ANNUAL REPORT 2015
New Dimensions
CONTENTS
ACES-THE NEW DIMENSIONS 4 Welcome 4 DIRECTOR’S REPORT 6 ACES - an Agile Research Environment 6 IAC REPORT 8 High-quality outputs continue 8 ACES RESEARCH 10 ACES Strategic Plan Goal 1: Research 10 RESEARCH TRAINING 21 ACES Strategic Plan Goal 2: Research Training 21 TRANSLATION 26 ACES Strategic Plan Goal 3: Translation Commercialisation 26 MEDIA & OUTREACH 34 ACES Strategic Plan Goal 4: Communications 34 GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT 44 ACES Strategic Plan Goal 5: Global Engagement 44 PUBLICATIONS 57 AWARDS 67 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 70 GOVERNANCE 75 FINANCES 78 ACES MEMBERS 83 2016 ACTIVITY PLAN 87 APPENDICES 88 Appendix 1: ACES Workshops & Symposia for Mentoring & Training 88 Appendix 2: List of Plenary/Keynote Addresses given by ACES members 90 Appendix 3: List of Invited Talks/Panels 91 Appendix 4: A List of Distinguished Visitor Lectures 93 Appendix 5: List of ACES work given via Invited Seminars / Collaborative visits 94 Appendix 6: Conference Presentations 97
Annual Report 2015 3 ACES- THE NEW DIMENSIONS
Welcome • To use our research into advanced • To educate, inspire and engage materials to deliver innovative stakeholders and the broader device solutions for clean energy community, by effectively Our Vision is to be the pre-eminent and medical bionics. communicating our research world centre for research in the field of • To deliver research programs that messages. electromaterials science and integrated produce world-class graduates device assembly. with not only exceptional The ACES Partners We completed our first full year of technical skills, but skills in We have established a global network operations during 2015. science communication, research of partners that will be integral to management, commercialisation, We have developed the ACES 2014- our success in research, training, and an awareness of the impact of 2020 Strategic plan; reconfirming our commercialisation and engagement. their research. commitment to be the pre-eminent ACES, led by the University of world centre for research in the field of • To realise commercial opportunities Wollongong, incorporates six Australian electromaterials science and integrated for our research through delivery collaborating organisations and five device assembly. of step-change technologies that international partner institutions known This report shows how we have positively impact on quality-of-life for their expertise in materials and addressed our goals: issues for the global community. device fabrication.
4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science The collaborating organisations are Deakin Our Funding innovative approaches that encourage University, Monash University, University entrepreneurship and commercialisation. The Australian Research Council of Tasmania, The Australian National invested $25 million in ACES over As we work towards our goals, we University and The University of Melbourne. 2014-2020 to translate our materials embrace the challenge of training the The international partner institutions science knowledge into practical, next generation of multidisciplinary are Dublin City University, Ireland; game-changing devices that will have research leaders, and providing University of Warwick, UK; Friedrich a significant impact in the areas of new manufacturing and industrial Alexander University of Erlangen, diagnostics, energy, health and soft opportunities for Australia. Germany; Hanyang University, Korea and robotics. The challenges are numerous, but the Yokohama National University, Japan. The NSW Government also invested opportunities are even greater. Each node possesses key research $500,000 through its Research The ACES team is committed to strengths that when combined, Attraction and Acceleration Program building a knowledge base in an place ACES in a powerful position (RAAP) to help us facilitate the environment that ensures effective to design, discover and develop new commercialisation of our research. training that will be used to deliver electromaterials. This will assist in developing economic returns for Australia.
Annual Report 2015 5 DIRECTOR’S REPORT
ACES - an Agile Research Environment
Agility is the ability to be quick and program, where such engagement While these schemes provide support graceful. skills are honed. We are fortunate that for established and emerging industries, Prime Minister Turnbull has said that we find ourselves within a national the quest to establish new industries research funding environment wherein in order to create an economy based and to transition existing industries is we are encouraged to undertake on innovation, a more agile approach to more challenging. ACES has embraced highly innovative and potentially business is required. these challenges. transformational research that tackles We are collaborating with a To develop ideas into industries, agility is important multidisciplinary problems. also required in the research environment- manufacturer of automotive components The revamped ARC Linkage scheme wherein researchers can move along to develop opportunities in 3D should enable rapid deployment of the commercialisation path with their bioprinting. We are partnering with a resources as commercial opportunities concepts, and return to the idea-generating local seaweed production company emerge. Links with Cooperative Research cauldron of fundamental research. to identify and extract valuable Centres (CRCs) can provide effective components used to synthesise new Individuals within Australian Research pathways to industrial networks. At bioinks. We have worked closely with Council (ARC) Centres of Excellence are ACES, we work closely with the CRC investors from the USA to see the selected on the basis of their ability to for Polymers, HEARing CRC, Energy realisation of Aquahydrex-a water carry out world-class research in the Pipelines CRC and more recently with the fundamental science underpinning that Cell Therapy Manufacturing CRC. splitting company based on ACES centre. This is as it should be. However, research, expertise and the ability to The National Health and Medical attributes around the ability to engage provide appropriately trained individuals. Research Council provides a means to across traditional boundaries-with both the build clinical networks that transcend While Centres of Excellence provide commercial sector and the community-are the normal boundaries of the ARC. an agile research, development and proving to be equally important. ACES has established a dynamic clinical translation capability, challenges remain We are fortunate to find ourselves network that spans Australia and is now in training and how our organisations deal within the ARC Centres of Excellence attracting international attention. with building new business opportunities.
6 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Consider the idea that in the future analytical and planning skills gained are undertaken by multidisciplinary teams, the average length of a successful transferrable to other areas, technical across several universities. commercial venture will be considerably skills are less readily so. We must be agile and address each shortened and that successful Given the lifetime of businesses will opportunity with our eyes wide open. contributions to further ventures will decrease, they will be hungry to rapidly ACES is a collection of dynamic, highly mean a number of ‘career’ changes for acquire appropriately trained individuals skilled individuals committed to making any individual. from the outset; and individuals will be a difference, and I am confident that we We need to continue to make our training hungry to acquire new skills. will be agile-be fertile! environment more agile. Australia is well Graduates that are ‘commercial ready’ We have had an exciting 2015 and look known for the rigorous programs our will be in high demand. Graduates forward to the challenges that we will Universities provide at the undergraduate with a track record showing the ability confront in 2016! level. We are also known for the quality to adapt, reskill and take on new of our PhD programs. These form the challenges will be required. backbone of Australia’s high international The use of training tools such as Massive ranking in research output per capita. Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and short Both are important components of our courses will undoubtedly add some education program. Both take three to agility to this dimension of our work. four years to complete. The need for a Agility in our commercialisation broad base education to ensure future ‘processes’ is also essential. Routes Prof Gordon Wallace agility means specialisation at the to commercialisation that have been Executive Director ACES. undergraduate level is probably not the preordained over many years may not most appropriate approach. be the best way to ensure effective The PhD degree delivers highly and efficient progress of opportunities specialised individuals. While crucial arising from large-scale research
Annual Report 2015 7 IAC REPORT
High Quality Outputs During 2015 ACES members (twenty greater than 2.95. The team have four Chief Investigators, five Partner produced fundamental science that will Continue Investigators, nine Research Fellows, two allow them in the future years of ACES Engineers, fifteen Early Career Researchers to apply these developments to new and twenty seven PhD students) worked energy generation and storage devices, The International Advisory Committee together and with collaborators to soft robotic systems, microfluidic (IAC) was impressed by the increase in advance the ACES mission of translating devices and synthetic biosystems. As fundamental materials research into the high quality outputs after the first full ACES members progress along this next generation of health and energy year of operations within ACES-The New journey together, the members of their devices. In its first 18 months of operation, Dimensions 2014-2020. ethics, policy and public engagement ACES research efforts have focused themes assess the impact of these new The ACES team demonstrates that the on developing and characterising new technologies on the broader community. research journey is not so much about electromaterials, that retain their amazing personal discoveries, but about the properties found at the nanoscale, and the ACES has established international realisation that effective research teams tools necessary to design and build devices relationships that enhance research output bring about much, much more than the using those tailored fabrication techniques. and assist in growing the impact of that sum of their parts. ACES epitomises how The broad scope of expertise and research. ACES researchers are well valuable friendship and collaboration- numerous collaborations have led to connected globally within the nominated building in scientific research leads to outstanding research outcomes. During research themes. 79% (151) of the papers cohesion within a research team, quality 2015, six book chapters and 190 papers published by ACES members in 2015 had research, high achievement and impact have been published with 73% of papers international co-authors from 30 countries for their work. published in journals with impact factor and 135 different institutions.
8 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science to present their research and view ACES of science and maths. School visits by facilities, as a first step towards possible ACES members are aimed to inspire collaboration. Forty national academic budding scientists. guests were also welcomed. ‘Research Labs: Open for Business’ The team travelled extensively visiting 66 says the Director in an article penned international laboratories, giving 20 plenary for the ACES website in February. Ten or keynote addresses, 57 invited talks, 17 events were held specifically to engage distinguished visitor lectures, 79 invited industry in the research in addition to 48 seminars and 47 conference presentations. business briefings. Support from the NSW ACES research made headlines-209 online government allowed ACES to commission stories, 40 in print, 19 radio interviews and CTechBA to identify commercial 12 TV appearances. The record breaking opportunities and how ACES might more 22.4% solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency effectively facilitate technology transfer. and the 4D printed valve attracted 2016 will be a year where ACES will significant attention from international evaluate the best way forward to progress media outlets. the opportunities identified. Aquahydrex, the first ACES spinout company, is enjoying ACES has ensured that its education ongoing success and continues to employ and training programs are high-quality ACES graduates. ACES is committed to and ensure graduates are equipped with commercial engagement and activities the skills needed for next-generation have resulted in numerous CRC funded manufacturing, coupled with an ethical projects, ARC linkage projects and ARC awareness of the impacts of their linkage hub involvement. scientific endeavours. In conclusion, ACES Director Prof Gordon In 2015 ACES celebrated the Wallace is congratulated as he was commencement of the world-first Masters named by the Prime Minister and Chief in Biofabrication and secured approval from Scientist as a member of the Knowledge During 2015 ACES identified its global links two leading universities in electromaterials Nation 100-individuals identified as which are productive and high impact in science to run the nation’s first joint masters game-changers building the industries terms of citations. ACES also recognised program on this topic. A successful pilot of a and institutions that will underwrite our that select strategic partnerships with program to deliver a graduate certificate in nation’s future prosperity. International Research Centres would entrepreneurship was also conducted. provide additional benefits. That is, not ACES also encouraged the next generation only for research activities but also in to consider a career in science. A highlight “The Committee agreed that there the translation of the research, leading was the participation and completion rates has been an impressive step change to commercialisation and educational for the free online course in 3D Bioprinting, in the outputs of ACES whilst it has training opportunities. Such partnerships courtesy of the ACES/ANFF partnership, maintained its exceptional capacity will take a significant amount of effort and giving around 7,400 community members to collaborate across themes and resources before becoming productive, so it a taste of ACES research and inspiring between groups.” is necessary to take a systematic approach 1,000 to fully participate in the four to identifying and pursuing these targeted week program. The summer scholarship relationships, with nominated ACES program continues and ACES is seeing members driving the effort in 2016. the conversion of summer scholars into Dissemination of the research efforts is post graduate students. Through the effective. For their academic colleagues, Reconceptualising Maths and Science ACES held ten international workshops Teacher Education Program (ReMSTEP) or symposia and hosted 58 international ACES members at Deakin are assisting Dr (Dame) Bridget Ogilvie (AC, DBE, FAA, visitors-38 to work alongside ACES in giving pre-service teachers improved FRS, FMedSci). members and 20 to take up the opportunity competence and confidence in the teaching Chair ACES International Advisory Committee.
Annual Report 2015 9 ACES RESEARCH
Electromaterials Theme ACES Strategic Plan Goal 1: Research
Our goal is to deliver integrated nano- Materials assembly and fabrication technologies with the capacity to build truly biomimetic Modelling and Characterisation electrochemical systems by drawing on advances in materials, 3D printing and fibre Fabrication spinning, characterisation and modelling. Structure and Function Towards our goal In Years 1-3, ACES research is focussed on Electrofluidics Synthetic Synthetic Soft the electromaterials and the tools necessary and Diagnostics Engery Biosystems Robotics to design and build the next generation Theme Systems Theme Theme Theme electrochemical devices in our theme areas - Schematic 1. The common requirement across Ethics, Policy & Public Engagement Theme all themes is to construct 3D structures in which the spatial distribution of the required functional elements can be controlled. Over Schematic 1: The ACES Core 3D Electromaterials research theme and the first 18 months of the Centre, the focus associated application themes. of ACES research has been to develop and characterise new electromaterials, with functionality appropriate to the theme Materials Science Milestone Year Description applications that are amenable to 3D assembly The three categories of materials that using customised fabrication approaches. Supplied 1st are critical for the development of 3D The effect of 3D structure on the common Generation structures for electrochemical devices functions of charge transfer, reaction centres structural, reaction are structural materials, reaction and structural support is being elucidated. EM1 2 centre and centres and electromaterials. The Building on these advances in the core electromaterials materials studied and how they have electromaterials theme, structure function for the application been fabricated are summarised in themes projects. studies of a significant number of materials Table 1 and there have been significant have been undertaken within each of the Developed a fully developments in each of these areas technical theme areas, and in some cases integrated multi- during 2015. devices developed. axial material EM2 2 delivery system for Structural materials 3D Electromaterials fabrication of core- Structural materials provide the scaffold shell structures. to support functional elements as well The key research areas comprise materials Developed the as overall device robustness. They may science, fabrication, modelling and 1st example of themselves act as catalysts or assist characterisation. The advances made in each EM3 2 a contactless transport within the device. of these areas in 2015 have been targeted at characterisation addressing the following Electromaterial end Metal oxides are a common structural probe. of Year 2 milestones. material particularly for energy-related
10 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science electrochemical devices. Thus, different An important development is the AU2015/000248). Gels based on gelatin, types of titanium dioxide have been preparation of very high surface area 3D chitosan and collagen have also been developed for energy applications (RSC graphene aerogels (R. Jalili, RF project) developed for the Synthetic Biosystems Advances 2015, 5, 29513-29523; Nano that are being explored as a structure (SBS) theme. Energy. Jan 2015;11:557-567; Physical for the placement of reaction centres Methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) and Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2015; such as porphyrins for CO2 reduction (J. hyaluronic acid (HAMA) have been 17(8):5642-5649) and titanium dioxide Choi, PhD project). synthesised and combined into a itself has been used to optimise TaON A porous flexible free-standing graphene printable ‘ink’ that, once cross-linked, photoanodes for solar fuel production paper has also been developed that forms a 3D structure suitable for cell in the Synthetic Energy System (SES) has potential in energy applications growth. Other novel hydrogel matrices theme as highlighted on the journal (Journal of Materials Chemistry A. (chitosan/agarose/alginate) have been inside back cover (ChemElectrochem. 2015;3(8):4428-4434). developed and provide a possible new Sep 2015;2(9):1270-1278). matrix for growth and differentiation of Nanodiamond is not only proving Nanostructured carbons such as neural cell precursors in 3D. to be an interesting structural graphene oxide or nanodiamond can material (Applied Surface Science. Gellan gum, a water-soluble anionic also be used as structural materials, Dec 2015;357:397-406) but has polysaccharide, is proving a useful particularly as composites with also been shown to be the source of substrate for bio-applications, polymers or other materials, as has been other nanostructured carbons such particularly as it can be readily modified effectively demonstrated by SES student, as carbon onions (RSC Advances. with biomolecules such as peptides Fengwang Li, for the support of a carbon 2015;5(29):22906-22915) and (Journal of Materials Chemistry B. dioxide (CO ) reduction catalyst (Energy 2 hierarchical porous graphitic carbon 2015;3(6):1106-1115). It can also & Environmental Science. Nov 2015; DOI: monoliths (Journal of Materials Science. be used to form highly conducting 10.1039/c5ee02879e). Composites with Oct 2015;50(19):6245-6259). composite hydrogels when combined carbon nanotubes and nanofibres have with PEDOT:PSS and carbon nanofibres Soft structural materials are required for also been investigated (Beilstein Journal (Synthetic Metals. Aug 2015;206:61-65). of Nanotechnology. Feb 2015;6:508-516; a number of theme applications and, in The potential of hydrogel polymers for RSC Advances. 2015;5(25):19587-19595). this regard, hydrogels are key materials. creating 3D structures using extrusion The ability to manipulate their mechanical based 3D printing has been examined properties, to incorporate electrolytes, (Journal of Materials Chemistry B. as well as to tune responsiveness to 2015;3(20):4105-4117). environmental stimuli makes them an attractive class of materials. A focus A variety of other polymers are has been on the development of tough essential for device fabrication. hydrogels leading to a new PNIPAm- Consequently, a range of commercially alginate-nanofibre hydrogel that appears available engineering polymers have to have unprecedented high strength, is been evaluated for 3D fabrication. conductive and able to thermally actuate (H. Warren, RF project). This is particularly Reaction centres promising for the Soft Robotics (SR) A number of key reaction centres have theme. A range of hydrogels using natural been identified for light harvesting and polymers, such as a locust bean gum- the catalysis of solar fuel production or for the stimulation of cell growth. 9/2015 xanthan gum blend, cellulose and gelatin, Cover Picture: L. Spiccia et al. A Journal of and containing redox couples have been New light harvesting Iron (Fe) and Optimization of Titania Post-Necking Treatment of TaON Photoanodes to Enhance Water-Oxidation Activity under Visible-Light Irradiation developed by SES researchers for use in cobalt (Co) porphyrins have been www.chemelectrochem.org thermocells (2015 PCT patent appln, PCT/ developed for carbon dioxide (CO2)
Annual Report 2015 11 Table 1: First Generation Materials and their Mode of Fabrication
Composition Structural Electromaterial Reaction Centre Fabrication
Titanium ü ü ü Photo catalyst 3D metal printing
Nickel ü ü ü Electro catalyst 3D metal printing
Stainless steel ü ü Î 3D metal printing
Liquid crystalline ü ü (after reduction) Î 3D printable graphene oxide
Graphene ü ü Î Film formation
Nanodiamond ü Î Î Film formation
Methacrylated ü Î Î Printable ink gelatin (GelMA)
Alginate ü Î Î 3D printable
Conducting Î ü Cell Growth Î Films and fibres polymers
Ionic liquids Î ü Î As part of electrolytes
ü Carbon dioxide Print with other Metallo- Î Î reduction catalysts structural material or porphyrins Light harvesters electromaterial Fabricate with other ü Charge storage Metal oxides Î Î structural material or Water oxidation electromaterial
Redox couples Î Î ü Thermocells As part of electrolytes
Adipose stem Î Î ü Printable with alginate cells
reduction (A. Walker, RF project). Fe Metal oxides have proved particularly Other metal oxides, such as cobalt and porphyrins in particular have shown useful as catalysts for solar fuel nickel oxides and related materials, high efficiency (J. Choi, PhD project). production. A variety of manganese oxides have been shown to be useful for Porphyrins with functionality that have been prepared and characterised, water oxidation (ChemSusChem. enables attachment to titanium dioxide including sodium birnessite (Australian Apr 2015;8(8):1394-1403; ACS for solar fuel production (antimony (Sb) Journal of Chemistry. 2015;68(11):1715- Applied Materials & Interfaces. Aug porphyrins) have been produced. A novel 1722) and nanocrystalline manganese 2015;7(30):16632-16644; ChemSusChem. covalently linked zinc (Zn) porphyrin-Zn oxide (ChemSusChem. Oct 2015; Oct 2015; accepted for publication). phthalocyanine dyad that light harvests accepted for publication), and shown to Redox couples are critical to effective across the entire visible spectrum be effective water oxidation catalysts electrochemical device functioning and has been synthesised and attached (Journal of Materials Chemistry A. need to be tailored for the particular to titanium dioxide for use in a dye 2015;3(32):16642-16652; ChemSusChem. application. A number of Co2+/3+ redox sensitised solar cell (Israel Journal of Mar 2015;8(5):872-877 and 8:1980-1985), couples have been synthesised and Chemistry. 2015, advanced article, DOI: the latter two papers involving associate characterised electrochemically in 10.1002/ijch.201500023). investigator (AI) Aziz in Berlin. different IL/solvent mixtures, primarily
12 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science for thermochemical cells (D. Al-Masri, EDTA. They were synthesised at ACES The fabrication and evaluation of PhD project), and their properties studied Monash node and characterised in the biofunctional 3D microspheres using cyclic voltammetry (Electrochimica thermocell at ACES Deakin node. has entered initial stages, with the Acta. 2015;180:419-426; Electrochimica generation of cell sized (~15 µm) Growth factors and cells are the key Acta. 2015;184:186-192). alginate spheres using a 3D extrusion ‘reaction centres’ for the SBS research bioprinter. These microspheres will The Seebeck coefficients, that are program. Protocols to produce Induced provide control for the release of growth important for thermocells, of further Co2+/3+ Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) have factors and/or other biomolecules within redox couples synthesised by collaborators been established at St Vincent’s Hospital, a 3D tissue construct. at the University of Malaya have also been Melbourne and UOW. Early results for studied (Journal of Materials Chemistry C. the induction of neural progenitor cells Electromaterials 2015;3:2491-2499). from human iPSCs have shown robust While many of the types of A variety of other redox couples differentiation of iPSCs to neural precursor electromaterials that are required have been made and tested including phenotypes and subsequently, to mature across the ACES theme applications are II/III Co (phenanthroline)3, cobaltic (functional) neural lineage, including common, such as conducting polymers, II/III acetylacetonate (Co(acac)3), and Co neuronal and neuroglial cell types. ionic liquids and nanostructured
Annual Report 2015 13 carbons, they invariably need to be tuned provided the capability to create for inclusion into specific structures. processable, biocompatible graphene/ Conducting polymers have been used polycaprolactone composites of interest for some time as electromaterials of for tissue engineering (RSC Advances. choice for stimulating cell growth. Now 2015;5(56):45284-45290). ACES researchers have shown that Similarly, biocompatible hydrogels appropriately functionalised conducting have been developed with an aqueous polymers can also prevent cell growth graphene dispersion and chitosan (J. and be used as low biofouling materials Mater. Chem. B. 2015;3(3):481-490; (Biofouling. 2015;31(6):493-502). Jom 2015, ahead of print DOI 10.1007/ Varying the chemistry of conducting s11837-015-1549-7). polymers as well as using the right While these materials show promise fabrication techniques is enabling the for cell growth and subsequent tissue effective integration of biomaterials development, their biodegradation is and organic conductors (APL Materials. also important and has been studied Jan 2015;3(1):12). Thus, it has been (Polymer Degradation and Stability. Jan demonstrated that the use of the 2015;111:71-77). biopolymer dextran sulphate as a Other carbon nanostructures such dopant affords a highly processable as carbon quantum dots have conductive organic biopolymer (Acta provided a substrate for developing Biomaterialia. Mar 2015;14:33-42). The heterostructures with copper oxide that biopolymer has a significant influence on allow solar driven conversion of carbon the physiochemical and electrochemical dioxide to methanol (Advanced Energy properties of the inherently conducting Materials. 2015;5(5):1401077 (1-6)). polymer biomaterials enabling these to be tuned (Synthetic Metals. Feb Functionalising the carbon quantum 2015;200:40-47). dots affords an efficient visible light switchable acid catalyst for room Nanostructured carbons are highly temperature ring opening reactions useful electrode components. of ionic liquids, organic ionic plastic (Angewandte Chemie-International Graphene remains a major focus for Edition. Jul 2015;54(29):8420-8424). crystals, has been undertaken for electromaterials and there continues applications such as batteries. Enhanced Electrolytes are an essential to be a need for scalable approaches to ionic mobility in organic ionic plastic electromaterial component of graphene synthesis, functionalisation, crystal - dendrimer solid electrolytes electrochemical devices and ionic liquids processing and fabrication. This was has been demonstrated (Electrochimica are becoming increasingly important the subject of a significant graphene Acta. Sep 2015;175:214-223) and ionic for a wide variety of electrolyte and review by ACES researchers (NPG transport achieved organic ionic plastic electrochemical device applications Asia Materials. Jun 2015;7:15). In crystal polymer nanofibre composites addition, novel approaches to produce (Energy & Environmental Science. (Journal of Materials Chemistry A. nitrogen-doped porous graphene 2014;7(1):232-250). The physical 2015;3(11):6038-6052). (Journal of Materials Chemistry A. properties of a variety of ionic liquid 2015;3(35):18229-18237) and N-doped based electrolytes have been investigated pierced graphene microparticles (2D (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Fabrication Materials. Jun 2015;2(2):7) have been 2015;17(6):4656-4663; Australian Materials as described above must developed. Journal of Chemistry. 2015;68(3):420- be amenable to fabrication into 3D The availability within the Centre 425; Journal of Physical Chemistry C. structures wherein the controlled spatial of scalable quantities of aqueous Sep 2015;119(38):21828-21839). distribution of each enables 3D structure and organic dispersed graphene has Research into the solid state equivalent function studies to be carried out. Our
14 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science strategies include the generation of 2015;111:71-77) have been produced. by-side printing have been developed. A very simple version of the biopen fibres that can be arranged into 3D Highly stretchable organic fibres enabled printing of gels containing cortical systems, 3D printing strategies as well wherein polyurethane (PU) is the host neurons, the first step towards the ‘brain as ‘self assembly’ to achieve our goals. and graphene provides the conducting on a bench’ project (Biomaterials. Oct Fibre fabrication created a number of pathway have been produced 2015;67:264-273). highlights for ACES in 2015. Following (Advanced Functional Materials. Jan on from the outstanding achievement 2015;25(1):94-104). 4D Printing with mechanically robust, of developing state-of-the-art artificial 3D printing has provided very thermally actuating hydrogels has been muscles from nylon fibre in 2014, exciting outcomes for ACES in 2015, demonstrated (Macromolecular Rapid flexible, stretchable and weavable with a number of simple versions Communications. Jun 2015;36(12):1211-1217). piezoelectric fibers have now been of 3D printing systems developed ACES 3D metal printing capability developed (Energy and Environmental under the ACES umbrella. One of the is providing exciting innovations in Science, (2015) 8, 3336-3344). most exciting has been the biopen developing 3D electrodes from a range Fibres containing graphene composites (Biofabrication. 2016, in press). of metals including stainless steel, wherein polymers of PLA, PLGA, PCL The biopen may be used as a hand- titanium, copper and nickel. To augment are host materials (RSC Advances. held device or as part of an automated this, research into the functionalisation 2015;5:45284-45290; Polymer robotic stage. Print heads that enable of metallic surfaces (including titanium) Degradation and Stability. Jan coaxial as well as asymmetric and side- using porous polymer substrates is
Annual Report 2015 15 Schematic 2: Examples of starting structures-ordered and
disordered [C4mpyr][DCA] on graphite.
proving successful, with application to develop and benchmark theoretical for use during the fabrication process internal chemical modification of 3D methodologies for modelling 3D are under development, focusing on printed metallic devices, channels and electromaterials. the conductivity of fibers and on the porous structures. Notably, 3D printed In the electrolyte area, modelling efforts mechanical properties of biocomposites. titanium micro-bore columns containing have focused on interfacial interactions of Techniques considered for that polymer monoliths for reverse phase electrolytes with the electrode interface. purpose are contactless conductivity liquid chromatography have been Ionic liquid electrolytes have been shown and ultrasound. As an indicator of the developed (Analytica Chimica Acta, Dec to undergo interesting structural changes opportunities in the field, a manuscript 2015, in press). on graphite electrodes. These simulations has been prepared (Analyst. Feb 2016, Composite materials for 3D printing have used both density functional theory in press). The use of a contactless and 3D printed microfluidics are under and molecular dynamics. conductivity detector on graphene fibres development (N. Macdonald, RF project). Other modeling activities include the has been investigated on fibres with A range of test models involving pillars, interaction of graphene oxide using different composite mixtures. cuboids, holes and channels with an atomistic-continuum model (RSC Electrochemical-single cell force different materials, as shown, have been Advances. 2015;5(94):77062-77070), and spectroscopy has been used for printed. This has led to the design and the design and testing of kinetic models quantifying molecular-level cell adhesion fabrication of a 3D printed membrane of water electrooxidation catalysed by on electroactive conducting polymers fluidic chip for Electrofluidics and metal oxides. Diagnostic (EFD) theme applications. (Scientific Reports. Sep 2015;5:13). A novel fabrication method involving The in-depth characterisation of Characterisation electrocoagulation of collagen has been plastic crystal electrolytes has The relationships between established enabling formation of robust been achieved using MRI imaging electrochemical performance and 3D structures. (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. structural arrangements require 2015;17:18991-19000). innovative characterisation tools Modelling to map device charge transfer and In a step towards the development of 3D The modelling research activities transport processes in 3D. Towards multi electrode array (MEA) protocols, are intricately connected with the this end, the first in-line contactless, 64 channel MEA experiments have been various ACES themes, with the aim to non-destructive characterisation tools carried out in 2D and with 3D cultures.
16 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Annual Report 2015 17 Application themes
Electrofluidics and Diagnostics (EFD)
Milestone Year Description
Determined the effect of distributed EFD1 1.5 composition and structure on fluid flow throughout 3D structures.
The late start of staff and students Rendering of spiral column manufactured by selected laser melting in stainless means that this milestone will be steel 316 and titanium alloy, showing multilevel spiral fluid flow pathway. not completed until June 2016. The use of different polymer 3D printing approaches to create microfluidic Due to late start of staff and students Synthetic Energy Systems channels and structures has been this milestone will now be completed (SES) evaluated. 3D metal printing has by end of June 2016. The viability been used to create exquisite internal and development pathways for Milestone Year Description structures wherein fluid flow and living cells are very much affected chemical separations can be achieved. by the mechanical properties of the Determined the impact of 3D Investigations into the use of thread fluidics surrounding environment. This can architecture on have commenced. Here 3D structure in therefore be used to influence the SES1 1.5 catalytic activity, the micro domain involves control over the survival and development of cells. ionic conductivity specific arrangement of fibres in order to To date, we have devised protocols and charge effect fluid flow transport and mixing of for fabricating 3D biomaterial and cell storage. chemical components. compositions using alginate, gelatin or collagen. Characterisation to optimise the Synthetic Biosystems (SBS) compositions indicates the mechanical Given the delays in commencement of properties, required for cell survival staff and students completion of this milestone is anticipated to be completed Milestone Year Description and development, are typically different from the requirements for 3D structural at the end June 2016. Elucidated support and integrity. Hence the above In terms of catalytic activity, studies to date the effect of milestone will be restated as SBS1 Year 1: have focused on the creation of 3D structures distributed 3D SBS1 1 Elucidated the mechanical properties in the nano-microscopic domain, in order to mechanical of cytocompatible materials for cell enhance efficiency and provide control over properties on cell survival and development within a 3D the nature of the products obtained from behaviour. biomaterial composition. electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction.
18 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science The left two images are parametric models of rendered hands. The image on the far right is the 3D printed version of the model with a series of fine tendon cables attached.
The realisation of electrolytes with Soft Robotics (SR) provide appropriate movements in a 3D high ionic conductivity and low thermal printed hand in response to an external conductivity remains a challenge for mechanical stimulus. Milestone Year Description thermal energy harvesting. Some To increase the inventory of stimuli Determined progress has made 3D structured gels responsive soft materials, heat the impact of based on cellulose and incorporating sensitive gels have been mechanically composition appropriate reactive (redox) centres. reinforced using carbon fibres. This has SR1 1.5 and porosity had an additional impact in that the In addition, the use of 3D printed distribution on thermal mechanical response time of electrode arrangements within mechanical the gel has been improved. thermocells to maximise performance properties. is the subject of ongoing investigations. The series connection of thermocells Ethics, Policy and Public Due to late start of staff and students using 3D printed structures is being this milestone will now be completed Engagement (EPPE) used to boost voltage output. by the end June 2016. Milestone Year Description To optimise the performance of Porosity within polymer structures has been flow batteries for energy storage, varied by adjusting 3D printing conditions. Identified the the appropriate arrangement of This has provided a means of spatial potential ethical microfluidic channels is under responsibilities control over mechanical properties (e.g. EPPE1 3 investigation. Such studies are made effective modulus of elasticity) through of manufacturers to end users for possible by the use of 3D printing distributed porosity. This distribution in prosthetic organs. approaches for rapid prototyping. mechanical properties has been used to
Annual Report 2015 19 Preliminary work has been done on engagement activity. ACES visitor’s Dr Diels-Alder reactions resulted in the pacemakers as a proxy device for Terry Cannon, Institute of Development first demonstration of electrostatic assessing manufacturer responsibilities Studies Sussex University, paper ‘Three catalysis of a non-redox reaction, in prosthetic organs. Meetings have Myths of Development, Disasters and with a publication recently accepted been held with the Therapeutic Goods Climate Change’, drew a wide audience by Nature (Nature. 2016, in press). Association (TGA), Health Purchasing from four universities, government, Follow-up work on the effect of electric Victoria, and device manufacturer research and NGO sectors. fields on spiropyran ring opening, Biotronik and presentations on the topic In addition to progress made on the and on harnessing electric fields to at ACES workshops, the Australasian EPPE milestones, ACES EPPE members trigger polymerisation on a surface are Association of Philosophy (AAP) have contributed to the work in other ongoing. Initial results have shown that Conference and at the Centre for ACES themes. For example, the spiropyrans can be used as hydrogen Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. ethical implications of brain implants bond sensors (Chem. Commun. AI Nielsen’s research on legal and for personal identity and autonomy 2015;51:4815-4818). intellectual property issues in medicine supports work conducted in the SBS A paper from SES researchers has contributed to early work towards theme as evidenced by collaborations reporting record breaking 22.4% potential ethical responsibilities of between Gilbert and Cook on the ethical solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency manufacturers to end users. challenges related to autonomy raised (Energy & Environmental The obligations of manufacturers by predictive brain implants (Bioethica Science.2015;8(9):2791-2796) received of proposed brain implants have Forum 2015;8(4):121-127). Gilbert’s considerable media attention world- been explored in a forthcoming target article (AJOB Neurosci 2015; wide. The fuel involved in that work chapter ‘Predictive Brain Devices and 6(4):4–11) considered arguments was simply hydrogen however the Automated Therapeutic Activation: concerning predictive brain devices and optimisation principles developed in Ethical Problems Ahead’. The moral threats to autonomy. that work point the way to other types obligations to device manufacturers EPPE members have considered the of fuels being produced at even higher through the effects of deep brain ethical implications of advances in 3D efficiencies. stimulation, and neural implants more printing and biofabrication for medicine A 3D printed, fully compliant and soft broadly, on a patient’s identity have also and the hospital of the future. prosthetic hand (in the size of a child’s been explored. CI Hancock has worked with colleagues hand) has been developed. This is a The industry and government engagement in the SES theme in developing research-development platform to workshop, ‘Can assessment of emerging outreach and community engagement discuss new ideas and concepts (or what technologies address complex impacts?’ on alternative energy sources. input we want from other themes) on (supported by the Department of Industry) establishing new actuation, sensing and explored issues related to the military control concepts based on new printable ‘dual use’ of technology for therapy Other Research Highlights electromaterials or responsive materials. and enhancement. Related to this is The broad scope of expertise in Several thread-based electrofluidic work on obsolescence and technology ACES and the numerous national and platforms have been designed and used (Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Sep international interactions has led to by EFD researchers to study the fibre 2015;25(3):231-260) and neural implants some outstanding research outcomes in fluidics of different materials. Several and identity (Goddard thesis 2015) other research areas. modes of operation in electrophoresis exploring the implications for therapy and ACES modelling researchers at ANU have been tested and electrophoresis has enhancement from arguments based on worked with UOW researchers to study been achieved in polyester, nylon tape, relational autonomy. the effect of oriented electric fields silk and acrylic. Separation of compounds EPPE Policy Forums were held in May on the kinetics and thermodynamics and 1000-fold pre-concentration and June as part of its policy and of chemical reactions. Initial work on (isotachophoresis) has been achieved.
