Professor Jennifer MacLeod
Faculty of Science,
Office of the Deputy Dean
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 a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (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. After coming to QUT in 2015, she received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) to support her work. 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 systemsPersonal details
Positions
- Deputy Dean
Faculty of Science,
Office of the Deputy Dean - Professor
Faculty of Science,
School of Chemistry & Physics
Keywords
surface science, nanoscience, microscopy, spectroscopy, diffraction, on-surface chemistry, molecular self-assembly
Research field
Condensed Matter Physics, Nanotechnology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
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
Teaching
Dr MacLeod teaches a range of topics in physics. Her contributions have included the following:
- SEB122 - Physics in the Real World - Lecturer
- SEB420 - Technological Frontiers - Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
- PVB203 - Experimental Physics - Lecturer
- PVB301 - Materials and Thermal Physics - Lecturer
- PVB304 - Physics Research - Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
- PVB321 - Introduction to Experimental Nanotechnology - Lecturer
- EGB113 - Energy in Engineering Systems - Lecturer
Publications
Research outputs by year
- Cao, T., Shi, X., Li, M., Hu, B., Chen, W., Liu, W., Lyu, W., MacLeod, J. & Chen, Z. (2023). Advances in bismuth-telluride-based thermoelectric devices: progress and challenges. eScience, 3(3). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238848
- Zebardastan, N., Bradford, J., Lipton-Duffin, J., MacLeod, J., Ostrikov, K., Tomellini, M. & Motta, N. (2023). High quality epitaxial graphene on 4H-SiC by face-to-face growth in ultra-high vacuum. Nanotechnology, 34(10). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237848
- Hartl, H., Davies, J., Will, G., Ostrikov, K. & MacLeod, J. (2023). Plasma-enabled superhydrophobic coatings on mild steel. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237847
- Weerathunga, H., Do, T., Pham, H., Jones, R., MacLeod, J., Kim, T. & Dubal, D. (2023). Washable and Flexible All Carbon Electrothermal Joule Heater for Electric Vehicles. Advanced Materials Technologies, 8(7). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238104
- Atkinson, L., Jayalatharachchi, V., Liao, T., Lipton-Duffin, J. & MacLeod, J. (2022). 1D Coordination Polymers of 1,1'-Dibromoferrocene Following Debromination on Ag(111). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(27). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234058
- Zebardastan, N., Bradford, J., Gupta, B., Lipton-Duffin, J., MacLeod, J., Pham, H., Dubal, D., Ostrikov, K., Wolff, A., Hu, K., Ito, Y., Mariani, C., Betti, M. & Motta, N. (2022). 2D MoS2 Heterostructures on Epitaxial and Self-Standing Graphene for Energy Storage: From Growth Mechanism to Application. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/225985
- Hartl, H., Li, W., Michl, T., Anangi, R., Speight, R., Vasilev, K., Ostrikov, K. & MacLeod, J. (2022). Antimicrobial adhesive films by plasma-enabled polymerisation of m-cresol. Scientific Reports, 12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232305
- Preetha Genesh, N., De Marchi, F., Heun, S., Fontana, S., Belkhou, R., Purandare, R., Motta, N., Sgarlata, A., Fanfoni, M., MacLeod, J., MacLean, O. & Rosei, F. (2022). Dynamical evolution of Ge quantum dots on Si(111): From island formation to high temperature decay. Aggregate, 3(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/242597
- Bialas, S., Krappitz, T., Walden, S., Kalayci, K., Kodura, D., Frisch, H., MacLeod, J., Nelson, A., Michalek, L. & Barner-Kowollik, C. (2022). Light-Gated Control of Conformational Changes in Polymer Brushes. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211980
- Egoda Kapuralalage, H., Marriam, I., Zhang, Z., MacLeod, J., Bai, R., Lei, Z., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Yang, H. & Yan, C. (2022). Liquid metal incorporated graphene oxide films with enhanced through-plane thermal conductivity and flame resistance. Applied Materials Today, 29. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234569
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jennifer, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Controllable Quantum Phases in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Nanomaterials
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP240102006
- Start year
- 2024
- Keywords
- Title
- Doped alumina with tailored material properties for battery applications
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP210200938
- Start year
- 2022
- Keywords
- Title
- Plasma-Assisted On-Surface Assembly for Hydrogen Production and Beyond
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP210100472
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- 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
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
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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 - Design and optimization of flexible thermoelectric materials and devices
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Zhigang Chen, Dr Xiaolei Shi - Understanding and Exploiting Piezoelectricity in Collagen
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Brown, Associate Professor Jamie Trapp - Investigating the impacts of environmental variables on the charge buildup of contact-separation TENG's
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Deepak Dubal, Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov - Nano- structures of high energy density anode materials for Li- ion batteries
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Jose Alarco, Dr Joseph Fernando - 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, Associate Professor Soniya Yambem - Controlled Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Supporting Covalent Organic Framework Membranes
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven Bottle - Plasma-assisted processing and catalytic materials for water electrolysis
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, Professor Anthony O'Mullane - Computational Discovery and Design of 2D Magnetic Materials with Extraordinary Magnetoelectric Couplings
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Aijun Du - Investigating the Mechanical and Surface Characteristics of Doped Alumina for Implementation in Battery Separators
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rachel Pepper, Associate Professor Wayde Martens, Professor Sara Couperthwaite, Adjunct Professor Jose Alarco
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Development of bioinspired multifunctional nanocomposites (2023)
- Graphene-based materials for li-ion capacitors (LICs) (2023)
- Plasma-enabled on-surface synthesis (2023)
- Van der Waals epitaxy of transition metal dichalcogenides on graphene (2023)
- Plasma assisted nanomaterials synthesis from sustainable sources (2022)
- Assembly and Reactions of Carboxylic Acids on Metal-Passivated Silicon (2021)
- Investigating The Surface of Graphitic Electrodes for Supercapacitors (2021)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Cold plasma-treated titanium surfaces coated with polydopamine/copper resist endotoxin-induced surface oxidation and the promotion of tissue healing (2023)
- Graphene Layers for Corrosion Protection of Steel (2022)
- Ullmann Dehalogenation of Dibromoferrocene for the Formation of Surface-confined Molecular Rotors (2021)