ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
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Transforming carbon science and innovation for a clean and sustainable future 🔬☀️🌏
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Hello! We're the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation and we aim to create innovative carbon materials and technologies for renewable energy generation and clean chemical production.
In short - we're using carbon to decarbonise the world!
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In short - we're using carbon to decarbonise the world!
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An orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries. #COECSI researchers used ferrocene to solve 2 key problems plaguing the ability of the Zn-I battery to become an alternative energy storage to Lithium-ion batteries tinyurl.com/3r3fz3kh
Orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Zinc-Iodide batteries move a large step closer to supplying safe and economic grid and household energy storage
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February 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
An orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries. #COECSI researchers used ferrocene to solve 2 key problems plaguing the ability of the Zn-I battery to become an alternative energy storage to Lithium-ion batteries tinyurl.com/3r3fz3kh
Things got messy & messier as 20+ 10-13 YOs & parents participated in our Centre’s Elephant’s Toothpaste wshop-part of Monash City Library’s Holiday program. Capturing CO2, #catalysis, #electrolysis and inventing catalysts for a greener planet - and messy colour. More drop sheets please. #STEMed
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Things got messy & messier as 20+ 10-13 YOs & parents participated in our Centre’s Elephant’s Toothpaste wshop-part of Monash City Library’s Holiday program. Capturing CO2, #catalysis, #electrolysis and inventing catalysts for a greener planet - and messy colour. More drop sheets please. #STEMed
#COECSI researchers have developed a simple, scalable way to reliably generate #hydrogen with impure water, such as seawater or industrial wastewater. “We have gone beyond proof of concept. Our system works,” says lead author Dr Feiyue Gao. tinyurl.com/yttnck8h
Smart gate paves way for reliable hydrogen from seawater - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Centre members develop a simple, scalable way to reliably generate hydrogen with impure water, such as seawater or industrial wastewater.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
#COECSI researchers have developed a simple, scalable way to reliably generate #hydrogen with impure water, such as seawater or industrial wastewater. “We have gone beyond proof of concept. Our system works,” says lead author Dr Feiyue Gao. tinyurl.com/yttnck8h
Our Centre is extremely proud of our Chief Investigator Prof Yao Zheng, recipient of the 2025 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. Prof Zheng received the prize for his groundbreaking work to produce clean hydrogen directly from seawater youtu.be/71cFGyryQuw?...
2025 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year: Professor Yao Zheng
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November 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Our Centre is extremely proud of our Chief Investigator Prof Yao Zheng, recipient of the 2025 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. Prof Zheng received the prize for his groundbreaking work to produce clean hydrogen directly from seawater youtu.be/71cFGyryQuw?...
We’ve worked out how to get single atoms of silver working in synergy with carbon and nitrogen atoms to efficiently convert polluting nitrogenous waste in water from industries such as agriculture and mining into ready-to-use liquid fertiliser. www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Single atoms of silver and earth-abundant carbon turn pollutants into fertiliser - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
A single atom of silver working in synergy with carbon and nitrogen atoms can efficiently convert polluting nitrogenous waste in water from industries such as agriculture and mining into ready-to-use ...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We’ve worked out how to get single atoms of silver working in synergy with carbon and nitrogen atoms to efficiently convert polluting nitrogenous waste in water from industries such as agriculture and mining into ready-to-use liquid fertiliser. www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
We are a tad excited and proud of our Centre’s successful @ARC Discovery grant recipients – six in total – that will all help us decarbonise and shift us away from our dependence on fossil fuels. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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We are a tad excited and proud of our Centre’s successful Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant recipients – six projects in total – that will all help us decarbonise and shift us away fro...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We are a tad excited and proud of our Centre’s successful @ARC Discovery grant recipients – six in total – that will all help us decarbonise and shift us away from our dependence on fossil fuels. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Our Monash Centre members hosted 8 Yr 9 BrainSTEM Innovation Challenge students/teachers. We examined turning coffee in synthetic fuels & challenged them 2 think critically, what's an acceptable cost for green hydrogen. It was rewarding to see the students critically reflect on how they value STEM.
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Our Monash Centre members hosted 8 Yr 9 BrainSTEM Innovation Challenge students/teachers. We examined turning coffee in synthetic fuels & challenged them 2 think critically, what's an acceptable cost for green hydrogen. It was rewarding to see the students critically reflect on how they value STEM.
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ARC COE-CSI October Newsletter
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October 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Centre News, latest events and more
Centre News, latest events and more
Grounded by 2 cats, connected to the sea through fishing, & recent finalist in the Women of Colour Rising Star Award, Centre UNSW postdoc, Dr Shujie Zhou is motivated by her research in solar-driven #greenchemical production. Read her full Spotlight story www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Spotlight: Shujie Zhou - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Shujie Zhou: Motivated by a passion for solar-driven chemical production, grounded by two cats and connected to the sea.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Grounded by 2 cats, connected to the sea through fishing, & recent finalist in the Women of Colour Rising Star Award, Centre UNSW postdoc, Dr Shujie Zhou is motivated by her research in solar-driven #greenchemical production. Read her full Spotlight story www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
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🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss.
