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Professor, Engineering @Sydney University 2018 @arc_gov_au Laureate Fellow Account is only about science, tech, art & nature Opinions are my own

Sydney, Australia
Joined November 2019
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'Amorphous vs Crystalline' Credit: Instagram material_science007
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Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions "Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University will be evaluated by their commitment to open science."
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Just published in 'Science'. The latest research paper from my group: "Let it snow inside liquid metals" "Liquid metal synthesis solvents for metallic crystals" Joint first authors: Dr Shuhada Saidi and Dr Jianbo Tang @jianbo_tang
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Thanks to my group members: past and present, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, UNSW, UNSW Chemical Engineering, UNSW Engineering, RMIT, Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council @roysocchem #RSCprizes #ARC #NHMRC
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State-of-the-art solar-thermal drying technology. Net zero emission
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I am honored to join the board of 'American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Nano Materials' journal as an Associate Editor It is a great journal. I encourage you all to submit your best reviews and research papers to this journal @ACS_AMI @UNSWChemEng
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Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science arrived - what a sorrow I could not travel to the UK to receive it in person By Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK
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Today I looked in my archive: In the past decade I helped 38 DECRA and Future Fellow applicants on writing grants that 100% and solely belong to them (I spent days and sometimes weeks on each). Many in competing institutions. The success rate was ~50%. Something to be proud of
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Look at my office today 😀😍😃 what a beautiful surprise and what a great group of nice people are working with me - thank you
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A zoomed in photo of sand from Narrabeen Beach, near Sydney 26 Dec 2022
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Orientation week UNSW 7 Feb 2022
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As a reviewer I never reject a paper based on my perceived impact of the paper and the quality of the journal I believe that I can never be certain about how a scientific work may influence a field in the future This is against the general academic trend What do you think?
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Should We Publish Fewer Papers? By Song Jin, Senior Editor, ACS Energy Letters @SongJin_Chem @ACSEnergyLett
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Our perspective published today (Science, 2024, 385, 372-373) "The atomic intelligence of liquid metals" Liquid metals may deliver greener and more sustainable chemical reactions Co-authored with Prof Torben Daeneke @TDaeneke and Dr Junma Tang
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Photocatalysis in our lab No energised electrode - Just exposed to simulated light
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Neighbourhood Rainbow Lorikeet is back Sydney 18/02/2023
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Metals used in a smartphone Ref:
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Today we can officially call Chengchen, Dr. Chengchen Zhang ! Congratulations Dr. Zhang ! Dr. Chengchen Zhang created fundamentally important bodies of work, on the interactions of organic and bio materials with liquid metals, during her PhD. @_ChengchenZhang
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It is an honour to join 'Nanoscale' as one of the advisory board members. Nanoscale is one of the well-established journals in the field of nanotechnology, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK @nanoscale_rsc
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Mahroo Baharfar just submitted her PhD thesis Marvellous achievements during her PhD Well done and best of luck Mahroo @Mahroo_Baharfar
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Rainbow lorikeet and banksia A street in Randwick, Sydney 17 November 2021
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Inspirational talk by Sir Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Prize Laureate 2016) - Symposium in the honour of Richard Kaner, ACS Fall, Chicago @sirfrasersays
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Finally after nearly 4 years of living in Sydney made it to Vivid (festival of light, music and ideas) - the final evening of this annual event in 2022
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Salma submitted her PhD thesis today Congratulations Salma We will all miss you @salmamerhabi
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Beautiful jacaranda trees of McDougall St Kirribilli, Sydney 30 October 2021
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Blue ladybugs Coogee, Sydney 28 Dec 2021
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Congratulations to Chengchen and Shiyang, my former PhD students - what a lovely wedding @ShiyangTang @_ChengchenZhang
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As academics, scientists and researchers, we need to be kind to each other We have to be the role models Without working together and harnessing the prejudices, science and kindness will vanish simultaneously
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Today was the official start of our new start up ‘Liquid Metal Plus’ (LM Plus or LM+) The first picture of the team (unfortunately Dr @DEsrafilzadeh Esrafilzadeh left us just before taking the photo) at UNSW CASLEO lab
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In Melbourne with 3 of my former students: Mahnaz (Associate Professor), Sam (Senior Lecturer), me and Michael (Research Leader)
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Can we all start a campaign together and ask for doubling the ARC and NHMRC fund for the next 5 years as a part of the pandemic recovery plan? We need a sound narrative for justification and should work with everyone across the country coherently to deliver a compelling message
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Our paper is online: introduced a new liquid metal based paradigm as an alternative to catalytic reactions using solid state materials (these reactions produce >10% greenhouse emissions worldwide) Published in “Nature Nanotechnology” First author Dr Tang
