in het Panhuis, Marc H.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	4D printing with mechanically robust, thermally actuating hydrogels Published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2016	Self-healing hydrogels Published in Advanced Materials
2017	Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of 3D Printed Fins for Surfboards Published in MRS Advances
2013	Biofabrication: an overview of the approaches used for printing of living cells Published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
2018	3D printing Vegemite and Marmite: redefining "breadboards" Published in Journal of Food Engineering

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am a Professor of Materials Science and a national and international recognized expert in development of new materials (e.g. hydrogel and composite materials), Additive Manufacturing (i.e. 3D and 4D printing) and materials characterisation (electrical, mechanical and performance) with a focus on applications in:
- soft robotics
- living/edible electronics
- surfing (3D printed fins and surfboard flex).
My research is currently funded by the Australian Research Council (Soft Robotics), UOW Global Challenges Program (3D printed fins for surfboards) and UOW Partnership Grant (surfboard flex).

3D Printed Fins for Surfboards is an innovative interdisciplinary research project proving that, compared to traditional manufacturing, 3D printing is a viable alternative to customise and rapidly propotype surfboard fins. The project brings together experienced experts and early career researchers from a diverse range of disciplines including materials science, human geography, engineering, biomechanics, 3D printing, computational fluid dynamics, the Internet-of-Things, data mining and surfing. This project owes its success to its truly interdisciplinary nature, see http://tiny.cc/v6br8y.

Mechanical flex is an important property that is critical to the performance of fins and surfboards. Our Surf Flex Laboratory is a dedicated facility for mechanical testing of surfing equipment, e.g. fins, surfboards, cloths, inlays, leash bars, and leashes to name but a few.

Media
I am an experienced science communicator and my research has received significant media attention. This goes back to ‘Hydrogel Scaffolds’ invention which won the People’s Choice award on ABC TV’s The New Inventors in 2009. I have also been featured on BBC television for our work on 4D printing in 2015. Since 2016, my work on 3D printed fins for surfboards and mechanical flex behaviour of surfboards has been regularly appearing in the media, e.g. The Australian, 9NewsIllawarra, ABC radio and on Discovery Channel program Daily Planet (to name by a few). For more details see: https://goo.gl/QVga7q

Supervision
Since 2006, I have supervised 20 PhD, 6 MSc, 17 Honours and 8 visiting research students.

Teaching
I contribute to subjects and degree programs administered by the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences and Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health:
- Chemistry for Engineering (CHEM103)
- Introduction to Bionanotechnology (BNAN101)
- Global Challenges in Science (SCII101)
- Analytical and Environmental Chemistry (CHEM214)
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Available for Collaborative Projects

Head Of

Surf Flex Laboratory 2019 -
Soft Materials Group 2006 - 2018
J.M. Hendrix Laboratory for Advanced Materials 2002 - 2006

