Deputy Director of Deakin Energy. Director of Research at Hycel Technology Hub, Deakin University. Professor in Bionanotechnology, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University.
I have a strong background in materials chemistry research, with a B.Sc(Hons) from Melbourne University, Australia, and a PhD from Cambridge University, UK. I have strategic oversight of all hydrogen-related research and innovation at Deakin University.
Invited: Pacifichem, "Peptide-directed strategies for one-pot growth and immobilization of platinum nanoparticles on graphene", Dec (2021)
Keynote: ICONN BioNano Symposium, Brisbane, “Prediction of peptide-driven exfoliation and assembly on 2D nanosheet materials”, Feb (2019)
Keynote: ICCM22, "Carbon fibre functionalisation in the enhanced performance of polymer composites" Aug (2019)
Demir, B., Henderson, L. C., Walsh, T. R. 2017 ‘Design Rules for Enhanced Interfacial Shear Response in Functionalized Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites’, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9, 11846-11857.
Bedford, N. M., Hughes, Z. E., Tang, Z., Li, Y., Briggs, B. D., Ren, Y., Swihart, M. T., Petkov, V. G.,Naik, R. R., Knecht, M. R. and Walsh, T. R. 2016, ‘Sequence-Dependent Structure/Function Relationships, of Catalytic Peptide-Enabled Gold Nanoparticles Generated under Ambient Synthetic Conditions’, J. Amer. Chem. Soc.,138, 540-548.
Servinis, L, Beggs, K. M., Gengenbach, T. R., Doeven, E. H., Francis, P. S., Fox, B. L., Pringle, J. M., Pozo-Gonzalo, C., Walsh, T. R., Henderson, L.C. 2017 ‘Tailoring the fibre-to-matrix interface using click chemistry on carbon fibre surfaces’, J. Mat. Chem. A, 5, 11204-11213.
N. M. Bedford, A. R. Showalter, T. J. Woehl, Z. E. Hughes, S. Lee, B. Reinhart, S. P. Ertem, E. B. Coughlin, Y. Ren, T. R. Walsh and B. A. Bunker, 2016 ‘Peptide-Directed PdAu Nanoscale Surface Segregation: Toward Controlled Bimetallic Architecture for Catalytic Materials’ ACS Nano, 10, 8645-8659.
D.J. Eyckens, F. Stojceveski, A. Hendlmeier, J. D. Randall, C. L. Arnold, M. K. Stanfield, B. Newman, F. Vuković, T. R. Walsh and L. C. Henderson, 2021 ‘Carbon Fiber Surface Chemistry and its Role in Fiber-to-Matrix Adhesion’, J. Mat. Chem. A, 9, 26528-26572.
F. Vuković and T. R. Walsh, 2020, ‘Moisture Ingress at the Molecular Scale in Hygrothermal Ageing of Fiber-Epoxy Interfaces’, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 55278-55289.
D. J. Eyckens, B. Demir, J. D. Randall, T. R. Gengenbach, L. Servinis, T. R. Walsh, L. C. Henderson, 2020 ‘Using molecular entanglement as a strategy to enhance carbon fiber-epoxy composite interfaces’, Compos. Sci. Technol., 196, 108225. [IF=8.5; cites = 17]
D. J. Eyckens, F. Stojcevski, A. J. Hendlmeier, C. L. Arnold, J. D. Randall, M. D. Perus, L. Servinis, T. R. Gengenbach, B. Demir, T. R. Walsh, L. C. Henderson, 2018 ‘An efficient high-throughput grafting procedure for enhancing carbon fiber-to-matrix interactions in composites’ Chem. Eng. J., 353, 373-380.