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
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October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss.
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Upeksha Tennakoon, PhD candidate & our latest Centre Spotlight, is cherishing her new life in Aust. Alongside the challenge of replicating Mum’s cooking (a work in progress), Upeksha blends her #microbiology and #chemeng skills to solve environmental problems. www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Spotlight: Upeksha Tennakoon - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Upeksha Tennakoon, PhD candidate, is cherishing her new life in Australia blending microbiology and chem engineering skills to solve environmental problems, and facing the challenge of replicating her...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Upeksha Tennakoon, PhD candidate & our latest Centre Spotlight, is cherishing her new life in Aust. Alongside the challenge of replicating Mum’s cooking (a work in progress), Upeksha blends her #microbiology and #chemeng skills to solve environmental problems. www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Peiqi Qiu, a PhD candidate at COECSI’s UniAdelaide node, embraces the multidisciplinary nature of work & life & is currently pondering how weather affects the taste of her tea. Otherwise, she's modeling #carbon #catalysts. Read her full spotlight story - www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Spotlight: Peiqi Qiu - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Peiqi Qiu is a PhD candidate embracing the multidisciplinary nature of work and life and currently pondering how the weather affects the taste of her tea.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Peiqi Qiu, a PhD candidate at COECSI’s UniAdelaide node, embraces the multidisciplinary nature of work & life & is currently pondering how weather affects the taste of her tea. Otherwise, she's modeling #carbon #catalysts. Read her full spotlight story - www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
At Science Alive we joined @getco2.bsky.social. W Elephant’s toothpaste (minus the elephant) & an electrolyser that turned CO2 into formic acid it was a constructive engagement with many of the 20,000 people at the gig about the potential of transforming waste (eg CO2) via the magic of #catalysis.
August 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At Science Alive we joined @getco2.bsky.social. W Elephant’s toothpaste (minus the elephant) & an electrolyser that turned CO2 into formic acid it was a constructive engagement with many of the 20,000 people at the gig about the potential of transforming waste (eg CO2) via the magic of #catalysis.
In 4 days we hit Adelaide and #ScienceAlive - Australia’s largest, hands-on, science and technology exhibition. Create Elephant’s toothpaste and help turn carbon dioxide into ants – well the chemical they release when you crush them. We are teaming up w @getco2.bsky.social to double the awesomeness
July 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In 4 days we hit Adelaide and #ScienceAlive - Australia’s largest, hands-on, science and technology exhibition. Create Elephant’s toothpaste and help turn carbon dioxide into ants – well the chemical they release when you crush them. We are teaming up w @getco2.bsky.social to double the awesomeness
#COECSI researchers led an international scientific collaboration to develop a novel #nanomaterial to efficiently harvest clean drinking water from water vapour in the air. Published in #PNAS Link to paper in COE-CSI news www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Light as a feather nanomaterial extracts drinking water from air - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
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June 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
#COECSI researchers led an international scientific collaboration to develop a novel #nanomaterial to efficiently harvest clean drinking water from water vapour in the air. Published in #PNAS Link to paper in COE-CSI news www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
#COECSI researchers rank high in the Research.com 2025 rankings for the world’s best scholars. Two are in the top 20 for #chemistry, 4 in top 50 for #materialsscience research.com/scientists-r...
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Justifiably proud of them all we are
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Justifiably proud of them all we are
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#COECSI researchers rank high in the Research.com 2025 rankings for the world’s best scholars. Two are in the top 20 for #chemistry, 4 in top 50 for #materialsscience research.com/scientists-r...
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Justifiably proud of them all we are
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Justifiably proud of them all we are
COE-CSI CI, Emma Lovell makes a solid argument for research into efficient electrochemistry to develop “green versions of petrochemicals” theconversation.com/australias-l...
Australia’s latest emissions data reveal we still have a giant fossil fuel problem
Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have only decreased 3% since 2005 – not the 27% cut you might have heard.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
COE-CSI CI, Emma Lovell makes a solid argument for research into efficient electrochemistry to develop “green versions of petrochemicals” theconversation.com/australias-l...
