ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ELECTROMATERIALS SCIENCE

Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting

Yuqing Liu, Shuai Zhang, Yuetong Zhou, Mark A Buckingham, Leigh Aldous, Peter C Sherrell, Gordon G Wallace, Gregory Ryder, Shaikh Faisal, David L Officer, Stephen Beirne, Jun Chen

2020-10-01

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

Liangxu Lin, Peter Sherrell, Yuqing Liu, Wen Lei, Shaowei Zhang, Haijun Zhang, Gordon G Wallace, Jun 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

Hao Zhou, Alireza Mohamtnadi, Denny Oetomo, Gursel 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

Carmine Onofrillo, Serena Duchi, Cathal D O'Connell, Romane Blanchard, Andrea J O'Connor, Mark Scott, Gordon G Wallace, Peter FM Choong, Claudia Di Bella

2018-10-01

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

Manjunath Chatti, Alexey M Glushenkov, Thomas Gengenbach, Gregory P Knowles, Tiago C Mendes, Amanda V Ellis, Leone Spiccia, Rosalie K Hocking, Alexandr N Simonov

2018-07-01

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

Yu Chen, Qi Gu, Zhilian Yue, Jeremy M Crook, Simon E Moulton, Mark J Cook, Gordon G 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

Sebastien H Bauquier, Karen J McLean, Jonathan L Jiang, Ray C Boston, Alan Lai, Zhilian Yue, Simon E Moulton, Amy J Halliday, Gordon Wallace, Mark J 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

Alexander R Harris, Paul J Molino, Robert MI Kapsa, Graeme M Clark, Antonio G Paolini, Gordon G Wallace

2016-10-01

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