Burford, Robert - University of New South Wales - School of Chemical Engineering

个人简介

Professor Burford has studied the relationship between structure and properties in both thermoplastics and elastomers for over 25 years, leading to awards from both the RACI Polymer Division (Citation, 1992) and the APRI (Jim Smithson medal awarded at IRC 2000). His particular interests include the development of new membranes including conducting polymer-coated micro-filtration membranes with a CRC, the mechanisms of reinforcement in blends, and the formation and characterisation of interpenetrating polymer networks. This has recently led to TEM, SAXS and SANS studies of IPNs both in Australia and overseas. Over the past 5 years he has been a project leader with the CRC for Polymers and has developed improved polymer compositions for new cables, leading to a CRC Chairman's Award (2003) and a CRC-A Innovation award (2004). He led the CRC-P team that won the Business Higher Education Roundtable Innovation Award in 2004. He is a co-inventor of about 8 patents relating to fire performance materials. Professor Burford is now a program leader in the current CRC for Polymers. His recent research interests include polymer reaction engineering (suspension and sedimentation polymerisation), and inorganic-organic hybrid materials both in bulk and thin layer formats. The latter has lead to new nanocomposites of organic polymers with titania, and the use of atomic layer deposition for surface modification. He continues to have an interest in the tailoring of polymers and related materials at the nanometer and micron scale, failure/performance aspects and the manufacture of new classes of polymers. Professor Burford has been an editor of several journals including the Journal of Applied Polymer Science and referees for many others. He has supervised ~20 PhD students to completion and has published over 170 international journal articles in polymer science including rubber chemistry and physics. He is a Chief Investigator for ARC Discovery Grants and is an ARC OZ-reader. He has given invited lectures in over 15 countries, most recently in Ireland, Germany and Canada. Professor Burford has been a judge for the advanced materials section of the Du Pont innovations awards. He is the UNSW Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Councillor and has been a member of the Bragg Institute Board. He Chairs the Treloar Prize panel for oral papers from young researcher's at the Australasian Polymer Symposia. As Research Associate Dean, Engineering, Professor Burford initiated collaborative grants between the UNSW Kensington campus and ADFA in Canberra. He leads a School with degree programs ranging from Chemical and Process Engineering through to Industrial Chemistry to Food Science and Engineering. His professional interests include petrochemical processing, materials formation and control at the nm-micron scale, biotechnology and renewable resources. He also teaches business management and has a strong industry focus via the Co-op scholar program where he is a co-ordinator. He has teaching and research collaborations with materials scientists, physicists and chemists.

研究领域

1. Failure analysis 2. Polymer compound analysis 3. Adhesion 4. Mechanical behaviour 5. Interaction of polymers with various environments 6. Suitability of polymers for applications 7. Engineering of elastomers 8. Rubber failure

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Van Hensbergen JA; Liu M; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2015, 'Simultaneous ROMP and titania sol-gel reactions and nanodispersed functional organic-inorganic composite hybrid materials', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 693 - 702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01971g Van Hensbergen JA; Ganda S; Roth PJ; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2015, 'ROMP synthesis of novel thermo-, ph-, and salt-responsive (Co) polymers containing the morpholino functional group', Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 50 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27436 Van Hensbergen JA; Gaines TW; Wagener KB; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2014, 'Functional α,ω-dienes via thiol-Michael chemistry: Synthesis, oxidative protection, acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization and radical thiol-ene modification', Polymer Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 21, pp. 6225 - 6235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4py00783b Van Hensbergen JA; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2014, 'ROMP (co)polymers with pendent alkyne side groups: Post-polymerization modification employing thiol-yne and CuAAC coupling chemistries', Polymer Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 18, pp. 5339 - 5349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4py00604f Pei Y; Dharsana NC; Van Hensbergen JA; Burford RP; Roth PJ; Lowe AB, 2014, 'RAFT dispersion polymerization of 3-phenylpropyl methacrylate with poly[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] macro-CTAs in ethanol and associated thermoreversible polymorphism', Soft Matter, vol. 10, no. 31, pp. 5787 - 5796, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4sm00729h Lowe AB; Liu M; van Hensbergen JA; Burford RP, 2014, 'Combining Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Thiol-Ene Coupling Chemistries: Facile Access to Novel Functional Linear and Nonlinear Macromolecules', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201300744 Liu M; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2014, 'Thiol-Michael coupling and ring-opening metathesis polymerization: Facile access to functional exo-7-oxanorbornene dendron macromonomers', Polymer International, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pi.4664 Kemal I; Whittle A; Burford R; Vodenitcharova T; Hoffman M, 2013, 'Toughening of unmodified polyvinylchloride through the addition of nanoparticulate calcium carbonate and titanate coupling agent', Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 2339 - 2353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.37774 Campbell JA; deBorniol M; Mozer AJ; Evans PJ; Burford RP; Triani G, 2012, 'Effects of atomic layer deposited thin films on dye sensitized solar cell performance', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology Part A: International Journal Devoted to Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, vol. 30, no. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.3670397 Liu M; Van Hensbergen J; Burford RP; Lowe AB, 2012, 'Thiol-Michael coupling chemistry: Facile access to a library of functional exo-7-oxanorbornenes and their ring-opening metathesis (co)polymerization', Polymer Chemistry, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 1647 - 1658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2py20155k Holmes RL; Campbell JA; Linser R; Hook JM; Burford RP, 2011, 'In-situ preparation of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-titania hybrids using γ-radiation', Polymer, vol. 52, no. 20, pp. 4471 - 4479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2011.07.056 Triani G; Campbell JA; Evans PJ; Davis J; Latella BA; Burford RP, 2010, 'Low temperature atomic layer deposition of titania thin films', Thin Solid Films, vol. 518, no. 12, pp. 3182 - 3189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.09.010 Holmes RL; Campbell JA; Burford RP; Karatchevtseva I, 2009, 'Pyrolysis behaviour of titanium dioxide-poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) composite materials', Polymer Degradation and Stability, vol. 94, no. 10, pp. 1882 - 1889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.03.026 Samat N; Burford R; Whittle A; Hoffman M, 2009, 'The effects of frequency on fatigue threshold and crack propagation rate in modified and unmodified polyvinyl chloride', Polymer Engineering and Science, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1299 - 1310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.21369 Kemal I; Whittle A; Burford R; Vodenitcharova T; Hoffman M, 2009, 'Toughening of unmodified polyvinylchloride through the addition of nanoparticulate calcium carbonate', Polymer, vol. 50, no. 16, pp. 4066 - 4079, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2009.06.028 Hoffman M; Kemal I; Samat N; Burford R; Whittle A, 2009, 'PVC-based polymer nanocomposites: Processing, fracture and cyclic fatigue', ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials Holmes RL; Burford RP; Bertram CD, 2008, 'Preparation and characterization of poly(methyl methacrylate) beads', Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 1814 - 1822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.28216 Hanley T; Sutton D; Karatchevtseva I; Cookson D; Burford R; Knott R, 2007, 'Effects of selected process parameters on the morphology of polyethylene terephthalate preforms and bottles', Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 238 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.26472 Mansouri J; Wood CA; Roberts K; Cheng YB; Burford RP, 2007, 'Investigation of the ceramifying process of modified silicone-silicate compositions', Journal of Materials Science, vol. 42, no. 15, pp. 6046 - 6055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-1163-8 Mansouri J; Wood CA; Roberts K; Cheng Y; Burford RP, 2007, 'Investigation of the ceramifying process of modified silicone-silicate compositions', Journal of Materials Science, pp. 1 - 9