University of South Australia-Nanotechnology and Desalination Research Group
Name of Group Leader:
Associate Professor Linda ZouPhysical Address:
University of South AustraliaSA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse
Mawson Lakes Campus
Adelaide, SA 5095
Mailing Address:
University of South AustraliaSA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse
Mawson Lakes Campus
Adelaide, SA 5095
Phone:
8 8302 5489Fax:
8 8302 3386Email:
linda.zou@unisa.edu.auNanotechnology Research Programs/Activities:
The research group is currently undertaking the followign ARC funded research projects in the nanotechnology area:ARC Discovery Project Title: Composite conductive electrodes for low energy desalination (A/Prof LY Zou; Prof RD Short; Prof H Song; Prof Z Hao)
ARC Linkage Project Title: High performance conductive mesoporous carbon electrodes: a low energy desalination alternative (A/Prof LY Zou; Dr GE Morris; Prof Dr H Song; Mr JT Martin)
ARC Linkage Project Title: New nanocomposites of porous materials and visible light sensitive TiO2 for efficient wastewater purification (A/Prof LY Zou; Dr L Wang; Mr N Corby)
ARC Discovery Project Title: Designing the surface and structural properties of MFI zeolite membranes for low energy ion-selective desalination (A/Prof MC Duke; A/Prof LY Zou; Dr AJ Hill; Prof JY Lin)
ARC Linkage Project Title: Materials engineering solutions for tomorrow’s water resources (Prof Robert D Short, Prof Nicolas H Voelcker, Prof Joseph G Shapter, A/Prof Linda Y Zou, Dr Amanda V Ellis, Dr Manrico (Rick) Fabretto, Dr John A van Leeuwen, Dr Christopher W Chow, Ms Mary Drikas)
Scale of Nanotechnology Research Effort:
Lead a team of 5 PhD students and a number of master research students:Mr Wei Zhang, PhD student
Mr Shuaifie Zhao, PhD student
Miss Juan Yang, PhD student
Miss Sara Azari, PhD student
Mr Haibo Li (visiting PhD student)
Nanotechnology research facilities:
has a dedicated nanotechnology desalination research lab, wiht the followign research equipments:BET analyser
UV-Vis spectrometer
Horizontal tube furnace
Hydrothermal reactors
Visible light light sources
Potentialstate analyser
Various membrane testing and casting faciliteis
Have access to the following instruments on campus:
XPS
AFM
XRD
Have access of the following equipment form Adelaide miscroscopy centre:
TEM
SEM
