CSIRO Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory

Name of Group Leader:

Amanda S. Barnard  

Physical Address:

CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering
Gate 5 Normanby Road,
Clayton, VIC, 3168  

Mailing Address:

Private Bag 10,
Clayton South,
VIC, 3169  

Phone:

+61-3-9545-7840  

Email:

amanda.barnard@csiro.au  

Nanotechnology Research Programs/Activities:

* Predictive modeling of the environmental stability of metal nanoparticles used in catalysis and sensing

* Predicting the environmental stability and the free radical production efficiency of iron oxide nanoparticles produced during mineralization, biomineralization, laboratory synthesis and in space.

* Modeling the properties of carbon nanomaterials for high-performance, and quantum applications

* Computational modeling of diamond nanoparticles for next generation chemotherapeutic delivery systems.

* Mapping the nanomorphology and environmental stability of ZnS nanoparticles used in energy production and storage applications

* Developing new theoretical techniques and software for predicting the kinetically and thermodynamically derived morphologies of nanoscale materials

* Modeling economic sustainability of nanotechnology, and relating the properties of products containing nanoparticles with consumer choice behavior
 

Scale of Nanotechnology Research Effort:

Currently 2 postdocs, 2 PhD students. Current annual budget >$500k.  

Nanotechnology research facilities:

Theoretical and computational resources, including shared facilities at NCI and HPCCC.  

Participants

• Dr Amanda Barnard
• Dr. Hector Barron Escobar
• Mr Christopher Feigl
• Dr Haibo Guo
• Dr Lin Lai
• Dr Hongqing Shi
• Dr Baichuan Sun
• Miss Ellen Swann
• Dr Brad Wells

 

Collaboration Information

 

Group Websites:

http://www.csiro.au/people/Amanda.Barnard.html