ProfessorLingxue Kong

Professor (Research)

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Frontier Materials

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Prof Kong has a broad research interest in micro and nanofabrications and
systems. His key interests include: micro and nanosystems using microfluidics
and nanofluidics for biomedical and environmental applications; and micro and
nano characterization. He attracted more than $5 million funds from National
Competitive Grants schemes. He was awarded an early career researcher from ARC
and AAS in 2003 and a Roger Pysden Memorial Fellowship from Australian
Business Limited in 2002, and an Australia Award - Endeavour Executive Awards
in 2010. His innovative PCRDisc device has won a gold medal from ITEX2009, an
iENA Special Award for Best Invention and iENA gold medal, and a JIPA Award
for the Best Invention in Biotechnology.
### Current projects:
Molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases
Polymeric membranes with aligned nanostructures
Membrane characterisations
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    3D printed metal membranes for electrocatalytic degradation of emerging micropollutants in water recycling
    19 Aug 2026 - 19 Feb 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    Hydroleap Pty Ltd
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Schedule 1 - Xcel Tech - REACH Program: Electric modification of heavy vehicles for low-emission mining
    1 Dec 2024 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Xcel Tech - $822,619.00
  • GRANT
    REACH scholarship Developing new materials for enhancing battery safety of electric heavy vehicles
    28 Oct 2024 - 28 Apr 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    Xcel Tech - $34,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Characterisation and Functionalisation of Drug Nanocarriers
    26 Aug 2024 - 31 May 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lingxue Kong
    NanoCube Health Pty Ltd - $25,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Examining surface properties of drug carriers.
    1 Aug 2023 - 15 Sep 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lingxue Kong
    NanoCube Health Pty Ltd - $25,000.00
  • GRANT
    Sublingual self-emulsifying films containing cannabis.
    4 Jul 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    International Education Resilience Fund - $15,000.00
  • GRANT
    Boosting photosynthetic efficiency using a plant nanobionics approach
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP220102729 - $234,775.77
  • GRANT
    POSTGRAD RESEARCH AWARD - Localizing monomers within hexagonal lyotropic liquid crystal template for the fabrication of nanofiltration membranes
    7 Jul 2021 - 7 Jul 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Gu S,
    • O'Dell L
    AINSE Awards - Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering - F2024/0652 - $27,750.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Characterization of Templated Fabrics - 2021
    15 Apr 2021 - 15 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • She F,
    • Al-Attabi R
    Gale Pacific Limited - $3,400.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Characterization of Templated Fabrics.
    22 Oct 2020 - 18 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • She F,
    • Merenda A,
    • Al-Attabi R
    Gale Pacific Limited - $11,250.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Water production from CO2-capture
    1 Aug 2019 - 30 Nov 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO Grant - Research - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CONTR2019/01301 - $100,000.00
  • GRANT
    Project Agreement: IH17.21 - Investigations into the application of electro spun graphene oxide/polymer based nanofiber membranes for purification of proteins
    5 Jun 2019 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • Pham H,
    • Bertolini J
    ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs - IH170100009 - $105,000.00
  • GRANT
    Project Agreement: IH17.21 - Investigations into the application of electro spun graphene oxide/polymer based nanofiber membranes for purification of proteins
    5 Jun 2019 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • Pham H,
    • Bertolini J
    CSL Behring (Australia) Pty Ltd - $120,000.00
  • GRANT
    Project Agreement: IH17.22 -Advanced graphene membranes for protection and facilitated cleaning of metal materials used in blood plasma separation processing
    5 Jun 2019 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • Bertolini J,
    • Pham H
    ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs - IH170100009 - $86,000.00
  • GRANT
    Project Agreement: IH17.22 -Advanced graphene membranes for protection and facilitated cleaning of metal materials used in blood plasma separation processing
    5 Jun 2019 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • Bertolini J,
    • Pham H
    CSL Behring (Australia) Pty Ltd - $100,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Membrane distillation for water treatment
    1 Jun 2019 - 30 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lingxue Kong
    Sustech Environmental Inc - $120,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    High adsorption air purification membranes for ultrafine pollen particles.
    23 Oct 2018 - 13 Oct 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • She F
    Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transports and Resources - CONTR2018/02413 - $200,000.00
  • GRANT
    Investigating the homogeneity, thickness, and fouling sensitivity of the plasma-synthesized polymer blend thin films for low-cost desalination
    1 Jul 2018 - 1 Mar 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wang J,
    • Kong L,
    • Dumee L,
    • Tobin M,
    • Vongsvivut JP
    AINSE Grant - Postgraduate Research Award - $8,250.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Industrial exploitation of concrete structures reinforced with recycled carpet waste fibres.
    6 Jun 2018 - 24 Jul 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    G T Technologies Pty Ltd - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    Investigation of nanocomposite membranes for liquid separation from spinnable carbon nanotube forests
    16 Apr 2018 - 15 Nov 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dumee L,
    • Kong L,
    • Ovalle R,
    • Huynh C
    Lintec of America, Inc. - $59,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Study of solutes redistribution in high strength steels using atom probe tomography
    1 Jan 2018 - 30 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Wuhan University of Science and Technology - $10,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    in vitro and in vivo examination of gold nanoparticles RAFTed with polymers for cancer therapy
    15 Jun 2017 - 28 Feb 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • Chen L
    CSIRO Grant - Research - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - $50,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Lightweight electrotransmission system for electric vehicles
    19 May 2017 - 30 Jun 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lingxue Kong
    Hefei University of Technology - $58,786.51
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Improvement on Quality of Reflecting Coating on Car Lamp Reflector
    1 Feb 2017 - 1 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kong L,
    • She F,
    • Dumee L,
    • Yi Z
    Seeyao Electronics Co Ltd - $200,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Cluster Strengthened Steels
    5 Dec 2016 - 4 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Wuhan Iron and Steel Company Limited - $266,617.01