Research Group

Current Members

Research Fellows

Dr. Bicheng (Amy) Zhu

Conducting polymer-based biosensors

Dr. Alireza Akbarinejad

Developing multifunctional electrospun fibers for selective exosome capture/release and detection.

PhD Students

Xin Sun

Biopolymer-based degradable organic electronics

Hui Yang

Stimuli-responsive colloids for sustainable chemistry

Jingwen (Kourtney) Yang

Conducting polymers delivery platform for wound healing

Master Students

Yuhka Uda

Bu Quan

Linjie Du

Former Members

Research Fellows

Peikai Zhang: Creating 3D conducting polymer arrays for cell sensing and stimulation through direct writing
Eddie Wai Chi Chan: Creating a device for capturing and releasing cfDNA and developing novel, processable conducting polymers for functionalization
Paul Baek: Self-healing systems based on conducting polymers
Thomas Kerr-Phillips: ATRP functionalisation and electrospinning of conducting polymers for smart materials
Seyoung Kee: 3D conducting polymer probe electrodes for cell recording and stimulating
Zahraa AL-Ghaus: Surface modification of polymer for ctDNA quantitation.
Lenny Voorhaar: Stretchy, sticky, self-healing electronics.
Jenny Malmström: Polymer brushes for switchable surfaces; protein self-assembly.
Lijuan Zhang: Nanostructured polymers.
Clément Roux: Polymer brushes for switchable applications.
Hui Peng: DNA biosensors and quantum dots.

PhD Students

Sheung Yin Li: Smart Wine Juice Filter incorporated with Conjugated Polymer grafted with Anti-fouling Polymer Brushes
Sara Beikzadeh: Creating antibacterial platforms using capacitive materials and supercapacitors, alongside the development of active packaging through electrospun nanofibers.
Jesna Ashraf: Capture and release of biological targets using conducting polymer functionalized substrates with antifouling properties
Valentina Lucarelli: Developing aptamer-based devices for detecting mammalian pests and applying DNA aptamers in biosensor technology
Jamal Cheema: Utilizing Conducting Polymers for Electrochemical Biosensing Applications
Guangyuan Xu: Graphene for use in novel biological sensing
Alissa Hackett: Switchable surfaces based on conducting polymers
Roshan Khadka: Development of olfactory receptor-based biosensors
Min Wang: Stretchy, sticky, self-healing organic electronics
Mahsa Moteshakeri: PEDOT- Modified Electrochemical Sensors for Uric Acid Analysis in Milk
Nihan Aydemir: Stretchable Conducting Polymers and composite electrodes
Qiang Zhang: Antimicrobial polymers.
Mona Damavanti: Water soluble conjugated polymers.
Lisa Strover: Graft-copolymer brushes for functional surfaces.
Omer Chaudhary: Nano/micro-fabrication of polymer based bio-mimetic adhesives
Anupama Rao Gulur Srinivas: Miniaturized optical DNA sensors based on conjugated polymers
Alexandro Santos Costa: Conducting polymers actuators
Yiwen (Angela) Pei: Synthesis and characterization of polymer brush-grafted conducting polymers and their application in electrochemical control of surface wettability
Bhuvaneswari Kannan: Development of highly sensitive, label-free DNA sensors based on conducting polymers
Norizah Abdul Rahman: Electrospun conducting polymer nanofibers for biomedical applications
Marsilea Booth: Developing a triad of DNA sensors to analyse forensically important samples — polypyrrole, metal-ion implantation and resistive pulse sensing
Karthik Kannappan: Design studies towards mixers and pumps based on electrochemically active conducting polymers for microfluidic devices
Cosmin Laslau: Novel fabrication and characterization methods for conducting polymer nanostructures and microstructures
Darren Svirskis: Development of a novel drug delivery system based on conducting polymers
John Spires: Synthesis, characterisation and application of functionalised thiophene-based conducting polymers as DNA sensors
Tanja Kjällman: Surface-immobilized hairpin DNA sensors for direct and specific detection of target DNA

Visiting Students

Ying Li: Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles.
Wouter Nielen: Functionalized conductive polymers.
Zixuan Zhou: Conductive hydrogel sensor (Tongji University)