Dr Wenrong Yang
  Phone   +61 3 522 72932
Email   wenrong.yang@deakin.edu.au
Position   Lecturer in Chemistry
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Chemistry and Forensic Sciences

Wenrong received his PhD degree in chemistry in 2002 from the University of New South Wales.
He then worked at CSIRO as a CSIRO postdoctoral fellow before returning to the University of
New South Wales in 2005. He was awarded a University of Sydney Research Fellowship in 2007,
and now is a lecturer at Deakin University. His research interests include nanomaterials-based
biosensors, molecular electronics, and producing nanostructured surfaces with unique
functionalities.

Research interests

  1. Functional nanomaterials by controlled assembly
  2. Biological and biomedical applications of nanomaterials
  3. Molecular electronics


Career

Lecturer in Chemistry, Deakin University
Research Fellow, The University of Sydney
Research Associate, The University of New South Wales
CSIRO Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Key publications

Yang WR, Ratinac KR, Ringer SP, Thordarson P, Gooding JJ, Braet F. (2010) Carbon nanomaterials in biosensors: should you use nanotubes or graphene? Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49(12), 2114-38

Yang WR, Moghaddam MJ, Taylor S, Bojarski B, Wieczorek L, Herrmann J, et al. (2007) Single-walled carbon nanotubes with DNA recognition Chem. Phys. Lett. 443(4-6), 169-72

Yang WR, Thordarson P, Gooding JJ, Ringer SP, Braet F (2007) Carbon nanotubes for biological and biomedical applications Nanotechnology 2007;18(41), 412001

Gooding JJ, Wibowo R, Liu JQ, Yang WR, Losic D, Orbons S, et al. (2003) Protein electrochemistry using aligned carbon nanotube arrays J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2003;125(30), 9006-07

Yang WR, Jaramillo D, Gooding JJ, Hibbert DB, Zhang R, Willett GD, et al. (2001) Sub-ppt detection limits for copper ions with Gly-Gly-His modified electrodes Chem. Commun. 2001(19), 1982-83

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Professional activities

Reviewer, Nanotechnology, Chemical Communications, JACS etc.
Assessor, European Research Council Project Grants
Member, American Chemical Society

 

Masters students

Student nameThesis title BOGGARAM, SRIDATTA Boron nitride nanotubes for biological and biomedical applications  

 

Teaching areas

Masters of Biotechnology


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22nd September 2011