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FACULTY OF SCIENCE

2007 Annual Report

School of Materials Science and Engineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

School of Materials Science and Engineering ______________________________________

Faculty of Science

School of Materials Science & Engineering

The University of New South Wales

KENSINGTON NSW 2052 Tel: (61 2) 9385 4436 Fax: (61 2) 9385 5956 www.materials.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G

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Table of Contents

2007 SCHOOL ORGANISATION 5

2008 VISITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS 7

REPORT FROM HEAD OF SCHOOL 8

ACADEMIC STAFF 10

FINANCIAL REPORT 26

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 30

EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATING CLASS 2007 33

UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES 2007 34

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES 35

POSTGRADUATE COMPLETIONS & DESTINATIONS 37

POSTGRADUATES – AREAS OF RESEARCH 38

POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS 41

POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISORS 43

Internal 43

External 43

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 45

CO-OP PROGRAM 46

CO-OP PROGRAM 47

MARKETING COMMITTEE 48

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 49

LEARNING AND TEACHING 50

RESEARCH 51

Table of Contents

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 52

Investigation of Surface Chemistry on Particle-Substrate Interactions During Plasma Spray Processing 54

Combined Effect of Particle Size and Chemical Composition on the Degree of Whiteness of Fly Ash 55

Computational Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites from Mineral Clays 57

Discovery of Silver-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses 58

Preparation and Superconducting Properties of SmO0.8F0.2FeAs Wires 60

Synthesis and Chlorination of Titanium Oxycarbide 61

Damage-Free Focused Ion Beam Milled Ferroelectric Nanostructures 62

Film Thickness-Misfit Strain Phase Diagrams and Phase Transitions in Epitaxial PbZr1-xTixO3 Ultra-thin Ferroelectric Films 63

Development of Polymer Nanocomposite PVC with High Stiffness and Toughness 64

Green Steelmaking Research SMaRT@UNSW 66

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE UNIT 67

STAFF ACTIVITIES 68

Membership of Committees 68

STAFF ACTIVITIES 69

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES 72

Presentations to External Bodies and Conferences 73

CENTRES 78

Simulation and Modelling Of Particulate Systems (SIMPAS) Laboratory 78

ARC Centre of Excellence Design in Light Metals 81

Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) 84

MATSOC (MATERIALS SCIENCE STUDENT SOCIETY) 85

A FOREIGN STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE 86

PROJECTS 87

An Australia – India (Targeted AISRF) Nanotechnology Project 87

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS 2007 88

SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS FOR 2007 95

School of Materials Science & Engineering – 2007 Annual Report Page 5

2007 SCHOOL ORGANISATION

Head of School & Professor

Mark Hoffman BE, PhD(USyd), MBT(UNSW)

Professors

Alan Crosky BSc (Hons I), PhD (UNSW)

Michael Ferry BE (UoW), PhD (UNSW)

Paul Munroe - Director of Electron Microscope Unit, BSc, PhD (Birmingham), Grad.

Dip. H.Ed. (UNSW)

Oleg Ostrovski – ARC Professorial Fellow,

DipIng, PhD, DSc (Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute)

Veena Sahajwalla – Associate Dean (Strategic Industry Relations), BTech, MSc PhD(U.Michigan), MAIE, MIBF, MAus., IMM,FTSE

Charles C Sorrell BSc(Missouri), MSc(Penn.) PhD(UNSW)

Aibing Yu – Federation Fellow & Scientia

Professor, BEng (NEU), MEng (NEU), PhD (UoW), DSc (UNSW), FTSE, FIChemE

Senior Lecturers

Sri Bandyopadhyay Btech(Met), Mtech(Mat Sci), PhD(Monash), FIEAust.

