Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Piccolo on Sunday morning
Sydney, 27 July, 2025

Some drill into a wrong place and leave it for others to fix !

Bandgap Tuning of β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3 Nanosheets via Liquid Metal Interface Engineering
Led by Cuong Ton-That
First author Somayeh Rafiezadeh
In Advanced Optical Materials
Well done Somayeh !

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Double Bay Marina, July 2025
Sydney, Australia

Senate spending panel would rescue the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA science funding

www.science.org/content/arti...

A brilliant work by our PhD student Shih-Hao

➡️A novel demonstration of the effect of embedding liquid metal droplets in conductive polymers, enhancing their electrochromic properties

✴️Flexible, durable, and high electrochromic performance

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

As simple as: “A small increase in Earth's average temperature can lead to higher heat extremes”

Ref: BBC

Australia!

Record rainfall is transforming this desert into a teeming oasis in the middle of Australia’s outback | CNN For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre appears set to fill for only the fourth time in 160 years.

Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists

edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/t...

Ceiling decoration
A Japanese restaurant in Singapore

Emerging Catalytic Materials Symposium!

APCAT-10's Emerging Catalytic Materials Symposium is chaired by Prof. Dongshuang Wu (NTU), Prof. Haobo Li (NTU), Prof. Yonggang Yao (Huazhong), and Prof. Tong Li (Ruhr)

www.apcat10.com

The new work of Adania Azman, the fantastic and hard working member of our team, that just appeared in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

"Voltage-Assisted Sonication for the Generation of Liquid Metal Particles"

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Ancient DNA reveals mysterious Indigenous group from Colombia that disappeared 2,000 years ago A new analysis of ancient DNA reveals a previously unknown lineage of hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Colombia.

Fascinating and puzzling “Ancient DNA reveals mysterious Indigenous group from Colombia that disappeared 2,000 years ago”

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Limburg Cathedral, Limburg, Germany
“In about 1180 an extensive remodelling was started that gave the church its present-day shape.” Wiki

From the 3rd level
Limburg, Germany

Wind turbines for generating power near Frankfurt, Germany

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg
The world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874

Sunset Boulevard?

From the 5th floor
Strasbourg, France
28 May 2025

When ‘NCIS: Sydney’ is being filmed on our street
May 2025, Sydney

CRISPR/Cas on Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices for Point-of-Care Screening of Cervical Cancer
In ACS Sensors
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Correct 🙂

Drosera aliciae
My son’s collection

My son’s terrarium project for his carnivorous plants
Nearly completed

Finally, the paper went online after 4 years since Prof Qingdong Ou started his research on the topic
"Natural van der Waals canalization lens for non-destructive nanoelectronic circuit imaging and inspection" in Advanced Materials
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A cockroach on a Nepenthes’ pitcher, ready to be captured and digested

Fabulous

Coogee Bay before dusk
Sydney
4th of May 2025

Moon shot taken in Sydney
6 pm - 4th of May 2025

Baby nepenthes glabrata in a bed of spagnum moss
My son’s collection