Professor Leonie Barner
Faculty of Science,
School of Chemistry & Physics
Personal details
Positions
- Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Science,
School of Chemistry & Physics
Keywords
Polymer Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, Circular Economy
Discipline
Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Dr. rer. Nat (PhD) (University of Gottingen (Universitat zu Gottin)
Teaching
Teaching Discipline: Chemistry and Sustainability
Teaching units:
SEB104 Grand Challenges in Science - Waste-Free World (First-Year undergraduate, Bachelor of Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physics)
Teaching units:
SEB104 Grand Challenges in Science - Waste-Free World (First-Year undergraduate, Bachelor of Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physics)
Publications
- Estupinan D, Barner-Kowollik C, Barner L, (2018) Counting the clicks in fluorescent polymer networks, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 57 (20), pp. 5925-5929.
- Michalek L, Barner L, Barner-Kowollik C, (2018) Polymer on top: Current limits and future perspectives of quantitatively evaluating surface grafting, Advanced Materials, 30 (21), pp. 1-18.
- Michalek L, Mundsinger K, Barner-Kowollik C, Barner L, (2019) The long and the short of polymer grafting, Polymer Chemistry, 10 (1), pp. 54-59.
- Cavalli F, Mutlu H, Steinmueller S, Barner L, (2017) The para-fluoro-thiol reaction as a powerful tool for precision network synthesis, Polymer Chemistry, 8 (25), pp. 3778-3782.
- Delaittre G, Barner L, (2018) The para-fluoro-thiol reaction as an efficient tool in polymer chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, 9 (20), pp. 2679-2684.
- Estupinan D, Gegenhuber T, Blinco J, Barner-Kowollik C, Barner L, (2017) Self-reporting fluorescent step-growth RAFT polymers based on nitrile imine-mediated tetrazole-ene cycloaddition chemistry, ACS Macro Letters, 6 (3), pp. 229-234.
- Hooker J, Delafresnaye L, Barner L, Barner-Kowollik C, (2019) With polymer photoclicks to fluorescent microspheres, Materials Horizons, 6 (2), pp. 356-363.
- Tischer T, Gralla-Koser R, Trouillet V, Barner L, Barner-Kowollik C, Lee-Thedieck C, (2016) Direct mapping of RAFT controlled macromolecular growth on surfaces via single molecule force spectroscopy, ACS Macro Letters, 5 (4), pp. 498-503.
- Barner L, Barner-Kowollik C, (2015) The link that lasts: A new frontier in supramolecular block copolymer design, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 54 (40), pp. 11612-11614.
- Rodriguez-Emmenegger C, Decker A, Surman F, Preuss C, Sedlakova Z, Zydziak N, Barner-Kowollik C, Schwartz T, Barner L, (2014) Suppressing Pseudomonas aeruginosa adhesion via non-fouling polymer brushes, RSC Advances, 4 (110), pp. 64781-64790.
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Leonie, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
- Type
- Recipient of an Australia Council Grant or Australia Council Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage Project 'Nanoparticle driven templating of microspheres as chromatographic materials'
- Type
- Recipient of an Australia Council Grant or Australia Council Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery Project 'Nitroxide-containing scaffolds for controlling biofilm-related infections'
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Granting of an equivalent to a Centre of Excellence (Sonderforschungsbereich) 'Molecular Structuring of Soft Matter' by the German Research Foundation, Founding Member and Board Member as well as Principal Investigator
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Invited Speaker at the World Polymer Congress in Cairns, Australia, 1st to 5th July, 2018
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Member of the Standing Committee of the RACI Polymer Division and Member of the Organising Committee of the 37th Australasian Polymer Symposium
Research projects
- Title
- Nanoparticle driven templating of microspheres as chromatographic materials
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160101362
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Nitroxide-containing scaffolds for controlling biofilm-related infections
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP150100234
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- nitroxide; microparticle; surface coating
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Grafting-to reaction drivers in model self-assembling monolayer systems.
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin - SYSTEM DYNAMICS ANALYSIS FOR A CIRCULAR TRANSITION OF THE PLASTICS ECONOMY IN SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND: OPTIMIZATION OF LOCAL PLASTIC ECONOMY, POLICY AND RECYCLING THROUGH SYSTEMIC FEEDBACK MODELLING AND POLICY SCENARIOS TESTING
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Manuela Taboada - How can Digitalisation Enhance the Shift to a Circular Economy?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rui Torres de Oliveira, Associate Professor Shane Mathews - Visible Light Gated Surface Grafting of Polymers
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Dr Hendrik Frisch