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Phase diagram of chocolate ( More precisely, Binary Eutectic phase diagram of chocolate) I found this a on Metallurgical Engineering LinkedIn page
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Time for Yifang Yang She also submitted her PhD thesis What a great journey and what a remarkable talent Well done Yifang @YifangWang11
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Jacaranda trees on a rainy day Balfour St, Chippendale, Sydney Near The University of Sydney 26 October 2023
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In 2 hours will give you information about the groundbreaking invention of a superconductor that operates at 25C ! 👉 Hint: I live in Sydney, which is ahead of time with reference to the rest of the world ! Figure ref: wiki
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The first impact factor for ACS Applied Nano Materials is 5.097 I hope that the journal receives the continued support of fantastic scientists in the fields (especially PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) to grow with the journal together in the coming years @ACS_AMI
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First day of 2023 Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia
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The first coffee outside after nearly 5 months
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Gordons Bay, Clovelly, Sydney Water is clear 30 Dec 2021
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View into Hermit Bay Sydney, Australia 8 January 2022
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Our rainbow lorikeet friend is back - exactly the same spot as nearly 2 weeks ago Randwick, Sydney 17 November 2021
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Honoured to join the Advisory Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science, one of the relatively older journals in the field of materials sciences with a great history (>37 years) of publications by many Physics Nobel Prize Laureates (website is still slow)
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Sydney Opera House 2 January 2023
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"ACS Nano" annual editorial meeting - nice to see everyone after such a long time @acsnano @PSWnano
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Strasbourg, France 24 October 2022
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Congratulations to Dr Dorna Esraflizadeh @DEsrafilzadeh from CASLEO, UNSW for her successful ARC DECRA
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At the Royal Society of New South Wales (NSW) awards ceremony, NSW Government House (13th of August, 2020). With Professor Evelleen Richards, Professor George Paxinos and Professor Brynn Hibbert
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A record for my Christmas day: so far 24 peer review requests since I woke up in the morning and it is still only 9:30 pm Just a piece of advice: maybe think it over before submitting your paper within a week before the end of year holidays
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Two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine result in better protection than Pfizer after 4 months
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This is how you bend objects mathematically!
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Mathematics. Physics. Strange universe. Mysterious transition of a real umbrella through a strangely curved hole.
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It is 2024 (definitely in New Zealand!) Wish you peace and success
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This creature was inside our house. Now it is outside.
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Dymocks, Sydney One of the few last remaining bookshops of Sydney
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Fluffy cloud over Sydney
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Scott Morrison (the Australian prime minister) holding the gas sensing capsule - a decade after its invention in my lab and five years after I tested it on myself A long journey and real revolution for future diagnostics ! #AtmoBiosciences
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End of year group photo Members of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO), UNSW We wish everyone a safe year in 2021 #UNSW
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Coogee, Sydney - night is coming 22 Jan 2021
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By Ms Hareem Khan in Nature Communications. It took over two years of hard work for her to finish this brilliant paper. A record output power for two dimensional piezoelectric systems based on SnS. A new liquid metal based deposition method. @Har33mKhan
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The report on an extraordinary development from my lab is out: synthesising 2D graphitic materials - for the first time at room temperature - using liquid metals Published in ‘Advanced Materials’ and the first author is intelligent Dr Mohannad Mayyas
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After ~10 years of journey when it first started in my lab Atmo is moving forward full speed with the commercialisation of the gas sensing capsule and deploying it to the market “Gut health medtech Atmo Biosciences raises $9.6m, IPO next year”
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A white rose with red tips It says new year Randwick, Sydney, Australia 31 Dec 2021
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Liquid metal for high-entropy alloy nanoparticles synthesis
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Gordons Bay Sydney, Australia 22 October 2023
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Shells from Sydney Beaches
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The morning visit by one of the neighbourhood lorikeets
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On the way to @AMN10Rotorua I have not been in a propeller plane for a while
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The first proper get together with our research group at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering USYD (also with a few nice guests) Beautiful day for a BBQ Thanks everyone
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I believe that this paper is likely the best work of 2023 (I did not notice it first when published - our PhD student, Luis Campos, drew my attention to it later) “Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting”
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Wylie’s Baths Coogee, Sydney 25 Dec 2022
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A walk to Coogee, Sydney - a short rest between writing more pages of a grant application and a report !
