PhD theses

  • February 2024  Anthony Katselas “Nanoscale Coatings for the Enhancement of Atmospheric Water Capture” PhD Thesis
  • June 2023 Jun Hong “Liquid-Infused Surfaces for Anti–Thrombogenic Cardiovascular Medical Devices” PhD Thesis
  • August 2022 Christopher Vega Sánchez “Fluid Slip On Lubricant-Infused Surfaces” PhD Thesis
  • October 2021 Ming Chiu, “Patterned and Structured Polymer Coatings for Atmospheric Water Capture”, PhD Thesis under embargo
  • January 2021 Sam Peppou-Chapman, “Distribution and Depletion of Lubricant on Anti-Fouling Lubricant-Infused Surfaces”. PhD Thesis
  • March 2020 Ahmed Owais Mohamed Ahmed , “Driving Forces for Wetting and Adsorption on Functional Surfaces”. PhD Thesis
  • February 2019 Liam Scarratt, “Wetting and liquid flow on lubricant infused nano- and micro-structured surfaces”. PhD Thesis
  • June 2016 Omar Al-Khayat, “Dewetting polymer bilayers by solvent vapour annealing: A pathway to manufacturing biomimetic water harvesting surface coatings”. PhD Thesis
  • Jan 2015 Manuel Ghezzi, “Functional surface micropatterns by dewetting of thin polymer films”. PhD Thesis
  • Nov 2013 Tom Lee, “Tunable nanopatterns formed by polymer brushes”. PhD thesis
  • June 2012 Say Kwang Lim, “Chemisorption of proteins on patterned polymer thin films for biomedical applications”, MSc Thesis; [text not yet available on the University e-repository]
  • Aug 2012, Liwen Zhu, “Reliable measurement of slip using colloid probe atomic force microscopy”. PhD Thesis
  • Nov 2011 Andrew Michael Telford, “Advanced functional coatings for biomedical applications: patterning cells onto biomaterials”. PhD Thesis
  • May 2010 Wilasinee Sriprom “Light-responsive block copolymer films prepared by RAFT polymerisation” available at the University of Sydney library.

Honours projects

  • 2023 Seamus Lilley, “Detection of gas nano- and micro-layers at the oil-water interface”
  • 2018 Anthony Katselas, “The halogen bond driven self-assembly of 1-iodoperfluorododecane on graphite”.
  • 2017 Jun Ki Hong,”Self-assembled perfluorocarbon monolayer functionalisation of silicon surface driven by halogen bonding”.
  • 2016 Cameron Ware, “Fabrication and characterisation of slippery lubricant infused polymeric wrinkled surfaces”.
  • 2016 Elliot Wood, “Fabrication of self-assembled mono-, Bi- and trilayers based on halogen bonding”.
  • 2015 David Beck, “Polymer dewetted patterns for atmospheric water capture”.
  • 2015 Keyun Shou, “Self-assembled monolayer on silicon based on halogen bonding”.
  • 2014 Liam Scarratt, “Fabrication of robust superhydrophobic surfaces through spontaneous wrinkling”.
  • 2010 Yusuf Ziya Sahin, “Investigating nanowire growth using block copolymer templates”.
  • 2009 Thomas Lee, “The origin of the contact electrification of insulators”.
  • 2009 Say Kwang Lim, “Preferential protein adsorption on micro-phase separated block-copolymer thin films”.
  • 2009 Tanushan Samuel-Thambiah, “An investigation into the properties and applications of nickel nanowires”.
  • 2008 Kyle Reece Joseph, “Nanocarpets and more: Control over surface wettability and patterning using metallic nanowires”.