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Professor Lu is the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor His areas of expertise include the synthesis and molecular engineering of nanomaterials such as inorganic nanoparticles, carbons, nanoporous materials and membranes, and nanocomposites. His team is developing many innovative applications of such materials in clean energy and environmental technologies as well as in biomedical fields.
He has won numerous prestigious awards including Orica Award, Le Fevre Prize, RK Murphy Medal, and Top 100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia. He has served on two PMSEIC Expert Working Groups, ARC College of Experts, and other federal government committees.
Professor Lu’s research group operates through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials’s five research programs: - Nanoparticles
- Nanotubes
- Nanostructured films and membranes
- Nanobiomaterials
- Computational nanomaterials science
More than 20 projects are being conducted in the group largely falling in the following three areas:
- Clean energy production and utilisation – new generation of solar cells, gas to liquid conversion, hydrogen production, purification and storage, fuel cells, high energy density supercapacitors
- Environmental technologies - photocatalytic reduction of pollutants in water and air, desalination membranes, and novel adsorbents for water recycling, CO2 capture
- Health care - biomaterials for orthopaedic applications, nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery, enzyme encapsulation and biosensors
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