Annual Report 2007 - The Australian Nanotechnology Network

ANNUAL REPORT 2007
MISSION STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................. 3
Mission Statement....................................................................................................................... 3
Year 3 in Review ........................................................................................................................ 4
Structure and Management ......................................................................................................... 5
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY ARCNN................................................................................. 9
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER TOURS ................................................................................ 11
Prof Jacob Israelachvili........................................................................................................ 11
Prof E.G. Wang.................................................................................................................... 12
Prof Selim Ünlü ................................................................................................................... 13
Dr H C Liu ........................................................................................................................... 15
SPECIAL LECTURES ............................................................................................................. 16
Prof Hiroaki Misawa............................................................................................................ 16
Special Lecture – Prof G Ramanath..................................................................................... 17
INTERNATIONAL VISITS BY NETWORK MEMBERS..................................................... 18
Ms Tina Rankovic –Taiwan Nano 2007 .............................................................................. 18
Australian Delegation to India for the Indo–Australia Symposium on Multifunctional
Nanomaterials Nanostructures and Applications 19-21 December..................................... 21
LONG TERM VISITS.............................................................................................................. 25
Miss Brianna Thompson (Intelligent Polymers Research Institute) – visit to the Bionic Ear
Institute, Melbourne............................................................................................................. 25
Ms Massey De Los Reyes (Ian Wark Institute) - visit to the Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organisation (ANSTO).................................................................................... 29
Mr Dinesh Kumar Venkatachalam (RMIT University) – visit to the Electronic Materials
Engineering Department at the Australian National University.......................................... 29
OVERSEAS TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS................................................................................. 30
Dr Dusan Losic (Uni South Australia) – visit to the University of Chicago, USA. ............ 30
Dr Jozelito Razal (Uni Wollongong) – visit to the University of Dallas, USA................... 32
Mr Craig Bell (Uni of Queensland) – visit to the University of Pensylvania, USA........... 34
Mrs. Xiaoxia Yin (University of Adelaide) – visit to Reading University and Cambridge
University in the U.K........................................................................................................... 35
Ms Tara Schiller (Queensland Institute of Technology) – visit to the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA............................................................................. 36
Mr Jingxian Yu (Flinders University) – visit to the University of Cambridge.................... 38
Mr Tor Kit Goh (Melbourne Uni) – visit to Nagoya University, Japan ............................. 42