Wednesday, 8th July Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

Kick-start your conference morning with Coffee Roulette — a casual networking experience connecting delegates over coffee at local cafés near the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, designed to spark new conversations, collaborations and connections across the chemistry community.

Location: TBC - Cafés near the Perth Convention Centre

• Chemical biology in repositioning human kinase inhibitors for malaria - Kelly Chibale
• TSPO Ligand Design for Universal Imaging of Neuroinflammation - Jonathan J Danon
• Overcoming antibiotic resistance: inhibiting the AmpC beta-lactamase induction pathway - Fayliesha Spyker
• New potent and selective anti-Giardia compounds with in vivo efficacy. - Jack H. Ryan
• Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of antibiotics conjugated to a permanently charged moiety - Lily P Kenchington-Evans

• Momentum spectroscopies to investigate the structure of molecules and materials - Darryl B Jones

• Combining high frequency dust deposition records and source identification using integrated microanalytical techniques to investigate nuisance dust complaints. - Kathryn L Linge
• 2D and 3D Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy Techniques for th Chemical Forensic Profiling of Organophosphorus Nerve Agents - Renee Webster
• Water recycling in WA: Historical and chemical perspectives - Cynthia A Joll
• Development of a Multi-wavelength LED‑Based Portable Process Analytical Technology for Monitoring Sustainable Chemical and Paper Manufacturing Processes - Leo Lebanov
• Spectroscopy-based process analytical technology in sustainable chemical and paper manufacturing - Sanathri Alwis

• Wet Chemical Strategy to Soft Wearable Bioelectronics - Wenlong Cheng
• Water, water everywhere and all the bonds did shrink   - Alexander Yuen
• The Bionic Interface: Considering the Material Mediated Electrical Stimulation of Stem Cells - Amy Gelmi
• Nanostructure and Dynamics of the Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid 2:1 (wt:wt) HMIM FAP:TFTFE and HMIM FAP on Graphite and Gold Electrodes as a Function of Potential - Rob Atkin
• Ultrathin MXene/nanocrystalline Cellulose nanocomposite films with absorption dominant electromagnetic interference shielding for future electronics - Yashodha Kondarage

• Spectroelectrochemical investigations of multi-metallic complexes - Paul J Low
• Organic semiconductors for soft neural interfaces: chemistry and capacitance - Jessica M de la Perrelle
• Copper catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction - Kavindya Weerasinghage
• Carbon-Oxygen Framework Control Reconciles Conflicting Dopant Site Claims in Heteroatom‑Doped Metal‑Free Carbons for Selective H₂O₂ Electrosynthesis - Dayu Zhu
• Highly Selective Electrochemical Semi-Hydrogenation Via a Palladium Membrane Reactor - Minghao Sun
• A self-acid-doped and self-cross-linked thiosulfate modified PEDOT - Kristina Fidanovski

• Manufacturing tough, flexible and fully biodegradable blown film materials from short-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates: a multi-strategy approach to biopolymer design - Bronwyn Laycock
• Vortex Fluidic Processing Technology - Colin L Raston
• N-Centred Radical-Driven Strategies for Sustainable Oxidation Chemistry - Philip W. H. Chan
• Upcycling of acid-mine drainage for metal-organic framework synthesis - Joshua A Powell
• Stabilizing Phthalocyanine Catalysts via Cobalt–Copper Dual-Metal COFs for CO₂-to-Methanol Electrocatalysis - Mengxin Liu
• Eliminating PFAS solvents from fingermark development processes - Jodie L Harrington

• Metal-Organic Frameworks as Chiral Chemical Sensors - Carol Hua
• Surprising new heteroatom binding motifs of porphyrins and related tetradentate macrocycles - Maxwell J Crossley
• Electron transfer within and through molecules: A Moore-or-less coordinated approach   - Paul Low
• Metal complexes, organofluorides, and other things in-between  - Todd A Gillam
• Did you calculate your pKa value correctly? - Marcus Korb

• Axinoside-1. Structure Elucidation Employing Colossal Anisotropic NMR Chemical Shifts - Tadeusz F Molinski
• Activating Dess-Martin Periodinane and IBX Analogues Towards Heterocycle and Arene Oxidation - Jason A Smith
• Natural Products as Blueprints for Next Generation Therapeutics - Rohan A Davis
• Developing modular synthetic routes to variolin B analogues and the related pyrrolopyrimidines - Iliya Dragutinovic
• Isolation of Bioactive Metabolites from Western Australian Marine Sponges - Gavin R Flematti

Speaker One: Lisa Stevens 

Speaker Two: Jeff Simpson

Speaker Three: Brian Krieger

• SAFETY DATA SHEETS: An Accurate Hazard Communication Tool or Compliance Exercise? - Lisa J Stevens

