Materials Science
Materials science at Monash Chemistry covers a broad range of activities across the traditional areas of organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry.
There is a particular focus on synthesis, advanced characterisation, and structure-property relationships.
Coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are studied for their applications in gas capture and storage, heterogeneous catalysis, molecular separations, sensing, and novel magnetic and electronic materials.
Revolutionary synthetic approaches to organic polymers are leading to new generations of important plastics, polymers, lubricants and surfactants.
Other materials are being studied for their novel magnetic and electronic switching behaviour and their electrical conductivity, with applications including:
- information storage
- solar cells
- next generation batteries
Advances in nanotechnology are being driven by research into nanocrystals, quantum dots, nanocomposite catalysts, and surface-based materials.
Our wide-ranging research is supported by excellent collaborations both within Monash Chemistry and with external collaborators world-wide. Our world class facilities, together with the larger Monash precinct (e.g. the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy), and external facilities such as the Australian Synchrotron and the OPAL multi-purpose nuclear reactor combine to make our research in this field second to none.
Researchers
The following researchers contribute to this theme:
MOFs | Soft Materials | Nanomaterials / 2D |
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Stuart Batten | Doug MacFarlane | Alison Funston |
David Turner | Drasko Vidovic | Rico Tabor |
Organic Polymers | Solar Cells | Electrochemistry |
Tanja Junkers | Doug MacFarlane | Alan Bond |
Kei Saito | Subashani Maniam | Jie Zhang |
San Thang | Sasha Siminov | Lisa Martin |
Gas sorption | Magnetism | Other |
Alan Chaffee | Keith Murray | Philip Chan - Catalysis |
Phil Marriott - Separation | ||
Toby Bell - Lasers | ||
Katya Pas - Modeling |