Professor Rob Short

Adjunct Professor Future Industries Institute

email Rob.Short@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Rob studied Chemistry (BSc) and Physical Chemistry (PhD) at the University of Durham (UK) and joined the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield in 1988, where he held the Chair of Material and Biomaterial Chemistry from 2001. During this period, Rob helped develop a materials-cell technology (myskin) for treating severe burns and scalds; adopted in the UK by the NHS, this technology was used over a decade in all the UK’s major burns centres. Rob also established Plasso Technology, an advanced materials for life science research company. Plasso developed technology that now underpins a range of products (PureCoatTM) sold globally for cell culture and cell therapy.

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About me

In 2006, Rob joined the University of South Australia, where he held the positions of Director of an advanced manufacturing research institute, Dean of Research and Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President. At the invitation of the Minister of Education he served on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts for three years.

In Australia, he successfully co-led bids for an A$110M national centre for wound management innovation and a A$60M national centre for cell therapy manufacturing. Both have resulted in successful innovations in wound care and cell therapy. These include the companies, Carina Biotechnology (www.carinabiotech.com), which is developing a novel CAR-T cell therapy for solid (cancer) tumoursand Tekcyte (www.tekcyte.com), whose products include a cell-based therapy for non-healing wounds, which entered clinical trials at the beginning of 2022.

Rob returned to the UK as the Director of the Lancaster Material Science Institute, where he helped establish the Material Social Futures Centre for Doctoral Training, focusing on how materials’ innovations shape society (and vice versa). See Material Social Futures | Lancaster University. This centre is training 22 PhD students.

Last year, Rob cofounded with Dr Endre Szili (UniSA) Plasma-4 (www.plasma-4.com) a company that is developing novel plasma (ionised gas)-materials technology for the treatment of a range of clinical indications.

Over his career, Rob has won over A$250M of grants and investments, including ARC Discovery, Linkage etc, CRC, and in the UK, EPSRC, Wellcome, Leverhulme, Royal Society etc. He has supervised to completion 25 PhDs and 30 post-doctoral researchers. He has published over 250 substantive peer reviewed papers.

In 2013, Rob was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Rob rejoined the University of Sheffield in October 2022.

Research

Research focus

Chemical Sciences
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Materials Engineering

Highlights

Biomaterials
Tissue Engineering
Plasma
Plasma Polymerisation

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2011	Szili, E, Short, R, Steele, D & Bradley, J 2011, 'Surface modification of biomaterials by plasma polymerization', in R Williams (ed.), Surface modification of biomaterials: methods analysis and applications, Elsevier, United Kingdom, ch. 1, pp. 3-39. 13
2010	Steele, DA & Short, RD 2010, 'Applications of Plasma Polymerization in Biomaterials', in Y Kawai, H Ikegami, N Sato, A Matsuda, K Uchino, M Kuzuya & A Mizuno, Industrial Plasma Technology, Applications from Environmental to Energy Technologies, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, ch. 13, pp. 165 - 180. 2

