Associate Professor Jennifer MacLeod

Supervision of HDR students Dr. MacLeod currently supervises PhD and MSc students in the following areas:

• 2D Materials (applications and fundamental studies)
• Surface-confined reactions of small aromatic molecules
• Spatial constraint of graphene through ion-beam patterning
• Hybrid materials based on graphene, BN and MoS2
• Graphene for supercapacitors
• Graphene coatings for corrosion protection
• Controlled synthesis of covalent organic frameworks
• Materials modification through energetic beams

Professional Service Refereeing:  Publons Conference organization:

• Organizing Committee, 9th Vacuum and Surface Science Conference of Asia and Australia, Sydney, NSW, 13-16 August 2018.
• Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Advanced Materials & Sustainable Technologies, Brisbane, QLD, 22-25 July 2018.
• Conference Chair, 42nd Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 30 January - 02 February 2018.
• Organizing Committee, NanoS-E3 International School and Workshop, Brisbane, QLD, 26-29 September 2017.
• Local Organizing Committee, 5th International Symposium on Graphene Devices, Brisbane, QLD, 11-14 July 2016.
• Organizing Committee, NanoS-E3 International School and Workshop, Kingscliffe, NSW, 27 September-2 October 2015.

• Atkinson, L., Jayalatharachchi, V., Liao, T., Lipton-Duffin, J. & MacLeod, J. (2022). 1D Coordination Polymers of 1,1'-Dibromoferrocene Following Debromination on Ag(111). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(27). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234058
• Zebardastan, N., Bradford, J., Gupta, B., Lipton-Duffin, J., MacLeod, J., Pham, H., Dubal, D., Ostrikov, K., Wolff, A., Hu, K., Ito, Y., Mariani, C., Betti, M. & Motta, N. (2022). 2D MoS₂ Heterostructures on Epitaxial and Self-Standing Graphene for Energy Storage: From Growth Mechanism to Application. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/225985
• Hartl, H., Li, W., Michl, T., Anangi, R., Speight, R., Vasilev, K., Ostrikov, K. & MacLeod, J. (2022). Antimicrobial adhesive films by plasma-enabled polymerisation of m-cresol. Scientific Reports, 12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232305
• Bialas, S., Krappitz, T., Walden, S., Kalayci, K., Kodura, D., Frisch, H., MacLeod, J., Nelson, A., Michalek, L. & Barner-Kowollik, C. (2022). Light-Gated Control of Conformational Changes in Polymer Brushes. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211980
• Chathuranga, H., Marriam, I., Zhang, Z., MacLeod, J., Liu, Y., Yang, H. & Yan, C. (2022). Multifunctional, Bioinspired, and Moisture Responsive Graphene Oxide/Tapioca Starch Nanocomposites. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211941
• Cui, D., Preetha Genesh, N., Maclean, O., Ji, P., Macleod, J., Ebrahimi, M., Lunchev, A., Grimsdale, A., Perepichka, D. & Rosei, F. (2022). Probing the Thermodynamics of Moiré Patterns in Molecular Self-Assembly at the Liquid-Solid Interface. Chemistry of Materials, 34(5), 2449–2457. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229774
• Hartl, H., Ostrikov, K. & MacLeod, J. (2022). Versatile, Rapid, and Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Cuprous Halide Composites at Room Temperature and Pressure. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212152
• Jayalatharachchi, V., MacLeod, J. & Lipton-Duffin, J. (2021). Metal Microsubstrates on Si(111): Crystallography, Morphology, and Interactions with a Molecular Adsorbate. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(26), 14326–14331. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212205
• Turangan, N., Xu, Y., Spratt, H., Rintoul, L., Bottle, S. & MacLeod, J. (2021). Self-supporting covalent organic framework membranes synthesized through two different processes: Solvothermal annealing and solvent vapor annealing. Nanotechnology, 32(7). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209102
• Bradford, J., Zaganelli, A., Qi, D., Zebardastan, N., Shafiei, M., MacLeod, J. & Motta, N. (2021). Substrate-mediated growth of oriented, vertically aligned MoS₂ nanosheets on vicinal and on-axis SiC substrates. Applied Surface Science, 552. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209401

Title

Doped alumina with tailored material properties for battery applications

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

LP210200938

Start year

2022

Keywords

Title

Plasma-Assisted On-Surface Assembly for Hydrogen Production and Beyond

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DP210100472

Start year

2021

Keywords

Title

Electronic Structure on Both Sides of the Fermi Level in Molecular Material

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DE170101170

Start year

2017

Keywords

• The electronic and structural properties of extended, disordered, 2D conjugated polymerssynthesized on-surface
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith
• Plasma-Enabled on-Surface Synthesis
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
• Controlled Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Supporting Covalent Organic Framework Membranes
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Steven Bottle
• Graphene- based materials for Li- ion Capacitors (LICs)
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Nunzio Motta, Professor Deepak Dubal
• UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLOITING PIEZOELECTRICITY IN COLLAGEN
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Brown, Associate Professor Jamie Trapp
• Bioinspired Materials with Enhanced Strength and Toughness
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Cheng Yan, Associate Professor Zhanying Zhang
• Nano- structures of high energy density anode materials for Li- ion batteries
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Jose Alarco, Dr Joseph Fernando
• A low energy k-resolved inverse photoelectron spectrometer to investigate electronic states of organic molecular materials
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin, Associate Professor Soniya Yambem

• Assembly and Reactions of Carboxylic Acids on Metal-Passivated Silicon (2021)
• Investigating The Surface of Graphitic Electrodes for Supercapacitors (2021)
• Growth and Characterisation of Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures on SiC (2019)
• Molecular Reactions on Surfaces: Towards the Growth of Surface-Confined Polymers (2019)
• Epitaxial Graphene Growth on 3C-SiC/Si(111): Towards Semiconducting Graphene (2018)

• Graphene Layers for Corrosion Protection of Steel (2022)
• Ullmann Dehalogenation of Dibromoferrocene for the Formation of Surface-confined Molecular Rotors (2021)
• Modification of Small-Molecule Organic Thin Films Using Energetic Beams and Plasma (2019)
• Synthesis and Characterisation of Covalent Organic Frameworks as Thin Films (2019)