20 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science RESEARCH TRAINING
ACES Strategic Plan 1. one full centre meeting each year The first four Masters students 2. weekly theme meetings (18 commenced at UOW in July 2015. Short Goal 2: Research February-14 December) between courses in Biofabrication, open to all Training all nodes within the centre via video ACES members, were delivered in July link over five days. An Ethics course was delivered in September. 3. a number of targeted ACES The courses featured comprehensive Our goal is to deliver innovative research theme workshops. lectures and demonstrations on research training and mentoring Targeted research theme workshops held printable bioinks, stem cell biology, programs that ensure the development in 2015 included: graphene synthesis printing materials, developing custom of world-class graduates and early scale-up and device fabrication; modelling; bioprinting and 3D printing hardware career researchers with excellent carbon dioxide reduction; batteries; and applications as well as ethical and research skills as well as science thermocells; bionics; applied 3D fluidics; regulatory issues arising from the rapid communication, research management chip and fibre based electrofluidics and developments in 3D bioprinting. and commercialisation skills, coupled ethical issues associated with maintaining with an ethical awareness of the synthetic organs. These workshops Research projects, each involving a clinical impacts of their scientific endeavour. provide specialist research training for collaborator, commenced in late 2015. Our target audience is primarily PhD and early career researchers, and prospective students. ACES provides an include mentoring for research planning Implement a Masters training inclusive and supportive global research and positioning for career opportunities. program in Electromaterials training opportunity; giving access to the Appendix 1 shows a summary of the Science workshops and the number of personnel most innovative and dynamic research University approval for the ACES ‘Masters mentored. training programs that are facilitated by of Philosophy in Electromaterials Science’ our global connections. ACES staff and students are afforded is complete. In 2016 the ACES nodes at opportunities to attend seminars the University of Wollongong and Deakin Towards our goals delivered by numerous visitors and University will launch Australia’s first joint collaborators to the nodes throughout post-graduate degree in electromaterials The ACES Research Training Group the year. Travel between nodes to science, with emphasis on the use of new (RTG) is responsible for designing, undertake multidisciplinary research fabrication tools to build devices containing establishing and implementing tasks is also encouraged and supported. next generation materials. The course is an innovative research training designed to ensure that the students gain and career development program, Implement a Masters training maximum benefit from the unique multi- including various industry and web- program in Biofabrication disciplinary expertise in ACES. based programs. The highlights of the program are outlined below. ACES is focused on an approach to education and (re)training that Complete a pilot program provides a work force equipped with for a Graduate Certificate in ACES Research Theme the skills necessary for next generation Entrepreneurship Workshops manufacturing. ACES, through IPRI at Commercialisation training programs The ACES workshop program targets the the University of Wollongong, launched increase the appetite for industry professional development of research the world’s first Master of Philosophy engagement and help graduates staff and postgraduate students, as well in BioFabrication in collaboration with understand the career options available as key areas of continuing technical and Queensland University of Technology, to them. For example, as a consequence scientific education. The workshops are Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and of commercialisation training programs undertaken in the form of: the University of Wurzburg (Germany). offered within ACES prior to 2015, six
Annual Report 2015 21 business THE MARKET better THE Australian sharemarket closed lower amid weak prices for business Budget slow to commodities, such as oil, and weak manufacturing data from China. CMC Markets chief market BUSINESS NETWORK analyst Ric Spooner said the key MEETING AND FREE to the market’s fall was weaker commodities prices. DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP lift confidence ‘‘That’s seen the energy and materials sector lead the market A meeting of the Shellharbour City THE May federal budget was The survey of business ex- that confidence remains fragile down today,’’ Mr Spooner said. Business Network will be held on billed as pro-business but pectations by the Australian and the economy is facing signi- Looking ahead, Mr Spooner Wednesday 19 August. Judith Field nearly three months on, few Chamber of Commerce and ficant headwinds,’’ she warned. said Tuesday’s Reserve Bank firms are punching the air and Industry (ACCI) has reported Little wonder that job ads, as meeting – when it is expected to and Andrew Grimshaw will present: most still view the economic reduced circumstances for calculated by the ANZ Bank, hold interest rates steady – had Building Communities – The Calderwood outlook in a negative light. sales revenue, selling prices, eased 0.4 per cent in July. the potential to move the market. Opportunity. A new survey covering the profits, employment and in- ‘‘The slower growth in job But a more likely driver would three months to June found vestment – at a time of rising advertising supports our view be the statement of monetary business owner predictions wages and increasing labour that employment growth will policy on Friday, as it would give This presentation will provide for the next 12 months cooling costs. slow in the second half of 2015, an insight into RBA’s forecasts. information on the development of for the fifth consecutive quar- Export sales bucked the following unexpectedly strong BHP Billiton was off 27¢ at a collaborative workforce planning ter. trend, increasing for the outcomes since late 2014,’’ ANZ $26.18, Rio Tinto reversed 66¢ to and development framework for the Prime Minister Tony Abbott, second consecutive quarter, economist Warren Hogan said. $52.20, but Fortescue Metals Calderwood Valley development and however, remains one of the which suggests exporters are Official labour force figures added 0.5¢ at $1.86. economic optimists. beginning to benefit from the are due for release on Thurs- Oil and gas producer Woodside its surrounds. Speaking in South Austra- falling Australian dollar. day and economists expect a Petroleum dropped 40¢ to lia on Monday, Mr Abbott ACCI chief Kate Carnell said modest 10,000 increase in the $35.25, and Santos gave away 6¢ The Calderwood Valley project will be conceded the business cycle the budget was a good one for number of people employed, at $7.34. developed over the next 20 years and cannot be banished or inter- business, including as it did a ticking up the jobless rate to Commonwealth Bank lost 19¢, national circumstances series of tax breaks for small 6.1 per cent from 6.0 per cent. National Australia Bank fell 18¢, will provide approximately 4500 homes changed. firms, but measures are taking The Reserve Bank’s cash rate ANZ was steady at $32.68, and for an estimated 12,500 residents. ‘‘But we can banish pessim- time to filter through. is expected to stay at a record Westpac eased 1¢ to $34.85. AAP ism and defeatism,’’ he said. ‘‘The ... survey demonstrates low 2 per cent. The workforce planning framework will be developed through input from WATCH LIST key stakeholders, community leaders, STOCKS to watch on the Australian businesses and service providers. This stock exchange at the close on presentation will provide information on Monday: how local businesses can be involved. ■ AFJ - AFFINITY EDUCATION: up 8.5¢, or 11.5 per cent, at 82.5¢. ■ GEM - G8 EDUCATION: up 10¢, or When: Wednesday 19 August 5.30pm 2.9 per cent, at $3.50. Childcare - 7.30pm operator G8 Education has increased Where:� ������ ���������� ������������� its takeover offer for rival Affinity Village Education to include almost $150 million in cash. ■ CSL - CSL: down 13¢, or 0.1 per cent, at $98.83. Biotechnology giant CSL has completed its $US275 million acquisition of A FREE BUSINESS Changing mindsets: Novartis’ influenza business. DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Professor John Glynn, ■ FDC - FEDERATION CENTRES: WILL ALSO BE HELD ON Dean of the University of down 13¢, or 4.3 per cent, at $2.87. THURSDAY 20 AUGUST. Wollongong’s Faculty of Shopping centres operator Federation Business. Picture: GREG ELLIS Centres has appointed former Novion chief executive Angus McNaughton Ruth Thirtle will present a half-day as CEO following the companies’ workshop: Effective Sales and merger. Marketing Strategies for Your ■ SKE - SKILLED GROUP: up 4.5¢, or 2.9 per cent, at $1.585. Business. Students ACE training program ■ PRG - PROGRAMMED MAINTENANCE SERVICES: up 11¢, In this free business development GREG ELLIS University of Wollongong Ex- preneurship, said the course or 4.6 per cent, at $2.50. Programmed workshop, Ruth Thirtle will share top ecutive Dean (Faculty of Busi- honed his ability to recognise Maintenance Services is facing a hit of THE ARC Centre of Excel- ness) Professor John Glynn the potential application of up to $67.4 million in relation to its tips and strategies to help develop an lence for Electromaterials said it had such an impact it ideas. takeover of rival labour hire business effective funnel that brings leads and Science (ACES) and the helped change graduates’ Mr Stevens said the training Skilled Group. converts them into sales. Participants Sydney Business School (SBS) mindsets. Professor Glynn helped make the entrepren- will learn how to stop chasing leads at the University of Wollon- said the ACES students were eurial journey more tangible. and get them chasing them! gong have come together to highly motivated and learned And ACES PhD student KEY STOCKS run an innovative business a great deal. Aaron Waters said it would training program for re- Learning about business also help him better relate to AMP 6.61 steady When: Thursday 20 August 9am – searchers. sustainability was a key com- areas such as HR, accounting ANZ 32.68 steady 12pm. The idea grew out of aware- ponent and the course was and management. BHP Billiton 26.18 -27 Where: Community Room, Stockland ness that ARC Centres of tailor-made to help students IPRI and ACES director Bradken 1.13 -5 Excellence are like vast caul- put their doctorate in context Professor Gordon Wallace be- Brambles 10.88 Shellharbour. drons of knowledge boiling with the business world. lieved the course would help over with ideas based on They learned everything the students create the CBA 87.37 -19 Attendance is free and bookings are cutting edge research. from business risk to person- knowledge-based industries CSL 98.83 -13 essential for both of these events. But researchers are not ver- ality profiles. of the future. ‘‘These will be Fortescue 1.86 +.5 sed in the ways of business. Intelligent Polymer Re- the first graduates in the IAG 5.89 steady So to better equip and pre- search Institute PhD student integrated course bringing Contact Shellharbour City Council’s pare them a new training Leo Stevens, who completed scientific researchers’ skills Macquarie 82.33 +18 Economic Development Unit on 4221 initiative was piloted. the UOW Graduate Certific- in the workplace in an integ- NAB 34.59 -18 6030 or email economic.development It ran for 12 months and ate in Innovation and Entre- rated way.’’ Newcrest 11.15 -12 @shellharbour.nsw.gov.au News Corp 19.50 -7 NIB 3.55 -1 Illawarra Mercury 14 August 2015. NuCoal .004 steady Super doesn’t have to be $1m: expert Orica 19.20 -1 Origin Energy 11.19 -15 ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: IT would be nice to have $1 mil- starting out in the workplace quality of life in retirement. 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Most people ap- and that• fewerIs it than really five possible out of to print Phone: 4221 6111 | Fax: 4221 6016 Telstra 6.44 -5 Certificate in EntrepreneurshipGarcia said to claims build that a proaching retirement will draw every 1000 fundstructures members that have incorporate both DX 26402 Shellharbour City Centre $1 million or more balance wasCompletean income a Free that Online is a combina- Course,$1 million or more in their Wesfarmers 42.41 -4 Email: [email protected] the business acumenneeded of forPhD a and comfortable ‘Bioprinting: re- tion of both 3D super Printing and the Body age super. living and artificial components?Westpac 34.85 -1 early career researchers.tirement The was pilot causing unneces- pension,’’ he said. AustralianSuper chief exec- Woodside 35.25 -40 sary fear and concern amongParts’ Rather than talking about the utive Ian• SilkHow said long even before modest we can print whole program, developedolder in partnership Australians. with privileged few, Mr Garcia said balances could make a mean- www.shellharbour.nsw.gov.au Prof Gordon Wallace and Dr Stephen body organs for transplants? the University of Wollongong’sIn a new report, Sydney he said the the focus should be on how ingful contribution to a retire- IMD 0018 reality was that most Australi-Beirnesmall designed super and balancesdelivered a could free ment income• What when is possible combined right now, and Business School, wasans launched – including in 2015. most of those still make a difference to the with the age pension. AAP online course for a general audience what will be possible in 20 and 50 18 ILLAWARRA MERCURY,Seven Tuesday graduates August 4,passed 2015 the course with www.illawarramercury.com.au distinction and high distinction averages. called Bioprinting: 3D Printing Body Parts. years’ time? As a result, these participants are more The course, an introduction to commonly • What are the limitations of this aware of the potential commercialisation used biomaterials and bioprinting technology? outcomes of their research. techniques, answered basic questions Over four weeks, more than 1,000 The certificate will continue in 2016 as such as: people took the course, which was
22 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science hosted through the University of • Gwilym Price (UOW) 3D printing nickel Conduct workshops on Ethical, Wollongong’s partnership with global • Brendan Howe (UOW) 3D Social and Policy Impacts of online learning platform FutureLearn. interdigitated electrodes Electromaterial Science • Richard Spinks (UOW) ‘ Science in A session at the ACES Full Centre a Suitcase’ - controlled delivery meeting was on Ethical Procurement in “The opportunity to share systems the laboratory. CI Linda Hancock spoke with a global learning to Centre participants about being • Grant Barnsley (UOW) 3D printing community the impact our more aware of materials procurement copper research has on everyday for ACES projects, with a special focus lives was an exciting • Grace Waring (UOW) printing bionic on ‘conflict’ metals. After outlining extension of who we are at electrodes advice set out in the literature and UOW,” UOW Deputy • Ana Erceg (Deakin) towards observing other practices overseas, Vice-Chancellor Academic, reversible metal-air batteries Linda recommended that when making Prof Eeva Leinonen. • Callan Young (Deakin) a purchase, ACES should ask companies electrochemical harvesters to disclose their chain of supply and materials procurement policy; conduct • Molly Patten (Deakin) ‘Science on-line research to see if companies Bioprinting MOOC November 2015 in a Suitcase’ - designing a declare their interests in supplying Course Statistics (as of 16 January demonstration kit to explain the metals; and look to see if each university 2016) research surrounding Shrilk as a has an ethical procurement policy. potential biomimetic material for Joiners 7,483 articular cartilage. As part of the Ethics, Public Policy and Engagement theme CI Linda Hancock Kiera Grierson followed her summer Learners 3,222 43.1% took a contingent of ACES battery and scholarship with an honours year with ACES solar researchers-CIs, ECRs, PhDs-to at UOW, graduating in December 2015. Active learners 2,436 75.6% give them an insight on the applied Grant Barnsley returned to ACES in the contextual challenges of new energy Fully Participating 1,000 31.0% 2015 spring semester to complete his 18 technology providers during a visit to learners credit point final engineering project. He Hepburn windfarm on 23 April 2015. The spent a further two weeks of professional visit took place with a view to consider: experience with ACES (13-24 July 2015) to For more information visit https://www. • How does current energy policy/ fulfill the university professional experience futurelearn.com/courses/bioprinting. pricing affect wind farms and requirement for his undergraduate degree. Gordon Wallace’s blog on ‘How is 3D what opportunities are there for He has been offered a PhD position in printing revolutionising healthcare?’ can innovative battery storage solutions ACES/UOW in 2016. be found at https://about.futurelearn. with economic [feed-in] benefits com/blog/3d-printing-healthcare/ Over the 2015-2016 summer, two [e.g. short term storage for feed-in undergraduate students are taking up during peak load at higher rates of The 3D Bioprinting course also provides a 10-week summer scholarship within remuneration]. a taste of what students will learn as ACES at UOW. Vincent Kershaw from part of undergraduate degrees at UOW • What technical issues complicate/ James Cook University, Queensland and in science, mechatronics and materials facilitate energy storage with wind- Grace Keidge from Griffith University, engineering, and later as part of the generated energy? Queensland are working on 3D printing. Masters degree in Biofabrication. • What potential is there for testing battery storage prototypes in situ at Workshops on Science wind farms? Summer scholarship program Communication The summer scholarship program is • What potential is there for solar- ‘How best to design your research designed to encourage undergraduates wind co-location? poster’ and ‘present your research’ into ACES post graduate programs. In were two questions answered during • How might a community wind farm 2014-15, nine undergraduate students a workshop and webinar held for 30 differ from commercial operations worked at ACES as part of a 10-week ACES members on 21 January 2015. in relation to financing and energy summer scholarship. The students and The workshop included tips on poster storage models? their projects were: design, information on how to access • What form could a potential • Kiera Grierson (UOW) electrical and correctly use logos, and advice on partnership with Hepburn Wind and stimulation of neural stem cells improving presentation skills. ACES take?
Annual Report 2015 23 Laboratory BioTechniques course Higgins (ACES CI UOW), A/Prof Attila cells and four lectures covering Atomic Mozer (ACES CI UOW) and Dr Caiyun Force Microscopy (AFM), fundamental The ACES members at St Vincent’s Wang (SRF ACES UOW) gave a series surfaces forces, biological interactions Hospital Bionics laboratory conducted of lectures (12) to post graduate and forces and an overview on the a training course for 17 second year students at Hanbat University in Korea use of Bio-AFM to study protein/cell Medical Students from Universitas in November. interactions with electromaterials. Indonesia, Indonesia, and six third year medical students from Tsinghua These gave four lectures on organic University, China, as part of their conductors for novel energy storage Training Opportunities Advanced Medical Science (AMS) year. applications; specifically batteries, ACES members, from chief investigators The ‘Laboratory Techniques’ course including battery testing techniques, through to students, attended training introduced the students to the theory and biobatteries, wearable/stretchable workshops outside of ACES as part practice of conducting medical research. batteries and use of organic of their continuing performance conductors in energy; two lectures development. on the fundamentals of solar energy ACES invited to deliver lectures conversion and solar cells and solar Prof Mark Cook, ACES CI and Synthetic at Hanbat University in Korea fuels; two lectures, as requested by our Biosystems theme leader is in the Three ACES members A/Prof Michael hosts, on porphyrin-sensitised solar process of completing the 2015 Vincent
24 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Other courses are listed below: • ACES ECR Ruhamah Yunis • Two UOW PhD students attended (Deakin University) attended two ‘Thinking Ahead: Career Options Industry Training Workshops, & Planning for Graduate research ‘Industry Engagement Skills’ on 30 students’ at UOW 29 April. September and ‘Consulting Skills Part 1’ on 14 October. • Two UOW PhD students attended ‘Interview Techniques for graduate • ACES RF Eva Tomaskovic-Crook research students’ at UOW 13 May. (UOW) completed a week long SEM training course at UOW Electron • Four UOW PhD students attended Microscopy Centre in October. ‘Build your Career Network for Graduate Research Students’ at • ACES ECR Ashley Walker (UOW) UOW 20 May. and the four BIOFAB masters students completed ‘Biosafety’ • ACES RF Niall Macdonald training at UOW 24 November. undertook a two day training course with engineers from Grey Innovation for the Titan 1 (DP-SLA) 3D printer 2015 Graduates at UTAS 1-2 June. Kiera Grierson (International B. Science) • ACES Communication Officer graduated with Honours, completing Natalie Foxon-Phillips attended a final year project in ACES UOW. strategic workshop on the use of Adam Taylor (Masters) graduated having Social Media in Wollongong on 30 completed his final year project in 3D June. printing with ACES. • ACES PhD candidate Nhien Hon Eliza Goddard (PhD ACES UTAS start Le (Monash University) completed 2010)-Thesis ‘The Bionic Self: Neural a commercialisation boot camp Implants and Threats to Identity’. at Monash University 17-19 July; Sha Li (PhD ACES UOW start attended a ‘Spotlight on Innovation 2010)-Thesis ‘Biocompatible Materials Workshop’ run by Perkin Elmer for Batteries’. at Monash University on 28 July; presented a poster at the Monash Matt Gustafson (PhD ACES Monash Engineering Industry Night on 27 start 2011) - Thesis ‘Investigation August; and attended a ‘Soft X-ray of photostimulated conducting Spectroscopy’ workshop at Australian polymer heterojunctions exhibiting Fairfax Fellowship™ Programme. Synchrotron on 16 October. electrocatalytic properties and their The Fellowship™ is the flagship effectiveness in water oxidation’. • ACES PhD candidate Jian Fang teaching program at the Centre for (Deakin University) completed a two Sreenu Jennepalli (PhD ACES UOW start Ethical Leadership and aims to close day ‘Getting Funding from Industry’ 2010)-Thesis ‘The Synthesis of an Amino the gap between the theories of training course on 21-22 July: and Acid/Fullerene Derivative for Potential ethics and actual practices to inspire a two day ‘Introduction to Project use in Organic Solar Cell Applications’. transformational leadership. Management’ training course on 2 Liyu (Leo) Jin (PhD ACES Monash start A/Prof Jennifer Pringle, ACES CI and 9 September. 2011)-Thesis ‘Organic Ionic Plastic and Director of the ACES Research • Six ACES PhD students, two ACES Crystal Electrolytes’. Training Group, completed the 12 ECR and three ACES RF completed Fengling Zhou (PhD ACES Monash start month ‘Advanced Leadership Program Fire Safety Training at UOW on 29 2011)-Thesis ‘Investigation of inorganic MLE14’, conducted by Women and July. metal oxides as catalysts for photo- Leadership Australia. Jenny also • ACES UOW SRFs Pawel Wagner electrochemical water splitting’. completed the Deakin University 2015 and Kerry Gilmore completed Mega Kar (PhD ACES Monash start Mid-Career Researchers Professional ‘Implementing OH&S - A Guide for 2011)-Thesis ‘Novel Ionic Liquids for Development series. Supervisors’ in September. Zinc-Air Rechargeable Batteries’.
Annual Report 2015 25 TRANSLATION
ACES Strategic Plan overcome highly relevant, real-world of appropriate chemistries, we have challenges. In our ACES labs right been able to realise composites with Goal 3: Translation now, researchers are turning everyday biomaterials or other polymer hosts. The Commercialisation materials into intelligent materials that work of our team within ACES means we automatically massage swollen limbs to are well placed in this field. reduce discomfort; they’re developing The ACES team is aware that new energy generation systems for Our goals are to: partnerships that bring business a green future; they’re making early development expertise will greatly • To implement strategies for warning diagnostic kits that alert people enhance the likelihood of new effective industry engagement and of impending medical issues; and they’re commercial ventures. These knowledge transfer to industry creating new advanced prosthetics to developments will diversify the research partners. replace lost limbs. funding base for ACES. They will also • To utilise appropriate business It is vital that ACES continues to provide provide an opportunity to develop a tools to identify and select new knowledge to enable the further critical area currently under resourced; commercial opportunities in the development of existing commercial business development activities. early stages of ACES. enterprises. Where a seed is planted These new resources are critical as • To implement effective knowledge for the growth of new ventures, exciting commercialisation activities must transfer strategies that facilitate opportunities often present themselves not detract from its primary goal of the development of new business for highly skilled graduates and early excellence and quality in research and opportunities. career researchers. research training. Our target audience is primarily The demise of traditional manufacturing In an interview Prof Wallace did for investors. ACES can facilitate the in Australia creates an opportunity for the book ‘Innovation: How Innovators development of technologies to create ACES to encourage investment based on Think, Act and Change Our World’ by new disruptive business opportunities innovative manufacturing; industries that Kim Chandler McDonald, he points out and to augment existing businesses. capture the extraordinary properties that: “Without innovation in research of new advanced materials in useful we’re just making incremental progress; Towards our goals structures and devices. Next generation in big areas of research, big changes manufacturing requires new generation in thinking are needed to solve big materials. For example, graphene is a problems and delivering advances that ACES is Open for Business recently discovered material generating have a financial return is part of that As discussed in the article (http:// excitement amongst miners, researchers cycle. To be truly innovative we also www.electromaterials.edu.au/news/ and product developers alike. ACES’ need to be creative in how we bring researchopenforbusiness/) ‘Research first foray into graphene was very much people together and then how we work Labs: Open for business’ written by with an eye towards how we could make together as integrated teams”. ACES Director Gordon Wallace in stuff containing this amazing material. ACES’ first publication described simple February 2015, research laboratories are ACES - Australian National chemistries that resulted in the ability to no longer occupied by the stereotypical Fabrication Facility (ANFF) white-coated, bespectacled, dithering spray, print and otherwise coat graphene partnership individual with no social skills, poking onto other structures. Subsequent work around with test tubes just for the at ACES has developed chemistries Our continued partnership with ANFF is hell of it, but instead are modern labs that enable us to create stand-alone critical to translating our research into occupied by dynamic and highly skilled graphene structures using fabrication real-world devices. professionals, aware of the gaps in methods such as fibre-spinning or 3D The ANFF Materials Node is head- knowledge that need to be filled to printing. Through the development quartered alongside ACES at the UOW
26 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Table 2: Towards translation of ACES fundamental research
AquaHydrex Pty Ltd ACES hydrogen-production technology is being used to produce clean energy solutions.
IMAGINE Pty Ltd (were ACES graphene processing technology has been licensed to this spin-off company. previously NanoCarbon) Cell Therapy Manufacturing A new ACES collaborative effort was established in 2015 with the University of Adelaide and (CTM) Cooperative Research the CTM CRC for printing cells. Centre (CRC)
CRC for Polymers ACES involvement in the CRC for Polymers has resulted in new solar cell technologies.
ACES involvement in the Energy Pipelines CRC, via the Deakin University node, assesses Energy Pipelines CRC materials, coating selection and novel monitoring methodologies. ACES involvement with HEARing CRC has produced new electrode and controlled delivery HEARing CRC technologies relevant to the Cochlear implant. ACES involvement in the recently established Steel Research Hub at the University of ARC Steel Research Hub Wollongong is seeing the translation of fundamental findings into antimicrobial coatings. ACES involvement in the recently established ARC Research Hub for a World Class Future Fibre ARC Research Hub for a Industry at Deakin University is seeing the translation of fundamental findings into developing World Class Future Fibre novel fibre technologies to facilitate more sustainable, advanced manufacturing of fibre Industry materials and products. ACES materials continued to be developed and used in two NHMRC projects in 2015. This assists the translation of the research by taking the in vitro materials work and testing those materials as well as developing techniques in vivo. Grant 1065463 uses conducting polymers NHMRC projects for the treatment of schizophrenia and allied disorders focusing on neuronal outgrowth, myelination and synaptogenesis. Grant 1062569 uses ACES materials in the development of a biopolymer conduit for peripheral nerve repair. ACES’ ultra tough hydrogel materials continue to be developed for use as a condom in a Bill & Bill & Melinda Gates Melinda Gates Foundation grant project awarded to UOW to further develop a condom design. Foundation grant project The team is partnering with Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, to conduct biometric testing that measures the body’s response to the hydrogel materials. Clinical collaborations continue to develop: • with Prof Peter Choong and Dr Claudia DiBella (Orthopaedics). Two grants were awarded in 2015: (i) $40,000 from Arthritis Australia to use the biopen developed by ACES for the treatment of early osteoarthritis and (ii) a $20,000 St Vincent’s 2015 Research Endowment Fund Grant to perform in vivo experiments using bioinks developed by ACES in the biopen Clinical collaborations with a view towards new cartilage formation. at St Vincent’s Hospital • with A/Prof Chris Baker (Dermatology) via a Bauer grant. ACES/IPRI and St Vincent’s will Melbourne jointly fund a PhD student in 2016 to work on the fabrication of a biosynthetic skin using 3D Printing. • with A/Prof Michael Coote and Prof Jonathan Crowston (Ophthalmologists) at the Glaucoma Research Unit at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) testing a 3D printed system to try to fathom why glaucoma implants sometimes fail. As a consequence of a new Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation Conjoint Clinical collaboration in Grant of $375,000 awarded 2015, work will commence 2016 with ear, nose and throat surgeon, Wollongong A/Prof Stuart MacKay to combat sleep apnoea. In 2015 new projects were formed with Venus Shell Systems (VSS) and the Reserve Bank of Collaborative research Australia. The collaboration with VSS will develop new methods to enable the extraction of high with companies/industry quality biomaterials (ulvans) from seaweed.
Annual Report 2015 27 Innovation campus. ANFF provides ACES IMAGINE Cell Therapy Manufacturing (CTM) researchers, external collaborators, CRC: A new research collaboration was IMAGINE Pty Ltd (formerly NanoCarbon initiated in 2015 with Prof Toby Coates publicly funded researchers and Pty Ltd) continued to license an ACES from the University of Adelaide and the industries with access to fabrication graphene processing technology. In Cell Therapy Manufacturing CRC. The capabilities and materials synthesis 2015, ACES provided interactions with project involves the printing of islet cells through state-of-the-art facilities for IMAGINE ranging from know-how process and endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) the production of small- to large-scale information transfer through to materials within an organised 3D matrix. quantities of nanostructured materials supply and materials coating via a (e.g., electronic polymers, conducting research collaboration and materials carbons, graphene and macromolecules) transfer agreement executed in 2015. Linkage Hubs and additive manufacturing. ACES chief investigators continue to The Australian Research Council (ARC) provide support to this developing venture. Linkage Hub Program brings together Industry engagement and groups from industry, research, and other participants in targeted areas for knowledge transfer to industry CRC Interactions partners research and research training. Cooperative Research Centres bring ACES is involved with the following Hubs. ACES disseminates knowledge to together research partners from CSIRO existing industry partners through and Universities to engage with industry The Steel Research Hub (2014-2017) information sessions, workshops, on specific projects. ACES is involved at the University of Wollongong is seeing web-portal sessions, industry projects with the following CRCs. the translation of ACES fundamental findings into antimicrobial coatings. The and involvement in ARC Linkage Hub Hearing CRC: Projects carried out key industry partners are: BlueScope, projects and Cooperative Research under the CRC Hearing umbrella OneSteel (represented by Arrium), Centres (CRC). have benefitted from fundamental Australian Steel Institute, Bisalloy, Cox research within ACES. For example ACES has a track record of collaboration Architects and Lysaght. and commercialisation. The most recent our research has enabled novel drug The ARC Research Hub for a World are summarised in Table 2. delivery systems to be incorporated into cochlear implants. Surface modification Class Future Fibre Industry (2014- techniques have been used to control 2017) at Deakin University is seeing the AquaHydrex electro-cellular interactions. New translation of fundamental findings into developing novel fibre technologies to AquaHydrex (AH) arose from a characterisation tools developed by facilitate more sustainable, advanced fundamental knowledge pool in science ACES are providing new insights into manufacturing of fibre materials and and engineering developed by ACES. electro-cellular interactions. These products. Activities within the hub focus On 24 February 2015 the NSW Deputy projects have been conducted in on advanced carbon fibres, nanofibres association with Cochlear Pty Ltd. Premier Troy Grant joined Kiama MP and high performance novel fibres, as Gareth Ward and Liberal candidate CRC-Polymers: The current projects well as high-value added applications for Wollongong Cameron Walters to within the CRC for Polymers (CRC-P) have of fibre materials. Deakin’s Australian announce NSW Government funding leveraged ACES’ fundamental work in a partners in the hub are: HeiQ Australia to establish a high tech development number of ways. In the solar cell program, Pty Ltd, Cytomatrix Pty Ltd, Carbon facility in Wollongong – a home for researchers are designing new light Revolution Pty Ltd, Quickstep Automotive AquaHydrex. The team moved in in June, harvesting porphyrins and other organic dyes, Pty Ltd, Ear Science Institute Australia thus achieving a key milestone on their based on materials that were developed in Incorporated / Ear Science Centre, ACES. New anodes and cathodes, utilising commercialisation journey. Draggin Jeans Pty Ltd and CSIRO. conducting materials such as PEDOT in ACES chief investigators continue to processes initially developed for ACES provide support to this developing projects are being pursued. Successfully Industrial Transformation Training venture. ACES graduates make up fabricating and characterising dye sensitised Centre over 75% of the current Aquahydrex solar cells within the CRC-P program The ARC Industrial Transformation workforce. In 2015 AH recruited another has only been possible as a result of the Training Centre is a scheme that ACES RF and another ACES PhD equipment, skills and knowledge that have fosters close partnerships between graduate is due to start early 2016. been built up within ACES. university-based researchers and other
28 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science research end-users to provide innovative energy harvesting, tough hydrogels and • They felt this exposure would assist Higher Degree by Research (HDR) and biomaterials for 3D printing. them to scope their own research and postdoctoral training. provide them with a base for deciding what business training would be required ACES CI Brett Paull is involved with Science PhD students’ for them-with commercialisation the ARC Training Centre for Portable perspective on training being an option. Analytical Separation Technologies commercialisation training and (2014-2017) at the University of its value to them • Students were aware that if they Tasmania, which is seeing the translation were to work in industry post PhD ACES CI Dr Atilla Mozer, in collaboration of fundamental findings that enable than the company would teach with Elias Kyriazis and Samuel Garrett- analytical systems to be more selective, them what they were required to Jones from the UOW Faculty of Business, sensitive and specific for biological learn about commercialisation. led a study ‘Mapping the ACES/IPRI student measurements, especially those that experience’. Questions were focused • Other students acknowledged can lead to portability, miniaturisation on determining the current attitudes the value of more extensive and affordability. The industry partner is and perceptions of each participant’s commercialisation training Trajan Scientific and Medical. commercialisation proficiency. PROVIDED it led to a recognised qualification (or acceptable to Findings included: ACES Capability/Opportunity industry) rather than an add-on to Audit • Students were generally well their existing PhD. informed about industry and the As part of the NSW Government This study continues and will be challenges of commercialising Department of Trade and Investments expanded into an international new materials research outputs in Research Attraction and Acceleration benchmarking study. Australia, especially through small, Program (RAAP) funding, ACES contracted start-up companies. CTechBA in early 2015 to provide a End-User Information Sessions two-stage Commercialisation Review on • Students were acutely aware of the identifying and realising the commercial performance requirements of their Industry partnerships are critical opportunities of ACES research. PhD curriculum. With very limited in taking ACES’ research into the commercial arena. The scope of the audit was determined time left for anything which did not in consultation with the ACES contribute to the completion of their To contribute to this, ACES hosted commercialisation development group thesis or related papers they saw events to raise awareness amongst end- (CDG) and the first stage report was limited value in commercialisation users during 2015. completed in June 2015. training, especially as they have assigned their IP to UOW. Networking breakfast: Smart materials The report considered all the for next generation solutions planned research under the 2014- • They are aware the commercialisation Novotel Geelong, Geelong, Victoria 2017 ACES program, identified a of research usually requires an Wednesday 25 February 2015 number of commercially significant extremely long timeframe, well Thirty attendees were there to discover projects (opportunities) and made beyond their PhD completion date, opportunities to partner with ACES. recommendations on how we can more with many resources (including Short presentations about opportunities effectively facilitate technology transfer monetary) required. to engage with ACES were delivered by through those opportunities. • Students were opposed to the Director Prof Gordon Wallace, Associate suggestion of being forced to The initial project list shows 19 Director Prof Maria Forsyth and ACES CI undertake commercialisation training. ‘Commercial Opportunities’. Of the 19 Prof Xungai Wang. Opportunities, 16 can be considered • Many of the students however applied R&D and three opportunities still envisioned their future as Opening of AquaHydrex Pilot consistently scored ‘high’ by a panel of researchers in industry (but not Manufacturing Facility three CtechBA assessors. individual entrepreneurs); all keen Wollongong The CDG and executive have to take up any opportunities to visit 23 June 2015 recommended that CtechBA companies and be involved in new ACES spinout Aquahydrex moved its progress the evaluation of the three product teams with the proviso that operations to a new site. Paul Barrett opportunities, in the areas of thermal it was at the start of their PhD. (Executive Officer AquaHydrex), Steve
Annual Report 2015 29 Kloos (AquaHydrex Chairman and Partner ACES-ACRV Robotics Workshop True North Venture Partners) and Gordon University of Wollongong “It has proven to be an Wallace (ACES Director) recounted for 24 June 2015 excellent forum to enable the attendees the journey from research Fruitful collaborations between industry bridge building between in the lab to a new spin out company now and ACES centred on robotics are R&D to commercialisation in its third year of operation. likely to emerge following a workshop with profitability,” Dynamic that showcased the latest robotics Efficiency CEO, Peter Mastalir. IACCELERATE Entrepreneur Club technology. ACES continued its drive Meeting ‘Disruptive Innovations’ with to foster partnerships with industry Steven Kloos by partnering with the Australian session in which researchers were able Innovation Campus, University of Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV) to to demonstrate their robotic systems- Wollongong deliver a variety of presentations and grippers, robot vision systems and Wednesday 24 June case studies, including one on our Soft Robotics program. easy-to-program robots-was particularly True North is the investment fund for the engaging and collaborations should Wal-mart Family. Following an introduction Peter Mastalir’s-Dynamic Efficiency evolve from the event. from the ACES Executive Director Gordon CEO-business focuses on optimisation Wallace, Steven spoke to the 100 strong of mechanical equipment and he is ACES Soft Robotics theme leader audience about ‘Disruptive Innovations’ and keen to build a partnership with ACES Gursel Alici gave two 30 min talks at ‘Navigating from Startup to Success’. He to generate commercial solutions for the event; (i) Robots Ready to Work and spoke of TNVP’s journey with ACES to form engineering clients. (ii) Case Study One- ACES Soft Robotics startup company AquaHydrex. Prof Spinks said the “show and tell” Program.
30 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science six presentations were given by Cook behind biofouling, the latest advances in medical members covering their various techniques that allow us to gaze into the areas of interest. 19 Cook Medical staff nanoworld to ‘see’ how the initial attack attended and included representatives occurs and the materials and fabrication from their strategic business unit, protocols we can now bring to bear to engineering, production engineering, the battle at hand. research scientists as well as the director of research and development. Molecules from Seaweed to Fabricated Structures Joint CRC Polymer-ACES symposium Innovation Campus, Wollongong ‘Growth opportunities for the printing 12 November 2015 and packaging industry: functional inks, Venus Shell Systems and ACES have printed electronics and sensors’ embarked on an exciting research Innovation Campus, Wollongong partnership. Presenting and celebrating 9 November 2015 this new manufacturing frontier in the A joint CRC Polymer-ACES industry Illawarra/Shoalhaven, the event focused workshop brought together five industry on the opportunities in a future of representatives as well as members new polymers, including the potential of Food Innovation Australia Ltd, the applications for seaweed polymers. Printing Industries of Australia, the CRC for Polymers and ACES to discuss A networking lunch, demonstrations and ‘Growth opportunities for the printing a tour of the ACES laboratories followed and packaging industry: functional inks, the presentations. printed electronics and sensors’. Four presentations were given including ‘Regenerate yourself - the future of 3D an overview of the ACES capabilities bioprinting and organ transplantation’ From Ideas to Impact in printing and developing functional workshop Deakin University inks from ACES CI and CRCP Program ACES joined the Cell Therapy 7 August 2015 Leader David Officer. A larger workshop Manufacturing (CTM) CRC and Royal is planned for March 2016 to explore ACES CIs Prof Xungai Wang and Patrick Adelaide Hospital future research funding in this area with Howlett, based at the Institute for Frontier 14 December 2015 other industry partners. Materials (IFM) at Deakin, hosted a very Prof Gordon Wallace gave a lecture on successful Industry Day, which was 3D bioprinting of organs and cells for Smart Coatings Symposium- attended by more than 50 industry visitors. transplantation at this event in Adelaide. Antimicrobial Coatings: Can we outwit a The areas of researched showcased The event was an exciting opportunity millennia of evolution? included: energy, electromaterials, fibres to showcase new biomanufacturing Innovation Campus, Wollongong and metals. Xungai as Director of IFM techniques and industry for South 10 November 2015 Australia. It featured a workshop welcomed everyone and gave an overview The Smart Coatings Symposium, co- component where the custom built 3D of the institute whilst Patrick delivered hosted by ACES and the ARC Steel Hub, bioprinter, developed via the ACES/ a talk on energy efficiency, resource and brought together industry and research ANFF partnership, demonstrated how infrastructure sustainability. to explore advances in antifouling and it delivers new formulations containing antimicrobial coatings for applications living human cells. Cook Medical Sandpit Event including marine, steel and biomedical. University of Wollongong Twelve invited speakers from the ACES adds unique bioprinting expertise 6 October 2015 different sectors, including industrial, to CTM CRC’s capabilities. CTM CRC ACES CIs Profs Wallace and Spinks environmental and biomedical, gave presents a potential commercialisation gave technical presentations, whilst presentations that explained the science pathway as the technology develops.
Annual Report 2015 31 ACES joined the Cell Therapy Manufacturing (CTM) CRC for a workshop. Pictured (L to R) Prof Toby Coates (Royal Adelaide Hospital), Dr Sherry Kothari (CTM CRC CEO) and Prof Gordon Wallace (ACES Director).
Industry Representations by ANSTO in research and education. enabling them to learn from industry ACES members Forsyth, M (2015) Presented ‘New experts, academics, government Officer D.L. (2015) Graphene in breakthrough battery storage research’ agencies and colleagues on the latest Polymer Composites at the Canary at the Libby Cokers Renewable Energy industry insights and best practice. The Networks Graphene Educational Summit in Torquay, Victoria on 21 Factory of the Future series is designed and Investment Seminar, Shaw September. for industry executives who need to acquire knowledge and who also value Stockbroking, Sydney, 4 March. MacFarlane, D.R. (2015) Showcasing the opportunities provided by inter- Officer D.L. (2015) Graphene Polymer Collaboration: Ionic Liquids, State Composites at Composites Australia Government of Victoria - UTP Research industry networking. Technology Seminar ‘Graphene - the Collaboration Initiative; University of Officer D.L. (2015) ‘3D Printing and future for high performance materials’, Melbourne 23 November. Polymers’ presentation which described Parramatta, Sydney, 5 May. Wallace, G (2015) Presented on ACES/ the ACES/ANFF printing facility at the MacFarlane, D.R. (2015) Member of the ANFF capabilities at the Factories of Supplier Innovation Group meeting run Science Advisory Panel for CAP-XX, 31 the Future breakfast in Parramatta, 27 by the Hargraves Institute at Coca Cola July. November. The 2015 Manufacturers’ Amatil, North Sydney, 15 December. Mozer, A. (2015) Showcased his ideas Monthly Factory of the Future series The meeting was attended by around 15 at a UOW-ANSTO Networking Workshop brings together forward thinking people, about one third from Coca Cola on 31 July. This event was to encourage manufacturers in a collaborative and the rest from a mix of industries collaborations between UOW and knowledge sharing environment including Selleys and Cochlear.
32 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Visits by Industry to ACES Nodes • ACES being recognised as an • identifying strategic alliances to authority on electromaterials build upon and strengthen ACES It is important to raise the Centre’s science research capacity and capabilities visibility outside the academic sector, with the aim to (a) showcase ACES • developing more strategic research • negotiating collaborative and research skills, technologies and alliances with industry partners material exchange agreements facilities as well as to (b) understand to increase research funding and to further advance the scientific how ACES can better facilitate licensing opportunities discoveries. pathways and connections to maximise • identifying funding opportunities 48 business briefings were given by their research impact. to advance ACES technologies ACES members to personnel within The end goal for undertaking the through the R&D pipeline to the government, industry or part of meetings is to work towards: become investor ready the business community.
Annual Report 2015 33 MEDIA & OUTREACH
different stakeholders - in commercial ACES Strategic ACES media summary sectors, healthcare, government and Plan Goal 4: the community. 209 online stories Communications Our target audience is all ACES stakeholders - the global research 40 print stories community, students, investors, government Our goals are to: 19 radio interviews and regulators and the community. • Develop communication skills 12 TV appearances and protocols that ensure Towards our goals awareness of and commitment to the ACES vision across the Artificial leaf breaks energy research, research training and Disseminating the science: ACES records commercialisation platforms research makes international The ACES Monash University node produced within the Centre. headlines artificial leaf technology and broke a world • Create effective interfaces that An artificial leaf and an artificial 4D record for energy efficiency, with 22 per disseminate the science and promote printed valve fought for the top news cent, eclipsing the old mark of 18 per engagement effectively targeting the title of 2015. cent. Developed by the ACES Synthetic
34 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science be exploited in medicine, construction, automation and robotics, to name a few fields of application (http://www. electromaterials.edu.au/news/4d- printing-to-rewrite-book-on-cool-tech/). Media from around the globe covered the 4D printing development, including BBC Radio 4 and a plethora of websites, including Titan Wave, ARN, 3D Printer World, ScienceAlert, Science Daily, e-Wall-Streeter and Cool Gadgets, with Science Alert alone having an estimated audience of more than eight million per week. This development holds the number one viewed post on the ACES website, with more than 1300 views, more than twice that of the blog holding second position. Media covered the story for six months (April to September) and a YouTube video on the work has attracted more than 30,000 views to date.
Benchtop brain News highlights for the ACES Synthetic Biosystems theme focused on 3D printed brain ‘tissue’, 3D bioprinting, and the Energy Systems theme (led by Prof Doug Australia’. The article was aimed at non- hydrogel condom. Macfarlane), the process splits water into scientific readers and written by Shannon The benchtop ‘brain tissue’ development hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen Bonke and Profs MacFarlane and Spiccia garnered substantial online coverage, a potential energy source for homes and (http://chemaust.raci.org.au/sites/ including by websites Medical Xpress, cars. The advance was reported extensively, default/files/pdf/2015/CiA_Nov2015.pdf). nzhealthcheck, AllPsych, IndoAsian News with 26 accounts noted on international Service, Zee News, Gizbot, Biomedical websites, with a possible global audience 3D printing and Science Meets Business. 4D printing numbering in the millions. Notable websites Gizbot, for example, reaches more than included Wired, Techienews, ScienceAlert, 4D printing you ask? Of course, there 150,000 people per month. are no 4D printers, as such. The Before It’s News, Virgilio, French Tribune, This work produced a six-layered 3D Mashable and The Times Kuwait. Profs term describes 3D printed materials printed structure, incorporating neural MacFarlane and Spiccia were quoted in that morph into new structures post cells delivered using a custom developed many media stories and have subsequently production, under the influence of stimuli bio-ink containing naturally occurring positioned themselves as authorities on such as hot water or heat. The ACES carbohydrate materials. A bench-top clean energy technology. soft robotics team and chief investigator brain that accurately reflects actual Another article highlighting the artificial Prof Marc in het Panhuis, developed a 4D brain tissue would be significant for leaf technology was published in the printed valve that actuates in response to researching not only the effect of drugs, November issue of the Royal Australian the temperature of the water surrounding but brain disorders such as schizophrenia Chemical Institute’s ‘Chemistry in it, demonstrating a capability that could and degenerative brain disease.
Annual Report 2015 35 Bioprinting Following the medical theme, 3D bioprinting in general was well documented among media outlets, and a free online 3D bioprinting course available to the general public attracted considerable recognition. ACES Director Prof Gordon Wallace and Australian National Fabrication Facility’s Dr Stephen Beirne developed the course - Bioprinting: Printing Body Parts - which details the bioprinting revolution through case studies ranging from hip implants to facial transplants to lab-grown organs. More than 7400 people signed up to take part in the online course. Prof Wallace was interviewed on Radio National about 3D bioprinting and ACES researchers wrote an article that appeared in Materials Australia – ‘3D Bioprinting could be the tool that brings Tissue Engineering to Fruition as a new clinical paradigm’ (Materials Australia Magazine.2015;July:46-48). The Materials Australia Magazine is the official publication of Materials Australia, a technical society of Engineers Australia braiding techniques to introduce the 2UE to talk about robot ethics; and Sky that provides technical materials support ability to monitor human movement using News to discuss the ethics on drones. to those in the materials engineering, wearable garments, and even to store the Both researchers were featured in an manufacturing and research industries. energy required to power such a function. article on the Daily Bread website on the Predictably, bioprinting and 3D printing This development was picked up by a development and ethics surrounding brain in general continue to be extremely host of websites: ABC Science Online, implants. Dr Frederic Gilbert was also popular topics with the media and with Nano Werk, New Electronics, John Morris interviewed by Danielle Egan for a science every interview he does, Gordon further Group and Silicon Angle, among others. media article published September 24th confirms his position as an authority on on Mad In America, entitled ‘The Peril of these topics. Ethics Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression’ (http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/09/ The ACES theme Ethics, Policy and Public adverse-effects-perils-deep-brain- Wearable technology Engagement was well represented in stimulation-depression/). Wearable smart fabrics attracted the media, in particular by A/Prof Rob significant media attention for the Sparrow and Dr Frederic Gilbert. A/ Electromaterials theme at ACES in 2015. Prof Sparrow appeared on various TV Batteries Researchers have created new fibre stations: Channel Ten for comment on sex Coverage on ACES battery research was structures using traditional knitting and education; SBS Insight and radio station scattered throughout the year. The Geelong
36 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Advertiser (readership about 75,000) Graphene Another opinion piece was published featured an article quoting A/ Prof Patrick in The Conversation in August, entitled Another notable topic reported in ‘From Science Fiction to Reality: The Howlett about a Deakin University/ACES the press was graphene, with feature dawn of the biofabricator’. Written by project that provides back-up for parts of articles appearing in The Australian, Prof Gordon Wallace and Dr Cathal Melbourne’s power grid. The same paper Reader’s Digest and Cosmos, all of O’Connell, the article has been read by also reported on work by ACES’ at Deakin which quoted Prof Gordon Wallace. more than 21,000 people to date. University (led by Prof Maria Forsyth) about ACES editorial content garnered the team creating batteries of the future Opinion pieces and Prof Forsyth was also quoted about lively responses from readers. In ACES CI and leader of the ACES Ethics, high capacity batteries in a separate article. response to Prof Gordon Wallace’s Public Policy and Engagement research blog post ‘Research Labs: Open for A partially biodegradable battery created theme, Prof Susan Dodds wrote an in business’, former steel manufacturing at ACES University of Wollongong depth analysis and opinion piece for ABC professional and current PhD candidate node was reported on by The Illawarra Science online 11 February 2015 about Adrian Tootell penned a post furthering Mercury, WIN News and websites Noodls ‘3D printing raises ethical issues for the discussion about the Australian and MDTMag. Noodls reaches more than medicine’ (http://www.abc.net.au/science/ manufacturing sector and science 300,000 people per month. articles/2015/02/11/4161675.htm). research.
Annual Report 2015 37 Excerpt ‘Open Letter to ACES Women in Science’ by ACES Associate Director The following is an excerpt from in particular, future students- with Maria Forsyth Adrian’s post: “To become more our research and to communicate 6 March 2015. competitive, Australian manufacturing opportunities to involve themselves My fellow ACES women in is in desperate need of ‘new to the further with ACES. science, world’ innovation. I have had the opportunity of visiting some research What a privilege it is to be a Community Engagement and facilities and working with some woman in science! Social Benefits scientists who understand the issues Indicators of the social impact of What a privilege, to be in a facing traditional manufacturing… career that is not only a job, but ACES can be measured through public A visit to the laboratory and meeting the a hobby. outreach programs, contribution to team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for policy development and influence on the What a privilege, to be able to Electromaterials Science has certainly national research strategy. help shape so many young lives changed my opinion on the future of and minds through teaching and Australian manufacturing. I can now see research training. a potential for growth. A future that may Contribution to policy What a privilege, to have not be dependent on mass production. development a career that allows us to I have also developed some great During 2012-2015, ACES CI Prof Susan contribute to advancing life- relationships with great people… Dodds was a member of the Australian changing technologies, for One of the best investments of three Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) in the betterment of society, hours that I have made”. recognition of her expertise in social for enhancing the earth’s science and ethics research, and her ability To read the letter in its entirety visit sustainability. to shape policy and processes relating to http://www.electromaterials.edu.au/ You are a role model! emerging technologies and science. news/an-opportunity-for-australian- ACES CI Prof Linda Hancock, a member Each and every one of you is manufacturing/. an important role model for of the ACES EPPE team, was involved young girls contemplating in discussion with four academics-Drs a science education. Even ACES Communication Platforms Amit Kumar; B Prasad, Vidya S Batra today, the percentage of girls and Atul Kumar - from TERI University taking the ‘hard’ sciences and Website during an India-Australia energy policy mathematics is significantly meeting in Delhi in September 2015. The Traffic to the ACES website lower than boys. The perception TERI academics are active in advising the electromaterials.edu.au increased from that science is ‘too hard’ or Indian government on energy policy. This an average of 2,500 sessions per month simply ‘boring’ is still out there relationship will be developed during 2016 in 2014, to an average of 3229 in 2015. among young women. with a view to developing shared research. Content authored by senior researchers on ACES CI Prof Robert Sparrow, a member The key seems to be the website is always popular to encourage of the ACES EPPE team, visited and had encouragement, encouragement engagement. For example, Prof Maria discussions with the Therapeutics Goods and more encouragement, Forsyth penned an inspirational open letter Administration (TGA) in Canberra in July. making it relevant, and making to the women of science for International it fun! Women’s Day in March (see excerpt). This ACES CI A/Prof Patrick Howlett was Being a woman in science also remains one of the most-read pieces of invited to attend a Victorian Defence means expanding the pool of content on the ACES website and was re- Industry Strategy Workshop in Melbourne talent and providing a more published by Deakin University. on 22 June; the Committee for Economic diverse approach to problem Development of Australia (CEDA) event solving. on 26 June which hosted the Honorable Social Media Lily D’Ambrosio MP, the Victorian Minister ..and I implore you to continue Facebook, Youtube and Twitter for Energy and Resources, who outlined to pave the way for more followings have increased significantly the government’s policies, programs and women just like you. this year and have proven to be an priorities for the state’s energy sector excellent tool to engage audience- and a renewable energy summit held in
38 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Geelong on 21 September. Patrick also be a research scientist’ in August 2015 celebrates Leon’s contribution to gave an overview of ACES research at the was read by 343 people. research, the building of research ICN Victorian state government energy An ACES company page was also teams, the communication of science sector meeting in Geelong on 25 June. launched on LinkedIn in 2015 to and to the mentoring of the next complement Gordon’s network on the generations of scientists. platform, and to communicate key Professional network engagement The 2015 the Address, on 16 February, messages to a professional audience. In December 2015 Prof Gordon Wallace was given by Distinguished Prof Ric was listed in the Knowledge Nation 100 Kaner from the University of California, as one of Australia’s best thinkers. The Public engagement Los Angeles. Ric is passionate about Knowledge Nation 100 project celebrates ACES researchers took part in a number the development of new materials. Australia as a knowledge rich society of public lectures (see complete list An audience of one hundred guests, and illuminates those people building in Table 3), media interviews and including former UOW Vice-Chancellor the knowledge economy. The Office public engagement events, in which Gerard Sutton and members of the of the Chief Scientist and Knowledge they described fundamental scientific Kane-Maguire family, enjoyed the Society joined forces for this initiative advances, and the implications entertaining and nostalgic presentation as they shared a desire to lift the profile for improving health and energy as Ric delved into topics including the of the country’s science, technology and technologies. innovation heroes. world’s hardest metal and the wonder The Leon Kane-Maguire Address is an material, graphene. The Leon Kane- ACES Director Prof Gordon Wallace annual public evening event, hosted by Maguire student prize recognises the leveraged his extensive network on ACES at the University of Wollongong. UOW honours student with the highest the social media platform LinkedIn, Leon Kane-Maguire, a founding mark for chemistry and nanotechnology by publishing seven editorials. This ACES chief investigator, was one of proved to be a good strategy for putting Australia’s leading research scientists subjects over their degree, and in 2015 ACES content in front of a professional, in the specialist field of conducting was awarded to Melanie Pearsall who international audience. As an example, organic polymers and their properties. completed a Bachelor of Medicinal Gordon’s article ‘Why would you want to The Address commemorates and Chemistry (Honours) Degree.
Annual Report 2015 39 UOW’s newest professors, which function and disease (http://www.uow. Inspiring the Next Generation of included ACES CIs Marc in het Panhuis edu.au/research/news/bigideas2015/ Scientists and their Teachers and Robert Kapsa, shared their UOW191451.html). potentially world-changing research at Since 2009, ACES has collaborated Reconceptualising Maths and the University of Wollongong’s Big Ideas with the Rotary Club of Kiama to host Science Teacher Education Programs Festival, attended by over 400 people, an annual public evening lecture-the (ReMSTEP) on Tuesday 25 August 2015. Bill Wheeler Symposium. Each year ReMSTEP responds to the need for Marc spoke about hydrogels and the event attracts around 100 people, improved competence and confidence in made a 3D-printed circuit of Vegemite who enjoy a feature presentation the teaching of science and maths, as a pre-service focus, across the Australian live on stage. Marc’s ‘Big Ideas’ from a bionics expert, and a short talk Curriculum. presentation can be viewed in a story from a PhD candidate who has been published by the Illawarra Mercury awarded the Bill Wheeler Student Prize. ReMSTEP involves four Victorian (http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/ Community raised funds of $2,000 Universities (Deakin, Monash, story/3305142/uow-showcases-big- are awarded to the winning student, Melbourne and La Trobe) and stems ideas-video/). to be used to facilitate the building from Australia’s Chief Scientist’s Rob presented his research aspirations of collaborative relationships with desire to increase science, technology, for the development of solutions for external research centres. The 2015 engineering and mathematics disease and damaged nerve and muscle lecture was held on 8 October where competencies in school children. At tissue with his talk on ‘Tendrils of ACES Associate investigator Dr Claudia the core of ReMSTEP initiatives is the human thought from within a seaweed DiBella from St Vincent’s hospital introduction of new science and maths brain?’ Rob has been using seaweed Melbourne spoke about “The use of course electives and or student learning products such as alginate to create BIOPEN for cartilage bioprinting from pathways. Equally important is the small ‘brain’ structures from the the orthopaedic surgeon’s perspective”. building of collaborative relationships blood of a person with a neurological Mrs Lexie Wheeler presented the across faculties, universities and disease to study the function of their 2015 Bill Wheeler Award to PhD specialist science and maths centres. own brain. In this way, seaweed is student Xiaoteng Jia for his work on ACES researchers and students at providing a helping tendril into our biodegradable materials for batteries Deakin University discussed their work understanding of human brain structure, towards bionic implants. on thermal energy harvesting, ionic
40 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Table 3- Public Talks University of Wollongong Leon Kane-Maguire Address, given public address by Prof Ric Kaner from UCLA. 13 February 2015 Flinders University, Prof Wallace featured as TEDx speaker. Adelaide 27 February 2015
CI Prof Gursel Alici gave a seminar on ‘How far are we from actively controlled medical robotic Kiama capsules?’ to the University of the Third Age (U3A). 16 March 2015
Prof Robert Kapsa (CI UOW/St V) gave an invited talk on ‘Gene Correction for Duchenne Muscular University of Melbourne Dystrophy’ at the University of Melbourne international Masterclass series. 6 May 2015 Prof Robert Kapsa (CI UOW/St V) was an invited guest speaker for the Trinity Grammar Scientific Hawthorn, Melbourne Presentation Series where he spoke about ‘Autologous Cell Replacement for Hereditary Muscle 14 May 2015 Disease’.
The Rotary Club of Kiama presentation - two previous winners of the Bill Wheeler award, PhD Terralong St, Kiama students Leo Stevens and Katharina Schirmer presented their research. 28 May 2015
Prof Mark Cook (ACES CI and Synthetic Biosystems theme leader) gave a talk at the NHMRC Canberra Council Dinner. 3 June 215 ACES CI and Synthetic Energy Systems theme leader Prof Douglas MacFarlane chaired a Q&A Melbourne discussion hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria on “Nuclear Energy: Should it be Included in the 11 June 2015 Mix?”
Prof Geoffrey Spinks (CI UOW) gave an interactive workshop using artificial muscles at the UOW iC campus Questacon Invention Convention. 29 June 2015 Wollongong Science National Science Week Public Forum: Why would you want to be a research scientist? Centre 19 August 2015
University of Wollongong Big Ideas Festival featured two recently promoted Profs Rob Kapsa and Over 400 people Marc in het Panhuis, both ACES CIs. 25 August 2015
Prof Mark Cook (ACES CI and Synthetic Biosystems theme leader) gave a talk “How do you fix a Melbourne broken brain?” to the Hawthorn Rotary Club. 26 August 2015 ‘Hospital of the Future’. Facilitated by ABC Illawarra’s Nick Rheinberger and featuring Prof Gordon Humber Bar, Wollongong Wallace, Prof Peter Choong and Dr Frederic Gilbert, discussion delved into ideas about what our 15 September hospitals of the future will be like. Gene Technology Access Prof Maria Forsyth spoke on energy storage for a sustainable environment as part of the ANZAAS Centre (GTAC), Melbourne Science talks for the general public. 16th September Prof Gordon Wallace was a panel speaker in the MINDSHIFT forum on the topic of ‘The Human Wollongong Machine: Technology is ever increasing and becoming part of us, how far should we push this and 2 October 2015 what are the benefits and risks this poses?’ as part of the Blender festival.
Bill Wheeler Symposium- ‘The use of BIOPEN for cartilage bioprinting: the orthopaedic surgeon’s University of Wollongong perspective’ by Dr Claudia Di Bella. 8 October 2015
Prof Geoffrey Spinks (CI UOW) presented on ‘Artificial Muscles and Soft Robotics’ to the Kiama Kiama Seaside Probus Club. 20 October 2015 Prof Douglas MacFarlane gave talk ‘Electromaterials for artificial photosynthesis - Energy University of Melbourne technologies for the sustainoscene’ as part of promoting Chemistry in Schools, run by Chemistry 20 November 2015 Education Association. Deakin Warun Ponds A/Prof Jennifer Pringle presented on “Renewable Energy” at the Top Donor Recognition Luncheon. 20th November 2015
Annual Report 2015 41 Excerpts from an article penned by ACES Director Gordon Wallace on his perspective to being a research scientist 14 August 2015. liquid electrolytes, metal-air batteries, • Joseph Giorgio, Katharina Schirmer Imagine my excitement; a young corrosion, molecular modelling and and Rodrigo Lozano- all three in research trainee excitingly carbon dioxide separation with high the final year of their PhD at IPRI/ opening the reviewers comments school students and teachers during this UOW. Joseph’s undergraduate on my first major paper submitted program in May 2015. In November 2015 education was in Australia, for publication. they presented to Deakin University’s Roderigo’s in Mexico and Kati’s Ten typed pages of reviewer’s future high school teacher graduates. Germany. comments! ACES CI and Synthetic Energy Systems • Ethan Butson, a 19 year old I started reading… ‘More chest- theme leader Prof Douglas MacFarlane University of Sydney Advanced beating…’. gave a talk entitled ‘Electromaterials Science student, prolific inventor Oh. Ten pages, and hardly a for artificial photosynthesis - Energy and three times named National compliment in sight. technologies for the sustainoscene’ in Australian Young Scientist. November at an event at that was part Little did I know that this was of promoting Chemistry in Schools run a sign of things to come for the ACES takes part in University of next thirty years. The excitement by Chemistry Education Association. Wollongong’s Learning Labs Program of research: planning, executing 19-20 January 2015 experiments, interpreting the Why be a research scientist? A group of 20 students from years 9 data, discovering new things and ACES Public Forum and 10 attended a two day workshop presenting new knowledge was Wollongong Science Centre ‘The AIIM Experience’ during their to be continually tempered by 19 August 2015 summer break, learning about exciting others skilled in the art of scathing Long hours, frustrating experiments and developments and methods in areas personal and scientific criticism. the uncertainty of where the next round such as nanotechnology, microscopy and of funding will come from - why would Little did I know the excitement of 3D printing. you want to be a research scientist? publishing a high profile discovery in ACES CI A/Prof Michael Higgins said Nature or Science journal would be ACES hosted a free event at the “informing the students about the dented by the bitter disappointment Wollongong Science Centre with the latest and high quality research being of (just) failing to secure the funding audience asked to join the discussion undertaken in their region was a key that would allow us to continue to based around this very question. goal” of the January 2015 workshop. develop our research. Facilitated by ABC Illawarra’s Nick The response of my supervisor Rheinberger, a panel of research Visit by Ashwood High School to that original berating was to scientists at all different stages of their 24 February 2015 be cool, calm and collected. To careers pondered on questions such as: Chemistry students from Years 11-12 at meticulously argue the point by What is life as a research scientist really Ashwood High School spent a day in the point criticism and we eventually like? ACES labs at Deakin University. had our article published. Why is it getting harder to attract people As in sport, success comes into science? Visit to St Peter and Paul Primary to those who respond to School, Kiama The panel members were: disappointment in the only way 20 May 2015 you can, that is if you eventually • ACES Director Prof Gordon Wallace Prof Marc in het Panhuis (ACES CI) and want to win. You must train harder, • Dr Tania Benedetti – visiting two PhD students visited St Peter and become more cohesive as a team, scientist to ACES who following her Paul Primary School in Kiama to give a lift the vision, build each other’s PhD in Brazil, sampled corporate presentation on hydrogels, volcanoes, confidence and try again. life before turning back to academia bluebottles and 3D printing for 120 in the field of electromaterials. kindergarten and stage 1 children.
42 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Interactive Workshop at Questacon Deakin University Open Day-ACES labs ACES/IPRI Student Open Day Invention Convention on show University of Wollongong 29 June 2015 23 August 2015 25 September 2015 Questacon Invention Convention is ACES students showcased their work Prospective PhD, Master and Summer a workshop that gives secondary and the labs at the University open day. scholarship students were invited to students a practical insight into tour the labs, meet the supervisors innovation and entrepreneurship. ACES hosts Ulladulla High School and learn about opportunities to study The aim is to allow them to make 8 September 2015 at IPRI/ACES. stronger connections between Interactive workshops were well received science, technology, engineering and by 52 Ulladulla High School students from Enhance cultural, creative and maths (STEM) skills. Prof Geoffrey years 9 and 10 during a visit to ACES in recreation opportunities Spinks (CI UOW) gave an interactive Wollongong. Workshop stations included The ACES association with the workshop using artificial muscles to computer-aided design, 3D scanning Wollongong Science Centre over the 15 school students from years 7 and printing, a lab tour of the fabrication the last seven years has enhanced to 9 who attended UOW’s Questacon facilities and a surprise addition, edible cultural activities within this regional Invention Convention at Innovation electronics. Students helped 3D-print area. To date this partnership has Campus. Vegemite onto bread, which was then overseen the installation of an iDome, hooked up to an electrical circuit, lighting showing a virtual tour of our IPRI/ Visit to Northcote High School a LED in a fun demonstration that ACES laboratories; an interactive Victoria resonated well with the students. 17 August 2015 nanotechnology display giving visitors CI Simon Moulton gave a talk on ‘Stem ACES hosts Ashwood Secondary College and the public a brief overview on cells, Nerve Cells and Materials’ to at Deakin University what nanotechnology is about and Year 11-12 students. 9 September 2015 where it can be used in society; as As part of ACES ongoing commitment to well as the ‘Nanocam – a trip into Visit to Ulladulla and Milton Public improve science education, twelve Year biodiversity’ full dome planetarium Schools 12 Chemistry students from Ashwood show. Taking pride of place within 19 August 2015 Secondary College visited the ACES the existing ACES NANOtechnology Prof Marc in het Panhuis (ACES CI) laboratories at Deakin University in Exhibit is a 3D Printing demonstration and two PhD students visited both Burwood. During the visit the students and display, set up in August 2013 Ulladulla and Milton Public Schools had a short theory lecture followed by the ACES/ANFF team using parts as part of the Scientists in Schools by a practical session. The students donated by Stratasys. Two ACES PhD Program. and their teacher appreciated the time students worked with the science At Ulladulla primary school (120 committed by ACES staff and the access centre in 2014 developing a display children) they presented 3D printing to the laboratory; especially enjoying introducing nanotechnology for and gels to years 4, 5 and 6. The the quality images and hands on battery use and a demonstration PhD students then demonstrated gel experiments. of a flexible electrochromic energy electronics. storage device. In 2015 ACES held a public forum ‘Why be a research At Milton primary school (90 children): Visiting Minnamurra Vacation Care scientist?’ during National Science three year 4 classes received a 21 September 2015 Week at the Wollongong Science presentation on 3D scanning and Prof Marc in het Panhuis (ACES CI) and printing; CAD design and hands-on ACES PhD student Charles Hamilton Centre. hydrogel experiments as well as again inspired young scientists by Approximately 60,000 visitors enjoy experiments on endothermic and demonstrating 3D printing of gels and the Science Centre and the ACES exothermic reactions. Vegemite at Minnamurra vacation care. developed exhibit each year.
