OUR TEAM

 

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).  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

 

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).  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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Junjie Jiang

Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
B.S., University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering
junjie.jiang@unsw.edu.au

Muhammad Zubair

Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
Scientia PhD Scholarship
PDEng, Delft University of Technology, Process & Equipment Design
MS, National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan),
Chemical Engineering
BSc, University of Engineering and Technology (Pakistan), Chemical Engineering
m.zubair@student.unsw.edu.au

Bijil Subhash

Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship + ETA
B.S., University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering
 b.subhash@student.unsw.edu.au

Yuwei Yang

Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MPhil, University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering 
B.Eng., Qingdao University of Science and Technology
yuwei.yang@student.unsw.edu.au

Peter Ellersdorfer

Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
 B.Eng., University of New South Wales, Industrial Engineering
p.ellersdorfer@unsw.edu.au

Undergraduate students:

Hayden Ou

Taste of Research 2018, Honours Thesis 2020

Felita Najaya

Honours Thesis 2019

Liyana Hasnan Effendi

Honours Thesis 2019

Adam Inchley

Honours Thesis 2019

Matthew Brittain

Honours Thesis 2020

Valencia Suwarno

Honours Thesis 2020
switcH2 Goes Live!!!

switcH2 Goes Live!!!

March 2, 2020

From the Peter Ferral Cup to switcH2.  The students have officially started their startup company.  Really great stuff!! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.  Learn more about switcH2 here: https://www.switch2engineering.com/
New Paper in Advanced Materials

New Paper in Advanced Materials

March 1, 2020

New paper in Advanced Materials!!  In collaboration with Liming Dai’s group and various NASA researchers, we report on a Li-CO2 battery based on graphene materials.  Such materials could pave the way toward new energy storage constructs where atmospheric CO2 can be
Recent Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at the Aussitron

Recent Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at the Aussitron

February 23, 2020

Our students just got back from the SXR beamline at the Aussitron.  They spent the weekend probing the lower energy electronic transitions, including in various catalytic and biosensor systems.  Good job everyone! Thanks to Lar Thomsen for looking over the ...
New Publication in Nanoscale

New Publication in Nanoscale

February 13, 2020

Ever wonder how proteins absorb on Au NPs?  Our findings on this topic can be found in our recent paper in Nanoscale.  In collaboration with Alf Garcia-Bennett’s team at Macquarie University, we use a series of techniques to explore how protein absorb on Au ...
New PartCat Paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

New PartCat Paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

February 12, 2020

New paper from PartCat is now out in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.  Here we detail how catalysts manipulation can lead to the selective production of syngas. DOUBLE THUMBS UP EMOJI.  You can find the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.9b21216
Our latest work published in JACS

Our latest work published in JACS

February 11, 2020

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how ...
Two in a row!!

Two in a row!!

February 11, 2020

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how ...
Recent Collaborative Work Published in JACS

Recent Collaborative Work Published in JACS

January 7, 2020

Latest paper published in JACS!!  In collaboration with colleagues from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Southern California, we report on a novel synthetic method for generating MoC nanoparticles.  Cool stuff! EXAFS and PDF were used ...
New paper in Nano Letters! 

New paper in Nano Letters! 

January 5, 2020

New paper in Nano Letters!  In collaboration with the Kortshagen Group at the University of Minnesota, we investigate the local atomic structure of plasmonic Si nanocrystals using atomic PDF and RMC modeling.  RMC modeling provides a means to track dopant ...
Liquid Cell NEXAFS at the Advanced Light Source

Liquid Cell NEXAFS at the Advanced Light Source

December 10, 2019

We are in the Bay!!  Currently performing liquid-cell NEXAFS experiments with the Brian Collins Group at 7.3.3 to study biomolecules at functional abiotic interfaces.  These experiments WERE NOT EASY haha. Thanks to the team at 7.3.3 for being such good hosts. ...

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