News
PhD student Jess Fredericksen and Professor Nicola Brasch attended the Maurice-Wilkins symposium in Dunedin in February and Jess presented a poster on her research.
Undergraduate student Duan Ferreira carried out research over the summer on the synthesis of N-hydroxy sulphinamides (HNO donors) with Professor Nicola Brasch, supported by the Dodd-Walls Centre.
In December, Professor Nicola Brasch was invited to give a keynote lecture at the As BIC 10 conference in Japan but was instead confined to her hotel room after contracting COVID at the NZIC conference one week earlier!
Events
AUT hosted events for TechWeek 2023 with our very own Taniela Lolohea speaking about his research on plasma printing for industry applications. This event was attended by a mixture of the general public, academics and potential investors.
Congratulations
Dr Taniela Lolohea published a paper entitled, “Hierarchial structures formed in an atmospheric plasma jet by polymerisation of an oxalic acid stabilised tungsten oxide nanosheet colloid” in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials (DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c00066).
Dr Jack Chen and Chloe Ren published a book chapter on “Dynamic self-assembled supramolecular catalysts” in the book “Supramolecular technology: advanced design of self-assembled functional materials” published by Wiley GmbH (DOI: 10.1002/9783527834044.ch17). The book chapter describes how self-assembly and cooperativity can be combined to generate catalytic systems with stimuli-responsive properties, leading to out-of-equilibrium systems.
Dr Jack Chen and Dr Cassandra Fleming’s book chapter on “Seven-membered rings” is now online as part of the book series “Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry", published by Elselvier (DOI:10.1016/B978-0-443-18939-5.00016-0).
Chloe Ren successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled, “Self-assembly of amphiphiles for the modular formation of catalysts and sensors” and was supervised by Dr Jack Chen.
