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Professor Michelle Coote featured on page 1 of the Canberra Times with her expert comments that supermarket plastic bags will never breakdown in landfill even if they are being produced thinner. She r...

In early December, Free Radical Centre researcher, Melina Glasson, featured on the Channel 10 Kids Science TV program, Scope.   During the episode Melina, PhD student supervised by Professor Ca...

The December University of Melbourne Visions podcast features Centre Director Professor Carl Schiesser discussing his research into understanding how free radicals damage paint in 20th century art. &...

The International Symposium on Organic Free Radicals (ISOFR-11) will be held in Bern, Switzerland between July 1-5, 2012.    For further information visit: http://www.isofr11.ch...

Dr Phil Barker from Bluescope Steel and Centre Partner Investigator, has been awarded the 2011 Bluescope Researcher of the Year.   Read more about Dr Barker's work in collaboration with Associa...

The School of Chemistry Physics and Engineering, QUT is providing 5 Chemistry research scholarships starting in 2012. These are in addition to the usual APRA round and are specifically for chemistry s...

Professors Ezio Rizzardo (CSIRO) and David Solomon (The University of Melbourne) have been awarded the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for their discovery detailing how free radical reac...

Concept Radical, the Centre’s art competition, has been featured in Weekend Notes with a review by Geraldine Massey.   The article discusses the idea behind Concept Radical, voting for ...

Research from the O’Hair group has been published in Angewandte Chemie and highlighted as a hot paper in C-H bond activation, see http://www.wiley-vch.de/util/hottopics/c-h-activation/ The rese...

Research by Lucy Cao and Chris Easton from the ARC Centre of Excelllence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology at the Australian National University into an enzyme that produces a hormone rele...

Research leading to improved production of anti-addiction medication from opium poppies by Prof Peter Scammells and group has been featured in The Chemical Engineer.   You can read this arti...

Shane Ellis, Free Radical Centre PhD student at the University of Wollongong has been awarded best oral presentation at the 7th Annual International Conference of the Metabolomics Society for his wo...

The Centre's Radical Wine and Chocolate event to be held at the Queensland Museum Brisbane on Friday 26 August has been featured in Brisbane's Weekend Notes with a review by Geraldine Massey.  ...

There have been more than 30 entries so far to the Centre's art competition, Concept Radical. So don't forget to check out the entries on the Concept Radical online gallery at http://www.conceptradica...

Professor Peter Scammells has discussed his latest research discovery on 3AW breakfast radio.   The team, led by Professor Scammells, have designed a more efficient, environmentally friendly me...

  A/Prof Steve Blanksby highly commended in the University of Wollongong VC Award for Excellence in Research Supervision. http://www.uow.edu.au/research/uowawards/UOW104529.html   From ...

Carl Schiesser, who was a guest editor for the OBC special edition in memory of Athel Beckwith, writes about Athel and the edition on the Royal Society of Chemistry blog site. A web copy of the OBC ed...

Concept Radical, the Centre's public art competition, has received a boost to funding with the award of a Cultural Community Grant from the University of Melbourne.   The additional funding of ...

The latest research by Michelle Coote and group has been featured in Materials Views.   http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1052621/A_mechanistic_tug-of-war_Initiation_via_ISET_or_OSET.h...

The Centre has a YouTube channel! You can find it at:    http://www.youtube.com/user/TVFreeRadical   Now showing: An overview of free radicals by Prof. Carl Schiesser. Great for ...

In an article published on the ABC Science website, A/Prof Uta Wille discusses why many people think that chemicals are not "natural" and how this perception is not accurate:   http://www.abc...

Chris Easton and Dan Stigers discuss the findings of their recent research into new ageing causes in an article written by Alyssa McDonald published in the Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.a...

Richard O'Hair and Chris Easton's latest paper published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry has been selected as a 'Hot Article' and features on the OBC blogs:   http://blogs.rsc.org/ob/...

  Leo Radom’s latest paper published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry has been selected as a ‘Hot Article’ and features on the OBC blog:   http://blogs.rsc.org/ob...

  For a fantastic insight into Associate Professor Uta Wille, her career and advice to aspiring female researchers read Chemistry Views- Women in Chemistry - an interview with Uta Wille:  ...

Professor Michelle Coote's research using supercomputers to improve the lifetime of plastics has been featured in the April edition of Gardening Australia on page 59. The example used in this story ...

You can now follow our news and access ideas for Concept Radical, the Centre's art competition, on Facebook and Twitter.   Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ConceptRadical   Facebook (...

Our friends at Questacon are running a fantastic program called the Questacon Smart Moves Invention Convention.    The Invention Convention is a great opportunity for innovative young Aust...

  Ever wondered why humans age, art works fade and crack, and plastic crumbles? Surprisingly the answer to all of these questions is the same- free radicals. So what are free radicals, how do th...

Please be advised the video produced by Yr10 Aquinas College students and the Free Radical Centre will be posted on this website shortly (anticipated posting February 2011). We apologise for this unex...

Yr10 students and Free Radical Centre researchers come together for anti-smoking project.   Tobacco smoking is the largest single cause of preventable death worldwide, and unhealthy lifestyles...

In an official opening ceremony on 25 November 2010 the Free Radical Centre welcomed the University of Wollongong as a new node. Associate Professor Stephen Blanksby will lead the University of Wollon...

Free Radical Chemistry Centre researchers working with the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation in Melbourne are providing insight into new preservation techniques for culturally significant mat...

In Stephen Blanksby’s lab not even tears escape analysis.Armed with a highly specialised ion trap mass spectrometer with tuneable lasers, Stephen Blanksby’s group in the School of Chemistr...

For the Free Radical Centre, National Science Week 2009 was all of those things and more. This year it has been a pleasure to work with both new comers to outreach and old hands, and what fun we have...

Although most people are aware that there are thousands of different pharmaceuticals on the market, people are less familiar with what is required to develop them. Multidisciplinary teams within the A...

Sophisticated computer simulations performed by the University of Sydney node of the Free Radical Centre are adding powerful insight into how a particular class of enzymes catalyse reactions.   ...

The Centre’s new generation of nitroxide fluorescent probes are set to re-enforce the dangers of smoking cigarettes. Visual demonstrations using these probes will show the presence of free radic...

Next summer when you apply sunscreen, don't forget to wash it off your hands or else you run the risk of tarnishing the paintwork on your car, notes Dr Philip Barker of BlueScope Steel Research and Pa...

Australian chemists are underpinning new advancements in drug therapies by synthesising naturally occurring compounds in the laboratory using free radicals.   At the ARC Centre of Excellence fo...

Chemistry and art have combined on a number of levels through Centre activities, demonstrating that chemists are creative people. Environmental free radicals damage many materials. It has long been a ...

Air quality and the effects of atmospheric pollution are of concern to us all. Recent studies have shown that there is a link between atmospheric pollution and increases in respiratory ailments, such ...

Detecting radicals in cells is a challenge because of the short lifetime of most of the free radicals involved. Centre scientists are working to overcome this by creating special dye molecules that em...

A multi-disciplinary team from ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology are using radical technology to develop the next generation of blood pressure pharmaceuticals. SART...

Bun Chan and Leo Radom, members of the University of Sydney node of the Centre, working in collaboration with a group led by Professor Steven Kass at the University of Minnesota, have discovered the m...

Free radicals are everywhere, causing ageing related illnesses in people, the deterioration of plastics, the fading of paint in houses, the degradation of works of art, and can contribute to heart att...