Research stories
Discover the cutting-edge research carried out in the School.
27 Aug 2020
The research work of ARC Laureate Fellow Prof. Michelle Coote from the RSC has been featured in an article in New Scientist titled “Electric Chemistry” by Gege...
30 Apr 2020
The Joint Workshop is home to 10 highly skilled engineering trade technicians supporting teaching and research across the Research School of Chemistry, the...
6 Mar 2020
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a new jelly material that mimics biological matter such as skin, ligaments and bone, and...
6 Dec 2018
Dr Adam Carroll is the manager of the Joint Mass Spectrometry Facility, a flagship research facility established and supported by the Research School of...
21 Aug 2018
A scientist at ANU is developing a new just-add-water diagnostic kit for use in remote communities to detect malaria and other diseases.
14 Aug 2018
Advances in technology have made detection of pathogens through DNA testing more effective and accessible in the fight to control and eradicate some of the...
18 Jun 2018
The work has implications for the study of how static surface charges or externally applied electric fields can influence chemical bonding and reactivity, an...
18 Jun 2018
Electrochemical cleavage was shown to proceed for free alkoxyamines in solution, and for alkoxyamines tethered to a silicon electrode, the latter providing a...
18 Jun 2018
hese findings will help to design advanced photoresists in which distinct material properties are encoded with different colours of light in 3D laser...
18 Jun 2018
The observation that mechanical stretching can control the redox states and conductance of a single molecule provides a way to mechanically switch its...
6 Jun 2018
A new form - referred to as akamptisomerism - has been described through four resolved stereoisomers of a transoid (BF)O(BF)- quinoxalinoporphyrin compound.
19 Oct 2016
A new super-dielectric material with widespread potential energy storage applications has recently been developed in the Liu and Withers groups at RSC. The...