Upcoming events

XuanZhao Pan

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Abel Santos

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IPAS Student Research Presentation

Current IPAS students will give 3 minute talk on their research for two $500 cash prizes.

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Cheryl Law - IPAS Best Transdisciplinary Paper Award

 Identification and quantification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)—extremely toxic chemicals—remain challenging due to their chemical diversity, and their inert optical and chemical nature. Our work presents a new optical system utilizing chemically-functional sensing platform to maximize sensitivity and selectivity to PFAS by monitoring its optical characteristics upon chemical interaction

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Emily Ahern - IPAS Best Industry Collaboration Paper winner

 Building upon technology developed at UoA an industry collaboration with SmartSat CRC and QuantX Labs (previously Cryoclock) saw the initial stages of development of a clock suitable for small satellite applications. I presented the outcomes of this work to defence and industry stakeholders in the Inaugural SmartSat CRC Conference

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Katharina Richter - IPAS Best Early Career Research Paper winner

Best medical care with antibiotics increasingly fails to defeat superbugs, stressing the need for better treatments. In a transdisciplinary collaboration with an industry partner, we developed a new technology producing plasma-activated water: When lightning strikes water, a powerful treatment is created that could even kill superbugs like Golden Staph.
 

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Weikun Huang - IPAS Best Student Paper Award winner

This ‘state-of-the-art’ review describes the development and current status of calcium ion (Ca2+) sensors in tracing Ca2+ of cells, with a focus on the relevance of Ca2+ to insulin secretion in the pancreatic islets that govern metabolic homeostasis. Insights into Ca2+ sensors have a high potential to facilitate better understanding of islet function and development of novel interventions.

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In-situ Monitoring of Photocatalytic Processes within Optofluidic Hollow-Core Fibre Microreactors using Various Spectroscopic Techniques

In-situ Monitoring of Photocatalytic Processes within Optofluidic Hollow-Core Fibre Microreactors using Various Spectroscopic Techniques

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Researching the Effects of the Presence and Absence of Ionizing Radiation - The REPAIR Project in SNOLAB

Considerable attention has been given to understanding the biological effects of low-dose ionizing radiation exposure at levels slightly above background. However, relatively few studies have been performed to examine the inverse, where natural background radiation is removed.

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Yoshi Arita - Photopolymerisation with structured light: new directions in direct laser writing

Direct laser writing (DLW) by two-photon polymerisation is a well-established technique for printing three-dimensional structures with a sub-micrometre resolution by scanning a tightly focused laser beam along a predefined path [1].

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