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A tribute to Prof Sarah Gilbert: The woman who designed the Oxford vaccine
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I wrote this paper together with talented research fellows working with me (Dr Arifur and Dr Tang) A perspective on what low melting temperature liquid metals can offer to physical chemistry ACS Editors' Choice (thanks ACS) @ACSPublications
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Attending the ACS Applied Nano Materials editorial meeting @ACS_AMI
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Germany currently spends ~3.2% of its GDP on research and development, putting it ahead of the US and neck and neck with Japan. How much is Australia? Only ~1.8%
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I did a lot of gardening in the past 10 months - many plants along the side wall
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Gate to fig trees - Saturday morning on campus UNSW Sydney
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The University of Chicago, Divinity College
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Book fair The University of Sydney
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Is this the best ever resolution reported? It is just astonishing Incredible microscopy achieved when the detector is slightly defocused, blurring the beam The main paper was just published in Science Led by Prof David Muller, Cornell University
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Hibiscus flower and a snail 7:30 pm, 26 Feb - after the rain Randwick, Sydney
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Mixure of colours in harmony Sydney, Australia 13 Nov 2022
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Gut bacteria break down cholesterol "Researchers have identified gut bacteria that can transform artery-clogging cholesterol into a more harmless form." Led by Ramnik Xavier, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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A sunny day in Sydney before yet another week of incessant rainfall
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Ancient DNA analysis reveals dingoes have been in Australia for thousands of years The canines are related to dogs and wolves from China, not domestic dogs, new study suggests
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A relatively quiet day in Coogee despite good weather Sydney, Australia 13 Feb 2022
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Interfacially induced crystal formation and ordering
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Interface Dynamics in Ag-Cu3P Nanoparticle Heterostructures The TEM movie shows the transformation of the Cu phase of a Ag-Cu nanoparticle heterostructure into Cu3P. Read more about our latest contribution in @J_A_C_S here @NanoLund @ACSNanotation
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I have always been in awe with the elegance and beauty of Flamingos. But their numbers are falling sharply, a decline researchers have linked to a paradoxical effect of climate change.
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RIP Gordon Moore. He was the proposer of an observed trend which is now called Moore's law "... that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years." A successful engineer, entrepreneur, innovator and a billionaire.
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This is Meggy. She is friendly, smart and has a beautiful singing voice. She turns up every morning in our backyard for her breakfast.
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This took two and a half years of our time (just published in Nature Electronics) - a true revolution in conducive transparent glasses that was achieved by a liquid metal synthesis process
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New article in Science Lab safety and research productivity are not at odds “New study draws on crackdown after chemist’s 2008 death”
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Rob Walker rock pool Sydney, Marubra 4 July 2021
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Maybe, maybe not ! “Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next months and beyond as the Sun hits its 'maximum'.”
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Very nice work from my lab. This is a report on magnetic and conductive gels that can possibly have many future applications - led by my postdoctoral fellow Dr Francois Allioux. Well done Ms Salma Merhebi to publish your first paper
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Another paper from my group First author: Dr Mohammad Bagher Ghasemian Coating of gallium-based liquid metal particles with molybdenum oxide and oxysulfide for electronic band structure modulation In Nanoscale @nanoscale_rsc
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The new set of advanced laboratories at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, has commenced operations. This great investment offers a new angle in research and development in New South Wales, specifically, and in Australia, as a whole.
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Coogee, Sydney Amazing sunshine and warming up 25 July 2021
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Transforming CO2 & CH4 emissions into carbonaceous materials using cold plasma In JACS First author Josip Knezevic Led by PJ Cullen, Tianqi Zhang & Renwu Zhou School of Chemical & Biomolecular Eng, USYD @PJCullen100 @J_A_C_S @Eng_IT_Sydney @Sydney_Uni
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