Member Of

International Sports Engineering Association member 2019 -
Surf Engineering Association Co-founder and symposium organiser 2019 -
Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow 2013 -
American Chemical Society (ACS) Member 2000 -
Materials Research Society (MRS) Member and Symposium organiser 2000 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Porous PNIPAm hydrogels: Overcoming diffusion-governed hydrogel actuation Published In Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical Volume 301 Altmetric
2020	The rejection of mono- and di-valent ions from aquatic environment by MWNT/chitosan buckypaper composite membranes: Influences of chitosan concentrations Published In Separation and Purification Technology Volume 234 Pages 116088-1 - 116088-9 ISSN 1383-5866 Altmetric
2019	3D Printable Linear Soft Vacuum Actuators: Their Modeling, Performance Quantification and Application in Soft Robotic Systems Published In IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Volume 24 Pages 2118 - 2129 ISSN 1083-4435 Altmetric
2019	A 3D-Printed Omni-Purpose Soft Gripper Published In IEEE Transactions on Robotics Volume 35 Pages 1268 - 1275 ISSN 1552-3098 Altmetric
2019	The preparation and characterization of buckypaper made from carbon nanotubes impregnated with chitosan Published In Polymer Composites Altmetric
2018	3D printing Vegemite and Marmite: redefining "breadboards" Published In Journal of Food Engineering Volume 220 Pages 83 - 88 ISSN 0260-8774 Altmetric
2018	A Soft Stretchable Sensor: Towards Peripheral Nerve Signal Sensing Published In MRS Advances Volume 3 Pages 1597 - 1602 Altmetric
2018	Bioinspired 3D Printable Soft Vacuum Actuators for Locomotion Robots, Grippers and Artificial Muscles Published In Soft Robotics Volume 5 Pages 685 - 694 Altmetric
2018	Degradable 3D-Printed Hydrogels Based on Star-Shaped Copolypeptides Published In Biomacromolecules Volume 19 Pages 2691 - 2699 ISSN 1525-7797 Altmetric
2018	Disulphide crosslinked star block copolypeptide hydrogels: influence of block sequence order on hydrogel properties Published In Polymer Chemistry Volume 9 Pages 3908 - 3916 ISSN 1759-9954 Altmetric
2018	Thermal actuation of hydrogels from PNIPAm, alginate, and carbon nanofibres Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Volume 56 Pages 46 - 52 ISSN 0887-6266 Altmetric
2017	3D printing of tough hydrogel composites with spatially varying materials properties Published In Additive Manufacturing Volume 14 Pages 24 - 30 Altmetric
2017	3D printing of transparent and conductive heterogeneous hydrogel-elastomer systems Published In Advanced Materials Volume 29 Pages 1604827 -1 - 1604827 -8 ISSN 0935-9648 Altmetric
2017	Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of 3D Printed Fins for Surfboards Published In MRS Advances Volume 2 Pages 913 - 920 Altmetric
2017	Conducting hydrogels for edible electrodes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 5 Pages 5318 - 5328 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2017	Metallic Iron Effects on Coke Analog Carbon Bonding and Reactivity Published In Steel Research International Volume 88 Pages 1700039-1 - 1700039-10 ISSN 1611-3683 Altmetric
2017	Nanofiltration applications of tough MWNT buckypaper membranes containing biopolymers Published In Journal of Membrane Science Volume 529 Pages 23 - 34 ISSN 0376-7388 Altmetric
2017	Radical Generation from the Gas-Phase Activation of Ionized Lipid Ozonides Published In Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Volume 28 Pages 1345 - 1358 ISSN 1044-0305 Altmetric
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Synthesis and characterisation of MWNT/chitosan and MWNT/chitosan-crosslinked buckypaper membranes for desalination Published In Desalination Volume 418 Pages 60 - 70 ISSN 0011-9164 Altmetric
2017	The Suitability of 3-D Printed Eutectic Gallium-Indium Alloy as a Heating Element for Thermally Active Hydrogels Published In MRS Advances Volume 2 Pages 335 - 340 Altmetric
2016	3D Printed Edible Hydrogel Electrodes Published In MRS Advances Volume 1 Pages 527 - 532 Altmetric
2016	3D printed flexure hinges for soft monolithic prosthetic fingers Published In Soft Robotics Volume 3 Pages 120 - 133 Altmetric
2016	3D/4D Printing Hydrogel Composites: A Pathway to Functional Devices Published In MRS Advances Volume 1 Pages 521 - 526 Altmetric
2016	Brain on a bench top Published In Materials Today Volume 19 Pages 124 - 125 ISSN 1369-7021 Altmetric
2016	Development of carboxymethyl cellulose-based hydrogel and nanosilver composite as antimicrobial agents for UTI pathogens Published In Carbohydrate Polymers Volume 138 Pages 229 - 236 ISSN 0144-8617 Altmetric
2016	Effect of heterocyclic capping groups on the self-assembly of a dipeptide hydrogel Published In Soft Matter Volume 12 Pages 2700 - 2707 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2016	Self-healing hydrogels Published In Advanced Materials Volume 28 Pages 9060 - 9093 ISSN 0935-9648 Altmetric
2016	Tissue engineering with gellan gum Published In Biomaterials Science Volume 4 Pages 1276 - 1290 ISSN 2047-4830 Altmetric
2015	3D printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates Published In Biomaterials Volume 67 Pages 264 - 273 ISSN 0142-9612 Altmetric
2015	4D printing with mechanically robust, thermally actuating hydrogels Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications Volume 36 Pages 1211 - 1217 ISSN 1022-1336 Altmetric
2015	An overview of the suitability of hydrogel-forming polymers for extrusion-based 3D-printing Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 3 Pages 4105 - 4117 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2015	Degradation behavior of ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 132 Pages 41216-1 - 41216-10 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2015	Filling of carbon nanotubes and nanofibres Published In Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 6 Pages 508 - 516 ISSN 2190-4286 Altmetric
2015	Highly conducting composite hydrogels from gellan gum, PEDOT:PSS and carbon nanofibres Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 206 Pages 61 - 65 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2015	Peptide modification of purified gellan gum Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 3 Pages 1106 - 1115 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2015	Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): Dextran sulfate (PEDOT: DS) - A highly processable conductive organic biopolymer Published In Acta Biomaterialia Volume 14 Pages 33 - 42 ISSN 1742-7061 Altmetric
2015	Printed organic electronic device components from edible materials Published In MRS Online Proceedings Volume 1717 Pages 7 - 11 Altmetric
2015	Sonication-induced effects on carbon nanofibres in composite materials Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 5 Pages 19587 - 19595 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2015	Strain and pressure gauges from tough, conducting and edible hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings Volume 1795 Pages 27 - 32 Altmetric
2014	Electrical conductivity, impedance, and percolation behavior of carbon nanofiber and carbon nanotube containing gellan gum hydrogels Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Volume 52 Pages 864 - 871 ISSN 0887-6266 Altmetric
2014	Enhanced gelation properties of purified gellan gum Published In Carbohydrate Research Volume 388 Pages 125 - 129 ISSN 0008-6215 Altmetric
2014	Printed ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels from carrageenan and an epoxy amine Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 4 Pages 38088 - 38092 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2014	Reinforcing biopolymer hydrogels with ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogel microspheres Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 131 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2014	Robust biopolymer based ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels with reversible mechanical behaviour Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 2 Pages 4694 - 4702 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2014	Synthesis, properties, water and solute permeability of MWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Membrane Science Volume 456 Pages 175 - 184 ISSN 0376-7388 Altmetric
2014	Three-dimensional printing fiber reinforced hydrogel composites Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Volume 6 Pages 15998 - 16006 ISSN 1944-8244 Altmetric
2013	Bacterial filtration using carbon nanotube/antibiotic buckypaper membranes Published In Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2013 Pages 781212-1 - 781212-11 ISSN 1687-4110 Altmetric
2013	Bio-ink for on-demand printing of living cells Published In Biomaterials Science Volume 1 Pages 224 - 230 ISSN 2047-4830 Altmetric
2013	Biofabrication: an overview of the approaches used for printing of living cells Published In Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Volume 97 Pages 4243 - 4258 ISSN 0175-7598 Altmetric
2013	Conducting carbon nanofibre networks: dispersion optimisation, evaporative casting and direct writing Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 3 Pages 21936 - 21942 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2013	Extrusion printing of ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels with high toughness Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 1 Pages 4939 - 4946 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2013	Ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels from gellan gum, carrageenan and an epoxy-amine Published In Soft Matter Volume 9 Pages 3009 - 3012 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2013	Mechanical characteristics of swollen gellan gum hydrogels Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 130 Pages 3374 - 3383 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2013	Mechanical reinforcement of wool fiber through polyelectrolyte complexation with chitosan and gellan gum Published In Fibers Volume 1 Pages 47 - 58 Altmetric
2013	Modified gellan gum hydrogels for tissue engineering applications Published In Soft Matter Volume 9 Pages 3705 - 3711 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2013	Preparation and characterisation of graphene composite hydrogels Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 168 Pages 36 - 42 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2013	Surface analysis of lipids by mass spectrometry: more than just imaging Published In Progress in Lipid Research Volume 52 Pages 329 - 353 ISSN 0163-7827 Altmetric
2012	A simple route to carbon micro- and nanorod hybrid structures by physical vapour deposition Published In Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Volume 45 Page p. 395102 ISSN 0022-3727 Altmetric
2012	Characterization of gellan gum by capillary electrophoresis Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science Volume 65 Pages 1156 - 1164 ISSN 0004-9425 Altmetric
2012	Conducting composite materials from the biopolymer kappa-carrageenan and carbon nanotubes Published In Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 3 Pages 415 - 427 ISSN 2190-4286 Altmetric
2012	Direct lipid profiling of single cells from inkjet printed microarrays Published In Analytical Chemistry Volume 84 Pages 9679 - 9683 ISSN 0003-2700 Altmetric
2012	Electrical and mechanical characteristics of buckypapers and evaporative cast films prepared using single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes and the biopolymer carrageenan Published In Carbon Volume 50 Pages 1197 - 1208 ISSN 0008-6223 Altmetric
