OUR TEAM
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Dr. Nicholas Bedford
Prior to arriving at UNSW, Nick was a staff member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (2017-2018), where he also served as a contractor (2016-2017), National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014) and a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Scholar during his PhD (2009-2011).ย He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati (2011) and his BS in Chemistry and Physics from Central Michigan University (2007).
Dr. N. Bedford CV
OUR TEAM
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Dr. Nicholas Bedford
Prior to arriving at UNSW, Nick was a staff member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (2017-2018), where he also served as a contractor (2016-2017), National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014) and a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Scholar during his PhD (2009-2011).ย He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati (2011) and his BS in Chemistry and Physics from Central Michigan University (2007).
Dr. N. Bedford CV
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Research associates
Dr. Stephanie Chua
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Master of Science, Chemistry, University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Santo Tomas
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Dr. Yuwei Yang
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of New South Wales
MPhil, University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering
B.Eng., Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Graduate students
Haira Gabriela Hackbarth
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
B. Eng, University of Joinville and Region (Brazil)
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Kshitij Srivastava
Ph.D. Student (Primary Supervisor: Prof Aguey-Zinsou)
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
MS, Purdue University, Chemical Engineering
BEng, Delhi Technological University, Applied Chemistry
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Jhair Andres Peรฑa Prada
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MS, Tianjin University, Chemical Engineering
BS, Universidad Industrial de Santader (cum laude)
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Gustavo Sant'Anna
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MPhil, Rio De Janeiro State University, Chemical Engineering
Chem. Lic., Rio De Janeiro State University
Taren Cataldo
Ph.D. Student (Co-supervised with Dr Jessica Veliscek-Carolan)
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
BS (Honours), Swinburne University of Technology, Chemistry
BA/BS, Swinburne University of Technology, Professional Writing and Editing
Tanveer Ahmad
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
UIPA Scholarship
MS,ย Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia), Engineering Research
B. Eng,ย University of Engineering and Technology (Pakistan), Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate students
Thanuskan Indrakumar
Honours Thesis 2023-24
Aaron Prasad
Honours Thesis 2023-2024
Yan Fu Ho
Visiting Student from the City University of Hong Kong
Ho Yin Lok
Visiting Student from the City University of Hong Kong
Group alumni
Dr. William Hadinata Lie
“Prussian blue analogue thin-films for electroreforming of biomass-derived alcohols”, PhD 2022ย (Current- Postdoctoral Associate at UNSW, School of Chemical Engineering)
Dr. Junjie Jiang
“Highly Reactive Metal Oxides Through Biomineralisation-Driven Defect Formation”, PhD 2022 (Current –ย Scientist – NSW Department of Planning and Environment)
Dr. Bijil Subhash
“Understanding the Structure-Function Relationship in Peptide-Enabled High Entropy Alloy Nanocatalysts” (Current – Data Engineer at Mantel Group)
Dr. Muhammad Zubair
“Defect Engineered Layered Double Hydroxide Based Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy Systems”, PhD 2024.
Dr. Yuwei Yang
“Structure-Activity Relationship Understanding of Layered-double Hydroxides as Electrocatalysts for Efficient Nucleophile Oxidation and Stimulated Hydrogen Production”, PhD 2024. (Current – Postdoctoral Research Associate – ARC CoE in Carbon Science and Innovation – University of New South Wales)
Dr. Bing Song
Visiting Researcher: Scientist, Project Leader, Scion Research Institute.
