Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Jennifer MacLeod
- Position(s)
- Head of School
Science and Engineering Faculty,
School of Chemistry & Physics - Discipline *
- Nanotechnology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2168
- jennifer.macleod@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (Queen's University at Kingston), MSc (Queen's University at Kingston)
- Professional memberships
and associations Memberships
- Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)
- Vacuum Society of Australia (VSA)
Professional pages
- Keywords
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surface science, nanoscience, microscopy, spectroscopy, diffraction, on-surface chemistry, molecular self-assembly
Biography
Jennifer MacLeod holds MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from Queen’s University (Canada), where she worked on instrumentation development for scanning tunneling microscopy studies of semiconductor surfaces.
Jennifer has since held an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) and a Research Associate position at INRS (Canada), where she worked on a range of topics in nanoscience. Her current research interests include self-assembly and reactions of molecules at surfaces, and the growth and modification of graphene and other 2D materials. She draws on a range of experimental and computational techniques, with a focus on using scanning probe microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to elucidate these systems.
Funded projects
- 2017-2019: Electronic Structure on Both Sides of the Fermi Level in Molecular Material
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Jennifer MacLeod - 2016-2018: Graphene-based Thin Film Supercapacitors
Queensland-Chinese Academy of Sciences Collaborative Science Fund (QCAS)
Nunzio Motta, Yuegang Zhang, Peter Talbot, Jose Alarco, Geoffrey Will, Anthony O’Mullane, Jennifer MacLeod, Cheng Yan
Teaching
Dr. MacLeod teaches a range of topics in physics for courses in Physics and Engineering.
2019
- PVB304 – Physics Research – Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
- EGB113 – Energy in Engineering Systems – Lecturer
- PVB321 – Introduction to Experimental Nanotechnology – Lecturer
- SEB104 – Grand Challenges in Science – Lecturer
2018
- PVB304 – Physics Research – Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
- EGB113 – Energy in Engineering Systems – Lecturer
- SEB104 – Grand Challenges in Science – Lecturer
2017
- PVB304 – Physics Research – Lecturer
- EGB113 – Energy in Engineering Systems – Lecturer
- SEB104 – Grand Challenges in Science – Lecturer
2016
- PVB304 – Physics Research – Lecturer
- ENB314 – Industrial Noise and Vibration – Demonstrator
- EGB113 – Energy in Engineering Systems – Lecturer
- PVB301 – Materials and Thermal Physics – Lecturer
- SEB104 – Grand Challenges in Science – Lecturer
2015
- PVB102 – Physics of the Very Small – Lecturer
- PVB304 – Physics Research – Lecturer
- ENB314 – Industrial Noise and Vibration – Demonstrator
- ENB222 – Thermodynamics 1 – Tutor
- PVB301 – Materials and Thermal Physics – Lecturer
Experience
Supervision of HDR students
Dr. MacLeod currently supervises PhD and MSc students in the following areas:
- 2D Materials (applications and fundamental studies)
- Surface-confined reactions of small aromatic molecules
- Spatial constraint of graphene through ion-beam patterning
- Hybrid materials based on graphene, BN and MoS2
- Graphene for supercapacitors
- Graphene coatings for corrosion protection
- Controlled synthesis of covalent organic frameworks
- Materials modification through energetic beams
Professional Service
Refereeing: Publons
Conference organization:
- Organizing Committee, 9th Vacuum and Surface Science Conference of Asia and Australia, Sydney, NSW, 13-16 August 2018.
- Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Advanced Materials & Sustainable Technologies, Brisbane, QLD, 22-25 July 2018.
- Conference Chair, 42nd Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 30 January – 02 February 2018.
- Organizing Committee, NanoS-E3 International School and Workshop, Brisbane, QLD, 26-29 September 2017.
- Local Organizing Committee, 5th International Symposium on Graphene Devices, Brisbane, QLD, 11-14 July 2016.
- Organizing Committee, NanoS-E3 International School and Workshop, Kingscliffe, NSW, 27 September-2 October 2015.
Publications
- Abyazisani M, MacLeod J, Lipton-Duffin J, (2019) Cleaning up after the party: Removing the byproducts of on-surface Ullmann coupling, ACS Nano p9270-9278
- MacLeod J, (2019) Design and construction of on-surface molecular nanoarchitectures: lessons and trends from trimesic acid and other small carboxlyated building blocks, Journal Physics D: Applied Physics p1-22
- Abyazisani M, Bradford J, Motta N, Lipton-Duffin J, MacLeod J, (2019) Adsorption, deprotonation, and decarboxylation of isophthalic acid on Cu(111), Langmuir p7112-7120
- Hartl H, Guo Y, Ostrikov K, Xian Y, Zheng J, Li X, Fairfull-Smith K, MacLeod J, (2019) Film formation from plasma-enabled surface-catalyzed dehalogenative coupling of a small organic molecule, RSC Advances p2848-2856
- Hartl H, MacLeod J, O'Mullane A, Motta N, Ostrikov K, (2020) Multiscale plasma-catalytic on-surface assembly, Small p1-9
- Cui D, MacLeod J, Rosei F, (2019) Planar anchoring of C70 liquid crystals using a covalent organic framework template, Small p1-8
- De Marchi F, Galeotti G, Simenas M, Ji P, Chi L, Tornau E, Pezzella A, MacLeod J, Ebrahimi M, Rosei F, (2019) Self-assembly of 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid: polymorphism of a eumelanin building block on Au(111), Nanoscale p5422-5428
- Bradford J, Shafiei M, MacLeod J, Motta N, (2019) Transfer-free synthesis of lateral graphene-hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures from chemically converted epitaxial graphene, Advanced Materials Interfaces p1-7
- Abyazisani M, Bradford J, Motta N, Lipton-Duffin J, MacLeod J, (2018) Adsorption and reactivity of pyridine dicarboxylic acid on Cu(111), Journal of Physical Chemistry C p17836-17845
- Lipton-Duffin J, Abyazisani M, MacLeod J, (2018) Periodic and nonperiodic chiral self-assembled networks from 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid on Ag(111), Chemical Communications p8316-8319
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Electronic Structure on Both Sides of the Fermi Level in Molecular Material
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE170101170
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The electronic and structural properties of extended, disordered, 2D conjugated polymers
synthesized on-surface
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith - UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLOITING PIEZOELECTRICITY IN COLLAGEN
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Brown, Associate Professor Jamie Trapp - Plasma-Enabled on-Surface Polymerization
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ken Ostrikov - Investigating The Surface of Graphitic Electrodes for Supercapacitors
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nunzio Motta, Professor Ken Ostrikov - Assembly and Reactions of Carboxylic Acids on Metal-Passivated Silicon
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin, Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith - A low energy k-resolved inverse photoelectron spectrometer to investigate electronic states of organic molecular materials
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin, Adjunct Professor John Bell - Controlled Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Supporting Covalent Organic Framework Membranes
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven Bottle - Ullman Dehalogenation of Dibromoferrocene for The Formation of Surface-confined Molecular Rotors
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin, Associate Professor Ting Liao
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Molecular Reactions on Surfaces: Towards the Growth of Surface-Confined Polymers (2019)
- Epitaxial Graphene Growth on 3C-SiC/Si(111): Towards Semiconducting Graphene (2018)