Funded ARC Discovery Project
Stephen Moggach, Colette Boskovic and Paul Low
Molecular Dance: Choreographing Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Pressure.
This project aims to develop flexible, responsive, and energy-efficient electronics using molecular materials. The project will use pressure to fine-tune interactions between molecules and create new design paradigms for molecular electronics. The expected outcomes include a deeper understanding of how pressure modulates both intra- and intermolecular interactions, and how these modifications translate to bulk properties. This research has the potential to transform how we interact with technology and lead to the development of new technologies in areas such as sensors, electronics, and energy harvesting.
2026-2028
A massive welcome back to commencing PhD student Georgilett Pérez-Bedwell, who will be researching coordination chemistry based approaches to separating rare earth metals.
Congratulations to Honours student Vinicius Fagundes on the award of a $5,000 AINSE Pathway Scholarship for his research project “Improving Computational Predictions of Single Molecule Magnet Behaviour in Yb (III) complexes”. Vinicius is working under the supervision of Marcus and Colette.
Congratulations to former group members Zahra Zahir, Jett Janetzki and Moya Hay, whose recent article entitled ‘Predicting valence tautomerism in diverse cobalt-dioxolene complexes: elucidation of the role of ligands and solvent’ (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC04493A) has been selected and included in the Chemical Science 2024 most popular main group, inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic chemistry articles collection. This article came mainly from Zahra’s PhD research.
Big welcome to the group to new students: Vinicius Fagundes and Sebastian Crupi and welcome back to Dominic Brown!
Vinicius is starting his Honours degree, Sebastian an MSc and Dom is back for a PhD. All three are working on different aspects of rare earth chemistry and are co-supervised by Marcus Giansiracusa.
Congratulations to recently completed MSc student Georgilett Perez-Bedwell, who won the Australian Journal of Chemistry prize for best oral presentation at last week’s RACI Victorian Inorganic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, which was held at La Trobe University. Georgie’s talk was titled “Redox Activity in Cerium(III/IV) Complexes”.
It was a pleasure to be able to give my Margaret Sheil Leadership Award talk at QUT in front of Margaret!
Welcome to new MSc student Xixian Yin, who will be working on redox-active rare earth complexes.
Congratulations to Jett Janetzki on passing the PhD examination for his thesis entitled “Spin Crossover, Valence Tautomerism and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Complexes Containing Redox-Active Ligands”.
Congratulations to Zahra Zahir on passing the PhD examination for her thesis entitled “Valence Tautomerism in Cobalt-Dioxolene Complexes: A Combined Computational and Experimental Study”.