News

We farewell our brilliant collaborator Dr E-Jen Teh who has provided wisdom and insight on industry engagement over the past year. All the best in Canberra, E-Jen!

We welcome Rosin D’Art, Masters student at Trinity College Dublin, who will undertake a 3-motnhs project with us.

We are proud that the Journal of Chemical Education will showcase our paper “Chemical curiosity on campus: an Undergraduate Project on the Structure and Wettability of Natural Surfaces” on their front cover.

Check out our new paper in collaboration with Uni Padova: water capture is more efficient using our patterned surfaces, obtained through the dewetting of sol-gel bilayers, Advanced Materials Interfaces @AdvSciNews https://goo.gl/C7apsd

Our mammoth paper “Ultralow surface energy self-assembled monolayers of iodo-perfluorinated alkanes on silica driven by halogen bonding” has been accepted by Nanoscale. It has been a long time coming, with lots of people contributing over the years, from USyd, ANSTO, UNSW, Flinders University, and Adolphe Merkle Institute. We are proud and looking forward to continuing …

Congratulations Liam Scarratt for a fantastic PhD thesis presentation “Wetting and liquid flow on lubricant infused nano- and micro-structured surfaces”.            

End of year group lunch: we celebrate a great year for the group and wish everyone a great 2019.                  

Check out our new paper in collaboration with Felix Vuellers and Hendrik Hoelscher from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: our superhydrophobic wrinkled surfaces remain dry for longer and are more robust than other surfaces to repeated immersions and contamination. https://goo.gl/WBb5wk  free to download for a week.