• Structural Instabilities and Emergent Polarity in Photocatalytic BiVO₄ - Brendan J Kennedy
• Advancing Photosynthetic Water Splitting: From Semi-Artificial to Artificial Systems - Huayang Zhang
• Sustainable Green Diesel Production via Palm Oil Deoxygenation Using Iron Phosphide Supported on Vinasse Waste–Derived Nanoporous Carbon - Apiluck 1 Eiadua
• Palladium-modified stainless steel mesh as an efficient electrode for the hydrogen evolution reaction - Gazi Jahirul Dr Islam
• Harmonizing plasmonic and photonic effects to boost photocatalytic H₂ production - Tharishinny Raja Mogan
• Synthesis of Novel Antipodally Substituted closo Carboranes - Thomas J.C. Carraro

• From Genomes to Natural Products: Unlocking Microbial Biosynthetic Potential for Health and Food Innovation - Yit Heng Chooi
• Tyrocidine A Variants as Next-Gen Antifungal Drugs - Evelyne Deplazes
• Design, synthesis, and bioevaluation of novel imidazonaphthyridine derivatives as potential antibacterial agents - Siew Fang Wong
• Total synthesis and antimalarial studies of caelestines A–C - Henry Smith
• Utilizing fragment-based drug design to develop a novel class of inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 papain like protease. - Ashley Taylor
• Aurachin D as an initial lead for inhibitors targeting the electron transport chain in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  - Allan B Gamble

• Prediction of Structure, Growth and Properties of Titan surface crystals - Peter Spackman
• A carrier of the 4689 A diffuse interstellar band? - Jay L Mendham
• High-Pressure Structural Characterisation of the Titanium-oxo-cluster Ti₆O₆(abz)₆(OⁱPr)₆. - Rebecca M Blake

• Characterisation of dyes in Magna Carta cord silks by LC-MS-MS - Renee Webster
• Adsorption of phenol from water using green tea (Camellia sinensis L.) leaf waste - Ntaote David ND Shooto
• Homogenous antibody-metal conjugates for quantitative elemental-mass spectrometry imaging - Andrew McDonagh
• Measuring 'Sticky' Molybdenum Without HF Via ICP-MS, An Inorganic Chemistry Approach   - Jessica K Bilyj
• Development of a novel analytical method for faecal untargeted metabolomics using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for simultaneous analysis of both volatile and non-volatile compounds in human faeces. - Angelina Nikitkina
• Analytical Characterization of Sunlight-Mediated Green-Synthesized AgNPs: A Sustainable Approach Bridging Nanotechnology and Separation Science - Avinash Gangal

• Mass transport through graphene-based nanopores and nanochannels - Rakesh Joshi
• Dipolar glass behavior in mixed hybrid halide perovskites - Furqan Hassan
• From virgin to recycled: on-demand thermal surface modification for carbon fibers - Manesha Fernando
• Ion-exchange resin beads enabling efficient PFAS capture for utilization in batteries - Zhuojing Yang
• Polymer Coated Microcantilever Resonators for Low Dose X Ray Detection and Biological Sample Monitoring - Samali Liyanaarachchi

• Enabling electrolysis at scale for green metal production and carbon recovery - Jessica Allen
• Rigorous diagnosis for zero-gap membrane-electrode assemblies - Mengran Li
• Improving anode-free zinc batteries with permanent magnets  - William T McLeod
• An entropy-stabilised surface dopant zone enabling durable 4.5 V cycling of Ni-rich NCM811 - Leqi Zhao
• Discharging and Charging Redox Mediation in Li-O₂ Electrolyte Design - Josh J Brown

• Bioinspired Creation of Two-dimensional Nanocomposites - Qunfeng Cheng
• Converting renewable feedstocks into high‑value materials and energy - Lalehvash Moghaddam
• Nanomaterials enhanced mixed matrix membranes and integrated membrane process for wastewater treatment - Zongli Xie
• Sorption and utilization of “Forever Chemicals” in rechargeable batteries - Yutong Zhu

• Buried treasure: harvesting REEs from legacy uranium mine tailings - Kate Flint
• New innovations in redox transmetallation chemistry involving rare earth metals - Peter C Junk
• Chiroptical modulation within supramolecular lanthanoid assemblies - Katelyn Clutterbuck

• Novel DNA-targeting approaches to advance treatment of infectious diseases - Ludovica Monti
• Metal-free access to important N-heterocycles: new routes to indoles and 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones - Naresh Kumar
• Enabling synthetic technologies for the construction of sulfated and complex peptides - Andrew M White
• Data-driven and DFT-guided design and experimental validation of hypervalent iodine(V) reagents for selective oxidation - Morteza Jamshidi
• Visible Light-Induced Synthesis of 2-Deoxy Sugars - Guoqing Zhang

