Dusan LosicThe University of Adelaide, Australia
Prof Dusan Losic, Australian Future Fellowship, working as a Research Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia. He finished PhD in 2003 at Flinders University, School of Chemical and Physical Science, followed by 3 years postdoctoral research position at Flinders University. In 2007 he was awarded by Australian Research Council with 5 years Research Fellowship (ARF) when he started his independent research at Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia. In January 2012 he receiving ARC Future Fellowship, and moved to the University of Adelaide, where he is leading Nano Research group of 25 members. His interdisciplinary research encompassing several disciplines including chemistry, material science, engineering, biology and medicine focused on applying nanoscience and nanotechnology to engineer new nanomaterials, processes and devices to address fundamental, health, environmental and agriculture problems. From 2013 his research group started extensive work on graphene focused on graphene production processes and development of graphene based products for broad applications.
Title：Engineering of three-dimensional porous graphene materials with tailored micro-/nano architecture for environmental applications
SymposiumB08 Environmental Governance (soil, sewage treatment)
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Three-dimensional (3D) graphene composites due their unique structures and properties attracted considerable attention for designing new materials for super-capacitors, energy storage, batteries, water purification, sensing devices and composites. This work presents an overview of the latest work by our group on the development of three-dimensional porous graphene materials with tailored micro-/nano architecture for environmental applications. The basic concepts will be described to design these materials based on combination of graphene with other micro and nanostructures including nanoparticles, porous silica and carbon nanotubes to tailor their meso and micro porosity to advance their adsorption properties for different environmental pollutants (oil, dyes, heavy metals etc). By controlling surface chemistry with specific functional groups across these 3-d architectures it was demonstrated that new 3D materials with outstanding properties (adsorption, conductive, sensing, energy storage, drug delivery) can be created. Our syntheses involve mainly natural materials as precursors (graphite, natural silica and nanoparticles) based on simple, scalable and non-hazardous procedures. Several outstanding examples on application these materials for adsorption contaminants from water (heavy metals, Hg, As), organic dyes, phosphates, oils), soil and waste remediation, self-cleaning surfaces, catalysis and sensing will be presented.
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