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Ghimire, B, Szili, EJ & Short, RD 2022, 'A conical assembly of six plasma jets for biomedical applications', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 121, no. 8, article no. 084102, pp. 1-6. 12 12
2022	Szili, EJ, Patenall, BL, Fellows, A, Mistry, D, Jenkins, AA, Short, RD & Ghimire, B 2022, 'On plasma activated acetyl donors: comparing the antibacterial efficacy of tetraacetylethylenediamine and pentaacetate glucose', PLASMA, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 423-435. Open access 3 3
2021	Gaur, N, Kurita, H, Oh, JS, Miyachika, S, Ito, M, Mizuno, A, Cowin, AJ, Allinson, S, Short, RD & Szili, EJ 2021, 'On cold atmospheric-pressure plasma jet induced DNA damage in cells', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 54, no. 3, article no. 035203. Open access 32 28
2021	Ghimire, B, Szili, EJ, Patenall, BL, Lamichhane, P, Gaur, N, Robson, AJ, Trivedi, D, Thet, NT, Jenkins, ATA, Choi, EH & Short, RD 2021, 'Enhancement of hydrogen peroxide production from an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet and implications to the antibacterial activity of plasma activated water', Plasma Sources Science and Technology, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1-15. Open access 80 70
2021	Saboohi, S, Coad, BR, Short, RD, Michelmore, A & Griesser, HJ 2021, 'Rational approaches for optimizing chemical functionality of plasma polymers: a case study with ethyl trimethylacetate', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1-12. Open access 4 4
2021	Szili, EJ, Ghimire, B, Patenall, BL, Rohaim, M, Mistry, D, Fellows, A, Munir, M, Jenkins, ATA & Short, RD 2021, 'On-demand cold plasma activation of acetyl donors for bacteria and virus decontamination', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 119, no. 5, article no. 054104, pp. 1-5. Open access 23 19
2019	Ghimire, B, Szili, EJ, Lamichhane, P, Short, RD, Lim, JS, Attri, P, Masur, K, Weltmann, KD, Hong, SH & Choi, EH 2019, 'The role of UV photolysis and molecular transport in the generation of reactive species in a tissue model with a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 114, no. 9, article no. 093701, pp. 1-5. Open access 81 80
2019	Ogawa, K, Oh, J-S, Gaur, N, Hong, S-H, Kurita, H, Mizuno, A, Hatta, A, Short, RD, Ito, M & Szili, EJ 2019, 'Modulating the concentrations of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and oxygen in water with helium and argon gas and plasma jets', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes, vol. 58, no. SA, article no. SAAB01, pp. 1-9. Open access 30 26
2019	Saboohi, S, Short, RD, Coad, BR, Griesser, HJ & Michelmore, A 2019, 'The physics of plasma ion chemistry: a case study of plasma polymerization of ethyl acetate', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 10, no. 23, pp. 7306-7310. Open access 3 4
2018	Fernandez, T, Strudwick, X, Al-Bataineh, S, Short, R, Cowin, A, Whittle, J & Smith, L 2018, 'Surfaces to enhance matrix deposition for wound healing', Wound Practice and Research, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 201-209. Open access 1
2018	Kirby, GT, Michelmore, A, Smith, LE, Whittle, JD & Short, RD 2018, 'Cell sheets in cell therapies', Cytotherapy, vol. 20, pp. 169-180. Open access 27 25 4
2018	Oh, J-S, Szili, EJ, Ogawa, K, Short, RD, Ito, M, Furuta, H & Hatta, A 2018, 'UV-vis spectroscopy study of plasma-activated water: dependence of the chemical composition on plasma exposure time and treatment distance', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 1-10. Open access 95 84
2018	Saboohi, S, Griesser, HJ, Coad, BR, Short, RD & Michelmore, A 2018, 'Promiscuous hydrogen in polymerising plasmas', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 7033-7042. Open access 13 12
2018	Szili, EJ, Hong, S-H, Oh, J-S, Gaur, N & Short, RD 2018, 'Tracking the penetration of plasma reactive species in tissue models', Trends in Biotechnology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 594-602. Open access 114 101
2018	Szili, EJ, Oh, J-S, Fukuhara, H, Bhatia, R, Gaur, N, Nguyen, CK, Hong, S-H, Ito, S, Ogawa, K, Kawada, C, Shuin, T, Tsuda, M, Furihata, M, Kurabayashi, A, Furuta, H, Ito, M, Inoue, K, Hatta, A & Short, RD 2018, 'Modelling the helium plasma jet delivery of reactive species into a 3D cancer tumour', Plasma Sources Science and Technology, vol. 27, no. 1, article no. 014001, pp.1-16. Open access 74 64
2018	Yap, L, Murali, S, Bhakta, G, Titmarsh, DM, Chen, AK-L, Chiin Sim, L, Bardor, M, Lim, YM, Goh, JC, Oh, SK, Choo, AB, van Wijnen, AJ, Robinson, DE, Whittle, JD, Birch, WR, Short, RD, Nurcombe, V & Cool, SM 2018, 'Immobilization of vitronectin-binding heparan sulfates onto surfaces to support human pluripotent stem cells', Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part B: Applied Biomaterials, vol. 106, no. 5, pp.1887-1896. 2 2 1
