium dioxide (nano-TiO2) based dye sensitised solar cells, nano ceramics and composites
Prof Yuri Estrin	The use of nanomaterials in surgical implants and micro electromechanical systems (MEMS)
A/Prof Raman Singh	Fundamental behaviours of functional nanoscale materials

A/Prof James Friend	Development of microrobots for neurosurgery, portable pulmonary drug delivery and more..
Dr Prabhakar Ranganathan	Coarse-grained models for hydrodynamic and other long-range interactions in suspensions of particles and polymer solutions; complex flows of microswimmer suspensions; dynamics of propulsion in motile microorganisms; dynamics of biological membranes; stochastic thermodynamics of small systems
Dr Adrian Neild	Non-linear ultrasound including acoustic radiation forces and acoustic streaming, viscosity, microfluidic systems, micron scale particle and biological cell handling, air-coupled ultrasound
Prof Quanshui Zheng	Nanomechanics, nano-devices, micro/nano- bionics
Dr Leslie Yeo	Microfluidic devices
Dr Tuck Wah Ng	Optical engineering in medicine, biological sciences, mechanics, materials, manufacturing and industry

Prof Claude Bernard	Investigating the causation of Multiple Sclerosis
Prof Graham Jenkin	The control of ovarian function, germ cell development and stem cells and tissue matrices; use of new reproductive technologies for preservation of endangered species, the initiation and maintenance of early pregnancy; growth, development and well-being of the embryo and fetus

Dr Ben Boyd	The role of nanoparticles in drug delivery
Dr Paul White	Antisense and RNAi in vivo, Cardiovascular role of IGF-I, Development of new antisense therapeutic agents (Consultant to Antisense Therapeutics Ltd), Interaction of adenosine receptors with caffeine and opiates
Prof Colin Pouton
Dr Ian Larson	Making nanoparticles for the oral delivery of active ingredients.
Prof Barrie Finnin	Drug delivery through the skin & the interaction of cosmetics with the skin
A/Prof Chris Porter	Nanoemulsions & drug absorption and dendrimer-based polymetric drug delivery systems
Dr David Morton

Prof Els Meeusen

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