2012	Extrusion printing of flexible electrically conducting carbon nanotube networks Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 22 Pages 4790 - 4800 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2012	Gelapin, a degradable genipin cross-linked gelatin hydrogel Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 3 Pages 1073 - 1081 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2012	Polyelectrolyte complex materials consisting of antibacterial and cell-supporting layers Published In Macromolecular Bioscience Volume 12 Pages 374 - 382 ISSN 1616-5187 Altmetric
2012	Recovery from applied strain in interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels with ionic and covalent cross-links Published In Soft Matter Volume 8 Pages 9985 - 9988 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2012	Reinforced materials based on chitosan, TiO2 and Ag composites Published In Polymers Volume 4 Pages 590 - 599 ISSN 2073-4360 Altmetric
2012	Self-assembled gels from biological and synthetic polyelectrolytes Published In MRS Proceedings Volume 1418 Pages 51 - 56 Altmetric
2012	Synthesis, properties and water permeability of SWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 22 Pages 13800 - 13810 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2012	Using ambient ozone for assignment of double bond position in unsaturated lipids Published In The Analyst Volume 137 Pages 1100 - 1110 ISSN 0003-2654 Altmetric
2011	Films, buckypapers and fibers from clay, chitosan and carbon nanotubes Published In Nanomaterials Volume 1 Pages 3 - 19 Altmetric
2011	Gellan gum doped polypyrrole neural prosthetic electrode coatings Published In Soft Matter Volume 7 Pages 4690 - 4695 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2011	Highly Stretchable Conducting SIBS-P3HT Fibers Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 21 Pages 955 - 962 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2011	Inkjet and extrusion printing of conducting poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) tracks on and embedded in biopolymer materials Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 21 Pages 2671 - 2678 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2011	Inkjet printing of self-assembling polyelectrolyte hydrogels Published In Soft Matter Volume 7 Pages 3818 - 3826 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2011	Polyelectrolyte complex materials from chitosan and gellan gum Published In Carbohydrate Polymers Volume 86 Pages 352 - 358 ISSN 0144-8617 Altmetric
2011	Preparation and characterisation of conducting biopolymer-carbon nanotube composite materials Published In World Journal of Engineering Volume 8 Pages 39 - 40
2010	Conducting gel-fibres based on carrageenan, chitosan and carbon nanotubes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 20 Pages 7953 - 7956 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2010	Fabrication of polyaniline-based gas sensors using piezoelectric inkjet and screen printing for the detection of hydrogen sulfide Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 10 Pages 1419 - 1426 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2010	Gel-carbon nanotube materials: the relationship between nanotube network connectivity and conductivity Published In Nanoscale Volume 2 Pages 1740 - 1745 ISSN 2040-3364 Altmetric
2010	Imaging of human lens lipids by desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry Published In Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Volume 21 Pages 2095 - 2104 ISSN 1044-0305 Altmetric
2009	Conducting bio-materials based on gellan gum hydrogels Published In Soft Matter Volume 5 Pages 3430 - 3437 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2009	Gel-carbon nanotube composites: the effect of carbon nanotubes on gelation and conductivity behaviour Published In Soft Matter Volume 5 Pages 1466 - 1473 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2009	Influence of added hydrogen bonding agents on the chiroptical properties of chiral polyaniline Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 159 Pages 715 - 717 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2009	Mechanical reinforcement of continuous flow spun polyelectrolyte complex fibres Published In Macromolecular Bioscience Volume 9 Pages 354 - 360 ISSN 1616-5187 Altmetric
2009	Nanofibrilar-Polyaniline/Carbon Nanotube Composites: Aqueous Dispersions and Films Published In Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Volume 9 Pages 6157 - 6163 ISSN 1533-4880 Altmetric
2009	The effect of preparation conditions and biopolymer dispersants on the properties of SWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 19 Pages 9131 - 9140 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2008	Carbon nanotube mediated reduction in optical activity of polyaniline composite materials Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter Volume 112 Pages 1441 - 1445 ISSN 1932-7447 Altmetric
2008	Fabrication of chemical sensors using inkjet printing and application to gas detection Published In IEEE Sensors Pages 13 - 16 Altmetric
2008	Spinning Carbon Nanotube-Gel Fibers Using Polyelectrolyte Complexation Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 18 Pages 3759 - 3764 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2007	Conducting textiles from single-walled carbon nanotubes Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 157 Pages 358 - 362 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2007	Inkjet deposition and characterization of transparent conducting electroactive polyaniline composite films with a high carbon nanotube loading fraction Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 17 Pages 4359 - 4361 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2007	Inkjet printed water sensitive transparent films from natural gum - carbon nanotube composites Published In Soft Matter Volume 3 Pages 840 - 843 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2007	Inkjet printing of transparent, electrically conducting single-wall carbon nanotube composites Published In Small Volume 3 Pages 1500 - 1503 ISSN 1613-6810 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	3D printable vacuum-powered soft linear actuators Published In IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM Pages 50 - 55 Altmetric
2016	Mechanical stiffness augmentation of a 3D printed soft prosthetic finger Published In Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pages 7 - 12 Altmetric
2015	A comparison of chemical and electrochemical synthesis of PEDOT: Dextran sulphate for bio-application Published In Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Pages 19 - 26 Altmetric
2015	Effect of flexure hinge type on a 3D printed fully compliant prosthetic finger Published In IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Pages 790 - 795 Altmetric
2014	A new approach to investigating coke reactivity Published In Celebrating the Megascale: Proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in Honor of David G.C. Robertson Pages 519 - 527 Altmetric
2014	Biopolymer based tough and self-recovering ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings: Vol. 1685, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting - Symposium U – Soft Nanomaterials Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2014	Electrical conductivity and impedance behaviour of hydrogels Published In Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9171: Nanobiosystems: Processing, Characterization, and Applications VII Pages 917103-1 - 917103-6 Altmetric
2014	Strong tough gels for 3D tissue constructs Published In MRS Proceedings, 1622 Pages 1 - 5 Altmetric
2013	Bio-ink for inkjet printing of living cells Published In Technical Proceedings of the 2013 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2013 (vol.2 chapter.4) Pages 261 - 264
2013	Electrically conducting PEDOT: PSS - gellan gum hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings: MRS Spring Meeting - Symposium LL/MM/NN/QQ - Advanced Materials for Biological and Biomedical Pages 1 - 5 Altmetric
2010	Diffusion of vitamin B12 in gellan gum-carbon nanotube hydrogels Published In 2010 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN 2010 Pages 234 - 236 Altmetric
2010	Elastic conducting carbon nanotube-laden SIBS fibers Published In ICONN 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 80 - 83 Altmetric
2010	Extrusion printing conducting gel-carbon nanotube structures upon flexible substrates Published In Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices Pages 179 - 180 Altmetric
2010	Hydrogel electrode materials Published In 2010 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, COMMAD 2010 Pages 31 - 32 Altmetric
2010	Inkjet printed conducting gel-carbon nanotube materials Published In Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), 2010 Conference Pages 143 - 144 Altmetric
2010	Printed hydrogel materials Published In (ICONN), 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 257 - 260 Altmetric
2010	Printing nanomaterials using non-contact printing Published In ICONN 2010: 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 404 - 406 Altmetric
2010	Rapid deposition of hydrogel layers by inkjet printing Published In NIP26: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication Pages 554 - 557
2008	Controlled Deposition of Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composites through Inkjet Printing Published In Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices Pages 225 - 227 Altmetric
2008	Inkjet printing: a viable tool for processing polymer carbon nanotube composites Published In SPIE Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, MEMS, Photonics, and Nanotechnology Pages 680007-1 - 680007-8 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014 - 2020	ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2012	Interactions with COST Action MP0901 - designing novel materials for nano-devices Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
2012	Sensitive and multinuclear: dedicated facility for high-throughput characterization of small molecules Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	A complete near field optical microscope for advanced characterization of novel and functional materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Establishing interactions with COST Action MP0901 - designing novel materials for nano-devices Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
2011	Sorption performance of chitosan functionalised carbon nanotube membranes Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Award
2010 - 2011	Microbial filtration using carbon nanotube membranes Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2010	Combined scanning tunnelling microscope system for nano-fabrication and characterization - filed in part 6 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Soft carbon nanotube materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2009	Inkjet printing bio-functional materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage International
2009	Printing of Bio-Systems and Electronics: the Next Generation of Bionics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM)
2009	State-of-the-art facility for human and animal virus research in the Canberra surrounding regions Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Nano-inks: electroactive composite materials for inkjet printing Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: Scientific Visits
2007	Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials - Specialist Research Workshop Awarded by: Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM) Funding Scheme: Grant
2007	COST Action P12 â¬SStructuring of Polymersâ¬ý Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
	Tuning the electrical permittivity response of 3D printed hydrogel materials with controlled spatial inhomogeneities subjected to large deformations Awarded by: U.S Army Research Laboratory Funding Scheme: Joint Work Statement