2017	Bryant, PM, Wettstein, P, Al-Bataineh, SA, Short, RD, Bradley, JW, Low, SP, Parkinson, LA & Szili, EJ 2017, 'Electrical and optical properties of a gradient microplasma for microfluidic chips', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 14, no. 9, article no. 1600194, pp. 1-10. Open access 1 2
2017	Hong, S-H, Szili, EJ, Fenech, M, Gaur, N & Short, RD 2017, 'Genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of the plasma jet-treated medium on lymphoblastoid WIL2-NS cell line using the cytokinesis block micronucleus cytome assay', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, article no. 3854, pp. 1-9. Open access 26 21
2017	Kirby, GT, Mills, SJ, Vandenpoel, L, Pinxteren, J, Ting, A, Short, RD, Cowin, AJ, Michelmore, A & Smith, LE 2017, 'Development of advanced dressings for the delivery of progenitor cells', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3445-3454. 13 13 5
2017	Oh, JS, Szili, EJ, Hong, S-H, Gaur, N, Ohta, T, Hiramatsu, M, Hatta, A, Short, RD & Ito, M 2017, 'Mass spectrometry analysis of the real-time transport of plasma-generated ionic species through an agarose tissue model target', Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 317-323. Open access 5 4
2017	Saboohi, S, Coad, BR, Griesser, HJ, Michelmore, A & Short, RD 2017, 'Synthesis of highly functionalised plasma polymer films from protonated precursor ions via the plasma α-γ transition', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 5637-5646. Open access 13 13
2017	Szili, EJ, Becker, S, Short, RD & Al-Bataineh, SA 2017, 'Microplasma jet treatment of bovine serum albumin coatings for controlling enzyme and cell attachment', European Physical Journal: Special Topics, vol. 226, no. 13, pp. 2873-2885. Open access 3 4
2017	Szili, EJ, Dedrick, J, Oh, J-S, Bradley, JW, Boswell, RW, Charles, C, Short, RD & Al-Bataineh, SA 2017, 'Microplasma array patterning of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species onto polystyrene', Frontiers in Physics, vol. 5, article no. 1, pp. 1-12. Open access 2 2
2017	Szili, EJ, Gaur, N, Hong, S-H, Kurita, H, Oh, J-S, Ito, M, Mizuno, A, Hatta, A, Cowin, AJ, Graves, DB & Short, RD 2017, 'The assessment of cold atmospheric plasma treatment of DNA in synthetic models of tissue fluid, tissue and cells', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 50, no. 27, article no. 274001, pp. 1-15. Open access 29 23 1
2016	McInnes, SJP, Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Vasani, RB, Xu, J, Alf, ME, Gleason, KK, Short, RD & Voelcker, NH 2016, 'Fabrication and characterization of a porous silicon drug delivery system with an initiated chemical vapor deposition temperature-responsive coating', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol.32, no. 1, pp. 301-308. 49 44
2016	Michelmore, A, Whittle, JD, Bradley, JW & Short, RD 2016, 'Where physics meets chemistry: thin film deposition from reactive plasmas', Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 441-458. Open access 21 19
2016	Oh, J-S, Strudwick, X, Short, RD, Ogawa, K, Hatta, A, Furuta, H, Gaur, N, Hong, S-H, Cowin, AJ, Fukuhara, H, Inoue, K, Ito, M, Charles, C, Boswell, RW, Bradley, JW, Graves, DB & Szili, EJ 2016, 'How plasma induced oxidation, oxygenation, and de-oxygenation influences viability of skin cells', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 109, no. 20, article no. 203701, pp. 1-5. Open access 31 28 1
2016	Oh, J-S, Szili, EJ, Gaur, N, Hong, S-H, Furuta, H, Kurita, H, Mizuno, A, Hatta, A & Short, RD 2016, 'How to assess the plasma delivery of RONS into tissue fluid and tissue', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 49, no. 30, article no. 304005, pp. 1-13. 133 108
2016	Robinson, DE, Al-Bataineh, SA, Farrugia, BL, Michelmore, A, Cowin, AJ, Dargaville, TR, Short, RD, Smith, LE & Whittle, JD 2016, 'Plasma polymer and biomolecule modification of 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 678-689. Open access 20 17
2016	Saboohi, S, Coad, BR, Michelmore, A, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2016, 'Hyperthermal intact molecular ions play key role in retention of ATRP surface initiation capability of plasma polymer films from ethyl Þ-bromoisobutyrate', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 8, no. 25, pp. 16493-16502. Open access 15 15
2016	Smith, LE, Bryant, C, Krasowska, M, Cowin, AJ, Whittle, JD, MacNeil, S & Short, RD 2016, 'Haptotatic plasma polymerized surfaces for rapid tissue regeneration and wound healing', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 8, no.48 , pp. 32675-32687. 11 12
