NANOSTRUCTURED BIOINTERFACES Blog

SARS-CoV 2 Virus Detection

Our group is conducting an exciting research on COVID detection!! Amane and her colleague are developing an electrochemical biosensor for SARS-CoV 2 Virus Detection. They create a porous membrane where the pores act as...

Welcome Ali

Ali Balkis joins the Voelcker group! His research interests include the chemical and electrochemical synthesis and characterisation of nanostructured materials; electrocatalysis; catalysis; the application of electrochemical methods to various aspects of physical, chemical and...

Congrats to Voelcker group 3MT winners!!!

Congratulations to Voelcker group members who have participated this year’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. 3MT® is an academic competition that allows graduate research students to compete against each other to provide the most...

New paper in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Muamer and colleagues have recently published a paper in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science: Enzyme-like Electrocatalysis from 2D Gold Nanograss-Nanocube Assemblies  Nanotechnology’s rapid development of nanostructured materials with disruptive material properties has inspired...

New paper in Advanced Materials

Crystal and colleagues have recently published a paper in Advanced Materials:  Silicon-Nanotube-Mediated Intracellular Delivery Enables Ex Vivo Gene Editing  Engineered nano–bio cellular interfaces driven by vertical nanostructured materials are set to spur transformative progress...

Welcome Mark!

Dr. Mark B. Richardson is a Research Plus Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO. Combining his backgrounds in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry, and biosensor design and fabrication, Mark is currently working towards advanced oligosaccharide-based aptamers for sensing...

Welcome Deepagan!

Veerasikku Gopal Deepagan obtained his B.Tech. in biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai (2008). He did his M.Tech. in Nanomedicine from Amrita Institute of Nanosciences, Kochi (2010) with DST fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in...

Welcome Lars!

Lars is a postdoctoral research fellow working in the field of brain cancer theranostics in collaboration with CSIRO and Monash Biomedical Imaging, where he combines porous silicon nanoparticles and medical radioisotopes to improve the...

Welcome Sanduru

Sanduru Thamarai Krishnan commenced his Ph.D at MIPS, Monash University in February 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Nico Voelcker and co-supervision of Dr. David Rudd. His Doctoral studies focus on Lab-on-chip MALDI for...