Officer, David L.

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2020	Electrochemical and optical aspects of cobalt meso-carbazole substituted porphyrin complexes Published In Electrochimica Acta
2020	Highly ordered mesoporous carbon/iron porphyrin nanoreactor for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2020	Investigation of Ferrocene Linkers in β-Substituted Porphyrins Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2020	Polyterthiophenes Cross-Linked with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes for Molecular Architecture of Optically and Electrochemically Tunable Materials Published In ChemElectroChem
2020	Porous PNIPAm hydrogels: Overcoming diffusion-governed hydrogel actuation Published In Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical
2019	Bio-Inspired Stretchable and Contractible Tough Fiber by the Hybridization of GO/MWNT/Polyurethane Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Dual Droplet Functionality: Phototaxis and Photopolymerization Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Energy efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO using a three-dimensional porphyrin/graphene hydrogel Published In Energy and Environmental Science
2019	Optimizing Electron Densities of Ni-N-C Complexes by Hybrid Coordination for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Published In ChemSusChem
2019	Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces Published In Nature Communications
2019	Self-Healing Electrode with High Electrical Conductivity and Mechanical Strength for Artificial Electronic Skin Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Self-healing graphene oxide-based composite for electromagnetic interference shielding Published In Carbon
2019	Steric Modification of a Cobalt Phthalocyanine/Graphene Catalyst to Give Enhanced and Stable Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction to CO Published In ACS Energy Letters
2019	When "donor-Acceptor" Dyes Delocalize: A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of D-A Dyes Using "michler's Base" Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2018	A Porphyrin/Graphene Framework: A Highly Efficient and Robust Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2018	Aldehyde isomers of porphyrin: A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Journal of Molecular Structure
2018	Application of terpyridyl ligands to tune the optical and electrochemical properties of a conducting polymer Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2018	Computational and Spectroscopic Analysis of β-Indandione Modified Zinc Porphyrins Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2018	Efficient and Stable Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Combination of Phosphonium Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals with Silica Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2018	Modulation of donor-acceptor distance in a series of carbazole push-pull dyes; A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Molecules
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published In Advanced Materials
2018	Silicon as a ubiquitous contaminant in graphene derivatives with significant impact on device performance Published In Nature Communications
2018	Solid-State Poly(ionic liquid) Gels for Simultaneous CO2 Adsorption and Electrochemical Reduction Published In Energy Technology: generation, conversion, storage, distribution
2018	Thermal actuation of hydrogels from PNIPAm, alginate, and carbon nanofibres Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
2018	Use of alkylated, amphiphilic zinc porphyrins to disperse individualized SWCNTs Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2017	3D printable conducting hydrogels containing chemically converted graphene Published In Nanoscale
2017	Choosing the right nanoparticle size - designing novel ZnO electrode architectures for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2017	Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes Published In Chemical Science
2017	Electrotactic ionic liquid droplets Published In Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers
2017	Fabrication of 3D structures from graphene-based biocomposites Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B
2017	Functional Electro-materials Based on Ferricyanide Redox-active Ionic Liquids Published In Electrochimica Acta
2017	Synthesis and Light-Harvesting Potential of Cyanovinyl β-Substituted Porphyrins and Dyads Published In European Journal of Organic Chemistry
2016	A high energy density solar rechargeable redox battery Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2016	A novel modified terpyridine derivative as a model molecule to study kinetic-based optical spectroscopic ion determination methods Published In Synthetic Metals
2016	Effect of π-conjugation on electrochemical properties of poly(terthiophene)s 3′-substituted with fullerene C60 Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2016	High performance Fe porphyrin/ionic liquid co-catalyst for electrochemical CO2 reduction Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2016	Processable 2D materials beyond graphene: MoS2 liquid crystals and fibres Published In Nanoscale
2016	Solar rechargeable redox battery based on polysulfide electrochemistry Published In ECS Transactions
2016	Synthesis and characterization of covalently linked graphene/chitosan composites Published In Journal of Metals
