Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150104897

Funded Activity Summary

Functional Materials from Weakly-Structured Self-Assembly Fluids. This project seeks to understand how mixtures of simple molecules can form complex structured liquids. Such mixtures occur widely both in nature and industrial settings. By using an approach combining new, high-resolution experimental techniques with computer modelling, it is expected that a detailed picture of molecular arrangements in these liquids will be obtained, allowing the relationship between composition, structure and properties to be understood for the first time. The new understanding of molecular arrangements within liquids may be used to design new solvents for chemical synthesis and catalysis, new food, personal care and pharmaceutical formulations, and new, smart materials that change their properties under external stimulus.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 30-06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $387,600.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Solution Chemistry | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Solution Chemistry

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