Author: Jayne Ion

It has been an exciting week for the Neto group. Associate Professor Chiara Neto has been announced as one of the 5 winners of the University of Sydney Grand Challenge scheme with her project “Advanced Capture of Water from the Atmosphere (ACWA)”. This project aims to capture water directly from the atmosphere through the condensation of moisture on a …

NanoLens demonstrated the wonders of “slow looking” at the Sydney Science Festival, Royal Botanic Garden. Visit us at our webpage and Twitter page!

Welcome Dr E-Jen Teh who joins us today as a Staff Scientist.                

A/Prof Chiara Neto is awarded a Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council to work on “Biomimetic surface coatings for drag and fouling reduction”              

Welcome Mr Chris Vega, who starts today his PhD project with us on SLIPS and microfluidics.                

A/Prof Chiara Neto is awarded a SOAR Fellowship of the DVC-R to work on “Designing energy-efficient surface coatings”              

Welcome Mr Anthony Katselas, who starts today his Honours project with us on self-assembled monolayers.

Congratulations to Mr Ahmed Owais and Mr Sam Peppou-Chapman on their award of inaugural Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST) Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarships. These AINST Scholarships have been established to recognize and foster excellent postgraduate research degree candidates working in the fields of nanoscale science and technology at the University of Sydney. AINST received many competitive applications …

Congratulations to Mr Liam Scarratt for being awarded the Australian Nanotechnology Network Travel Scholarship to help fund his trip to Germany to work with Professor Doris Vollmer at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz.              

New paper from:  Scarratt, LRJ; Steiner, U and Neto, C. A review on the mechanical and thermodynamic robustness of superhydrophobic surfaces. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 246, 133-152, 2017. 10.1016/j.cis.2017.05.018