2015	A bio-friendly, green route to processable, biocompatible graphene/polymer composites Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	A simple one step process for enhancement of titanium foil dye sensitised solar cell anodes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2015	A versatile binder-free TiO2 paste for dye-sensitized solar cells Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	Chemically converted graphene: scalable chemistries to enable processing and fabrication Published In NPG Asia Materials
2015	Electrochemically induced synthesis of poly (2,6-carbazole) Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2015	Flexible tuning of unsaturated β-substituents on Zn porphyrins: A synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2015	Probing donor-acceptor interactions in meso-substituted Zn(II) porphyrins using resonance raman spectroscopy and computational chemistry Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2015	Processable conducting graphene/chitosan hydrogels for tissue engineering Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B
2014	Anhydrous organic dispersions of highly reduced chemically converted graphene Published In Carbon
2014	Electrochemical and photoelectronic studies on C60-pyrrolidine- functionalised poly(terthiophene) Published In Electrochimica Acta
2014	Extrusion printed graphene/ polycaprolactone/ composites for tissue engineering Published In Materials Science Forum
2014	Graphene can pave the way for Australian manufacturing Published In The Conversation
2014	Photo-chemopropulsion – light-stimulated movement of microdroplets Published In Advanced Materials
2013	A light-assisted, polymeric water oxidation catalyst that selectively oxidizes seawater with a low onset potential Published In Chemical Science
2013	A merocyanine-based conductive polymer Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry C
2013	A nonconjugated bridge in dimer-sensitized solar cells retards charge recombination without decreasing charge injection efficiency Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2013	A study of TiO2 binder-free paste prepared for low temperature dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Journal of Materials Research
2013	Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Advanced Materials
2013	Cation exchange at semiconducting oxide surfaces: Origin of light-induced performance increases in porphyrin dye-sensitized solar cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2013	Covalently linked biocompatible graphene/polycaprolactone composites for tissue engineering Published In Carbon
2013	In vitro growth and differentiation of primary myoblasts on thiophene based conducting polymers Published In Biomaterials Science
2013	Light harvesting and light activatable protein maquettes designed from scratch Published In Biophysical Journal
2013	Novel nanographene/porphyrin hybrids-preparation, characterization, and application in solar energy conversion schemes Published In Chemical Science
2013	Optical switching of protein interactions on photosensitive-electroactive polymers measured by atomic force microscopy Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2013	Synthesis, characterization, and photophysics of oxadiazole- and diphenylaniline-substituted Re(I) and Cu(I) complexes Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry
2013	The electronic characterization of conjugated aryl-substituted 2,5-bis(2-thien-2-ylethenyl) thiophene-based oligomers Published In Journal of Molecular Structure
2012	A porphyrin-doped polymer catalyzes selective, light-assisted water oxidation in seawater Published In Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2012	A single component conducting polymer hydrogel as a scaffold for tissue engineering Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2012	Carbon nanotube/graphene nanocomposite as efficient counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Nanotechnology
2012	Direct exfoliation of graphite with a porphyrin - Creating functionalizable nanographene hybrids Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Electrically induced disassembly of electroactive multilayer films fabricated from water soluble polythiophenes Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2012	Electrodeposition of pyrrole and 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)thiophene copolymer for supercapacitor applications Published In Synthetic Metals
2012	Physicochemical study of spiropyran-terthiophene derivatives: photochemistry and thermodynamics Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2012	Porphyrins for dye-sensitised solar cells: New insights into efficiency-determining electron transfer steps Published In Chemical Communications
2012	The effect of reduced graphene oxide addition on the superconductivity of MgB2 Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2012	Towards hydrogen energy: progress on catalysts for water splitting Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2011	A multiswitchable poly(terthiophene) bearing a spiropyran functionality: understanding photo- and electrochemical control Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2011	An erodible polythiophene-based composite for biomedical applications Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2011	Coexistence of femtosecond- and nonelectron-injecting dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells: inhomogeniety limits the efficiency Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2011	Determining the orientation and molecular packing of organic dyes on a TiO2 surface using X-ray reflectometry Published In Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
2011	Electrochemical and UV-Vis/ESR spectroelectrochemical properties of thienylenevinylenes substituted by a 4-cyanostyryl group Published In Electrochimica Acta
2011	Molecular systems for improving gene mutation correction in muscle disease Published In Journal of Gene Medicine
