UNSW School of Chemistry

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Congratulations...

At the 2018 Honours & Masters-by-Research Student Presentation Evening, organised by the RACI NSW Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Group, Merryn Baker won first prize ($500), while Jordan Mastellone won third prize ($100) for their research presentations.

Students from NSW universities presented the research projects that they had been working on since the beginning of 2018, and the winners were selected by a panel of judges from industry and academia.

Honours student, Merryn’s talk was entitled: "Preconcentration of Volatile Organic Cancer Biomarkers using Metal Organic Frameworks for High-Performance Analysis by Mass Spectrometry."

Masters student, Jordan’s talk was entitled: "Separation of Disaccharide Isomers by Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry Mass Spectrometry."

Both winners are students from Alex Donald’s research group.

Shimadzu sponsored the student prizes and the annual event, which was held this year at the University of Technology Sydney.

Scott Kable's research group has published a paper in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS entitled "Photo-tautomerization of acetaldehyde as a photochemical source of formic acid in the troposphere."

Check it out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04824-2

Jason Harper's research group has published a paper in ORGANIC AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY entitled "The effect of varying the anion of an ionic liquid on the solvent effects on a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction."

Check it out: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/OB/C8OB00651B #!divAbstract

Scott Kable's research group has published a paper in JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS entitled "Photodissociation dynamics of propanal and isobutanal: The Norrish Type i pathway."

Check it out: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5019383

Justin Gooding's research group has published a paper in SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B: CHEMICAL entitled "Locked nucleic acid molecular beacon for multiplex detection of loop mediated isothermal amplification."

Check it out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925400518307858?via%3Dihub

Tim Schmidt's research group has published a paper in JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C entitled "An add-on organic green-to-blue photon-upconversion layer for organic light emitting diodes."

Check it out: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/TC/C7TC05649D #!divAbstract

Chuan Zhao's research group has published a paper in CURRENT OPINION IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY entitled "Design strategies for non-precious metal oxide electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reactions."

Check it out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451910318300462?via%3Dihub

Naresh Kumar's research group has published a paper in APPLIED MATERIALS TODAY entitled "Plasma activated coatings with dual action against fungi and bacteria."

Check it out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352940718300556

Alex Donald's research group has published a paper in BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY entitled "Activation studies with amines and amino acids of the β-carbonic anhydrase from the pathogenic protozoan Leishmania donovani chagasi."

Check it out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045206818301470?via%3Dihub

Tim Schmidt's research group has published a paper in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS entitled "Calculating curly arrows from ab initio wavefunctions."

Check it out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03860-2

Martina Stenzel's research group has published a paper in ACS MACRO LETTERS entitled "Covalent Tethering of Temperature Responsive pNIPAm onto TEMPO-Oxidized Cellulose Nanofibrils via Three-Component Passerini Reaction."

Check it out: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00051