Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group

Members of SSBIG celebrated another successful year.
Good bye 2023 and welcome 2024.

Congratulations Mr Buddhika and the team on their latest publication.
Buddhika Sampath

Progress in Nanostructured Mechano-Bactericidal Polymeric Surfaces for Biomedical Applications Bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance remain significant contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite recent advances in biomedical research, a substantial number of medical devices and implants continue to be plagued by bacterial colonisation, resulting in severe consequences...

Congratulations Dr Senevirathne and the team on their latest publication. Amal Senevirathne
Amal Senevirathne

Preferential adhesion of bacterial cells onto top- and bottom-mounted nanostructured surfaces under flow conditions The bactericidal effect of biomimetic nanostructured surfaces has been known for a long time, with recent data suggesting an enhanced efficiency of the nanostructured surfaces under fluid shear. While some of the influential factors on the bactericidal effect of nanostructured surfaces under fluid s...

SSBIG get-together July 2023.
Past and present members of SSBIG members with their friends and family had great time together.

In collaboration with Centre of Biomedical Technologies (https://research.qut.edu.au/cbt/), Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group organised a talk by Distinguish Prof. Elena Ivanova atQUT. She presented her work in antibacterial and antifungal nanostructured surfaces.
Photo credit: Julie Mitchell.

SSBIG bids farewell to Prof Prasad Yarlagadda, who moved to UniSQ as the dean of engineering. Despite his role at UniSQ, Prasad will continue with SSBIG and continue the research.

Congratulations Dr Islam and the team.

Investigating the properties of tin-oxide thin film developed by sputtering process for perovskite solar cells - Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Tin oxide (SnO2) nano-crystalline thin films were deposited on silicon and glass substrates at room temperature by sputtering at a constant power of 30 W and different working pressure of 10, 7, and 5 mTorr. Surface morphology, electrical and optical properties of the films were investigated to opti...

Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group members Prof. Yarlagadda, Dr Velic, and Dr Islam presented their research at conference Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Latest publication from SSBIG on antibacterial nanostructured surfaces. This article is about how overlaying fluid flow affect bactericidal efficacy of nanostructured surfaces. Findings of this study fills a big gap in research, which ultimately enables translation of this amazing technology into industrial applications.

Bactericidal Efficacy of Nanostructured Surfaces Increases under Flow Conditions Bacterial colonization on solid surfaces creates enormous problems across various industries causing billions of dollars’ worth of economic damages and costing human lives. Biomimicking nanostructured surfaces have demonstrated a promising future in mitigating bacterial colonization and related is...

https://youtu.be/StTUKuWoAJY

Interview with Prof Seeram Ramakrishna In September 2022 we were excited to host Professor Seeram. His knowledge and experience in Intelligent Biomedical Materials and Sustainable Biomedical Bioma...

Prof Seeram Ramakrishna's visit to QUT.
QUT (Queensland University of Technology) Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group

Prof Seeram Ramakrishna delivered second of series of lectures at QUT. He furthered his discussion on Intelligent materials from the previous day. The event organised by Centre for Biomedical Technology (CBT) of QUT was participated by large number of researchers with many Q&A's.

Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group

Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna of National University of Singapore gave a talk at QUT Gardens point campus on "Future directions Biomedical materials" organised by Centre for Biomedical Technology (CBT) of QUT. In this insightful lecture, he focused on Intelligent materials and Sustainable materials. Large audience of Staff, and students participated this event in person as well as via Zoom.
Smart Structures and Bio Interface Group

SSBIG welcomed Prof Seeram Ramakrishna of National University of Singapore. Seeram is among the top 1% highly cited researchers in the world. He was recognised as among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters. He will be visiting QUT next week for series of talks and seminars.

Congratulations Dr Jaggessar and team for this great discovery and dissemination.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c00326

TiO2 Nanostructures That Reduce the Infectivity of Human Respiratory Viruses Including SARS-CoV-2 The rapid emergence and global spread of the COVID-19 causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its subsequent mutated strains has caused unprecedented health, economic, and social devastation. Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted through both dire...

Congratulations Dr Alka Jaggessar and team
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobme.2022.100404

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Congratulations Amal Senevirathne and team for their latest publication.

Fluid Flow Induces Differential Detachment of Live and Dead Bacterial Cells from Nanostructured Surfaces Nanotopographic surfaces are proven to be successful in killing bacterial cells upon contact. This non-chemical bactericidal property has paved an alternative way of fighting bacterial colonization and associated problems, especially the issue of bacteria evolving resistance against antibiotic and a...

SSBIG PhD candidate Mr Amal Senevirathne presented his final seminar.

Congratulations Amal Senevirathne and team for latest publication.

Simulation of Bacterial Motion Under Flow Inside Micro Channel Using CFD and DPM Discrete Phase Method (DPM) is coupled in this study with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate motion of rod-shaped motile bacteria under flow conditions inside a microfluidic device where a micro scale chamber is connected to same scale inlet and outlet...

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90532-3_8

SSBIG members joined together to celebrate fellow member Dr Phani's birthday.

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Fight deadly pathogens with emerging tech QUT Giving Day 2022

SSBIG members took part in school of MMPE Story bridge climbing 🏁

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SSBIG annual end of year dinner

As a group, we walk far together through many obstacles towards success, 🚶🌲🌦️🪱🦂

Distinguished Professor Dietmar Hutmacher is talking at SSBIG annual retreat 2021