QUT | Staff Profiles | Jennifer MacLeod

Name

Associate Professor Jennifer MacLeod

Position(s)

Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering,
Nanoscience

Discipline *

Nanotechnology

Phone

+61 7 3138 2168

Email

jennifer.macleod@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

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

surface science, nanoscience, microscopy, spectroscopy, diffraction, on-surface chemistry, molecular self-assembly

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

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

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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

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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.

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Abyazisani M, Bradford JW, Motta N, Lipton-Duffin JA, MacLeod JM, (2019) Adsorption, deprotonation, and decarboxylation of isophthalic acid on Cu(111), Langmuir p7112-7120
Hartl HM, East CP, Xu Y, Yambem SD, Fairfull-Smith K, MacLeod JM, (2019) Direct-write crosslinking in vacuum-deposited small-molecule films using focussed ion and electron beams, Nanotechnology p1-10
Hartl HM, Guo Y, Ostrikov K, Xian Y, Zheng J, Li X, Fairfull-Smith K, MacLeod JM, (2019) Film formation from plasma-enabled surface-catalyzed dehalogenative coupling of a small organic molecule, RSC Advances p2848-2856
Horn MR, MacLeod JM, Liu M, Webb JC, Motta N, (2019) Supercapacitors: A new source of power for electric cars?, Economic Analysis and Policy p93-103
Abyazisani M, Bradford JW, Motta N, Lipton-Duffin JA, MacLeod JM, (2018) Adsorption and reactivity of pyridine dicarboxylic acid on Cu(111), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C p17836-17845
Di Bernardo I, Hines PJ, Abyazisani M, Motta N, MacLeod JM, Lipton-Duffin JA, (2018) On-surface synthesis of polyethylenedioxythiophene, Chemical Communications p3723-3726
Lipton-Duffin JA, Abyazisani M, MacLeod JM, (2018) Periodic and nonperiodic chiral self-assembled networks from 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid on Ag(111), Chemical Communications p8316-8319
Cui D, MacLeod JM, Rosei F, (2018) Probing functional self-assembled molecular architectures with solution/solid scanning tunnelling microscopy, Chemical Communications p10527-10539
De Marchi F, Galeotti G, Simenas M, Tornau EE, Pezzella A, MacLeod JM, Ebrahimi M, Rosei F, (2018) Room-temperature surface-assisted reactivity of a melanin precursor: silver metal-organic coordination versus covalent dimerization on gold, Nanoscale p16721-16729
Cui D, Ebrahimi M, MacLeod JM, Rosei F, (2018) Template-driven dense packing of pentagonal molecules in monolayer films, Nano Letters p7570-7575

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Current supervisions

The electronic and structural properties of extended, disordered, 2D conjugated polymers synthesized on-surface
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith
Growth and Characterisation of Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures on SiC
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nunzio Motta, Dr Mahnaz Shafiei
UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLOITING PIEZOELECTRICITY IN COLLAGEN
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Brown, Associate Professor Jamie Trapp
Plasma-Enabled on-Surface Polymerization by Dehalogenation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ken Ostrikov
Investigating the Surface and Porosity of Graphitic Electrodes for Supercapacitors
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nunzio Motta, Professor Ken Ostrikov
Surface-Confined Polymerization on Silicon Surfaces
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Josh Lipton-Duffin, Associate 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: Dr Josh Lipton-Duffin, Professor John Bell
Synthesis and Characterization of Orientationally Well-Defined 2D and 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks (COF) Self-Supporting Membranes
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven Bottle
Ferrocene organometallic oligomers as prototypical nanoassemblies
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Josh Lipton-Duffin, Associate Professor Ting Liao

Associate Professor Jennifer MacLeod

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Current supervisions

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)