Dr Sarina Sarina
Faculty of Science,
School of Chemistry & Physics
Biography
Sarina is an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher (DECRA) Fellow and Senior Lecturer in School of Chemistry and Physics, QUT since 2019 and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2014). Sarina was awarded her PhD in November 2013 from QUT, with winning "QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis". She has extensive research experience in the plasmonic photocatalysts and their application in selective organic synthesis. Her current research is focusing especially on the impact of irradiation wavelength on the molecule selectivity in the organic synthesis, which is involving a cross-disciplinary research knowledge of optical physics, surface chemistry and organic synthesis chemistry.Major research interests are in the fields of plasmonic catalysts and nanostructured materials including:
- Visible light plasmonic catalysts of noble metal nanoparticles supported on inactive support for high value chemical synthesis.
- Wavelength controllable reaction pathway change in organic synthesis.
- Plasmonic Optical Force investigation in catalytic process and its application in chemical synthesis selectivity control
- Intelligent adsorbents for removal of radioactive ions from water system.
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Research Funding
ARC Grants
Discovery Project (DP210103284, $28,4000, 2021-2024), project title: Promoting Transition Metal Complex Catalysis with Plasmonic Antennae. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE190101450, $392,556, 2019-2022), project title: Enhanced non-plasmonic alloy photocatalyst by morphology and irradiation tuneable reaction pathway. Industrial Research Fund ($257,209) 2016 - Huaiyong Zhu, Sarina Sarina, Eric Waclawik “Further Study on Titanate Nanostructure Sorbents for the Extraction of Lithium from Brine Solution” Inneovation Pty Ltd, AU$186,089. 2017 - Huaiyong Zhu, Sarina Sarina, Eric Waclawik “Further Study on Titanate Nanostructure Sorbents for the Extraction of Lithium from Brine Solution-Supplementary Tests” Inneovation Pty Ltd, AU$14,475. 2017/2018 - Huaiyong Zhu, Sarina Sarina, Eric Waclawik “Sodium Titanate Adsorbents Synthesis and Characterisation” Inneovation Pty Ltd, AU$56,645.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science,
School of Chemistry & Physics
Keywords
Surface plasmon resonance effect, metal nanoparticle, catalyst and photocatalyst, selective synthesis, nanosorbent materials
Discipline
Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Other Chemical Sciences
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Undergraduate Major in Chemistry
Professional memberships and associations
MRACI Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Teaching
General Chemistry CVB101 (Lectures, workshops)
Analytical Chemistry CVB202
Physical Chemistry CVB203 and CVB302
Capstone Project CVB304
VRES students projects (Supervision of 4 projects)
Selected publications
- Liu X, Shi Y, Jin Y, Tana T, Peiris E, Zhang X, Xu F, Waclawik E, Bottle S, Zhu H, Sarina S, (2022) Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Transmetalation between Copper and Palladium Nanoparticle Catalyst, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 61 (24).
- Han P, Tang C, Sarina S, Waclawik E, Du A, Bottle S, Fang Y, Huang Y, Li K, Zhu H, (2022) Wavelength-Specific Product Desorption as a Key to Raising Nitrile Yield of Primary Alcohol Ammoxidation over Illuminated Pd Nanoparticles, ACS Catalysis, 12 (4), pp. 2280-2289.
- Huang Y, Liu Z, Bo A, Tang X, Martens W, Kou L, Gu Y, Carja G, Zhu H, Sarina S, (2022) High efficient arsenic removal by In-layer sulphur of layered double hydroxide, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 608, pp. 2358-2366.
- Xiao Q, Sarina S, Waclawik E, Zhu H, (2021) Direct visible photoexcitation on palladium nanocatalysts by chemisorption with distinct size dependence, Catalysis Science and Technology, 11 (6), pp. 2073-2080.
- Han P, Tana T, Sarina S, Waclawik E, Chen C, Jia J, Li K, Fang Y, Huang Y, Doherty W, Bottle S, Zhao J, Zhu H, (2021) Plasmonic silver nanoparticles promoted sugar conversion to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural over catalysts of immobilised metal ions, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 296.
- Prangige E, Sarina S, Waclawik E, Ayoko G, Han P, Jia J, Zhu H, (2019) Plasmonic switching of the reaction pathway: Visible-light irradiation varies the reactant concentration at the solid-solution interface of a gold-cobalt catalyst, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 58 (35), pp. 12032-12036.
- Han P, Tana T, Xiao Q, Sarina S, Waclawik E, Gómez D, Zhu H, (2019) Promoting Ni(II) catalysis with plasmonic antennas, Chem, 5 (11), pp. 2879-2899.
- Sarina S, Zhu H, Huang Y, Liu Z, Gao G, Xiao G, Du A, Bottle S, (2017) Stable copper nanoparticle photocatalysts for selective epoxidation of alkenes with visible light, ACS Catalysis, 7 (8), pp. 4975-4985.
- Sarina S, Zhu H, Xiao Q, Jaatinen E, Jia J, Huang Y, Zheng Z, Wu H, (2014) Viable photocatalysts under solar-spectrum irradiation: Nonplasmonic metal nanoparticles, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 53 (11), pp. 2935-2940.
- Sarina S, Zhu H, Jaatinen E, Xiao Q, Liu H, Jia J, Chen C, Zhao J, (2013) Enhancing catalytic performance of palladium in gold and palladium alloy nanoparticles for organic synthesis reactions through visible light irradiation at ambient temperatures, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135 (15), pp. 5793-5801.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sarina, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Recipient of an Australia Council Grant or Australia Council Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Nominated by Alexander von Humboldt Fundation to participate 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2013
Research projects
- Title
- Promoting Transition Metal Complex Catalysis with Plasmonic Antennae
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP210103357
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Tuning Non-plasmonic Metals to High Performance Photocatalysts
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE190101450
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Plasma activated matter for functional materials and devices
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ken Ostrikov, Professor Nunzio Motta - Photo-switchable Product Selectivity Control in Aniline Based Synthesis
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Eric Waclawik, Professor Huai Yong Zhu - Selective Oxidation of Alcohols over Mixed Silver and Palladium Photocatalysts |
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Eric Waclawik, Professor John McMurtrie