Article Selections: Selected Papers from the 22nd RACI Research and Development Topics Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia December 13 – 15 2014.

           

The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Research and Development Topics Conference provides an opportunity for honours, masters and PhD students, and early career researchers in industry to present research in the fields of analytical and/or environmental chemistry. Since the event was founded in 1992, the student-run conference has grown to include fifteen universities from across Australia, attracting in excess of 100 delegates annually.

This Elsevier Multi-journal Virtual Special Issue is dedicated to the 22nd RACI Research and Development Topics Conference, held between the 13th and 15th of December 2014 at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

The proceedings included a range of fascinating, high-quality presentations by postgraduate and honours students on their research within the field of analytical and environmental chemistry.

Keynote presentations were also given by the 2014 RACI Analytical & Environmental Division award winners:

The Environmental Chemistry Medal was presented to Professor Godwin Ayoko (Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia) who presented a keynote entitled “Where are environmental pollutants coming from and how can they be reduced or removed?” The Doreen Clarke Medal was awarded to Associate Professor Bayden Wood (Monash University, Victoria, Australia), who presented his work on “Emerging developments in vibrational biospectroscopy”. The Peter Alexander Early Career Medal was awarded to Dr Jacqui L. Adcock (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia) who gave an enlightening talk on “When published methods don’t work”. The Student Original Research Publication Award was presented to Brendan J. Holland (Deakin University) for his postgraduate research entitled “Using temperature to overcome performance limiting solvent mismatch in two-dimensional HPLC”.  

In addition to the award winners, guest presentations by Professor J. Michael Ramsey (University of North Carolina, USA), Professor Stephen Haswell (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia) and Professor J. Ignacio Garcia Alonso (University of Oviedo, Spain) were a conference highlight.

The presentations in all gave a great insight into the next generation of researchers and the excelling scientific findings they have demonstrated in the field. We would like to personally thank everyone who helped us make this conference a great success and cannot wait to see what upcoming research the next year will bring.

Karen Bruce and Rachel West
2014 RACI R&D Topics Conference Co-chairs
Flinders University, South Australia

 

Conference Organisers

Conference Co-chairs

Karen Bruce and Rachel West (Flinders University, South Australia)

Conference Organising Committee

Caitlyn Rogers
Leigh Thredgold
Tiffany Reeves
Tim Ditcham
Caroline Watson
Kim Patterson
Tristan Kilmartin
Associate Professor Claire Lenehan

Editor, Elsevier Multi-journal Virtual Special Issue

Associate Professor Paul S. Francis

Conference presentation prizes:

Oral presentation prizes

1stEmily M. Kerr (Deakin University), “Mixed metal chelate annihilation electrogenerated chemiluminescence”     
2ndAdam T. Sutton (University of Western Sydney), “Assessing copolymer purity by capillary electrophoresis”.
3rdKrishnan Murugappan (Curtin University), “The prospects of electrochemical sensing of chlorine gas in room temperature ionic liquids using screen printed electrodes”.

Poster presentation prizes

1stKaren L. Bruce (Flinders University), “Detection of harmful algal bloom causative species using oligonucleotide modified surfaces”.
2ndBuddhika N. Dorakurambura (Curtin University), “Fundamental studies into the chemical and physical properties of latent fingermarks”.
3rdLeana N. D’Alton (La Trobe University), “Modified chitosan as an alternative to paper in paper-based sensing”; and Caitlyn Rogers (Flinders University), “Detection of drugs in hair – using a novel method of sample preparation”.

Images form the conference:

(1) The Chair of the RACI Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Division, Professor Emily Hilder, presenting the Division’s Peter Alexander Early Career Medal and certificate to Dr Jacqui Adcock.

(2) One of the more interactive parts of the conference.

(3) The Conference Wine Tasting Evening, sponsored by 10XGenomics, with multiple McLaren Vale wineries presenting their delightful wines, and tastings of other famous South Australian produce.

(4) The Conference Co-chairs, Rachel West and Karen Bruce, and the Organising Committee at the Conference Dinner at the Sebel Playford restaurant in Adelaide.

(5) A small memento of a very enjoyable conference.

Please find below the Articles:

A novel highly flexible, simple, rapid and low-cost fabrication tool for paper-based microfluidic devices (μPADs) using technical drawing pens and in-house formulated aqueous inks
Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 919, 5 May 2016, Pages 70–77
Nantana Nuchtavorna,Mirek Macka

Surface tailored organobentonite enhances bacterial proliferation and phenanthrene biodegradation under cadmium co-contamination
Science of The Total EnvironmentVolume 550, 15 April 2016, Pages 611–618
Asit Mandal, Bhabananda Biswas, Binoy Sarkar, Ashok K. Patra, Ravi Naidu

Characterization of large surface area polymer monoliths and their utility for rapid, selective solid phase extraction for improved sample clean up
Esme Candish, Hans-Jürgen Wirth, Andrew A. Gooley, Robert A. Shellie, Emily F. Hilder
Journal of Chromatography A, Volume 1410, 4 September 2015, Pages 9–18

Assessing a novel contact heater as a new method of recovering explosives traces from porous surfaces
Holly A. Yu, Simon W. Lewis, Matthew S. Beardah, Niamh NicDaeid
Talanta, Volume 148, 1 February 2016, Pages 721–728

The effect of environmental degradation on the characterisation of automotive clear coats by infrared spectroscopy
Karin J. van der Pal, Georgina Sauzier, Mark Maric, Wilhelm van Bronswijk, Kari Pitts, Simon W. Lewis
Talanta, Volume 148, 1 February 2016, Pages 715–720

Determination of refractive and volatile elements in sediment using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Godfred Odame Duodu, Ashantha Goonetilleke, Charlotte Allen, Godwin A. Ayoko
Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 898, 22 October 2015, Pages 19–27

Investigation of a solvent-cast organogel to form a liquid-gel microinterface array for electrochemical detection of lysozyme
Bren Mark B. Felisilda, Eva Alvarez de Eulate, Damien W.M. Arrigan
Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 893, 17 September 2015, Pages 34–40

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