CBN Linkages

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

	Beijing Normal University, China
	Charles Darwin University
	Kyushu University Japan
	School of Pharmacy
	University of Provence, France
	IWR, University of Heidelberg
	BIOQUANT Institute, University of Heidelberg
	MPI Mülheim, Germany
	University of Bielefeld, Germany
	Argonne National Laboratory, USA
	University of Bristol, UK
	Northwestern University, USA
	The University Compultense de Madrid, Spain
	Institution de Fisica Fundamental, Spain
	Monash University Biochemistry
	College of Chemistry and Materials Science. Anhui Normal University.

　

　

　

　

　

　

ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials

　

The CBN is a core participant within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (ARCCFN), Directed by Professor Max Lu at The University of Queensland. Professor Sean Smith heads the Computational Nanomaterials Science program with the ARCCFN, and the two centres share research appointments in the area of computational nanotechnology.

　

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

　

The CBN has a collaborative research program in quantum dynamics with the research group of Prof Keli Han, State Key Laboratory for Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China. A PhD student at Dalian, Mr Huan Yang, is being jointly supervised between our group at UQ and the DICP.

　

Beijing Normal University, China

　

The CBN is collaborating with the laboratory of Prof Jian-Guo Yu at the Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University in the area of quantum studies of biomolecular systems with a current focus on fluorescent proteins. A jointly supervised PhD student, Ms YingYing Ma, will visit CBN for several months in 2009/2010 to further this collaborative work.

　

Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

　

Dr Hong Zhang and Prof Sean Smith of CBN have begun a collaborative project with Dr Vinuthaa Murthy of Charles Darwin University focussing on the simulation via molecular dynamics and ab initio quantum chemistry of intercalation properties of hydrotalcite (layered double hydroxide) particles with respect to heavy metal oxides. This work is motivated by the environmentally important issue of developing effective methods for clean-up of waste water from industrial processes.

　

Sophia University, Toyko, Japan

　

The CBN has a collaborative research program in quantum dynamics and nanotechnology with the research group of Prof Shinkoh Nanbu, in collaboration with Prof Hiroki Nakamura, at Sophia University in Japan

　

University of Provence, France (Links in French only)

　

Dr Denis Hagebaum-Reignier of the University of Provence has visited the CBN during Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 to initiate collaborative research in quantum reactive scattering of alkali metal atoms with hydrogen. This collaboration will broaden out into computational nanotechnology applications through exchange visits in the near future.

　

School of Pharmacy, Brisbane, Australia

　

A collaborative project exploring computational modelling of dendrimer-based gene delivery is being undertaken with Dr Harendra Parekh in the School of Pharmacy, involving joint PhD student Mr Ouyang Dufan.

　

Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg

　

A collaborative project on the calculation of minimum energy pathways for chromophore rearrangements and proton transfer in fluorescent proteins is underway with the laboratory of Dr Stefan Fischer at the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg. Dr Christoph Pfisterer from the lab at Heidelberg has visited CBN at UQ for a month in October 2009, and Dr Qiao Sun from CBN will visit the lab in Heidelberg for two months at the end of 2009.

　

BIOQUANT Institute, University of Heidelberg

　

The CBN has recently started a new collaborative program with the single biomolecule spectroscopy group at the new BIOQUANT Institue in Heidelberg University, lead by Dr Dirk-Peter Herten and the institute Foundation Director Professor Jürgen Wolfrum, aimed at characterizing in situ complexes of dendritic and inorganic nanoparticles with DNA that are being developed as platforms for gene delivery applications.

　

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany

The CBN has recently begun a collaboration with the group of Prof Walter Thiel at the MPI Mülheim in the area of QM/MM calculation methodology for fluorescent proteins. Dr Qiao Sun visits the MPI at Mülheim for 3 months during 2008
　

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld, Germany

A collaboration with Prof Uwe Manthe begins in 2008 with the objective of developing new methods for computing rate coefficients for gas phase bimolecular reactions that proceed via long-lived intermediates which, while based on rigorous quantum scattering methods, will avoid the need to systematically compute all rovibrational state-to-state S matrix elements. Dr Marlies Hankel will visit Prof Manthe’s laboratory for a month in July 2008 to begin this collaborative project. The plan is to build the new computational technology on the platform of the DIFFREALWAVE quantum scattering code, co-authored by Dr Marlies Hankel and Prof Gabriel Balint-Kurti and Dr Stephen Gray.
　

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

　

Prof Stephen Gray, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, is collaborating with the CBN on the investigation of kinetic sieving in carbon molecular sieves and nanomaterials.

　

University of Bristol, UK

　

Prof Gabriel Balint-Kurti, University of Bristol, UK, is collaborating with the CBN on the development of the DIFFREALWAVE code and its application.

　

Northwestern University, USA

　

Prof George Schatz, Northwestern University, USA, is collaborating with the CBN on the quantum reactive scattering dynamics of the S(¹D)+HD system.

　

The University Compultense de Madrid, Spain

　

The group of Javier Aoiz, Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Femtochemistry Group at the Physical Chemistry Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain is collaborating with the CBN on the investigation of the quantum reactive scattering dynamics of H₃⁺ system and its isotopic variants.

　

Institution de Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain

　

The group of Tomas Gonzalez-Lezana, Instituto de Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain, is collaborating with the CBN on the quantum reactive scattering dynamics of the O(¹ D)+HCl system.

　

Monash University Biochemistry, Melbourne, Australia

　

The CBN has collaborated with workers in the The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Dr Mark Prescott), and the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science to explain trends in the structure, maturation and spectra of red fluorescent proteins and coral chromoproteins.

　

College of Chemistry and Materials Science. Anhui Normal University

　

We collaborate with former CBN researcher Prof Sufan Wang on a project exploring the effect of strain on the energetics of peptide hydroysis. Dr Wang is now faculty member at Anhui Normal University.

　

　

　

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