个人简介

I am an interfaces scientist working within the Discipline of Chemistry which sits within the School of Environmental & Life Sciences. I arrived at the University of Newcastle as a lecturer in Chemistry in December 1996 after a two year postdoc at the University of Otago in New Zealand. While employed at the University of Newcastle I have enjoyed the privilege of overseas sabbatical periods at the Universities of Sussex (UK), Bordeaux (France), Sheffield (UK), Durham (UK) and the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) together with a JSPS fellowship at the Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan). In 2013 I was promoted to Full Professor.

研究领域

Chemistry

I am an active researcher in both fundamental and applied colloid and surface chemistry. I have built an international reputation for my contributions to the nanometre-scale understanding of the solid-liquid interface in the presence of surfactant or polymer molecules. I was one of the first researchers to use soft-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) to reveal detail of the lateral structure of adsorbed surfactant layers on the molecular scale. Through this I have developed highly specialised skills in soft-contact AFM imaging in water. By combining measurements of adsorption kinetics and adsorbed amounts, in 2003 we published the most thorough understanding of surfactant adsorption kinetics to date. In the last decade I have performed extensive fundamental research on the behaviour of stimulus responsive polymer molecules adsorbed to, or grafted from solid interfaces, and reported how these smart coatings behave in a variety of aqueous environments (project funded by the Australian Research Council). In this project we have investigated pH-, salt- and thermo-responsive polymer coatings. In a second major project I have conducted investigations into how polymeric colloids and mineral particles can stabilise fluid interfaces as underpin particle-stabilised foams (as occur in mineral flotation cells, personal care and food products) or emulsions (as occur in food, cosmetic and personal care products). This project was also funded by the Australian Research Council. Additionally, I have applied my fundamental knowledge & skills to a variety of industrial research problems including projects concerned with mining emulsion explosives, water-based paints, powder coatings, plastic solar cells, mineral flotation, emulsions & foams.

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2016 Jarrett E, Ireland PM, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, 'Particle-liquid structures formed by electric fields', Powder Technology, 297 1-7 (2016) 2016 Humphreys BA, Willott JD, Murdoch TJ, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, 'Specific ion modulated thermoresponse of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes.', Phys Chem Chem Phys, 18 6037-6046 (2016) 2016 Bournival G, Ata S, Wanless EJ, 'Behavior of Bubble Interfaces Stabilized by Particles of Different Densities', Langmuir, 32 6226-6238 (2016) [C1] 2016 Morse AJ, Giakoumatos EC, Tan SY, Webber GB, Armes SP, Ata S, Wanless EJ, 'Giant pH-responsive microgel colloidosomes: Preparation, interaction dynamics and stability', Soft Matter, 12 1477-1486 (2016) [C1] 2016 Willott JD, Murdoch TJ, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, 'Nature of the Specific Anion Response of a Hydrophobic Weak Polyelectrolyte Brush Revealed by AFM Force Measurements', Macromolecules, 49 2327-2338 (2016) 2016 Moreno-Atanasio R, Gao Y, Neville F, Evans GM, Wanless EJ, 'Computational analysis of the selective capture of binary mixtures of particles by a bubble in quiescent and fluid flow', Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 109 354-365 (2016) [C1] 2015 Bournival G, de Oliveira e Souza L, Ata S, Wanless EJ, 'Effect of alcohol frothing agents on the coalescence of bubbles coated with hydrophobized silica particles', Chemical Engineering Science, 131 1-11 (2015) [C1] 2015 Gao Y, Wang G, Evans GM, Wanless EJ, Sathe M, Mitra S, Moreno-Atanasio R, 'Modelling the Motion of a Collected Particle over a Bubble Surface', Procedia Engineering: New Paradigm of Particle Science and Technology Proceedings of The 7th World Congress on Particle Technology, 1346-1355 (2015) [C1] 2015 Willott JD, Humphreys BA, Murdoch TJ, Edmondson S, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, 'Hydrophobic effects within the dynamic pH-response of polybasic tertiary amine methacrylate brushes.', Phys Chem Chem Phys, 17 3880-3890 (2015) [C1] 2015 Ueno K, Bournival G, Wanless EJ, Nakayama S, Giakoumatos EC, Nakamura Y, Fujii S, 'Liquid marble and water droplet interactions and stability', Soft Matter, 11 7728-7738 (2015) [C1] 2015 Bournival G, Ata S, Wanless EJ, 'The roles of particles in multiphase processes: Particles on bubble surfaces', Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, (2015) [C1] 2015 Willott JD, Murdoch TJ, Humphreys BA, Edmondson S, Wanless EJ, Webber GB, 'Anion-specific effects on the behavior of pH-sensitive polybasic brushes.', Langmuir, 31 3707-3717 (2015) [C1] 2014 Willott JD, Murdoch TJ, Humphreys BA, Edmondson S, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, 'Critical salt effects in the swelling behavior of a weak polybasic brush.', Langmuir, 30 1827-1836 (2014) [C1] 2014 Morse AJ, Tan SY, Giakoumatos EC, Webber GB, Armes SP, Ata S, Wanless EJ, 'Arrested coalescence behaviour of giant Pickering droplets and colloidosomes stabilised by poly(tert-butylaminoethyl methacrylate) latexes.', Soft Matter, 10 5669-5681 (2014) [C1] 2014 Ueno K, Hamasaki S, Wanless EJ, Nakamura Y, Fujii S, 'Microcapsules fabricated from liquid marbles stabilized with latex particles', Langmuir, 30 3051-3059 (2014) [C1] 2014 Gao Y, Evans GM, Wanless EJ, Moreno-Atanasio R, 'DEM simulation of single bubble flotation: Implications for the hydrophobic force in particle-bubble interactions', Advanced Powder Technology, 25 1177-1184 (2014) [C1] 2013 Cheesman BT, Neilson AJG, Willott JD, Webber GB, Edmondson S, Wanless EJ, 'Effect of Colloidal Substrate Curvature on pH-Responsive Polyelectrolyte Brush Growth', LANGMUIR, 29 6131-6140 (2013) [C1] 2013 Neville F, Murphy T, Wanless EJ, 'The formation of polyethyleneimine-trimethoxymethylsilane organic-inorganic hybrid particles', COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS, 431 42-50 (2013) [C1] 2013 Elbourne A, Sweeney J, Webber GB, Wanless EJ, Warr GG, Rutland MW, Atkin R, 'Adsorbed and near-surface structure of ionic liquids determines nanoscale friction', CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 49 6797-6799 (2013) [C1] 2013 Cheesman BT, Smith EG, Murdoch TJ, Guibert C, Webber GB, Edmondson S, Wanless EJ, 'Polyelectrolyte brush pH-response at the silica-aqueous solution interface: a kinetic and equilibrium investigation', PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 15 14502-14510 (2013) [C1]