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Predicting concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in 2D membranes
Honours project: Chemistry honours opportunities that aim to predict concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in two-dimensional (2D) membranes.
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Designing organic semiconductor interfaces for advanced flexible electronics
Honours project: Develop a more predictive approach to controlling organic electronic device performance, in particular by exploiting molecular anisotropy to manipulate the structure of organic semiconductor interfaces.
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Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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Analysing compostable plastics
Honours project: Are compostable plastics really what they say on the packet? Research opportunities are available to test a new fully compostable type of plastic.
Made-in-SA: Advanced materials derived from local growers’ agricultural waste
Honours project: Turn fruit and vegetable waste into functional products
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In vitro maturation of canine oocytes
Honours project: Determine the effects of different in vitro maturation (IVM) conditions on the developmental competence of canine oocytes.
Nutrition & collective movement in the Australian plague locust
Honours project: Investigate the movement of plague locusts using laboratory and field experiments.
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Quantum Field Theory
Honours projects: Projects can be phenomenological or mathematical in character, or the focus may be on technique.
Determining the effect of protein quality control to astrocyte stress responses
Honours project: Learn how brain cells are adapting to different stress responses, and what happens to this adaptation if the protein quality control is compromised.
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Ubiquitin signalling in human diseases
Honours project: Investigate the effect of ubiquitin signalling on cell differentiation.