Deakin Research

Institute for Frontier Materials

Micro and Nano Systems

Membrane structure of nanometer resolution
Group leader: Professor Lingxue Kong

Group members (staff)

Dr Sugumar Dharmalingam     Dr Haitao Niu
Dr Ludovic Dumée     Dr Zheng Peng
Dr Weimin Gao     Dr Mary She
Dr Li He     Dr Leonora Velleman

Micro and Nano Systems research areas

Introduction

Manipulation of micro and nano scale objects such as molecules for diagnostics and nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery has important biomedical and environmental applications.
The group's breakthroughs include:

  • molecular diagnostics to develop point-of-care diagnostic devices
  • development of novel membranes for desalination
  • a novel tomography technology with a high resolution of 1.38 nm
  • targeted drug delivery systems with micro and nano encapsulations.

Group members (students)

Mr Feng An     Mr Tahir Ghandoori     Mr Zhifeng Yi 
Mr Lijue Chen Ms Yuanyuan Guo Ms Xiaodong She
Mr Ronghua Chen Mr Chengpeng Li Mr Xiangping Sun
Ms Weiwei Cong Mr Yongzheng Li Mr Guang Wang
Ms Xiaowei Dong Ms Yanan Lv Mr Jin Wang
Ms Chunfang Feng Mr Youhai Qiu Mr Xinchu Zhao

Deakin University acknowledges the traditional land owners of present campus sites.

8th August 2013