2015	Daunton, C, Smith, LE, Whittle, JD, Short, RD, Steele, DA & Michelmore, A 2015, 'Plasma parameter aspects in the fabrication of stable amine functionalized plasma polymer films', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 817, 826. 26 23
2015	Gaur, N, Szili, EJ, Oh, J-S, Hong, S-H, Michelmore, A, Graves, DB, Hatta, A & Short, RD 2015, 'Combined effect of protein and oxygen on reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in the plasma treatment of tissue', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 107, no. 10, article no. 103703, pp. 1-5. 68 61
2015	Michelmore, A, Whittle, JD & Short, RD 2015, 'The importance of ions in low pressure PECVD plasmas', Frontiers in Physics, vol. 3, article no. 3, pp. 1-5. Open access 26 2
2015	Oh, J-S, Szili, EJ, Gaur, N, Hong, S-H, Furuta, H, Short, RD & Hatta, A 2015, 'In-situ UV absorption spectroscopy for monitoring transport of plasma reactive species through agarose as surrogate for tissue', Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 439-444. Open access 38 35
2015	Oh, J-S, Szili, EJ, Ito, S, Hong, S-H, Gaur, N, Furuta, H, Short, RD & Hatta, A 2015, 'Slow molecular transport of plasma-generated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and O2 through agarose as a surrogate for tissue', Plasma Medicine, vol. 5, no. 2-4, pp. 125-143. 35
2015	Saboohi, S, Jasieniak, M, Coad, BR, Griesser, HJ, Short, RD & Michelmore, AP 2015, 'Comparison of plasma polymerization under collisional and collision-less pressure regimes', The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter, vol. 119, no. 49, pp. 15359-15369. Open access 22 21
2015	Smith, L, Whittle, J & Short, R 2015, 'Surface optimisation for enhanced cell culture', Cytotherapy, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. S75-S75.
2015	Szili, EJ, Harding, FJ, Hong, S-H, Herrmann, F, Voelcker, N & Short, RD 2015, 'The hormesis effect of plasma-elevated intracellular ROS on HaCaT cells', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 48, no. 49, article no. 495401, pp. 1-10. 27 27
2015	Szili, EJ, Hong, S-H & Short, RD 2015, 'On the effect of serum on the transport of reactive oxygen species across phospholipid membranes', BioInterphases: An Open Access Journal for the Biomaterials Interface Community, vol. 10, no. 2, article no. 029511, pp. 1-7. Open access 36 34
2015	Szili, EJ, Oh, J-S, Hong, S-H, Hatta, A & Short, RD 2015, 'Probing the transport of plasma-generated RONS in an agarose target as surrogate for real tissue: dependency on time, distance and material composition', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 48, no. 20, article no. 202001, pp. 1-7. 3 22
2015	Wettstein, P, Priest, C, Al-Bataineh, SA, Short, RD, Bryant, PM, Bradley, JW, Low, SP, Parkinson, L & Szili, EJ 2015, 'Surface protein gradients generated in sealed microchannels using spatially varying helium microplasma', Biomicrofluidics, vol. 9, no. 1, article no. 014124, pp. 1-10. Open access 9 8
2014	Al-Bataineh, S & Short, RD 2014, 'Protein patterning on microplasma-activated PEO-like coatings', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 263-268. Open access 5 6
2014	Brown, KD, Low, S, Mariappan, I, Abberton, KM, Short, R, Zhang, H, Maddileti, S, Sangwan, V, Steele, D & Daniell, M 2014, 'Plasma polymer-coated contact lenses for the culture and transfer of corneal epithelial cells in the treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency', Tissue Engineering - Part A., vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 646-655. Open access 52 45
2014	Hong, S-H, Szili, EJ, Jenkins, ATA & Short, RD 2014, 'Ionized gas (plasma) delivery of reactive oxygen species (ROS) into artificial cells', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 47, no. 36, article no. 362001, pp. 1-6. Open access 53 50
2014	Michelmore, A, Whittle, JD, Short, RD, Boswell, RW & Charles, C 2014, 'An experimental and analytical study of an asymmetric capacitively coupled plasma used for plasma polymerization', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 11 no. 9, pp. 833-841. 25 25
2014	Robinson, DE, Smith, LE, Steele, DA, Short, RD & Whittle, JD 2014, 'Development of a surface to enhance the effectiveness of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2)', Biomaterials Science, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 875-882. 11 13
2014	Ruiz, J-C, Taheri, S, Michelmore, A, Robinson, DE, Short, RD, Vasilev, KA & Förch, R 2014, 'Approaches to quantify amine groups in the presence of hydroxyl functional groups in plasma polymerized thin films', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 888-896. 30 30