2011	Porphyrin dye-sensitised solar cells utilising a solid-state electrolyte Published In Chemical Communications
2011	Remarkable synergistic effects in a mixed porphyrin dye-sensitized TiO2 film Published In Applied Physics Letters
2011	Significant performance improvement of porphyrin-sensitized TiO2 solar cells under white light illumination Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2011	Spectroscopic and computational study of β-ethynylphenylene substituted zinc and free-base porphyrins Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2011	Why do some alkoxybromothiophenes spontaneously polymerize? Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2010	Creating Conductive Structures for Cell Growth: Growth and alignment of Myogenic cell types on polythiophenes. Published In Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
2010	Functionalised polyterthiophenes as anode materials in polymer/polymer batteries Published In Synthetic Metals
2010	Indanedione-substituted poly(terthiophene)s: Processable conducting polymers with intramolecular charge transfer interactions Published In Macromolecules
2010	Injection Limitations in a Series of Porphyrin Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2010	Ionic liquid electrolyte porphyrin dye sensitised solar cells Published In Chemical Communications
2010	Understanding the ground- and excited-state photophysics of oxadiazole and triarylamine substituents in copper and rhenium metal complexes Published In AIP Conference Proceedings
2009	Investigations of electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties (UV-Vis, EPR) of thiophene trimer derivatives substituted with phenylvinyl groups. Published In Polimery
2009	A spectroscopic and DFT study of thiophene-substituted metalloporphyrins as dye-sensitized solar cell dyes Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2009	Electronic Studies on Oligothienylenevinylenes: Understanding the Nature of Their Ground and Excited Electronic States Published In ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry
2009	Energy transfer processes in electronically coupled porphyrin hetero-dyads connected at the beta position Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2009	High molar extinction coefficient ruthenium sensitizers for thin film dye-sensitized solar cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2009	Hinged bis-porphyrin scaffolds I. The synthesis of a new porphyrin diene and its role in constructing hinged porphyrin dyads and cavity systems Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2009	Improved performance of porphyrin-based dye sensitised solar cells by phosphinic acid surface treatment Published In Energy and Environmental Science
2009	Linker conjugation effects in rhenium(I) bifunctional hole transport/emitter molecules Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2009	Raman frequency dispersion studies of substituted polythiophene films Published In International Journal of Nanotechnology
2009	Targeted corrective gene conversion (TCGC): Molecular systems for improved correction of gene mutations in muscle Published In Journal of Gene Medicine
2009	Tuning the optical properties of ZnTPP using carbonyl ring fusion Published In Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
2009	Zn-Zn Porphyrin Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells: Toward 3-D Light Harvesting Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008	An alternative synthesis of B-pyrrolic acetylene-substituted porphyrins Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2008	Extending the porphyrin core: synthesis and photophysical characterization of porphyrins with pi-conjugated beta-substituents Published In New Journal of Chemistry: a journal for new directions in chemistry
2008	Functionalising carbon nanotubes Published In International Journal of Nanotechnology
2008	The origin of open circuit voltage of porphyrin-sensitised TiO2 solar cells Published In Chemical Communications
2007	(Z)-2-Phenyl-3-(2,2':5',2''-terthiophen-3'-yl)acrylonitrile Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of the Neutral and Radical Cation Species of Conjugated Aryl-Substituted 2,5-Bis(2-thien-2-ylethenyl)thiophene-Based Oligomers Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2007	A modular procedure for the synthesis of functionalised b-substituted terthiophene monomers for conducting polymer applications Published In Tetrahedron: the international journal for the rapid publication of full original research papers and critical reviews in organic chemistr
2007	A readily-prepared, convergent, oxygen reduction electrocatalyst Published In Chemical Communications
2007	Computational study of supramolecular bis-porphyrin 'molecular tweezers' Published In Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
2007	Electrochemical actuation properties of a novel solution-processable polythiophene Published In Electrochimica Acta
2007	Electrodeposition and characterisation of polypyrroles containing sulfonated carbon nanotubes Published In Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
2007	Facile synthesis of acetylene-substituted terthiophenes Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2007	Flip-type disorder in 3-substituted 2,2':5',2''-terthiophenes Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
