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April 08, 2025, Sam Chen is one of the recipients for the second round TRaCE Enterprise Academic Fellowship at UON. His fellowship will focus on two research themes: advancing sustainable solutions for carbon capture and materials recycling, and developing next-generation materials with extreme properties for applications in electronics, space, and defence.

February 20, 2025, Wimansha Chamudi has joint our research lab as a PhD student supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Welcome Wimansha!

February 20, 2025, A research group dinner with Prof Marc Dubois (Université Clermont Auvergne), our key collaborator for the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: Diamane: A New Frontier in Materials Science.

January 7, 2025, Our recent work titled "Large-Area Transfer of Nanometer-Thin C60 Films" published in ACS Nano. First co-authors: Jack Hogan and Chengyi Liu.

December 13, 2024, Sadeepa and Jack attended the 2024 International Symposium on Advanced Materials & Sustainable Technology (AM&ST24) held in Hobart, and presented our recent works on large-area transfer of C60 thin films and fluorinated boron nitride nanotubes.

December 11, 2024, Sofia attended the 2nd Australian Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry $ Engineering (GASCE24) in Melbourne. Sofia chaired a session and delivered a presentation on CO2 direct air capture using metal-organic frameworks.

Thank you all for 2024!

November 29, 2024, Sofia and Sam attended the Centre for Innovative Energy Technologies (CINET) End of Year function and enjoyed time with all the colleagues at the Centre. Looking forward to more collaborations in the new year!

June 6, 2024, Chengyi Liu (PhD student) and Dan Villamanca (Honours student) attended the New Diamond & Nano Carbons (NDNC) Conference in Sydney and joined the Carbon Group Workshop held at the University of Sydney. It was wonderful to meet great people and discuss research and collaborations around carbon!

April 10, 2024, Joshua Oborn has joint our group as a PhD student, co-supervised by Dr Lachlan Rogers. Josh will be focusing on "Spectroscopic investigation of quantum optical emitters in diamane". Welcome Josh!

March 5, 2024, Sadeepa Amarathunga has joint our group as a PhD student supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: Diamane: A New Frontier in Materials Science. Welcome Sadeepa!

Thank you all for 2023!

November 6, 2023, Chengyi Liu has joint our group as a PhD student supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: New carbon phases synthesized under extreme conditions. Welcome Chengyi!

November 2, 2023, Congratulations to Youp van Deurzen on receiving an University of Newcastle Summer Scholarship for pursuing research during the summer break!

November 2, 2023, Congratulations to Dan Villamanca on publishing his first first-author peer-reviewed paper in Applied Surface Science. The title is Preparation and Properties of Graphene Oxyfluoride Films. Well done Dan!

August 10, 2023, Sofia Lazareva has joint our group as a PhD student supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Welcome Sofia!

Dan Villamanca received the Elsevier Materials Today Sustainability ECR Awards in the GASC Conference. Congratulations Dan!

July 5, 2023, Angus Munday, Dan Villamanca, Jack Hogan, and Heath Bach attended and presented in the 1st Australian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (GASC) in Cairns.

May 1, 2023, Congratulations to lab members, Angus Munday, Dan Villamanca, Jack Hogan, and Heath Bach on receiving Research Scholarships for carrying out research projects.

December 6, 2022, The Lab is successful in recent two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects applications: "New carbon phases synthesized under extreme conditions", Prof Jodie Bradby, Dr Xianjue Chen, A/Prof Nigel Marks, Prof Patrick Kluth, A/Prof Maik Lang, Prof Christina Trautmann; "Diamane: A New Frontier in Materials Science", Dr Xianjue Chen, A/Prof Luhua Li, Dr Lachlan Rogers, Prof Marc Dubois.

November 7, 2022, Big congratulations to Dan Villamanca and Angus Munday on being offered the competitive University of Newcastle Summer Scholarships for pursuing research during the summer break!

November 3, 2022, Congratulations to Dan Villamanca on being awarded the highly prestigious Amgen Scholarship for exploring his research interests and expand skills, for a career in scientific research! Well done Dan!

June 16, 2022, The Artificial Materials Lab website is online!

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