2014	Szili, EJ, Bradley, J & Short, RD 2014, 'A 'tissue model' to study the plasma delivery of reactive oxygen species', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 47, no.15, article no.152002, pp. 1-8. Open access 125 106
2014	Yan, C, Yasodinee, W, Short, R, Gibson, C & Zou, L 2014, 'Graphene/Polyaniline nanocomposite as electrode material for membrane capacitive deionization', Desalination, vol. 344, pp. 274-279. 89 79
2014	Yan, C, Zou, L & Short, R 2014, 'Polyaniline-modified activated carbon electrodes for capacitive deionisation', Desalination, vol. 333, pp. 101-106. 94 88
2014	Zuber, AA, Robinson, DE, Short, RD, Steele, DA & Whittle, JD 2014, 'Development of a surface to increase retinal pigment epithelial cell (ARPE-19) proliferation under reduced serum conditions', Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1367-1373. 5 5
2013	Desmet, G, Michelmore, A, Szili, EJ, Park, S-J, Eden, JG, Short, RD & Al-Bataineh, SA 2013, 'On the effects of atmospheric-pressure microplasma array treatment on polymer and biological materials', RSC Advances: An International Journal to Further the Chemical Sciences, vol. 3, no. 32, pp. 13437-13445. 30 29
2013	Hojati-Talemi, P, Zou, L, Fabretto, M & Short, RD 2013, 'Using oxygen plasma treatment to improve the performance of electrodes for capacitive water deionization', Electrochimica Acta, vol. 106, pp. 494-499. 34 34
2013	Marshall, SE, Jenkins, ATA, Al-Bataineh, S, Short, R, Hong, S-H, They, NT, Oh, J-S, Bradley, JW & Szili, E 2013, 'Studying the cytolytic activity of gas plasma with self-signalling phospholipid vesicles dispersed within a gelatin matrix', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 46 no. 18, article no. 185401, pp. 1-12. 40 35
2013	Michelmore, A, Charles, C, Boswell, RW, Short, RD & Whittle, JD 2013, 'Defining plasma polymerization : new insight into what we should be measuring', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 5387-5391. 32 31
2013	Michelmore, A, Steele, DA, Robinson, DE, Whittle, JD & Short, RD 2013, 'The link between mechanisms of deposition and the physico-chemical properties of plasma polymer films', Soft Matter, vol. 9, no. 26, pp. 6167-6175. 41 39
2013	Michelmore, A, Steele, DA, Whittle, JD, Bradley, JW & Short, RD 2013, 'Nanoscale deposition of chemically functionalised films via plasma polymerisation', RSC Advances: An International Journal to Further the Chemical Sciences, vol. 3, no. 33, pp. 13540-13557. 98 90
2013	Michelmore, AP, Gross-Kosche, P, Al-Bataineh, S, Whittle, JD & Short, R 2013, 'On the effect of monomer chemistry on growth mechanisms of nonfouling PEG-like plasma polymers', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 2595-2601. 38 36
2013	Murray, P, Prewitz, M, Hopp, I, Wells, N, Zhang, H, Cooper, A, Parry, K, Short, R, Antoine, D & Edgar, D 2013, 'The self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells is regulated by cell-substratum adhesion and cell spreading', The International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2698-2705. Open access 32 32
2013	Stewart, EM, Fabretto, M, Mueller, M, Molino, PJ, Griesser, HJ, Short, RD & Wallace, GG 2013, 'Cell attachment and proliferation on high conductivity PEDOT-glycol composites produced by vapour phase polymerisation', Biomaterials Science, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 368-378. 32 33
2013	Whittle, JD, Short, RD, Steele, DA, Bradley, JW, Bryant, PM, Jan, F, Biederman, H, Serov, AA, Choukurov, A, Hook, AL, Ciridon, WA, Ceccone, G, Hegemann, D, Kömer, E & Michelmore, A 2013, 'Variability in plasma polymerization processes: an international round-robin study', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 767-778. 39 38
2012	Al-Bataineh, S, Szili, EJ, Gruner, JP, Priest, C, Griesser, HJ, Voelcker, NH, Short, RD & Steele, DA 2012, 'Fabrication and operation of a microcavity plasma array device for microscale surface modification', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 638-646. Open access 23 21
2012	Coad, BR, Scholz, T, Vasilev, K, Hayball, JD, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2012, 'Functionality of proteins bound to plasma polymer surfaces', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 2455-2463. 54 54
2012	Coad, BR, Vasilev, K, Diener, KR, Hayball, JD, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2012, 'Immobilized streptavidin gradients as bioconjugation platforms', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2710-2717. 34 34
2012	Evans, D, Fabretto, M, Mueller, M, Zuber, K, Short, R & Murphy, P 2012, 'Structure-directed growth of high conductivity PEDOT from liquid-like oxidant layers during vacuum vapor phase polymerization', Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 30, pp. 14889-14895. Open access 90 86