Sammy Chan BSc (Lond), PhD (Cantab), ARSM, CEng CSci FIMMM

Sean Li, B.Eng, (Wuhan) M. Eng, (Sth China) Ph.D(Auckland)

Nagarajan Valanoor – ARC Research Fellow BE, PhD (Maryland)

Owen Standard, BE(UNSW), PhD(UNSW) Lecturers

Runyu Yang BE, ME (ZJU), PhD (UNSW), MIT

(Sydney)

Guangqing Zhang BE, ME (China University of Petroleum), PhD(UNSW)

Haiping Sun, BE, (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), ME, (Kyushu University, Japan), PhD, (Kyushu University, Japan)

Emeritus Professors

David J. Young BSc (Hons), PhD (Melbourne)

Max Hatherley, MSc PhD (UNSW), ASTC, FTSE, CPEng, FIM

ARC Research Fellows (additional)

ARC Professorial Research Fellow:

Yong Zhao, BS,MS, PhD UST(China)

Australian Research Fellows:

Dr. Chandana Jayasundara

Dr. Zongyan Zhou

Jianqiang Zhang BE, ME(Nanjing Institute of Technology China), PhD(UNSW)

Haiping Zhu, BSc, PhD (BIT)

Australian Postdoctoral Fellow:

Zonghan Xie, BEng, MEng (China), PhD (UNSW) Research Academics

Sergey Bliznyukov, PhD, DSc (MSAI, Moscow)

Cecily Cheng, BEng, PhD (UNSW)

Xuefeng Dong, BEng, Meng(NEU),PhD (UNSW)

Baoyu Guo, BEng, MEng, PhD (Sydney)

Sushil Gupta BSc, MSc (Physics),PhDChem Eng(Newcastle)

Xuchain Jiang (Univ. Of Sci. Tech. China), PhD(China)

Rita Khanna PhD, Physics,(Madras University, India)

Wangqiang (Martin) Xu PhD (UNSW)

Qadir Zakaria BSc (BUET), PhD (HKU)

Qinghua Zeng BEng, Meng (China), PhD (UNSW)

Ruiping Zou BSc (NEUT), MEng (U W’gong), PhD(UNSW)

Leigh Shepherd BE, PhD (UNSW)

Maria Nowotny BE, PhD (UNSW)

Visiting Academics

Al-Hilli,Muthafar

Bassman,Lori

Ben-Nissan,Besim

Borrero-Lopez,Oscar Juan

Cheng,Cui Hua

Choi,Eung Soo

De Ryck,Alain

Ghaemi,Susan

Grzesik,Zbigniew

Hellier,Alan Keith

2007 School Organisation


Iwase,Masanori

Joseph,Stephen David

Lang,Candace Irene

Lu,Hong

Mahesh,Patel

Numata,Takafumi

Peng,Ping

Plumb,Ian

Prince,Kathryn Elizabeth

Shen,Yi

Shinohara,Kunio

Sun,Haiping

Vance,Eric Raymond

Wang,Zhongmin

Williams,Richard A

Yang,Chuncheng

Zulli,Paul

Administration Manager

Anil Singh-Prakash BSc(Auck), MA (Deakin) Professional Officer

Jane Zhi Gao BE(Tsinghua Uni)

Research Engineer

N.M. Saha-Chaudhury BE(Mech) MIEAust, CPEng MAIE

Technical & Senior Technical Officers

Philip Chatfield (NZCE)

Cathy Lau

Danny Kim BElecSci (Ho Chi Minh City Uni.)

George Yang BE (UTS), PhD (UQ) Administrative Assistants

Flora Lau

Susan Lundy

Lana Strizhevsky, BMusBEd (Moscow Cons) Assistant to Head of School

Georgina Atalasidis

Outreach & Student Recruitment Officer

Lucy Stride BA(Hons) (East Anglia)

Learning Resources Development Officer

Emma Yench BA (UQ), PG Dip.(Lib & Info Studies) (QUT), MIM (UTS)