2007	Highly Efficient Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2007	Modulation of electronic properties in neutral and oxidized oligothiophenes substituted with conjugated polyaromatic hydrocarbons Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2007	Novel fullerene-functionalised poly(terthiophenes) Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2007	Understanding and improving solid-state polymer/C60-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells using ternary porphyrin blends Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2007	Zinc-Porphyrin Phosphonate coordination: structural control through a Zinc Phosphoryl-Oxygen interaction Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	A novel spiropyran-conducting polymer biosensor chip with electrochemical and photochemical sensing properties Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013
2013	Negative phototaxis behavior of organic droplets in channels Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2021	Bioelectronics: addressing the biointerface challenge Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2014 - 2020	ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2019	Photoactive droplet swimmers - concepts for chemical driving and quantification Awarded by: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Funding Scheme: Australia Germany Joint Cooperation Scheme
2015	The development of chemopropulsion-based fluidic transport systems Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012 - 2015	Artificial photosynthesis: developing a simple, functional light harvesting porphyrin-protein ensemble Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012	A prototype scanning hellum atom microscope (SHeM) for soft Materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Facility for in-situ NMR of advanced materials and devices Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Hot exciton dissociation in donor . acceptor organic solar cells - breaking the efficiency limit of organic photovoltaics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2010	Regional facility for molecular characterisation and mapping Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Three dimensional polymer structures for bionic applications Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Super Science Fellowship
2009	Polymers for skeletal muscle Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2008	Functionalised nanostructured polythiophenes: novel platforms for bionics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2008	Organic Solar Cells Fabrication and Characterisation Facility. Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
	BIOFABrication for Future Manufacturing Awarded by: European Commission Funding Scheme: Industrialised Countries Instrument Education Cooperation Programme (ICI ECP)

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Novel Routes for enhanced Carbon Capture Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids	Sethupathy Kuppanacharry, Praneshwar
Doctor of Philosophy		Baker, Carly

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2020	Electrochemical and optical aspects of cobalt meso-carbazole substituted porphyrin complexes Published In Electrochimica Acta
2020	Highly ordered mesoporous carbon/iron porphyrin nanoreactor for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2020	Investigation of Ferrocene Linkers in β-Substituted Porphyrins Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2020	Polyterthiophenes Cross-Linked with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes for Molecular Architecture of Optically and Electrochemically Tunable Materials Published In ChemElectroChem
2020	Porous PNIPAm hydrogels: Overcoming diffusion-governed hydrogel actuation Published In Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical
2019	Bio-Inspired Stretchable and Contractible Tough Fiber by the Hybridization of GO/MWNT/Polyurethane Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Dual Droplet Functionality: Phototaxis and Photopolymerization Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Energy efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO using a three-dimensional porphyrin/graphene hydrogel Published In Energy and Environmental Science
2019	Optimizing Electron Densities of Ni-N-C Complexes by Hybrid Coordination for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Published In ChemSusChem
2019	Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces Published In Nature Communications
2019	Self-Healing Electrode with High Electrical Conductivity and Mechanical Strength for Artificial Electronic Skin Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Self-healing graphene oxide-based composite for electromagnetic interference shielding Published In Carbon
2019	Steric Modification of a Cobalt Phthalocyanine/Graphene Catalyst to Give Enhanced and Stable Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction to CO Published In ACS Energy Letters
2019	When "donor-Acceptor" Dyes Delocalize: A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of D-A Dyes Using "michler's Base" Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2018	A Porphyrin/Graphene Framework: A Highly Efficient and Robust Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2018	Aldehyde isomers of porphyrin: A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Journal of Molecular Structure
2018	Application of terpyridyl ligands to tune the optical and electrochemical properties of a conducting polymer Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2018	Computational and Spectroscopic Analysis of β-Indandione Modified Zinc Porphyrins Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2018	Efficient and Stable Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Combination of Phosphonium Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals with Silica Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2018	Modulation of donor-acceptor distance in a series of carbazole push-pull dyes; A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Molecules
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published In Advanced Materials
2018	Silicon as a ubiquitous contaminant in graphene derivatives with significant impact on device performance Published In Nature Communications
2018	Solid-State Poly(ionic liquid) Gels for Simultaneous CO2 Adsorption and Electrochemical Reduction Published In Energy Technology: generation, conversion, storage, distribution
2018	Thermal actuation of hydrogels from PNIPAm, alginate, and carbon nanofibres Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
2018	Use of alkylated, amphiphilic zinc porphyrins to disperse individualized SWCNTs Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2017	3D printable conducting hydrogels containing chemically converted graphene Published In Nanoscale
2017	Choosing the right nanoparticle size - designing novel ZnO electrode architectures for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2017	Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes Published In Chemical Science
2017	Electrotactic ionic liquid droplets Published In Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: international journal devoted to research and development of physical and chemical transducers
2017	Fabrication of 3D structures from graphene-based biocomposites Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B
2017	Functional Electro-materials Based on Ferricyanide Redox-active Ionic Liquids Published In Electrochimica Acta
2017	Synthesis and Light-Harvesting Potential of Cyanovinyl β-Substituted Porphyrins and Dyads Published In European Journal of Organic Chemistry
2016	A high energy density solar rechargeable redox battery Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2016	A novel modified terpyridine derivative as a model molecule to study kinetic-based optical spectroscopic ion determination methods Published In Synthetic Metals
2016	Effect of π-conjugation on electrochemical properties of poly(terthiophene)s 3′-substituted with fullerene C60 Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2016	High performance Fe porphyrin/ionic liquid co-catalyst for electrochemical CO2 reduction Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2016	Processable 2D materials beyond graphene: MoS2 liquid crystals and fibres Published In Nanoscale
2016	Solar rechargeable redox battery based on polysulfide electrochemistry Published In ECS Transactions
2016	Synthesis and characterization of covalently linked graphene/chitosan composites Published In Journal of Metals
2015	A bio-friendly, green route to processable, biocompatible graphene/polymer composites Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	A simple one step process for enhancement of titanium foil dye sensitised solar cell anodes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2015	A versatile binder-free TiO2 paste for dye-sensitized solar cells Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	Chemically converted graphene: scalable chemistries to enable processing and fabrication Published In NPG Asia Materials
2015	Electrochemically induced synthesis of poly (2,6-carbazole) Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2015	Flexible tuning of unsaturated β-substituents on Zn porphyrins: A synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2015	Probing donor-acceptor interactions in meso-substituted Zn(II) porphyrins using resonance raman spectroscopy and computational chemistry Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2015	Processable conducting graphene/chitosan hydrogels for tissue engineering Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B
2014	Anhydrous organic dispersions of highly reduced chemically converted graphene Published In Carbon
2014	Electrochemical and photoelectronic studies on C60-pyrrolidine- functionalised poly(terthiophene) Published In Electrochimica Acta
2014	Extrusion printed graphene/ polycaprolactone/ composites for tissue engineering Published In Materials Science Forum
2014	Graphene can pave the way for Australian manufacturing Published In The Conversation
2014	Photo-chemopropulsion – light-stimulated movement of microdroplets Published In Advanced Materials
2013	A light-assisted, polymeric water oxidation catalyst that selectively oxidizes seawater with a low onset potential Published In Chemical Science
2013	A merocyanine-based conductive polymer Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry C
2013	A nonconjugated bridge in dimer-sensitized solar cells retards charge recombination without decreasing charge injection efficiency Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2013	A study of TiO2 binder-free paste prepared for low temperature dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Journal of Materials Research
2013	Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Advanced Materials
2013	Cation exchange at semiconducting oxide surfaces: Origin of light-induced performance increases in porphyrin dye-sensitized solar cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2013	Covalently linked biocompatible graphene/polycaprolactone composites for tissue engineering Published In Carbon
2013	In vitro growth and differentiation of primary myoblasts on thiophene based conducting polymers Published In Biomaterials Science
2013	Light harvesting and light activatable protein maquettes designed from scratch Published In Biophysical Journal
2013	Novel nanographene/porphyrin hybrids-preparation, characterization, and application in solar energy conversion schemes Published In Chemical Science