2012	Evans, DR, Mueller, MC, Zuber, K, Hojati, TP, Short, RD, Wallace, G, Murphy, PJ & Fabretto, MV 2012, 'Polymeric material with metal-like conductivity for next generation organic electronic devices', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 24, no. 20, pp. 3998-4003. Open access 225 213
2012	Goreham, R V, Mierczynska, A, Pierce, M, Short, RD, Taheri, S, Bachhuka, A, Cavallaro, A, Smith, LE & Vasilev, K 2012, 'A substrate independent approach for generation of surface gradients', Thin Solid Films, vol. 528, pp. 106-110. 51 50
2012	Harding, F, Goreham, R, Short, R, Vasilev, K & Voelcker, NH 2012, 'Surface bound amine functional group density influences embryonic stem cell maintenance', Advanced Healthcare Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 585-590. Open access 20 19
2012	Harding, FJ, Clements, L, Short, RD, Thissen, H & Voelcker, N 2012, 'Assessing embryonic stem cell response to surface chemistry using plasma polymer gradients', Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1739-1748. Open access 35 33
2012	Kearns, V, Mistry, A, Mason, S, Krishna, Y, Sheridan, C, Short, R & Williams, RL 2012, 'Plasma polymer coatings to aid retinal pigment epithelial growth for transplantation in the treatment of age related macular degeneration', Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 2013-2021. 26 28
2012	McInnes, SJ, Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Xu, J, Alf, ME, Gleason, KK, Short, RD & Voelcker, NH 2012, 'Combination of iCVD and porous silicon for the development of a controlled drug delivery system', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 3566-3574. 66 50
2012	Robinson, DE, Buttle, DJ, Short, RD, McArthur, SL, Steele, DA & Whittle, JD 2012, 'Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) binding surfaces for characterizing GAG-protein interactions', Biomaterials, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1007-1016. 30 29
2012	Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Ruschitzka, P, Desmet, G, Priest, C, Griesser, HJ, Voelcker, NH, Harding, FJ, Steele, DA & Short, RD 2012, 'Microplasma arrays : a new approach for maskless and localized patterning of materials surfaces', RSC Advances: An International Journal to Further the Chemical Sciences, vol. 2, no. 31, pp. 12007-12010. 20 20
2012	Yan, C, Zou, L & Short, R 2012, 'Single-walled carbon nanotubes and polyaniline composites for capacitive deionization', Desalination, vol. 290, pp. 125-129. 129 116
2011	Al-Bataineh, SA, Szili, EJ, Mishra, A, Park, S-J, Eden, GJ, Griesser, HJ, Voelcker, NH, Short, RD & Steele, DA 2011, 'Design of a microplasma device for spatially localised plasma polymerisation', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 695-700. Open access 20 20
2011	Fabretto, M, Jariego Moncunill, C, Autere, J-P, Michelmore, A, Short, RD & Murphy, P 2011, 'High conductivity PEDOT resulting from glycol/oxidant complex and glycol/polymer intercalation during vacuum vapour phase polymerisation', Polymer, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1725-1730. 76 75
2011	Goreham, R V, Short, RD & Vasilev, K 2011, 'Method for the generation of surface-bound nanoparticle density gradients', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter, vol. 115, no. 8, pp. 3429-3433. 55 53
2011	Michelmore, A, Bryant, PM, Steele, DA, Vasilev, K, Bradley, JW & Short, RD 2011, 'Role of positive ions in determining the deposition rate and film chemistry of continuous wave hexamethyl disiloxane plasmas', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol. 27, no. 19, pp. 11943-11950. 42 39
2011	Michelmore, A, Martinek, P, Sah, V, Short, RD & Vasilev, K 2011, 'Surface morphology in the early stages of plasma polymer film growth from amine-containing monomers', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 367-372. 72 70
2011	Michelmore, AP, Mierczynska-Vasilev, A, Poh, Z, Goreham, RV, Losic, D, Short, RD & Vasilev, KA 2011, 'Versatile gradients of chemistry, bound ligands and nanoparticles on alumina nanopore arrays', Nanotechnology, vol. 22, no. 41, article no. 415601, pp. 1-10. 10 10
2011	Priest, C, Gruner, PJ, Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Bradley, JW, Ralston, J, Steele, DA & Short, RD 2011, 'Microplasma patterning of bonded microchannels using high-precision "injected" electrodes', Lab on A Chip: Miniaturisation for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Materials Science and Bioengineering, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 541-544. 51 45
2011	Steele, DA, Short, RD, Brown, P & Mayhew, CA 2011, 'On the use of SIFT-MS and PTR-MS experiments to explore reaction mechanisms in plasmas of volatile organics: siloxanesª', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 287-294. 13 12
