Friday, 10th July
Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026
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Speakers
Grand Challenges: Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage 2
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 4
Chair: Jessica Jein White
Carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol and dimethyl ether by catalytic membrane reactors.
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Colin Scholes
Next Generation Solid Amine Sorbents for Scalable Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide
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Zhijian Wan
Catalytic upgrading of furfural using Rh catalysts supported on activated carbon derived from forestry biomass residues
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Doris Ruiz
Grand Challenges: Future Energy 4
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 5
Chair: Christopher Barnett
Enhanced electrochemical performance of CuV
2
O
6
/GCN nanocomposite as a high-performance supercapacitor electrode
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Tesfahun Dagnaw Demelash
Material Designs for Better Solid-State Batteries
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Yijun Zhong
Unravelling the Fe Impurity dual role in a practical capillary-fed alkaline electrolyzer for high temperature water electrolysis
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Xuan Minh Chau Ta
Catalytic reactions at charged interfaces driven by interfacial electric fields
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Fengru Fan
Microemulsion Electrolytes for Electrochemical Energy Storage
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Rohan Borah
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 8: Designer Green Chemicals
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Xiaoguang Duan
Fueled by Insight: JP‑10 and Adamantane Electronic Structures for HED SAF Design
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Feng Wang
Atomic-Level Engineered Co–Fe Prussian Blue Analogues with Enhanced OER via Lattice Oxygen Mechanism
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Dawei Su
Ferroelectric Domains and Dynamics: Insights Enabled by Machine Learning
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Liangzhi Kou
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 9: Waste to Energy
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 2
Chairs: Jun Huang & Luke Henderson
Advanced aqueous Zn batteries with conversion-based cathodes and highly reversible Zn anodes
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Junnan Hao
Why and How Operando Characterisation Matters in Electrocatalysis
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Hangjuan Ren
Atomic-level Regulation on Photocatalyst for Energy-Related Reaction
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Jingrun Ran
The Dynamic Electrocatalyst: Surface Reconstruction from a Computational Perspective
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Aoni Xu
Panel for Secondary Teachers 1
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 3
Inroganic Chemistry 13: Burrows Award Lecture/Prizes/Division Meeting
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 6
Chair: Paul Low
Enabling carbon in a constrained world.
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Anthony F Hill
Chemical Education 5: Laboratory Education
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 7
Chair: Stephen George-Williams
Reshaping laboratory culture for disability inclusive STEM, the time to act is now.
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Vicky G Barnett
Evaluating Observation Methods: A Comparative Study of Protocols and Recordings in Laboratory-Based Learning
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Yuqing Fang
Accessible laboratory design adopting a holistic approach
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Lisa Stevens
Uncovering how students see the lab: Validating a new survey on chemistry lab perspectives
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Alexandra Yeung
Assessing What Matters: Explicit Assessment of Laboratory Skills in the Era of Generative AI
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Magdalena Wajrak
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 10: Green Agrochemicals to Safer Chemistry
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 8
GREEN & SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY FOR MAXIMISING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
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Antonio F Patti
Unlocking the full potential for winemaking applications of membrane filtration
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Kerry Wilkinson
Lignin-Derived Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications
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Zhanying Zhang
Responsive Probes for Luminescence Analysis of Food Quality and Safety
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Run Zhang
Moo-ving towards sustainable alternatives for bovine mastitis treatment
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Tiarna Scerri
Grand Challenges: Earth, Climate, Environment 2
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 9
Chair: Elizabeth New
Sustainable gold extraction from ore and electronic waste
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Justin M. Chalker
New tools from chemical thermodynamics for modelling climate change: How reversing heat and work in the Carnot Cycle may control the heat capacity of the troposphere and climate sensitivity of greenhouse gases.
