Friday, 10th July Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

• Circular Polymers: Design Strategies and Environmental Impact Evaluation - Kei Saito
• 2D/3D heterostructures for efficient tin halide perovskite photovoltaics - Peng Chen
• The Outlook and Big Challenges for research in the Australian water sector – the role of green and sustainable chemistry - David Bergmann
• Native austral indigo (Indigofera australis) as a novel source of blue indigo dye - Rosemary Warren
• Waste PET-Derived UiO-66-NH₂ Photocatalysts for Efficient Hydrogen Peroxide Generation - Yusheng Li
• Fueled by Insight: JP‑10 and Adamantane Electronic Structures for HED SAF Design - Feng Wang
• Atomic-Level Engineered Co–Fe Prussian Blue Analogues with Enhanced OER via Lattice Oxygen Mechanism - Dawei Su

• Carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol and dimethyl ether by catalytic membrane reactors. - Colin Scholes
• Next Generation Solid Amine Sorbents for Scalable Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide - Zhijian Wan
• Living respiration-enhanced nanobionic plants as battlefield-deployable sensors for nerve agents - Peiji Deng
• From Waste to Resource: Recycling PVDF Membranes for Water Treatment - Amir Razmjou

• Effective Dimethyl Ether Production from Methanol Dehydration in Catalytic Polymeric Membrane Reactors. - Bao Doan
• Material Designs for Better Solid-State Batteries - Yijun Zhong
• Unravelling the Fe Impurity dual role in a practical capillary-fed alkaline electrolyzer for high temperature water electrolysis - Xuan Minh Chau Ta
• openGDE bayadjamara a 3D printable gas diffusion electrode reactor - Christopher Barnett
• TEA and LCA of Renewable Green Fuel Production for SAF in Australia - Md Nasir Uddin

• GREEN & SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY FOR MAXIMISING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY - Antonio F Patti
• Unlocking the full potential for winemaking applications of membrane filtration - Kerry Wilkinson
• Responsive Probes for Luminescence Analysis of Food Quality and Safety - Run Zhang
• Moo-ving towards sustainable alternatives for bovine mastitis treatment - Tiarna Scerri
• Computation-aided Design and Synthesis of Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrocatalysis - Yuhui Tian

• Pyro - Hydrolysis of Metal Chlorides for the Regeneration of Hydrochloric Acid in Critical Mineral Extraction - Lian Zhang
• Advanced aqueous Zn batteries with conversion-based cathodes and highly reversible Zn anodes - Junnan Hao
• Why and How Operando Characterisation Matters in Electrocatalysis - Hangjuan Ren
• Atomic-level Regulation on Photocatalyst for Energy-Related Reaction  - Jingrun Ran
• The Dynamic Electrocatalyst: Surface Reconstruction from a Computational Perspective - Aoni Xu
• Development of catalytic co-pyrolysis systems for mixed solid waste conversion through integrated experimental and modelling approaches - Muxina Konarova
• Regulating *NO hydrogenation pathways for selective hydroxylamine electrosynthesis from nitrate on intermetallic Cu₃Sn - Zhi-Xuan Wu

• Sustainable gold extraction from ore and electronic waste - 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. - Ivan R Kennedy
• Atmospheric fates and global warming potential of HFO-1234ze(E) and its degradation product trifluoroacetaldehyde CF₃CHO - Beth Killen
• Sensing airborne semiochemicals for nondestructive pest detection: opportunities and challenges - Krishnan Murugappan
• Innovative Critical Metal Extractions from Laterite Ores for Green Technologies - Maximilian Mann

• Enabling carbon in a constrained world. - Anthony F Hill

• Reshaping laboratory culture for disability inclusive STEM, the time to act is now. - Vicky G Barnett
• Evaluating Observation Methods: A Comparative Study of Protocols and Recordings in Laboratory-Based Learning - Yuqing Fang
• Accessible laboratory design adopting a holistic approach - Lisa Stevens
• Uncovering how students see the lab: Validating a new survey on chemistry lab perspectives - Alexandra Yeung
• Assessing What Matters: Explicit Assessment of Laboratory Skills in the Era of Generative AI - Magdalena Wajrak

Panel Members

Dr. David Bergmann, CEO, Water Research Australia

ARC Laureate Profess Hongxia Wang, QUT

A/Prof. Amir Razmjou, ECU, Board Director of the Membrane Society of Australiasia,

Prof. Cheng Zhang, UQ

Prof. Colin Raston AO

Moderator: Prof. Qin Li

• Engineering Covalent Peptides to Unlock Novel Therapeutic Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease - Ole Tietz
• Synthesis of mitochondrial-targeted lipid nano-formulation for preventing mitochondrial dysfunction in kidney cells - Garima Sagar
• Lipid composition influences the formation of vesicle lamellarity     - Evelyne Deplazes
• Nanoscale Surface Engineering of Organic Semiconductors to Enable Wireless Bioelectronics - Matthew J Griffith
• Tuning the structure and reactivity of organic molecules to advance hyperpolarised NMR - Philip L Norcott
• Chemically Defined PAMAM–Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles Establish a Performance Window for Nucleic Acid Delivery Toward Intra-Articular Applications - Ruba Almasri

• Turning air and water into higher-value chemicals - Haihui Joy Jiang
• Development of non-fused and fused catechol-based MOFs for the removal of nano-plastics: towards a greener environment - Jyotirmay Maiti
• Heat Without Guilt: Harnessing Waste Energy Through Membrane Distillation for a Net-Zero World - Erfan GHAMATI

• Designing Molecular Catalysts for High‑Performance CO₂ Electroreduction   - Yijiao Jiang
• Single Atom Catalysis for Water Purification  - Xiaoguang Duan
• Integrated carbon capture and conversion - Tianyi Ma
• Metal organic framework (MOF) templated synthesis of visible light active photocatalysts for water splitting and remediation - Cameron J Shearer
• Molybdenum Enzyme-Catalysed Nitrite Reduction? - Paul V Bernhardt
• Designing Versatile p-d Dual-Atom Catalysts via Frontier Orbital Engineering for Efficient Photocatalytic Urea Production - Yun Han

• Innovative PFAS Management Technologies - Cheng Zhang
• High yield and sustainable conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to graphene via pyrolysis and high shear vortex fluidics - Elsa Antunes
• Homogeneous (De)hydrogenative Catalysis for a Circular Economy - Amit Kumar
• Sugar mills as biorefinery hubs for low-carbon fuels and chemicals - Gabriel Luiz Lopes Fraga
• Photochemical approaches to sustainable aromatic C–N bond formation - Wenhao Zhao

• From Networks to Nobels – the MOF origin story - Stuart Batten
• Materials processing under high shear and applied fields - Colin Raston
• Catalytic strategies for microplastic degradation and sustainable environmental catalysis - Wenjie Tian
• Engineering and Design of Nanoscale Active Sites for Energy Conversion Applications - Porun Liu
• Surface Engineered Carbon Dots for Diverse Applications - Qin Li

• Investigating pre-post differences in undergraduate chemistry student scientific values, identity, and self-efficacy at two-year and four-year institutions - Regis Komperda
• Promoting undergraduate students' productive creative thinking around chemistry concepts using real-world contexts in a dialogic context - Solomon M. Mangai
• Students’ perceptions and acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated videos in chemistry tertiary education at two Western Australian universities - Dino Spagnoli
• Inclusive teaching and assessment for learning in chemistry through embedding connections, interactions and feedback by design - Gwen Lawrie