Postgraduate Studies Director

Chris Sorrell Undergraduate Program Coordinators

1st and 2nd Years: Sri Bandyopadhyay 3rd and 4th Years: Owen Standard

BE/MBiomed: Owen Standard

BE/BComm: Michael Ferrya

Nanotechnology: Sammy Chan Co-op Scheme: Mark Hoffman / Owen Standard


2008 VISITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alan Thomas (Chair) Vice President, Technology and Environment BLUESCOPE STEEL Leo Selleck Executive General Manager, Project Magnet ONE STEEL Cathy Inglis Group Technical, Research and Engineering Manager AUSTRAL BRICKS Peter Mayfield Director, Newcastle Technology Centre BHP BILLITON Marcus Walker General Manager, Pacific Technology Centre, Primary Metals Group, RIO TINTO ALCAN Chris Mouatt National Research and Development Manager BORAL BRICKS Gerald Roach Manager, Extraction Technology ALCOA WORLD ALUNIMINA, WA Raj Rajakumar Director, Flagship for Light Metals CSIRO David Willis Manager, Knowledge Sharing and Information

Management BLUESCOPE STEEL RESEARCH Lyndon Edwards Head, Institute of Materials Engineering ANSTO Roger Leigh Senior Project Manager COCHLEAR LIMITED Fred Bradner Division Director of Technology WEIR MINERALS John Costley General Manager, Yennora ALCOA Jeanne Els Managing Director, Iron & Steel, Australasia

HATCH Mike Archer Dean, Faculty of Science, UNSW Mark Hoffman Head of School, Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW Shane Griffin Director, Student Recruitment & Scholarships, UNSW


REPORT FROM HEAD OF SCHOOL

The 2007/8 period has been one of considerable success and expansion across the breadth of the School‘s activities. Both undergraduate and postgraduate student numbers climbed strongly in the past 12 months. External research income in 2007 was 54% greater than 2006 and is now close to twice operational income received from the Faculty. Nevertheless, the School‘s environment remains challenging, as a result of the steady decline in national investment in the university sector in Australia for a number of years. A change in government at the end of 2007 is viewed as potentially leading to a reversal of this situation but no effects have been seen to date. This situation places constraints upon the University as a whole which flow to the Faculty and then to the School.

Our School has been somewhat shielded from the full effects of this through: a vibrant industry sector which provides good employment to graduates and strong support to its research, rising student numbers, high quality staff, exceptional research performance and a lean and effective operational structure. However, the larger environment is constraining the School‘s ability to exploit this situation, most notably via a steady decline in operational income versus salary increases and deficient building infrastructure. The exceptional quality of the School‘s staff continues to be recognised. Of special note is the awarding of an ARC Federation Fellowship to Prof. Aibing Yu. This is Australia‘s highest recognition of academic research performance. Additionally, in 2008 Michael Ferry was promoted to Professor, Sammy Chan and Sri Bandopadhyay to Associate Professor and Ruiping Zou and Sushil Gupta to Senior Research Fellow. Research Research outcomes across a broad range of metrics continue to rise. They are the highest in the University and ensure that the School sits at the top of its field, nationally. The School received almost $7m in external research income in 2007 in keeping with a five-year trend of 25% p.a. increases. Of this, 51% was for fundamental research projects, 43% industrially-funded projects and 6% for infrastructure, reflecting the School‘s robust research structure which brings together strong fundamental research with industrial outcomes. This research income has enabled the School to achieve the highest number of journal publications in the University, increase postgraduate research numbers by 11% and create commercially-beneficial outcomes for industrial partners. A decline in postgraduate completions to just seven in 2006 has been reversed with 25 completing in 2007 and a further 14 in the first half of 2008. The School also enjoys its situation as a preferred destination for high-quality overseas research students which is not the case for other locations across Australia. The School‘s research productivity and growth is becoming heavily constrained by its building infrastructure. In the past 4 years, postgraduate research student numbers have increased by 50% and research income, which feeds increased research staff and lab requirements, has increased by 130%. It is expected that this growth will continue. In contrast, there has been no increase in building space or significant renovation in over 40 years. The School was allocated space in a basement on campus in 2007 but funding for necessary renovation to lab space has only just been approved. This issue has been recognised by the inclusion of the School in future building plans of the University‘s Engineering Precinct. Funding for these projects is expected to include significant contributions from stakeholders who are external to the University.

