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DR ALISON FUNSTON



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Organization: Chemistry
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW GRADE 2
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Room: 285
Level: 02
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science with Honours University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Royal Australian Chemical Institute CChem 01-Jan-2000
Member American Chemical Society Member 01-Jan-2005

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.

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Melbourne Research Office Fellowship (Career Interruptions)

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

  • Plasmon Coupling of Gold Nanorods at Short Distances and in Different Geometries
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Nano Letters
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1651-1658
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Complete Quenching of CdSe Nanocrystal Photoluminescence by Single Dye Molecules
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Advanced Materials
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 4274-4280
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  • Dark-field microscopy studies of single metal nanoparticles: understanding the factors that influence the linewidth of the localized surface plasmon resonance
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1949-1960
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  • Direct observation of chemical reactions on single gold nanocrystals using surface plasmon spectroscopy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 598-602
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  • Influence of the Medium Refractive Index on the Optical Properties of Single Gold Triangular Prisms on a substrate
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry C
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 3-7
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  • Modelling the optical response of gold nanoparticles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemical Society Reviews
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 1792-1805
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Fluorescence Probing of Temperature-Dependent Dynamics and Friction in Ionic Liquid Local Environments
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 111
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 4963-4977
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  • Radical Ion States of Platinum Acetylide Oligomers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 111
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 10871-10880
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  • Rate and Driving Force for Protonation of Aryl Radical Anions in Ethanol
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 111
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 6895-6902
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  • Spectroscopy and High-Resolution Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals by a Focused Ion Beam Registration Method
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 3517-3520
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Radiation Chemistry of Ionic Liquids
    Year: 2006
    Book: Molten Salts XIV
    Publisher: The Electrochemical Society(Pennington)
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Journal Articles

  • Spectroscopy and Transport of the Triplet Exciton in a Terthiophene End-Capped Poly(phenylene ethynylene)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 110
    Issue: 36
    Page numbers: 17736-17742
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Dynamics of Fast Reactions in Ionic Liquids
    Year: 2005
    Book: Ionic Liquids IIIA: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges and Opportunities
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Journal Articles

  • Dipyridophenazine Complexes of Cobalt (III): DNA Phtocleavage and Photobiology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 206-212
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Increased Yields of Radical Cations by Arene Addition to Irradiation 1,2-Dichloroethane
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Radiation Physics and Chemistry
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 601-611
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  • One-Electron Reduction of an "Extended Viologen" p-Phenylene-bis-4,4'-(1-aryl-2,6-diphenylpyridinium) Dication
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry A
    Volume: 109
    Issue: 48
    Page numbers: 10862-10869
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  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Pyrrolidinium Cation Ionic Liquids
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 184512
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Charge Transfer Through Terthiophene End-Capped Poly(arylene ethynylene)s
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 108
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1544-1555
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Synthesis, structural studies and photochemistry of cobalt(III) complexes of anthracenylcyclam macrocycles
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2003
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 3704-3712
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A pulse radiolysis study of the rate of ligand dissociation from mixed ligand cobalt(II) complexes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Page numbers: 2053-2060
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  • The synthesis and crystal structures of two cobalt(III) complexes containing the ligand 1,4,8,11-Tetraazacyclotetradecane
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 535-538
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