User Meeting 2016

Session

Concurrent Session 2: Advanced Materials II

24 Nov 2016, 13:30

National Centre for Synchrotron Science

Conveners

Concurrent Session 2: Advanced Materials II

• Zhaoming Zhang (ANSTO)

197. Biomimetic nanostructured lipidic materials for encapsulation of therapeutic proteins

Dr Charlotte Conn (RMIT)

24/11/2016, 13:30

Advanced Materials

Oral

Proteins and peptides represent the fastest growing class of pharmaceuticals with application as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. However, they present significant challenges for drug delivery due to their complexity and fragile nature. Hybrid protein-lipid materials are highly prospective bionanomaterials for the long-term storage and controlled release of therapeutic proteins and peptides....

201. Chiral Coordination Polymers and Cages

Dr David Turner (Monash University)

24/11/2016, 14:00

Advanced Materials

Oral

Chiral metal-organic materials, either infinite coordination polymers or discrete cages/capsules, are areas of considerable research interest due to their potential to act as catalysts for enantioselective reactions or agents to separate and purify racemic mixtures. Towards these ends, we have recently been investigating a series of enantiopure dicarboxylate ligands, built using diimide...

185. Behaviour and Strength of Collagen Materials

Ms Hannah Wells (Massey University)

24/11/2016, 14:15

Advanced Materials

Oral

Collagen is the main structural component of many natural materials including leather and surgical scaffold materials derived from skin, and heart valve leaflets derived from pericardium. Strength is one of the key characteristics required for the application of these materials however the basis for strength in these materials is not fully understood. We have used small angle X-ray scattering...

244. Investigation of electronic and morphological changes from thionation of naphthalene diimide (NDI)

Mr Adam Welford (Monash University)

24/11/2016, 14:30

Advanced Materials

Oral

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) possess many inherent advantages that allow them to be used effectively as organic field effect transistors (OFETs). Solution processablility allows rapid, large area fabrication on low cost flexible substrate that make them ideal for specialized applications such as flexible displays and radio frequency identification (RFID). Small molecule OSCs provide...

230. Effects of Solvents on Organic Field Effect Transistor (OFET) Charge Transport and Thin-Film Morphology of a High Mobility n-type Semiconducting Copolymer P(NDI2OD-T2)

Mr Masrur Morshed Nahid (Monash University)

24/11/2016, 14:45

Advanced Materials

Oral

The interaction between a solvent and semiconducting polymer plays a fundamental role in the formation of thin-films that are used to fabricate solution processed organic electronic devices. Depending on this interaction, polymer chains form different aggregates in a solvent that affects film morphology and in turn, charge transport properties. To realise efficient charge transport in an...

233. Structure of Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions using SAXS and SANS

Prof. Gary Bryant (Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Physics, School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University)

24/11/2016, 15:00

Advanced Materials

Oral

Colloidal suspensions of hard spheres are valuable experimental model systems for exploring phase behaviour and dynamics in condensed matter. Such colloids form colloidal crystals at concentrations above the freezing volume fraction of 0.494, allowing the investigation of the kinetics and dynamics of crystallization. As colloidal particles are much bigger than atoms, processes are...