Victoria University of Wellington

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Engineering

Electrospinning of Photocatalytic Electrodes for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Nicolò Canever¹, Fraser Hughson¹, Thomas J. Macdonald², Thomas Nann¹

¹The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, School of, Victoria University of Wellington, ²Department of Chemistry, University College London

The overall goal of this project was to use electrospinning to fabricate a photoanode with improved performance for dye-sensitized solar cells.

Biology

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-Based Targeted Metabolomics of Hard Coral Samples

Jennifer L. Matthews¹, Natasha Bartels¹, Sheik Nadeem Elahee Doomun², Simon K. Davy³, David P. De Souza²

¹Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney, ²Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, ³School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

Here, we present the extraction and preparation of polar and semi-polar metabolites from a coral holobiont, as well as separated coral host tissue and Symbiodiniaceae cell fractions, for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis.