Professor Paul Dastoor
Professor Paul Dastoor is Professor of Physics at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
He received his B.A. degree in Natural Sciences and his PhD in Surface Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is Director of the Centre for Organic Electronics, which he established in 2007. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, at the Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK at Nanyang Technological University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is currently the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College and Clare Hall College, Cambridge.
Prof Dastoor is the UON Node Director for the ANFF Materials Node, which is responsible for delivering advanced fabrication and characterisation facilities to academic and industrial researchers across Australia and overseas. He is also the Ambassador for the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN), which brings together smart sensing expertise in academia, industry and government to develop a strong, collaborative and innovative network that will deliver economic and social benefits for New South Wales.
His research interests encompass the growth and properties of thin films, neutral atom microscopy and organic electronic devices based on semi-conducting polymers. These exciting materials offer the tantalising prospect of paints that generate electricity directly from sunlight and sensors that can be printed as flexible arrays. Prof Dastoor has a strong track record in research translation and commercialisation, with a substantial number of patents granted in the US and Europe (as well as in Australia). Prof Dastoor has spun out 5 companies and is the only UON academic to have had his technology listed on the NASDAQ international stock exchange.
Select publications
- D.J. Riley, M. Mann, D.A. MacLaren, P.C. Dastoor, W. Allison, K.B.K. Teo, G.A.J. Amaratunga, W. Milne, “Helium Detection via Field Ionization from Carbon Nanotubes”, Nano Letters, 3(10), 1455 – 1458, (2003).
- C.R. McNeill, H. Frohne, J.L. Holdsworth, J.E. Furst, B.V. King, and P.C. Dastoor, “Direct Photocurrent Mapping of Organic Solar Cells Using a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope”, Nano Letters, 4(2), 219 – 223, (2004).
- Syahrul Ulum, Natalie Holmes, Matthew Barr, A.L.David Kilcoyne, Bill Bin Gong, Xiaojing Zhou, Warwick Belcher, Paul Dastoor, “The Role of Miscibility in Polymer:Fullerene Nanoparticulate Organic Photovoltaic Devices”, Nano Energy, 2, 897 – 905, (2013).
- Cara J. Mulligan, Mitchell Wilson, Glenn Bryant, Xiaojing Zhou, Warwick J. Belcher and Paul C. Dastoor, “A Projection of Commercial-Scale Organic Photovoltaic Module Costs”, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 120, 9 – 17, (2014).
- M. Barr, A. Fahy, J. Martens, A.P. Jardine, D.J. Ward, J. Ellis, W. Allison and P.C. Dastoor, “Unlocking new contrast in a scanning helium microscope”, Nature Communications, 7, 10189, (2016).
- Eder, S.D., Fahy, A., Barr, M.G., Manson, J.R., Holst, B. and Dastoor, P.C., Sub-resolution contrast in neutral helium microscopy through facet scattering for quantitative imaging of nanoscale topographies on macroscopic surfaces. Nature Communications, 14:904, (2023).
- Thomas A. Myles, Sabrina D. Eder, Matthew G. Barr, Adam Fahy, Joel Martens and Paul C. Dastoor, “Taxonomy through the lens of neutral helium microscopy”, Scientific Reports, 9, 2148 (2019).
- C.R. McNeill, H. Frohne, J.L. Holdsworth and P.C. Dastoor, “Near-field scanning photocurrent measurements of polyfluorene blend devices: directly correlating morphology with current generation” Nanoletters, 4(12), 2503 – 2507, (2004).
Select awards
- 2024 Universities Australia Shaping Australia ‘Problem Solver’ Award
- 2024 Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship, Cambridge University, UK
- 2019 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, Cambridge University, UK
- 2017 Microscopy Today Innovation Award.
Further links
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/paul-dastoor