Report from Head of School 2007


Teaching The School recognises that, while high-quality research performance is critical to it standing within the academic and broader community, it plays in important role to provide high-quality education to both materials engineers and to the engineering discipline as a whole. Furthermore, undergraduate teaching contributes over 65% of the School‘s operating income. For some years, the School has struggled to recruit students into its undergraduate programs with stagnant to declining numbers and falling student quality. Concerted efforts at the end of 2007 have redressed this situation. Student intake into first year in the School‘s programs increased from 30 in 2007 to 51 in 2008. Importantly, this corresponded with an increase of 45% in the number of students with a UAI greater than 90, indicating a significant improvement in student quality which has been reflected by a threefold reduction in the fraction of students failing their first session. Industry-supported scholarships remain by far the School‘s most effective recruitment tool. Teaching quality continues to be high and appreciated by students. Two members of the School‘s staff received UNSW Vice-Chancellor‘s Teaching Awards in 2007; notably one was received by postgraduate student Justin Armellin for laboratory demonstration. School staff have now received more of these awards than any other School in the University in the past 5 years. Furthermore, averages of formal teaching evaluation scores of all courses are well above Faculty averages. In exit surveying, undertaken independently from the School in 2007, 100% of graduates said they had received Good Teaching, 98% Generic Skills and 100% were Overall Satisfied, compared with 52%, 78% and 83%, respectively, in 2005. Looking Ahead The School faces a number of significant challenges in the coming 12 months and beyond. Addressing building infrastructure deficiencies remains the greatest challenge. In the short-term this involves convincing the University to promptly allocate suitable space and funds for renovations while in the longer term, beyond 3 years, there is a clear need for a new building. The other constraint is associated with the funding model applied across the University which allocates operational funding based upon large-volume undergraduate teaching, which discriminates against Schools with the structure of Materials, and allocates research funding in an ad hoc way which makes planning challenging. The School is, however, fortunate to operate in a high-growth area in terms of both industry and technology. It, furthermore, is home to a high-performing and cohesive team of staff who work in a well-established structure which rewards performance.

Mark Hoffman

Head of School


ACADEMIC STAFF

Mark Hoffman BE, PhD (Sydney), MBT (UNSW)

HEAD OF SCHOOL & PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience Head of School, Materials Science & Engineering, University, 2007- Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, 2004-2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Darmstadt Uni. of Tech. (Germany) 2005 Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 1997-2004 Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) 2001 Research Associate, Darmstadt Uni. of Tech. (Germany) 1994-1997 Visiting Scientist, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) 1993 Visiting Scientist, University of California, Berkeley (USA) 1991-1992

Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of microstructure-property relationships for the design of engineering materials for structural applications. Areas of research include computational material and structural modeling; fracture, fatigue and wear; development of multilayer thin films; light metal hybrid composites, polymer nanocomposites and resorbable ceramic implants; biological systems; electromechanical fatigue of piezoelectric materials. Recognition of this includes: 100+ papers in international journals; $4.7 m research funding since 2003, Completed 7 PhD in the past 4 years. Program Leader, ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of Fracture Mechanics, Computational modelling in Materials Engineering, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, mechanical behavior of materials, Surface Treatments and Wear, Management in the Materials Industry. Received the UNSW Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence undergraduate teaching in 2003 (with A. Crosky, P. Munroe & B. Allen) and postgraduate supervision in 2007. Carrick Citation in 2007, again with the aforementioned team.