2013	Optical switching of protein interactions on photosensitive-electroactive polymers measured by atomic force microscopy Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2013	Synthesis, characterization, and photophysics of oxadiazole- and diphenylaniline-substituted Re(I) and Cu(I) complexes Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry
2013	The electronic characterization of conjugated aryl-substituted 2,5-bis(2-thien-2-ylethenyl) thiophene-based oligomers Published In Journal of Molecular Structure
2012	A porphyrin-doped polymer catalyzes selective, light-assisted water oxidation in seawater Published In Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2012	A single component conducting polymer hydrogel as a scaffold for tissue engineering Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2012	Carbon nanotube/graphene nanocomposite as efficient counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Nanotechnology
2012	Direct exfoliation of graphite with a porphyrin - Creating functionalizable nanographene hybrids Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Electrically induced disassembly of electroactive multilayer films fabricated from water soluble polythiophenes Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2012	Electrodeposition of pyrrole and 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)thiophene copolymer for supercapacitor applications Published In Synthetic Metals
2012	Physicochemical study of spiropyran-terthiophene derivatives: photochemistry and thermodynamics Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2012	Porphyrins for dye-sensitised solar cells: New insights into efficiency-determining electron transfer steps Published In Chemical Communications
2012	The effect of reduced graphene oxide addition on the superconductivity of MgB2 Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2012	Towards hydrogen energy: progress on catalysts for water splitting Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2011	A multiswitchable poly(terthiophene) bearing a spiropyran functionality: understanding photo- and electrochemical control Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2011	An erodible polythiophene-based composite for biomedical applications Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry
2011	Coexistence of femtosecond- and nonelectron-injecting dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells: inhomogeniety limits the efficiency Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2011	Determining the orientation and molecular packing of organic dyes on a TiO2 surface using X-ray reflectometry Published In Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
2011	Electrochemical and UV-Vis/ESR spectroelectrochemical properties of thienylenevinylenes substituted by a 4-cyanostyryl group Published In Electrochimica Acta
2011	Molecular systems for improving gene mutation correction in muscle disease Published In Journal of Gene Medicine
2011	Porphyrin dye-sensitised solar cells utilising a solid-state electrolyte Published In Chemical Communications
2011	Remarkable synergistic effects in a mixed porphyrin dye-sensitized TiO2 film Published In Applied Physics Letters
2011	Significant performance improvement of porphyrin-sensitized TiO2 solar cells under white light illumination Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2011	Spectroscopic and computational study of β-ethynylphenylene substituted zinc and free-base porphyrins Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2011	Why do some alkoxybromothiophenes spontaneously polymerize? Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2010	Creating Conductive Structures for Cell Growth: Growth and alignment of Myogenic cell types on polythiophenes. Published In Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
2010	Functionalised polyterthiophenes as anode materials in polymer/polymer batteries Published In Synthetic Metals
2010	Indanedione-substituted poly(terthiophene)s: Processable conducting polymers with intramolecular charge transfer interactions Published In Macromolecules
2010	Injection Limitations in a Series of Porphyrin Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2010	Ionic liquid electrolyte porphyrin dye sensitised solar cells Published In Chemical Communications
2010	Understanding the ground- and excited-state photophysics of oxadiazole and triarylamine substituents in copper and rhenium metal complexes Published In AIP Conference Proceedings
2009	Investigations of electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties (UV-Vis, EPR) of thiophene trimer derivatives substituted with phenylvinyl groups. Published In Polimery
2009	A spectroscopic and DFT study of thiophene-substituted metalloporphyrins as dye-sensitized solar cell dyes Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2009	Electronic Studies on Oligothienylenevinylenes: Understanding the Nature of Their Ground and Excited Electronic States Published In ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry
2009	Energy transfer processes in electronically coupled porphyrin hetero-dyads connected at the beta position Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2009	High molar extinction coefficient ruthenium sensitizers for thin film dye-sensitized solar cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2009	Hinged bis-porphyrin scaffolds I. The synthesis of a new porphyrin diene and its role in constructing hinged porphyrin dyads and cavity systems Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2009	Improved performance of porphyrin-based dye sensitised solar cells by phosphinic acid surface treatment Published In Energy and Environmental Science
2009	Linker conjugation effects in rhenium(I) bifunctional hole transport/emitter molecules Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2009	Raman frequency dispersion studies of substituted polythiophene films Published In International Journal of Nanotechnology
