Thursday, 9th 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 Probes to Investigate Cellular Quality Control and Disorder in Diseases - Yuning Hong
• Identification of novel modulators for neurodegenerative disease states   - Taylor Garrett
• Technologies for Accessing Modified Peptides and Proteins as Therapeutics and Chemical Biology Tools - Richard Payne
• Antimicrobial Peptides as Next‑Generation Antibiotics  - Wenyi Li

• Predicting the response: new applications of response theory. - Debra J. Bernhardt (Searles)
• Returning to Fundamentals: High-Energy Density Strained Hydrocarbons for Sustainable Aviation Fuel - Feng Wang
• Pt/xTiO₂-yCeO₂ in catalytic oxidation of dichloromethane, perchloroethylene and methanol - Ivana Troppová
• Structure and transport in polymer electrolytes for electrochemical devices - Tanika Duivenvoorden

• MOF-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Ultrasensitive and Reliable Detection of Dacarbazine and 4-Aminophenol Dacarbazine in Chemotherapeutic Injection and Water Samples - Samuel B Adeloju
• Application of XANES Spectroscopy to Study the Neuro-Metallome in the Mouse Brain - mark j hackett
• Analytical discrimination of 3D printing polymers used in homemade firearm production - Georgina Sauzier

• Polymeric wastes derived catalysts for degradation of organic pollutants - Shaobin Wang
• Tailoring and Characterisation of Nanocatalysts for CO₂ upcycling - Jun Huang
• Understanding and Engineering Matter in Spatial Nanoconfinement for Sustainable Technologies - Zhuyuan Wang
• Visible-light photocatalysts for transformation of hexose sugars into biobased platform chemicals - Huai-Yong hyz ZHU
• Unlocking the Potential of Flow Chemistry for Deuteration of Fatty Acids - Jim Mensah

•   Unlocking stable and efficient green hydrogen from ammonia electrocatalysis     - Fengwang Li
• Green Electrochemical Production and Engineering of Nanomaterials - Yu Lin Zhong
• Resolving structure activity relationships in nickel electrocatalysis across length scales - Prachi Janjani
• Bulk and Surface Dual-Modification for Stabilizing RuO₂ Anode in 2 A cm^–2 PEMWE Operation - Jiayi Tang
• Decoupling Water Electrolysis in Acid using TiO₂ - Peter C. Sherrell
• From Nucleation to Performance: Nanoscale Visualisation in Battery Desig   - Ruth KNIBBE

• Empowering communities through chemistry: a model for STEM leadership and inclusive practice - Joanne F Jamie
• Building bonds through active learning workshops in a large-enrolment first-year chemistry course - Pavani Halpelage
• Presentation and reflection assessment activities as a means of connecting students with a university department’s research culture and promoting thinking about their next steps. - Richard A. R. Blackburn
• The nexus between science belongingness and self-perceived employability. - Dilusha Herath Munasinghe
• Levelling Up: Enhancing Understanding and Skills in Undergraduate Chemistry Topics Through Game-Based Learning - Dylan P. Williams

• Surpassing Photon Energy Limits for Light-Driven Chemical Synthesis - Tim Connell
• meso-Tetraarylporphyrins peripherally functionalized with Ru(dppe)₂Cl alkynyl complexes: remarkable nonlinear optical properties and potential use in anti-cancer therapy - Frédéric Paul
• Luminescent iridium(III)-boronic acid complexes for sensing carbohydrates - Peter J Barnard
• Photochemical Activation of a Hydroxyquinone-Derived Phenyliodonium Ylide by Visible Light: Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations.     - Mona Jalali
• Improving visualisation of gunshot residue by harnessing perovskite fluorescence - Scarlet L Hopkins

• Olefination of Carbonyl Compounds via Isodesmic Reactions - Vinh Nguyen
• Advancing chemical space through diversity oriented clicking - Christopher J Smedley
• Spontaneous trisulfide metathesis in polar aprotic solvents - Justin Chalker
• Nitrogen-doped carbon supported single-atom catalysts for green organic synthesis - Tomohiro Yasukawa
• Diversifying production methods for the clinical natural product desferrioxamine B - Todd E Markham