Awards & Memberships 2006- Council Member Institute of Materials Engineers Australia & Chair of Education Committee 1998- Associate Editor & Member American Ceramic Society 2004-2006 President of Australian Fracture Group

Selected Publications

1. Z.H. Xie, M.V. Swain, P. Munroe and M. Hoffman, ―On the critical parameters that regulate the deformation behaviour of tooth enamel‖ Biomaterials, 29[17] (2008) 2697-2703

2. J.L. Jones, J.E. Daniels, A.J. Studer, and M. Hoffman, "Direct measurement of the mechanisms leading to the dynamic piezoelectric response in ferroelectric ceramics", App. Phys. Lett. 89, 092901 (2006)

3. J.M. Cairney, M.J. Hoffman, P.R. Munroe, P.J. Martin and A. Bendavid, ―Deformation and fracture of Ti-Si-N nanocomposite films‖, Thin Solid Films, 479[1-2] (2005) pp 193-200

4. M Tilbrook, R. Moon and M. Hoffman, ―Crack Propagation in Graded Composites‖, Composites Sci. & Tech., 65[2], (2005) pp 201-220.

5. M. Hoffman, S. Skirl, W. Pompe and J. Roedel, "Thermal Residual Strains and Stresses in

Al2O3/Al Composites with Interpenetrating Networks", Acta Mater., 47[2] (1999) pp 565-577.

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Academic Staff

Alan Crosky BSc (Hons I), PhD (UNSW)

PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2006- Honorary Professor, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 2006- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor, UNSW, 1987-2005 Visiting Professor, ENSAIT, France, 2008 Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, UK, 2005. Visiting Professor, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 2005 Visiting Professor, Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 2000 Materials and Processing Engineer/Senior Materials and Processing Engineer, Hawker de Havilland 1978-1986 Visiting Engineer F/A 18 program, Cleveland Pneumatic, USA, 1982 Visiting Engineer, Rolls Royce Ltd 1980

Research Contribution Research has focused on the effect of structure (both micro and macro) on mechanical behaviour. Specific areas of research include directed fibre placement in fibre reinforced plastic composites, natural fibre composites, wood plastic composites, agro biochar, ageing behaviour in aluminium alloys and failure analysis. Recognition of this includes: 100+ papers in international journals and conferences; $2.3 m research funding since 2003; 6PhD/ME completions since 2003; Program Leader, CRC for Advanced Composite Structures.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are Fundamentals of Materials Engineering (large class first year engineering students) Metal Forming, Fractography, Welding and Composites. First year engineering course is UNSW exemplar and was UNSW nomination for Blackboard Exemplary Course Project in 2007. Received the UNSW Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003 (with M. Hoffman, P. Munroe & B. Allen) and a Carrick Citation in 2007, again with the aforementioned team. Currently leading 3 year faculty project on dissemination of best practice in learning and teaching.

Awards & Memberships Awarded Best Paper in 2006 in the international journal Composite Structures. Selected Publications 1. Crosky, A., Smith B., Hebblewhite B., (2003) "Failure of rock bolts in underground mines in

Australia", Practical Failure Analysis, 3(2), 41-49. 2. Lynch, P., Edwards, D.P., Crosky, A., (2004) "Failure of a screw in a helicopter fuel control unit: Was

it the cause of a fatal crash?‖ Practical Failure Analysis, 4(5), 33-44. 3. Legrand, X, Crosky A., Kelly, D., Crepin D., (2006) Optimisation of fibre steering in composite

laminates using a genetic algorithm, Composite Structures,75(1-4), 524-531. 4. Crosky, A., Kelly, D., Li, R., Legrand, X., Huong, N. Ujjin, R., (2006) Improvement of bearing

strength of laminated composites, Composite Structures, 76, 260-271. 5. Buha, J., Lumley R.N., Crosky, A.G., Hono, K, (2007) ―Secondary precipitation in an Al-Mg-Si-Cu

alloy‖, Acta Materiala, 55(9), 3015-3024. 6. Park, B.G., Crosky, A., Hellier, A.K., (2008) "Fracture toughness of microsphere Al2O3-Al particulate

metal matrix composites", (2008) Composites B, in press: JCOMB956. 7. Buha, J., Lumley R.N., Crosky, A.G., (2008) ―Secondary ageing in an aluminium alloy 7050‖,

Materials Science and Engineering A, in press: MSEA-S-08-00421. 8. Li, R., Huong, N., Crosky, A., Mouritz, A., P., Kelly, D., Chang, P., ―Improving bearing performance

of composite bolted joints using z-pins‖, submitted, Composites Science and Technology. 9. Allen, B,. Crosky, A., McAlpine, I., Hoffman, M., Munroe, P., ―A blended approach to collaborative

learning: making large group teaching more student-centred‖, Submitted, International Journal of Engineering Education.