Annual Report 2015 43 GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
Partner ACES Strategic Country Areas of Expertise Plan Goal 5: Global Institution Dublin City smart materials, stimuli responsive materials, Ireland Engagement University sensors, health, and the environment University of England electrochemistry Warwick We are committed to connecting with the international research community Friedrich Alexander Germany molecular materials and nanotechnology and strategically expanding our global University sphere of influence by investing in Hanyang partnerships which add value to ACES. South Korea soft robotics and biomedical engineering University Materials research heavily underpins Yokohama ionic liquids and their electrochemical and the scientific, technological and Japan industrial advancements that drive University materials applications advanced economies and modern societies. As an endeavour, materials ACES Hanyang University collaborative work between ACES and research is often highly collaborative, PI Kim at Hanyang University in 2015 ACES welcomed five professors and drawing upon skills from a wide variety (Scientific Reports. Mar 2015;5:6; ACS four students from Hanyang University, of scientific disciplines to design and Applied Materials & Interfaces. Jul Korea, to a two day closed joint synthesise new materials, characterise 2015;7(27):14851-14858; Journal of workshop at the ACES headquarters on their properties, and thereafter, develop Power Sources. Jul 2015;286:103-108 University of Wollongong’s Innovation new applications and technologies. and Advanced Engineering Materials. Campus 9-10 February 2015. Innovation in this domain is thus Sep 2015;17(9):1270-1275). strongly reliant on healthy networks The February workshop was followed by and strong partnerships towards another visit to Wollongong by ACES partner ACES Dublin City University ambitious common goals. investigator Prof Seon Jeong Kim and two students from Hanyang University in July To celebrate and build on ACES links, Our target is the scientific research 2015. The students were partnered with ACES Partner Institution, Dublin City community. ACES investigators during their 3 week stay University, hosted a one-day invitation- with one student working on developing high only workshop entitled ‘ACES: The Towards our Goals strength composite fibres from graphene European Dimension symposia’ on 21 dispersions and building on our earlier May 2015. Invited guests were encouraged work using graphene/carbon nanotube to participate and present their latest Partner Investigators composites. The second student worked on work that has benefitted from, or could ACES welcomed on board 5 partner tough hydrogels for soft robotics. The visit benefit from, ACES collaborations investigators in 2014. The addition of the also provided an opportunity to advance a in; research, research Training, ACES partner investigators enhances number of on-going research projects and communication or commercialisation. the specialist expertise and ACES joint research publications. New collaboration opportunities to access to world class facilities. ACES CI Prof Spinks and PI Prof Kim met emerge from the workshop included: Our partner investigators have been with other international collaborators in • Surrey University. Alan Dalton’s engaged with ACES through joint Vancouver in September 2015 to further presentation highlighted some international workshops and embassy collaborative links. great opportunities on the graphene events as well as exchange visits in 2015. Four journal articles were published on front. Gordon Wallace followed
44 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science up this connection with a visit to Progressing DCU collaborations As a result of the successful European Surrey in October. In addition to co-hosted events, ACES Union International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) MASK • University of Manchester. Paul members spent time at DCU working on project, 2011-2015, between ACES and Viper’s presentation exposed the projects and furthering collaborations. Dublin City University research staff amazing array of graphene projects Aoffie Morrin from DCU works on were awarded an ARC Discovery Project at the Graphene Institute. Gordon sensing technologies for incorporation to ACES CI David Officer and PI Dermot Wallace and ACES international into wound healing systems. ACES Diamond. ACES CI Prof David Officer advisory chair Dame Bridget Ogilvie welcomed Aoffie as an associate spent 3 months at DCU (30 June- 23 visited Manchester in October. investigator and a joint paper ‘Electro- September 2015), progressing these • UCL Institute of Neurology, UK. stimulated release from a reduced international collaborations. Louis Lemieux works on coupling graphene oxide composite hydrogel’ To progress as well as guide future work electrode technologies and MRI was published (Journal of Materials a mini-symposia on chemopropulsion scanners for brain mapping Chemistry B. 2015;3(12):2530-2537). was held on 29 July. Both CI Officer Dr Emer Duffy, from Morrin’s research applications. Louis visited ACES/ and PI Diamond were amongst the group spent December 2015 at ACES UOW in August and a collaborative five speakers to an audience of 18 University of Tasmania (UTAS) node project is underway. researchers from DCU, Trinity College working on sensing of skin gases. The ACES- European Dimension workshop Dublin and University of Wollongong culminated in an ACES Research The ACES electrofluidics and diagnostics excited by this new research area. Showcase hosted by the Australian team at UTAS worked with Dermot Other UOW researchers to visit DCU in Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Ruth Adler. Brabazon from the School of Mechanical 2015 included: Dr Pawel Wagner (30 This event was a huge success attended & Manufacturing Engineering at DCU on June-5 July), Dr Klaudia Wagner (28 by many old and potential collaborators 3D printed microfluidic modules (RSC July-7 August), Mr Fletcher Thompson (17 from across Europe. During the Advances. 2015;5(29):22906-22915 May-22 May), Prof Gordon Wallace (14-22 presentations the importance of bringing and Journal of Materials Science, Oct May) and Yang Xiao (28 July-7 August). Mr industry into these global research 2015;50(19):6245-6259). Prof Brabazon Thomas Glennon and Mr Conor O’Quigley networks was highlighted. visited UTAS 26 August. from DCU each spent 3 months at UOW.
Annual Report 2015 45 ACES Friedrich Alexander University Throughout 2015, ACES researchers have supplied a range of electromaterials to PI Guldi and his researchers including porphyrin dyes for use with graphene, zinc oxide and copper oxide. In addition, ACES has sent their materials to Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) for characterisation, including porphyrin- fullerene conjugates for photophysical determination of electron transfer kinetics. characterisation, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) films with porphyins for A further student project is underway spectroscopic characterisation and and the third student’s joint research on graphene fibres for characterisation. fundamental studies of electron transfer Ongoing conversations about the synthesis processes has been published (Analytical and use of molybdenum di-sulphide Chemistry 2015;87(16):8387-8393 and 2D material developed in the ACES J. Phys. Chem.C 2015, 119(22), 12464- laboratories have also been undertaken. 12472). In addition, Warwick University undergraduate student Erin Bullions A number of researcher exchanges have visited for 14 weeks, as part of the taken place between FAU and ACES UOW. Warwick-Monash alliance. PI Guldi visited UOW for 2 weeks from 12 - 21 February. On 6 July, ACES senior CIs Prof Maria Forsyth and A/Prof researcher, Pawel Wagner, visited PI Patrick Howlett from Deakin University Guldi and his research group at FAU and visited Oxford and Warwick Universities presented a lecture entitled “Photo- and in September 2015, meeting up with electro- active molecules”. CI Officer and PI Prof Pat Unwin to discuss potential ACES Director Wallace both visited FAU ACES projects and exchanges. in August and September, respectively, to discuss ACES research. A three month ACES Yokohama University research visit (October-December) to • 151 (79%) of 2015 ACES publications ACES Wollongong was made by Erlangen Profs Mahito Atobe and Junji Fukuda were published with international co- FAU student researcher, Annkatrin from Yokohama National University authors, from 30 countries and 135 Lennert, who investigated the potential (YNU) joined ACES as Associate different institutions Investigators in 2015. Over the next 12 in solid state electrolytes of new organic • 63 (33%) of 2015 ACES months ACES PI Prof Watanabe along ionic plastic crystals produced by ACES publications were published with with ACES CI Prof Douglas MacFarlane Deakin University researchers. national co-authors, from 6 states will refine further participation from Markus Pfau, the first joint ACES/FAU and 49 different research groups. YNU in ACES research projects relating PhD student co-supervised by CIs Officer to conducting polymers within the ACES Between 2014-2015 ACES has produced and Wallace, and PI Guldi, returned to Synthetic Energy Systems theme. 328 publications, with 52.4% published in ACES UOW in the latter part of the year top 10% journals, and those publications to complete his research associated have 1,341 citations. 297 or 90.5% of with porphyrin dyes. Current ACES International these were in the top 10% most cited and Partnerships 17 or 5.2% were in the top 1% most cited ACES Warwick University ACES enjoyed connections with 23 (Source: SciVal, based on Scopus data countries through 100 collaborators in from 25 January 2016; Table 4). Dr Jie Zhang (ACES CI) and Prof Pat 2015, as reported by the 23 ACES Chief Unwin (ACES PI) have three student The Field Weighted Citation Impact Investigators. projects underway in collaboration with (FWCI) World Average is 1.00. ACES University of Warwick. Jie is currently ACES published 190 Journal articles FWCI is 1.81 and that increases to 1.99 hosting a joint Monash-Warwick University in 2015 that contained ARC Centre of when only considering articles published PhD student for 12 months at the ACES Excellence for Electromaterials Science in the field of Materials Science (165) Monash node and this involves the in the address line. and 2.04 in the field of Engineering (75).
46 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Belgium Ireland New Zealand Turkey • Ghent University • Queens Uni • Otago Uni • Karadeniz Technical Uni Canada • DCU • Uni Auckland United Kingdom • Uni British Columbia Italy Poland • Uni Cambridge • Dalhousie Uni • Niguarda Ca’ Granda • Silesian Uni • Uni Birmingham • Uni Toronto Hospital • Adam Mickiewicz Uni • Oxford Uni • Cytec Japan Serbia • UK Stem cell bank China • Shinshu • Uni Belgrade • Open Uni, Milton Keys • Chinese Academy Sci (CAS) • AIST Singapore USA Estonia • Hokkaido Uni • National Uni of Singapore • Uni of Massachusetts • Uni of Tartu • Kanazawa Uni Slovenia • UCLA Finland • Tokyo Uni • Uni Medical Centre • Rutgers Uni • Uni of Tampere • Kyoto Uni Ljubljana • Uni Texas • ABO Akademia Uni • Gifu Uni Sweden • Furman Uni France Korea • Linköpings Universitet • Uni Nth Carolina • CRPP • Hanyang Uni Spain • Uni Alabama • Montpellier Uni 2 • Dongguk Uni • CIC energigune • Uni Colorado Germany • Jeju Uni • Polymat • Virginia Tech • Uni Ulm • Seoul National Uni • Uni of Cantabria • Los Alamos • Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin • KIMM • Tecnalia • Michigan Tech Uni • TU Berlin Free University • ETRI • Universidad de Zaragoza • Tufts Uni • Forschungszentrum Netherlands Switzerland • MIT Juelich • Twente • Uni Zurich • WiCell Research Institute • Utrecth • Uni Geneva • Bringham Young Uni • Michigan State Uni
Annual Report 2015 47 Table 4: ACES publication data as per scival, based on Scopus data 25 January 2016. Scopus uses Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR) as the basis for the top % of journals. Outputs in Outputs in Field Weighted Number of Number of Pubs in top Pubs in top International top 10% most top 1% most Citation publications citations 10% Journals 1% Journals collaboration cited cited Impact 2014-2015 140 17 164 17 170 328 1,341 1.81 (42.7%) (5.2%) (52.4%) (5.4%) (51.8%) 2014-2015 Materials Science publication & citation impact of ACES 71 9 95 6 86 165 635 1.99 (43.0%) (5.5%) (60.9%) (3.8%) (52.1%) 2013-2015 Engineering publication & citation impact of ACES 27 2 21 3 36 75 178 2.04 (36.0%) (2.7%) (31.3%) (4.5%) (48.0%)
The key international partners based on the ACES publications 2014-2015 showing international co-authorship are listed in Table 5.
Table 5: Key international institutions as co-authors on ACES-affiliated publications 2014-2015 (Source: SciVal, based on Scopus data from 25 January 2016) Number of International Pubs with ACES in Pubs with ACES in Pubs with ACES in Pubs with ACES in publications with institution top 25% most cited top 10% most cited top 25% Journals top 10% Journals ACES University of Texas 13 12 6 12 11 at Dallas
Hanyang University 8 8 5 7 7
Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials 8 8 4 8 7 and Energy
Dongguk University 7 7 4 6 -
Nanyang Technological 7 7 3 5 - University Dublin City 6 5 5 6 2 University Freie Universitat 5 5 3 5 5 Berlin National Institute for Materials 5 5 4 5 4 Science Tsukuba
University of Otago 5 5 3 5 5
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Europe discuss collaborative research programs in Korea on 30 June 2015 by Austrade, and exchange of researchers. showcased Australia’s advanced medical Strong ties built over more than 25 technology achievements and to foster years between ACES researchers and new business opportunities between European collaborators have led to Korea Korea and Australia. significant achievements in biomedical Mr Whie Jin Lee Consul-General, The showcase was an opportunity to engineering and electromaterials Consulate-General of the Republic of introduce Korea to Australia’s advanced science. Korea and 20 Korean guests, gathered in medical technology capability and to The launch of a global Master of Wollongong on 10 February, to celebrate open the door to future collaborative Philosophy in BioFabrication course is an 20 years of collaboration between efforts. Prof Gordon Wallace presented example of how ACES is exploring new IPRI/ACES and Korea. ACES Director on, ‘The commercialisation of Australia’s partnerships with European institutions, Prof Gordon Wallace views Korea medical research’ and ‘The effect of in this case Utrecht University in the as a key strategic link and has built 3D bioprinting on medical science’. He Netherlands, and University of Wurzburg strong collaborations with institutions explained that “medical devices such as in Germany. renowned for biomedical engineering. glaucoma implants, cartilage restoration ACES welcomed long-term collaborator The ACES European network is extensive, scaffolds, and customised drug Hanyang University on board as an and the team remains committed to seeking delivery have been realised through 3D further alliances in Europe. The widely official partner. bioprinting” and that “the 3D printer has circulated ACES ‘European Dimension’ The ‘Australian Innovation Showcase made basic stem cell research possible, booklet welcomed the opportunity to 2015 – Medical Technologies’, held while artificial tissue produced by 3D
Annual Report 2015 49 printing could eventually replace animal ACES New Dimensions to existing and positions are to strengthen research testing. 3D printing challenges how we potential collaborators as demonstrated collaborations in existing areas and to think about fabrication and enables us to by the information in the following tables. expand into new areas of carbon fibres, more closely integrate fundamental and carbon dioxide reduction and water applied bio sciences.” Plenary/Keynote Addresses splitting, with a particular focus on The event was attended by the developing advanced characterisation 20 Plenary or Keynote addresses were Australian Ambassador to South Korea, tools for 3D manufacturing. To given by ACES members in 2015-details His Excellency Mr Bill Paterson PSM date researchers have trialed the are in Appendix 2. plus 70-80 guests. measurements of extruded coaxial conductive fibres by terahertz Invited Talks at International spectroscopy. The measurements 7th Framework Programme - Conferences Marie Curie Action International showed that terahertz spectroscopy Research Exchange Scheme 57 invited talks were given by ACES is sensitive to the highly conductive members at International Conferences in email wires in the fibres, but the spacial IRSES-AMBIPOD project (2014-2017): 2015- details are in Appendix 3. resolution was not enough for detailed Dr Pawel Wagner (ACES SRF) hosted studies. five students in 2015 at ACES/UOW as part of the “Multicoloured Ambipolar Invited Seminars / Conducting Polymers for Single Polymer presentations/visits related to Conference Presentations by Optoelectronic Devices” (AMBIPOD) ACES work ACES members project, which is funded under 7th 47 Conference presentations given by Framework Programme -Marie Curie A. Distinguished Visitor Lectures ACES members in 2015-for complete Actions. The project aims at conscious list see Appendix 6. Please note that 17 invited ‘distinguished visitor’ lectures development of novel conjugated presentations given by ACES members were given by ACES members in 2015- polymers featuring multielectrochromic at ACES events are not included in any see Appendix 4. properties that can find application of these lists. in polymer electrochromic or ACES Synthetic Energy System theme electroluminescent devices. The aim is leader and ARC Laureate Prof Douglas to obtain new π – conjugated polymers, MacFarlane gave seven lectures as part Encouraging Research containing both electron-donor and of his Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Collaboration electron-accepting units by first Australasian Lectureship Tour that selecting their monomeric precursors covered four Australian universities and Workshops using quantum chemistry tools. three New Zealand universities. The advancement of the scientific ACES UOW hosted Katrina Scanlan, a first knowledge that ACES generates is year PhD student, from the University of B. Invited Seminars /Collaboration an important component of Centre Strathclyde, for 2 months and Przemyslaw Visits activities. ACES runs at least two or more Ledwon, Katarzyna Piwowar, Aleksandra 79 invited seminars and collaborative international conferences or workshops Kurowska and Andrzej Milewski from the visits were given by ACES members in each year. ACES students and ECRs are Silesain University of Technology, Poland, 2015- see Appendix 5. given the opportunity to communicate each for 3 months. Included are visits organised as part of their research in ACES showcase sessions the Distinguished Visiting Professor and and poster sessions at ACES events. Putting ACES on the Global Visiting Associate Professor positions Networking by ECRs and students with Stage offered by Shinshu University to ACES international guests is encouraged. In the quest to consolidate existing members Prof Gordon Wallace, Over the years, ACES has developed a collaborations and to initiate new A/Prof Attila Mozer and Dr Pawel reputation for not only excellence in the ventures in research, ACES members Wagner which were extended from educational quality of its conferences, but were actively out and about speaking of 2014 into 2015. The purpose of the also the collegial atmosphere.
50 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Table 6 – ACES External Symposia & Workshops
ACES sponsored session at the 7th Biennial Australian Colloid & Interface Hobart, Symposium 1-5 February 2015
Wollongong ACES- Hanyang University joint workshop 9-10 February 2015
Novotel Wollongong, ACES: The Korean Dimension 10 February 2015
Innovation campus, University of 10th Annual International Electromaterials Science Symposium Wollongong 11 –13 February 2015
Electrofluidic Devices for Chemical and Biochemical Applications Mini- University of Tasmania symposium 15 May 2015
Dublin City University, Ireland ACES: The European Dimension workshop 21 May 2015
Seoul, South Korea Australian Innovation Showcase event- Austrade Korea 30 June 2015
Innovation Campus, Wollongong ACES - Shinshu University Workshop 7 September 2015
3D Printing in Oz- Informal Round Table Discussion St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy A national collaboration: Brought together many of those involved in 3D 7 October 2015 printing to discuss facilities available and opportunities for collaboration.
Melbourne Convention and ACES Breakfast - Implantable Additive Biofabrication Technologies for Exhibition Centre Structural and Functional Tissue Applications 19 November 2015
St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne Nanobionics: An ACES and Collaborators Showcase Event 20 November 2015
10th Annual International community engagement. These activities Our annual symposium each year is a Electromaterials Science Symposium compliment a bold and ambitious celebration of these alliances! Attendance Innovation campus, University of research program aimed at realising is by invitation and is an opportunity to Wollongong both unprecedented fundamental bring together individuals who are already 11 –13 February 2015 advances in electromaterials, and the part of the ACES family, as well as to This was a special symposium as we facilitate burgeoning relationships. ability to use that knowledge to create launched into a new era that we call, useful devices for diagnostics, energy, ACES: The New Dimensions. What ACES - Shinshu University Workshop medical and soft robotics. a week! 170 delegates, 60 poster Innovation Campus, Wollongong presenters, 11 countries represented The program was based on the premise 7 September 2015 plus one friendly visiting koala. that ACES will continue to build both The ACES - Shinshu University Workshop We informed our audience of the national and international alliances that was conceived to forge further research innovative programs in research will bring new skills and ideas to our collaborations and student/staff exchanges. training, commercialisation and ACES research. The workshop showcased research
Annual Report 2015 51 activity occurring at ACES and Shinshu University, University of Adelaide, • Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Claudia University which ranged from synthetic Queensland University of Technology DiBella-Orthopaedic: Soft/tough gel chemistry and renewable biomass and Swinburne University of Technology. printing for cartilage resources, through to materials for • Dr Andrew Batty-Anatomics resource recovery and environmental ACES Breakfast - Implantable Additive purification, energy and energy storage Biofabrication Technologies for Nanobionics: An ACES and and then onto smart textiles. Structural and Functional Tissue Collaborators Showcase Event Applications 3D Printing in Oz- Informal Round Table Melbourne Convention and Exhibition St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne Discussion Centre 20 November 2015 St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne 19 November 2015 The program highlighted advances in 7 October 2015 As part of the 2015 Joint Congress of the medical bionics field from ACES and This national collaboration brought the IPITA-IXA-CTS, this invitation-only Prof Wallace’s ARC Laureate programs, together many of those involved in 3D event showcased ACES capabilities including projects with current and printing to discuss facilities available aimed at the development of cell/ potential partners. The 60 strong and opportunities for collaboration. materials hybrid implants. audience, including personnel from Attendees were from University of Speakers included: Wollongong, University of Tasmania, CSIRO, CRCs, Bionic Vision Institute and University of Melbourne, CSIRO • ACES Director Prof Gordon clinicians, heard from 20 speakers. In Manufacturing, Monash University, Wallace-Biofabrication for emerging addition 11 posters from ACES and ALF Macquarie University, RMIT, Deakin technologies projects were on display.
52 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Annual Report 2015 53 Visitors to ACES nodes 10. Vincent Gabaudan and Gael Talbi, 24. Sonja Plaetzer, University of Vienna, University of Montpellier2, to Austria to Monash University for Visitors are welcomed to the ACES Deakin University, February to 3 months as a part of her Masters nodes to see our research and to June. of Science degree, 12 July to 30 discuss possible collaborations to September. enable us to develop together new 11. Kyle Debelak from USA, to Deakin sources of innovation and growth University, February to July. 25. Prof Bob Slade, University of Surrey across the global network. Building 12. Simon Carroll, Trinity College to UOW, 14-26 July. collaborations puts ACES in the best Ireland, to UOW 1-22 March. 26. Aleksandra Kurowska, Silesian position to benefit from the intellectual 13. Dr Irene Ling, University of Malaya, University of Technology, Poland, to and financial leverage that comes Malaysia to Monash University 2 UOW 1 August to 30 October. with international partnerships. March to 29 May. 27. Przemyslaw Ledwon, Silesian It also allows ACES to keep our University of Technology, Poland, to national science relevant and of high 14. Erin Bullions, Warwick University UOW 1 August to 30 October. quality. With the knowledge plus with UK to Monash University for 14 communication channels in place this weeks 30 March to 3 July. 28. Andrzej Milewski, Silesian allows for better dissemination of the 15. Prof Dong Young Kim, Korea University of Technology, Poland, to research, hence more impact. Institute of Science and Technology UOW 1 August to 30 October. (KIST) Korea, to UOW 15 April to 14 38 visiting international academics, 29. Katarzyna Pinowar, Silesian October. interns, undergraduate students or University of Technology, Poland, to post graduate students were welcomed 16. Adel Hama, Ecole Nationale UOW 1 August to 30 October. by ACES in 2015 to work alongside Superieure des Mines de Saint 30. Dermot Brabzon, DCU, Ireland to ACES members to further collaborative Etienne France, to UOW 4 May to 8 University of Tasmania, 26 August. June. research or as part of ongoing 31. Prof David Mecerreyes, Polymat- collaborations. These included: 17. Katrina Scanlan, University of University of the Basque Country, 1. Raimund Koerver, Ruhr-University Srathclyde UK, to UOW 4 May to 28 Spain at Deakin University from Bochum, Germany to Monash June. August to November. University to Monash University for 18. Casper Wright an Endeavour Fellow, 32. Annakatrin Lennert, FAU Erlangen 6 months 1 December 2014 to 11 University of Washington Bothell, to to UOW 31 August to 16 December. May 2015. UOW 5 May to 10 September. 33. Shogo Mori, Shinshu University, 2. Mohammad Ali Mahmoudzadeh 19. Brandon diTullio, Furman University, Japan to UOW 7 September to 2 Ahmadi Nejad, University of British to UOW 15 May to 22 July. October. Columbia to UOW 1 February to 15 20. Marco Marzocchi, University of 34. Conal McIntyre, Trinity College March. Bologna, Italy to UOW 15 May to 15 Dublin, Ireland to UOW 7 September 3. Thomas Glennon, DCU Ireland, to August. to 4 December. UOW 9 February to 8 May. 21. Dr Mathias Wiechen and Dr Steffen 35. Prof Masahiro and Yoshizawa 4. Conor O’Quigley, DCU Ireland, to Meyer, two Feodor Lynen fellowship Fuijita, Sophia University Japan to UOW 21 February to 20 May. holders funded by the Humboldt Deakin University 1-22 October. Foundation in Germany spent 3 months 5. PI Dirk Guldi, FAU, Germany, to 36. A/Prof. Matthew Panzer, University at Monash University to August. UOW 2 weeks February. of Tufts, USA to Monash University 6. PI Dermot Diamond, DCU, Ireland to 22. Prof Klaus Lips, Energy Materials 5 October to 13 November. In Situ Laboratory (EMIL), Institute UOW 10 days February. 37. John Landers, Rutgers University, for Nanospectroscopy, Helmholtz- 7. PI Pat Unwin, University of Warwick, USA to UOW 15 November to 15 Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und UK to UOW then Monash University December. Energie to Monash University in for 2 weeks February August. 38. PhD Student from Quaid-i-Azam 8. Marianna Diaz Vejo, University 23. Dr Tiago Mendes, Conselho University Pakistan to Monash of Cantabria, Spain, to Deakin Nacional de Desenvolvimento University for 6 months. University, February to May. Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) A further 20 international and 39 9. Aneta Kondratowicza, Warsaw through Science Without Borders, national academic guests visited ACES University of Technology, Poland, to to Monash University for 12 months nodes for the opportunity to present a Deakin University, February to May. from 1 July 15. research seminar to ACES members and
54 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (L to R): ACES ci Prof Leone Spiccia with two Feodor Lynen fellowship holders Dr Mathias Wiechen and Dr Steffen Meyer and Prof Klaus Lips in Prof Spicica’s New Horizons Renewable Energy Laboratories at Monash University.
view ACES facilities as a first step towards 5. Prof Brian Meenan, University of 12. A/Prof Masahiro Yoshizawa- engagement. These lists do not include Ulster to UOW 13 April. Fujita, Sofia University to Monash University, 20 October. visitors who visited the ACES facilities 6. Stefan Willfor, Chairman of Johan as part of International conferences. Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Abo 13. Takayuki Kawai, Integrated For example, over 200 international Akademi University to UOW 12 May. Biodevice Unit, Quantitative Biology academics visited the Deakin ACES Centre, RIKEN, Japan to University 7. Arshad Munir, Experimental Physics laboratories in IFM on 3 November 2015 of Tasmania, 20 October. Dept, Quaid-e-Azam University to as a part of the 13th ATC conference UOW 18 June. 14. Prof Toshihiro Hirai, Shinshu chaired by ACES CI Prof Xungai Wang. University to UOW 30 October. 8. Magnus Nyden and Mikael Larsson, University College London, 15. Dr Norhayani Binti Othman, Nur Farizah International visitors to ACES 2015 Australia to UOW 4 August. Bte Ayub, Nurul Hzlina Binti Naemuddin, 1. Dr Stefanie Doht, University Clinics Siti Aishah Binti Ramli, Nur Amanina 9. Mr Johan Linden, Ms Simarpreet of Wuerzburg to UOW, 29 January. Binti Abdul Khlid, Sharina Binti Zakariya, Kaur, University of South Australia Siti Khairunisah Binti Ghazali, Siti Aishah 2. Prof Yoshihiro Iro, Riken, Japan to to UOW 4 August. Binti Muhmed, University Teknolghi UOW 11 February. 10. Prof Louis Lemieux, University Malaysia postgraduate students to 3. Prof Ralph Cooney, University of College London to UOW 7 August. UOW 12 November. Auckland to UOW 16 February. 11. Prof. Mohamed Salem, University of 16. Prof Qingsong Wang, University of 4. Robert Luxenhofer, University of Wollongong in Dubai to University Science & Technology of China to Wurzburg to UOW 11 March. of Wollongong, 26 August. Monash University, 16 November.
Annual Report 2015 55 17. Dr. Ramanan Nagasundara, Monash 13. Girish Lakhwani, University of 27. Dr Steven Harvey & nine University Sunway Campus, Sydney to UOW 30 April. undergraduate students from Malaysia to Monash University 14. Prof Ben Eggleton, Director, CUDOS School of Mechanical, Mechatronic Melbourne, 27 November. ARC Centre of Excellence in & Materials Engineering at ACES UOW to view 3D Printing Facilities, 18. Dr Rongxin Su, Prof Wei Qi, Dr Photonics to UOW 4 May. 31 August. Renliang Huang and Dr Mengfan 15. Calum Drendel-Fulton, student Deakin 28. Dr Gianni Renda and Bridgett Wang, Tianjin University China to University not currently involved in Engeler, Swinburne University of Deakin University. ACES to UOW 11 May for 3 days. Technology at UOW 4 September. 19. Dr Tadaharu Ueda, Kochi University, 16. Vitor Sencadas, UOW School 29. Bruce Ashford to UOW 8 Japan to Monash University. of Mechanical, Materials & September. 20. Prof Philippe Hapiot, Université Mechatronics Engineering to ACES de Rennes 1, France to Monash UOW, 15 May. 30. A/Prof Kurt Seemann, Dr Carolyn Barnes, Dr Nicole Aimers, Dr Lucy University. 17. Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Parrington, Ms Lisa Giusti, Gesri 8 undergraduate students, Velocity from Swinburne University Engineering at University of National Visitors to ACES 2015 to UOW 10-11 September. Wollongong to ACES UOW, 29 May. 1. Blair Kuys, Kate Bissett-Johnson & 31. David Nisbet and Antonio Tricoli, 18. Lin Li, student UNSW to ACES UOW Nathan Loutit, Swinburne University the Australian National University 18 June. of Technology to UOW 29 January. to UOW 11 September. 19. John Ramshaw, CSIRO to UOW 22 2. Simon Cooper, Raj Evasahayam, 32. Prof Peter Choong, St Vincent’s June. Prof Gerard Sutton, Lions NSW Eye Hospital Melbourne to UOW 15 Bank to UOW, 29 January. 20. Carrie Newbold, Adrienne Paterson, September. Paul Carter and Freddy Dueck, 3. Kirsten Day, Swinburne University 33. Prof Don Iverson, Swinburne HEARing CRC, Cochlear Ltd to UOW of Technology to UOW, 6 February. University to UOW 15 September. 24 June. 4. Shayan Ziabari Seyedin & Joselito 34. Jo Williams, future student to UOW 21. Oscar Gregory, Cathy Foley, Razal, Deakin University to UOW 9 Leanne Grogan, Peter Key, Peter 35. Dr Basit Zeb, Prof. Ladislau February. Chesworth, Peter Hodgson, Dale Matekovits, Roy B.V.B. Simorangkir 5. Richard Wetherbee, University of Clark, David Nolan, Julie Matarczyk, & Mr Rajas Khokle from Macquarie Melbourne to UOW 9 February. Adam Plunkett, Scott Burton University to UOW 25 September. 6. Nathan Creber, Melbourne from the ARC Steel Research Hub 36. Sean Elphick, Duane Robinson, University and Royal Victoria Eye & Advisory Panel to ACES UOW, 24 Gerrard Drury, Sustainable Building July. Ear Hospital to UOW 18 February. Research Centre at University of 22. Prof Sean Smith, Centre Director, Wollongong to view facilities at 7. David Patrech, UOW Engineering School of Chemical Engineering ACES UOW 25 September. student to ACES UOW 25 February. UNSW to UOW 31 July. 37. Trevor Lewis, University of 8. Drew Evans, Mawson Institute at 23. Dayong Jin & Yong Liu, Macquarie Tasmania to UOW 9 October. University of South Australia to University to UOW 7 August. 38. Dr Wayne Neil and Dr Grant UOW 10 March. 24. Dr Vitor Sencadas and 10 McAdam, Department of Defence, 9. Tillman Boehme and Sydney undergraduate Engineering Defence Science and Technology Business School undergraduates at Students University of Wollongong Organisation (DSTO) to Deakin University of Wollongong to ACES University. to ACES UOW 18 August. UOW 24 March. 39. Mark Hodge, Defence Materials 25. Laurence Meagher, Monash 10. Prof Alan Pettigrew, IHMRI UOW to Technology Centre (DMTC) to University to UOW 25 August. ACES UOW 31 March. Deakin University. 26. A/Prof Stuart MacKay (ENT 11. Prof Dietmar Hutmacher, QUT to Surgeon) & SueEllen Holmes UOW 13 April. (Research Scientist) from Illawarra 12. Dr Gerard Sutton, Vision Eye ENT Head and Neck Clinic Institute to UOW 21 April. Wollongong to UOW 28 August.
56 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters Noble BB, Coote ML.(2015) Mechanistic apportioned across at least two ERA ARC Perspectives on Stereocontrol in Lewis journal FOR codes at the 2 digit level, 6 book chapters were published in 2015. Acid-Mediated Radical Polymerization: showing the multidisciplinary nature of Lessons from Small-Molecule the research. Synthesis in Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry. Vol 49: Academic ACES Journal Article List Press Inc.; 189-258. 1. Abdullah N, Noor NLM, Nordin AR, Pozo-Gonzalo C.(2015) Oxygen reduction Halcrow MA, MacFarlane DR, Lazar reaction in ionic liquids: An overview in MA, Pringle JM, Bruce DW, Donnio Electrochemistry in Ionic Liquids: Volume B, Heinrich B. Spin-crossover, 2: Applications: Springer International mesomorphic and thermoelectrical Publishing;507-529. properties of cobalt(II) complexes Molino PJ, Zhang B, Higgins MJ. (2015) with alkylated N-3-Schiff bases. Electroactive Anti-Microbial Surfaces in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Antibacterial Surfaces, Editors: Elena 2015;3(11):2491-2499. IF= 4.696. Ivanova, Russell Crawford, ISBN: 978-3- 319-18593-4 (Print) 978-3-319-18594-1 2. Abeysinghe HCS, Bokhari L, Quigley (Online); 41-60. A, Choolani M, Chan J, Dusting GJ, Crook JM, Kobayashi NR, Roulston Higgins MJ, Wallace GG, Molino PJ, CL. Pre-differentiation of human Gelmi A, Zhang H (2015) Conducting neural stem cells into GABAergic Polymers: Their Route to Nanobionics neurons prior to transplant results Applications via Atomic Force Microscopy in greater repopulation of the in Innovations in Nanomaterials, Editors: damaged brain and accelerates Chinese set to read about ACES Al-Nakib Chowdhury, Joe Shapter, Abu functional recovery after transient innovator Prof Gordon Wallace Bin Imran, Nova Science Publishers, ischemic stroke. Stem Cell The Chinese will be captivated reading Chapter3; 41 – 76. Research & Therapy. Sep 2015;6:19. ACES Director Professor Gordon Wallace’s Gilbert F., Dodds S. (Accepted Manuscript IF= 6.233. rumination on innovation following 2015) Predictive Brain Devices and the imminent translation of the book Automated Therapeutic Activation: 3. Ahmed R, Zhao L, Mozer AJ, Will G, !nnovation: How Innovators Think, Act Ethical Problems Ahead Chapter in Bell J, Wang HX. Enhanced Electron and Change Our World. Prof Wallace “Neuro-Interventions and The Law: Lifetime of CdSe/CdS Quantum Dot was one of more than 100 international Regulating Human Mental Capacity” (QD) Sensitized Solar Cells Using “thought leaders” to contribute to the edited by N Vincent. ZnSe Core-Shell Structure with book by Kim Chandler McDonald, who set Efficient Regeneration of Quantum about to reveal the creativity, motivations Dots. Journal of Physical Chemistry and expertise of innovation leaders in a Journal Articles C. Feb 2015;119(5):2297-2307. IF= multitude of fields. 190 Journal articles were published in 4.385. 2015 with ARC Centre of Excellence for An innovator in electromaterials, Prof 4. Alsmadi NZ, Patil LS, Hor EM, Lofti Electromaterials Science in the address Wallace shares his thoughts on building P, Razal JM, Chuong CJ, Wallace GG, line. an integrated team over 30 years at the Romero-Ortega MI. Coiled polymeric University of Wollongong and touches on Of those journal articles 138 (73%) had growth factor gradients for multi- his many research endeavours including impact factors > 2.95 and 62 (33%) with luminal neural chemotaxis. Brain nerve/muscle regeneration, implantable impact factors > 5.00. Research. Sep 2015;1619:72-83. IF= bionics, biofabrication and sports bras. 63.4% of the journal publications are 3.028.
