Research Assistant & Laboratory Manager
Nanoscience Laboratory
Bio21 Institute and School of Chemistry
Bio21 Institute
30 Flemington Road
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, 3010
Australia
| Telephone: | +61 3 8344 2421 |
| Fax: | +61 3 9348 1595 |
| e-mail: | tlnguyen@unimelb.edu.au |
Syntheses of quantum dots, metal colloids and doped metal oxides; Quantum dot sensitized solar cells; Energy transfer in quantum dot : upconversion phosphor systems; Silica coating of nanocrystals
Undertaking industry contact work: nano-crystals synthesis
Laboratory Management: day to day running of the lab including maintaining equipment and stocktaking.
Tailoring the structure of nanomaterials for optical and energy conversion applications.
2000-2005 – PhD Thesis, Ass. Prof. Colin Rix and Prof. David Mainwaring, RMIT University
Project: "Sol-gel Synthesis of Nano-Bimetallic Oxide Thin Films" - Developing low temperature sol-gel routes to materials that allow the control of their microstructure for Chromium- and Manganese-doped Titania for thin-film gas sensors.
Summer 1999-2000 – Research Assistant, Ass. Prof. Charles Young, Melbourne University
Project: "The chemistry of calixarene tungsten and molybdenum compounds for the study of Mo and W containing enzymes" - Synthesis and characterization of molybdenum and tungsten compounds.
1998 – 1999 – Honours Thesis, Dr Colin Rix, RMIT University
Project: "Transition Metal Complexes with Iminodiacetate ligands" - Studying the influence of the nature of the ligands on the electronic properties and redox behaviour of the metal centre in cobalt(III) and chromium(III) – Iminodiacetate complexes.
Research Assistant, Dr Mark Humphrey, Australian National University (1998 – 1999)
Project: "An examination of Ruthenium cluster chemistry with phosphine ligand" - Syntheses and characterizations of Ruthenium clusters containing dendrimers with P-donor phosphine ligands.
2008 ECR grant, University of Melbourne
2001 Markerry Award for Outstanding Research at Postgraduate Level, RMIT University
2001 Postgraduate Research Grant, CRC for Microtechnology
2000 Australian Postgraduate Research Award, Federal Government Scholarship
1999 Vacation Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, Melbourne University
1999 Commendations for Academic achievements, RMIT University
1998 Vacation Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, Australian National University
1997 Golden Key National Honour Society Award, RMIT University
1997 Selected for the RMIT University Dean's List
1997 Commendations for Academic achievements, RMIT University
Lucas, N.T., Cifuentes, M.P., Nguyen, L.T. and Humphrey, M.G. “Ruthenium Cluster Chemistry with Ph2PC6H4-4-CCH” Journal of Cluster Science, 2001, 12, 201-221.
P. Murugaraj, T.L. Nguyen, C. Rix and D. Mainwaring “Enhanced low temperature electrical response of nanocrystalline doped titanium oxide thin films” Proc ACUN-5 "Developments in Composites: Advanced, Infrastructural, Natural and Nanocomposites", 11-14 July 2006, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Lam Tich Nguyen, Pandiyan Murugaraj, Colin Rix, David Mainwaring, “Use of Viscoelastic Properties of Metal Alkoxide Sols to Control the Microstructure and Quality of Spin-coated Sol-gel Thin-films” SPIE 2003, December 16-18, Melbourne, Australia.
J.M Booth, L. Nguyen, C.J. Rix, D.E. Mainwaring, Y.X. Li, W. Wlodarski, S.H. Moslith and S. Russo, “Study of a Cr Doped TiO2 Derived from Sol-Gel Process for Gas Sensing Applications”, COMMAD 2000, Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Dec. 6-8, 2000 Melbourne, Australia.
Tich Lam Nguyen, Andrew Hind, “The measurement of absorption edge band gap properties of novel nanocomposite materials”. Application article for Varian Inc..