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[17/07/2006] Dr Gary Leeke from the University of Birmingham joins the group as a visitor for two weeks to work on continuous flow reactions in supercritical carbon dioxide.

[07/07/2006] Professor Andrew Holmes has been successful in attracting funding for an ARC Linkage International Materials World Proposal in collaboration with Professor Chris Ober and Professor George Malliaras from Cornell University.

[05/06/2006] Nick Evans' work on the synthesis of electrophosphorescent polymers appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[03/05/2006] Sven Webber joins the group on exchange for 4 weeks from the group of Professor Ullrich Scherf in Wuppertal, Germany.

[05/04/2006] Georgia McCluskey has been awarded a Faculty of Science Prize for her 2005 honours thesis.

[24/03/2006] Professor Andrew Holmes has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

[06/03/2006] Honours students Rob Borthwick, Aedan Cosgriff, Michelle Haeusler and Brian Johnson join the group.

[21/02/2006] Dr Rachel Williamson joins the group to work on synthesis in supercritical carbon dioxide and as Professor Holmes's associate in editing Organic Letters.

[15/01/2006] Professor Holmes has been appointed as Associate Editor for the ACS journal, Organic Letters.

[14/01/2006] Photographs and a powerpoint presentation illustrating the Holmes group lab in the Bio21 Institute have been added on the Facilities page.

[14/12/2005] The group's paper on polymers in dye-sensitised nanocrystalline solar cells appears in Chemical Communications.

[26/10/2005] The group's paper on new polymer hosts for green emitting phosphorescent complexes in polymer light-emitting diodes appears in Chemical Communications.

[26/9/2005] The group's paper on new, blue-green emitting iridium complexes for use in polymer light-emitting diodes appears in Chemical Communications.

[13/9/2005] Catherine Smith and Melanie Tsang's paper on palladium catalysed aryl amination reactions in supercritical carbon dioxide appears in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry.

[10/08/2005] Another new movie added to the Gallery, watch the light-emitting device that we prepared for the official opening of Bio21.

[06/07/2005] Honours student Georgia McCluskey wins poster prize at the RACI national convention in Sydney.

[25/5/2005] Khai Leok Chan's new blue-emitting polymer appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[25/5/2005] A group photo from our autumn BBQ is now in the Gallery.

[8/5/2005] PhD student, Christine Schieber and postdoc, Andrew Grimsdale join the group.

[1/3/2005] Honours student Georgia McCluskey joins the group.

[17/1/2005] The group is now located in the new Bio21 Institute.

[20/12/2004] The first warm Christmas for most of the group is almost here. Photos of the School of Chemistry Christmas party are now in the Gallery.

[14/12/2004] Photos from our welcome BBQ at CSIRO Molecular Science are now in the Gallery.

[06/12/2004] Our first local students have joined the group. We welcome summer students Kerwyn Alley and Pamela Martin, for more information see the People section.

[01/10/2004] The official start of our group here in Melbourne following our move from Cambridge University.