Annual Report 2015 57 5. Andrews PW, Baker D, Benvinisty N, 9. Arulmozhiraja S, Coote ML, 16. Bentley CL, Bond AM, Hollenkamp Miranda B, Bruce K, Brustle O, Choi Hasegawa JY. Electronic spectra AF, Mahon PJ, Zhang J. M, Choi YM, Crook JM, de Sousa PA, of azaindole and its excited state Voltammetric Determination of Dvorak P, Freund C, Firpo M, Furue mixing: A symmetry-adapted cluster the Iodide/Iodine Formal Potential MK, Gokhale P, Ha HY, Han E, Haupt configuration interaction study. and Triiodide Stability Constant in S, Healy L, Hei DJ, Hovatta O, Hunt Journal of Chemical Physics. Nov Conventional and Ionic Liquid Media. C, Hwang SM, Inamdar MS, Isasi 2015;143(20):8. IF= 2.95. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. RM, Jaconi M, Jekerle V, Kamthorn 10. Aziz S, Naficy S, Foroughi J, Brown Oct 2015;119(39):22392-22403. IF= P, Kibbey MC, Knezevic I, Knowles HR, Spinks GM. Characterisation of 4.385. BB, Koo SK, Laabi Y, Leopoldo L, Liu torsional actuation in highly twisted 17. Beznosov SN, Veluri PS, Pyatibratov P, Lomax GP, Loring JF, Ludwig TE, yarns and fibres. Polymer Testing. MG, Chatterjee A, MacFarlane Montgomery K, Mummery C, Nagy A, Sep 2015;46:88-97. IF= 2.24. DR, Fedorov OV, Mitra S. Flagellar Nakamura Y, Nakatsuji N, Oh S, Oh SK, 11. Bakarich SE, Gorkin R, filament bio-templated inorganic Otonkoski T, Pera M, Peschanski M, Panhuis MIH, Spinks GM. 4D oxide materials - towards an Pranke P, Rajala KM, Rao M, Ruttachuk Printing with Mechanically efficient lithium battery anode. R, Reubinoff B, Ricco L, Rooke H, Sipp Robust, Thermally Actuating Scientific Reports. Jan 2015;5:7. IF= D, Stacey GN, Suemori H, Takahashi Hydrogels. Macromolecular 5.578. TA, Takada K, Talib S, Tannenbaum Rapid Communications. Jun S, Yuan BZ, Zeng F, Zhou Q. Points to 18. Bonke SA, Wiechen M, Hocking RK, 2015;36(12):1211-1217. IF= 4.608. consider in the development of seed Fang XY, Lupton DW, MacFarlane stocks of pluripotent stem cells for 12. Bano K, Bond AM, Zhang J. DR, Spiccia L. Electrosynthesis of clinical applications: International Determination of Fast Electrode Highly Transparent Cobalt Oxide Stem Cell Banking Initiative (ISCBI). Kinetics Facilitated by Use of an Water Oxidation Catalyst Films Regenerative Medicine. 2015;10(2):1- Internal Reference. Analytical from Cobalt Aminopolycarboxylate 44. IF= 3.5. Chemistry. 2015;87(16):8387-8393. Complexes. ChemSusChem. Apr IF= 5.636. 2015;8(8):1394-1403. IF= 7.657. 6. Apollo NV, Maturana MI, Tong W, Nayagam DAX, Shivdasani 13. Bano K, Zhang J, Bond AM, Unwin 19. Bonke SA, Wiechen M, MacFarlane MN, Foroughi J, Wallace GG, PR, Macpherson JV. Diminished DR, Spiccia L. Renewable Prawer S, Ibbotson MR, Garrett Electron Transfer Kinetics for fuels from concentrated solar 3+/2+ 4-/5- power: towards practical DJ. Soft, Flexible Freestanding [Ru(NH3)6] , [α-SiW12O40] , 5-/6- artificial photosynthesis. Energy Neural Stimulation and Recording and [α-SiW12O40] Processes at Electrodes Fabricated from Reduced Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes. & Environmental Science. Graphene Oxide. Advanced Functional Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2015;8(9):2791-2796. IF= 11.65. Materials. Jun 2015;25(23):3551- 2015;119(22):12464-12472. IF= 20. Borgwardt M, Wilke M, Kampen T, 3559. IF= 11.805. 4.385. Mahl S, Xiang WC, Spiccia L, Lange 7. Arena F, Gumina B, Cannilla C, 14. Bentley CL, Bond AM, Hollenkamp KM, Kiyan IY, Aziz EF. Injection Spadaro L, Patti A, Spiccia L. AF, Mahon PJ, Zhang J. Kinetics and Electronic Structure Electrochemical Proton Reduction at the N719/TiO Interface Nanostructured MnOx catalysts in 2 the liquid phase selective oxidation and Equilibrium Acidity (pK(a)) in Studied by Means of Ultrafast of benzyl alcohol with oxygen Part Aprotic Ionic Liquids: Protonated XUV Photoemission Spectroscopy. II. Reaction mechanism, kinetics Amines and Sulfonamide Acids. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. and deactivation pattern. Applied Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Apr 2015;119(17):9099-9107. IF= Catalysis B-Environmental. Jul Sep 2015;119(38):21828-21839. IF= 4.385. 2015;170:233-240. IF= 6.007. 4.385. 21. Burger R, Kurzbuch D, Gorkin R, 8. Arena F, Gumina B, Lombardo AF, 15. Bentley CL, Bond AM, Hollenkamp Kijanka G, Glynn M, McDonagh Espro C, Patti A, Spadaro L, Spiccia AF, Mahon PJ, Zhang J. C, Ducrée J. An integrated L. Nanostructured MnOx catalysts in Electrochemical Proton Reduction centrifugo-opto-microfluidic the liquid phase selective oxidation and Equilibrium Acidity (pK(a)) platform for arraying, analysis, of benzyl alcohol, with oxygen: Part in Aprotic Ionic Liquids: Phenols, identification and manipulation of I. Effects of Ce and Fe addition on Carboxylic Acids, and Sulfonic Acids. individual cells. Lab on a Chip - structure and reactivity. Applied Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Catalysis B-Environmental. Jan Sep 2015;119(38):21840-21851. IF= Biology. 2015;15(2):378-381. IF= 2015;162:260-267. IF= 6.007. 4.385. 6.115.
58 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science 22. Cabral D, Howlett PC, Pringle 29. Chung JHY, Naficy S, Wallace GG, 36. De Silva DA, Martens PJ, Gilmore KJ, JM, Zhang XY, MacFarlane D. Naficy S, O’Leary S. Inkjet-Printed Panhuis MIH. Degradation Behavior Electrochemistry of tris(2,2 Alginate Microspheres as Additional of Ionic-Covalent Entanglement ‘-bipyridyl) cobalt(II) in ionic liquids Drug Carriers for Injectable Hydrogels. Journal of Applied and aprotic molecular solvents Hydrogels. Advances in Polymer Polymer Science. Jan 2015;132(1):10. on glassy carbon and platinum Technology. 2015. IF= 1.045 IF= 1.768. electrodes. Electrochimica Acta. Oct 30. Ciampi S, Choudhury MH, 37. Deacon GB, Junk PC, Lee WW, 2015;180:419-426. IF= 4.504. Ahmad S, Darwish N, Le Brun Forsyth M, Wang J. Rare earth 23. Chen J, Huang ZG, Wang CY, Porter A, Gooding JJ. The impact of 3-(4 ‘-hydroxyphenyl)propionate S, Wang BF, Lie W, Liu HK. Sodium- surface coverage on the kinetics complexes. New Journal of Chemistry. difluoro(oxalato)borate (NaDFOB): of electron transfer through redox 2015;39(10):7688-7695. IF= 3.086. a new electrolyte salt for Na-ion monolayers on a silicon electrode 38. Ding J, Peng GR, Shu KW, Wang CY, batteries. Chemical Communications. surface. Electrochimica Acta. Dec Tian TF, Yang WR, Zhang YC, Wallace 2015;51(48):9809-9812. IF= 6.834. 2015;186:216-222. IF= 4.504. GG, Li WH. Novel reversible and 24. Chen Y, Yue ZL, Moulton SE, 31. Ciampi S, Eggers PK, Haworth switchable electrolytes based on Hayes P, Cook MJ, Wallace GG. A NL, Darwish N, Wagner P, magnetorheology. Scientific Reports. simple and versatile method for Coote ML, Wallace GG, Raston Oct 2015;5:11. IF= 5.578. microencapsulation of anti-epileptic CL. Decoloration rates of a 39. Duffy E, He X, Nesterenko EP, drugs for focal therapy of epilepsy. photomerocyanine dye as a Brabazon D, Dey A, Krishnamurthy S, Journal of Materials Chemistry B. visual probe into hydrogen Nesterenko PN, Paull B. Thermally 2015;3(36):7255-7261. IF= 4.726. bonding interactions. Chemical controlled growth of carbon onions 25. Cheng YY, Nattestad A, Schulze TF, Communications. 2015;51(23):4815- within porous graphitic carbon- Macqueen RW, Fückel B, Lips K, 4818. IF= 6.834. detonation nanodiamond monolithic Wallace GG, Khoury T, Crossley MJ, 32. Clarke TM, Lungenschmied C, composites. Rsc Advances. Schmidt TW. Increased upconversion Peet J, Drolet N, Mozer AJ. A 2015;5(29):22906-22915. IF= 3.84. performance for thin film solar cells: Comparison of Five Experimental 40. Duffy E, He XY, Nesterenko PN, A trimolecular composition. Chemical Techniques to Measure Charge Paull B. Hierarchical porous Science. 2015;7(1):559-568. IF= Carrier Lifetime in Polymer/ graphitic carbon monoliths with 9.211. Fullerene Solar Cells. Advanced detonation nanodiamonds: synthesis, 26. Cho I, Choi J, Kim K, Ryou MH, Lee Energy Materials. Feb 2015;5(4):11. characterisation and adsorptive YM. A comparative investigation of IF= 16.146. properties. Journal of Materials carbon black (Super-P) and vapor- 33. Clarke TM, Lungenschmied C, Science. Oct 2015;50(19):6245-6259. grown carbon fibers (VGCFs) as Peet J, Drolet N, Mozer AJ. Tuning IF= 2.37. conductive additives for lithium-ion Non-Langevin Recombination in an 41. Duffy E, Mitev DP, Thickett SC, battery cathodes. Rsc Advances. Organic Photovoltaic Blend Using Townsend AT, Paull B, Nesterenko 2015;5(115):95073-95078. IF= 3.84. a Processing Additive. Journal PN. Assessing the extent, stability, 27. Choi C, Kim SH, Sim HJ, Lee JA, of Physical Chemistry C. Apr purity and properties of silanised Choi AY, Kim YT, Lepro X, Spinks GM, 2015;119(13):7016-7021. IF= 4.385. detonation nanodiamond. Applied Baughman RH, Kim SJ. Stretchable, 34. Crook JM, Wallace G, Tomaskovic- Surface Science. Dec 2015;357:397- Weavable Coiled Carbon Nanotube/ Crook E. The potential of induced 406. IF= 2.711.
MnO2/Polymer Fiber Solid-State pluripotent stem cells in models of 42. Dyer T, Thamwattana N, Jalili Supercapacitors. Scientific Reports. neurological disorders: implications R. Modelling the interaction of Mar 2015;5:6. IF= 5.578. on future therapy. Expert Review graphene oxide using an atomistic- 28. Choi J, Kim K, Jeong J, Cho KY, of Neurotherapeutics. Mar continuum model. Rsc Advances. Ryou MH, Lee YM. Highly Adhesive 2015;15(3):295-304. IF= 2.783. 2015;5(94):77062-77070. IF= 3.84. and Soluble Copolyimide Binder: 35. Currivan S, Connolly D, Paull 43. Ferris CJ, Stevens LR, Gilmore KJ, Improving the Long-Term Cycle Life B. Stepped gradients on Mume E, Greguric I, Kirchmajer DM, of Silicon Anodes in Lithium-Ion polymeric monolithic columns by Wallace GG, Panhuis MIH. Peptide Batteries. Acs Applied Materials & photoinitiated grafting. Journal modification of purified gellan gum. Interfaces. Jul 2015;7(27):14851- of Separation Science. Nov Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 14858. IF= 6.723. 2015;38(21):3795-3802. IF= 2.737. 2015;3(6):1106-1115. IF= 4.726.
Annual Report 2015 59 44. Forsyth M, Chen F, O’Dell LA, 53. Gilbert F. Self-Estrangement & Deep to Enhance Water-Oxidation Romanenko K. New insights into Brain Stimulation: Ethical Issues Activity under Visible-Light ordering and dynamics in organic Related to Forced Explantation. Irradiation. Chemelectrochem. Sep ionic plastic crystal electrolytes. Neuroethics. Aug 2015;8(2):107-114. 2015;2(9):1270-1278. IF= 7.657. Solid State Ionics. 2015. IF= 2.561. IF= 1.311. 62. Hackett AJ, Malmstroem J, 45. Forsyth M, MacFarlane D, Pringle J. 54. Gilbert F, Focquaert F. Rethinking Molino PJ, Gautrot JE, Zhang HR, Foreword. Electrochimica Acta. Sep responsibility in offenders with Higgins MJ, Wallace GG, Williams 2015;175:1-4. IF= 4.504. acquired paedophilia: Punishment DE, Travas-Sejdic J. Conductive surfaces with dynamic switching in 46. Fujioka T, Oshima N, Suzuki R, or treatment? International Journal response to temperature and salt. Higgins M, Price WE, Henderson RK, of Law and Psychiatry. Jan-Feb Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Nghiem LD. Effect of heat treatment 2015;38:51-60. IF= 0.934. 2015;3(48):9285-9294. IF= 4.726. on fouling resistance and the 55. Gilbert F, Vranic A. Paedophilia, rejection of small and neutral solutes Invasive Brain Surgery, and 63. Han JP, Xu GY, Dou H, MacFarlane by reverse osmosis membranes. Punishment. Journal of Bioethical DR. Porous Nitrogen-Doped Water Science and Technology-Water Inquiry. Sep 2015;12(3):521-526. IF= Carbon Microspheres Derived from Supply. 2015;15(3):510-516. IF= 0.39. 0.747. Microporous Polymeric Organic Frameworks for High Performance 47. Gambhir S, Jalili R, Officer DL, 56. Goujon N, Byrne N, Walsh TR, Electric Double-Layer Capacitors. Wallace GG. Chemically converted Forsyth M. The Influence of Water Chemistry-a European Journal. Feb graphene: scalable chemistries to and Metal Salt on the Transport and 2015;21(6):2310-2314. IF= 5.731. enable processing and fabrication. Structural Properties of 1-Octyl- Npg Asia Materials. Jun 2015;7:15. 3-methylimidazolium Chloride. 64. Han Y, Meyer S, Dkhissi Y, Weber IF= 10.118. Australian Journal of Chemistry. K, Pringle JM, Bach U, Spiccia L, Cheng YB. Degradation 48. 48. Gately RD, Panhuis MIH. Filling 2015;68(3):420-425. IF= 1.558. observations of encapsulated planar of carbon nanotubes and nanofibres. 57. Goujon N, Forsyth M, Dumee LF, CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. Bryant G, Byrne N. Characterization at high temperatures and humidity. Feb 2015;6:508-516. IF= 2.670. of the phase behaviour of a novel Journal of Materials Chemistry A. polymerizable lyotropic ionic liquid 49. Gately RD, Warren H, Scardamaglia 2015;3(15):8139-8147. IF= 7.443. M, Romeo T, Bittencourt C, crystal. Physical Chemistry Chemical 65. Han Y, Pringle JM, Cheng YB. Panhuis MIH. Sonication-induced Physics. 2015;17(35):23059-23068. Improved Efficiency and Stability of effects on carbon nanofibres in IF= 4.493. Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cells composite materials. Rsc Advances. 58. Greene GW, Ponzio F, Iranipour N, Zhu on ITO/PEN Substrates Using an Ionic 2015;5(25):19587-19595. IF= 3.84. H, Seeber A, Forsyth M, Howlett PC. Liquid Electrolyte. Photochemistry Enhanced ionic mobility in Organic 50. Ge Y, Wang CY, Shu KW, Zhao C, and Photobiology. Mar-Apr Ionic Plastic Crystal - Dendrimer Jia XT, Gambhir S, Wallace GG. A 2015;91(2):315-322. IF= 2.266. facile approach for fabrication of solid electrolytes. Electrochimica 66. Hancock AN, Lobachevsky S, mechanically strong graphene/ Acta. Sep 2015;175:214-223. IF= Haworth NL, Coote ML, Schiesser CH. polypyrrole films with large areal 4.504. The effect of leaving radical on the capacitance for supercapacitor 59. Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Corminboeuf formation of tetrahydroselenophene applications. Rsc Advances. C. Theory and practice of uncommon by S(H)i ring closure: an experimental 2015;5(124):102643-102651. IF= molecular electronic configurations. and computational study. Organic 3.84. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: & Biomolecular Chemistry. Computational Molecular Science. 51. Ghayesh MH, Farokhi H, Alici G. Size- 2015;13(8):2310-2316. IF= 3.562. dependent electro-elasto-mechanics 2015;5(6):440-459. IF= 11.885. 67. Harman DG, Gorkin R, Stevens of MEMS with initially curved 60. Gu Q, Hao J, Lu YJ, Wang L, Wallace L, Thompson B, Wagner K, deformable electrodes. International GG, Zhou Q. Three-dimensional bio- Weng B, Chung JHY, Panhuis Journal of Mechanical Sciences. Nov printing. Science China-Life Sciences. MIH, Wallace GG. Poly(3,4- 2015;103:247-264. IF= 2.034. May 2015;58(5):411-419. IF= 1.688. ethylenedioxythiophene):dextran 52. Gilbert F. State of the Concussion 61. Gujral SS, Simonov AN, Higashi sulfate (PEDOT:DS) - A highly Debate: From Sceptical to M, Abe R, Spiccia L. Optimization processable conductive organic Alarmist Claims. Neuroethics. Apr of Titania Post-Necking biopolymer. Acta Biomaterialia. Mar 2015;8(1):47-53. IF= 1.311. Treatment of TaON Photoanodes 2015;14:33-42. IF= 6.025.
60 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science 68. Hocking RK, King HJ, Hesson 74. Jiang FZ, Wang XZ, He CC, Saricilar 81. Khan M, Xiao J, Zhou FL, Yablonskikh A, Bonke SA, Johannessen B, S, Wang HL. Mechanical properties M, MacFarlane DR, Spiccia L, Aziz Fekete M, Spiccia L, Chang SLY. of tough hydrogels synthesized EF. On the Origin of the Improvement Engineering Disorder at a Nanoscale: with a facile simultaneous radiation of Electrodeposited MnOx Films in A Combined TEM and XAS polymerization and cross-linking Water Oxidation Catalysis Induced by Investigation of Amorphous versus method. Radiation Physics and Heat Treatment. Chemsuschem. Jun Nanocrystalline Sodium Birnessite. Chemistry. Jan 2015;106:7-15. IF= 2015;8(11):1980-1985. IF= 7.657. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 1.380. 82. Kianzad S, Pandit M, Bahi A, Ravandi 2015;68(11):1715-1722. IF= 1.558. 75. Jiang JL, Yue Z, Bauquier SH, Lai AR, Ko F, Spinks GM, Madden 69. Ihsan M, Meng Q, Li L, Li D, Wang HQ, A, Chen Y, McLean KJ, Halliday AJ, JDW. Nylon coil actuator operating Seng KH, Chen ZX, Kennedy SJ, Guo Sui Y, Moulton S, Wallace GG, Cook temperature range and stiffness. MJ. Injectable phenytoin loaded Electroactive Polymer Actuators and ZP, Liu HK. V2O5/Mesoporous Carbon Composite as a Cathode Material for polymeric microspheres for the Devices (Eapad) 2015. 2015;9430:6. Lithium-ion Batteries. Electrochimica control of temporal lobe epilepsy IF= 1.94. Acta. Aug 2015;173:172-177. IF= in rats. Restorative Neurology and 83. Kim BC, Hong JY, Wallace GG, Park 4.504. Neuroscience. 2015;33(6):823-834. HS. Recent Progress in Flexible IF= 2.49. 70. Iranipour N, Gunzelmann DJ, Seeber Electrochemical Capacitors: A, Vongsvivut J, Doherty C, Ponzio F, 76. Johnson LSM, Partridge B, Gilbert Electrode Materials, Device O’Dell LA, Hollenkamp AF, Forsyth F. Framing the Debate: Concussion Configuration, and Functions. M, Howlett PC. Ionic transport and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Advanced Energy Materials. Nov through a composite structure of Neuroethics. Apr 2015;8(1):1-4. IF= 2015;5(22):33. IF= 16.146. N-ethyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium 1.311. 84. Kim BC, Jeong HT, Higgins MJ, Yu KH, tetrafluoroborate organic ionic plastic 77. Jourdin L, Grieger T, Monetti Wallace GG. Dynamic Electrochemical crystals reinforced with polymer J, Flexer V, Freguia S, Lu Y, Properties of Extremely Stretchable nanofibres. Journal of Materials Chen J, Romano M, Wallace Electrochemical Capacitor Using Chemistry A. 2015;3(11):6038-6052. GG, Keller J. High Acetic Acid Reduced Graphene Oxide/Single- IF= 7.443. Production Rate Obtained by Wall Carbon Nanotubes Composite. 71. Jamali SS, Moulton SE, Microbial Electrosynthesis from Journal of the Electrochemical Tallman DE, Forsyth M, Weber Carbon Dioxide. Environmental Society. 2015;162(12):A2351-A2355. J, Mirabedini A, Wallace GG. Science & Technology. Nov IF= 3.266. Corrosion protection afforded by 2015;49(22):13566-13574. IF= 85. Kim SH, Lima MD, Kozlov ME, praseodymium conversion film 5.330. Haines CS, Spinks GM, Aziz S, Choi on Mg alloy AZNd in simulated 78. Justin Raj C, Kim BC, Cho WJ, C, Sim HJ, Wang XM, Lu HB, Qian D, biological fluid studied by scanning Park S, Jeong HT, Yoo K, Yu KH. Madden JDW, Baughman RH, Kim SJ. electrochemical microscopy. Journal Rapid hydrothermal synthesis Harvesting temperature fluctuations of Electroanalytical Chemistry. Feb of cobalt oxyhydroxide nanorods as electrical energy using torsional 2015;739:211-217. IF= 2.729. for supercapacitor applications. and tensile polymer muscles. 72. Jamali SS, Moulton SE, Tallman Journal of Electroanalytical Energy & Environmental Science. DE, Forsyth M, Weber J, Wallace Chemistry. 2015;747:130-135. IF= 2015;8(11):3336-3344. IF= 11.65. GG. Evaluating the corrosion 2.729. 86. Kirchmajer DM, Gorkin R, Panhuis behaviour of Magnesium alloy 79. Kapsa RMI. Autologous Cell MIH. An overview of the suitability in simulated biological fluid by Replacement for Hereditary Muscle of hydrogel-forming polymers using SECM to detect hydrogen Disease. Journal of Gene Medicine. for extrusion-based 3D-printing. evolution. Electrochimica Acta. Jan Aug-Sep 2015;17(8-9):192-193. IF= Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2015;152:294-301. IF= 4.504. 2.472. 2015;3(20):4105-4117. IF= 4.726. 73. Jeong HT, Kim BC, Higgins MJ, 80. Khaldi A, Maziz A, Alici G, Spinks 87. Klein A, Whitten PG, Resch K, Wallace GG. Highly stretchable GM, Jager EWH. Soft, flexible Pinter G. Nanocomposite hydrogels: reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/single- micromanipulators comprising Fracture toughness and energy walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) polypyrrole trilayer microactuators. dissipation mechanisms. Journal electrodes for energy storage Electroactive Polymer Actuators of Polymer Science Part B-Polymer devices. Electrochimica Acta. May and Devices (Eapad) 2015. Physics. Dec 2015;53(24):1763-1773. 2015;163:149-160. IF= 4.504. 2015;9430:7. IF= 1.94. IF= 3.830.
Annual Report 2015 61 88. Klinska M, Smith LM, Gryn’ova 95. Li JY, Zhu HJ, Wang XE, Armand M, 102. Linnemann J, Giorgio J, Wagner K, G, Banwell MG, Coote ML. MacFarlane DR, Forsyth M. Synthesis Mathieson G, Wallace GG, Officer Experimental demonstration of pH- of Sodium Poly 4 styrenesulfonyl DL. A simple one step process dependent electrostatic catalysis of -(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide for enhancement of titanium foil radical reactions. Chemical Science. -co-ethylacrylate Solid Polymer dye sensitised solar cell anodes. 2015;6(10):5623-5627. IF= 9.211. Electrolytes. Electrochimica Acta. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 89. Koerver R, MacFarlane DR, Pringle Sep 2015;175:232-239. IF= 4.504. 2015;3(7):3266-3270. IF= 7.443. JM. Evaluation of Electrochemical 96. Li J, Zhu H, Wang X, MacFarlane DR, 103. Liu FL, Alici G, Zhang BB, Beirne S, Li Methods for Determination of Armand M, Forsyth M. Increased ion WH. Fabrication and characterization the Seebeck Coefficient of Redox conduction in dual cation [sodium] of a magnetic micro-actuator based Electrolytes. Electrochimica Acta. [tetraalkylammonium] poly[4-styre on deformable Fe-doped PDMS Dec 2015;184:186-192. IF= 4.504. nesulfonyl(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) artificial cilium using 3D printing (vol 90. Kwon CH, Lee JA, Choi YB, Kim HH, imide-co-ethylacrylate] ionomers. 24, 035015, 2015). Smart Materials Spinks GM, Lima MD, Baughman Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Structures. Jun 2015;24(6):1. IF= RH, Kim SJ. Stability of carbon 2015;3(39):19989-19995. IF= 7.443. 2.449. nanotube yarn biofuel cell in 97. Lima MD, Hussain MW, Spinks 104. Liu FL, Alici G, Zhang BB, Beirne S, Li human body fluid. Journal of Power GM, Naficy S, Hagenasr D, Bykova WH. Fabrication and characterization Sources. Jul 2015;286:103-108. IF= JS, Tolly D, Baughman RH. of a magnetic micro-actuator based 6.217. Efficient, Absorption-Powered on deformable Fe-doped PDMS 91. Lederhose P, Haworth NL, Thomas Artificial Muscles Based on Carbon artificial cilium using 3D printing. K, Bottle SE, Coote ML, Barner- Nanotube Hybrid Yarns. Small. Smart Materials and Structures. Mar Kowollik C, Blinco JP. Design of 2015;11(26):3113-3118. IF= 8.368. 2015;24(3):9. IF= 2.449. Redox/Radical Sensing Molecules 98. Lin JJ, Heo YU, Nattestad A, 105. Liu G, Hall J, Nasiri N, Gengenbach via Nitrile Imine-Mediated Shahabuddin M, Yamauchi Y, Kim T, Spiccia L, Cheah MH, Tricoli A. Tetrazole-ene Cycloaddition JH. N719-and D149-sensitized Scalable Synthesis of Efficient Water (NITEC). Journal of Organic 3D hierarchical rutile TiO solar Oxidation Catalysts: Insights into the Chemistry. Aug 2015;80(16):8009- 2 cells-a comparative study. Physical Activity of Flame-Made Manganese 8017. IF= 4.721. Chemistry Chemical Physics. Oxide Nanocrystals. ChemSusChem. 92. Li CP, Zhu HJ, Hou TT, Vongsvivut 2015;17(11):7208-7213. IF= 4.493. 2015;8(24):4162-4171. IF= 7.657. J, Dai JX, She FH, Kong LX. 99. Lin JJ, Heo YU, Nattestad A, 106. Liu YP, Guo SX, Ding L, Ohlin CA, Simultaneous polymerization and Yamauchi Y, Dou SX, Kim JH. Bond AM, Zhang J. Lindqvist crosslinking for the synthesis of Mesoporous Hierarchical Anatase Polyoxoniobate Ion-Assisted molecular-level graphene oxide- for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Electrodeposition of Cobalt and polyacryl amide-CeOx composites. Nickel Water Oxidation Catalysts. Acs Chemical Engineering Journal. Mar Achieving Over 10% Conversion 2015;263:27-37. IF= 4.321. Efficiency. Electrochimica Acta. Jan Applied Materials & Interfaces. Aug 2015;153:393-398. IF= 4.504. 2015;7(30):16632-16644. IF= 6.723. 93. Li HT, Sun CH, Ali MT, Zhou FL, Zhang XY, MacFarlane DR. Sulfated 100. Lin JJ, Peng Y, Pascoe AR, Huang 107. Liu YQ, Weng B, Razal JM, Xu Q, Carbon Quantum Dots as Efficient FZ, Cheng YB, Heo YU, Nattestad Zhao C, Hou YY, Seyedin S, Jalili Visible-Light Switchable Acid A, Seung W, Kim SK, Yoon HJ, Kim R, Wallace GG, Chen J. High- Catalysts for Room-Temperature SW, Yamauchi Y, Dou SX, Kim JH. A Performance Flexible All-Solid-
Ring-Opening Reactions. Bi-layer TiO2 photoanode for highly State Supercapacitor from Large Angewandte Chemie-International durable, flexible dye-sensitized solar Free-Standing Graphene-PEDOT/ Edition. Jul 2015;54(29):8420-8424. cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry PSS Films. Scientific Reports. Nov IF= 11.261. A. 2015;3(8):4679-4686. IF= 7.443. 2015;5:11. IF= 5.578. 94. Li HT, Zhang XY, MacFarlane DR. 101. Lin JJ, Zhao L, Heo YU, Wang LZ, 108. Lozano R, Stevens L, Thompson BC, Carbon Quantum Dots/Cu2O Bijarbooneh FH, Mozer AJ, Nattestad Gilmore KJ, Gorkin R, Stewart EM, Heterostructures for Solar- A, Yamauchi Y, Dou SX, Kim JH. Panhuis MIH, Romero-Ortega M, Light-Driven Conversion of CO2 Mesoporous anatase single crystals Wallace GG. 3D Printing of layered to Methanol. Advanced Energy for efficient Co(2+/3+)-based dye- brain-like structures. Journal of Materials. Mar 2015;5(5):6. IF= sensitized solar cells. Nano Energy. Neurochemistry. Aug 2015;134:87- 16.146. Jan 2015;11:557-567. IF= 10.325. 88. IF= 4.281.
62 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science 109. Lozano R, Stevens L, Thompson BC, 116. Mirabedini A, Foroughi J, 123. Naficy S, Spinks GM. Effect of Tensile Gilmore KJ, Gorkin R, Stewart EM, Thompson B, Wallace GG. Load on the Actuation Performance Panhuis MIH, Romero-Ortega M, Fabrication of Coaxial Wet-Spun of pH-Sensitive Hydrogels. Journal of Wallace GG. 3D printing of layered Graphene-Chitosan Biofibers. Polymer Science Part B-Polymer Physics. brain-like structures using peptide Advanced Engineering Materials. Feb 2015;53(3):218-225. IF= 3.830. modified gellan gum substrates. 2015.IF= 1.75. 124. Najafpour MM, Fekete M, Sedigh DJ, Biomaterials. Oct 2015;67:264-273. 117. Molino PJ, Innis PC, Higgins Aro EM, Carpentier R, Eaton-Rye JJ, IF= 8.557. MJ, Kapsa RMI, Wallace GG. Nishihara H, Shen JR, Allakhverdiev 110. Mac Kenna N, Calvert P, Morrin A, Influence of biopolymer loading SI, Spiccia L. Damage Management Wallacec GG, Moulton SE. Electro- on the physiochemical and in Water-Oxidizing Catalysts: stimulated release from a reduced electrochemical properties of From Photosystem II to Nanosized graphene oxide composite hydrogel. inherently conducting polymer Metal Oxides. Acs Catalysis. Mar Journal of Materials Chemistry B. biomaterials. Synthetic Metals. Feb 2015;5(3):1499-1512. IF= 9.312. 2015;3(12):2530-2537. IF= 4.726. 2015;200:40-47. IF= 2.252. 125. Noor SAM, Yoon H, Forsyth M, 111. MacFarlane DR, Tachikawa N, Forsyth 118. Molino PJ, Wallace GG. Next MacFarlane DR. Gelled ionic liquid M, Pringle JM, Howlett PC, Elliott generation bioelectronics: sodium ion conductors for sodium GD, Davis JH, Watanabe M, Simon Advances in fabrication coupled batteries. Electrochimica Acta. Jul P, Angell CA. Energy applications of with clever chemistries enable 2015;169:376-381. IF= 4.504. ionic liquids. Energy & Environmental the effective integration of 126. O’Connell CD, Higgins MJ, Moulton Science. 2014;7(1):232-250. IF= biomaterials and organic SE, Wallace GG. Nano-bioelectronics 11.65. conductors. APL Materials. Jan via dip-pen nanolithography. 112. Malgras V, Nattestad A, Yamauchi Y, 2015;3(1):12. IF= No impact factor Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Dou SX, Kim JH. The effect of surface available. 2015;3(25):6431-6444. IF= 4.696. passivation on the structure of 119. Mumford KA, Pas SJ, Linseisen 127. Oza YV, MacFarlane DR, Forsyth sulphur-rich PbS colloidal quantum T, Statham TM, Nicholas NJ, M, O’Dell LA. Characterisation of dots for photovoltaic application. Lee A, Kezia K, Vijayraghavan ion transport in sulfonate based Nanoscale. 2015;7(13):5706-5711. R, MacFarlane DR, Stevens ionomer systems containing lithium IF= 7.394. GW. Evaluation of the protic and quaternary ammonium cations. 113. Malgras V, Zhang GR, Nattestad A, ionic liquid, N,N-dimethyl- Electrochimica Acta. Sep 2015;175:80- Clarke TM, Mozer AJ, Yamauchi Y, aminoethylammonium formate for 86. IF= 4.504. CO2 capture. International Journal Kim JH. Trap-Assisted Transport and 128. Pahnke K, Brandt J, Gryn’ova G, of Greenhouse Gas Control. Jan Non-Uniform Charge Distribution in Lindner P, Schweins R, Schmidt FG, 2015;32:129-134. IF= 3.946. Sulfur-Rich PbS Colloidal Quantum Lederer A, Coote ML, Barner-Kowollik Dot-based Solar Cells with Selective 120. Murakami T, Schmidt B, Brown C. Entropy driven chain effects on Contacts. Acs Applied Materials & HR, Hawker CJ. One-Pot “Click” ligation chemistry. Chemical Science. Interfaces. Dec 2015;7(48):26455- Fabrication of Slide-Ring 2015;6(2):1061-1074. IF= 9.211. 26460. IF= 6.723. Gels. Macromolecules. Nov 129. Pope CR, Romanenko K, MacFarlane 2015;48(21):7774-7781. IF= 5.800. 114. Malmstrom J, Wason A, Roache F, DR, Forsyth M, O’Dell LA. Sodium ion Yewdall NA, Radjainia M, Wei SH, 121. Murray E, Sayyar S, Thompson dynamics in a sulfonate based ionomer Higgins MJ, Williams DE, Gerrard JA, BC, Gorkin R, Officer DL, Wallace system studied by Na-23 solid- Travas-Sejdic J. Protein nanorings GG. A bio-friendly, green route state nuclear magnetic resonance organized by poly(styrene-block- to processable, biocompatible and impedance spectroscopy. ethylene oxide) self-assembled thin graphene/polymer composites. Electrochimica Acta. Sep 2015;175:62- films. Nanoscale. 2015;7(47):19940- Rsc Advances. 2015;5(56):45284- 67. IF= 4.504. 19948. IF= 7.394. 45290. IF= 3.84. 130. Raj CJ, Kim BC, Cho WJ, Park S, 115. Mirabedini A, Foroughi J, Romeo 122. Murray E, Thompson BC, Sayyar S, Jeong HT, Yoo K, Yu KH. Rapid T, Wallace GG. Development and Wallace GG. Enzymatic degradation hydrothermal synthesis of cobalt Characterization of Novel Hybrid of graphene/polycaprolactone oxyhydroxide nanorods for Hydrogel Fibers. Macromolecular materials for tissue engineering. supercapacitor applications. Journal Materials and Engineering. Dec Polymer Degradation and Stability. of Electroanalytical Chemistry. Jun 2015;300(12):1217-1225. IF= 2.661. Jan 2015;111:71-77. IF= 3.163. 2015;747:130-135. IF= 2.729.