Impact Story

3D printed fins for surfboards: finding the right flow
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Engagement with media and working with industry

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Our work on 3D printed resulted in a lot of media exposure for research at the University of Wollongong
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Edible electronics
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Our work on edible electronics resulted in a lot of media exposure for research at the University of Wollongong

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4D printing
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We demonstrated the potential of 4D printing and showcased UOW research to the wider community

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Surfboard testing in the Surf Flex Lab
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The Surf Flex Lab is a dedicated facility for testing of surfboards and fins at the University of Wollongong.

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The Facility has been engaging with local surfboard shapers and global brands.
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Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

3D printing of surfboard materials
Data handling and sports performance analysis
Edible electronics
Mechanical flex behaviour of surfboards

Teaching Activities

SCII101: Global Challenges in Science Lecturer and Workshop Leader 2020 -
BNAN101: Introduction to Bionanotechnology Lecturer 2018 -
CHEM103: Chemistry for Engineers Course coordinator, Lecturer and Workshop Leader 2018 -
CHEM814/CHEM214: Contemporary Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Leader 2018 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Development of flexible, durable and ionic materials based on poly(acrylamide) hydrogels for soft conducting and sensing applications	Zainulabdeen, Khalid
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	3D printed living electrodes	Almossawi, Mohammed
Doctor of Philosophy	Edible 4D printed hydrogel devices	Keller, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	Neural Interfacing to Soft Robotic Hand	Montoya Gurrola, Gerardo
Doctor of Philosophy	Identifying and Translating Intention of Prosthetic Hand Users into Control Signals using Machine Learning Techniques	Le, Hong Quan
Master of Philosophy -SMAH	3D printing of spinal implants	Al-takhayneh, Osama

Outreach And Community Service Activities

STEM Professionals in School Scientist in School with Ulladulla High School (NSW) 2013 -

Education And Training

B.E. in Chemical Engineering, University of Twente
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Dublin, Trinity College

Keywords

Edible electronics
Hydrogels
Soft Robotics
Surfboards and Fins
Surfing

Mailing Address

AIIM Building, 231.G21, Innovation Campus

University of Wollongong, Squires Way

North Wollongong

NSW

2500

Wollongong

Geographic Location

Innovation Campus

Located In Facility

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	4D printing with mechanically robust, thermally actuating hydrogels Published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2016	Self-healing hydrogels Published in Advanced Materials
2017	Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of 3D Printed Fins for Surfboards Published in MRS Advances
2013	Biofabrication: an overview of the approaches used for printing of living cells Published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
2018	3D printing Vegemite and Marmite: redefining "breadboards" Published in Journal of Food Engineering

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am a Professor of Materials Science and a national and international recognized expert in development of new materials (e.g. hydrogel and composite materials), Additive Manufacturing (i.e. 3D and 4D printing) and materials characterisation (electrical, mechanical and performance) with a focus on applications in:
- soft robotics
- living/edible electronics
- surfing (3D printed fins and surfboard flex).
My research is currently funded by the Australian Research Council (Soft Robotics), UOW Global Challenges Program (3D printed fins for surfboards) and UOW Partnership Grant (surfboard flex).

