The Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) is a key research strength at the University of Wollongong and is the lead node of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) and lead node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) - Materials node. Professor Gordon Wallace and his team at IPRI are recognised internationally as world leaders in the development of 'intelligent' materials and nanotechnology. IPRI is renowned for expertise in the electrochemistry of organic conductors; especially when those conductors are used in the applications of artificial muscles, photovoltaics, batteries, and biomedical applications.

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Theses from 2023

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Direct Visualization of Single-Molecule Protein Dynamics on Silica Nanoparticle Coating Surfaces Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy, Nuwan Dhanushka Hegoda Arachchi

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Creating New MOF-based Interfaces for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction, Lisha Jia

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Electrodeposition of Cu-based Catalysts for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction, Kyuman Kim

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Development of Redox-Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Thermocells, Yuetong Zhou

Theses from 2022

A Novel Injection Technique for Developing Extruded Nano-Composite Filament for use in Fused Deposition Modelling, Joshua Brooks

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Electrochemical exfoliation of graphite to graphene, Md Habibullah Dalal

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Engineering Development of a Capillary Fed Water Electrolyzer, Aaron Hodges

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Fabrication of Bioinks to Regenerate Cartilage for Auricular Cartilage Reconstructions, Steven Posniak

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Coil Antennas for Cochlear Implants, Grishmi Rajbhandari

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Evaluation of Marine Collagen for 3D Bioprinting, Borja Sanz Gutierrez

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Graphene-based fiber for energy and health, Kezhong Wang

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Versatile Fabrication Methods for Wearable Thermo-electrochemical Cells, Shuai Zhang

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Catechol-functionalized hyaluronic acid and its application in tissue engineering, Ying Zhou

Theses from 2021

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Reactive Printing of Metal-Organic Interfaces, Fatimah Abdulhasan Nader Al-Ghazzawi

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Co-axial printing of growth factor-laden microspheres for pancreatic islet transplantation, Ane Urigoitia Asua

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3D printed degradable stents with controlled drug delivery capabilities, Maxim Noel Brodmerkel

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Fabrication of ulvan based structure for skin tissue engineering and wound healing application, Xifang Chen

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Effects of Molecular Structure on Interfacial Electron Transfer Explained by Marcus Theory, Inseong Cho

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Fabricating delivery platforms for wound management and tissue regeneration, Luciana Yumiko Daikuara

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Hydrogel-based 3D hybrid bioprinting towards cartilage application, Yuchao Fan

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Advanced Biofabrication of Functional Silk Fibroin Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications, Abdul Moqeet Hai

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Biofabricated platforms for wound healing and skin regeneration, Lingzhi Kang

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Development of the nano-filled bio-thermoplastics as print media for 3D-additive fabrication, Hadis Khakbaz

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Development of textile-based 3D constructs as novel electrofluidic substrates, Jawairia Umar Khan

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Twisted Fibre Artificial Muscles, David Jarrod Shepherd

Novel Fabrication and Characterisation Techniques for Tailoring the Physicochemical Properties of Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Alireza Talaei

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Engineering of nanostructured metal-based catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2, Amruthalakshmi Vijayakumar

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Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate, Jinshuo Zou

Theses from 2020

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Optimizing the bioinks for islet tissue engineering by using a customized coaxial bioprinter, Narangerel Gantumur

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Parameter optimisation of coaxial Melt Electrowriting, Anne-Katrin Gruska

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Addressing the Challenges of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation In Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Applications, Sameh Nady Saad Hamzawy

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Development of p-type dye sensitized electrodes decorated with silver for photoelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, Mehmood Irfan

Effect of draw solution on nutrient transport through forward osmosis membranes, Hamza Mukhtar

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Suspension Near-Field Electrospinning: a Nanofabrication Method of Polymer Nanoarray Architectures for Tissue Engineering, Alexander R. Nagle

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Development of a Platform for the Biofabrication of Endocrine Pancreatic Tissue Constructs through Co-Axial Micro-Extrusion, Max Jurie Renes

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Hydrogel Based Braided Artificial Muscles, Bidita Binte Salahuddin

Theses from 2019

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Dual Drug-eluting Collagen Matrix for Epilepsy Treatment, Marius Berthel

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Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal/Carbon Composites for Solid- State Battery Electrodes and supercapacitors, Karmjeet Kaur Buttar

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HDPE Bone Graft Fabrication: Establishing Proprietary HDPE Fabrication Protocol by Selective Laser Sintering, Kuan Phang Chan

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Electro-compacted collagen for corneal bioengineering, Zhi Chen

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Development of New Device Structures for Dye Sensitised Solar Cells and their Applications, Joseph Giorgio

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3D printed structures with biomimicry mechanical characteristics for auricular cartilage growth, Juliane Carolin Kade

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Artificial Muscles for Smart Textiles and Healthcare, Dharshika Kongahage

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3D printing of chitosan-based scaffolds for wound healing, Sulokshana Marks

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FABRICATION OF HIGHLY ALIGNED BIOMIMETIC GELLAN GUM-CHITOSAN FIBRES USING 3D-PRINTING AND MICROFLUIDICS, Thomas Mark Robinson

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The Synthesis and Characterisation of Photoactive Materials and Their Use in Fluidic Transport Systems, Yang Xiao

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Engineering cytocompatible conducting polymers for bio-related energy applications, Changchun Yu

