This project will involve the synthesis and characterization of new hybrid materials at the interface between organometallic chemistry and nanoscience.

This project will involve the synthesis of new organic and organometallic switches and characterization of their accessible states using various techniques including UV/vis/NIR/IR spectroelectrochemistry.

This project will explore the synthesis and characterization of new π-delocalizable oligomers and dendrimers at the interface between organic/organometallic chemistry and polymer science.

This project will explore the synthesis and chemistry of new group 6/group 9 mixed-metal clusters. The selectivity for certain types of catalysis will be explored in collaboration with the State Key Laboratory for Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This project will involve use of fs- and ns-pulsed wavelength-tuneable lasers, in some cases interfaced to electrochemistry equipment, to investigate NLO properties of new molecules/materials, and can involve modelling properties using the ANU’s supercomputer.

We have developed a remarkably easy route into certain high-nuclearity ruthenium carbonyl clusters (the figure shows a Ru12 cluster, the largest Ru cluster so far); this project will explore the chemistry of these unique compounds.