Summary
Received Ph.D from Northwest University (China) in 2002. Worked with Prof. Gunther Wittstock at University of Oldenburg (Germany) before I came to the Bond group at Monash University in 2006.
Research Interests
- Ionic liquids, fundamentals and applications
- Synthesis of organic semiconducting materials
- Scanning electrochemical microscopy and AFM
- Enzyme, cell-based biosensors and biochips
- Cell adhesion and biofilms
- Flow-analysis methods and organic electrochemistry
Currently my main interest lies in the electrochemical characterization and application developments with ionic liquids tailored to the production conditions of the major Australian chemical company, Orica's chemical products. I use electrochemical techniques to characterize a series of protic ionic liquids, and also explore the possible applications of these novel liquids in electrochemistry and material science. I am also interested in synthesis of organic semiconducting metal-TCNQ complexes from ionic liquids via chemical, electrochemical and photochemical means, and characterization of these materials via microscopic, spectroscopic and X-ray techniques.
Besides, I have steady interests in scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and scanning force microscopy (AFM) and related instrumental and surface technique developments. I use SECM to fabricate and characterize micropatterned enzyme and cell-based biosensor and chip devices, and to image their biological reaction rates at solid-liquid interfaces. I also use AFM to reveal the fingerprint adhesion characteristics of marine bacteria at chemically well-defined surfaces.
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