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Ivan R Kennedy
Atmospheric fates and global warming potential of HFO-1234ze(E) and its degradation product trifluoroacetaldehyde CF
3
CHO
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Beth Killen
Sensing airborne semiochemicals for nondestructive pest detection: opportunities and challenges
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Ming Chen
Innovative Critical Metal Extractions from Laterite Ores for Green Technologies
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Maximilian Mann
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 11: Designing Safer Chemistry
8:40AM - 10:20AM
Friday, 10th July
Riverside Theatre
Chairs: Sam Chen & Jodie Yuwono
Circular Polymers: Design Strategies and Environmental Impact Evaluation
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Kei Saito
2D/3D heterostructures for efficient tin halide perovskite photovoltaics
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Peng Chen
Mesoporous Nanocomposites
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Xixoamin Li
Benign by design mechanochemical synthesis of nitrogen doped graphene for functional vitrimer composites
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Chamalki Madhusha
Native austral indigo (
Indigofera australis
) as a novel source of blue indigo dye
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Rosemary Warren
Waste PET-Derived UiO-66-NH
2
Photocatalysts for Efficient Hydrogen Peroxide Generation
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Yusheng Li
Morning Tea and Poster Session
10:20AM - 10:40AM
Friday, 10th July
Riverside Theatre Foyer
Plenary Panel Discussion and Congress Close
10:40AM - 12:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Riverside Theatre
Grand Challenges: Water Security 2
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 4
Chair: Krishnan Murugappan
Advancing Water Treatment with Graphene Coated Sand
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Pei Lay Yap
Living respiration-enhanced nanobionic plants as battlefield-deployable sensors for nerve agents
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Peiji Deng
From Waste to Resource: Recycling PVDF Membranes for Water Treatment
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Amir Razmjou
Grand Challenges: Future Energy 5
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 5
Chair:
Investigation of reversible ion storage and facilitated ion transport in functional organic/inorganic materials
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ZHENZHEN WU
Refining structures of electrochemical catalysts for energy storage and conversion
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Jinqiang Zhang
Atomically dispersed electrocatalysts for highly efficient energy conversion reactions
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Yufei Zhao
Tracking cure kinetics in polymeric coatings through real-time ultrasound integrated electrochemical (UT-EIS) analysis.
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Abdul Shakoor
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 13: ECR in GASC
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 1
Chairs: Nadeem Sheikh & Wenjie Tian
Transition metal catalysed functionalisation of nanocellulose
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Darsan Haridas
Repurposing PTFE Microplastics as Tribocatalysts for Water Treatment in Coiled Flow Inverter (CFI)
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Rabia Sabir
Turning air and water into higher-value chemicals
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Haihui Joy Jiang
Sustainable CO₂ hydrogenation to higher alcohols over Mg-promoted copper phyllosilicate catalyst
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THAPONG TEERAWATANANOND
Development of non-fused and fused catechol-based MOFs for the removal of nano-plastics: towards a greener environment
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Jyotirmay Maiti
Heat Without Guilt: Harnessing Waste Energy Through Membrane Distillation for a Net-Zero World
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Mehdi Khiadani
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 12: Untapped Carbon Waste
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 2
Chairs: Kang Liang & Lauren Murray
Development of catalytic co-pyrolysis systems for mixed solid waste conversion through integrated experimental and modelling approaches
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Muxina Konarova
Regulating *NO hydrogenation pathways for selective hydroxylamine electrosynthesis from nitrate on intermetallic Cu
3
Sn
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Zhi-Xuan Wu
Automating the Vortex Fluidic Device for Rapid Experimentation
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Fiona R Gordon
Panel for Secondary Teachers 2
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 3
Chemical Education 6: Chemical Education Research
12:00PM - 1:20PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 7
Investigating pre-post differences in undergraduate chemistry student scientific values, identity, and self-efficacy at two-year and four-year institutions
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Regis Komperda
Promoting undergraduate students' productive creative thinking around chemistry concepts using real-world contexts in a dialogic context
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Solomon M. Mangai
Students’ perceptions and acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated videos in chemistry tertiary education at two Western Australian universities
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Dino Spagnoli
Inclusive teaching and assessment for learning in chemistry through embedding connections, interactions and feedback by design
