Our focus on chemical processes to evolve sustainable methods of creating, storing and distributing sustainable and renewable energy is grounded in our work in rare earth and transition metal chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, chemical sensors and technological devices, precision agriculture, organic and inorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and renewable energy.
Research groups and labs
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Agricultural Data Science
The Analytics, Modelling and Technology research group focuses on creating opportunities for innovation in big data to support the global efforts towards sustainable intensification of agriculture.
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Boskovic Group – Inorganic Molecular Materials
Physical inorganic chemists researching transition and rare earth metal chemistry, this group aims to harness the electronic properties of these metals in switchable, stimuli-responsive molecular materials for future applications in sensors, displays and molecular electronic and spintronics.
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The Carbon Trap Lab
The Carbon Trap Lab develops technologies to permanently store CO2 in rocks.
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Crop Agronomy Group
The Crop Agronomy Group specialise in improving water limited productivity of dry-land cropping and mixed farming systems.
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Digital Agriculture, Food and Wine
The Digital Agriculture, Food, and Wine group works on the implementation and integration of new and emerging technologies, including but not limited to artificial intelligence tools on agricultural and food applications from farm to the palate.
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Energy Materials
Developing high performance organic electronic semiconductor materials for organic solar cells and their translation to large area printed solar cells.
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Farm Systems Analysis
The Farm Systems Analysis group conducts research to improve the production and sustainability of agricultural systems.
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Food Politics, Philosophy & Policy
Addressing the politics, philosophy and policy dimensions of food, nutrition, agriculture, and engaging with issues related to nutrition, public health, ecological sustainability, animal welfare, social justice and corporate power in food systems.
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Functional Organic Materials
Addressing fundamental scientific problems in the development of materials for emerging technologies.
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Geothermal Energy and Heat Flow
The Geothermal Energy and Heat Flow Research Group investigates where and how geothermal energy can be used in Australia and elsewhere around the world.
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Green Infrastructure Research Group (GIRG)
Creating and embedding knowledge and technologies in smart design, construction and maintenance of green spaces, trees, parks, rain gardens, green roofs and facades throughout the urban landscape.
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Hua Group – Responsive Inorganic Materials
Our research involves using supramolecular inorganic chemistry to make materials for the next generation of technological devices and chemical sensors of importance for health and the environment.
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Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing Laboratory (HyperSens)
The Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing Laboratory (HyperSens) focuses on quantitative methods for remote sensing, with main interests on vegetation stress detection, physiological condition and precision agriculture.
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Melbourne Analytical Geochemistry
Melbourne Analytical Geochemistry—MAG—builds on over 20 years of field-leading trace element and isotope geochemistry.
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Nanoscience Lab
Discovering new materials that can help Australia transition to a sustainable energy future.
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O'Hair Group – Fundamental and Applied Mass Spectrometry
This group studies gas phase reactions through the use of mass spectrometry to investigate the gas phase chemistry of organic, biomolecules and inorganic and organometallic icons.
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Organic Electronic Materials and Devices
Focusing on the development of high-performance organic and perovskite solar cells through device optimisation, morphology control of the photoactive layer, and interface engineering of the photovoltaic device.
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Polyzos Lab – Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Catalysis
Our vision is to harness catalysis and advanced technologies to generate new molecular scaffolds delivered in a scalable and sustainable fashion.
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Recycle and Reuse of Agricultural Wastes
The Agricultural and Urban Waste Management research group aims to improve nutrient and resource recovery by investigating nutrient re-use and recycling and the recovery of other valuable resources from agricultural and urban waste.
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Renewable Energy
Renewable energy has become more than a set of technologies. It lays the foundation for society to transition towards sources of energy that are continuously replenished without adding to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. With society relying upon energy to function, there is a need to better understand how to continue decarbonising our energy systems both locally and globally.
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Responsible Mining and Energy Transition
Our group combines expertise in remote sensing, GIS, geosciences, environmental engineering, and human and physical geography to explore the human and environmental impacts and risks of mining and energy transitions.
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Rural Innovation Research Group
The Rural Innovation Research Group (RIRG) is a social science group that researches and designs innovative pathways for facilitating change and enabling social-ecological resilience.
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Sonochemistry & Sonoprocessing
My fundamental and applied research work involves multi-disciplinary areas involving ultrasonic technology, materials chemistry, surface chemistry, photochemistry and spectroscopy. My focus has been to address energy, environment and health.
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Sustainable and Renewable Forest Products
The Sustainable and Renewable Forest Products Group creates knowledge and builds capability in the innovative uses of sustainably-managed timber resources for high-performance timber products.
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Sustainable Agricultural Production
The Sustainable Agricultural Production research group has internationally recognised expertise in sustainable intensification of crop, pasture and animal production.
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Trace Analysis for Chemical, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
The TrACEES research platform supports research requiring high quality surface chemical analysis, trace elemental and speciation analysis, and associated structural chemical analysis.
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Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Lab
This lab uses a comprehensive set of ultrafast laser spectroscopy and advanced optical microscopy instrumentation to carry out collaborative research on many areas of photochemistry and photophysics.
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