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DR RACHEL CARUSO



Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN CHEMISTRY
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Homepage: http://www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/caruso.php
Work: 83447146
Fax: 93475180
Room: 276
Level: 01
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Titanium dioxide, porous structures, templating techniques, photocatalysis, photovoltaics mesoporous structures, sequestration, doping, metal oxide Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Exchange, Research
Australia CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies Research
Australia Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1997

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member RACI MRACI 22-Nov-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Novel inorganic nanostructures fabricated using polymeric supports & templates for environmental & catalytic applications Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
THE INCORPORATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN POROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATIONS Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2006
CHEMICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ENGINEERING OF SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRODES FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
CHARACTERISATION EQUIPMENT FOR ADVANCED GAS SEPARATION APPLICATIONS Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/10/2006
MESOPOROUS ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR HIGH POWERED ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
AINSE3794 -ORGANIC FUNCTIONALISED HIERARCHICAL METAL OXIDE MATERIALS FOR RADIONUCLIDE SEQUESTRATION Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
METAL DOPED TITANIUM DIOXIDE MATERIALS FOR DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
AINSE3813- THE INCORPORATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN POROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
EVOLUTION OF TIO2 MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES IN HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SURFACTANT SYSTEMS Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
Synthesis of functionalised metal oxide beads with hierarchical pores for radionuclide and metal sequestration Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Organic functionalised hierarchical metal oxide materials for radionuclide sequestration Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2008
Modification of TiO2 mesoporous structures in highly concentrated surfactant systems Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2008
The incorporation of noble metal nanoparticles in porous titanium dioxide materials for photocatalytic applications Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2008
Flexible dye-sensitised solar cells on polymer substrates Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Enhanced Capacity in Ultra-Trace Level Detection and Speciation of Compounds of Environmental, Biological and Materials Science Interest Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2009
Organic functionalised hierarchical metal oxide materials for radionuclide sequestration Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2009
Synthesis of Titania-Based Porous Beads For Sequestration Of Heavy Metals and/or Radionuclides. Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2009
FACILITY FOR INNOVATION IN STRUCTURAL BIOMATERIALS ENGINEERING Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009
Engineered materials for future energy technologies Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Future Fellowships 09/09/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Gold nanoparticle incorporation into porous titania networks using an agarose gel templating technique for photocatalytic applications
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 3917-3926
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  • Plasmon Imaging: An efficient TEM-based method for locating noble metal particles dispersed on oxide catalysts at very low densities
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Micron
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 344-347
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Effective gel for gold nanoparticle formation, support and metal oxide templating
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Issue: 29
    Page numbers: 3060-3062
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  • Increased nanopore filling: Effect on monolithic all-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: 213510
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  • Modification of mesoporous TiO2 electrodes by surface treatment with titanium(IV), indium(III) and zirconium(IV) oxide precursors: preparation, characterization and photovoltaic performance in dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nanotechnology
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 12560
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  • Porous vanadium/titanium oxides - Synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic activity
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 533-540
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fabrication of Macroporous Titanium Dioxide Structures using Templating Techniques
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Conference on Materials for Hydrogen Energy
    Conference Publication: Advances in Applied Ceramics
    Volume: 106
    Page numbers: 21-24
    Publisher: Maney Publishing
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Agarose template for the fabrication of macroporous metal oxide structures
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 332-336
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  • Al-containing porous titanium dioxide networks: Sol-gel synthesis within agarose template and photocatalytic activity
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 5835-5839
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  • Sol-gel templating of membranes to form thick porous titania, titania/zirconia and titania/silica films
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1414-1420
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Finite-size and pressure effects on the Raman spectrum of nanocrystalline anatase TiO2
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Physical Review B
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 184302 - 184302
    Publisher: American Physical Society(Maryland)
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  • Titania and Mixed Titania/Aluminum, Gallium, or Indium Oxide Spheres: Sol-Gel/Template Synthesis and Photocatalytic Properties
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 239-245
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Activity and Selectivity of a Nanostructured CuO/ZrO2 Catalyst in the Steam Reforming of Methanol
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Catalysis Letters
    Volume: 94
    Issue: 2004
    Page numbers: 61-68
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  • HRTEM observation of the monoclinc to tetragonal phase tranisition in nanocrystalline ZrO2
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Materials Science
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 2151-2157
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  • Micrometer-to-nanometer replication of hierarchical structures by using a surface sol-gel process
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 2746-2748
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Synthesis of Microporous Silica Templated by Gelatin
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemistry Letters
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 202-203
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  • Template synthesis and photocatalytic properties of porous metal oxide spheres formed by nanoparticle infiltration
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 2287-2292
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Nanocasting and nanocoating
    Year: 2003
    Book: Topics in Current Chemistry, Colloid Chemistry I
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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Journal Articles

  • HRTEM study of Cu/ZrO2 catalyst. Evidence of a new perovskite-like oxide ZrCuO3
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Materials Science Letters
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 335-337
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  • Inorganic macroporous films from preformed nanoparticles and membrane templates: Synthesis and investigation of photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical properties
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 789-794
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  • Photocatalytic properties of porous metal oxide networks formed by nanoparticle infiltration in a polymer gel template
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 107
    Page numbers: 952-957
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  • Template synthesis of porous gold microspheres
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 1478-1479
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Preparation and characterization of CuO/ZrO2 nanopowders


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 1442-1445
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  • Photocatalytic activities of porous titania and titania/zirconia structures formed by useing a polymer gel templating technique
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 5103-5108
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  • Silica Films with Bimodal Pore Structure Prepared by using Membranes as Templates and Amphiphiles as Porogens
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 307-312
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  • Templating of porous polymeric beads to form porous silica and titania spheres
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Advanced Materials
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 1768-1772
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Modification of TiO2 Network Structures Using a Polymer Gel Coating Technique


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 1114-1123
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  • Hollow Titania Spheres from Layered Precursor Deposition on Sacrificial Colloidal Core Particles
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Advanced Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 740-744
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  • Magnetic Nanocomposite Particles and Hollow Spheres Constructed by a Sequential Layering Approach
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 109-116
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  • Multilayered Titania, Silica, and Laponite Nanoparticle Coatings on Polystyrene Colloidal Templates and Resulting Inorganic Hollow Spheres
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 400-409
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  • Sol-Gel Nanocoating: An Approach to the Preparation of Structured Materials
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 3272-3283
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  • Synthesis of Macroporous Titania and Inorganic Composite Materials from Coated Colloid Spheres - A Novel Route to Tune Pore Morphology
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 364-371
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  • Titanium Dioxide Tubes from Sol-Gel Coating of Electrospun Polymer Fibers
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Advanced Materials
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 1577-1579
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