3D Printed Fins for Surfboards is an innovative interdisciplinary research project proving that, compared to traditional manufacturing, 3D printing is a viable alternative to customise and rapidly propotype surfboard fins. The project brings together experienced experts and early career researchers from a diverse range of disciplines including materials science, human geography, engineering, biomechanics, 3D printing, computational fluid dynamics, the Internet-of-Things, data mining and surfing. This project owes its success to its truly interdisciplinary nature, see http://tiny.cc/v6br8y.

Mechanical flex is an important property that is critical to the performance of fins and surfboards. Our Surf Flex Laboratory is a dedicated facility for mechanical testing of surfing equipment, e.g. fins, surfboards, cloths, inlays, leash bars, and leashes to name but a few.

Media
I am an experienced science communicator and my research has received significant media attention. This goes back to ‘Hydrogel Scaffolds’ invention which won the People’s Choice award on ABC TV’s The New Inventors in 2009. I have also been featured on BBC television for our work on 4D printing in 2015. Since 2016, my work on 3D printed fins for surfboards and mechanical flex behaviour of surfboards has been regularly appearing in the media, e.g. The Australian, 9NewsIllawarra, ABC radio and on Discovery Channel program Daily Planet (to name by a few). For more details see: https://goo.gl/QVga7q

Supervision
Since 2006, I have supervised 20 PhD, 6 MSc, 17 Honours and 8 visiting research students.

Teaching
I contribute to subjects and degree programs administered by the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences and Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health:
- Chemistry for Engineering (CHEM103)
- Introduction to Bionanotechnology (BNAN101)
- Global Challenges in Science (SCII101)
- Analytical and Environmental Chemistry (CHEM214)
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Head Of

Surf Flex Laboratory 2019 -
Soft Materials Group 2006 - 2018
J.M. Hendrix Laboratory for Advanced Materials 2002 - 2006