Academic Staff

Michael Ferry BE (UoW), PhD (UNSW)

PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience Professor, School of Materials, University of New South Wales (2008- ) Visiting Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France (2008) Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence, Design in Light Metals (2005- ) Associate Professor, University of New South Wales (2004-07) EPSRC Senior Fellow, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK (2004) Visiting Fellow, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK (2002) Senior Lecturer, School of Materials, University of New South Wales (2000-03) Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Wollongong (1996-99) EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Materials, University of Manchester (1994-96) Materials Engineer, Alcan Australia Limited (1989-94)

Research Contribution My research interests are concerned mainly with the mechanisms of microstructure and texture evolution during solidification, solid-state phase transformation and deformation & annealing with recent emphasis on the mechanical and physical properties of crystalline and amorphous light metals. Several ARC-funded projects are underway on structure and properties of submicron grained alloys, bulk metallic glasses and focused ion beam tomography coupled with electron backscatter diffraction (termed 3D-EBSD). Publications include ~150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, 5 book chapters and a sole-authored book on direct strip casting of metals and alloys. Since 2000, substantial research funding has been generated from various sources and 5 HDR students have completed theses in the past 4 years. I am Deputy Director (Ed&T) and Program Leader (Program A ) in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of: Physical Properties of Materials; Thermodynamics & Phase Equilibria; Crystallography; X-ray Diffraction; Dislocation Theory; Physical Metallurgy; Phase Transformations, and Thermomechanical Processing.

Awards & Memberships 2007 - Fellow of Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust) 2006 - Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) 2002 - UNSW European Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK 1996 - Chartered Engineer (UK) (CEng) 1996 - Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia) (CPEng) 1996 - Member of Institute of Materials Engineering, Australia (IMEA) 1996 - Member of Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, USA (TMS)

Selected Publications 1. M.Z. Quadir, O. Al-Buhamad, L. Bassman and M. Ferry (2007). Development of

recovered/recrystallized microstructure in Al alloys by accumulative roll bonding. Acta Materialia. 55, p.5438.

2. M. Ferry (2006). Direct Strip Casting of Metals and Alloys. Book published by CRC Press LLC, New York, USA & Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK.

3. M. Ferry, N.E. Hamilton, N.E. and F.J. Humphreys (2005). Continuous and discontinuous grain coarsening in a fine grained particle-containing Al-Sc alloy. Acta Materialia. 53, p.1097.

4. P.A. Manohar, M. Ferry and T. Chandra (1998). Five decades of the Zener equation. ISIJ International. 38, p.913.

5. M. Ferry and F.J. Humphreys (1996). Discontinuous subgrain growth in {110}<001> aluminium single crystals. Acta Materialia. 44, p.1293.


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Academic Staff

Paul Munroe B.Sc, PhD (Birmingham), Grad. Dip. H.Ed. (UNSW)

PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPE UNIT [email protected] Professional Experience Director and Professor, Electron Microscope Unit, UNSW, 2003- present Director and Associate Professor, Electron Microscope Unit, UNSW, 1998-2003 Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer, Electron Microscope Unit, UNSW, 1995-1998 Senior Lecturer, Monash University, 1994-1995 Director, Physical Sciences Electron Microscope Unit, UNSW, 1990-1994 Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 1987-1990

Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of microstructure-property relationships in advanced engineering materials. Areas of research include functional thin films, intermetallic alloys, advanced metal-matrix composites, thermal spray materials, surface modification of materials and biochars. Recognition of this includes: 180+ papers in international journals; 2000+ citations, career H-factor 23, $13.9 m research funding since 2003, Completed 4 PhD‘s in the past 4 years.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of electron microscopy, deformation and strengthening, semiconductor device fabrication and advanced alloys. Received the UNSW Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence undergraduate teaching in 2003 (with M. Hoffman, P. Munroe & B. Allen) and Carrick Citation in 2007, again with the aforementioned team.