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Gwen Lawrie
Grand Challenges: Transforming Food and Health 3
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 4
Engineering Covalent Peptides to Unlock Novel Therapeutic Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease
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Ole Tietz
Synthesis of mitochondrial-targeted lipid nano-formulation for preventing mitochondrial dysfunction in kidney cells
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Garima Sagar
Lipid composition influences the formation of vesicle lamellarity
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Evelyne Deplazes
Nanoscale Surface Engineering of Organic Semiconductors to Enable Wireless Bioelectronics
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Matthew J Griffith
Tuning the structure and reactivity of organic molecules to advance hyperpolarised NMR
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Philip L Norcott
Grand Challenges: Future Energy 6
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
River View Room 5
Chair: Mark Paskevicius
TEA of Renewable Green Hydrogen Production for SAF in Australia
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Md Nasir Uddin
Engineering Metal Oxide–rGO Hybrid Composites for High-Performance Energy Storage Devices
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Manzar Zahra MZ Awan
Sustainable catalytic transfer hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural to γ-valerolactone over synergistic NiCo-BTC metal–organic frameworks
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Patcharaporn Weerachawanasak
openGDE bayadjamara a 3D printable gas diffusion electrode reactor
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Christopher Barnett
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 14: Environmental Remediation
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 2
Application of metal doped nanomaterials for use in the sensing and remediation of chemical contaminants in the environment
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Andrew S Ball
Interface Engineering for Sustainable Multifunctional Composites
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Luke C Henderson
Molybdenum Enzyme-Catalysed Nitrite Reduction?
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Paul V Bernhardt
Panel for Secondary Teachers 3
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 3
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 15: Interdisciplinary Green and Sustainable Technologies
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 6
Chairs: Hongqi Sun & Alexander Yuen
Innovative PFAS Management Technologies
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Cheng Zhang
Homogeneous (De)hydrogenative Catalysis for a Circular Economy
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Amit Kumar
Sugar mills as biorefinery hubs for low-carbon fuels and chemicals
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Gabriel Luiz Lopes Fraga
Protecting the chemistry that protects the planet
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Claire Gregg
Photochemical approaches to sustainable aromatic C–N bond formation
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Wenhao Zhao
Chemical Education 7: Assessment
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 7
Universal design for assessment - flexible deadline windows to support equity, reduce stress, and improve assessment outcomes.
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Vicky G Barnett
Implementing Deconstructed Questions as Roadblocks and Signposts to Cheating: Are Our Efforts to Improve the Security of Online Assessments Futile?
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Giel Muller
Developing a validated concept inventory creation tool, suitable for any curriculum.
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Richard A.R. Blackburn
Developing Critical AI Literacy in Inorganic Chemistry: Using Generative AI to Construct Borane Cluster Visualizations
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Mai Yan Yuen
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 16: Green Chemistry
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Meeting Room 8
Chair: Antonio Patti
From Networks to Nobels – the MOF origin story
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Stuart Batten
Bioinspired Micro-nano Photonic Materials
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Mingzhu Li
Catalytic strategies for microplastic degradation and sustainable environmental catalysis
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Wenjie Tian
Engineering and Design of Nanoscale Active Sites for Energy Conversion Applications
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Porun Liu
Surface Engineered Carbon Dots for Diverse Applications
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Qin Li
Green and Sustainable Chemistry 17: Catalysis 2
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 10th July
Riverside Theatre
Chairs: & Dechao Chen
Designing Molecular Catalysts for High‑Performance CO₂ Electroreduction
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Yijiao Jiang
Single Atom Catalysis for Water Purification
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Xiaoguang Duan
Integrated carbon capture and conversion
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Tianyi Ma
Metal organic framework (MOF) templated synthesis of visible light active photocatalysts for water splitting and remediation
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Cameron J Shearer
Designing Versatile
p-d
Dual-Atom Catalysts
via
Frontier Orbital Engineering for Efficient Photocatalytic Urea Production
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Yun Han
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