Member Of

International Sports Engineering Association member 2019 -
Surf Engineering Association Co-founder and symposium organiser 2019 -
Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow 2013 -
American Chemical Society (ACS) Member 2000 -
Materials Research Society (MRS) Member and Symposium organiser 2000 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Porous PNIPAm hydrogels: Overcoming diffusion-governed hydrogel actuation Published In Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical Volume 301 Altmetric
2020	The rejection of mono- and di-valent ions from aquatic environment by MWNT/chitosan buckypaper composite membranes: Influences of chitosan concentrations Published In Separation and Purification Technology Volume 234 Pages 116088-1 - 116088-9 ISSN 1383-5866 Altmetric
2019	3D Printable Linear Soft Vacuum Actuators: Their Modeling, Performance Quantification and Application in Soft Robotic Systems Published In IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Volume 24 Pages 2118 - 2129 ISSN 1083-4435 Altmetric
2019	A 3D-Printed Omni-Purpose Soft Gripper Published In IEEE Transactions on Robotics Volume 35 Pages 1268 - 1275 ISSN 1552-3098 Altmetric
2019	The preparation and characterization of buckypaper made from carbon nanotubes impregnated with chitosan Published In Polymer Composites Altmetric
2018	3D printing Vegemite and Marmite: redefining "breadboards" Published In Journal of Food Engineering Volume 220 Pages 83 - 88 ISSN 0260-8774 Altmetric
2018	A Soft Stretchable Sensor: Towards Peripheral Nerve Signal Sensing Published In MRS Advances Volume 3 Pages 1597 - 1602 Altmetric
2018	Bioinspired 3D Printable Soft Vacuum Actuators for Locomotion Robots, Grippers and Artificial Muscles Published In Soft Robotics Volume 5 Pages 685 - 694 Altmetric
2018	Degradable 3D-Printed Hydrogels Based on Star-Shaped Copolypeptides Published In Biomacromolecules Volume 19 Pages 2691 - 2699 ISSN 1525-7797 Altmetric
2018	Disulphide crosslinked star block copolypeptide hydrogels: influence of block sequence order on hydrogel properties Published In Polymer Chemistry Volume 9 Pages 3908 - 3916 ISSN 1759-9954 Altmetric
2018	Thermal actuation of hydrogels from PNIPAm, alginate, and carbon nanofibres Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Volume 56 Pages 46 - 52 ISSN 0887-6266 Altmetric
2017	3D printing of tough hydrogel composites with spatially varying materials properties Published In Additive Manufacturing Volume 14 Pages 24 - 30 Altmetric
2017	3D printing of transparent and conductive heterogeneous hydrogel-elastomer systems Published In Advanced Materials Volume 29 Pages 1604827 -1 - 1604827 -8 ISSN 0935-9648 Altmetric
2017	Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of 3D Printed Fins for Surfboards Published In MRS Advances Volume 2 Pages 913 - 920 Altmetric
2017	Conducting hydrogels for edible electrodes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 5 Pages 5318 - 5328 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2017	Metallic Iron Effects on Coke Analog Carbon Bonding and Reactivity Published In Steel Research International Volume 88 Pages 1700039-1 - 1700039-10 ISSN 1611-3683 Altmetric
2017	Nanofiltration applications of tough MWNT buckypaper membranes containing biopolymers Published In Journal of Membrane Science Volume 529 Pages 23 - 34 ISSN 0376-7388 Altmetric
2017	Radical Generation from the Gas-Phase Activation of Ionized Lipid Ozonides Published In Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Volume 28 Pages 1345 - 1358 ISSN 1044-0305 Altmetric
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Synthesis and characterisation of MWNT/chitosan and MWNT/chitosan-crosslinked buckypaper membranes for desalination Published In Desalination Volume 418 Pages 60 - 70 ISSN 0011-9164 Altmetric
2017	The Suitability of 3-D Printed Eutectic Gallium-Indium Alloy as a Heating Element for Thermally Active Hydrogels Published In MRS Advances Volume 2 Pages 335 - 340 Altmetric
2016	3D Printed Edible Hydrogel Electrodes Published In MRS Advances Volume 1 Pages 527 - 532 Altmetric
2016	3D printed flexure hinges for soft monolithic prosthetic fingers Published In Soft Robotics Volume 3 Pages 120 - 133 Altmetric
2016	3D/4D Printing Hydrogel Composites: A Pathway to Functional Devices Published In MRS Advances Volume 1 Pages 521 - 526 Altmetric
2016	Brain on a bench top Published In Materials Today Volume 19 Pages 124 - 125 ISSN 1369-7021 Altmetric
2016	Development of carboxymethyl cellulose-based hydrogel and nanosilver composite as antimicrobial agents for UTI pathogens Published In Carbohydrate Polymers Volume 138 Pages 229 - 236 ISSN 0144-8617 Altmetric
2016	Effect of heterocyclic capping groups on the self-assembly of a dipeptide hydrogel Published In Soft Matter Volume 12 Pages 2700 - 2707 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2016	Self-healing hydrogels Published In Advanced Materials Volume 28 Pages 9060 - 9093 ISSN 0935-9648 Altmetric
2016	Tissue engineering with gellan gum Published In Biomaterials Science Volume 4 Pages 1276 - 1290 ISSN 2047-4830 Altmetric
2015	3D printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates Published In Biomaterials Volume 67 Pages 264 - 273 ISSN 0142-9612 Altmetric
2015	4D printing with mechanically robust, thermally actuating hydrogels Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications Volume 36 Pages 1211 - 1217 ISSN 1022-1336 Altmetric
2015	An overview of the suitability of hydrogel-forming polymers for extrusion-based 3D-printing Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 3 Pages 4105 - 4117 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2015	Degradation behavior of ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 132 Pages 41216-1 - 41216-10 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2015	Filling of carbon nanotubes and nanofibres Published In Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 6 Pages 508 - 516 ISSN 2190-4286 Altmetric
2015	Highly conducting composite hydrogels from gellan gum, PEDOT:PSS and carbon nanofibres Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 206 Pages 61 - 65 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2015	Peptide modification of purified gellan gum Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 3 Pages 1106 - 1115 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2015	Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): Dextran sulfate (PEDOT: DS) - A highly processable conductive organic biopolymer Published In Acta Biomaterialia Volume 14 Pages 33 - 42 ISSN 1742-7061 Altmetric
2015	Printed organic electronic device components from edible materials Published In MRS Online Proceedings Volume 1717 Pages 7 - 11 Altmetric
2015	Sonication-induced effects on carbon nanofibres in composite materials Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 5 Pages 19587 - 19595 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2015	Strain and pressure gauges from tough, conducting and edible hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings Volume 1795 Pages 27 - 32 Altmetric
2014	Electrical conductivity, impedance, and percolation behavior of carbon nanofiber and carbon nanotube containing gellan gum hydrogels Published In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Volume 52 Pages 864 - 871 ISSN 0887-6266 Altmetric
2014	Enhanced gelation properties of purified gellan gum Published In Carbohydrate Research Volume 388 Pages 125 - 129 ISSN 0008-6215 Altmetric
2014	Printed ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels from carrageenan and an epoxy amine Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 4 Pages 38088 - 38092 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2014	Reinforcing biopolymer hydrogels with ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogel microspheres Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 131 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2014	Robust biopolymer based ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels with reversible mechanical behaviour Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 2 Pages 4694 - 4702 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2014	Synthesis, properties, water and solute permeability of MWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Membrane Science Volume 456 Pages 175 - 184 ISSN 0376-7388 Altmetric
2014	Three-dimensional printing fiber reinforced hydrogel composites Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Volume 6 Pages 15998 - 16006 ISSN 1944-8244 Altmetric
2013	Bacterial filtration using carbon nanotube/antibiotic buckypaper membranes Published In Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2013 Pages 781212-1 - 781212-11 ISSN 1687-4110 Altmetric
2013	Bio-ink for on-demand printing of living cells Published In Biomaterials Science Volume 1 Pages 224 - 230 ISSN 2047-4830 Altmetric
2013	Biofabrication: an overview of the approaches used for printing of living cells Published In Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Volume 97 Pages 4243 - 4258 ISSN 0175-7598 Altmetric
2013	Conducting carbon nanofibre networks: dispersion optimisation, evaporative casting and direct writing Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 3 Pages 21936 - 21942 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2013	Extrusion printing of ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels with high toughness Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 1 Pages 4939 - 4946 ISSN 2050-750X Altmetric
2013	Ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels from gellan gum, carrageenan and an epoxy-amine Published In Soft Matter Volume 9 Pages 3009 - 3012 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2013	Mechanical characteristics of swollen gellan gum hydrogels Published In Journal of Applied Polymer Science Volume 130 Pages 3374 - 3383 ISSN 0021-8995 Altmetric
2013	Mechanical reinforcement of wool fiber through polyelectrolyte complexation with chitosan and gellan gum Published In Fibers Volume 1 Pages 47 - 58 Altmetric
2013	Modified gellan gum hydrogels for tissue engineering applications Published In Soft Matter Volume 9 Pages 3705 - 3711 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2013	Preparation and characterisation of graphene composite hydrogels Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 168 Pages 36 - 42 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2013	Surface analysis of lipids by mass spectrometry: more than just imaging Published In Progress in Lipid Research Volume 52 Pages 329 - 353 ISSN 0163-7827 Altmetric
2012	A simple route to carbon micro- and nanorod hybrid structures by physical vapour deposition Published In Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Volume 45 Page p. 395102 ISSN 0022-3727 Altmetric
2012	Characterization of gellan gum by capillary electrophoresis Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science Volume 65 Pages 1156 - 1164 ISSN 0004-9425 Altmetric
2012	Conducting composite materials from the biopolymer kappa-carrageenan and carbon nanotubes Published In Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 3 Pages 415 - 427 ISSN 2190-4286 Altmetric
2012	Direct lipid profiling of single cells from inkjet printed microarrays Published In Analytical Chemistry Volume 84 Pages 9679 - 9683 ISSN 0003-2700 Altmetric
2012	Electrical and mechanical characteristics of buckypapers and evaporative cast films prepared using single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes and the biopolymer carrageenan Published In Carbon Volume 50 Pages 1197 - 1208 ISSN 0008-6223 Altmetric