Undergraduate alumni
Mubing Diao
Visiting undergraduate from City University of Hong Kong, 2023
Sunny Huang
Honours Thesis 2023
Kere Muiruri
Honours Thesis 2022-2023
William Salim
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Kirana Pratama
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Abbey Last
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Keerti Sai
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Laureen Amariss
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Rooma Shailaj
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Elke Leamon
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Cameron Suen
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Benjamin Howard
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Luke Van Vreumingen
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Ricky Lu
Honours Thesis 2022
Kate Rangan
Honours Thesis 2022
Joanne Trieu
Honours Thesis 2022
Tina Ventoura
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Tracy Liu
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Carmen Zhou
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Brian Hu
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Matthew Brittain
Honours Thesis, 2020-2021
Mohammed Alruwali
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Ashley Eng
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Ziyue Feng
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Valencia Suwarno
Honours Thesis, 2020 – 2021
Hayden Ou
Taste of Research 2018,ย Honours Thesis 2020
Felita Najaya
Honours Thesis 2019
Liyana Hasnan Effendi
Honours Thesis 2019
Adam Inchley
Honours Thesis 2019
Natalie Kerry
Taste of Research, 2020 – 2021
Asin Tasnim Zainuzzaman
Honours Thesis, 2020 – 2021
Fatin Nazirah Mohd Fadzil
Honours Thesis 2021-2022
Georgie Oag
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Big time congrats to Jhair Pena Prada for successfully completing his PhD ๐๐จโ๐๐๐๐งช๐ฅผ๐ฅณ๐๐๐พ๐ป๐๐๐ฅณ๐๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ด. Dr Jhairโs thesis on understanding toxic chemical degradation pathways in MOFs, and importantly, how MOF structure dictates chemical properties, is a great contribution to the field ๐๐. Special thanks to @ale.fraca and his team for the collaborations with Jhair throughout his journey ๐ค๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ท. #phd #phdcomplete #graduation #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #mofs #zirconium #organophosphate #missionaccomplished #chapterclosed #ontodisneyworld #dataordie
Two big conferences last โ๏ธ. Up first, J-DAMMIT ๐ข๐ฅin Harrisburg PA, where there was a ton of cool tech and nice discussions on the future of additive manufacturing ๐จ๏ธ. Definitely going back next year ๐. Followed that up with the Critical Minerals Symposium at the Colorado School Mines โ๏ธ๐ช๐๐ฎ. Awesome group of people and awesome discussion as always, as Iโm sure it will be next year ๐ธ. #jdammit2025 #additivemanufacturing #harrisburg #annedoesshots #criticalminerals #golden #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Awesome time at the CMI meeting this week ๐ชจโ๏ธ, hosted at INL ๐ฅ๐งโ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐จโ๐ฌ. Lots of great discussions on how to solve global issues in critical materials, including resource management and supply chain issue. Tons of awesome work will be coming out of this for sure.๐ #criticalmaterials #mining #separations #rareearth #cobalt #inmybackyard #cantstopwont #dataordie
Just wrapped on a great trip to the DC/Baltimore area ๐ซ๐๏ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐๏ธ๐ฌ. First up was the ACS ๐บ๐ธ๐งช๐งโ๐งโ๐งโ๐ง National Meeting, where I gave an invited talk on our electrocatalysis โก๏ธefforts in biomass valorizarion โ๏ธ. Then up to Baltimore to kick off ๐ฆตfuture efforts with DEVCOM. And to see some furry friends ๐พ. Good stuff๐. #dc #acs #invitedtalk #biomass #electrochemistry #collabos #higary #hiblue #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Functional Materials ๐๐พ๐พ๐๐งฑ๐. Led by our colleagues from Griffith University ๐ฆ, a novel Pb/Cr catalyst has been shown to have excellent selectivity to turn CO2 to formate โ๏ธ, an important electrochemical reaction ๐ฌโก๏ธto covert waste gas streams into fuels and chemicals๐งชโฝ๏ธ. Vacancies in the chrome oxide were determined to be the origin of this reactivity, which were discovered using XAS ๐ฉป . Great work by all. Read: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202515772 #electrochemistry #co2 #formate #chromium #lead #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #surprisepaper #dataordie
