Research stories
Discover the cutting-edge research carried out in the School.
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The Joint Workshop is home to 10 highly skilled engineering trade technicians supporting teaching and research across the Research School of Chemistry, the Research School of Biology, and the ANU more broadly.
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Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a new jelly material that mimics biological matter such as skin, ligaments and bone, and which is very strong, self-healing and able to change shape
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Dr Adam Carroll is the manager of the Joint Mass Spectrometry Facility, a flagship research facility established and supported by the Research School of Chemistry and the Research School of Biology.
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A scientist at ANU is developing a new just-add-water diagnostic kit for use in remote communities to detect malaria and other diseases.
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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 most devastating human and animal diseases. Yet, despite these advances, these tests still have significant limitations.
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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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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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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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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.