Annual Report 2015 63 131. Romanenko K, Pringle JM, O’Dell 138. Sayyar S, Murray E, Thompson BC, 145. Sim HJ, Choi C, Lee CJ, Kim YT, LA, Forsyth M. New insights into Chung J, Officer DL, Gambhir S, Spinks GM, Lima MD, Baughman the thermal behaviour of organic Spinks GM, Wallace GG. Processable RH, Kim SJ. Flexible, Stretchable ionic plastic crystals: magnetic conducting graphene/chitosan and Weavable Piezoelectric Fiber. resonance imaging of polycrystalline hydrogels for tissue engineering. Advanced Engineering Materials. morphology alterations induced by Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Sep 2015;17(9):1270-1275. IF= solid-solid phase transitions. Physical 2015;3(3):481-490. IF= 4.726. 1.75. Chemistry Chemical Physics. 139. Scales N, Chen J, Hanley TL, 146. Simons TJ, Salsamendi M, Howlett 2015;17(29):18991-19000. IF= 4.493. Riley DP, Lumpkin GR, Luca V. PC, Forsyth M, Macfarlane DR, 132. Romano MS, Razal JM, Antiohos D, Hierarchically porous carbon- Pozo-Gonzalo C. Rechargeable Wallace G, Chen J. Nano-Carbon zirconium carbide spheres as Zn/PEDOT Battery with an Electrodes for Thermal Energy potentially reusable transmutation Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid as Harvesting. Journal of Nanoscience targets. Microporous and Mesoporous the Electrolyte. ChemElectroChem. and Nanotechnology. Jan Materials. Aug 2015;212:100-109. IF= 2015. IF= 7.657. 2015;15(1):1-14. IF= 1.556. 3.453. 147. Simpson C, Clarke TM, MacQueen 133. Ross C, Pandav SS, Li YQ, Nguyen DQ, 140. Schirmer KSU, Esrafilzadeh D, RW, Cheng YY, Trevitt AJ, Mozer Beirne S, Wallace GG, Shaarawy T, Thompson BC, Quigley AF, Kapsa AJ, Wagner P, Schmidt TW, RMI, Wallace GG. From nanoparticles Nattestad A. An intermediate band Crowston JG, Coote M. Determination to fibres: effect of dispersion dye-sensitised solar cell using of Bleb Capsule Porosity With an composition on fibre properties. triplet-triplet annihilation. Physical Experimental Glaucoma Drainage Journal of Nanoparticle Research. Chemistry Chemical Physics. Device and Measurement System. Jun 2015;17(6):11. IF= 2.184. 2015;17(38):24826-24830. IF= Jama Ophthalmology. May 4.493. 2015;133(5):549-554. IF= 3.318. 141. Seyedin MZ, Razal JM, Innis PC, Jalili R, Wallace GG. Achieving 148. Singh A, Fekete M, Gengenbach T, 134. Salari M, Aboutalebi SH, Aghassi A, Outstanding Mechanical Performance Simonov AN, Hocking RK, Chang Wagner P, Mozer AJ, Wallace GG. in Reinforced Elastomeric Composite SLY, Rothmann M, Powar S, Fu D, Disorder engineering of undoped TiO 2 Fibers Using Large Sheets of Hu Z, Wu Q, Cheng YB, Bach U, nanotube arrays for highly efficient Graphene Oxide. Advanced Functional Spiccia L. Catalytic Activity and solar-driven oxygen evolution. Materials. Jan 2015;25(1):94-104. IF= Impedance Behavior of Screen- Physical Chemistry Chemical 11.805. Printed Nickel Oxide as Efficient Physics. 2015;17(8):5642-5649. IF= Water Oxidation Catalysts. 4.493. 142. Seyedin S, Razal JM, Innis PC, Jeiranikhameneh A, Beirne S, ChemSusChem. 2015. IF= 7.657. 135. Sangian D, Naficy S, Spinks GM, Wallace GG. Knitted Strain Sensor 149. Sparrow R. Enhancement and Tondu B. The effect of geometry Textiles of Highly Conductive Obsolescence: Avoiding an and material properties on the All-Polymeric Fibers. Acs Applied “Enhanced Rat Race”. Kennedy performance of a small hydraulic Materials & Interfaces. Sep Institute of Ethics Journal. Sep McKibben muscle system. Sensors 2015;7(38):21150-21158. IF= 6.723. 2015;25(3):231-260. IF= 1.21. and Actuators a-Physical. Oct 143. She XD, Chen LJ, Velleman L, Li CP, 150. Sparrow R. Robots in aged care: a 2015;234:150-157. IF= 1.903. Zhu HJ, He CZ, Wang T, Shigdar S, dystopian future? AI and Society. 136. Sarwar MSU, Dobashi Y, Glitz Duan W, Kong LX. Fabrication of high 2015. IF= Not available. EFS, Farajollahi M, Mirabbasi specificity hollow mesoporous silica 151. Stewart E, Kobayashi NR, S, Nafici S, Spinks GM, Madden nanoparticles assisted by Eudragit Higgins MJ, Quigley AF, Jamali JDW. Transparent and Conformal for targeted drug delivery. Journal S, Moulton SE, Kapsa RM, ‘PiezoIonic’ Touch Sensor. of Colloid and Interface Science. May Wallace GG, Crook JM. Electrical Electroactive Polymer Actuators and 2015;445:151-160. IF= 3.368. Stimulation Using Conductive Devices (Eapad) 2015. 2015;9430:9. 144. Shu KW, Wang CY, Li S, Zhao C, Polymer Polypyrrole Promotes IF= 1.94. Yang Y, Liu HK, Wallace G. Flexible Differentiation of Human Neural 137. Sayyar S, Murray E, Gambhir S, free-standing graphene paper with Stem Cells: A Biocompatible Spinks G, Wallace GG, Officer DL. interconnected porous structure for Platform for Translational Neural Synthesis and Characterization of energy storage. Journal of Materials Tissue Engineering. Tissue Covalently Linked Graphene/Chitosan Chemistry A. 2015;3(8):4428-4434. Engineering Part C-Methods. Apr Composites. JOM. 2015. IF= 1.757. IF= 7.443. 2015;21(4):385-393. IF= 4.448.
64 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science 152. Suematsu M, Yoshizawa-Fujita 159. van der Salm H, Lind SJ, Griffith MJ, 167. Wright BF, Sunahara K, Furube A, M, Zhu HJ, Forsyth M, Takeoka Y, Wagner P, Wallace GG, Officer DL, Nattestad A, Clarke TM, Bazan GC, Rikukawa M. Effect of zwitterions Gordon KC. Probing Donor-Acceptor Azoulay JD, Mozer AJ. Driving Force on electrochemical properties Interactions in meso-Substituted Zn(II) Dependence of Electron Transfer of oligoether-based electrolytes. Porphyrins Using Resonance Raman Kinetics and Yield in Low-Band-Gap Electrochimica Acta. Sep Spectroscopy and Computational Polymer Donor-Acceptor Organic 2015;175:209-213. IF= 4.504. Chemistry. Journal of Physical Photovoltaic Blends. Journal 153. Sui ZY, Wang CY, Shu KW, Yang Chemistry C. Oct 2015;119(39):22379- of Physical Chemistry C. Jun QS, Ge Y, Wallace GG, Han BH. 22391. IF= 4.385. 2015;119(23):12829-12837. IF= 4.385. Manganese dioxide-anchored 160. Wallace G. 3D scaffolds containing 168. Xiao F, Naficy S, Casillas G, Khan MH, three-dimensional nitrogen-doped living cells. Xenotransplantation. Nov Katkus T, Jiang L, Liu H, Li H, Huang graphene hybrid aerogels as 2015;22:S55-S55. IF= 2.84. Z. Edge-Hydroxylated Boron Nitride excellent anode materials for lithium Nanosheets as an Effective Additive 161. Wang CY, Wallace GG. Flexible ion batteries. Journal of Materials to Improve the Thermal Response Electrodes and Electrolytes for Chemistry A. 2015;3(19):10403- of Hydrogels. Advanced Materials. Energy Storage. Electrochimica Acta. 10412. IF= 7.443. 2015;27(44):7196-7203. IF= 17.49. Sep 2015;175:87-95. IF= 4.504. 154. Sui ZY, Wang CY, Yang QS, Shu KW, 169. Xiao J, Khan M, Singh A, Suljoti 162. Wang J, Zhu H, Hurren C, Zhao J, Liu YW, Han BH, Wallace GG. A highly E, Spiccia L, Aziz EF. Enhancing Pakdel E, Li Z, Wang X. Degradation nitrogen-doped porous graphene Catalytic Activity by Narrowing Local of organic dyes by P25-reduced - an anode material for lithium Energy Gaps-X-Ray Studies of a graphene oxide: Influence of ion batteries. Journal of Materials Manganese Water Oxidation Catalyst. inorganic salts and surfactants. Chemistry A. 2015;3(35):18229- Chemsuschem. Mar 2015;8(5):872- Journal of Environmental Chemical 18237. IF= 7.443. 877. IF= 7.657. Engineering. 2015;3(3):1437-1443. 155. Theivaprakasam S, MacFarlane DR, IF= not available. 170. Xin H, Brown HR, Naficy S, Spinks Mitra S. Electrochemical studies of GM. Time-dependent mechanical 163. Wang M, Wang JZ, Hou YY, Shi N-Methyl N-Propyl Pyrrolidinium properties of tough ionic-covalent DQ, Wexler D, Poynton SD, Slade bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) hybrid hydrogels. Polymer. May imide ionic liquid mixtures with RCT, Zhang WM, Liu HK, Chen 2015;65:253-261. IF= 3.562. J. N-Doped Crumpled Graphene conventional electrolytes in LiFePO4/ 171. Yamaguchi S, Yoshizawa-Fujita Derived from Vapor Phase Deposition Li cells. Electrochimica Acta. Oct M, Zhu HJ, Forsyth M, Takeoka of PPy on Graphene Aerogel as 2015;180:737-745. IF= 4.504. Y, Rikukawa M. Improvement of an Efficient Oxygen Reduction 156. Tsekouras G, Boudoire F, Pal B, charge/discharge properties of Reaction Electrocatalyst. Acs Vondracek M, Prince KC, Sarma oligoether electrolytes by zwitterions Applied Materials & Interfaces. Apr DD, Braun A. Electronic structure with an attached cyano group 2015;7(13):7066-7072. IF= 6.723. origin of conductivity and oxygen for use in lithium-ion secondary reduction activity changes in low- 164. Warren H, Panhuis MIH. Highly batteries. Electrochimica Acta. Dec level Cr-substituted (La, Sr)MnO3. conducting composite hydrogels 2015;186:471-477. IF= 4.504. from gellan gum, PEDOT:PSS and Journal of Chemical Physics. Sep 172. Yamamoto S, Mori S, Wagner P, carbon nanofibres. Synthetic Metals. 2015;143(11):7. IF= 2.95. Mozer AJ, Kimura M. A Novel Aug 2015;206:61-65. IF= 2.252. 157. Usov PM, McDonnell-Worth C, Zhou Covalently Linked Zn Phthalocyanine- FL, MacFarlane DR, D’Alessandro DM. 165. Weng B, Diao JL, Xu Q, Liu YQ, Li Zn Porphyrin Dyad for Dye-sensitized The Electrochemical Transformation CM, Ding AL, Chen J. Bio-Interface of Solar Cells. Israel Journal of of the Zeolitic Imidazolate Conducting Polymer-Based Materials Chemistry. 2015. IF= 2.221. for Neuroregeneration. Advanced Framework ZIF-67 in Aqueous 173. Yan S, Zhang J, Pan C, Yuan D, Materials Interfaces. May 2015;2(8):23. Electrolytes. Electrochimica Acta. Alici G, Du HP, Zhu YG, Li WH. IF= impact factor not available. Jan 2015;153:433-438. IF= 4.504. An integrated dielectrophoresis- 158. Vallotton P, Kapsa RMI. “To measure 166. Whitten PG, Nealon D, Saricilar SZ, active hydrophoretic microchip is to know”: how advances in image Wallace GG. Ionic Liquid Solvated for continuous particle analysis are supporting neural repair Polymer Networks for Stretchable filtration and separation. strategies. Neural Regeneration Electronics. Polymer-Plastics Journal of Micromechanics and Research. Jul 2015;10(7):1040-1042. Technology and Engineering. Microengineering. Aug 2015;25(8):9. IF= 0.220. 2015;54(3):310-314. IF= 1.481. IF= 1.731.
Annual Report 2015 65 174. Yang M, Liang Y, Gui Q, Chen J, Liu Y. 181. Zhang HR, Molino PJ, Wallace GG, 186. Zhao MD, Björninen M, Cao L, Wang Electroactive biocompatible materials for Higgins MJ. Quantifying Molecular- HR, Pelto J, Li XQ, Hyttinen J, nerve cell stimulation. Materials Research Level Cell Adhesion on Electroactive Jiang YQ, Kellomäki M, Miettinen Express. 2015;2(4). IF= not available Conducting Polymers using S, Sándor GK, Seppänen R, Haimi 175. Yildirim T, Ghayesh MH, Li W, Alici G. Electrochemical-Single Cell Force S, Dong J. Polypyrrole coating on An experimental investigation into Spectroscopy. Scientific Reports. poly-(lactide/glycolide)-β-tricalcium nonlinear dynamics of a magneto- Sep 2015;5:13. IF= 5.578. phosphate screws enhances rheological elastomer sandwich beam. 182. Zhang LJ, Xia GL, Ge Y, Wang CY, new bone formation in rabbits. Smart Materials and Structures. Guo ZP, Li XG, Yu XB. Ammonia Biomedical Materials (Bristol). 2015;25(1). IF= 2.449. borane confined by nitrogen- 2015;10(6). IF= 3.697. 176. Yoon H, Best AS, Forsyth M, MacFarlane containing carbon nanotubes: 187. Zhao SF, Horne M, Bond AM, Zhang DR, Howlett PC. Physical properties enhanced dehydrogenation J. Electrochemical reduction of of high Li-ion content N-propyl-N- properties originating from aromatic ketones in 1-butyl-3- methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl) synergetic catalysis and methylimidazolium-based ionic imide based ionic liquid electrolytes. nanoconfinement. Journal liquids in the presence of carbon Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. of Materials Chemistry A. dioxide: the influence of the 2015;17(6):4656-4663. IF= 4.493. 2015;3(41):20494-20499. IF= 7.443. ketone substituent and the ionic liquid anion on bulk electrolysis 177. Yuan T, Zhang WM, Li WT, Song CT, He 183. Zhao C, Shu KW, Wang CY, Gambhir product distribution. Physical YS, Razal JM, Ma ZF, Chen J. N-doped S, Wallace GG. Reduced graphene Chemistry Chemical Physics. pierced graphene microparticles as a oxide and polypyrrole/reduced 2015;17(29):19247-19254. IF= 4.493. highly active electrocatalyst for Li-air graphene oxide composite coated batteries. 2d Materials. Jun 2015;2(2):7. stretchable fabric electrodes 188. Zhao Y, Meng YN, Wu HP, Wang Y, Wei IF= No impact factor available. for supercapacitor application. ZX, Li XJ, Jiang P. In situ anchoring Electrochimica Acta. Aug uniform MnO2 nanosheets on three- 178. Yune JH, Karatchevtseva I, Evans PJ, 2015;172:12-19. IF= 4.504. dimensional macroporous graphene Wagner K, Griffith MJ, Officer D, Triani thin-films for supercapacitor G. A versatile binder-free TiO paste for 184. Zhao L, Wagner P, van der Salm H, 2 electrodes. RSC Advances. dye-sensitized solar cells. Rsc Advances. Clarke TM, Gordon KC, Mori S, Mozer 2015;5(110):90307-90312. IF= 3.84. 2015;5(37):29513-29523. IF= 3.84. AJ. Dichromophoric Zinc Porphyrins: Filling the Absorption Gap between 189. Zhou FL, McDonnell-Worth C, Li 179. Zhang BB, Nagle AR, Wallace GG, Hanks the Soret and Q Bands. Journal HT, Li JY, Spiccia L, Macfarlane DR. TW, Molino PJ. Functionalised inherently of Physical Chemistry C. Mar Enhanced photo-electrochemical conducting polymers as low biofouling 2015;119(10):5350-5363. IF= 4.385. water oxidation on MnOx in buffered materials. Biofouling. 2015;31(6):493- organic/inorganic electrolytes. 502. IF= 3.415. 185. Zhao L, Wagner P, van der Salm H, Gordon KC, Mori S, Mozer AJ. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 180. Zhang BG, Quigley AF, Bourke JL, Enhanced Electron Lifetimes in 2015;3(32):16642-16652. IF= 7.443. Nowell CJ, Myers DE, Choong PFM, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using 190. Zhu B, Lee R, Li J, Ye X, Hong SN, Qiu Kapsa RM. Combination of agrin and a Dichromophoric Porphyrin: The S, Coote ML, Jiang Z. Chemoselective laminin increase acetylcholine receptor Utility of Intermolecular Forces. Acs Switch in the Asymmetric clustering and enhance functional Applied Materials & Interfaces. Oct Organocatalysis of 5H-Oxazol-4- neuromuscular junction formation In 2015;7(39):22078-22083. IF= 6.723. ones and N-Itaconimides: Addition- vitro. Developmental Neurobiology. Protonation or [4+2] Cycloaddition. 2015. IF= 3.37. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2015. IF= 11.261
66 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science AWARDS
Maria Forsyth recognised with Australian Academy of Science Fellowship Prof Forsyth, ACES Associate Director was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2015. About 450 Australian scientists have received this lifetime honour since the Academy was established in 1954 by Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. ACES Executive Research Director Prof Gordon Wallace said Prof Forsyth was well regarded around the world. “This award is recognition of Maria’s standing on the global stage,” he said. “We are privileged to have the opportunity to work alongside such an exceptional scientist.” With seemingly limitless energy, Prof Forsyth is bearing the torch for science education and working to help the world achieve clean energy and infrastructure sustainability.
Michelle Coote Pople Medal Winner ACES CI Prof Michelle Coote was awarded the 2015 Pople medal of the Australasian Association of Theoretical technology inventions for both 2013 and ideas in epilepsy and seizure treatment and Computational Chemistry for her 2014 (Medical Technology Australia: and care was Mark Cook, MD, Professor, pioneering work on the development and Key Facts and Figures 2014, Occasional St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, The application of accurate computational Paper Series: Sydney. Medical University of Melbourne, Department of chemistry procedures for modelling technology Association of Australia Neurosciences and chief investigator ARC radical polymerisation processes. Limited (2014)) - ACES continues Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials to develop new technologies and be Science for Sub-scalp Seizure Monitor for Epilepsy Management. Mark won Building on the ACES recognised for their achievements, especially in the key area of health. $125,000, $50,000 from a Judges Award reputation as a leader in and $75,000 from a People’s Choice medical device research and Award. The winners use their award development Winner of Epilepsy Foundation money to accelerate their ideas toward Following on from 2014 – a year where 2015 Shark Tank Competition development and commercialisation to ACES research at UOW was listed on Winner of Epilepsy Foundation 2015 bring their projects to help people living the Timeline of key Australian medical Shark Tank Competition for innovative with epilepsy.
Annual Report 2015 67 Long-wearing night and day contact lenses that transmit an increased volume of oxygen 1999 and can remain in place for 30 days are developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research and Technology NSW.
Dr Fiona Wood is named Australian of the Year for her work in burns treatment, including the 2005 development of spray-on skin for burns victims.
An Australian hospital performs the Southern Hemisphere’s first total artificial heart implant. 2010 The artificial mechanical device mimics the function of both heart ventricles, which are responsible for pumping blood.
Melbourne-based company Phosphagenics aims to offer patients with diabetes the world’s first 2011 transdermally delivered insulin.
A partnership between scientists at the University of Wollongong and St Vincent’s Hospital in 2013 Melbourne leads to a breakthrough in tissue engineering, with researchers growing cartilage from stem cells in 3D printed scaffolds to treat cancers, osteoarthritis and traumatic injury.
A handheld bio-pen is developed by the University of Wollongong, which allows surgeons to design 2014 customised impants on-site and at the time of surgery. The BioPen prototype was designed and built using 3D printing equipment and will be suitable for repairing damaged bone and cartilage.
ACES through work done at UOW and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne was recognised in 2013 for their research on growing cartilage from stem cells in 3D printed scaffolds and in 2014 the work on the hand held biopen (Medical Technology in Australia: Key Facts and Figures 2014, Occasional Paper Series: Sydney. Medical Technology Association of Australia Limited (2014) page 30).
Winner of international Winners of Thinkable Inspire Awards to Communicate and engagement scholarship from Australia Research Competition Advance ACES research the NSW Government’s Medical Teams led by Cathal O’Connell (IPRI Prof Gursel Alici ACES CI and Devices Fund ECR) and Robert Gorkin (IPRI research Soft Robotics theme leader from fellow) showcasing some of the research A UOW-led project has won a major UOW was awarded a fellowship being undertaken using ACES materials award following completion of the NSW as Chinese Academy of Sciences came first and second respectively Medical Device Commercialisation Visiting Professor for International in the Thinkable Inspire Australia academics. Gursel took up the position Training Program (MDCTP) 2015. Dr Research Competition! This is a crowd for 5 months in 2015 to collaborate Robert Gorkin was part of the 12-week funding - Inspire Australia Research in smart actuators for robotics and intensive course commissioned by NSW Competition with a prize pool on this mechatronics applications, and robotic Health to help their research become occasion >$14,000 AUD (3D BioPrinting drug delivery systems. commercialised and reach the public https://thinkable.org/submission/3100 ACES CI Prof Leone Spiccia from domain, to the benefit of Australia’s & Geldom https://thinkable.org/ Monash University received a economy and overall health. submission/3095). Helmholtz International Research The Thinkable organisation is The research supported by the Bill & Award in 2014. Visits were made to ‘Connecting the world with the latest Melinda Gates Foundation and backed by Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin in June-July scientific research via video so anyone experts at UOW and Swinburne University, and Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden- can learn, support and engage with the Dr Gorkin is leading the development Rossendorf in August 2015 as part of frontiers of science’. The competition this award. of a next-generation condom made of is run on social media with public new tough hydrogel materials, originally voting via Facebook. The public votes ACES mid career researcher Dr Caiyun developed within ACES, in order to are combined with the judges votes to Wang received a travel award to present improve feeling and increase regular use. announce the overall winners. her work on “Three Dimensional
68 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science The Hon Jillian Skinner, NSW Minister for Health, presented Dr Gorkin an international engagement scholarship worth $10,000 to aid exploration of foreign markets.
Organic Conductors with Tunable Dr Justin Bourke (ECR UOM) received Awards for Research or Properties for Energy Storage” at the $3000 for the St Vincents Hospital Research Training Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers ECR Bionics Prize for Excellence in of Science Symposium held in Neurophysiology Research 2014-2015. Prof Maria Forsyth received the Deakin Melbourne from the 9-11 December. University’s Vice-Chancellor Award for Dr Erlendur Jonsson (ECR Deakin) in The Academy of Science has hosted Excellence in Research Supervision in 2015 received a prize of 10 000 SEK the Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers November 2015. (≈1600 AUD) for the best PhD thesis of Science symposium since 2003, defended during the 2013-2014 academic A/Prof Jennifer Pringle received the bringing together the very best year from the Department of Applied Deakin University’s Vice-Chancellors young Australian scientists to Physics from Chalmers University of Award for Excellence in Research discuss emerging technologies, new Technology, Gothenburg Sweden. Advancement in November 2015. opportunities and exciting cutting- edge advances in their fields. This year, 70 outstanding early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) identified ways to bring the ever- expanding ‘tool-kit’ of materials science to bear on the important materials-based problems of the 21st century. Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement theme member Frederic Gilbert has been awarded approximately $10,000 from the Brocher Foundation to host an international symposium on ethical issues related to 3D printing in 2016.
Annual Report 2015 69 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Target 2015 Actual 2015 Research Findings Number of research outputs- Journal 105 190 publications Number of research outputs- Book 0 6 chapters
Number of research outputs- Conference 9 refereed papers 20 publications 124 unpublished abstracts* 2 PCT/AU2015/901513: Functionalised Number of research outputs- Patents Photo-Electrocatalyst and Method for 0 (filed) Chemical Conversion PCT/AU2015/000248:Thermo- Electrochemical Cell and Method of Use Quality of research outputs - At least 50% of journal articles in journals with >53 (50%) 138 (73%) impact factor >2.95 5 > 50 5 > 50 4 > 30 7 > 30 Quality of research outputs - H index 6 > 25 9 equal to or > 25 (ISI) Centre Researchers 6 > 20 5 equal to or > 20 3 > 15 3 > 15 Field weighted citation impact for ACES Field weighted citation impact : 2014-15 (SciVal ,Scopus data 25.1.16) Quality of research outputs - Overall • Overall • Overall 1.81 (328 pubs) publication and citation activity of ACES • Materials Science • Materials Science 1.99 (165 pubs) publications since 2014 (SciVal Scopus). • Engineering • Engineering 2.04 (75 pubs) Outputs in : Outputs in : World average field weighted citation • top 1% most cited: 17 (5.2%) impact is 1.00. • top 10% most cited • top 10% journals • top 10% most cited: 140 (42.7%) • top 10% journals: 164 (52%) 94 20 Plenary/Keynote Number of invited talks/papers/keynote 57 lectures given at major international 30 invited meetings. 17 ‘distinguished visitor’ lectures
70 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Target 2015 Actual 2015 100 web 209 web
Number and nature of commentaries 20 print 40 print about the Centre’s achievements 10 radio 18 radio 5 TV 12 TV 2014-2015 (SCOPUS) 354 articles 1.5 average (Av) cumulative citations 1258 citations Citation data for publications per published journal article 3.6 Av cumulative citation per published article (SCOPUS) Research training and professional education Number of professional training courses for staff and postgraduate students 6 16 attended Number of Centre attendees at all professional training/development 40 360 courses offered by the Centre Number of new postgraduate students working on core Centre research and 24 27 supervised by Centre staff Number of new postdoctoral researchers recruited to the Centre working on core 16.4 FTE 24 FTE Centre research Number of new Honours students working on core Centre research and 0 1 supervised by Centre staff Number of postgraduate completions and completion times, by students 0 0 working on core Centre research and supervised by Centre staff Number of Early Career Researchers (within five years of completing PhD) 8 15.5 FTE working on core Centre research 265 Number of students mentored 33 see Appendix 1
Number of mentoring programs offered 21 events 2 by the Centre see Appendix 1 Establish international masters course 1 within first 2 years of operation 1 International, national and regional links and networks Number of international visitors and 30 57 visiting fellows Number of national and international 2 7 workshops held/organised by the Centre Number of visits to overseas laboratories 20 66 and facilities 30% of journal publications each year Examples of relevant interdisciplinary 64% will be apportioned across at least 2 FOR research supported by the Centre ERA ARC journal FOR codes were used. codes at the 2 digit level
Annual Report 2015 71 Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Target 2015 Actual 2015 End-user links Number of government, industry and 15 48 business community briefings 5 24
Number and nature of public awareness/ 3 public lectures 13 Public lectures outreach programs 1 Open day 2 Open days 1 school visit 9 school visits Average 6 new blogs per month Jan-7 Jul-7 Feb-9 Aug-6 Currency of information on the Centre’s One new content item uploaded onto the Mar-8 Sept-5 website website each week Apr-5 Oct-3 May-6 Nov-7 Jun-5 Dec-4 Average 3230 sessions/month Dec-2,516 June-3,317 Nov-3,161 May-4,039 Number of website hits Average 1300 sessions/month Oct-2,921 April-3,337 Sep-3,459 Mar-2,937 Aug-4,010 Feb-2,837 July-3,860 Jan-2,360 Number of talks given by Centre staff 3 12 open to the public Establish Fabrication Fellow program 1 within first 2 years of operation 0 Organisational support Number of new organisations collaborating 1 0 with, or involved in, the Centre UOW: $867,440 UOW: $982,473 Deakin:$300,000 Deakin: $330,000 Monash: $310,215 Annual cash contributions from Monash:$255,354 UTas: $98,945 Administering and Collaborating UTas: $145,445 Organisations UOM: $100,000 UOM: $50,000 ANU: $38,039 ANU: $50,718 Contribution as per financial statement submitted to administrating organisation. UOW: $488,051 UOW: $468,016 Deakin: $386,549 Deakin:$247,457 Annual in kind contributions from Monash: $170,206 Monash: $175,641 Administering and Collaborating UTas: $125,695 UTas: $163,150 Organisations UOM: $368,486 UOM: $315,581 ANU: $160,492 ANU: $170,197 DCU: $63,300 DCU: $85,746 Warwick: $41,000 Warwick: $41,000 Annual in kind contributions from Friedrich Alexander: $40,000 Friedrich Alexander: $29,800 Partner Organisations Hanyang: $31,000 Hanyang: $29,500 Yokohama: $30,500 Yokohama: $25,500
72 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Target 2015 Actual 2015
2015 income: $10,511,333 $1 million • 51% ARC grants • 70% ARC grants • 19% Other Australian Competitive Other research income secured by • 20% other Australian competitive grants Centre staff grants • 6% Public Sector grants • 10% Industry or CRC • 19% industry (12%)/ CRC (7%) • 5% Other income
Deakin University have new characterisation tools available: 1. a Netzsch DSC 214 Polyma used to study thermal phase change behaviour in samples 2. a JEOL JSM-IT300LV a low vacuum scanning electron microscope with a sample transfer chamber for air- sensitive samples 3. a differential scanning calorimeter for use in measuring a number of characteristic properties of a material On an annual basis in the ARC report 4. UV-VIS spectrophometer and ACES will report on additional electrochemistry flow cell 1. laboratory space available at the Melbourne University (St Vincents Level and quality of infrastructure various nodes Hospital) have for characterisation a provided to the Centre FACS analyser for rapid through-put 2. comment on additional successful characterisation of stem cells and cells funding for new equipment or differentiated from them plus the effects facilities of materials and fabrication on cell phenotype ARC LIEF16 (LE160100063) grant awarded to purchase an advanced focused ion beam microscope with secondary ion mass spectrometer for trace element analysis and nanomachining of soft and hard matter to be located at UOW. ARC LIEF16 (LE160100120) grant awarded to purchase a dynamic nuclear polarisation system for molecular structure determination to be located at Deakin University.
Governance 10 Breadth, balance and experience of the The IAC will be made up of 12 people: R&D background members of the Advisory Committee 7 with R&D backgrounds and 5 with 4 (IAC) business/ enduser connections enduser connections Frequency, attendance and value added 2 per year Feb & Oct 2015 by Advisory Committee meetings By end of 2015 have a draft ACES ACES Strategic Plan approved by IAC in Vision and usefulness of the Centre strategic plan developed in consultation Oct 2015 and submitted to ARC in Nov strategic plan with the IAC 2015
Annual Report 2015 73 Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Target 2015 Actual 2015 KPIs reviewed annually at the February The adequacy of the Centre’s Adequate IAC meeting; with any changes requested performance measure targets reviewed by IAC 11 Feb 2016 through the ARC Effectiveness of the Centre in bringing 40% of researchers to have cross-nodal researchers together to form an 63% supervision interactive and effective research team Effectiveness of the Centre in bringing 35% of ACES publications co-authored researchers together to form an 79% with international collaborators interactive and effective research team Effectiveness of the Centre in bringing 15% of ACES publications co-authored researchers together to form an 33% with national collaborators interactive and effective research team An ‘open to the floor’ session, entitled An annual survey of Centre members re ‘What is ACES? How can we make it interaction effectiveness better?’ was run at the ACES Full Centre meeting 12 August 2015 National Benefit 50% Contribution to the National Research of ACES publications were coded with Priority-Frontier Technologies for FOR codes of: Building & Transforming Australian 20% of ACES publications ‘03’ -Chemical Sciences Industries in the goal areas of Advanced ‘09’-Engineering Materials, Frontier Technologies, Breakthrough Sciences. ‘10’-Technology MD-multidisciplinary Contribution to the National Research Priority-Frontier Technologies for 49% Building & Transforming Australian 10% of public conferences, government Of ACES organised public conferences, Industries in the goal areas of Advanced and industry briefings, and communiques government and industry breakfasts/ Materials, Frontier Technologies, symposia Breakthrough Sciences.
Legend: * Number of unpublished abstracts reported do not include abstracts for ACES organised events.