2011	Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Bryant, PM, Short, RD, Bradley, JW & Steele, DA 2011, 'Controlling the spatial distribution of polymer surface treatment using atmospheric-pressure microplasma jets', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 38-50. 56 53
2011	Whittle, J, Steele, D, Michelmore, A & Short, R 2011, 'Plasma research at UniSA: reconnecting the physics with the chemistry?', Australian Physics, vol. 48 no. 5, pp. 143-148. Open access
2010	Bryant, PM, Szili, EJ, Whittle, T, Park, S-J, Eden, GJ, Al-Bataineh, S, Steele, DA, Short, RD & Bradley, JW 2010, 'The use of a micro-cavity discharge array at atmospheric pressure to investigate the spatial modification of polymer surfaces', Surface and Coatings Technology, vol. 204, no. 14, pp. 2279-2288. 19 18
2010	Fabretto, M, Mueller, M, Hall, C, Murphy, P, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2010, 'In-situ QCM-D analysis reveals four distinct stages during vapour phase polymerisation of PEDOT thin films', Polymer, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 1737-1743. 38 38
2010	Low, SP, Short, RD & Steele, DA 2010, 'Plasma polymer surfaces for cell expansion and delivery', Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 2215-2236. 10
2010	Mierczynska-Vasilev, A, Vasilev, KA, Voelcker, N, Chan, JWH, Hook, A & Short, RD 2010, 'Creating gradients of two proteins by differential passive adsorption onto a PEG-density gradient', Biomaterials, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 392-397. 57 52
2010	Robinson, DE, Buttle, DJ, Whittle, JD, Parry, KL, Short, RD & Steele, DA 2010, 'The substrate and composition dependence of plasma polymer stability', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 102-106. 20 18
2010	Short, RD & Steele, DA 2010, 'Testing the hypothesis : comments on plasma polymerisation of acrylic acid revisited', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 366-370. Open access 33 25
2010	Tensaout, H, Wilm, B, Edgar, D, Kenny, SE, Short, RD, Murray, P, Ranghini, E, Rak-Raszewska, A, Vasilev, KA & Mora, CF 2010, 'The potential of small chemical functional groups for directing the differentiation of kidney stem cells', Biochemical Society Transactions, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1062-1066. 12 12
2010	Vasilev, K, Michelmore, A, Martinek, P, Chan, J, Sah, V, Griesser, HJ & Short, RD 2010, 'Early stages of growth of plasma polymer coatings deposited from nitrogen- and oxygen-containing monomers', Plasma Processes and Polymers, vol. 7, no. 9-10, pp. 824-835. 88 80
2010	Vasilev, K, Sah, VR, Goreham, R V, Ndi, C, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2010, 'Antibacterial surfaces by adsorptive binding of polyvinyl-sulphonate-stabilized silver nanoparticles', Nanotechnology, vol. 21, no. 21, pp. 215102. 79 71
2009	Mahew, CA & Short, RD 2009, 'Selected ion flow tube studies to investigate the formation of acrylic and propionic acid protonated clusters in low power, low pressure RF plasmas', Chemical Communications, no. 6, pp. 659-661. 10 10
2009	Robinson, D, Mulloy, B, Marson, A, McArthur, S, Whittle, JD, Brookes, P, Buttle, D, Cain, S, Clark, S, Collinson, L, Day, A, Fielder, H, Wiles, M, Short, RD & Kielty, C 2009, 'Development of a microtiter plate-based glycosaminoglycan array for the investigation of glycosaminoglycan-protein interactions ', Glycobiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1537-1546. Open access 39 38
2009	Short, RD, Steele, DA, Baxter, M, Parry, K, Murray, P, Turnbull, J, Wells, N & Edgar, D 2009, 'The geometric control of E14 and R1 mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency by plasma polymer surface chemical gradients', Biomaterials, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1066-1070. 57 54
2009	Vasilev, K, Michelmore, A, Griesser, HJ & Short, RD 2009, 'Substrate influence on the initial growth phase of plasma-deposited polymer films', Chemical Communications, vol. 2009, no. 24, pp. 3600-3602. 110 97
2009	Walker, RA, Cunliffe, VT, Whittle, JD, Steele, DA & Short, RD 2009, 'Submillimeter-scale surface gradients of immobilized protein ligands', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 4243-4246. 12 11
2008	Beck, A, Matthews, B & Short, RD 2008, 'Deposition of functional coatings from acrylic acid and octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane onto steel using an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge', Surface and Coatings Technology, vol. 203, no. 5-7, pp. 822-825. 40 37
2008	Day, A, Short, RD, Wiles, M, Mistry, A, Whittle, J, Parry, K, Highfield, P, Marson, A, Robinson, D & Buttle, D 2008, 'Surface Gradient of Functional Heparin', Advanced Materials, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1166-1169. 66 61

