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Professor G Wallace has supervised 56 PhD students to successful completion. Those who have graduated have gone on to take up positions in academia, government research organisations and high technology companies in the USA, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Iran and of course Australia.
Year 2008
Jennifer Halldorsson- "Fluid Movement using Conducting polymer devices".
Yong Liu - "Novel Nanostructured Electrodes".
Year 2007
Fatemeh Masdarolomoor- "Novel Nanostructured Conducting Polymer Systems based on Sulfonated Polyaniline".
Jan Magnus Gustavsson- "Corrosion Protection using Conducting Polymers".
Scott McGovern-"The development of embedded sensors to assess the fatigue response of adhesive joints in marine environments".
Jakub Mazurkiewicz - "Ionic Liquids (IL’s) as electrolytes for conjugated polymer systems"
Year 2006
Yanhze (Richard) Wu -'Sensors and Actuators for the Cochlear Implant using Inherently Conducting Polymers'.
Orawan Nagamna- 'Synthesis, Characterisation and Application of Inherently Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles'.
Vahid Mottaghitalab - ' Fibre processing of conducting polymers and carbon nanotube composites using wet spinning'.
Year 2005
George Tsekouras- Electrochemical and Photovoltaic Properties of Poly(Thiophene)s.
Binbin Xi- Novel Conducting Polymer Structures for Electrochemical Actuators.
Yingpit Pornputtkul - Development of Chiral Conducting Polymers for Asymmetric Electrosynthesis.
Year 2004
David Reece -' Development of Conducting Polymers for Separations '.
Gao Jin 'Jeffrey' - ' Conducting Polymer Sensors'
Jian Wu- 'Synthesis, Characterisation and Applications of Conducting Polymer Coated Textiles'
May Tahhan-' Carbon Nanotubes and Conducting Polymer Composites'.
Year 2003
Mei Gao-'Electrochemistry of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes'
Jun Chen - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Polymers, and Their Application for Hydrogen Generation or Photovoltaic Devices'
Chinnarat Boonchu - 'Synthesis and Stereochemical Studies of Chiral Polyanilines'
Tuan Nguyen -'Design Development and Utilisation of Conducting Polymer Sensors'.
Violeta Misoska - 'Novel Membrane Composite Structures Based on Conducting Electroactive Polymers'.
Simon Moulton - 'Investigation of the Electrochemical Behaviour of Metal Electrodes in Biological Media'
Year 2001
Anton Dominis - 'Investigation of Polyaniline Emeraldine Salts for the Protection of Plain Carbon Steel'
Ekaterina Strounina - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Chiral Substituted Polyanilines'
Jie Ding - 'Separation and Recovery of Metal Ions using Conducting Polymers'
Roderick Shepherd - 'The Use of Conducting Polymer Sensors for Environmental Monitoring'
Charlotte Cutler - 'Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Studies of Functionalised Polythiophenes'
Andrew Minett - 'Electrochemical Detection of Microorganisms using Conducting Polymers'
Year 2000
Sandra Cram - 'Electrochemically Polymerised Acrylics as Adhesion Promoting Layers at a Metal/Polymer Interface'.
Jelders Davey - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Electroactive Polymers for Metal Ion Transport'
Toni Campbell - 'Development of a Biosensor for Determination of Human Blood Groups'
Year 1999
Ian Norris - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Chiral Conducting Polymers'
Vickie Aboutanos - 'Preparation and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Polymer Colloids'
Byung Kim - 'The Synthesis and Characterisation of Hydrogel and Polypyrrole Blends'
Year 1998
Daniela Ongarato - 'The Development of a Generic Electrochemical Sensing System for Ion Chromatography'
Trevor Lewis - 'A Study of the Overoxidation of the Conducting Polymer Polypyrrole'
Year 1997
Dezhi Zhou - 'Development of Conducting Polymer Membrane Structures for Protein and Gas Separation'
Wen Lu - 'The Development of Conducting Polymer Based Sensors'
Syed Ashraf - 'Synthesis and Characterization of Chiral Monomers and Polymers'
Year 1996
Parveen Akhtar - 'Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Electrochemical Detection of Amino Acids and Haloacetic Acids'
Mir Majidi - 'Development and Application of Chiral Conducting Polymers'
Year 1995
Reza Ansari - 'Thermal Studies of Conducting Electroactive Polymers'
Hawick Chriswanto - 'Chromatographic Studies on the Properties of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline'
Year 1994
Afshad Talaie - 'Electronic Properties of Novel Polypyrrole and Polyaniline Materials: A Resistometric Approach'
Abdolreza Mirmohseni - 'Electro-Separations using Conducting Polymer Membranes'
Hossein Eisazadeh - 'Design and Production of Novel Conducting Polymer Colloids'
Omowunmi Sadik - 'New Sensing Techniques using Conducting Electroactive Polymers'
Year 1993
Huijun Zhao - 'Electrochemically Controlled Transport Across Conducting Electroactive Polypyrrole Membranes'
Mark Imisides - 'The Development of a Chemically-Modified Mercury Thin Film Electrode for Electroanalysis'
Peter Teasdale - 'Characterization of the Chemical Properties of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline'
Peter Riley - 'Some Analytical Applications of Chemically Modified Electrodes'
Year 1992
Richard John - 'Electrochemical Studies of Heterocyclic Conducting Polymers'
Year 1991
Yuping Lin - 'Use of Conducting Polymers for Electrochemical Detection and On-Line Derivatisation'
Year 1990
Joseph Barisci - 'Derivatisation and Electrochemical Detection in Flowing Solutions'
Hailin Ge - 'Use of Conducting Polymers for Chromatography'
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2009 November 18-20: International Symposium on Renewable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies, UOW Innovation Campus
2009 December 1: ACES Workshop on Ethical issues in scientific publication: peer review, publishing ethics & the integrity of the scientific record, UOW Innovation Campus, Wollongong
2009 December 3-4: Printing of Bio-Systems and electronics:the next Generation of Bionics, UOW Innovation Campus
2010 February 17-19: 5th Annual International Electromaterials Science Symposium held jointly with the 4th Australasian Symposium on Ionic Liquids (ASIL-4), Monash University, Melbourne
2010 June 9-11: Nanobionics Symposium, UOW Innovation Campus, Wollongong