Theses from 2018

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New Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2, Jaecheol Choi

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Two-Dimensional Materials Based Flexible Electrodes for Energy Storage, Yu Ge

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Developing Electrically and Thermally Conductive Hydrogel Based on Graphene Suitable for Bio-Thermistor, Mohammad Haj Seyed Javadi

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Investigations on Reaction Chemistry of Aprotic Lithium-air Batteries, Yuyang Hou

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Poly-Lactic Acid Magnetoelectric Microspheres for Drug Release Applications, Gunawardhana Liyanage Lakshani Randitha

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Facile Fabrication of Flexible Supercapacitors for Wearable Applications, Yuqing Liu

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Direct Probing of Neural Stem Cell Interactions on Hydrogel Electrodes using Atomic Force Microscopy, Christina Puckert

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3D printing Polycaprolactone (PCL) Structures and modelling and finite element analysis (FEA) of the internal structure to predict properties of auricular structures, Farzad Shahangi

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Towards an in vitro innervated model of the cornea, Gilles Sebastiaan van Tienderen

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Fabrication of customisable collagen-based medical devices, Gregor Weisgrab

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Electrostatic Effects on Chemical Reactivity; Oriented Double Layer Effects on Chemical Bonding Kinetics and Thermodynamics, Long Zhang

Theses from 2017

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A further study of the inverse finite element approach for pricing American-style options, Bolujo Joseph Adegboyegun

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Polymer Fibre Artificial Muscle, Shazed Md Aziz

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Functional tissues from intelligent materials, 3D printing and stem cells, Qi Gu

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Biocompatible/Biodegradable Materials for Implantable Mg-Air Batteries, Xiaoteng Jia

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Developing novel spinning methods to fabricate continuous multifunctional fibres for bioapplications, Azadeh Mirabedini

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High photo-voltage multijunction polymer solar cells for water splitting, Chaiyuth Sae-kung

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Development and Characterization of Polymer-based Magnetoelectric Nanofibers, Tian Zheng

Theses from 2016

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3D/4D printing tough hydrogel composites: a pathway to functional devices, Shannon Edward Bakarich

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3D printing PhycoTrix™ for wound healing, Jeremy Nicolas Dinoro

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Developing scanning electrochemical microscopy method for studying bio-corrosion of magnesium alloys and protective surface treatments, Sina S. Jamali

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New types of McKibben artificial muscles, Danial Sangian

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Flexible graphene based materials for energy storage, Kewei Shu

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Materials and processes for the biofabrication of peripheral nerve guides, Leo Robert Stevens

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Development of dye‐sensitised photocathodes for incorporation into tandem solar‐driven photoelectrochemical water splitting cells, Lei Tong

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Development of conducting polymer based wearable supercapacitors, Chen Zhao

Theses from 2014

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Nanostructured ICP-CNT Electrodes for Capacitive Deionisation and Water Clean Up, Mohammed Suliman Almoiqli

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Carbon nanomaterials as electrodes in thermogalvanic cells for waste heat recovery, Mark S. Romano

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The development of graphene/biocomposites for biomedical applications, Sepidar Sayyar

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Novel Cathode Materials for Bioelectric Batteries, Yang Yang

Theses from 2013

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Nanostructured carbon electrodes, Dennis Antiohos

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Fabrication and characterisation of conducting fibres for use in biomedical applications, Dorna Esrafilzadeh

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Bio-inks for drop-on-demand cell printing, Cameron Ferris

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Controlled drug delivery from polypyrrole powered by enzymatic bioelectrodes, Willo Grosse

Theses from 2012

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Fabrication of dual layer conducting polymer electrochromic devices using novel electrolytes, Satyen S. Desai

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The development of electrospun polymer nanofibres and measurement of their individual mechanical properties with the atomic force microscope, Adrian Gestos

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Charge generation and recombination in porphyrin based dye sensitized solar cells, Matthew James Griffith

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Wet-spinning of nanostructured fibres, Rouhollah Jalili

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Carbon nanotube architectures with metallic nanoparticles towards energy applications, Peter Sherrell

Theses from 2011

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Novel graphene composite materials, Widsanusan Chartarrayawadee

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Chemically Converted Graphene Dispersions and Graphene Films, Marc Benjamin Müller

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Nanostructured organic solar cells, Dillip Kumar Panda

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Analysis of high performance polypyrrole actuators, Wen Zheng

Theses from 2010

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Novel polythiophene materials for bionic applications, Robert Breukers

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The chemical properties and characterisation of photomorphic silver nanoparticles and their application as an antimicrobial agent, George Patrick Lee

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Improving the performance metrics of enzymatic biofuel cells, Shannon Little

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Using band microelectrode arrays to investigate the cut edge and bare corrosion behaviour of 55% AL-ZN coated steel, Troy Lowe

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Printing conducting polymer structures on and embedded in biopolymer platforms, Charles A. Mire

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Carbon nanotube composite architectures for use as a novel electrodes, Suriya Ounnunkad

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Conducting composite fibres, Alberto Javier Granero Rodriguez

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The controlled release of dexamethasone from polyterthiophene-based conducting polymers, Grace Stevenson

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Nanostructured catalytic electrodes for fuel cells, Weimin Zhang

Theses from 2009

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Development of novel nanostructured conducting polypyrrole fibres, Javad Foroughi