Dr Andrew Price

Ph.D., University of Colorado, USA, 2007
M.Eng. (BEE), Cornell University, USA, 2002
B.S. (BEE), Cornell University, USA, 2001

Research Fellow

Email:
Telephone: +61 3 8344 0352
Fax: +61 3 8344 4153

Room 1.05, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Building 1

Nanostructured Interfaces and Materials (NIMS) Group

Professional Affiliations

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Honours/Awards

• 2003 - 2007: Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship
• 2005: Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award, University of Colorado
• 2002: University of Colorado Graduate Fellowship

Professional Experience

• 2008 - Present: Research Fellow, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2003 - 2007: Graduate Research Mentor, University of Colorado, USA
• 2002: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado, USA

Selected Publications

1. Städler, B.; Price, A. D.; Chandrawati, R.; Hosta-Rigau, L.; Zelikin, A. N.; Caruso, F. "Polymer Hydrogel Capsules: En Route Toward Synthetic Cellular Systems." Nanoscale 2009, 1, 68. [link]
2. Wang, Y.; Price, A. D.; Caruso, F. "Nanoporous Colloids: Building Blocks for a New Generation of Structured Materials." J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 6451. [link]
3. Städler, B.; Chandrawati, R.; Price, A. D.; Chong, S-F.; Breheney, K.; Postma, A.; Connal, L. A.; Zelikin, A. N.; Caruso, F. "A Microreactor with Thousands of Subcompartments: Enzyme-Loaded Liposomes within Polymer Capsules." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 4359. [link]
4. Price, A. D.; Zelikin, A. N.; Wang, Y.; Caruso, F. "Triggered Enzymatic Degradation of DNA within Selectively Permeable Polymer Capsule Microreactors." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 329. [link]
5. Price, A.D.; Ignés-Mullol, J.; Vallvé, A.; Furtak, T.E.; Lo, Y.-A.; Malone, S.M.; Schwartz, D.K. "Liquid Crystal Anchoring Transformations Induced by Phase Transitions of a Photoisomerizable Surfactant at the Nematic/Aqueous Interface." Soft Matter 2009, 5, 2252. [link]
6. Price, A.D.; Schwartz, D.K. "DNA Hybridization-Induced Reorientation of Liquid Crystal Anchoring at the Nematic Liquid Crystal/Aqueous Interface." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8188. [link]
7. Price, A. D.; Schwartz, D. K. "Fatty-Acid Monolayers at the Nematic/Water Interface: Phases and Liquid-Crystal Alignment." J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 5, 1007. [link]
8. Price, A. D.; Schwartz, D. K. "Anchoring of a Nematic Liquid Crystal on a Wettability Gradient." Langmuir 2006, 23, 9753. [link]
9. Baeumner, A. J.; Jones, C.; Wong, C. Y.; Price, A. "A Generic Sandwich-type Biosensor with Nanomolar Detection Limits." Anal. & Bioanal. Chem. 2004, 6, 1587. [link]