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Antibacterial activity of carbon nanomaterials

Understanding the antibacterial activity of carbon nanomaterials and exploring their practical applications more...

Supervisor(s): Chen, Yuan (Professor)

Carbon Zero by Off-grid Technologies

Off-grid houses are autonomous dwellings that do not rely on water supply, sewer, or electrical power grid, and are able to operate completely independently of all public utility se more...

Supervisor(s): Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando (Dr)

Nano-catalysts for carbon neutral futures: Conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals

To investigate functionalized porous nano-composites for advanced physical and chemical processes to convert CO2 to valuable chemicals from theory and computations. more...

Supervisor(s): Stampfl, Catherine (Professor)

Mechanism and control of diamond and graphene-based nanostructures using direct electric-field and laser excitation

To investigate the sculpting of carbon-based structures through controlled electric field and/or laser excitation, through first-principles based calculations. more...

Supervisor(s): Stampfl, Catherine (Professor)

REGIONAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS IN CHINA AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY

This project will employ structural decomposition analysis and a comprehensive Chinese database (Wang et al. 2015; Wang 2017) to analyse changes in China’s economic structure more...

Supervisor(s): Malik, Arunima (Dr)

Portfolios of crop choices and water licences

Under increased climate variability and increased pressure on water resources, agricultural producers face difficult choices in terms of what corps to grow and which water to buy or more...

Supervisor(s): Vervoort, Willem (Associate Professor), Ancev, Tihomir (Dr)

Self-Healing Clay-Polymer Mixtures: Towards a New Material

The project will develop new clay-polymer mixtures that enhance the ability of clay to self-heal developing fractures, hence helping the emergence of autonomously-repairing geotechn more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Cohesive Crack Model in Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Theory of Partially Saturated Soils

The fissuring and healing of clay is modeled using a novel approach, within a finite-element framework, that will allow the design of new materials and new geotechnical structures w more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

A Value-Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change

New approach for building adaptation to climate change is developed while taking into account local and institutional values.Please contact the supervisor directly at the following more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Structural application of recycled fibre reinforced polymer (rFRP) composites

The objective of the project is to develop more sustainable infrastructures. more...

Supervisor(s): Hadigheh, Ali (Dr)