Gordon Wallace

Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong

Professor Gordon Wallace’s research interests include organic conductors, nanomaterials and electrochemical probe methods of analysis and the use of these in the development of intelligent polymer systems. A current focus involves the use of these tools and materials in developing biocommunications from the molecular to skeletal domains in order to improve human performance via medical Bionics.

Gordon is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Institute of Physics, and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). He received the Inaugural Polymer Science and Technology Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1992; the RACI Stokes Medal for Research in Electrochemistry in 2004; and the HG Smith Memorial award from the RACI in 2008. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by the Science Foundation Ireland in 2003; named NSW Scientist of the Year (Chemistry) in 2008; appointed as a Professor in the World Class University by the South Korean Government in 2009; received the SPIE Smart Materials Research Lifetime Achievement Award in the USA in March 2009 and was honoured with the 2009 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award.

He has published more than 600 refereed publications; a monograph (3rd Edition published in 2009) on Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Polymer Systems and co-authored a monograph on Organic Bionics (published 2012). Gordon has supervised more than 65 PhD students to completion.

Gordon completed his undergraduate (1979) and PhD (1983) degrees at Deakin University. And was awarded a DSc from Deakin University in 2000. He was appointed as a Professor at the University of Wollongong in 1990. He was awarded an ARC Professorial Fellowship in 2002; an ARC Federation Fellowship in 2006 and ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2011.

Experience

2011–present

Laureate Fellow, Australian Research Council (ARC)
2005–present

Executive Research Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
1994–present

Director, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
2006–present

Director, Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)

Education

2000

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, DSc
1983

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, PhD
1978

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, BSc (Hons. 1st Class)

Publications

2014

Formation and processability of liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide, Materials Horizons
2013

Carbon nanotube - reduced graphene oxide composites for thermal energy harvesting applications, Advanced Materials
2012

Synergistic toughening of composite fibres by self-alignment of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes, Nature Communications
2011

Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles, Science
2009

Electrode-Cellular Interface, Science
2008

Processable aqueous dispersions of graphene nanosheets, Nature Nanotechnology
2008

Mechanically strong, electrically conductive, and biocompatible graphene paper, Advanced Materials

Grants and Contracts

2013

ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science

Role:

Director

Funding Source:

Australian Research Council

Research Areas

Synthesis Of Materials (030306)
Functional Materials (091205)
Nanomanufacturing (100707)