2012	Extrusion printing of flexible electrically conducting carbon nanotube networks Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 22 Pages 4790 - 4800 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2012	Gelapin, a degradable genipin cross-linked gelatin hydrogel Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences Volume 3 Pages 1073 - 1081 ISSN 2046-2069 Altmetric
2012	Polyelectrolyte complex materials consisting of antibacterial and cell-supporting layers Published In Macromolecular Bioscience Volume 12 Pages 374 - 382 ISSN 1616-5187 Altmetric
2012	Recovery from applied strain in interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels with ionic and covalent cross-links Published In Soft Matter Volume 8 Pages 9985 - 9988 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2012	Reinforced materials based on chitosan, TiO2 and Ag composites Published In Polymers Volume 4 Pages 590 - 599 ISSN 2073-4360 Altmetric
2012	Self-assembled gels from biological and synthetic polyelectrolytes Published In MRS Proceedings Volume 1418 Pages 51 - 56 Altmetric
2012	Synthesis, properties and water permeability of SWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 22 Pages 13800 - 13810 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2012	Using ambient ozone for assignment of double bond position in unsaturated lipids Published In The Analyst Volume 137 Pages 1100 - 1110 ISSN 0003-2654 Altmetric
2011	Films, buckypapers and fibers from clay, chitosan and carbon nanotubes Published In Nanomaterials Volume 1 Pages 3 - 19 Altmetric
2011	Gellan gum doped polypyrrole neural prosthetic electrode coatings Published In Soft Matter Volume 7 Pages 4690 - 4695 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2011	Highly Stretchable Conducting SIBS-P3HT Fibers Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 21 Pages 955 - 962 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2011	Inkjet and extrusion printing of conducting poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) tracks on and embedded in biopolymer materials Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 21 Pages 2671 - 2678 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2011	Inkjet printing of self-assembling polyelectrolyte hydrogels Published In Soft Matter Volume 7 Pages 3818 - 3826 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2011	Polyelectrolyte complex materials from chitosan and gellan gum Published In Carbohydrate Polymers Volume 86 Pages 352 - 358 ISSN 0144-8617 Altmetric
2011	Preparation and characterisation of conducting biopolymer-carbon nanotube composite materials Published In World Journal of Engineering Volume 8 Pages 39 - 40
2010	Conducting gel-fibres based on carrageenan, chitosan and carbon nanotubes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 20 Pages 7953 - 7956 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2010	Fabrication of polyaniline-based gas sensors using piezoelectric inkjet and screen printing for the detection of hydrogen sulfide Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 10 Pages 1419 - 1426 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2010	Gel-carbon nanotube materials: the relationship between nanotube network connectivity and conductivity Published In Nanoscale Volume 2 Pages 1740 - 1745 ISSN 2040-3364 Altmetric
2010	Imaging of human lens lipids by desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry Published In Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Volume 21 Pages 2095 - 2104 ISSN 1044-0305 Altmetric
2009	Conducting bio-materials based on gellan gum hydrogels Published In Soft Matter Volume 5 Pages 3430 - 3437 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2009	Gel-carbon nanotube composites: the effect of carbon nanotubes on gelation and conductivity behaviour Published In Soft Matter Volume 5 Pages 1466 - 1473 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2009	Influence of added hydrogen bonding agents on the chiroptical properties of chiral polyaniline Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 159 Pages 715 - 717 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2009	Mechanical reinforcement of continuous flow spun polyelectrolyte complex fibres Published In Macromolecular Bioscience Volume 9 Pages 354 - 360 ISSN 1616-5187 Altmetric
2009	Nanofibrilar-Polyaniline/Carbon Nanotube Composites: Aqueous Dispersions and Films Published In Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Volume 9 Pages 6157 - 6163 ISSN 1533-4880 Altmetric
2009	The effect of preparation conditions and biopolymer dispersants on the properties of SWNT buckypapers Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 19 Pages 9131 - 9140 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2008	Carbon nanotube mediated reduction in optical activity of polyaniline composite materials Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter Volume 112 Pages 1441 - 1445 ISSN 1932-7447 Altmetric
2008	Fabrication of chemical sensors using inkjet printing and application to gas detection Published In IEEE Sensors Pages 13 - 16 Altmetric
2008	Spinning Carbon Nanotube-Gel Fibers Using Polyelectrolyte Complexation Published In Advanced Functional Materials Volume 18 Pages 3759 - 3764 ISSN 1616-301X Altmetric
2007	Conducting textiles from single-walled carbon nanotubes Published In Synthetic Metals Volume 157 Pages 358 - 362 ISSN 0379-6779 Altmetric
2007	Inkjet deposition and characterization of transparent conducting electroactive polyaniline composite films with a high carbon nanotube loading fraction Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 17 Pages 4359 - 4361 ISSN 0959-9428 Altmetric
2007	Inkjet printed water sensitive transparent films from natural gum - carbon nanotube composites Published In Soft Matter Volume 3 Pages 840 - 843 ISSN 1744-683X Altmetric
2007	Inkjet printing of transparent, electrically conducting single-wall carbon nanotube composites Published In Small Volume 3 Pages 1500 - 1503 ISSN 1613-6810 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	3D printable vacuum-powered soft linear actuators Published In IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM Pages 50 - 55 Altmetric
2016	Mechanical stiffness augmentation of a 3D printed soft prosthetic finger Published In Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pages 7 - 12 Altmetric
2015	A comparison of chemical and electrochemical synthesis of PEDOT: Dextran sulphate for bio-application Published In Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Pages 19 - 26 Altmetric
2015	Effect of flexure hinge type on a 3D printed fully compliant prosthetic finger Published In IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Pages 790 - 795 Altmetric
2014	A new approach to investigating coke reactivity Published In Celebrating the Megascale: Proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in Honor of David G.C. Robertson Pages 519 - 527 Altmetric
2014	Biopolymer based tough and self-recovering ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings: Vol. 1685, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting - Symposium U – Soft Nanomaterials Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2014	Electrical conductivity and impedance behaviour of hydrogels Published In Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9171: Nanobiosystems: Processing, Characterization, and Applications VII Pages 917103-1 - 917103-6 Altmetric
2014	Strong tough gels for 3D tissue constructs Published In MRS Proceedings, 1622 Pages 1 - 5 Altmetric
2013	Bio-ink for inkjet printing of living cells Published In Technical Proceedings of the 2013 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2013 (vol.2 chapter.4) Pages 261 - 264
2013	Electrically conducting PEDOT: PSS - gellan gum hydrogels Published In MRS Online Proceedings: MRS Spring Meeting - Symposium LL/MM/NN/QQ - Advanced Materials for Biological and Biomedical Pages 1 - 5 Altmetric
2010	Diffusion of vitamin B12 in gellan gum-carbon nanotube hydrogels Published In 2010 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN 2010 Pages 234 - 236 Altmetric
2010	Elastic conducting carbon nanotube-laden SIBS fibers Published In ICONN 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 80 - 83 Altmetric
2010	Extrusion printing conducting gel-carbon nanotube structures upon flexible substrates Published In Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices Pages 179 - 180 Altmetric
2010	Hydrogel electrode materials Published In 2010 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, COMMAD 2010 Pages 31 - 32 Altmetric
2010	Inkjet printed conducting gel-carbon nanotube materials Published In Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), 2010 Conference Pages 143 - 144 Altmetric
2010	Printed hydrogel materials Published In (ICONN), 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 257 - 260 Altmetric
2010	Printing nanomaterials using non-contact printing Published In ICONN 2010: 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Pages 404 - 406 Altmetric
2010	Rapid deposition of hydrogel layers by inkjet printing Published In NIP26: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication Pages 554 - 557
2008	Controlled Deposition of Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composites through Inkjet Printing Published In Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices Pages 225 - 227 Altmetric
2008	Inkjet printing: a viable tool for processing polymer carbon nanotube composites Published In SPIE Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, MEMS, Photonics, and Nanotechnology Pages 680007-1 - 680007-8 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014 - 2020	ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2012	Interactions with COST Action MP0901 - designing novel materials for nano-devices Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
2012	Sensitive and multinuclear: dedicated facility for high-throughput characterization of small molecules Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	A complete near field optical microscope for advanced characterization of novel and functional materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	Establishing interactions with COST Action MP0901 - designing novel materials for nano-devices Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
2011	Sorption performance of chitosan functionalised carbon nanotube membranes Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Award
2010 - 2011	Microbial filtration using carbon nanotube membranes Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2010	Combined scanning tunnelling microscope system for nano-fabrication and characterization - filed in part 6 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2010	Soft carbon nanotube materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2009	Inkjet printing bio-functional materials Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage International
2009	Printing of Bio-Systems and Electronics: the Next Generation of Bionics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM)
2009	State-of-the-art facility for human and animal virus research in the Canberra surrounding regions Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Nano-inks: electroactive composite materials for inkjet printing Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: Scientific Visits
2007	Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials - Specialist Research Workshop Awarded by: Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM) Funding Scheme: Grant
2007	COST Action P12 â¬SStructuring of Polymersâ¬ý Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: COST
	Tuning the electrical permittivity response of 3D printed hydrogel materials with controlled spatial inhomogeneities subjected to large deformations Awarded by: U.S Army Research Laboratory Funding Scheme: Joint Work Statement

