Wagner, Pawel

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Energy efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO using a three-dimensional porphyrin/graphene hydrogel Published in Energy and Environmental Science
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published in Advanced Materials
2014	Photo-chemopropulsion – light-stimulated movement of microdroplets Published in Advanced Materials
2009	Zn-Zn Porphyrin Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells: Toward 3-D Light Harvesting Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
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

Research Areas

Has Collaborator

Higgins, Michael J. Professor
Molino, Paul J. VC Research Fellow
Mozer, Attila J. Associate Professor
Officer, David L. Faculty Academic
Richardson, Christopher Dr
Wagner, Klaudia K. Faculty Academic
Wang, Caiyun Senior Research Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Carboxybetaine functionalized nanosilicas as protein resistant surface coatings Published In Biointerphases: an open access journal for the biomaterials interface community
2020	Electrochemical and optical aspects of cobalt meso-carbazole substituted porphyrin complexes Published In Electrochimica Acta
2020	Excited-State Switching Frustrates the Tuning of Properties in Triphenylamine-Donor-Ligand Rhenium(I) and Platinum(II) Complexes Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry
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	Light soaking effect driven in porphyrin dye-sensitized solar cells using 1D TiO2 nanotube photoanodes Published In Sustainable Materials and Technologies
2020	Modified silica nanoparticle coatings: Dual antifouling effects of self-assembled quaternary ammonium and zwitterionic silanes Published In Biointerphases
2020	Polyterthiophenes Cross-Linked with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes for Molecular Architecture of Optically and Electrochemically Tunable Materials Published In ChemElectroChem
2020	Second-order programming the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks Published In Chemical Communications
2020	Significant Effect of Electronic Coupling on Electron Transfer between Surface-Bound Porphyrins and Co^2+/3+ Complex Electrolytes Published In Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2020	Synergistic Amplification of Oxygen Generation in (Photo)Catalytic Water Splitting by a PEDOT/Nano-Co3O4/MWCNT Thin Film Composite Published In ChemCatChem
2020	Synergistic amplification of (photo)catalytic oxygen and hydrogen generation from water by thin-film polypyrrole composites Published In Molecular Catalysis
2020	The Effect of the Dielectric Environment on Electron Transfer Reactions at the Interfaces of Molecular Sensitized Semiconductors in Electrolytes Published In Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2019	Designed Conducting Polymer Composites That Facilitate Long-Lived, Light-Driven Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution from Water in a Photoelectrochemical Concentration Cell (PECC) Published In Journal of composites science
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	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
2019	Zwitterion Functionalized Silica Nanoparticle Coatings: The Effect of Particle Size on Protein, Bacteria, and Fungal Spore Adhesion Published In Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
2018	A Porphyrin/Graphene Framework: A Highly Efficient and Robust Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2018	Aesthetically Pleasing, Visible Light Transmissive, Luminescent Solar Concentrators Using a BODIPY Derivative Published In Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science
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	Exploiting Intermolecular Interactions between Alkyl-Functionalized Redox-Active Molecule Pairs to Enhance Interfacial Electron Transfer Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2018	Modulation of donor-acceptor distance in a series of carbazole push-pull dyes; A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Molecules
2018	Mono and di-substituted BODIPY with electron donating carbazole, thiophene, and 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene units Published In Electrochimica Acta
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published In Advanced Materials
2018	Synergistic Amplification of Water Oxidation Catalysis on Pt by a Thin-Film Conducting Polymer Composite Published In ACS Applied Energy Materials
2018	Synergistic amplification of catalytic hydrogen generation by a thin-film conducting polymer composite Published In Catalysis Science & Technology
2018	Use of alkylated, amphiphilic zinc porphyrins to disperse individualized SWCNTs Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2017	Demetallatation of electrochemically polymerised Mn porphyrin anion / PEDOT composites under light-illumination Published In Synthetic Metals
2017	Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes Published In Chemical Science
2017	Silica Nanoparticles Functionalized with Zwitterionic Sulfobetaine Siloxane for Application as a Versatile Antifouling Coating System Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2017	Synthesis and Light-Harvesting Potential of Cyanovinyl β-Substituted Porphyrins and Dyads Published In European Journal of Organic Chemistry
2016	A novel covalently linked Zn phthalocyanine-Zn porphyrin dyad for dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Israel Journal of Chemistry
2016	A novel donor-acceptor carbazole and benzothiadiazole material for deep red and infrared emitting applications Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry C
2016	A novel modified terpyridine derivative as a model molecule to study kinetic-based optical spectroscopic ion determination methods Published In Synthetic Metals
2016	Controlled delivery of drugs adsorbed onto porous Fe3O4 structures by application of AC/DC magnetic fields Published In Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
2016	Effect of π-conjugation on electrochemical properties of poly(terthiophene)s 3′-substituted with fullerene C60 Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2016	Enhancement of dye regeneration kinetics in dichromophoric porphyrin-carbazole triphenylamine dyes influenced by more exposed radical cation orbitals Published In Chemical Science
2016	Studies of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) films containing cationic Mn porphyrins. A loading-dependent demetalation of Mn(III)TPP in PEDOT (Mn(III)TPP=5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrinato manganese(III)) Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2016	Systematic elongation of thienyl linkers and their effect on optical and electrochemical properties in carbazole-BODIPY donor-acceptor systems Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	An intermediate band dye-sensitised solar cell using triplet-triplet annihilation Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2015	Decoloration rates of a photomerocyanine dye as a visual probe into hydrogen bonding interactions Published In Chemical Communications
2015	Dichromophoric zinc porphyrins: filling the absorption gap between the Soret and Q bands Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2015	Disorder engineering of undoped Tio2 nanotube arrays for highly efficient solar-driven oxygen evolution Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2015	Electrochemically induced synthesis of poly (2,6-carbazole) Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2015	Enhanced electron lifetimes in dye-sensitized solar cells using a di-chromophoric porphyrin: the utility of inter-molecular forces Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2015	Flexible tuning of unsaturated β-substituents on Zn porphyrins: A synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2015	Magnetic nanoparticles for “smart liposomes” Published In European Biophysics 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
2014	Electrochemical and photoelectronic studies on C60-pyrrolidine- functionalised poly(terthiophene) Published In Electrochimica Acta
2014	Enhanced performance of dye-sensitized solar cells using carbazole-substituted di-chromophoric porphyrin dyes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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	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	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	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	Direct exfoliation of graphite with a porphyrin - Creating functionalizable nanographene hybrids Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Electrodeposition of pyrrole and 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)thiophene copolymer for supercapacitor applications Published In Synthetic Metals
2012	Isomorphism in Two (E)-1-(4-Halophenyl)-N-[1-(4-Methylphenyl)-1H-Imidazol-4-yl]Methanimines (Halide = Cl, Br) Published In Journal of Chemical Crystallography
2012	Porphyrins for dye-sensitised solar cells: New insights into efficiency-determining electron transfer steps Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Towards hydrogen energy: progress on catalysts for water splitting Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2011	1-(3-Chlorophenyl)-2-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole-5-carboxamide Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2011	5-Chloro-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-amine Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
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	Highly Stretchable Conducting SIBS-P3HT Fibers Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2011	Photocatalytic oxygen evolution from non-potable water by a bioinspired molecular water oxidation catalyst Published In Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical
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	Why do some alkoxybromothiophenes spontaneously polymerize? Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
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	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	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	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	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	Electrochemical syntheses of photoluminescent polymers from thienylene-poly(phenylenevinylene) derivatives Published In Polimery
2008	Polypyrrole/Co-tetraphenylporphyrin modified carbon fibre paper as a fuel cell electrocatalyst of oxygen reduction Published In Electrochemistry Communications
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	2-Methoxy-1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	2-Methyl-4-nitro-1-(3-pyridyl)-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	2-Methyl-4-nitro-1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	5-Methoxy-2-methyl-4-nitro-1-phenyl-1H-imidazole 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	Crystal packing of two 5-substituted 2-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazoles Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
2007	Electrochemical actuation properties of a novel solution-processable polythiophene Published In Electrochimica Acta
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	Ring transformations in the reactions of 1,4-dinitropyrazole with N-nucleophiles Published In ARKIVOC
2007	Two different modes of halogen bonding in two 4-nitroimidazole derivatives Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Bioinspired catalysis Published In Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry: Reverse-Engineering Nature Publisher Hoboken, NJ