Speaker One: Amer Magrabi

Speaker Two: Jeff Davis

• Plasma activated Pt Fe₂O₃ nanosheets on Ni foam for enhanced bifunctional water electrolysis - Maheshika Perera
• Electrostatically driven redistribution of a non-redox molecular equilibrium during double-layer crossing - Simone Ciampi
• Electrochemical synthesis of boron-hydrogen compounds for use as solid-state electrolytes in batteries - Mark Paskevicius
• Hydrometallurgical extraction of Sn, B and Fe from Sn-hosted iron borates - Bradley Schwehr
• Plasma Chemistry for the Energy and Materials Transition of the Process Industry - Gerardus J van Rooij

• Radical Mediated Installation of 18F tags into Proteins for Dynamic PET Imaging - Andrew M Giltrap
• Shining Light on Peptide Architectures: Photochemical Elucidation of Structure - Hendrik Frisch
• Chemical Probes for Studying Nucleotide-Binding Proteins - Santosh Rudrawar
• Late-stage on-resin modification of peptide nucleic acids for use in sensing and diagnostics - Emma E Watson

• Molecular cocrystals as a potential source for nitrogen-bearing heterocycles on Titan: Laboratory astrochemistry - Courtney Ennis
• Probing Photocatalytic Activity in Graphitic Carbon Nitride via Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy - Zhengyang Zhang
• Anion photoelectron spectroscopy and computational chemistry of gas phase clusters to target atmospheric reactions. - Duncan A Wild

• ANbO3 (A =Na, K, Ag, Li) photocatalysts for organic pollutant degradation - Chantelle Falanga
• The use of diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) to measure bioavailable uranium in extremely soft water - Claudia CT Tanneberger
• SMART SPRAYS: Water-based, biodegradable films for agriculture - Alexandra Gulizia
• Drug Discovery Using Native MS: Protein-Ligand Complexes and Beyond - Miaomiao Liu

• Materials Innovation for the Excess Sulfur Problem - Justin M. Chalker
• Zero-carbon functional polymers - Haihui Joy Jiang
• Mesoporous crystalline carbon nitride for swift hydrogen production - Mohammed Fawaz Palakkat Alihassan

• Electrochemical Monitoring of Single-Molecule Chiral Recognition - Wenrong Yang
• What We Find in the Noise: Stochastic Electrochemistry as an Analytical Tool to Improve Selectivity and Specificity in Biosensors and Bioelectronics - Sina Jamali
• Unlocking the Potential of Poly(ionic liquid)s as Electrochemical Sensor Materials. - iqra zaman
• Reference electrode drift correction using an electrode array and convolutional autoencoder neural network - David S Macedo

• Assessing and addressing the high fail rates across the Faculty of Science - Stephen George-Williams
• Redesigning first-year chemistry seminars into active-learning workshops - Pavani Halpelage
• Enhancing the transition to first year practical chemistry through a low stakes introductory activity - Christopher Marsh

• Exploring carbon carbon bond formation through electrochemically mediated copper catalysis - Thanh Tung Vo
• Electron transfer processes within and through molecules - Daniel M. Mazzucato
• Electrified Prebiotic Synthesis from Abundant Planetary Resources - Yifan Yuan
• High-Entropy Chalcogenides via Ambient and Scalable Synthesis for energy and environmental applications - Guohua Jia

• Strategies for C(sp³)–H Bond Functionalisation Driven by a N-Centred Radical Species - Philip W. H. Chan

Speaker One: Dr Scott Buckingham - Chemical Industry Executive

Speaker Two: Dr Amer Magrabi - Director, Fire and Risk Engineering

Speaker Three: Dr Brian Krieger - Office of Industrial Regulations

Speaker Four: Dr Jeff Davis - Western Australia Emergency Services

• Atomic‑Scale Mapping of Dopant Distribution and Charge States in Inorganic Nanoparticles - Cameron Shearer
• Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks for Ultrafast All‑Optical Switching - Katelyn Clutterbuck
• Sodium borohydride hydrolysis for global hydrogen export - Terry D Humphries
• CO₂ Electroreduction in Acidic Media - Yong Zhao

Running alongside the Career Fair, these interactive workshops provide a relaxed and supportive environment to build important professional skills relevant to early career researchers.

Workshops will focus on practical topics such as career development, industry engagement, communication, and navigating diverse career pathways. Designed to be informal and interactive, these sessions encourage discussion, questions, and peer learning while complementing the networking opportunities offered during the Career Fair.