Impact Story

3D printed fins for surfboards: finding the right flow
Summary
Engagement with media and working with industry

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Our work on 3D printed resulted in a lot of media exposure for research at the University of Wollongong
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Edible electronics
Summary
Our work on edible electronics resulted in a lot of media exposure for research at the University of Wollongong

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Media exposure, talks to general public
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4D printing
Summary
We demonstrated the potential of 4D printing and showcased UOW research to the wider community

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Showcasing UOW research to the wider communicate and engagement with media
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Surfboard testing in the Surf Flex Lab
Summary
The Surf Flex Lab is a dedicated facility for testing of surfboards and fins at the University of Wollongong.

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The Facility has been engaging with local surfboard shapers and global brands.
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Potential Supervision Topics

3D printing of surfboard materials
Data handling and sports performance analysis
Edible electronics
Mechanical flex behaviour of surfboards

Teaching Activities

SCII101: Global Challenges in Science Lecturer and Workshop Leader 2020 -
BNAN101: Introduction to Bionanotechnology Lecturer 2018 -
CHEM103: Chemistry for Engineers Course coordinator, Lecturer and Workshop Leader 2018 -
CHEM814/CHEM214: Contemporary Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Leader 2018 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Development of flexible, durable and ionic materials based on poly(acrylamide) hydrogels for soft conducting and sensing applications	Zainulabdeen, Khalid
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	3D printed living electrodes	Almossawi, Mohammed
Doctor of Philosophy	Edible 4D printed hydrogel devices	Keller, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	Neural Interfacing to Soft Robotic Hand	Montoya Gurrola, Gerardo
Doctor of Philosophy	Identifying and Translating Intention of Prosthetic Hand Users into Control Signals using Machine Learning Techniques	Le, Hong Quan
Master of Philosophy -SMAH	3D printing of spinal implants	Al-takhayneh, Osama

Outreach And Community Service Activities

STEM Professionals in School Scientist in School with Ulladulla High School (NSW) 2013 -

Education And Training

B.E. in Chemical Engineering, University of Twente
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Dublin, Trinity College

Keywords

Edible electronics
Hydrogels
Soft Robotics
Surfboards and Fins
Surfing

Mailing Address

AIIM Building, 231.G21, Innovation Campus

University of Wollongong, Squires Way

North Wollongong

NSW

2500

Wollongong

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Innovation Campus

Located In Facility

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3259-9295 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

P-1302-2019

Scopus Id

7003420720

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3D printed fins for surfboards: finding the right flow

Edible electronics

4D printing

Surfboard testing in the Surf Flex Lab

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3D printed fins for surfboards: finding the right flow

Edible electronics

4D printing

Surfboard testing in the Surf Flex Lab

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Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

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Outreach And Community Service Activities

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