• Point-of-need PFAS detection using a protein based sensor  - Saimon Moraes Silva
• Visible-light degradation of PFAS: Forever Chemicals are not forever anymore! - Mahmoud Adel Hamza
• Efficient Oil Spill Cleanup from Water: Investigating the Effectiveness of a Sustainable Anti-Swelling Hydrogel for Rapid Water Repellency and Oil Absorption - SONAL Dr CHOUDHARY
• Electrochemical Innovation for Real-World Water Monitoring   - Krishnan Murugappan

• RAFT derived polymer coatings to prevent attachment of infectious bacteria - Peter Kingshott
• The composition of indigenous Australian Citrus fruit: polyphenols and volatile profiles - Joel B Johnson
• Process Optimization of Yeast Fermentation for Sustainable Protein-Rich Animal Feed from Agricultural Waste - Kashif Rasool
• Innovative resource-efficient practices in peri-urban dairy farming for sustainable food systems - BIRUK KEBEBEW B.K GETACHEW
• Prevalence, risk assessment and evidence-based risk management of aflatoxin B1 in Rwandan maize flour - Jean Paul HATEGEKIMANA

• Disrupting proteins with phage display discovered peptides to halt the ALT in cancer - Lisa J Alcock
• Towards optimizing carbon-11 radiolabelling of pharmaceuticals through design of experiment and bayesian optimization campaigns - Jonathan JL Li
• Phage-derived peptides that bind NONO to target telomerase-positive cancers - Tianyi Gao
• Potent immunomodulators developed from an unstable microbial metabolite - Damica D Laurie
• Bioorthogonal prodrug activation for targeted delivery of combretastatin A-4 prodrugs. - Julia Constantino Camilli
• Targeting the Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus Type-1 Capsid Protein - Jun Xuan Ang

• Surface reconstruction in carbonates of the calcite group: when, how, and why - Raffaella Demichelis
• Insights into hydrogen storage in TiFe from first-principles modelling - Kai Sellschopp

• Rare Earth Elements in River Sediments as Tracers of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Influence in an Urban African Catchment - Nehemiah Mukwevho
• Abstract: Analytical & Environmental Chemistry Division – Water Security  - NANCY YEBOAH
• Co-based mixed metal oxides for environmental applications - Tereza Bílková
• What's so poisonous about poison peas?  - Juliette King
• MOF templated synthesis of homogeneously doped SrTiO3:La/Rh - Thomas J O'Dea

• Microenvironment Roles in Nano-to-Atomic Catalysis - Zongyou Yin
• Operando Spectroscopic Analysis for Photo/Electro-catalysis - Wooyul Kim
• Current Density and History-Dependent Mechanistic Shifts and Dopant-Free Durability Strategies for Acidic OER on RuO2 - Zongping Shao
• Next generation liquid metal catalysts towards CO2 activation – fundamental chemistry and process scale up - Torben Daeneke
• Controlling photoactivity in ZnO nanoparticles to improve safety and stability - Mina Mohebimorad
• Facile Synthesis of High Areal Density and Stable Pt Single-Atom Electrocatalysts by Arc Discharge Atomization and CoNi Trapping - Hongzhe He

• Accelerating the Discovery of Metal Organic Frameworks for Capture, Separation and Activation of Small Molecules   - Ravichandar Babarao
• ALF – the Smallest MOF for Gas Separation - Fengxia Wei
• Computation-aided Design and Synthesis of Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrocatalysis - Yuhui Tian
• Carbon dots derived from the mixture of amino acids and their potential biological applications - Navya Pundarikanakallahalli Nagaraju

• Implementing IUPAC Oxidation State Recommendations (2016) in a Secondary School Science Curriculum learning environment. - John Drew

• Probing fast and slow Redox Processes and their Implication for the Design of Catalysts for small molecule activation - Rosalie Hocking
• Divalent organocopper complexes: Masked radicals for effective electrochemically driven atom transfer radical addition (eATRA)   - Masnun Naher
• Structure/function Dependence of Homogeneous Cobalt Catalysts for Selective Reduction of NO_x^- ions - Tony F Masters

