Welcome Haseena!

Welcome to new PhD student Haseena Ismail, who joins us from Sri Lanka.   Haseena will be co-supervised by Lars Goerigk and working to develop charge-neutral switchable metal complexes for better translation into devices.

Awards for Jett and Maja

Congratulations to Boskovic Group Members Jett Janetzki and Maja Dunstan who were presented with awards at the Annual School of Chemistry Student Awards ceremony yesterday.  Jett won the Professor Kernot Research Scholarship, and Stanley Harvey Prize (Chemistry) and J H Harvey Prize for his MSc results and Maja won the prize for the Best 3rd Year Laboratory Demonstrator.

Colette joins the ICMM International Advisory Board

Congratulations to Colette, who has been invited to join the International Advisory Board member for the International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets (ICMM).  The next ICMM will be held in Nanjing in 2023.

IC21 Prizes for Maja and Vincent

Congratulations to Maja and Vincent on winning prizes at last week’s virtual RACI Inorganic Chemistry Division meeting IC21!

MSc student Vincent Nadurata won the Chem Comm prize for his poster “Explorations in the realm of valence tautomerism: rich redox activity and solvatochromism in a series of heteroleptic Co complexes”

PhD student Maja Dunstan won a prestigious Don Stranks award for her talk and poster “Crystal field splitting and exchange coupling in lanthanoid(III)-semiquinonate complexes”

Welcome Peter

Welcome (back) to new research assistant Peter Hall, who will be joining us for a collaborative project with Trevor Smith and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Exciton Science.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers review for Vincent!

Congratulations to MSc student Vincent Nadurata on the publication of his review article: “Switching metal complexes via intramolecular electron transfer: connections with solvatochromism” in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.

ACMM Poster Prizes

Congratulations to Moya and Zahra on winning poster prizes at the recent inaugural Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ACMM) held virtually in Japan.

Welcome Chelsea!

Welcome to new MSc student Chelsea Ohlson, who will be investigating redox properties of lanthanoid complexes.

Chem. Eur. J. Reviews Showcase for Moya

Congratulations to Moya on the selection of her review “Lanthanoid Complexes as Molecular Materials: The Redox Approach” for the Reviews Showcase in Chemistry A European Journal.

ARC LIEF Grant for Magnetometry Facility

Congratulations to Colette, who has led a successful ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) bid for a Magnetometry Facility for Molecular and Nanoscale Materials involving the University of Melbourne, RMIT Univesity, Monash University and the University of Tasmania.  The funds will allow the purchase and installation of a SQUID Magnetometer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and the construction of a Dynamic Mode Torque Cantilever Magnetometer at RMIT University.

Magnetometry Facility for Molecular and Nanoscale Materials

Associate Professor Colette Boskovic; Associate Professor Lan Wang; Professor Paul Mulvaney; Professor Cameron Jones; Dr Rebecca Fuller; Dr Torben Daeneke; Associate Professor Brendan Abrahams; Associate Professor Jianzhen Ou; Dr David Turner; Professor Dan Li; Associate Professor Lisandra Martin; Associate Professor Alessandro Soncini

Advances in information and communications technology are critically dependent on increasing the capacity, speed and energy efficiency of logic and memory electronic devices. These improvements can be achieved by reducing component size to the nanoscale and using magnetic spin as well as charge. This Project aims to establish Australia’s first integrated Magnetometry Facility for determining the magnetic properties of a range of nanoscale materials down to the level of individual nanomagnets. The Facility will provide crucial characterisation capabilities for Australian researchers, building capacity to develop new magnetic nanomaterials and devices for high-density data storage, quantum computing and spintronics.

$620,000