What's On at UWA

Molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical calculations are powerful scientific tools that are used to probe chemical and dynamic properties at the atomic level. They can offer useful insight into experimental outcomes and guide subsequent investigations. I will present three cases where molecular (...)

In 2004, we synthesised a porphyrin possessing four fluorenyl arms (TFP),with a remarkable high quantum yield (24%), compared to the reference TPP, demonstrating the capacity of the fluorenyl units to enhance quantum yields. Then, to exploite this efficiency, a series of Organic porphyrin (...)

The advent of new technologies has enabled important advances in understanding animal evolution, with many long-standing paradigms overturned in recent decades. However, the key to many of these advances has been the discovery of previously unknown taxa. Exploration of the deep sea and polar waters (...)

While there are now many sophisticated imaging techniques to study biological systems, chemical tools are needed to gain an understanding of what is happening in the cell, on a molecular level. We are interested in designing small molecule sensors to probe sub-cellular molecular species, especially (...)

Surface science underpins all modern technology from Gore-Tex to the iPhone. We need to think about surfaces for catalysis, corrosion, coatings, growth of thin films, chemical/biological functionalization and nanotechnology just to name a few. Curtin and UWA have established a surface analysis (...)

The Western Australian Small Angle X-Ray Facility is based at Curtin University and has been the providing the local research community with the instrumentation and experience necessary for SAXS experiments in Western Australia since it was established in 2002. Due to the limitations of hardware (...)