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Materials Science & Biomedical Engineering

Nanoarchitectured
Materials for
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Designing and fabricating nanostructured functional materials for biosensing, catalysis, energy conversion, and flexible biomedical electronics from plasma-engineered chalcogenide semiconductors to mesoporous metals.

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Dr Aditya Ashok
About

Aditya Ashok

Dr Aditya Ashok is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) and Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at The University of Queensland. His research pioneers nanoarchitectured functional materials from plasma-engineered chalcogenide semiconductors to mesoporous metals — with applications spanning biosensing, energy conversion, catalysis, and flexible biomedical electronics. With 53+ publications in journals including JACS, Advanced Materials,s PNAS, and ACS Nano, and active collaborations across Japan, India, and the USA, he fosters rigorous, curiosity-driven science at the frontier of materials engineering.

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Latest Updates

May 2026 Invited Speaker at Materials Oceania-2026, Tokyo, Japan (Nov 2026).
Apr 2026 Visiting Researcher collaboration launched with Sadhanala Group, IISc Bengaluru (Advanced Materials & Electrochemistry).
Mar 2026 Secured joint research grant UQ–IITD (270k AUD) for 2026–2030 as Chief Investigator.
Jan 2026 Submitted to Nature Sensors: Magnetically Tunable Plasmonic Hotspots in Mesoporous Gold.
Dec 2025 New visiting researcher collaboration with Phan Group, UNSW on Flexible Nano and Micro Electronics.
Jun 2025 Appointed Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, UQ.
Mar 2025 Awarded JST-ERATO Yamauchi Travel Grant (5,000 AUD) for 2026 international conference.

Research Highlights

2023

Mesoporous Metastable CuTe2 Semiconductor

J. Am. Chem. Soc.

2023

Mesoporous Semiconductive Bi2Se3 Films

ACS Nano Letters

2022

Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Nanomembranes as Long-Term Biointerface

PNAS

2021

Plasma-Induced Nanocrystalline Domain Engineering in Chalcogenide Films

Angewandte Chemie

2022

MOF-Derived Nanoporous Carbons with Exotic Nanoarchitectures

Nature Protocols