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Professor Lu is Foundation Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. His areas of expertise include the synthesis and molecular engineering of nanomaterials such as inorganic nanoparticles, carbons, nanoporous materials and membranes. 

His team is developing many innovative applications of such materials in clean energy and environmental technologies as well as in biomedical fields. His team has generated more than 10 technologies patented or with patents pending.

He has won numerous prestigious awards including Orica Award, Le Fevre Prize, RK Murphy Medal, and Top 100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia. He has served on two PMSEIC Expert Working Groups, ARC College of Experts, and other federal government committees. He currently chairs the national RQF Panel on Engineering and Technology.

 

Research Projects

• Professor Lu’s research group operates through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials’s five research programs - nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanostructured films and membranes, nanobiomaterials, and computational nanomaterials science. More than 20 projects are being conducted in the group largely falling in the following three areas:
• Clean energy production and utilisation – new generation of solar cells, gas to liquid conversion, hydrogen production, purification and storage, fuel cells, high energy density supercapacitors.
• Environmental technologies - photocatalytic reduction of pollutants in water and air, desalination membranes, and novel adsorbents for water recycling, CO2 capture.
• Health care - biomaterials for orthopaedic applications, nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery, enzyme encapsulation and biosensors.

Key Publications (Top 10 Last 5 years)

1. Zhao XS, Lu GQ, Whittaker A, Comprehensive Study of Surface Chemistry of Mesoporous Molecular Sieve MCM-41 Using 29Si CP/MAS NMR, FTIR, Pyridine-TPD, and TGA, J. Phys. Chem. B 101,6525-6531, 1997
2. Ding Z, Lu GQ, Greenfield PF, Role of the Crystallite Phase of TiO2 in Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Phenol Oxidation in Water, J. Phys Chem. B 104, 4815-4820, 2000
3. Sun CH, Li F, Cheng HM, Lu GQ, Packing-dependent pore structures in single-walled carbon nanotube arrays, Applied Physics Letters 87 (24), 2005
4. Duke MC, da Costa JCD, Do DD, Lu GQ, Hydrothermally robust molecular sieve silica for wet gas separation, Advanced Functional Materials 16 (9), 1215-1220, 2006
5. Yu, AM, Gentle I, Lu GQ, Caruso F, Nanoassembly of biocompatible microcapsules for urease encapsulation and their use as biomimetic reactors, Chem. Comm 20, 2150-2152, 2006
6. Xu ZP, Stevenson G, Lu C-Q, Lu GQ, Bartlett P, Gray P, Homogeneous suspensions with controlled particle sizes of layered double hydroxides, J. Am. Chem Soc. 128, 36-37, 2006
7. Djojoputro H, Zhou XF, Qiao SZ, Wang LZ, Yu CZ, Lu GQ, Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Hollow Spheres with Tunable Wall Thickness, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 6321-32, 2006
8. Liu SM, Liu LH, Xu ZP, Lu, GQ, Bioceramic macrocapsules for cell immunoisolation, Angew. Chemie Int Ed 46 (17), 3062-3065, 2007
9. Ladewig BP, Knott RB, Hill AJ, Lu, GQ, et al., Physical and electrochemical characterization of nanocomposite membranes of Nafion and functionalized silicon oxide, Chem Mater. 19 (9), 2372-2381, 2007
10. Tang J, Zhou X, Zhao D, Lu GQ, Zou J, Yu C, Hard-Sphere Packing and Icosahedral Assembly in the Formation of Mesoporous Materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (Article), 2007, DOI: 10.1021/ja070999r
    
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