Congratulations to PhD student Ben Mashford who was awarded the ANFF (Australian National Fabrication Facility) Poster Prize at ICONN 2008.

Congratulations also to Ann Gooding and Carolina Novo who were both awarded the ARCNN Young Nanotechnology Ambassador Award.

They are pictured below with the convenor of the ARC Nanotechnology network, Professor Jagadish, Professor Max Lu from UQ and Dr Ian McKinnon from the ARC.

Congratulations to Dr Alison Funston who has been awarded a full time fellowship for 18 months. This fellowship was awarded by the The Career Interruptions Fellowship Committee who met on Wednesday 7 May to consider 21 meritorious applications to the program. Well done to Alison who was one of two applicants who received this award.

Also, congratulations to Dr Tich-Lam Nguyen who has been awarded an Early Career Researcher (ECR) grant for her project: “Novel p-SnS Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells” for 2008.

Ann Gooding shows that CdSe quantum dots can be negatively charged reversibly using electrochemical charging of nanocrystal monolayers in a paper just released in ACS Nano.

Carolina Novo and Alison Funston discuss the measurement of the surface plasmon band of single gold nanorods in a new Feature Article in J. Mat. Chem. with collaborator Greg Hartland and also the effect of the substrate on the colour of gold nanocrystals in J. Phys. Chem. C..

A new model for quantum dot blinking has been released in J. Phys. Chem. C. based on data obtained by Daniel Gomez and collaborator Mark Fernee from UQ.

New Group Members:

We welcome a new PhD student, Brandon MacDonald, from Canada and postdoc Dr Guoliang Zhen, a staff scientist from CSIRO MHT.

Latest Publications:

See Publications page for our most recent publications list and view our latest releases for 2008.