2009	Targeted corrective gene conversion (TCGC): Molecular systems for improved correction of gene mutations in muscle Published In Journal of Gene Medicine
2009	Tuning the optical properties of ZnTPP using carbonyl ring fusion Published In Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
2009	Zn-Zn Porphyrin Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells: Toward 3-D Light Harvesting Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008	An alternative synthesis of B-pyrrolic acetylene-substituted porphyrins Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2008	Extending the porphyrin core: synthesis and photophysical characterization of porphyrins with pi-conjugated beta-substituents Published In New Journal of Chemistry: a journal for new directions in chemistry
2008	Functionalising carbon nanotubes Published In International Journal of Nanotechnology
2008	The origin of open circuit voltage of porphyrin-sensitised TiO2 solar cells Published In Chemical Communications
2007	(Z)-2-Phenyl-3-(2,2':5',2''-terthiophen-3'-yl)acrylonitrile Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of the Neutral and Radical Cation Species of Conjugated Aryl-Substituted 2,5-Bis(2-thien-2-ylethenyl)thiophene-Based Oligomers Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2007	A modular procedure for the synthesis of functionalised b-substituted terthiophene monomers for conducting polymer applications Published In Tetrahedron: the international journal for the rapid publication of full original research papers and critical reviews in organic chemistr
2007	A readily-prepared, convergent, oxygen reduction electrocatalyst Published In Chemical Communications
2007	Computational study of supramolecular bis-porphyrin 'molecular tweezers' Published In Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
2007	Electrochemical actuation properties of a novel solution-processable polythiophene Published In Electrochimica Acta
2007	Electrodeposition and characterisation of polypyrroles containing sulfonated carbon nanotubes Published In Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
2007	Facile synthesis of acetylene-substituted terthiophenes Published In Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry
2007	Flip-type disorder in 3-substituted 2,2':5',2''-terthiophenes Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
2007	Highly Efficient Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2007	Modulation of electronic properties in neutral and oxidized oligothiophenes substituted with conjugated polyaromatic hydrocarbons Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory
2007	Novel fullerene-functionalised poly(terthiophenes) Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2007	Understanding and improving solid-state polymer/C60-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells using ternary porphyrin blends Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2007	Zinc-Porphyrin Phosphonate coordination: structural control through a Zinc Phosphoryl-Oxygen interaction Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	A novel spiropyran-conducting polymer biosensor chip with electrochemical and photochemical sensing properties Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013
2013	Negative phototaxis behavior of organic droplets in channels Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

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Year	Title
2019 - 2021	Bioelectronics: addressing the biointerface challenge Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2014 - 2020	ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2019	Photoactive droplet swimmers - concepts for chemical driving and quantification Awarded by: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Funding Scheme: Australia Germany Joint Cooperation Scheme
2015	The development of chemopropulsion-based fluidic transport systems Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012 - 2015	Artificial photosynthesis: developing a simple, functional light harvesting porphyrin-protein ensemble Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012	A prototype scanning hellum atom microscope (SHeM) for soft Materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Facility for in-situ NMR of advanced materials and devices Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Hot exciton dissociation in donor . acceptor organic solar cells - breaking the efficiency limit of organic photovoltaics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2010	Regional facility for molecular characterisation and mapping Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Three dimensional polymer structures for bionic applications Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Super Science Fellowship
2009	Polymers for skeletal muscle Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2008	Functionalised nanostructured polythiophenes: novel platforms for bionics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2008	Organic Solar Cells Fabrication and Characterisation Facility. Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
	BIOFABrication for Future Manufacturing Awarded by: European Commission Funding Scheme: Industrialised Countries Instrument Education Cooperation Programme (ICI ECP)

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Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Novel Routes for enhanced Carbon Capture Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids	Sethupathy Kuppanacharry, Praneshwar
Doctor of Philosophy		Baker, Carly

Officer, David L.

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