Research projects
The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
— indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit the University’s Study website for PhD program and application information.
High pressure grinding rolls – A revolution in high throughput dewatering
Team: Anthony Stickland, Robin Batterham, Peter Scales
Medicinal agriculture: solvent extraction for natural product development
Team: Kathryn Mumford, Geoffrey Stevens, Yue Wu, Wen Li
Growing and shrinking drops and bubbles: surface forces and transport between drops and bubbles to control formulated emulsions and foams
Team: Ray Dagastine
Shape matters: surface forces between anisotropic nanoparticles
Team: Ray Dagastine
Microstructure engineering of plant protein: polysaccharide mixtures
Team: Sally Louise Gras, Sally Gras
Carbon dioxide capture technologies
Team: Kathryn Mumford
Crystallisation process dontrol and design
Team: Kathryn Mumford
Solution crystallisation: pharmaceuticals
Team: Kathryn Mumford
Medicinal agriculture: alkaloid extraction
Team: Kathryn Mumford
Calcium signalling in cardiac cell growth
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal, Agne Tilunaite, David Ladd
Cardiac cell mechanobiology
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Bio-carbon flow electrodes for capacitive deionisation of wastewater
Team: Amanda Ellis
DNA polymer hybrid materials
Team: Amanda Ellis
Energy harvesting and storage devices utilising piezoelectricity
Team: Amanda Ellis
Dairy microstructure and microbiology
Team: Sally Louise Gras, Sally Gras Lydia Ong
Graphene-based soft materials
Team: Dan Li
Nanoionics: engineering ion transport with two-dimensional materials
Team: Dan Li
Towards sustainable production of biofuels and bio-products from microalgae: the induction of autolysis in microalgal cells to enhance biomass processing
Team: Greg Martin, Dr Ronald Halim
Soot formation mechanism from first principles
Team: Eirini Goudeli
Understanding and monitoring the formation of ‘picocavities’
Team: Eirini Goudeli
Nitrogen removal from wastewater treatment using macroalgae (Masters by research)
Team: Greg Martin
Nanoparticle dosimetry prediction
Team: Edmund Crampin, Frank Caruso
Supercapacitor and battery design through modelling and machine learning
Team: Dan Li
Gas Generation in Biologically-Active Sediments
Team: Anthony Stickland, Peter Scales
Rheology and Dewaterability of Anaerobic Lagoon Sludges
Team: Anthony Stickland, Peter Scales
Low emission transport via advanced engines and fuels
Team: Yi Yang
Contrast agents for micro-computed tomography (microCT) imaging of soft biological tissues and scaffold materials
Team: Kathryn Stok, Zihui Li
Porous hydrogel antimicrobial nanocomposites
Team: Andrea O'Connor, Daniel Heath
Tissue engineering of soft tissues
Team: Andrea O'Connor, Daniel Heath
Combining centrifugation and filtration to minimise cake cracking
Team: Anthony Stickland