Dr Ekaterina Strounina

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Advanced Imaging
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
e.strounina@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 60341

Overview

Dr Ekaterina Strounina is a Solid State NMR facility manager in the Centre for Advanced Imaging. She has been working in UQ since 2002, specializing in high-field MRI applications and solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Research Interests

  • Functionalised silica nanoparticles
  • Polymeric biomaterials
  • Materials for ecoengineering
  • Soils, coal and biochar characterization
  • Novel energy storage materials
  • Perovskite characterization
  • Zeolites and clay-related materials characterization

Research Impacts

Dr Strounina has extensive experience in characterization of a wide variety of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials. She had made a significant contribution to the functionalised mesoporous silica development, as well as to research in ecological engineering, battery materials and novel biopolymer-based materials.

Publications

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Publications

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Kealley, Catherine, Rout, Manoj Kumar, Appelqvist, Ingrid, Strounina, Ekaterina, Whittaker, Andrew, Gidley, Mike, Gilber, Elliot and Lilford, Peter (2008). Hydration Study of Soy Protein in the 'Dry State'. 14th Gums and Stabilisers for the Food Industry Conference, Wrexham, UK., 18-22 June 2007. Cambridge UK: The Royal Society of Chemistry.

  • Halley, P. J., Khemani, K., Krummel, E., Nicholson, T., Russo, M. A. L., Strounina, E. and Truss, R. (2007). A study of the water diffusion into thermoplastic starch polymers. 29th Australasian Polymer Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 11-15 February, 2007.

  • Russo, Melissa A. L., Strounina, Ekaterina, Waret, Muriel, Nicholson, Timothy, Truss, Rowan and Halley, Peter J. (2006). Water diffusion and degradation of starch-based plastics. International Degradable Plastics Symposium: Status of Biobased and Synthetic Polymer Technology, McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 14-17 June 2006. Washington, DC: The Society of the Plastics Industry.

  • Russo, Melissa A. L., Strounina, Katia, Waret, Muriel, Nicholson, Timothy, Truss, Rowan and Halley, Peter J. (2006). Water diffusion and degradation of starch-based polymers. 28th Australasian Polymer Symposium & Australasian Society for Biomaterials 16th Annual Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-9 February, 2006. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology.

  • Zainuddin, Z., Hill, David J. T., Whittaker, Andrew K., Strounina, Katia and Chirila, Traian V. (2004). Diffusion of calcium ions and formation of calcium phosphate deposits in radiation crosslinked PVA/PVP hydrogels. 228th ACS national meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 22 - 26 August, 2004. Washington, DC, USA: American Chemical Society.

  • Strounina, E. V., Shepherd, R., Kane-Maguire, L. A. P. and Wallace, G. G. (2003). Conformational changes in sulfonated polyaniline caused by metal salts and OH-. The International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Shanghai, China, 29 June - 5 July 2002. Lausanne: Elsevier Sequoia. doi: 10.1016/S0379-6779(02)00923-2