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	Negative phototaxis behavior of organic droplets in channels Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
2008	PMSE 457-Conducting polymer and carbon nanotube architectures for electrocatalysis Published In 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2021	Faster interfacial electron transfer: The effect of molecule shape and size Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2018 - 2021	Bio-Inspired Hydrogen Generation by Novel Bubble Free Electro-Catalytic Systems Awarded by: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Funding Scheme: Research and Development Program
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
2014	AmbiPOD-Multicoloured ambipolar conducting polymers for single polymer optoelectronic devices Awarded by: Marie Curie Exchange Scheme Funding Scheme: Grant
2011	Co and Mn K-edge XAS on a series of molecular doped polymer catalysts Awarded by: Australian Synchrotron Research Program Funding Scheme: Travel Grant
2011	Porphyrin arrays - light harvesting in three dimensions Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Reactive Printing of Metal-Organic Interfaces	Al-Ghazzawi, Fatimah Abdulhasan Nader
Doctor of Philosophy	Lattice linking in Metal-Organic Frameworks	Fishburn, Mitchell
Doctor of Philosophy	Ionic Liquid-Loaded Metal-Organic Frameworks: Light Harvesting Conducting Solids	Conte, Luke
Doctor of Philosophy	Fabrication of graphene coated nanoporous metals/alloys as high-performance electrocatalyst	Jia, Lisha
Doctor of Philosophy	Remotely Activated, Contactless Electrodes in Biomedical Applications	Zhang, Xinrui
Doctor of Philosophy	Inventive approaches to fabricate highly efficient sensitized solar cell: Change the way to dye-sensitize and to regenerate	Mele Kavungathodi, Munavvar Fairoos
Doctor of Philosophy		Baker, Carly
Doctor of Philosophy	Faster electron transfer for clean energy: The effect of molecular shape and size on interfacial electron transfer rates	Dheendayal, Mantra

