Theses: Recent submissions
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Blurring the Boundaries: Navigating Elusive Creative Practice via the Multitextual, Metaleptic and Ergodic Form
Published 2024In this practice-led thesis I investigate the concept of an ‘elusive creative practice’ that blurs the boundaries between narrative non-narrative experimental and abstract forms of representation. Elusiveness is a quality ...Open AccessThesis -
Microwave Photonics Enhanced Microresonator Sensors
Published 2024Optical microresonators (OMRs), which can be used as compact and highly sensitive optical sensors, are considered to be an ideal platform for optical sensing. However, the resolution of conventional optical interrogation ...USyd AccessThesis -
Multifaceted studies into the bioinorganic chemistry of ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes
Published 2024Ru(II) arene complexes are attractive anticancer drugs but their mechanisms of action and biological targets are not fully known, and new aspects of their modes of action are a focus of this thesis. A Ru(II) arene complex ...USyd AccessThesis -
Affective Oceanscapes: Contextualising Oceanic Feeling in Chinese Cultural History
Published 2024This thesis presents an alternative history of the emergence of Chinese blue culture, focusing on intellectuals and writers’ cultural and affective engagements with the rapidly changing oceanscape from the Qing dynasty ...Open AccessThesis -
Higher Order Even Dispersion Solitons
Published 2024Optical solitons are wave packets of light, with the distinctive property of being unchanging as they propagate. Optical solitons form from the balance between linear dispersion effects and the nonlinear Kerr effect, with ...USyd AccessThesis