Awards & Memberships 1996 – Philips Cowley-Moodie award for Physical Sciences Electron Microscopy Editorial boards of ‗Microscopy Research and Technique‘, ‘Research Letters in Materials Science‘, ‗Advances in Materials Science‘ 2007 - Technical Director: Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility

Selected Publications 1. Z.H. Xie, M.V. Swain, P. Munroe and M. Hoffman, ―On the critical parameters that regulate the

deformation behaviour of tooth enamel‖ Biomaterials, 29[17] (2008) 2697-2703 2. L.W. Ma, J.M. Cairney, D. McGrouther, M. Hoffman and P.R. Munroe, ―Three Dimensional Imaging

of Deformation Modes in TiN-Based Thin Film Coatings‖, Thin Solid Films, 515 (2007) 3190-3195. 3. S. Rubanov and P. R. Munroe, ―FIB-induced Damage in Silicon‖, J. Microscopy, 214 (2004) 213-

221 4. S.X. Dou, S. Soltanian, J. Horvat, X.L. Wang, P.R. Munroe, S.H. Zhou, M. Ionescu, H.K. Liu, and M.

Tomsic, ―Enhancement of the critical current density and flux pinning of superconductor MgB2 by nanoparticle SiC‖, Applied Physics Letters, 81 (2002) 3419-3421.

5. I. Baker and P.R. Munroe, "The Mechanical Properties of FeAl", International Materials Reviews, 42, (1997) 181-205.



Academic Staff

Oleg Ostrovski DipIng, PhD, DSc (Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute)

ARC PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience ARC Professor, UNSW, 1 August 2007- 31 July 2012 Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW 2004 - 31/07/2007 Professor, UNSW, 2001- 2003 Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, UNSW, 1993-2000 Professor, Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute, 1990-1993 Head of Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute, 1986-1991 Research positions, Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute, 1973-1985 Visiting professorial positions at the University of Tokyo (1992), La Trobe University, Bendigo (1992 ) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1999).

Research Contribution Major contributions are in the field of pyrometallurgical technologies for minerals processing, iron-, steel-, and ferroalloy-making. Areas of research include thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanisms of metallurgical reactions; properties of molten metals and slags; reduction, smelting and refining processes, environmental issues in pyrometallurgy. In 2000-2008, 70 papers were published in international journals; research funding exceeded $3.5M; 10 PhD projects were completed.

Awards & Memberships 2007—ARC Professorial Fellowship 2004 — Benjamin F Fairless award (Association for Iron and Steel Technologies, USA) for ―Excellence in the application of fundamental research to the improvement of steelmaking processes and for energetic and innovative leadership to steelmaking community‖. 1985 — Soviet Union Government award ―The Council of Ministers of the USSR Prize‖ for development of cost-efficient technologies for high alloy steels Editorial Board Member

High Temperature Materials and Processes

Electrometallurgy Advisory Board Member - ISIJ International (2004-2006)

Selected Publications 1. O. Ostrovski, V.A. Grigoryan, and A.F.Vishkarev, Properties of Liquid Metals, Moscow, Metallurgiya,

1988 (book, in Russian). 2. O. Ostrovski, Remelting of Scrap Containing Tungsten and Nickel in the Electric Arc Furnace, Steel

Research, 10 (1994), 429-432. 3. O. Ostrovski, Dephosphorization and Desulphurization of Stainless Steel, The 6th AusIMM

Extractive Metallurgy Conference, Brisbane, 3-6 July 1994, 311-315. 4. D. Belashchenko, O. Ostrovski, and Yu. Utochkin, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dilute

Solutions of MeO and MeF2 in the CaO-CaF2 System, ISIJ International, 38 (1998), 673-679. 5. G. Tranell, O. Ostrovski, and S. Jahanshahi, The Equilibrium Partitioning of Titanuim Between Ti3+

and Ti4+ Valency States in CaO-SiO2-TiOx Slags, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 33B (2002), 61-68.

