Dr Lucy Gloag
Dr Lucy Gloag
Lecturer
email lucy.gloag@anu.edu.au
call +61 406 157 923

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About

Lucy Gloag graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand with her BSc/BCA and BSc(Hons). She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2018 on the synthesis and characterisation of Ru-based nanocatalysts, before the commencement of her Postdoctoral Fellow positions with Prof Richard Tilley and Prof Justin Gooding. Her work on nanomaterials for electrocatalysis led her to an appointment as a Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney in 2023. She joins the Research School of Chemistry at ANU to develop single atom and nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion technologies.

Awards

  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2023)
  • ARC Linkage Project Grant (2023)
  • UNSW Science COVID19 Strategic Support Grant (October 2021)
  • Dementia Australia Research Foundation – Yulgilbar Innovation Grant (2019 -  2022)
  • Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2015)
  • AMN-7 Image Competition Finalist (2015)

Affiliations

Research interests

I am a nanomaterials chemist and electron microscopist who joined ANU in 2024 from UTS. As an emerging leader in the advanced materials synthesis and electron microscopy characterisation, my research interests relate to the development of functional energy materials, specifically the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials for electrocatalytic application. The overarching scientific question I aim to answer with my research is ‘how can nanostructure be used to enhance the performance of electrocatalysts?’. To do this, I use solution-phase synthesis of nanoparticles with precise control of the crystal structure, dimensions and surface faceting and relate these structural features to the electrocatalytic properties using transmission electron microscopy and electrochemistry. Long term, I envision that the understanding of these fundamental structure-property relationships will enable the development of highly efficient scaled-up electrode materials.

Location

Building 137, room 2.49

Publications

  1. Gloag, L.; Somerville, S. V.; Gooding, J. J.; Tilley, R. D. Co-catalytic metal–support interactions in single-atom electrocatalysts. Nat. Rev. Mater. 1-17 (2024)
  2. Poerwoprajitno, A. et al. Tuning the Pt–Ru atomic neighbors for active and stable methanol oxidation electrocatalysis. Chem. Mater. 35, 10724-10729 (2023)
  3. Ulanova, M. et al. Biocompatibility and proteomic profiling of DMSA-coated iron nanocubes in a human glioblastoma cell line. Nanomed. (2023)
  4. Duong, K. H. T. et al. Small zinc doped iron oxide tracers for magnetic particle imaging. J. Mag. Mag. Mater. 587, 171304 (2023)
  5. Mariandry, K. et al. Controlling Platinum Active Sites on Silver Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Chem. Mater. 35, 8636-8644 (2023)
  6. Ulanova, M. et al. Evaluation of dimercaptosuccinic acid-coated iron nanoparticles immunotargeted to amyloid beta as MRI contrast agents for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Cells. 12, 2279 (2023)
  7. Gloag, L.; Poerwoprajitno, A. R.; Cheong, S.; Ramadhan, Z. R.; Adschiri, T.; Gooding, J. J.; Tilley, R. D. Synthesis of Hierarchical Metal Nanostructures with High Electrocatalytic Surface Areas. Sci. Adv., 9, eadf6075 (2023).
  8. Duong, H. T. K. et al. A guide to the design of magnetic particle imaging tracers for biomedical applications. Nanoscale 14, 13890-13914 (2022).
  9. Ramadhan, Z. R. et al. Introducing Stacking Faults into Three-Dimensional Branched Nickel Nanoparticles for Improved Catalytic Activity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 11094–11098 (2022).
  10. Poerwoprajitno, A. R., Cheong, S., Gloag, L., Gooding, J. J. & Tilley, R. D. Synthetic Strategies to Enhance the Electrocatalytic Properties of Branched Metal Nanoparticles. Acc. Chem. Res. (2022).
  11. Mehdipour, M. et al. Flow‐Based Synthesis of Gold‐Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetoplasmonic Sensing Applications. Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2200051 (2022).
  12. Poerwoprajitno, A. Gloag. L. et al. A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation. Nat. Catal. 5, 231-237 (2022).
  13. Hernández-Castillo, D. J. et al. Albendazole Release from Silica-Chitosan Nanospheres. In Vitro Study on Cervix Cancer Cell Lines. Polymers (Basel). 13, 1945 (2021).
  14. Mehdipour, M. et al. Synthesis of gold-coated magnetic conglomerate nanoparticles with a fast magnetic response for bio-sensing. J. Mater. Chem. C 9, 1034–1043 (2021).
  15. Ulanova, M. et al. Magnetic nanoparticles as MRI contrast agents for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. lzheimer’s Dement. 16, (2020).
  16. Myekhlai, M. et al. Controlling the Number of Branches and Surface Facets of Pd‐Core Ru‐Branched Nanoparticles to Make Highly Active Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts. Chem. – A Eur. J. 26, 15501–15504 (2020).
  17. Poerwoprajitno, A. R. et al. Faceted Branched Nickel Nanoparticles with Tunable Branch Length for High‐Activity Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Biomass. Angew. Chem. - Int. Ed. 59, 15487–15491 (2020).
  18. Myekhlai, M. et al. Increasing the Formation of Active Sites on Highly Crystalline Co Branched Nanoparticles for Improved Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis. ChemCatChem 12, 3126–3131 (2020).
  19. Alinezhad, A. et al. Controlling Pt Crystal Defects on the Surface of Ni–Pt Core–Shell Nanoparticles for Active and Stable Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 3, 5995–6000 (2020).
  20. Ulanova, M. et al. Nanoparticles as contrast agents for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review. Nanomedicine 15, 725–743 (2020).
  21. Gloag, L. et al. Zero valent iron core–iron oxide shell nanoparticles as small magnetic particle imaging tracers. Chem. Commun. 56, 3504–3507 (2020).
  22. Gloag, L., Mehdipour, M., Chen, D., Tilley, R. D. & Gooding, J. J. Advances in the Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing. Adv. Mater. 31, 1904385 (2019).
  23. Alinezhad, A. et al. Direct Growth of Highly Strained Pt Islands on Branched Ni Nanoparticles for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 16202–16207 (2019).
  24. Poerwoprajitno, A. P. et al. Formation of Branched Ruthenium Nanoparticles for Improved Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Small. 1804577, 1–6 (2019).
  25. Poerwoprajitno, A. R., Gloag, L., Cheong, S., Gooding, J. J. & Tilley, R. D. Synthesis of low- and high-index faceted metal (Pt, Pd, Ru, Ir, Rh) nanoparticles for improved activity and stability in electrocatalysis. Nanoscale 11, 18995–19011 (2019).
  26. Gloag, L. et al. Cubic-Core Hexagonal-Branch Mechanism to Synthesize Bimetallic Branched and Faceted Pd-Ru Nanoparticles for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 12760–12764 (2018).
  27. Gloag, L. et al. Three-Dimensional Branched and Faceted Gold-Ruthenium Nanoparticles: Using Nanostructure to Improve Stability in Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Angew. Chem. - Int. Ed. 57, 10241–10245 (2018).
  28. Gloag, L. et al. Pd–Ru core–shell nanoparticles with tuneable shell thickness for active and stable oxygen evolution performance. Nanoscale 10, 1–5 (2018).
  29. McGrath, A. J. et al. Gold over Branched Palladium Nanostructures for Photothermal Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano 9, 12283–12291 (2015).