Nanotech scientist wins national award
Professor Stephen Lincoln.
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Thursday, 7 November 2002
A chemist at the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ has been awarded with a national medal for his groundbreaking work into the tiniest technology imaginable.
Professor Stephen Lincoln from the Department of Chemistry has been awarded the H.G. Smith Memorial Medal from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for his work on "supramolecular chemistry" and "molecular machines" - which may lead to applications in nanotechnology.
The national medal is awarded for the most outstanding research by an Australian chemist in the preceding 10 years. The medal is given to the person deemed to have contributed the most to a particular field of chemistry in Australia.
Professor Lincoln, who has been a professor at the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ for more than 10 years, says he's elated at the recognition.
"At the same time, the award is also a recognition of the hard work of many gifted postgraduate students and colleagues, mainly at the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ, without whom this research could not have been done," he says.
In the Department of Chemistry, nanotechnology has been a steadily growing field over the past five years.
"The research and teaching recognises the prior role of extraordinarily sophisticated 'molecular machines' that function in biological systems, and seeks to emulate them through computer-aided design and constructions of assemblies of molecules that function as rotors,