Reviewer Of

Biomacromolecules (Journal) 2012 -
New Journal of Chemistry: a journal for new directions in chemistry (Journal) 2012 -
Synthetic Metals (Journal) 2003 -
Journal of Organic Chemistry (Journal) 2002 -

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Novel method of reduction and removal of nitro group from nitroarenes and nitroheteroarenes 1994 - 1999
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Synthesis of 1-aryl-4-nitroimidazoles and theirs use in synthesis of heterocyclic systems. 1987 - 1993
Massey University, Faculty of Sciences 2001 - 2007
Hasselt University, Departament of Chemistry 2000 - 2001

Keywords

organic chemistry, synthesis, heterocycles, optoelectronics

Geographic Location

Innovation Campus

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-9862 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

E-5615-2012

Scopus Id

7402964003

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Energy efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO using a three-dimensional porphyrin/graphene hydrogel Published in Energy and Environmental Science
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published in Advanced Materials
2014	Photo-chemopropulsion – light-stimulated movement of microdroplets Published in Advanced Materials
2009	Zn-Zn Porphyrin Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells: Toward 3-D Light Harvesting Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
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

Research Areas

Has Collaborator

Higgins, Michael J. Professor
Molino, Paul J. VC Research Fellow
Mozer, Attila J. Associate Professor
Officer, David L. Faculty Academic
Richardson, Christopher Dr
Wagner, Klaudia K. Faculty Academic
Wang, Caiyun Senior Research Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Carboxybetaine functionalized nanosilicas as protein resistant surface coatings Published In Biointerphases: an open access journal for the biomaterials interface community
2020	Electrochemical and optical aspects of cobalt meso-carbazole substituted porphyrin complexes Published In Electrochimica Acta
2020	Excited-State Switching Frustrates the Tuning of Properties in Triphenylamine-Donor-Ligand Rhenium(I) and Platinum(II) Complexes Published In Inorganic Chemistry: including bioinorganic chemistry
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	Light soaking effect driven in porphyrin dye-sensitized solar cells using 1D TiO2 nanotube photoanodes Published In Sustainable Materials and Technologies
2020	Modified silica nanoparticle coatings: Dual antifouling effects of self-assembled quaternary ammonium and zwitterionic silanes Published In Biointerphases
2020	Polyterthiophenes Cross-Linked with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes for Molecular Architecture of Optically and Electrochemically Tunable Materials Published In ChemElectroChem
2020	Second-order programming the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks Published In Chemical Communications
2020	Significant Effect of Electronic Coupling on Electron Transfer between Surface-Bound Porphyrins and Co^2+/3+ Complex Electrolytes Published In Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2020	Synergistic Amplification of Oxygen Generation in (Photo)Catalytic Water Splitting by a PEDOT/Nano-Co3O4/MWCNT Thin Film Composite Published In ChemCatChem
2020	Synergistic amplification of (photo)catalytic oxygen and hydrogen generation from water by thin-film polypyrrole composites Published In Molecular Catalysis
2020	The Effect of the Dielectric Environment on Electron Transfer Reactions at the Interfaces of Molecular Sensitized Semiconductors in Electrolytes Published In Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2019	Designed Conducting Polymer Composites That Facilitate Long-Lived, Light-Driven Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution from Water in a Photoelectrochemical Concentration Cell (PECC) Published In Journal of composites science
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	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
2019	Zwitterion Functionalized Silica Nanoparticle Coatings: The Effect of Particle Size on Protein, Bacteria, and Fungal Spore Adhesion Published In Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
2018	A Porphyrin/Graphene Framework: A Highly Efficient and Robust Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Published In Advanced Energy Materials
2018	Aesthetically Pleasing, Visible Light Transmissive, Luminescent Solar Concentrators Using a BODIPY Derivative Published In Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science
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	Exploiting Intermolecular Interactions between Alkyl-Functionalized Redox-Active Molecule Pairs to Enhance Interfacial Electron Transfer Published In Journal of the American Chemical Society
2018	Modulation of donor-acceptor distance in a series of carbazole push-pull dyes; A spectroscopic and computational study Published In Molecules
2018	Mono and di-substituted BODIPY with electron donating carbazole, thiophene, and 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene units Published In Electrochimica Acta
2018	Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light Published In Advanced Materials
2018	Synergistic Amplification of Water Oxidation Catalysis on Pt by a Thin-Film Conducting Polymer Composite Published In ACS Applied Energy Materials
2018	Synergistic amplification of catalytic hydrogen generation by a thin-film conducting polymer composite Published In Catalysis Science & Technology
2018	Use of alkylated, amphiphilic zinc porphyrins to disperse individualized SWCNTs Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2017	Demetallatation of electrochemically polymerised Mn porphyrin anion / PEDOT composites under light-illumination Published In Synthetic Metals
2017	Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes Published In Chemical Science
2017	Silica Nanoparticles Functionalized with Zwitterionic Sulfobetaine Siloxane for Application as a Versatile Antifouling Coating System Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2017	Synthesis and Light-Harvesting Potential of Cyanovinyl β-Substituted Porphyrins and Dyads Published In European Journal of Organic Chemistry
2016	A novel covalently linked Zn phthalocyanine-Zn porphyrin dyad for dye-sensitized solar cells Published In Israel Journal of Chemistry
