Professor

Colin Raston

AO FAA

Colin Raston
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Colin Raston has made seminal contributions to inorganic, organometallic, supramolecular and green chemistry, nanoscience, nanotechnology and flow chemistry. These discoveries and innovations culminated in his development of the Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD). The VFD is a thin film microfluidic platform with diverse applications including, protein separation and folding, controlling chemical reactivity and selectivity, probing the structure of self-organised systems and synthesising nano-materials. The result is a new paradigm in continuous flow chemistry. Raston’s invention gained wide publicity through the shared award in 2015 of an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘unboiling an egg’.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY 34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3402 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340204 Inorganic Green Chemistry
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340504 Organic Green Chemistry
4018 NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • 401807 Nanomaterials

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Expertise type

  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Nanotechnology
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Flow Chemistry
  • Nanoscience
  • Green Chemistry
  • Materials Processing
  • Thin Film Microfluidics
  • Chemistry

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