74 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science GOVERNANCE
International Advisory Committee Operations Group Chair: Dame B Ogilvie Chair: Dame B Ogilvie
ACES Centre Executive Commercialisation Centre Director: Prof G G Wallace (Chair) Global Engagement Development Group Group Associate Director: Prof M Forsyth Chair: Prof J Glynn Chair: Prof J Chicharo Chief Operating Officer: Dr T Campbell Commercialisation Development Group Chair Global Engagement Group Chair Communications Research Training Group Early Career Researcher Representatives (x2) Group Chair: Prof D R Chair: Prof M Forsyth MacFarlane Research Strategy Group
3D Electromaterials Theme Leader – Prof D L Officer
Electrofluidics and Synthetic Energy Synthetic Soft Diagnostics Systems Biosystems Robotics Theme Leader – Theme Leader – Theme Leader – Theme Leader – Prof B Paull Prof D R MacFarlane Prof M Cook Prof G Alici
Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement Theme Leader – Prof S Dodds
ACES Governance Structure
The Centre’s governance structure diagram below illustrates the structure Maria Forsyth, the Associate Director, aims to ensure the efficient operation and relationships in place during 2014 works closely with the Centre Director of the Centre across multiple locations and 2015. to oversee the ACES research program. and is focused on achievement of The University of Wollongong is the Dr Toni Campbell, the Chief Operations Centre objectives through specialist administrating organisation with the Officer manages the Centre’s day-to- committees and advisory groups Centre Director, Prof Gordon Wallace day operations in consultation with the informing the Centre Executive. The providing the leadership necessary Centre Director. Governance arrangements provide to make ACES a pre-eminent global External Advisors are of invaluable the appropriate mix of strategic centre for electromaterials research and assistance to ACES and is provided by a planning and day to day management reporting to Deputy Vice-Chancellors of number of eminent advisors drawn from and ensure proper engagement with the participating Australian universities the scientific, business, academic and key stakeholders and end-users. The through the operations group. Prof government communities. The specific
Annual Report 2015 75 Table 7: Members of the IAC for 2015
Dame Bridget Ogilvie Prof Ric Kaner Chair ACES IAC UCLA, USA AC, DBE, FAA, FRS, FMedSci
Prof Yoshihito Osada Prof Ray Baughman Former Deputy Director of the RIKEN Advanced Science Director of the MacDiarmid Centre for Nanotechnology, USA Institute, Japan
Dr Ian Dagley Prof Lee Won-Mook CEO CRC for Polymers, Australia President of Hanbat University, Korea
Prof Hans-Joachim Freund Dr Jan Weber Director Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Boston Scientific, Netherlands Germany
Dr Anita Hill Prof Chung-Yu (Peter) Wu Division Chief CSIRO Process Science and Engineering, Chair Professor at National Chiao Tung University; Director Australia Nanotechnology Program, Taiwan
Dr Russell Jones Prof Daoben Zhu Bio-MPD Leader, Cell and Gene Therapy Platform, Biopharm Former Director Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of R&D, GlaxoSmithKline, UK Science, China
contributions are detailed below and International Advisory cohesive and constructive collaborative include Dame Bridget Ogilvie (FRS and Committee effort within the ACES research former Director, UK Welcome Trust), teams in 2015. The group drives ACES The role of the International Advisory Chair of ACES International Advisory interconnecting theme projects, as well Committee (IAC) provides high-level Committee; Prof John Glynn (Executive as coordinates the theme activities to strategic advice to the Centre Director into Dean, Faculty of Business, UOW), Chair of the positioning of the Centre’s activities maximise the synergies that arise from ACES Commercialisation Development to secure and retain a position of global the diverse skill-sets of the researchers. Group; and Prof Joe Chicharo (DVC-Global leadership in electromaterials science as Chaired by the Centre Director Prof Gordon Strategy, UOW), Chair of the ACES Global well as ongoing input into the Centre’s Wallace, the RSG met 3 times in 2015. Engagement Group. research programs. The IAC has met twice in 2015 (February and October) and the Research Training Group Centre Executive Committee IAC members are listed in Table 7. The Research Training Group (RTG) The Centre Executive Committee oversees met 4 times in 2015. Chaired and led the Centre’s operations and reviews Operations Group by A/Prof Jennifer Pringle, with the performance against defined indicators and The operations group comprises of assistance of Associate Director Prof is responsible for reporting outcomes to the the DVC (Research) from each of the Maria Forsyth in 2015, this group was ARC and other stakeholders and for setting collaborating organisations or an agreed responsible for designing, establishing strategic directions and broad budget representative. The meetings are and implementing the research training allocations. The committee is advised by chaired by Dame Bridget Ogilvie (IAC and career development program. Outside the International Advisory Committee. The chair) and address cross-institutional the research it was agreed that the most executive committee met four times in 2015. matters. The Operations Group met on important contribution ACES could make is The committee reviewed and endorsed the 18 February 2015 and 24 February 2016. activities of its sub-committees (Research in delivering advanced teaching and learning Strategy Group, Commercialisation practices; especially in post graduate Development Group, Global Engagement Research Strategy Group training. The delivery of the two Masters Group, Research Training Group and The key goal of the Research Strategy courses: Biofabrication and Electromaterials Communications Group). Group (RSG) was to generate the most will highlight these practices.
76 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Communications Group MIACD), Executive Dean (Faculty of Global Engagement Group Business), University of Wollongong. The communications group met 4 times in The Global Engagement Group (GEG), Prof Glynn is responsible for the 2015. Thanks to a proactive approach to chaired by Prof Joe Chicharo, Deputy strategic direction of the Faculty of pitching to media, plus further developing Vice-Chancellor (Global Strategy), Business, including the Sydney Business relationships with journalists and University of Wollongong met once in School at the University of Wollongong. collaborative work with partner University February then convened a workshop media teams, ACES is enjoying significant The CDG group met twice in 2015. In with all the participating universities media coverage this year across a number its role to assist the Centre to identify, in November; from which the ACES of research topics. Facebook, YouTube, review and advise on commercial organisations agreed to draw up a Twitter and LinkedIn platforms all have an opportunities, the group supported the high level set of guiding principles for increased ACES presence. ACES decision to undertake an audit engagement with possible strategic of the ACES research and associated partners. The communications group is also technologies/ capabilities and how those responsible for designing, establishing To date the GEG has (i) mapped current match the needs of the market. That and implementing research training ACES international partnerships; (ii) CTechBA report has now been delivered. and a career development program in captured achievements/goals in the communications; so liaises closely with Prof Glynn and the Sydney Business ACES strategic plan and (iii) looked at the RTG group. School partnered ACES in running the what the impact of the international Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship partnerships via journal publications and and Innovation in 2015 which graduated citations has been. Commercialisation 7 students and in 2016 the Sydney The ACES strategy into 2016 will be Development Group business school will offer a 1 year non- to invest in relationships to deliver for The Commercialisation Development academic award program of a Certificate ACES on a Centre to Centre basis or Group (CDG) was chaired by Prof John in Entrepreneurship and Innovation to as a member of a network of Research Glynn (MA, MPhil, PhD, FCPA, FCCA, ACES members. Centres.
Annual Report 2015 77 FINANCES
Financial Statement
Statement of Operating Income and Expenditure for year ended 31 December 2015.
Income 2015 $ ARC Centre Grant 3,745,256 Institutions cash Support 1,714,639 NSW State Government Dept I&I-RAPP Grant interest 14,728 Total income 5,474,623
Expenditure-ARC and Institutional cash 2015 $ Personnel (salaries & stipends) 3,737,270 Equipment 159,702 Travel 287,220 Research maintenance & consumables 353,915 Other (3rd party expert services, administration, dissemination, outreach) 99,745 Total Expenditure 4,637,852 Surplus 836,771
Other Funding 5% Other Research Developments ARC Grants 51% ACES members are involved in other CRC 7% research initiatives. In some cases the ACES entity (facilities, personnel Industry and market presence) has enabled the income 12% development of these research initiatives that could not be funded by the Centre of Excellence core funding. A list of some of Public Sector the other research initiatives is shown in Grants 6% Table 8.
The split of other research income secured by Centre staff is shown in the chart. Other Australian Competitive Grants 19%
78 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Table 8: Examples of other research initiatives where ACES members are involved. ACES Research Area Project Researcher Funding Body Prof Maria Forsyth (ACES) A/Prof Patrick Howlett Materials/ 2016-2019: Towards high stability, high energy ARC Discovery grant (ACES) Energy density Na batteries for widespread energy storage DP160101178 Dr Alexey Glushenkov Prof Michel Armand
Materials/ 2015-2017: Controlling polymer microstructure Coote, Prof Michelle L ARC Discovery grant Modelling with structured Lewis acids (ACES) DP150104454 C Hogan Materials/ 2015-2017: Electrochemical Resonance Energy L Spiccia (ACES) ARC Discovery grant Characterisation Transfer P Barnard DP150102741 J Jasieniak 2015-2017: This project will explore the potential and limits of chemopropulsion and its use as a Officer, Prof David (ACES) driving mechanism for cargo-carrying vehicles Wagner, Dr Pawel (ACES) Materials/ in fluids. The resulting fluidic transport systems Wagner, Dr Klaudia ARC Discovery Grant Fabrication could be used to transport medicine in the human Diamond, Prof Dermot DP150104532 body, act as chemical messengers for signal Gordon, Prof Keith transduction in sensing or other systems or move Florea, Dr Larisa cargo around microfluidic devices. 2014-2019: ARC Research Hub for a World-class Future Fibre Industry. This research hub aims to transform the Australian fibre industry into a dynamic sector focused on high-performance and high-value fibres and fibre-based products. Prof Xungai Wang (ACES) Materials IH140100018 These materials are expected to help to reduce et al energy costs, minimise the environmental footprint of manufacturing processes and improve public health and safety. The hub will also train the next generation of industry-savvy fibre research leaders. Prof EF Hilder A/Prof RA Shellie 2014: ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Prof PR Haddad Separation Technologies. The aim is to discover Materials/ Fluidics Prof MC Breadmore IC140100022 and create new technologies to enable more Prof B Paull (ACES) portable separation science applications. Prof PN Nesterenko Dr RM Guijt Prof Xu-Feng Huang A/Prof Jeremy Crook 2014-2017: For the application of intelligent (ACES) NHMRC grant conducting polymers for treating schizophrenia and Medical Bionics A/Prof Robert Kapsa 1065463 allied disorders focusing on neuronal outgrowth, (ACES) myelination and synaptogenesis. Prof Gordon Wallace (ACES) A/Prof Robert Kapsa (ACES) 2014-2017: Biopolymer Conduit for Peripheral Prof Gordon Wallace NHMRC grant Medical Bionics Nerve Repair (ACES) 1062569 A/Prof Michael Murphy Prof Geoff Spinks (ACES)
Annual Report 2015 79 Table 8: Examples of other research initiatives where ACES members are involved. ACES Research Area Project Researcher Funding Body Wang, Prof Xungai (ACES) ARC Linkage Grant 2014-2017: This project aims to understand the Sutti, Dr Alessandra Materials LP140100287 behaviour of haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in Rajkhowa, Dr Rangam Engineering with partner novel 3D scaffolds based on short silk nanofibres. Wong, Dr Cynthia Cytomatrix Pty Ltd Kirkland, A/Prof Mark A 2014-2016: This project will design and Howlett, Dr Patrick (ACES) Materials characterise novel solid state electrolyte Pringle, Dr Jennifer (ACES) ARC Discovery Grant Engineering membranes composed of plastic crystals and Armand, Prof Michel DP140101535 polymer nanofibres. Greene, Dr George W 2013-2015: Characterising and exploiting hydrogen Coote, Prof Michelle L ARC Discovery grant Materials tunnelling in environmentally and medically (ACES) DP13010244 important enzymes Jackson, Dr Colin J
2013-2015: Understanding the interaction between Wang, Prof Xungai (ACES) ARC Discovery grant Materials wool fibre surface and ionic liquids Byrne, Dr Nolene DP130101263 MacFarlane (ACES) Forsyth (ACES) 2013-2016: Phosphonium Ionic Liquids for ARC Linkage grant Materials Izgorodina Advanced Lithium Energy Storage Systems LP120200181 Howlett (ACES) Robertson ARC Linkage grant G. F. Swiegers LP13010113 Materials 2013-2015: Highly-efficient, reversible fuel cell G. G. Wallace (ACES) with partner P. Barrett Aquahydrex
Miller, A/Prof Peter ARC Linkage grant Hancock, Prof Linda LP130100046 (ACES) Wakefield, Prof Melanie with partner Cancer 2013-2016: Corporate political activity of tobacco, Kypri, A/Prof Kypros Council of Victoria, Policy alcohol and gambling companies in Australia Livingstone, Dr Charles Foundation for Daube, Prof Michael Alcohol Research Giorgi , Ms Caterina and Education, Adams, A/Prof Peter The University of McCambridge, Dr Jim Auckland ARC Discovery Grant and Discovery 2013-2016: Functionalized nanomaterials for Materials Spiccia, Prof Leone (ACES) Outstanding application as multimodal cancer imaging agents Researcher Award DP130100816 2012–2016: Protonic materials for green chemical futures By emulating the structures that nature has evolved this project will create novel materials that will be used to develop new sustainable Prof DR MacFarlane ARC Laureate Materials chemical technologies. Working with local and (ACES) FL120100019 international collaborators, outcomes will include new approaches to the conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and for renewable energy generation and storage.
80 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Table 8: Examples of other research initiatives where ACES members are involved. ACES Research Area Project Researcher Funding Body
2011-2016: New materials for a sustainable energy future This project will research and develop new selective transport materials to create new Materials/ ARC Laureate sustainable technologies for energy storage (e.g. Prof Maria Forsyth (ACES) Energy FL110100013 batteries and capacitors) which will allow greater use of renewable energy sources, desalination and CO2 capture.
2011-2016: New dimensions in organic bionics The advent of the next generation of medical bionic devices is critically dependent on advances in multifunctional organic materials that, like living Prof Gordon Wallace ARC Laureate Bionics systems, provide spatial and temporal control. These (ACES) FL110100196 advances will provide a platform to revolutionise medical treatments such as nerve and muscle regeneration, with impact on neural prosthetics. 2012-2015: Phosphonium ionic liquids for advanced Prof DR MacFarlane lithium energy storage systems. (ACES) ARC Linkage Project Project summary: This project will develop, along Materials/ Prof Maria Forsyth (ACES) with a leading manufacturer in the world, high LP120200181 Energy Dr Ekaterina Izgorodina performance electrolytes for lithium batteries. The Dr Patrick C Howlett with partner Cytec technologies and expertise generated will be of (ACES) Industries Inc. importance to many niche industries in Australia in Mr Alan J Robertson their shift towards lower carbon operations.
ARC Linkage Project 2012-2015: Australian ultrafine wool dehairing and Wang, Prof Xungai (ACES) LP120200536 with Manufacturing processing Hurren, Dr Christopher J partner Shangdong Ruyi Woolen Textile
2011-2015: Mechanical advantage: biomimetic ARC Discovery artificial muscles for micro machines (DP110101073) Prof This project commenced in July 2011 with work to Prof Geoffrey M Spinks Materials/ Spinks was awarded develop gel rods containing longitudinal channels. (ACES) with collaborator Bionics an ARC Australian The gel materials were based on other tough gels A/Prof Seon Jeong Kim Professorial developed within ACES. The artificial muscles (Korea) Fellowship (APF) on developed in this project may also be used in other this project. ACES activities. 2011-2015: Synergistic nanostimulation of nerve cells using atomic force microscopy technology The project is for developing multifunctional nanoelectrodes for neural prosthetic devices; Bionics/ specifically developing single nanoelectrodes Dr Michael J Higgins Australian Research Characterisation based on Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) tip (ACES) Fellowships (ARF) integration of conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes functionalised with biomolecules specific for stem (neural) cell differentiation and survival.
Annual Report 2015 81 Table 8: Examples of other research initiatives where ACES members are involved. ACES Research Area Project Researcher Funding Body 2011-2015: Next generation excitonic solar cells using advanced charge generation concepts: ARC Discovery setting the new efficiency benchmark. DP110101369 Project summary: Next generation cheap organic Dr Attila Mozer solar cells will be developed, which will facilitate Dr Attila J Mozer (ACES) Energy/ received an the large scale deployment of affordable Prof Dr Niyazi S Sariciftci Characterisation Australian Research solar cells, thus enabling Australia to reduce Prof Keith C Gordon Fellowship (ARF) for its carbon footprint. The proposed significant this ARC discovery advances in solar cell design will place Australia project at the forefront of this technology creating new industries. Prof Xungai Wang (ACES) 2011-2015: Engineering a silk fibroin based ear Dr Rangam Rajkhowa ARC Linkage: Materials drum with optimum acoustic properties Dr Robert J Marano LP110200547 Prof Marcus D Atlas
82 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science ACES MEMBERS
ACES members in 2015 included: 24 Chief Investigators, 5 Partner Investigators, 1 Chief Operations Officer, 9 Research Fellows, 2 Engineers, 15 Early Career Researchers, 27 PhD students all working on core funded projects. In addition the Centre employed casual research assistants and administration staff members. A list of those ACES members and their roles in the research program is shown below.
Name Node EM SES SBS SR E&D EPPE Chief investigators Wallace, Gordon University of Wollongong ü ü ü ü ü Officer, David University of Wollongong ü ü Spinks, Geoffrey University of Wollongong ü ü ü Alici, Gursel University of Wollongong ü ü Innis, Peter University of Wollongong ü ü Higgins, Michael University of Wollongong ü ü Mozer, Attila University of Wollongong ü ü in het Panhuis, Marc University of Wollongong ü ü ü Kapsa, Robert University of Wollongong ü ü Moulton, Simon University of Wollongong ü ü ü Crook, Jeremy University of Wollongong ü ü MacFarlane, Douglas Monash University ü ü Spiccia, Leone Monash University ü ü Zhang, Jie Monash University ü ü Sparrow, Robert Monash University ü Forsyth, Maria Deakin University ü ü ü Howlett, Patrick Deakin University ü ü ü Pringle, Jennifer Deakin University ü ü Wang, Xungai Deakin University ü Hancock, Linda Deakin University ü Paull, Brett University of Tasmania ü ü Dodds, Susan University of Tasmania ü Cook, Mark University of Melbourne ü ü Australian National Coote, Michelle ü ü ü University
Annual Report 2015 83 Name Node EM SES SBS SR E&D EPPE Partner Investigators
Kim, Seon Jeong Hanyang University, Korea ü ü
Friedrich Alexander Guldi, Dirk ü University, Germany Yokohama University, Watanabe, Masa ü ü Japan Dublin City University, Diamond, Dermot ü ü Ireland
Unwin, Patrick Warwick University, UK ü ü
Postdoctoral researchers recruited to the Centre working on core Centre research Research Fellows Kerry Gilmore University of Wollongong ü ü Pawel Wagner (0.5 FTE) University of Wollongong ü Caiyun Wang University of Wollongong ü ü Eva Tomaskovic-Crook University of Wollongong ü ü Alexandr Simonov (Sasha) Monash University ü ü (0.5 FTE) Si-Xuan Guo Monash University ü ü Jian Fang Deakin University ü Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo Deakin University ü ü Julie Freeman Deakin University ü Australian National Naomi Haworth ü University Early Career Researchers Holly Warren University of Wollongong ü ü ü Ashley Walker University of Wollongong ü Rouhollah Jalili University of Wollongong ü ü ü Andres Ruland University of Wollongong ü Binbin Zhang University of Wollongong ü ü Rahim Mutlu University of Wollongong ü Fengling Zhou Monash University ü Maxime Fournier (Max) Monash University ü ü (0.5FTE) Katrina Hutchison Monash University ü Liyu Jin (0.6FTE) Deakin University ü ü Ruhamah Yunis (0.5 FTE) Deakin University ü ü Erlendur Jonsson Deakin University ü ü Yafei Zhang (0.4 FTE) Deakin University ü ü Niall MacDonald University of Tasmania ü ü Joan-Marc Cabot University of Tasmania ü ü Canyelles Frederic Gilbert (0.8 FTE Jan-April15 then DECRA University of Tasmania ü fellow)
84 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Name Node EM SES SBS SR E&D EPPE Eliza Goddard (0.8 FTE University of Tasmania ü Sept-Dec15) Justin Bourke University of Melbourne ü Technicians /Engineers/ Research Assistants Fabrication Engineer Fletcher Thompson ü ü ü ü ü University of Wollongong Engineer Armstrong Xie ü Deakin University
Jun (Rossie) Rao (3 Research Assistant months) Deakin University Casual Research Assistant Emer Duffy ü University of Tasmania Casual Research Assistant Umme Kalsoom ü University of Tasmania Research Assistant A Ganesan (3 months) Australian National ü University Non-Academic Positions Toni Campbell University of Wollongong Chief Operations Officer Natalie Foxon-Phillips University of Wollongong Communications & Media Officer Karla House University of Wollongong Administration Sona Shekibi (0.4 FTE) Deakin University Administration Sacha Lauder Deakin University Administration Helena Alexellis (0.1 FTE) Deakin University Administration Gary Annat (0.4 FTE) Monash University Administration Mark Andrew Howard Monash University Administration (casual) Eliza Goddard (0.2 FTE) University of Tasmania Administration
A list of ACES postgraduate students working on core Centre research and supervised by Centre staff in 2015 is shown below.
Name Node Country of Origin Program Theme
Fahimeh Mehropouya University of Wollongong Iran EM/SBS
Zhi Chen University of Wollongong China EM/SBS
Syamak Farajikhah University of Wollongong Iran EM/EFD
Christina Puckert University of Wollongong Germany EM/SBS
Alex Nagle University of Wollongong Ireland EM
Cody Wright University of Wollongong USA EM
Jaecheol Choi University of Wollongong Korea EM/SES
University of Wollongong/ Tom Barsby St Vincent’s Hospital UK SBS Melbourne
Jianfeng Li University of Wollongong China SBS
Annual Report 2015 85 Name Node Country of Origin Program Theme Charles Hamilton University of Wollongong USA SR Dijon Hoogeveen Monash University New Zealand EM/SES Fengwang Li Monash University China SES Changlong Xiao Monash University China EM/SES Nhien Le Monash University Vietnam EM/SES Manjunath Chatti Monash University India EM/SES Ying (Sherry) Zhang Monash University China SES Diogo Cabral Monash University Brazil SES Ken Chun Monash University China SES Abuzar Taheri Deakin University Iran SES Shannon Biddulph Deakin University Australia EM/SES Jun (Rossie) Rao Deakin University China EM Danah Al-Masri Deakin University Jordan SES Srdan Begic Deakin University Sweden EM/SES Sidra Waheed University of Tasmania Pakistan EFD Australian National Catherine Simpson Australia EM/SES University Australian National Richmond Lee Singapore EM University Australian National Benjamin Noble Australia EM University
86 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science 2016 ACTIVITY PLAN
Goal 1: Research Synthetic Biosystems Goal 3: Translation Milestone SB1: Elucidated the effect of Commercialisation END 2016 the mechanical properties of structural Produce and characterise components on the cell behaviour within END 2016 electromaterials and develop methods a cytocompatible matrix Produce a development plan for new for 3D assembly Milestone SB2: Determined the impact venture opportunities of electromaterial distribution on cell END 2016 Research Milestones behaviour. Goal 4: Communications Electromaterials Soft Robotics for Prosthetic End 2016 Milestone EM1: Supplied 1st Generation Devices Implement communication strategies to structural, reaction centre and electro- Milestone SR1: Determined the impact of maximise visibility and coherence of the materials for the application themes composition and porosity distribution on ACES message to key target audiences projects. mechanical properties. Milestone EM2: Developed a fully END 2016 integrated multi-axial material delivery Ethics, Policy and Public Host annual community awareness system for fabrication of core-shell Engagement outreach events structures. Continue work towards milestone END 2016 Milestone EM3: Developed the EPE1: Identified the potential ethical Continue to develop coordinated 1st example of a contactless responsibilities of manufacturers to end projects with UOW Science Centre characterisation probe. users for prosthetic organs.
Electrofluidics and Diagnostics Goal 2: Research Training Goal 5: Global Engagement Milestone E&D1: Determined the effect FROM 2016 of distributed composition and structure END 2016 Develop strategic partnerships with on fluid flow throughout 3D structures. Implement a Masters training program in Electromaterials Science select research countries across the globe Synthetic Energy Systems END 2016 Milestone SES1: Determined the impact Refine and introduce the most FROM 2016 of 3D architecture on catalytic activity, appropriate training program for Develop International Training ionic conductivity and charge storage. entrepreneurship opportunities
Annual Report 2015 87 APPENDICES
Appendix 1: ACES Workshops & Symposia for Mentoring & Training
Where and Workshop description Mentoring / Training KPI list When?
Geelong, 29 attendees Networking breakfast: Smart materials for next generation Victoria 5 ACES CI, 3 ACES RF, 7 non-ACES academics, solutions 25 February 1 affiliate ECR,1 DVCR, 12 industry
Synthetic Biosystems (SBS) – face to face meeting orientated St Vincents 10 attendees at the material needs for the proposed SBS 3D microtissue Hospital 1 ACES PhD, 2 affiliate PhD students, 2 ACES constructs for evaluation of neural function in normal and Melbourne 11 ECRs, 1 ACES affiliate ECRs, 3 ACES CI, 1 dysfunctional central nervous system settings. May Associate Investigator (AI)
Electrofluidics and Diagnostics Theme (EFD) Mini- 30 attendees University of Symposium on Applied 3D Fluidics - The event was split Tasmania 3 ACES PhD, 4 ACES ECRs, 3 ACES AI, 5 ACES between a morning open mini-symposium, and an afternoon CI, 4 non-ACES academic, 8 non-ACES PhD 15 May closed ACES workshop of project development within EFD. students, 2 industry
35 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 1 non-ACES masters, 4 3D Printing Process Wollongong ACES PhD, 2 ACES CI, 6 ACES affiliate PhD, 6 20 July ACES RF (3 ECR), 8 non-ACES PhD, 1 affiliate RF, 2 ANFF technicians, 1 visiting professor. 40 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 1 non-ACES masters, 4 Materials for 3D Printing Wollongong ACES PhD, 3 ACES CI, 8 ACES affiliate PhD, 5 22 July ACES RF (3 ECR), 11 non-ACES PhD, 1 affiliate RF, 2 ANFF technicians, 1 visiting professor. 33 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 1 non-ACES masters, 4 Material Characterisation & Surface Analysis Wollongong ACES PhD, 2 ACES CI, 6 ACES affiliate PhD, 3 27 July ACES RF (2 ECR), 10 non-ACES PhD, 1 affiliate RF, 2 ANFF technicians.
University of 20 attendees Microscopy (Electron Microscopy and Atomic Force Wollongong 4 BIOFAB masters, 2 ACES PhD, 2 ACES CI, 6 Microscopy) 29 July ACES affiliate PhD, 5 non-ACES PhD, 1 affiliate RF.
26 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 1 non-ACES masters, 3 Techniques in Cell Biology Wollongong ACES PhD, 4 ACES CI, 4 ACES affiliate PhD, 2 31 July ACES RF (1 ECR), 8 non-ACES PhD.
88 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Where and Workshop description Mentoring / Training KPI list When?
Electromaterials (EM)- Face to face meeting on the Deakin 21 attendees modelling capabilities and current projects at the each of University, 6 ACES CIs, 5 ACES PhD, 6 ACES ECR, 2 ACES the ACES nodes, followed by a general discussion of ways in Melbourne AI, 2 non-ACES academic. which collaboration within ACES could be fostered. 11 August
ACES Full Centre Meeting- a range of topics and panels including: • What is ACES? • How can we make it better? • How to grow as a researcher 90 attendees Deakin • Science Communication University, 22 ACES CI, 14 ACES RF, 10 ACES ECR, 17 ACES PhD, 11 Affiliate PhD, 7 ACES AI, 1 FAB • Ethical Procurement in the lab Melbourne tech, 4 BIOFAB masters students, 2 admin, 1 • Intellectual Property/ Commercialisation 12 August communications officer, 1 COO. • Molecular Modelling - What can it do for you? • Masters Degree in Electromaterials • ECR/PhD burster sessions • Posters/networking
EM - Electrochemistry workshop. Given by AI Alan Bond Monash this workshop explored a new electrochemistry research University, 18 attendees technique, and discussed how this technique may benefit Melbourne individual research projects. 13 August
Monash 18 attendees Ethics, Public Policy and Engagement (EPPE) workshop: University, 5 ACES PhD, 7 ACES ECRs, 5 ACES AI, 3 Genuine parts and authorised repair: ethical issues Melbourne ACES CI, 1 non-ACES academic, 1 non-ACES associated with maintaining synthetic organs. 13 August undergraduate student
Synthetic Biosystems (SBS) – face to face coordination 28 attendees University of workshop to align ACES program activities as well as align Wollongong 6 ACES PhD, 6 affiliate PhD students, 2 ACES parallel research activities within Prof Gordon Wallace’s ECRs, 3 ACES affiliate ECRs, 4 ACES AI, 3 24 August laureate program. ACES CI, 3 ACES RF, 1 ACES fab technician.
18 attendees A virtual Synthetic Energy System (SES) - Carbon dioxide reduction meeting 4 ACES PhD, 2 affiliate PhD students, 4 ACES workshop. ECRs, 3 ACES affiliate ECRs, 3 ACES AI, 2 14 September ACES CI
35 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 5 ACES PhD, 4 ACES CI, 6 3D BioPrinting: Ethical and Regulatory Matters Wollongong ACES affiliate PhD, 3 ACES RF (2 ECR), 11 non- 16 September ACES PhD, 1 non-ACES RF, 1 ANFF technician.
Synthetic Energy System (SES) – Battery Workshop on metal A virtual 21 attendees air, zinc, redox flow batteries and organic conductor-based meeting 5 ACES PhD, 3 affiliate PhD students, 5 ACES materials with the aim to increase nodal collaboration, 22 September ECRs, 2 ACES RF, 3 ACES AI, 3 ACES CI sample exchange and use of computational tools.
25 attendees University of 4 BIOFAB masters, 1 non-ACES masters, 4 Graphene Synthesis Scale Up and Characterisation Workshop Wollongong ACES PhD, 3 Affiliate PhD, 4 non-ACES PhD, 4 24 September ACES RF (3 ECR), 4 ACES CI, 1 ANFF RF.
SES -Thermal Energy Harvesting Workshop. Investigation of A virtual 9 attendees new redox couples discussed, plans for material exchange meeting 2 ACES PhD, 1 ACES ECRs, 2 ACES AI, 3 ACES (in particular carbon electrodes) and the transfer of new 3D 29 September CI printed cells arranged.
Annual Report 2015 89 Where and Workshop description Mentoring / Training KPI list When? The aim of this modelling workshop was to enable more 17 attendees collaboration on projects within ACES by combining ANU, 3 ACES PhD, 1 non-ACES PhD, 2 ACES ECRs, experiments with theoretical work. The presentations were Canberra 1 ACES affiliate ECR, 1 ACES RF, 5 ACES AI, 4 short, discussions extensive and a number of possible future 19 October ACES CI projects outlined. University of 16 attendees EFD - Fibre Fluidics Workshop Tasmania 3 ACES PhD, 5 ACES ECR, 5 ACES AI, 3 non- 9 November ACES Academic, 3 ACES RF (2 ECR) 27 attendees Innovation Smart Coatings Symposium Campus, 2 ACES PhD, 2 non ACES PhD, 1 affiliate ACES PhD, 4 non-ACES academics, 1 international ACES- Steel Hub event Wollongong academic, 3 ACES CI, 2 CSIRO, 5 industry, 7 10 November steel hub 35 attendees Innovation Campus, 3 affiliate PhD students, 1 ACES ECRs, 3 ACES Molecules from Seaweed to Fabricated Structures Wollongong RF (2 ECR), 1 ACES affiliate ECR, 1 ACES AI, 5 ACES CI, 6 non-ACES academics, 14 industry, 1 12 November government 63 attendees St Vincent’s Private 4 Biofab master students, 2 ACES PhD, 5 ALF PhD, 12 non-ACES students, 2 ACES ECR, 1 Nanobionics: An ACES and Collaborators Showcase Event Hospital, Melbourne ACES RF, 6 ACES CI, 7 ACES AI, 11 non-ACES academics, 3 clinicians, 1 CSIRO, 4 CRC, 4 20 November industry.
Appendix 2: List of Plenary/Keynote Addresses given by ACES members
Plenary/Keynote Addresses given by ACES members Wang, X. (2015) Carbon Fibre Microelectrodes for Neuroscience Applications at the Fiber Society Spring Conference in 1. conjunction with 2015 International Conference on Advanced Fibers and Polymer Materials, Shanghai, China, 25 May. Wallace, G. (2015) Organic Bionics: The Need for 3D Printing at 4th International Conference “Strategies in Tissue 2. Engineering”, Wurzburg, Germany, 10-12 June. Breadmore M., Shallan A., Macdonald N., Kalsoom U., Petr Smjekal, Boyce M., Guijt R., Paull B. (2015) Electrophoretic 3. systems and devices: fabrication, design and applications at the 7th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM 2015), Kyoto, Japan, 8-10 June (Plenary). Wallace, G. (2015) 3D Bioprinting – New Dimensions for Bionics at 5th International Symposium on Organic and Inorganic 4. Electronic Materials and Related Nanotechnologies (EM-NANO 2015), Niigata, Japan, 19 June (via Skype). Zhang, J. (2015) Determination of fast electrode kinetics using Fourier transformed large amplitude ac voltammetry, 5. Midlands Electrochemistry Student Meeting at University of Warwick, UK, 22 June. Coote, M. (2015) Electrostatic Catalysis of Non-Redox Reactions at 9th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, 6. Ghent, Belgium, June 28 - July 2 (plenary). 7. Wallace, G. (2015) 3D Bioprinting – New Dimensions for Bionics at 6th International Nanomedicine Conference, Sydney, 6-8 July. Spiccia L. (2015) Novel Redox Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. 3rd International Conference on Advanced 8. Complex Inorganic Nanomaterials, held at the University of Namur (FUNDP), Namur, Belgium 13-17 July. Coote, M.L.; Gryn’ova, G.; Noble, B.B.; Smith, L.M. (2015) Electrostatic Catalysis of Radical Reactions at the 7th Pacific 9. Symposium on Radical Chemistry, Singapore,15-18 July (Keynote) MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Energy Applications of Ionic Liquids at 12th International Conference on Materials Chemistry 10. (MC12), University of York, UK, 20-23 July.
90 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Plenary/Keynote Addresses given by ACES members Coote, M.L. Haworth, N.L.; Bloomfield, N.J.; Gryn’ova, G.; Klinska, M.; Smith, L.M.; Banwell, M.G.; Ciampi, S.; Aragonès, 11. A.C.; Darwish, N.; Diez-Perez, I.(2015) Manipulating Chemical Reactions with Electric Fields at the Golden Jubilee Chemistry Conference, 6-8 August (Golden Jubilee Lecture by M.L. Coote). MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 12. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Newcastle, Australia, 28 August. Paull, B. (2015) Revealing the complexity of marine dissolved organic matter – lessons in analytical multidimensionality, 13. Euroanalysis2015, Bordeaux, France, 6-10 September (Keynote). Paull, B. (2015) organised symposium on 3D printed/patterned platforms for biochemical analysis, at Euroanalysis2015, 14. Bordeaux, France, 6-10 September. Wang, X. (2015) Natural Fibre Research – Impact Factor versus Factua Impact, Fiber Society Spring Conference, NCSU, 15. Raleigh, 29 October. Kapsa, R (2015) Biofabricating Autologous Cell Therapy for Hereditary Muscle Disease, Cell Transplantation Society, 16. International Joint Congress, Melbourne 19 November. Coote, M.L.; Noble, B.B.; Smith, L.M. (2015) Lewis acid-mediated radical polymerization: catalysis versus stereocontrol at 17. the 2015 RACI Polymer Symposium, UNSW, Sydney 20 November (Keynote Lecture by M.L. Coote) in het Panhuis, M. (2015) lead organizer of ‘Symposium C’ on tough, smart and printable hydrogels at the MRS 18. conference in Boston, 30 November 2015. Coote, M.L.; Noble, B.B.; Smith, L.M. (2015) Computer-Aided Design of Control Agents for Radical Polymerization at the 19. 14th Pacific Polymer Conference, Hawaii USA, 9-13 December (Plenary Lecture by M.L. Coote) Spiccia L. (2015). Water oxidation catalysts derived from metal complexes Symposium #76 Molecular Catalysis of Water 20. Splitting Reactions, Pacifichem 2015, Honolulu, 15-20 December.