2016	A novel donor-acceptor carbazole and benzothiadiazole material for deep red and infrared emitting applications Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry C
2016	A novel modified terpyridine derivative as a model molecule to study kinetic-based optical spectroscopic ion determination methods Published In Synthetic Metals
2016	Controlled delivery of drugs adsorbed onto porous Fe3O4 structures by application of AC/DC magnetic fields Published In Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
2016	Effect of π-conjugation on electrochemical properties of poly(terthiophene)s 3′-substituted with fullerene C60 Published In Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
2016	Enhancement of dye regeneration kinetics in dichromophoric porphyrin-carbazole triphenylamine dyes influenced by more exposed radical cation orbitals Published In Chemical Science
2016	Studies of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) films containing cationic Mn porphyrins. A loading-dependent demetalation of Mn(III)TPP in PEDOT (Mn(III)TPP=5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrinato manganese(III)) Published In Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
2016	Systematic elongation of thienyl linkers and their effect on optical and electrochemical properties in carbazole-BODIPY donor-acceptor systems Published In RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences
2015	An intermediate band dye-sensitised solar cell using triplet-triplet annihilation Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2015	Decoloration rates of a photomerocyanine dye as a visual probe into hydrogen bonding interactions Published In Chemical Communications
2015	Dichromophoric zinc porphyrins: filling the absorption gap between the Soret and Q bands Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2015	Disorder engineering of undoped Tio2 nanotube arrays for highly efficient solar-driven oxygen evolution Published In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2015	Electrochemically induced synthesis of poly (2,6-carbazole) Published In Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2015	Enhanced electron lifetimes in dye-sensitized solar cells using a di-chromophoric porphyrin: the utility of inter-molecular forces Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2015	Flexible tuning of unsaturated β-substituents on Zn porphyrins: A synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study Published In Chemistry: A European Journal
2015	Magnetic nanoparticles for “smart liposomes” Published In European Biophysics 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
2014	Electrochemical and photoelectronic studies on C60-pyrrolidine- functionalised poly(terthiophene) Published In Electrochimica Acta
2014	Enhanced performance of dye-sensitized solar cells using carbazole-substituted di-chromophoric porphyrin dyes Published In Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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	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	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	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	Direct exfoliation of graphite with a porphyrin - Creating functionalizable nanographene hybrids Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Electrodeposition of pyrrole and 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)thiophene copolymer for supercapacitor applications Published In Synthetic Metals
2012	Isomorphism in Two (E)-1-(4-Halophenyl)-N-[1-(4-Methylphenyl)-1H-Imidazol-4-yl]Methanimines (Halide = Cl, Br) Published In Journal of Chemical Crystallography
2012	Porphyrins for dye-sensitised solar cells: New insights into efficiency-determining electron transfer steps Published In Chemical Communications
2012	Towards hydrogen energy: progress on catalysts for water splitting Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
2011	1-(3-Chlorophenyl)-2-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole-5-carboxamide Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2011	5-Chloro-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-amine Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
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	Highly Stretchable Conducting SIBS-P3HT Fibers Published In Advanced Functional Materials
2011	Photocatalytic oxygen evolution from non-potable water by a bioinspired molecular water oxidation catalyst Published In Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical
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	Why do some alkoxybromothiophenes spontaneously polymerize? Published In Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science
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	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	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	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	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	Electrochemical syntheses of photoluminescent polymers from thienylene-poly(phenylenevinylene) derivatives Published In Polimery
2008	Polypyrrole/Co-tetraphenylporphyrin modified carbon fibre paper as a fuel cell electrocatalyst of oxygen reduction Published In Electrochemistry Communications
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	2-Methoxy-1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	2-Methyl-4-nitro-1-(3-pyridyl)-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	2-Methyl-4-nitro-1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1H-imidazole Published In Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
2007	5-Methoxy-2-methyl-4-nitro-1-phenyl-1H-imidazole 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	Crystal packing of two 5-substituted 2-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazoles Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
2007	Electrochemical actuation properties of a novel solution-processable polythiophene Published In Electrochimica Acta
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	Ring transformations in the reactions of 1,4-dinitropyrazole with N-nucleophiles Published In ARKIVOC
2007	Two different modes of halogen bonding in two 4-nitroimidazole derivatives Published In Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Bioinspired catalysis Published In Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry: Reverse-Engineering Nature Publisher Hoboken, NJ

