His Ph.D. was in collaboration with Solvay-Solexis and devoted to the synthesis of new graft copolymers using grafting "to". In 2005, he undertook a postdoctorate position with Dupont Performance and Elastomers (Willmington, United States) and Dr. B. Ameduri dealing with the synthesis of original fluorinated elastomers using controlled radical polymerization (e.g., iodine transfer polymerization). Since October 2006, he has been a senior research fellow under the direction of Prof. Thomas Davis in the Centre of Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), University of New South Wales. His research interests mainly cover the preparation of well-defined polymers, protein-polymer conjugates, and hybrid organic-inorganic nanoparticles using controlled radical polymerization. He has coauthored over 40 peer-reviewed research papers, including 2 book chapters, and 2 patents. Volga Bulmus received her B.E. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and her Ph.D. in bioengineering (Hacettepe University, Turkey), in 2000. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Washington between 2001 and 2003. In 2004, she was granted a highly competitive The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship (Australia). In 2008, she was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (UNSW). She is also an adjunct member of The Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) at UNSW. Dr. Bulmus leads a group of 5-10 researchers working on the development of advanced polymers for biotechnology and biomedical applications. She has published over 45 peer reviewed research papers. Her research interests include design, synthesis, and evaluation of well-defined polymeric systems for nanobiotechnology and drug delivery applications ranging from antitumor chemotherapy and gene silencing to bioseparations and biosensors. Tom Davis has been an academic at UNSW for 17 years following a stint in industry as a research manager at ICI in the U.K. He has coauthored 315+ reviewed papers, patents, and book chapters. He is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) at UNSWsa Centre with expertise in bio/organic polymer synthesis and polymerization kinetics. He is also a visiting Professor at the Institute for Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore. In 2005 he was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. He serves (or has served) on the editorial advisory boards of Macromolecules,

The remarkable electrocatalytic properties and small size of carbon nanotubes make them ideal for achieving direct electron transfer to proteins, important in understanding their redox properties and in the development of biosensors. Here, we report shortened SWNTs can be aligned normal to an electrode by self-assembly and act as molecular wires to allow electrical communication between the underlying electrode and redox proteins covalently attached to the ends of the SWNTs, in this case, microperoxidase MP-11. The efficiency of the electron transfer through the SWNTs is demonstrated by electrodes modified with tubes cut to different lengths having the same electron-transfer rate constant.