ProfessorYing (Ian) Chen

'White graphene' soaks up pollutants and can be re-used, BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22351056.

Dont cry over spilled oil use nanosheets http://theconversation.com/dont-cry-over-spilled-oil-use-nanosheets-13863.

Nanosheets soak up oil spills, ABC Science, http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/05/01/3749310.htm

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130509171543882

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/white-graphene-oil-spills

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-material-oil.html

Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Nanotechnology

Director, ARC Research Hub in New Safe and Reliable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies

Institute for Frontier Materials

Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216, Australia

Ph: 61 3 52273243; Fax: 61 3 52271103

E-mail: ian.chen@deakin.edu.au

2019 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Industry and Employment Partnerships

2014 Finalist of Shell Australian Innovation Challenge

2009 Award in Research Excellence and Vice-Chancellors Award for Distinguished Research

2008 Visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2004- Fellow of Institute of Physics

Member of College of Expert, Australian Research Council,

Board member of the Melbourne Nanofabrication Centre,

Editorial board member of three international journals and magazines: The Open Ceramic Science Journal (Bentham Science Publishers); International Journal of Nano Studies & Technology (IJNST), Nanotechnology Pacific Forum and Chinse Science magazine.

2009-present: Chair in Nanotechnology, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Victoria

1993-2009: Associate Professor/Fellow, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, the Australian National University, Canberra