IFM staff

Dr Jane Dai

Research interests:

The focus of Dr Dai's research is on producing new surfaces/interfaces with new functionality and on the fabrication/doping of nanomaterials. This encompasses the development of novel plasma technologies and methodologies; the development of materials with new functionality for energy and biomedical applications using semiconductors, metals, ceramics, polymers and textiles; and improved understanding of the underlying mechanisms through various surface characterizations, analysis and diagnostics. She has established a new plasma laboratory at IFM since joining Deakin in 2009 and has grown many collaborations within IFM ,across the University and with outside research organizations nationally and internationally. The current project examples are:
- Functional/doped nanostructured electrodes and materials for energy storage devices
- Development of new working electrode and solid electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells by using plasma doping, functionalization, and polymerization
- Development of novel nanotuboids by plasma nanofabrication for biomedical applications
- Plasma surface functionalization of nanomaterials, especially CNTs, BNNTs, and their composites
- Textile applications, including carbon fibre sizing, pilling performance, textile electronics, and textile wastewater treatment
- Development of biosensors using nanomaterials

Qualifications:

• PhD (Australian National University, Australia - 1996)
• MSc (University of Science and Technology of China, China - 1987)
• BSc (Fuzhou University, China - 1980)

Relevant employment history:

2009 - present: Institute of Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin University

1998 - 2009: CSIRO

1997 - 1998: University of Queensland & Queensland University of Technology

1980 - 1992: Fuzhou University

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

1. Zhiqiang Chen, Xiujuan J. Dai*, Peter R. Lamb, David Rubin de Celis Leal, Bronwyn L. Fox, Ying Chen, Johan du Plessis, Matthew Field, Xungai Wang, Practical Amine Functionalization of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Effective Interfacial Bonding, Plasma Process. Polym. 2012, in press
2. Abdullah A. Kafi, Zhiqiang Chen, Xiujuan J. Dai*, Bronwyn L. Fox, Peter R. Lamb, and Xungai Wang, Understanding Wettability Changes from Practical Plasma Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters 2012, in press
3. Xiujuan J Dai*, Ying Chen, Zhiqiang Chen, Peter R Lamb, Lu H Li, Johan du Plessis, Dougal G McCulloch and Xungai Wang, Controlled surface modification of boron nitride nanotubes, Nanotechnology 2011, 22 245301.
4. Jing H. Zhao, Wojtek P. Michalski, Catherine Williams, Li Li, Hong-Sheng Xu, Peter R. Lamb, Scott Jones, Yan M. Zhou, Xiujuan J. Dai*. Controlling cell growth on titanium by surface functionalization of heptylamine using a novel combined plasma polymerization mode, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2011, 97A, 127?134,
5. Md. S. Islam, A. Z. Kouzani, X. J. Dai, W. P. Michalski, Modeling and comparative analysis of carbon nanotube and boron nitride nanotube cantilever biosensors, Advanced Materials Research 2011, 159, 650-655.
6. Tao Tao, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Hongwei Liu, Zongwen Liu, Xiujuan J. Dai, Hua Chen, Simon P. Ringer, and Ying Chen, Ilmenite FeTiO3 Nanoflowers and Their Pseudocapacitance, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2011,115, 17297?17302
7. X. J. Dai*, J. du Plessis, I. L. Kyratzis, G. Maurdev, M. G. Huson, C. Coombs, Controlled Amine Functionalization and Hydrophilicity of a Poly(lactic acid) Fabric, Plasma Process. Polym. 2009, 6(8), 490
8. L. Li, X. J. Dai*, H. S. Xu, J. H. Zhao, P. Yang, G. Maurdev, J. du Plessis, P. R. Lamb, B. L. Fox, W. P. Michalski, Combined Continuous Wave and Pulsed Plasma Modes: for More Stable Interfaces with Higher Functionality on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces, Plasma Process. Polym. 2009, 6(10), 615
9. H. S. Xu, X. J. Dai, P. R. Lamb, Z. M. Li, Poly(L-lactide) Crystallization Induced by Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes at Very Low Loading, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2009, 47, 2341
10. X. J. Dai*, C. Skourtis, Substrate Characteristics beneath Self-aligned Carbon-nanotube Forests, J. Appl. Phys. 2008, 103, 12. Also included in: Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, June 30, 2008.

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