Dr Klaudia Wagner

Qualifications:

MSc (Hons) ChE ( Inorganic Chemistry, SUoT, Gliwice, Poland)

PhD (Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, SUoT, Gliwice, Poland)

Research interests:

  • PhD (Poland) - Electrochemical determination of selected heave metals
  • Postdoctoral (New Zealand) - Electrochemical synthesis and characterisation of polythiophene derivatives
  • IPRI
    - Dye-sensitized solar cell, device fabrication / optimisation (Member of the CRC-P project for organic photovoltaic)
    - ITO surface modification with Porphyrin
    - Polythiophene - platform for muscle cell culture.

Key publications:

1. Wayne M. Campbell, Kenneth W. Jolley, Pawel Wagner, Klaudia Wagner, Penny J. Walsh, Keith C. Gordon, Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin,§ Qing Wang, Michael Gra1tzel, and David L. Officer, “Highly Efficient Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters C, 111 (2007) 11760-11762

2. J. M. Pringle, M. Forsyth, D. R. MacFarlane, K. Wagner, S. B. Hall, D. L. Officer “The Influence of the Monomer and the Ionic Liquid on the Electrochemical Preparation of Polythiophene”, Polymer 46 (2005) 2047

3. S. Gambhir, K. Wagner, D.L. Officer, “Towards functionalised terthiophene-based polymers” Synthetic Metals, 154 (2005) 117

4. K. Wagner, J. Strojek, K. Kozieł “Electrochemical and microgravimetric investigations of lead, cadmium and copper deposition and stripping on solid electrodes” Electroanalysis, 15, 5-6 (2003) 392

5. K. Wagner, J. Strojek, K. Kozieł “EQCM studies of lead (II) deposition and stripping in the presence of copper on a gold electrode modified with 2,2’- bipyridyl in polyaniline” Analytica Chimica Acta, 455 (2002) 69.

email address: kwagner@uow.edu.au
phone number : +61 2 4298 4351
fax number : 61 2 4298 1477
Office number: AIIM 231.217

Last reviewed: 28 September, 2009