Meetings
The last full meeting of the Division was:
- 18th Australian Electrochemistry Symposium (18AES), 15 April 2012, at Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Perth. See details below.
This meeting preceded the:
- 10th International Society of Electrodchemistry (ISE) Spring Meeting, April 16-19, 2012, Perth. The theme of the meeting was "New approaches to nanostructuring electrodes for electroanalysis and energy storage".
Click here to see the award winning posters.
18th Australian Electrochemistry Symposium
Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Perth, Western Australia.
Sunday 15th April 2012.
Program
The symposium featured three award winning lectures by the 2012 recipients of the Electrochemistry Division’s Bryer, Stokes, and Bond medals as well as other contributed lectures, and poster presentations. The final program was:
8.30 Welcome
8.40 Breyer Medal presentation and lecture: Joseph Wang (UCSD, USA): Motion-based Biosensing
9.25 Blake Plowman (RMIT): Templated Electrodeposition of Gold and Platinum Nanostructures For Electrocatalytic Applications
9.40 Kongfa Chen (Curtin): Degradation and Delamination of (La,Sr)MnO3 Based Oxygen Electrodes of Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells
9.55 Xunyu Lu (UNSW): Tuning the Ionic Liquid Electrolytes Toward Efficient Electrolysis of Water
10.40 Bond Medal presentation and lecture: Jie Zhang (Monash): Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Ionic Liquids
11.10 Stefan Klink (Bochum, Germany): Tailoring of CNT Surface Oxygen Groups by Gas-Phase Oxidation and Its Implications for Lithium Ion Batteries
11.25 Omar Abdul-Rahim (Monash): Generation and Stabilisation of Stilbene Dianion with Ionic Liquids or TCNQ
11.40 David Williams (Auckland, NZ): Electrochemical Switching of Polymer Brushes Grafted Onto Conducting Polymer Films
11.55 Abbas Barfidokht (UNSW): Regain of Electrochemistry on Passivated Electrodes Decorated by Gold Nanoparticles: Thickness Dependence of the Passivating Layer
12.15 Lunch and posters
13.30 Alan Bond (Monash): Extraction of metal ions from aqueous solutions with methimazole-based ionic liquids
13.50 Susana Cordoba de Torresi (Sao Paulo, Brazil): Electro-controlled swelling of a full polymeric 3-D conducting monolithic device
14.05 Manzar Sohail (USC): A New Ion-to-Electron Transducer for Solid-State Polymeric Ion Sensors Based on Ferrocene Tagged Polyvinyl Chloride
14.20 Jacqui Delaney (La Trobe): Use of Mobile Cell Phone for the Generation and Detection of Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence in Low Cost Sensors
14.35 Eva Alvarez de Eulate (Curtin): Adsorptive stripping voltammetry of lysozyme via adsorption-desorption at liquid|liquid microinterfaces
15.15 Alan O’Riordan (Tyndall, Ireland): Discrete Gold Nanowire Arrays: An Electrochemical Study
15.30 Leigh Aldous (UNSW): Towards the Electrochemical Quantification of the Strength of Garlic
15.45 Stokes Medal presentation and lecture: Justin Gooding (UNSW): Dispersible Electrodes: Gold Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Sensing
16.20 Finish
Download printable versions of lecture program and poster session.
Sponsors
The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
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Organising committee
Damien Arrigan (Curtin University), Debbie Silvester (Curtin University), Conor Hogan (La Trobe University), Anthony O’Mullane (RMIT University), Chuan Zhao (University of New South Wales), Paul Duckworth (eDAQ Pty Ltd).
Other conferences
February 15-17, 2012, Geelong, Australia
7th Annual International Electromaterials Science Symposium
July 1-6, 2012, Melbourne, Australia
ICOS19 19th International Conference on Organic Synthesis in conjunction with the 24th Royal Australian Chemical Institute Organic Conference
Electrochemistry Division Medals
The Bruno Breyer Medal, for internationally-recognized contributions in the field of electrochemistry, and the R.H. Stokes Medal, for distinguished research in the field of electrochemistry carried out mainly in Australia, are periodically awarded at meetings of the Division. Please forward nominations to the EDRACI Secretary.
Past medal awards:
18AES 15 April 2012, Curtin University,
Breyer Medallist: Professor Joseph Wang (University of California, San Diego).
Stokes Medallist: Professor Justin Gooding (University of New South Wales).
Inaugral Bond Medallist: Dr Jie Zhang (Monash University)
ACES Electromaterials Symposium, Wollongong, 9-11 February, 2011.
Stokes Medallist: Prof Sam Adeloju (Monash University, Gippsland Campus).
RACI 2010 4-8 July 2010, Melbourne. The National Convention of the RACI.
13AEC 24-28 September 2006, Perth. Held in conjunction with INTERACT2006
Breyer Medallist: Professor Richard Compton (Oxford University).
Stokes Medallist: Dr David Rand (CSIRO).CONNECT 2005, 3-7 July, 2005. 12th National Convention of the RACI. Held at the Sydney Convention Centre.
Breyer Medallist: Professor Jean-Michel Saveant.12AEC, 4-8 July, 2004, held at Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast in conjunction with INTERACT 2004
Breyer Medallist: Professor Alan MacDiarmid (University of Pennsylvania).
Stokes Medallist: Professor Gordon Wallace (University of Wollongong).11AEC, 10-14 December, 2000, held at University of Western Sydney.
Breyer Medallist: Professor Frank Walsh (Southampton UK).
Stokes Medallist: Professor Stephen Fletcher (Loughborough UK).10AEC, February, 1997, held at the Ramada Hotel, Gold Coast.
Breyer Medallist: Professor Royce Murray (University of North Carolina)
Stokes Medallist: Professor Ian Ritchie (Murdoch University)9AEC, 1994, held at Wollongong University