• Nitrogen Heterocycle Synthesis via Energy Transfer Catalysis - Wade F Petersen
• Nickel NHC-Phosphite Precatalysts for C-C and C-N Bond Formation - Scott G Stewart
• Building Polymer Microstructure From the Ground Up - Karen Hakobyan
• Trapped Cycloadducts of 1-Azabutadienes via Microwave-Assisted Ring Opening of N-acyl-2-Azetines - Jacob P Cameron

• Evolving role of research at the Little Forest legacy low level radioactive waste site - Timothy E PAYNE
• Two Routes, One Product: Dual-Pathway Electrochemical Synthesis of H₂O₂ - Bita Bayatsarmadi
• A thermal calcification cause for seasonal oscillations in the increasing Keeling Curve on Mauna Loa and near Cape Grim: Reversing causes of environmental warming from their effects - Ivan R Kennedy
• Ni/Zeolite-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Methyl Methacrylate: Toward Efficient Production of Methyl Isobutyrate - Borhan Alalimi
• Multimodal imaging of copper in biological systems - Elizabeth New

• Non-covalent DNA triplex assemblies revealed by native mass spectrometry - Tara Pukala
• Catalytic nanomedicine: a new therapeutic approach via modulating ROS homeostasis - Zi (Sophia) Gu
• Fused Polycyclic Indoles: Synthesis and Biological Applications - Hendra Gunosewoyo
• Deciphering the regulation of plant ethylene biosynthesis - Ivanhoe KH Leung

• Allosteric modulation of paclitaxel efficacy by human tubulin variants - Jingyi Luo
• Target validation in drug discovery: Why it matters - Lenka Munoz

• Atmospheric Water Sorption–Desorption as a Pathway for Green Energy Generation - Dewei Chu
• Photothermal catalysis for solar fuels production - Jinqiang Zhang
• Synergistic integration of computational and synthetic chemistry for sustainable reaction design - Nadeem Sheikh
• On site electrochemical synthesis of peracetic acid in solid electrolyte flow cell - Yuhui Ge

• Computational Materials Design for Electrochemical Energy and Fuel Conversion - Jodie Yuwono
• Molecular Simulations of UiO‑66 for Water Harvesting and Catalytic Plastic Recycling - Martina Lessio
• Materials for A Sustainable Future using Machine Learning - Tu Le
• Colloidal Synthesis of Low-Toxic Photocatalytic Quantum Dots Heterostructure   - Dechao Chen

• Navigating Biological and Environmental Barriers with Self-Propelled Nanoswimmers - Kang Liang
• Biocatalytic approaches to complex molecule synthesis - Lauren A. M. Murray
• Greening lithography in an effort to improve microelectronic manufacturing waste streams. - Craig M Williams

• Rediscovering Chemistry through an Aboriginal Lens - Cally Jetta
• Making more highly qualified teachers of Years 7-10 chemistry: addressing a national shortage. - Mick Moylan
• Reimagining First-Year Chemistry Laboratories: Embedding Sustainability - Sonia Horvat

• Spin dynamics in rare earth molecular materials - Nicholas Chilton
• The Curious Case of Yb(III) Crystal Field Splitting - Marcus J Giansiracusa
• Inelastic Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Vibrational Dynamics and Spin-Phonon Interactions in Molecular Magnets”     - Richard A. Mole

• Nonlinear Optically Active Liquid Crystals Based on Functional Bipyrimidine Cores for 3D Data Storage - Franck CAMEREL
• Detonation nanodiamonds with ultra-pure surface thanks to a combination of chlorine and fluorine gas treatments - Marc DUBOIS
• Electrospinning of Alginate–Moringa oleifera Composite Fibres for potential Water Treatment Applications - ABIMBOLA ORISAWAYI

• Optimizing Data Extraction from Materials Science Literature: A Study of Tools Using Large Language Models - Jeffrey R Reimers
• PolyConstruct: a computational framework for molecular dynamics simulations of polymer structure and properties - Megan O'Mara
• Predictive mass spectrometry from quantum-mechanical fragmentation and intensity modelling - Stephen G Dale
• Grand Canonical Design of Electrified Interfaces for Energy and Environmental Applications - Yun Wang
• Machine Learning Aided Optimisation of Aluminium-Doped Magnetite Catalysts for Ketonisation - Jinxing Gu

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.