Appendix 3: List of Invited Talks/Panels
Invited Talks/Panels given by ACES members 1. Forsyth, M. (2015) Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Sodium Battery Applications, IBA 2015, Hawaii USA, 5-9 January. Howlett, P. (2015) Organic Ionic Plastic crystals and high lithium concentration ionic liquids – novel electrolytes for the 2. lithium metal electrode, IBA2015 Hawaii, 8 January. Mozer A. J., L. Zhao, P. Wagner, A. B. S. Eliott, M. J. Griffith, T. M. Clarke, K. C. Gordon, S. Mori (2015) Charge generation, 3. transport and recombination in di-chromophoric porphyrin-sensitised solar cells at 7th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology AMN-7, Nelson, New Zealand, 8-12 February. 4. Paull, B. (2015) Nanostructured phases for separation science, Nanolytica, Melbourne, 9 February. Howlett, P. (2015) Characterisation of nanostructured electromaterials for energy storage, Nanolytica, Melbourne, 9 5. February. Wallace, G. (2015), Advances in Fabrication of Interest to Carbon Fibre Lovers at Carbon Fibre Future Directions 6. Conference 2015, Geelong, 24-27 February. Breadmore M., Shallan A., Macdonald N., Smjekal P, Guijt R, Paull B (2015) 3D printed microfluidic devices using 7. consumer-focused printers at Pittcon 2015, New Orleans, LA, USA 8-12 March. Kapsa R. (2015) Autologous Cell Therapy for Hereditary Muscle Disease, NSW Stem Cell Society Meeting, University of 8. Sydney, 8 April. Cook, M. (2015) Invited Expert Panel Discussion: The experimental and clinical nature of status epilepticus at the 5th 9. London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Status Epilepticus and Acute Seizures, London, United Kingdom, 9-11 April. Wang, X. (2015) The Majic of Wilk Silk Fibres and Structures, 2nd International Conference on Natural Fibres, Azores, 10. Portugal, 27 April. 11. Wallace, G. (2015), New Dimensions for 3D Printing at AusMedtech2015, Melbourne, 29-30 April. Wallace, G. (2015), Surfaces, Interfaces and Organic Bionics at EUPOC 2015 on Conducting Polymeric Materials, 12. Gargnano-Lake Garda, Italy 24-28 May. Paull B., Gupta V., Sandron S., Talebi M., Nesterenko P.N., Collins D., Nesterenko E.P., Heery B., Beirne S.,Thompson 13. F., and Wallace G.G. (2015) Polymer Monoliths in Titanium ‘Printed’ Columns at the Virtual Symposium on Applied Separation Science, 25-29 May.
Annual Report 2015 91 Invited Talks/Panels given by ACES members Mozer, A, L. Zhao, P. Wagner, T. M. Clarke, K. C. Gordon, S. Mori (2015), Charge generation and recombination in di- 14. chromophoric carbazole-thiophene-porphyrin-sensitised solar cells at ECS207 meeting, Chicago, USA, 24-28 May. Officer D. L., P. Wagner, K. Wagner, N. Roach, R. Mitchell, C. Hobbs, A. Elliot, H van der Salm, K. Gordon, G. Kodali, B. 15. Discher, C. Moser, P. L. Dutton (2015) Creating Artificial Photosynthetic Reaction Centres: Amphiphilic Protein Maquette Complexes at the 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, USA, 24-28 May. Wang, X. (2015) Natural Fibres: facts and Myths, 13th International Wool Research Conference and AATCC Sustainability 16. Symposium, Hangzhou, 11 June. Forsyth, M. (2015) Molecular Insights into Structure and Dynamics of Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes, 20th 17. International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI 20), Keystone Colorado USA, 14-19 June. Zhang, J. (2015) Determination of the reversible potential of water oxidation catalysts under catalytic turnover conditions 18. using Fourier transformed large amplitude ac voltammetry at the 11th ECHEMS, Germany, 15-18 June. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Sustainable Energy Applications of Ionic Liquids, 6th International Congress on Ionic Liquids 19. (COIL-6), Jeju, South Korea, 18 June. Pringle, J., Al-Masri, D., Lazar, M., MacFarlane, D. (2015) Harvesting waste heat using ionic liquid-based thermocells at 20. 6th International Congress on Ionic Liquid (COIL6), Korea, 16-20 June. Wallace, G. (2015) Graphene: Source to Structures, Deutsche Bank Conference (dbAcess Australia Future Metals 21. Corporate Day), Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, 17 June. Gilbert, F. (2015) Invitation to join panel discussion on “How Should We Address the Special Challenges of Using Neuroscience- 22. based Therapies in the Developing Brains of Children and Adolescents?” Neuroethics network, Paris, 17-19 June. Higgins, M (2015) Probing the Electrode-Biological Interface at the 5th International Symposium on Organic and 23. Inorganic Electronic Materials and Related Nanotechnologies (EM-NANO 2015), Niigata, Japan, 19 June. O’Connell, C. (2015) Gave an invited talk on the ‘Biopen – connecting academia and end-users’ at the workshop Future 24. Generation Bionic Technologies hosted by Bionic Vision Australia, Melbourne, 25 June. Wallace, G. (2015) Medical Technology Innovation Showcase (Part 1) at Australia Innovation Showcase Medical 25. Technologies 2015, Seoul, Korea, 29 June. Wallace, G. (2015) Medical Technology Innovation Showcase: 3D Bio Printing (Part 2) at Australia Innovation Showcase 26. Medical Technologies 2015, Seoul, Korea, 29 June. Wallace, G. (2015) 3D Printing: Printing Parts for Bodies at the 2nd International Bionics Forum and Expo, COEX, Seoul, 27. Korea, 1-3 July. Moulton SE (2015) Materials in Medicine, Polymer Vic RACI Victorian Polymer Group, Monash University, Parkville, 28. Victoria, 2-3 July. Wang, X. (2015) Innovation with Polymer Fibre Materials, PolymerVIC 2015, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, 29. Melbourne, 2 July. Gilbert F., (2015) Experimental use of Invasive Technologies in the Brain: The Case of Predictive and Advisory Brain 30. Devices, International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, 1-3 July. in het Panhuis, M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels at 6th International Nanomedicine 31. Conference, Sydney, 6-8 July. Higgins, M. (2015) “Molecular Electroceuticals”: the emergence of targeted delivery of electrical signals for modulating 32. biological function at 6th International Nanomedicine Conference, Sydney, 6-8 July. Coote, M. (2015) Electrostatic Catalysis of Radical Reactions at 7th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry, Singapore, 33. 15-18 July. Officer D.L., P. Wagner, K. Wagner, N. Roach, R. T. Mitchell, C. Hobbs, A. B. S. Elliott, H. van der Salm, K. C. Gordon, 34. G. Kodali, B. Disher, C. Moser, P. L. Dutton (2015) Developing an artificial photosynthetic reaction centre based on porphyrin-maquette ensembles at the 12th International Conference on Material Chemistry, York, UK, 20-23 July. Pringle, J. (2015) The development of Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals as Solid State Electrolytes for Energy Storage at 35. ECS Conference on Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Storage, Glasgow, Glasgow, 26-31 July. Simpson, C.D.; Haworth, N.L.; Ciampi, S.; Coote, M.L.(2015) External and Intramolecular Influences on Spiropyran 36. – Merocyanine Interconversion, 2015 Virtual Conference on Computational Chemistry, 1-31 August (Invited Virtual presentation by M.L. Coote). Cook, M (2015) Brain Activity and Seizure Statistics in Epilepsy at the 7th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction, 37. Melbourne, 3 August. 38. Cook, M. (2015) Implantable devices at the Melbourne Epilepsy Meeting, Melbourne, 6 August.
92 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Invited Talks/Panels given by ACES members Coote, M.L.; Gryn’ova, G. (2015) The fascinating redox behavior of nitroxide radicals, Symposium on Calculating pKa and 39. Redox Potentials at the 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, 16-20 August (Invited Lecture by M.L. Coote) Spiccia L. (2015) Water Oxidation Catalysts: From Metal Complexes to Mineral Oxides. Soft X-ray in Energy and Time 40. (SEXT) Symposium, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, 20-21 August. Paull B., Sandron S., Cardona A.R., Davies N.W., Wilson R., Horne J., Shellie R.A., Haddad P. and Nesterenko P.N. 41. (2015) “Revealing the Complexity of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter – Lessons in Analytical Multidimensionality” at Euroanalysis, Bordeaux, 6-10 September. Cook, M. (2015) Progress of Therapeutic Device for Epilepsy at the Beijing Epilepsy and Neurophysiology Summit, Beijing, 42. China, 12 September. Officer, D. L. (2015) Developing Porphyrin-based Electroactive Nanomaterials for Energy Applications at the XIV Brazilian 43. MRS Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27 September - 1 October. Forsyth, M. (2015) Ionic Liquid and Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, ABAA8 44. conference, Bilbao Spain, 30 September-2 October. Zhang, J. (2015) Determination of fast electrode kinetics Facilitated by Use of an Internal Reference at the 66th Annual 45. Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 4-9 October. Moulton SE. (2015) Interactive Materials in Medical Research at the ASEAN Congress on Medical Biotechnology and 46. Molecular Biosciences, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 October. Howlett, P. (2015) Mixed ionic liquid-NaFSI salts with high Na+ transference number and improved electrochemical 47. cycling, 2nd International Na Battery Conference, Arizona, 9 October. Officer, D. L., S. Gambhir, R. Jalili, S. Sayyar, D. Li, G. G. Wallace (2015) Scalable graphene chemistries for processing 48. and fabrication at the 7th Annual Conference in Recent Progress in Graphene and Two-dimensional Materials Research, Mantra Resort, Lorne, Australia, 25 - 29 October. 49. Cook, M. (2015) Epilepsy – The Future at the 4th Neuropsychiatry and Behaviour Conference, Melbourne, 6 November. Kapsa, R. (2015) Autologous Cell Replacement Therapies for Hereditary Muscle Disease, Australian Society for Stem 50. Cell Research, Annual International Conference, Hunter Valley Australia, 8 November. Wallace, G. (2015) talk on “Printing Cells and Living Cells” was given by A/Prof Michael Higgins at the 2015 MRS Fall 51. Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 November. Forsyth, M. (2015) Speciation and dynamics of alkali metal ions mixed salt/ ionic liquid electrolytes: towards improved Li 52. and Na based energy storage, Pacifichem 15, Hawaii USA, 15-20 December. Coote, M.L.; Gryn’ova, G.(2015) pH-Switching of nitroxide radical stability and orbital conversion Nitroxide Radicals: 53. Synthesis And Functional Bio-/Nanomaterials, The 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2015), Honolulu 15-20 December (Invited Lecture by M.L. Coote) Noble, B.B.; Smith, L.M.; Coote, M.L. (2015) Computer-aided design of radical polymerization catalysts and stereocontrol 54. agents Interplay between Theory and Experiment in Catalytic Research at the 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2015) Honolulu 15-20 December (Invited Lecture by M.L. Coote). Pringle, J. (2015) Using ionic liquids to harvest waste heat at The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin 55. Societies (Pacifichem), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 December. Pozo-Gonzalo, C. (2015) Phosphonium-based Ionic Liquids for Energy Storage Devices, Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawaii, 56. USA, 15-20 December. 57. Higgins, M.J (2015) Nanobionics, Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 December.
Appendix 4: A List of Distinguished Visitor Lectures
Distinguished Visitor Lectures given by ACES members MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 1. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 20 February. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 2. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Waikato, New Zealand, 26 February.
Annual Report 2015 93 Distinguished Visitor Lectures given by ACES members MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 3. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Otago, New Zealand, 27 February. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 4. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Tasmania, Australia, 25 March. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 5. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, University of Western Australia, Perth, 9 April. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 6. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, Curtin University, Perth, 10 April. MacFarlane, D. R. (2015) Ionic liquids for sustainable chemistry: applications in the chemical-, materials-, electro-, and 7. bio-sciences, RSC Lectureship Tour, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1 May. Unwin, P. (2015) gave a ‘Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging at Science and Engineering 8. QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 9 February. Wallace, G. (2015) Collaborative Research Networks: Building Pyramids from the Top Down at Shinshu University 9. (Nagano), Japan, 2 March. 10. Wallace, G. (2015) ACES: The New Dimensions at Shinshu University (Matsumoto), Japan, 3 March. 11. Wallace, G. (2015) Surfaces, Interfaces and Organic Bionics at University of Pisa, Italy, 29 May. 12. Wang, X. (2015) Advanced Fibre Lecture Series, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, May 2015. 13. Wallace, G. (2015) Organic Bionics at Aula Magna, Istituto di Ricerca Codivilla-Putti, Bologna, Italy, 3 June. 14. Wallace, G. (2015) 3D Bioprinting - Printing Parts for Bodies at Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna, Italy, 3 June. 15. Wallace, G. (2015) 3D Electrodes Based on Graphene at Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany, 11-13 June. Cook, M (2015) Prediction, Stimulation and Devices for Epilepsy Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Department of 16. Neurology, Philadelphia, United States, 5-17 July. Officer, D. L. (2015) An Overview of Chemopropulsion Systems at Small Power: Chemopropulsion of Microdroplets using 17. Chemical Gradients Symposium, Dublin City University, Dublin, 29 July.
Appendix 5: List of ACES work given via Invited Seminars / Collaborative visits
Invited Seminars / collaborative visits related to ACES work Wallace G. (2015) 3D Bioprinting – New Dimensions for Bionics, for the Neuroscience Seminar at Queensland Brain 1. Institute, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia, 4 February. Wallace G. (2015) 3D Bioprinting – New Dimensions for Bionics at Cook Medical, Brisbane Technology Park, Australia, 5 2. February. Unwin P. (2015) seminar at ARC Centre of Excellence for Convergent Bio-Nano Science, UNSW node, Sydney, Australia, 3. 16 February. Wallace G. (2015) Helping to Build Frontier Industries at Australasian Industry Research Group (AIRG) 50th Anniversary 4. Meeting, Melbourne, 24 February.
5. Wallace G. (2015) Printing Parts for Bodies, at TEDx Event, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia,27 February.
Unwin P. (2015) gave a lecture on Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging at Chemistry, Monash University, Melbourne, 6. Australia, 23 February. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels at University of British Columbia, 7. Canada in addition to visit Prof John Madden about hydrogel sensor research, February. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels during a visit to A/Prof Ali Aldalbahi at 8. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 3 March. Wagner P. (2015) Visiting associate professorship undertaken for 3 weeks with hosts Profs S Mori and M Kimura at Shinshu 9. University, Ueda, Japan to establish new collaborations for the ACES core electromaterials program 16 March-1 April. Mozer A. (2015) Visiting associate professorship undertaken for 3 weeks with hosts Profs S Mori and M Kimura at Shinshu 10. University, Japan to establish new collaborations for the ACES synthetic energy system core program 16 March-1 April.
94 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Invited Seminars / collaborative visits related to ACES work Howlett P. (2015) Ionic Liquid and Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, UNSW, Sydney, 11. 19 March. Howlett P. (2015) Ionic Liquid and Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, University of 12. Newcastle, Newcastle, 20 March. Moulton SE (2015) 5th International Symposium of Surface and Interface of Biomaterials and the 24th Annual 13. Conference of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials, Sydney Australia, 7-10 April. Wallace G. (2015) New Dimensions for 3D Printing at AusMedtech2015, Australia’s Medtech Conference, Melbourne, 14. Australia, 29 April.
15. Wallace G. (2015), Surfaces, Interfaces and Organic Bionics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 1 May.
Moulton SE (2015) Gave lecture Electroactive Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering and held meetings with various members of the Department of Chemistry, Science and Engineering Faculty and Research and International 16. Office to discuss ways in which to develop collaborative research partnerships, including student exchange and joint PhD possibilities , University of Campinas Brazil, 5-6 May. Moulton SE (2015) Gave lecture Electroactive Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering and held meetings with various members of the Department of Chemistry, Science and Engineering Faculty and Research and International 17. Office to discuss ways in which to develop collaborative research partnerships, including student exchange and joint PhD possibilities, Federal University of Minas Gerais Brazil – Department of Chemistry, 7-8 May. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels at University of Colorado, Boulder, 18. USA, 7 May. Wallace G. (2015) ACES: Electromaterials - The New Dimensions at ACES: The European Dimension Workshop, National 19. Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Ireland 21 May. Wallace G. (2015) ACES - The New Dimensions at Australian-European connections in emerging 3D printed bio- 20. compatible technologies, Australian Embassy, Dublin, Ireland 21 May.
21. Officer D. (2015) invited lecture at Electrochemical Society, Chicago, USA, 24-28 May.
in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels in addition to visiting A/Prof Shane Ellis, 22. A/Prof Hans Savelberg and Prof Ron Heeren within the 4MI Institute at University of Maastricht, Netherlands, 29 May. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited, gave a lecture on Ionic Liquid And Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes For Energy 23. Storage Devices and discussed collaborative research opportunities with Dr Charl Faul in the department of Chemistry, Bristol University, UK, May. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Dr Melanie Britton at Birmingham University, UK to discuss ongoing collaborations in in-situ 24. NMR measurements of electrochemical processes, 29 May. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Prof Ken Sudden at QUILL, UK to discuss research in the ionic liquids area being undertaken 25. within ACES, 30 May. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Oxford university and met with PI Pat Unwin at Warwick University to discuss potential ACES 26. projects and student/staff exchange, May. Forsyth M. (2015) gave a lecture on Ionic Liquid and Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices 27. and discussed potential collaborations in energy storage research with Prof Dominque Guyomard and Prof Jean le Bideau from Nante University and CNRS, in Nante, June 2015. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Prof David Mecerreyes and Dr Gabriela Chotro, University of the Basque Country to discuss 28. cotutelle arrangements and research exchange opportunities, 8-10 June. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Dr Michael Deschamps and Dr Yann Vaills at CEMHTI lab in Orleans, to discuss research 29. collaborations and cotutelle agreements 11-12 June.
30. Gilbert F (2015) Collaborative visit and discussion, University of Geneva, 14 June.
Spiccia L. (2015) Collaborative research visit to Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin to visit Prof Emad Aziz, Prof Klaus Lips and Dr 31. Alexander Schnegg, June-July. Spiccia L. (2015) visited, gave a lecture Water Oxidation Catalysis: From Molecules to Minerals and reviewed facilities of 32. Christian Limberg at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, June. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels at University British Columbia, 33. Vancouver, Canada, 1 June.
34. Gilbert F (2015) Collaborative visit and discussion, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere (ICM), France, 19 June.
35. Zhang J. (2015) Collaborative research visit Warwick University, UK, 19-23 June.
Annual Report 2015 95 Invited Seminars / collaborative visits related to ACES work O’Connell C. (2015) The Handheld Biopen story given at the workshop Future Generation Bionic Technologies organised 36. by Bionic Vision Australia in Melbourne on 25 June.
37. Higgins, M. (2015) invited seminar “Getting a Grip” on Cell-Material Adhesion using Bio-AFM at UTS Sydney, 12 June.
Spiccia L. (2015) visited, gave a lecture From Metal Complexes to Minerals Catalysing Water Oxidation and reviewed 38. facilities of (i) Professor Hans-Joachim Freund and Robert Schoegl, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany and (ii) Prof Matthias Driess at Technical University Berlin, in July. Alici G. (2015) Spent 3 weeks at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as part of the fellowship 39. ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) visiting professorship for senior international scientists’ in the robotics research laboratory and visited also the biomedical research centre and innovation centre of USTC, July. Alici G. (2015) gave an invited seminar ‘From Soft Actuators to Soft Robotics: where are we now?’ at Shenyang Ligong 40. University, China, July.
41. Gilbert F (2015) visited Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), Hopital Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, France 5-6 July.
42. Wagner P. (2015) gave an invited seminar during his collaborative visit to ACES partner node FAU at Erlangen, 7-8 July.
Wagner P. (2015) gave an invited seminar during his collaborative visit as part of the IRSES-AMBIPOD project at Silesian 43. University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, 9-19 July. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels in addition to visiting Prof Ric Kaner at 44. UCLA, Vancouver, Los Angeles, USA, 13 July 2015. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels in addition to visiting Prof Brian 45. Meenan at University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, 20 July. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels during a visit to A/Prof Andreas Heise 46. at Dublin City University, Ireland, 22 July. Pringle J., Al-Masri D., MacFarlane D. (2015) Poster Harvesting waste heat using ionic liquid-based 47. thermoelectrochemical cells at the 12th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC12), University of York, UK, 20-23 July 2015. Alici G. (2015) From Soft Actuators to Soft Robotics: where are we now?, Shenyang Ligong University, Liaoning Province, 48. Shenyang, China, 21 July. in het Panhuis M. (2015) 3D and 4D Bioprinting of tough and conducting hydrogels at University of Cambridge, 49. Cambridge, UK, 24 July. Gilbert F. (2015) Predictive Brain Implants: Could Have I Done Otherwise?’ Philosophy and Gender Studies Seminar, 50. UTAS, Hobart, Australia, 31 July. Coote M.L.(2015) Electrostatic Catalysis of Non-Redox Reactions invited lecture at the Institute of High-Performance 51. Computing at AStar Singapore, 3 August. Officer D. L. (2015) Porphyrins for Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Cells and Solar Fuels at École Polytechnique Fédérale 52. de Lausanne (EPFL)-Valais, Sion, Switzerland, 7 August. This was the first invited lecture given at the new EPFL-Valais facilities. Spiccia L. (2015) visited, gave a lecture Minerals Derived from Metal Complexes as Water Oxidation Catalysts and 53. reviewed facilities of Prof Michael Mehring, Technical University Chemnitz, August.
54. Higgins M.J. (2015) presented ACES research and visited facilities at the Microstructural Analysis Unit, UTS on 9 August.
Spiccia L. (2015) Collaborative research visit to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to visit Prof Annie Powell and Dr 55. Sharali Malik, August-September. Gilbert F. (2015) Invasive Brain Technologies for treatment of Psychiatric Conditions. Seminar Series, Institute for the 56. Study of Social Science, UTAS, Hobart, Australia, 16 August. Ciampi S. (2015) Shear in thin films, any measurable effect on entropy? at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 27 57. August. Officer D. L. (2015) Nanostructured Electromaterials for Energy Applications at Nanotechnology and Integrated 58. Bioengineering Centre (NIBEC), Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland, 11 September. Thompson F. (2015) visits and collaborating with surgeons C DiBella and Prof Peter Choong at St Vincent’s hospital 59. Melbourne, 15 & 30 September.
60. Gilbert F. (2015) enjoyed a collaborative visit at the Universite de Montreal–McGill University 18 September-1 October.
Hancock L. (2015) India-Australia energy policy meeting with Dr Amit Kumar; Dr B Prasad, Dr Vidya S Batra and Atul 61. Kumar at TERI University, Delhi, India, September.
96 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Invited Seminars / collaborative visits related to ACES work Howlett P. (2015) Collaborative research visit to Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) Battery Prototyping facility, UK, 62. 25 September. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited University of the Basque Country to officially sign off on the cotutelle arrangements and 63. research exchange opportunities, 27 September. Forsyth M. (2015) Visited Tecnalia, Spain to discuss ongoing collaborations in energy storage, ionic liquids and corrosion, 64. 27 September. Forsyth M. (2015) visited Prof Teofilo Rojo, Dr Aitor Villaverde, Dry Room Manager, Dr Damien Saurel and Prof Michel 65. Armand at CIC Energigune, Spain to discuss ongoing collaborations in Na battery devices and to investigate how their prototyping facilities operate, 28-29 September. Hutchison K. (2015) ‘Device industry employees as carers and educators: ethical issues’ given at the Centre for Applied 66. Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra 30 September. Gilbert F., Cook M (2015) Are Predictive and Advisory Brain Implants an Indispensable Feature of Autonomy, Montreal 67. Neuroethics Network Speaker Series plus visit for a fortnight at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), Canada, 1-13 October. Moulton SE (2015) Lecture on Electroactive Materials for Biomedical Research and collaborative talks, Mahidol 68. University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 October. Howlett P. (2015) Ionic Liquid and Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Electrolytes for Energy Storage, CIC Energigune, Spain, 6 69. October. Gilbert F., Cook M, O’Brien T, (2015) Poster: The Incursion of Predictive and Advisory Brain Devices: New Ethical Issues 70. Ahead? At the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, US, 15-16 October. Hutchison K. (2015) seminar ‘Device industry employees in the clinic: ethical issues’ to the Monash University Philosophy 71. department, 16 October.
72. Hutchison K., Sparrow R. (2015) Visit and discussion with Health Purchasing Victoria, October.
Wang C.(2015) Talk ‘Three Dimensional Organic Conductors with Tunable Properties for Energy Storage’ and visited 73. Profs Guoxiong Wang and Xinhe Bao at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 26 October. Pozo-Gonzalo C. (2015) visited Prof Peter Bruce at Oxford University to perform characterisation studies using surface 74. enhancement raman spectroscopy (SERS), 19-23 October.
75. Wang, X. (2015), Fibre Materials Research, KU Leuven, Belgium, 19 November.
Zhang J. (2015) Collaborative research visit to (i) Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, China and 76. (ii) East China Science and Technology University, China in December. in het Panhuis M., Warren H., Spinks G. (2015) visited Profs Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak at Harvard University, School 77. of Engineering and Applied Sciences to discuss hydrogel printing research for neural interfaces, 4 December.
78. Wang X. (2015) Wuhan Textile University, China to perform collaborative research.
Wang X. (2015) (i) University of Zagreb, Croatia; (ii) North Carolina State University, USA and (iii) Donghua University, 79. China to review facilities.
Appendix 6: Conference Presentations
List of ACES Conference presentations not listed in previous tables. Note that the lists included in this report do not contain presentations by ACES members at ACES run events.
ACES Conference Presentations Higgins M. (2015) “Watching” Single Proteins in Action on Material Surfaces using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy 1. at Australian Colloid and Interface Conference, Hobart 1-5 February. Paull, B., Kazarian, T., Deverell, J. (2015) Nano-structured functionalized porous layers in open tubular ‘parallel hole’ 2. capillary formats for bioaffinity applications at 7th Biennial Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 1-5 February.
3. Unwin, P (2015) at AMN-7, Nelson New Zealand, 8-12 February.
Annual Report 2015 97 ACES Conference Presentations Wagner P., Wagner K., Bijarbooneh F. H., Officer D. L. (2015) Developing New Low Cost Pigments for Dye Sensitised Solar 4. Cells, 7th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology AMN-7, Nelson, New Zealand, 8-12 February.
Wagner P., Wagner K., Bijarbooneh F. H., Officer D. L. (2015) Developing New Low Cost Pigments for Dye Sensitised Solar 5. Cells, 7th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology AMN-7, Nelson, New Zealand, 8-12 February.
Higgins, M (2015) “Watching” Single Proteins in Action on Material Surfaces using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy 6. at 7th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology AMN-7, Nelson, New Zealand, 8-11 February.
Breadmore M., Shallan A., Macdonald N., Smjekal P., Guijt R., Paull B. (2015) 3D printed microfluidic devices using 7. consumer-focused printers at Pittcon 2015, New Orleans, 8-12 March.
In het Panhuis, M (2015) Printed organic bioelectronics devices from ion-conducting tough hydrogels at MRS San 8. Francisco, USA, 7 April. Higgins M., Moulton S., Zhang H., Stewart E., Yue Z., Schirmer K., Bjorninen M., Zhang H., all gave talks or posters at 5th 9. International Symposium of Surface and Interface of Biomaterials and the 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials, Sydney, 7-10 April.
10. Officer, D (2015) Lecture at ARENA workshop, UNSW, 1 May.
Mozer, A. (2015), A Comparison of Experimental Techniques to Measure Charge Carrier Lifetime in Polymer/Fullerene 11. Solar Cells at HOPV15 conference, Rome, Italy, 10-13 May.
Cook, M. (2015) Sub-scalp seizure monitor for epilepsy management at the Antiepileptic Drug Trials XIII Conference 12. (Shark Tank Competition), Florida, United States, 13-15 May.
Mozer A., Clarke T. (2015), Photodegradation in encapsulated silole-based polymer:PCBM solar cells investigated using 13. transient absorption spectroscopy and charge extraction measurements at E-MRS conference, Lille, France, 11-15 May.
Fang J., Xie Z., Wallace G., Wang X. (2015), Carbon Fibre Microelectrodes for Neuroscience Applications at The Fiber 14. Society’s Spring 2015 Conference, Shanghai, China, 24-27 May. Zheng T., Yue Z., Tomaskovic-Crook E., Wallace G., Crook J., Higgins M.(2015) Electroceutical Materials: Wireless 15. and Targeted Electrical Stimulation of Cells at The Australian Society for Medical Research, NSW Scientific Meeting, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1 June. Paull B., Gupta V., Sandron S., Talebi M., Nesterenko P. (2015) 3D printed titanium capillary columns with internal 16. monoliths at HPLC2015, Geneva, 21-25 June. Gupta V.; Talebi M.; Beirne S.; Deverell J.; Sandon S.; Nesterenko P.N.; Thompson F.; Wallace G.G.; Paull B., ORAL 3D Printed Titanium Micro-Bore Columns Containing Polymer Monoliths For Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography; in 17. 42nd International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2015), Geneva, Switzerland, 21-25. June Gupta, V. (2015) Exploring multi-microchannel capillaries for production of higher pressure electro-osmotic pumps 18. housed within 3D printed polymer platforms, HPLC 2015, Geneva, 21-25 June. Sanz Rodriguez, S., Poynter, S., Curran, M., Haddad, P.R., Nesterenko, P.N., Paull, B. (2015) Capillary ion chromatography 19. with on-column focusing for ultra-trace analysis of organic and inorganic species in volume limited Antarctic ice core samples, HPLC2015, Geneva, 21-25 June. Gupta V.; Smejkal P.; Nesterenko P.N.; Paull B.; POSTER “Exploring Multi-Microchannel Capillaries For Production Of Higher Pressure Electro-Osmotic Pumps Housed Within 3D Printed Polymer Platforms”; in 42nd International 20. Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2015), Geneva, Switzerland June 21-25. Nesterenko, P.N., Duffy, E., Paull, B. Preparation and characterisation of trimodal porous graphitic carbon monolithic 21. composites containing detonation nanodiamonds and thermally induced nano-carbons, 12th International Conference on Advanced Carbon Nanostructures (ACNS2015), St. Petersburg, Russia, 29 June-3 July. Gilbert F (2015) Experimental use of invasive technologies in the Brain: The case of Predictive and Advisory Brain 22. Devices at the International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, 1-3 July.
Gilbert F, Cook M (2015) Are predictive Brain Implants an Indispensable feature of Autonomy? at Australasian 23. Association of Philosophy (AAP) conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 5-9 July.
24. Higgins, M. (2015) at 6th International Nanomedicine Conference, Sydney, 6-8 July.
Hutchison, K. (2015) presentation outlining the pacemaker case study and its implications for artificial organs at the 25. Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 7 July.
98 ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science ACES Conference Presentations
Mutlu R, Alici G (2015) Effect of Flexural Hinge Type on A Fully Compliant Prosthetic Finger, in Advanced Intelligent 26. Mechatronics (AIM), 2015 IEEE/ASME International Conference, Busan, Korea 7-11 July.
27. Macdonald, N. (2015) Presentation on 3D printed microfluidics given at ACROSS Annual Gathering 2015, Hobart, 9-10 July.
Coote, M. (2015) Effect of Lewis acids on radical polymerization – catalysis versus stereocontrol 35th Australasian 28. Polymer Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, 12 -15 July.
Mitchell R. T., P. Wagner, D. L. Officer (2015) Synthesis of amphiphilic porphyrin arrays for use in artificial photosynthetic 29. systems at the 12th International Conference on Material Chemistry, York, UK, 20-23 July.
Brzeczek A., K. Piwowar, W. Domagala, K. Walczak, P. Wagner (2015) Systematic extension of the donor units in BODIPY 30. dyes toward deep red and near infrared light emission at the 12th International Conference on Material Chemistry, York, UK, 20-23 July.
Wagner P., K. Wagner, D. L. Officer (2015) Spiropyran – a Colourful Mystery at the 12th International Conference on 31. Material Chemistry, York, UK, 20-23 July.
Cabot, J.M.; Breadmore, M.C.; Paull, B (2015) Thread-based electrofluidics at ACROSS the gathering II, Hobart, Australia, 32. 2-3 August.
Macdonald N.P.; Breadmore, M.C.; Paull, B. (2015) 3D printing for microfluidic applications at ACROSS the gathering II, 33. Hobart, Australia, 2-3 August.
C. D. Simpson, N. L. Haworth, S. Ciampi and M. L. Coote, External and Intramolecular Influences on Spiropyran - 34. Merocyanine Interconversion, Virtual Conference on Computational Chemistry (VCCC-2015), 1-31 August 2015 (Virtual Presentation).
NL Haworth, Q Wang, ML Coote, Predicting pKa – beyond small, rigid molecules, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, 35. Massachusetts, USA, 16-20 August, 2015.
Gupta V.; Talebi M.; Beirne S.; Deverell J.; Sandon S.; Nesterenko P.N.; Thompson F.; Wallace G.G.; Paull B., POSTER “3D 36. Printed Titanium Columns With Internal Monolithic Phases For Liquid Chromatography”; in 18th European Conference on Analytical Chemistry (Euroanalysis 2015), Bordeaux, France, 6-10 September.
Gilbert F.(2015) Invasive Brain Technologies for Treatment of Psychiatric conditions: Old and New Ethical Concerns at 37. 17th International conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Teatro del Lago, Chile, 29-31 October.
Fang, Jian (2015) Carbon Fibre Microelectrodes for Dopamine Sensing at ATC-13 Asian Textile Conference, Geelong, 3-6 38. November.
Tomaskovic-Crook, E., Puckert, Zhang, Higgins, Wallace, Crook (2015) Poster: Application of Methacrylate Gelatin 39. for Neural Induction of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research 2015 Conference, Stem Cells in the Hunter Valley, 8-10 Nov, 2015. Gu, Tomaskovic-Crook, Kapsa, Cook, Zhou, Wallace, Crook (2015) Poster: Bioprinting 3D Functional Neural Tissue Using 40. Human Neural and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research 2015 Conference, Stem Cells in the Hunter Valley, 8-10 Nov, 2015. Rahim, Tomaskovic-Crook, Wallace, Crook (2015) Poster: Effects of Conductive Polymer Mediated Electrical Stimulation 41. on Neural Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research 2015 Conference, Stem Cells in the Hunter Valley, 8-10 Nov, 2015.
42. Begic, Srdan (2015) Presented at Metal-Air battery research group meeting, Deakin University, November.
Hancock, L. (2015) ‘Regional Trade or Climate Chirade? Convergences, divergences and challenges of Australia’s 43. and India’s Energy and Renewables Policies’ presented at Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, Great Transformation: Recasting Regional Policy, 19-20 November.
Bakarich, S. (2015) ‘3D/4D Printing Hydrogel Composites: A Pathway to Functional Devices’ presented at Symposium C 44. on tough, smart and printable hydrogels at the MRS conference in Boston, 30 November 2015.
Warren, H. (2015) ‘Tough, Actuating, Conducting Hydrogels from PNIPAm, Alginate and Carbon Nanofibres’ at MRS 45. conference in Boston, 30 November 2015.
Higgins, M.J. (2015) Presented “Biomolecular Interactions at Organic Electrode Interfaces” at the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting 46. & Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 November-4 December.
Wang, C. (2015) Poster Three Dimensional Organic Conductors with Tunable Properties for Energy Storage at the Theo 47. Murphy Australian Frontiers of Science, Melbourne 9-11 December.
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