Conferences

Year	Output
2021	Ghimire, B, Szili, EJ, Patenall, BL, Fellows, A, Mistry, D, Jenkins, ATA & Short, RD 2021, 'Cold plasma generation of peracetic acid for antimicrobial applications', Eighth International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM8), Begell House, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 73-84. Open access 4
2011	Al-Bataineh, S, Szili, EJ, Desmet, G, Ruschitzka, P, Gruner, JP, Priest, CI, Voelcker, N, Steele, DA, Short, RD & Griesser, HJ 2011, 'Chemical and biomolecule patterning on 2D surfaces using atmospheric pressure microcavity plasma array devices', SPIE 2011: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, SPIE, vol. 8204, article no. 82043H, pp. 1-11. Open access 1 1
2011	Szili, EJ, Al-Bataineh, SA, Priest, C, Gruner, PJ, Ruschitzka, P, Bradley, JW, Ralston, J, Steele, DA & Short, RD 2011, 'Integration of microplasma and microfluidic technologies for localised microchannel surface modification', SPIE 2011: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, SPIE, vol. 8204, article no. 82042J, pp. 1-7. Open access 5 3
2010	Harding, F, Clements, L, Vasilev, KA, Short, RD, Thissen, H & Voelcker, N 2010, 'Embryonic stem cell response to surface chemistry assessed using plasma polymer gradient surfaces', Chemeca 2010, Engineers Australia, pp. 461-465.
2010	Zuber, AA, Steele, DA, Low, SP & Short, RD 2010, 'Preparation of a modified polymer surface for the in vitro culture of retinal pigment epithelium', Chemeca 2010, Engineers Australia, pp. 3087-3095.

Research

Patents

Details	Registry	Status
Methods and products for delivering cells Smith, Louise; Michelmore, Andrew Percival; Kirby, Giles Thomas Sipho; Cowin, Allison June; Mills, Stuart James; Short, Robert David	WO	Filed

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
AGA Nanotech	UNITED KINGDOM
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)	SINGAPORE
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Australian Water Quality Centre	AUSTRALIA
BD Biosciences	UNITED KINGDOM
BD Biosciences,The Innovation Centre Sheffield	UNITED KINGDOM
Bio Innovation SA	AUSTRALIA
Carl Zeiss Vision Corporation Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Centre for Eye Research Australia Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Charles University in Prague	CZECH REPUBLIC
Chinese Academy of Sciences	CHINA
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Department of Chemistry and Material Science Institute, UK	UNITED KINGDOM
Electronics Industry Association	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
INP Greifswald EV	GERMANY
Italian Institute of Technology	ITALY
Joint Research Centre	ITALY
Kochi Medical School	JAPAN
Kochi University of Technology	JAPAN
Kwangwoon University	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH)
Lancaster University	UNITED KINGDOM
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology	GERMANY
LV Prasad Eye Institutue	INDIA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	UNITED STATES
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research	GERMANY
Mayo Clinic	UNITED STATES
Meijo University	JAPAN
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics	UNITED KINGDOM
National University of Singapore	SINGAPORE
Plasso Technology Ltd	UNITED KINGDOM
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Research Laboratories Australia	AUSTRALIA
Reutlingen University	GERMANY
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
SA Water	AUSTRALIA
Schefenacker Vision Systems Australia Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	SWITZERLAND
Toyohashi University of Technology	JAPAN
Universiteit Antwerpen	BELGIUM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Bath	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Birmingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	UNITED STATES
University of Liverpool	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Manchester	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Nottingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of Sheffield	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Washington	UNITED STATES
University of Wollongong	AUSTRALIA
Victoria University	AUSTRALIA
Wound Management Innovation CRC	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member of learned academy Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering	2013

Other

Fellow of The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
A study of stimulus-responsive composite materials and their applications in biomedicine	Completed
Adhesives toughened by nanomaterials	Completed
Conductive composites electrode for low energy capacitive desalination	Completed
Development of a multilayer surface supporting and stimulating retinal pigment epithelium culture in vitro	Completed
Development of porous silicon nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery	Completed
Generating density gradients of gold nanoparticles using plasma polymeristion as a novel tool to observe cellular response	Completed
High refractive index and semi-stepwise gradient refractive index coatings by plasma polymerisation	Completed
Investigating plasma-tissue interactions in the context of wound healing	Completed
Nanostructured silicon photoelectrodes for solar water electrolysis	Completed
Optical biosensors based on nanoporous materials to detect biomarkers in chronic wound fluid	Completed
The fabrication of silicon nanostructures using metal-assisted chemical etching and their applications in biomedicine	Completed
The role of Flightless I in tissue regeneration	Completed

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