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Friday, 22 Jun 2018
  • Student profile

Starting his PhD in February this year, Adam Mater is the latest RSC student to win a Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship.

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Thursday, 21 Jun 2018
  • News

The Lenton Parr sculpture "Untitled" was installed in 1962 on the eastern end of the now-demolished Department of Chemistry building. Following the demolition of the building, the Parr sculpture has been rehomed to the northern side of the Research School of Chemistry Building, Building 137/138.
The imagery in the sculpture was inspired by crystal formation and X-ray diffraction. It aims to reflect imaginatively the organic and inorganic structure of nature which is investigated by chemists.

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Monday, 18 Jun 2018
  • Research story

hese findings will help to design advanced photoresists in which distinct material properties are encoded with different colours of light in 3D laser lithography.

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Monday, 18 Jun 2018
  • Research story

The work has implications for the study of how static surface charges or externally applied electric fields can influence chemical bonding and reactivity, an area that is starting to attract enormous interest.

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Monday, 18 Jun 2018
  • Research story

The observation that mechanical stretching can control the redox states and conductance of a single molecule provides a way to mechanically switch its electronic properties, with potential applications in electromechanical molecular machines.

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Monday, 18 Jun 2018
  • Research story

Electrochemical cleavage was shown to proceed for free alkoxyamines in solution, and for alkoxyamines tethered to a silicon electrode, the latter providing a strategy for in situ generation of surface-tethered nitroxides or surface-tethered carbocations.

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Monday, 18 Jun 2018
  • News







Scientists at ANU have contributed to an international study that will potentially help humans to colonise Mars and find life on other planets.

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Thursday, 14 Jun 2018
  • News

The RSC celebrated its 50th anniversary with the unveiling of a special sculpture which now hangs in our main foyer. Titled 'Translation', it was created by Dr Julie Brooke from the ANU School of Art & Design and sculptor Geoff Farquhar-Still. The work is an abstract rendition of the many aspects of modern chemistry.

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Thursday, 07 Jun 2018
  • News

27 May - 3 June marked the 2018 National Reconciliation Week. The 2018 theme was 'Don't Keep History a Mystery'.
As part of the 2018 National Reconciliation Week celebrations, the Research School of Chemistry hosted a Heritage Walk and we were joined by Ngunawal Elder Wally Bell. Wally gave us some fantastic insights into Aboriginal Culture and Heritage.
We would like to extend a big thank you for Wally for his insights, particularly the Welcome to Country in the RSC Foyer!

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