Research in the field of physical and structural chemistry from the Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
Researchers
Brendan Abrahams Design, synthesis, structure and properties of redox-active and microporous coordination polymers, hydrogen-bonded networks and molecular cages.
Muthupandian Ashokkumar Cutting-edge research in the areas of ultrasonics and sonochemistry, including fundamental aspects of acoustic cavitation.
Stephen Best Electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry.
Evan Bieske Optical spectroscopy and MS of trapped nanoparticles, fluorescent nanoparticles, single particle spectroscopy, IR of charged complexes and clusters, molecular anions, photodissociation spectroscopy.
Steven Carnie Electrokinetics, flow in porous media, hydrodynamics of drops, colloidal interactions, thin film drainage.
Ken Ghiggino Super-resolution optical imaging methods, ultrafast laser spectroscopy and time-resolved microscopy, applied to study materials including organic photovoltaic, semiconductor nanocrystal and biological materials.
Lars Goerigk Theoretical and computational quantum chemistry, including development of new quantum-chemical methods, as well as application to organic-, inorganic-, physico- or biochemical problems.
James Hutchison Laser controlled reactives and spectroscopy.
Guy Jameson Iron-containing metalloenzymes, kinetics and spectroscopy, Mössbauer spectroscopy.
Spas Kolev Development of methods and instrumentation for automatic chemical analysis and environmental monitoring; Fabrication and study of polymeric membranes.
Paul Mulvaney Nanostructured materials, nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanomechanics, AFM, waveguides, ellipsometry, fluorescence, surface plasmon spectroscopy, single particle spectroscopy, exciton emission, plasmonics.
Richard O'Hair Using mass spectrometry to study gas phase reactions in organic biomolecules and inorganic and organometallic ions.
Frances Separovic Antimicrobial peptides, membrane biophysics, model membranes, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, solid-state NMR, structural biology.
Trevor Smith Evanescent wave fluorescence spectroscopy, super-resolution optical microscopy, time-resolved fluorescence microscopy, ultrafast laser spectroscopy.
Alessandro Soncini Theoretical chemistry for molecular modelling.
Georgina Such Polymer chemistry, materials science and nanomedicine.
Lei Zhang Synthesis and structure of coordination complexes including clusters, cages and polymers, with a focus on sustainable energy applications.
Research centres
ARC CoE for Advanced Molecular Imaging
Developing better techniques and technologies to reveal the structure and dynamics of molecular interactions (the Imaging program), and applying these techniques to visualise the response of our immune system (the Immunology program).
ARC CoE for Exciton Science
Researching better ways to manipulate the way light energy is absorbed, transported and transformed in advanced molecular materials.
Research in this area is conducted in the School of Chemistry.