New paper out in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society ๐๐๐ช๐๐บ๐ธ๐ชด๐งโ๐งโ๐งโ๐งโผ๏ธโโผ๏ธ. In a collaborative effort with our friends at AFRL โ๏ธ๐ฌ, we demonstrated and studied new perceramic macromolecules made via click chemistry ๐ซฐ that incorporated new metallocene monomers consisting of Ti, Hf, and Zr. These materials can be used in additive manufacturing to make custom ceramic performs without the need of complicated powder sintering processes ๐จ๏ธ๐. We used a suite of synchrotron capabilities at Soleil ๐ซ๐ทESRF ๐ช๐บand APS ๐บ๐ธto understand how structure and chemistry changes as a function of pyrolysis temperature, which helps us understand properties. Read the paper here: 10.1111/jace.70178 #ceramics #preceramic #clickchemistry #titanium #halfnium #zirconium #carbide #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials ๐๐๐คท๐ฎ๐งฑ. In an effort led out of UNSW with significant contributions from Sandia and Brookhaven national labs, it is shown that the position of Pt atoms and clusters in a ruthenium alloy drastically influence the ability to generate H2 from water ๐ฆ. Very interesting stuff ๐ง. Read the paper here: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202509610 #nano #hydrogen #electrocatalysis #platinum #ruthenium #singleatom #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Last week we hosted the inaugural Biomass Valorization through Electro-conversion Reactions workshop at Telluride Science and Innovation Center ๐ฟ๐โก๏ธ๐ฅคโฝ๏ธ๐งช๐๏ธ๐ . It was great to meet so many key researchers in the field, discussions were excellent, and the location could not be beat. Big thanks to ARO for sponsoring and the folks at Telluride Science for their support. See you in 2027 โท๏ธ! #telluride #telluridescience #biomass #electrochemistry #cantbeattheview #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in ACS Catalyst ๐บ๐ธ๐งช๐๏ธโก๏ธ๐๐๐ช๐๐โโ๏ธ๐๐. In a collaborative effort ๐คwith the University of Montpellier ๐ซ๐ท๐ท๐ง๐ฅ, anรณdic ethylene glycol oxidation reactions โ๏ธ were studied and coupled to CO2 reduction ๐ญ to form sustainable carbon building blocks ๐งฑ from waste materials ๐๏ธโป๏ธ๐ using significantly less energy. Oxidation reactions implemented a NiFe catalyst while CO2 reduction used Ag ๐ฅnanoparticles, but extensively studied using XAS and other characterization techniques. Great work all! Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.5c02291. #sustainability #wastetochemicals #co2rr #co2 #ethyleneglycol #nickel #iron #silver #nano #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotrondata #dataordie
Busy week! ๐๐๐ฅธ. Up first, a quick stop to the ATL for NAM29 to present research on biomass electroconversion processes ๐งชโก๏ธโก๏ธ๐ฒ๐๐ฆ . Up second, experiments at ALSโฆ. Except not๐๐. Unfortunately there was an equipment issue and we could not do experiments. These things happen, what can you do ?๐คทโโ๏ธ. Weโll take another shot next cycle ๐#nam29 #atl #biomass #catalyst #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
A little bit of a late postโฆ @yuweii77vv and colleagues recently performed in-situ XAS awards at Spring-8 ๐ฉป๐ฅโก๏ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐พ๐ฃ๐ฑ. Work was done one some recently developed catalysts for electrocatalytic chemical processes โก๏ธโฝ๏ธ๐ช๐ซง๐ง. Great work all, keep an eye out for the upcoming work ๐. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #catalyst #catalysis #insitu #xas #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just wrapped with experiments at BESSY-II ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ป๐งโ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐จโ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐. Using the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) and the OAESE beamline, we examined metal oxides catalyst under operando conditions during biomass conversion reactions ๐คฏ๐โโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ. Awesome datasets collected for sure, and very supportive staff. Weโll be back ๐คfor sure. thanks to @yuweii77vv for the assist and being excellent at opening doors ๐ #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #bessy #softxrays #copper #cobalt #biomass #carbonnanotubes #cantstopwontstop๐ช #dataordie
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