Two papers, two novel ways of using urea from urine and wastewater to generate cost-efficient hydrogen. #COECSI #ARC www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
May 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Two papers, two novel ways of using urea from urine and wastewater to generate cost-efficient hydrogen. #COECSI #ARC www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Precise insertion of an oxygen atom into a carbon support was key to transform CO2 into valuable chemicals. A COE-CSI collaboration developed a cost-effective metal-free catalyst to turn CO2 into carbon monoxide, a feedstock for valuable chemicals such as ethylene & ethanol. doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Oxygen‐Substituted Porous C2N Frameworks as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction
An oxygen-substituted porous C2N framework (O─C2N) catalyst with fine-tailored N─C─O configurations is fabricated through a thermal condensation method, which is directly applied for efficient CO2 el...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Precise insertion of an oxygen atom into a carbon support was key to transform CO2 into valuable chemicals. A COE-CSI collaboration developed a cost-effective metal-free catalyst to turn CO2 into carbon monoxide, a feedstock for valuable chemicals such as ethylene & ethanol. doi.org/10.1002/anie...
CSI Researchers have developed a clean, green, economic way to make the household & industrial chemical, hydrogen peroxide (a US$4B industry). It is scalable depending on need & it can be done anywhere, eliminating the need for long-distance transport www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
New catalyst that makes production of industrial chemicals greener and simpler - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
Researchers have developed a simple, sustainable and economic way to make the common household and industrial chemical, hydrogen peroxide.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
CSI Researchers have developed a clean, green, economic way to make the household & industrial chemical, hydrogen peroxide (a US$4B industry). It is scalable depending on need & it can be done anywhere, eliminating the need for long-distance transport www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
Finding catalysts for cleaner, greener chemicals. Centre postdoc, Yuhan Xie says this #InternationalWomensDay theme, “Accelerate Action,” is a call to inspire girls to pursue STEM & create an inclusive, balanced environment where women's careers can thrive www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
International Women’s Day – Accelerating Action with Dr Yuhan Xie - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
For postdoctoral researcher Dr Yuhan Xie, the thrill of research lies in the “everyday ups and downs” that keep her engaged and motivated.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Finding catalysts for cleaner, greener chemicals. Centre postdoc, Yuhan Xie says this #InternationalWomensDay theme, “Accelerate Action,” is a call to inspire girls to pursue STEM & create an inclusive, balanced environment where women's careers can thrive www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/...
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re proud to spotlight Centre CI Ass. Prof Sophia Gu, a pioneer in nano-biotech & carbon innovation for the precision diagnosis & treatment of life-threatening disease like cancer & cardiovascular disease. Her story www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/... #WomenInSTEM
International Women’s Day – Accelerating Action with A/Prof Sophia Gu - ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation
This International Women’s Day we’re proud to spotlight Centre Chief Investigator, Associate Professor Zi (Sophia) Gu, a pioneer in nano-biotechnology and carbon innovation for precision diagnosis and...
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March 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re proud to spotlight Centre CI Ass. Prof Sophia Gu, a pioneer in nano-biotech & carbon innovation for the precision diagnosis & treatment of life-threatening disease like cancer & cardiovascular disease. Her story www.carboncentre.org.au/centre-news/... #WomenInSTEM
Congratulations to our Associate Investigator and Advisory Board member Khalil Amine for his election to the National Academy of Engineering in the US last week!
We are proud to work with such highly distinguished researchers across the world. Congratulations, Khal!
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We are proud to work with such highly distinguished researchers across the world. Congratulations, Khal!
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National Academy of Engineering Elects 128 Members and 22 International Members
National Academy of Engineering Elects 128 Members and 22 International Members to the Class of 2025
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February 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Congratulations to our Associate Investigator and Advisory Board member Khalil Amine for his election to the National Academy of Engineering in the US last week!
We are proud to work with such highly distinguished researchers across the world. Congratulations, Khal!
www.nae.edu/331605/NAENe...
We are proud to work with such highly distinguished researchers across the world. Congratulations, Khal!
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#PhD opportunities! 🔬 Our Centre is recruiting 2 PhD students for the project ‘Stimulating Carbon nanostructures and Cyanobacteria/micro algae for Enhanced Pigment Production’ at UWA.
Contact CI Hui Tong Chua if you have any questions.
More info here 🔗 researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
Contact CI Hui Tong Chua if you have any questions.
More info here 🔗 researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
Stimulating Carbon nanostructures and Cyanobacteria/micro algae for Enhanced Pigment Production
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February 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#PhD opportunities! 🔬 Our Centre is recruiting 2 PhD students for the project ‘Stimulating Carbon nanostructures and Cyanobacteria/micro algae for Enhanced Pigment Production’ at UWA.
Contact CI Hui Tong Chua if you have any questions.
More info here 🔗 researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
Contact CI Hui Tong Chua if you have any questions.
More info here 🔗 researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
COE-CSI's December 2024 Newsletter is out now! 📖🔬
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December 4, 2024 at 2:49 AM
COE-CSI's December 2024 Newsletter is out now! 📖🔬
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