Arc Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science

Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting

Y Liu, S Zhang, Y Zhou, MA Buckingham, L Aldous, PC Sherrell, GG Wallace, G Ryder, S Faisal, DL Officer, S Beirne, J Chen

2020-12-01

Thermoelectrochemical cells (thermocells) designed for harvesting human body heat can provide constant power output for wearable e..

Heterogeneous Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

M Li, H Wang, W Luo, PC Sherrell, J Chen, J Yang

2020-08-27

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is of great importance to tackle the rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere..

A safe Li-Se battery in an ionic liquid-based electrolyte operating at 25-70 degrees C by using a N,S,O tri-doped mesoporous carbon host material

Tiago C Mendes, Cuong Nguyen, Anders J Barlow, Pavel Cherepanov, Maria Forsyth, Patrick C Howlett, Doug R MacFarlane

2020-05-01

The selenium cathode for lithium–selenium batteries (Li–Se) has recently been recognized as an appealing high-energy alternative t..

A multifunctional surfactant catalyst inspired by hydrolases

Mitchell D Nothling, Zeyun Xiao, Nicholas S Hill, Mitchell T Blyth, Ayana Bhaskaran, Marc-Antoine Sani, Andrea Espinosa-Gomez, Kevin Ngov, Jonathan White, Tim Buscher, Frances Separovic, Megan L O'Mara, Michelle L Coote, Luke A Connal

2020-04-01

The remarkable power of enzymes to undertake catalysis frequently stems from their grouping of multiple, complementary chemical un..

Engineered 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides—A Vision of Viable Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalysis

L Lin, P Sherrell, Y Liu, W Lei, S Zhang, H Zhang, GG Wallace, J Chen

2020-04-01

The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is an emerging key technology to provide clean, renewable energy. Current state-of-the-art c..

Hybrid diamond/ carbon fiber microelectrodes enable multimodal electrical/chemical neural interfacing

Maryam A Hejazi, Wei Tong, Alastair Stacey, Artemio Soto-Breceda, Michael R Ibbotson, Molis Yunzab, Matias I Maturana, Ali Almasi, Young Jun Jung, Shi Sun, Hamish Meffin, Jian Fang, Melanie EM Stamp, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Kate Fox, Aaqil Rifai, Athavan Nadarajah, Samira Falahatdoost, Steven Prawer, Nicholas V Apollo

2020-02-01

Implantable medical devices are now in regular use to treat or ameliorate medical conditions, including movement disorders, chroni..

Evaluation of sterilisation methods for bio-ink components: gelatin, gelatin methacryloyl, hyaluronic acid and hyaluronic acid methacryloyl

Cathal D O'Connell, Carmine Onofrillo, Serena Duchi, Xin Li, Yifan Zhang, Peilin Tian, Lanyita Lu, Anna Trengove, Anita Quigley, Sanjeev Gambhir, Afsaneh Khansari, Tajanka Mladenovska, Andrea O'Connor, Claudia Di Bella, Peter F Choong, Gordon G Wallace

2019-07-01

Reliable and scalable sterilisation of hydrogels is critical to the clinical translation of many biofabrication approaches, such a..

A Novel Monolithic Soft Robotic Thumb for an Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand

H Zhou, A Mohammadi, D Oetomo, G Alici

2019-04-01

The thumb of a natural hand or a prosthetic hand plays a significant role in realizing a hand's grasping and manipulation activiti..

Melt electrowriting of electroactive poly(vinylidene difluoride) fibers

Sammy Florczak, Thomas Lorson, Tian Zheng, Miroslav Mrlik, Dietmar W Hutmacher, Michael J Higgins, Robert Luxenhofer, Paul D Dalton

2019-04-01

Poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) has piezoelectric properties suitable for numerous applications such as flexible electronics, s..

Biofabrication of human articular cartilage: A path towards the development of a clinical treatment

C Onofrillo, S Duchi, CD O'Connell, R Blanchard, AJ O'Connor, M Scott, GG Wallace, PFM Choong, C Di Bella

2018-08-21

Cartilage injuries cause pain and loss of function, and if severe may result in osteoarthritis (OA). 3D bioprinting is now a tangi..

Highly dispersed and disordered nickel-iron layered hydroxides and sulphides: Robust and high-activity water oxidation catalysts

M Chatti, AM Glushenkov, T Gengenbach, GP Knowles, TC Mendes, AV Ellis, L Spiccia, RK Hocking, AN Simonov

2018-01-01

The present work introduces a rapid low-temperature microwave-assisted synthesis of nickel(iron) layered hydroxides and sulphides ..

Development of drug-loaded polymer microcapsules for treatment of epilepsy

Y Chen, Q Gu, Z Yue, JM Crook, SE Moulton, MJ Cook, GG Wallace

2017-10-01

Despite significant progress in developing new drugs for seizure control, epilepsy still affects 1% of the global population and i..

Evaluation of the Biocompatibility of Polypyrrole Implanted Subdurally in GAERS

SH Bauquier, KJ McLean, JL Jiang, RC Boston, A Lai, Z Yue, SE Moulton, AJ Halliday, G Wallace, MJ Cook

2017-05-01

This blinded controlled prospective randomized study investigates the biocompatibility of polypyrrole (PPy) polymer that will be u..

Effective area and charge density of dextran sulphate doped PEDOT modified electrodes

AR Harris, PJ Molino, RMI Kapsa, GM Clark, AG Paolini, GG Wallace

2016-10-01

The performance of neural electrodes over chronic periods is poor with degrading signal-to-noise ratio and low biocompatibility. C..