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Year	Title
2013	Negative phototaxis behavior of organic droplets in channels Published In 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
2008	PMSE 457-Conducting polymer and carbon nanotube architectures for electrocatalysis Published In 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2021	Faster interfacial electron transfer: The effect of molecule shape and size Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2018 - 2021	Bio-Inspired Hydrogen Generation by Novel Bubble Free Electro-Catalytic Systems Awarded by: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Funding Scheme: Research and Development Program
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
2014	AmbiPOD-Multicoloured ambipolar conducting polymers for single polymer optoelectronic devices Awarded by: Marie Curie Exchange Scheme Funding Scheme: Grant
2011	Co and Mn K-edge XAS on a series of molecular doped polymer catalysts Awarded by: Australian Synchrotron Research Program Funding Scheme: Travel Grant
2011	Porphyrin arrays - light harvesting in three dimensions Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Reactive Printing of Metal-Organic Interfaces	Al-Ghazzawi, Fatimah Abdulhasan Nader
Doctor of Philosophy	Lattice linking in Metal-Organic Frameworks	Fishburn, Mitchell
Doctor of Philosophy	Ionic Liquid-Loaded Metal-Organic Frameworks: Light Harvesting Conducting Solids	Conte, Luke
Doctor of Philosophy	Fabrication of graphene coated nanoporous metals/alloys as high-performance electrocatalyst	Jia, Lisha
Doctor of Philosophy	Remotely Activated, Contactless Electrodes in Biomedical Applications	Zhang, Xinrui
Doctor of Philosophy	Inventive approaches to fabricate highly efficient sensitized solar cell: Change the way to dye-sensitize and to regenerate	Mele Kavungathodi, Munavvar Fairoos
Doctor of Philosophy		Baker, Carly
Doctor of Philosophy	Faster electron transfer for clean energy: The effect of molecular shape and size on interfacial electron transfer rates	Dheendayal, Mantra

Reviewer Of

Biomacromolecules (Journal) 2012 -
New Journal of Chemistry: a journal for new directions in chemistry (Journal) 2012 -
Synthetic Metals (Journal) 2003 -
Journal of Organic Chemistry (Journal) 2002 -

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Novel method of reduction and removal of nitro group from nitroarenes and nitroheteroarenes 1994 - 1999
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Synthesis of 1-aryl-4-nitroimidazoles and theirs use in synthesis of heterocyclic systems. 1987 - 1993
Massey University, Faculty of Sciences 2001 - 2007
Hasselt University, Departament of Chemistry 2000 - 2001

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organic chemistry, synthesis, heterocycles, optoelectronics

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