6. O. Ostrovski and G. Zhang, Reduction and Carburization of Metal Oxides by Methane Containing Gas, AIChE Journal, 52 (2006), 300-310.

7. R. Longbottom, O. Ostrovski, J. Zhang, and D. Young, The Stability of Cementite Formed from Hematite and Titanomagnetite Ore, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 38B (2007), 175-184.



Academic Staff

Professor Veena Sahajwalla

PhD,University of Michigan, US

MASc, University of British Columbia, Canada

BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

ASSOCIATE DEAN (STRATEGIC INDUSTRY RELATIONS) & PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY [email protected] Professional Experience Director, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology, UNSW, 2008 - Associate Dean (Strategic Industry Relations), Faculty of Science, UNSW, 2007 – Visiting Professor, University Malaysia Perlis, 2006 - Professor (since 2004); Associate Professor (2001–04); Senior Lecturer (1996–2001); Lecturer (1994–96), UNSW Research Scientist, Materials and Process Engineering, CSIRO, Melbourne 1992–94 Research Engineer, Dep of Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia 1988–89 Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of Waste Plastics in EAF Steelmaking – Slag Interactions. Other areas of research include Structure – Reactivity Relationship of Carbon; Carbon Reactions in Iron and Steelmaking. Invented an environmentally friendly technology for recycling plastics and rubber tyres in steelmaking, enabling their use as a partial replacement of coal and coke in electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking. The University‘s commercialisation arm, NSi, has signed an agreement with Australia‘s largest manufacturer of steel long products, OneSteel, to allow the sublicensing of this unique technology. It has been the subject of numerous invited/keynote addresses including the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. Recognition of this includes: 170+ refereed papers in international journals; $9.3 m research funding since 1994. Lead a research group of some 25 staff, comprising three postdoctoral fellows, 14 current PhD, four current research Masters students, three current Honors students, a research engineer and a visiting researcher. Primary supervisor of further ten PhD, eight Masters and more than 20 Honors students.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of Fluid Flow, Pollution Control and runs the undergraduate 1st year Materials Conference.

Awards & Memberships 2007 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 2005 - Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia 2008 - New South Wales Scientist of the Year Award in the category of Engineering Sciences. 2006 - Environmental Technology Award, the Association of Iron & Steel Technology (AIST – US) 2006 - Charles Briggs Award, AIST. 2005 - Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, Australian Museum. 2004 - Fresh Innovators Award, supported by the National Innovation Awareness Strategy, an Australian Government initiative. 2003 - Josef Kapitan Award, Iron & Steel Society (ISS – US). 2002 and 2003 - Frank McKune Award, for the best paper on steelmaking practice, author under 40

Selected Publications 1. Lu L, Sahajwalla V and Harris D (2001) Coal char reactivity and structural evolution during combustion–

factors influencing blast furnace PCI operation, Metallurgical and Materials Trans, B, vol. 32B, pp. 811–20.

2. Lu L, Kong C, Sahajwalla V and Harris D (2002) Char structural ordering during pyrolysis and combustion and its effects on char reactivity, Fuel, vol. 81, no. 9, pp.121–25.

3. Khanna R, Rodgers B, McCarthy F and Sahajwalla V (2006) Dissolution of Carbon from Alumina-Carbon mixtures into liquid Iron: Influence of Carbonaceous Materials, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol. 37B, pp. 623-632.



Academic Staff

Charles Sorrell

B.Sc., Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1977 B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1980 M.Sc., Ceramic, Pennsylvania State University, 1980 Ph.D., Ceramic Engineering, University of New South Wales, 1987 Certificate Diamond Grading, Gemmological Association of Australia, 1992 Diploma Diamond Technology, Gemmological Association of Australia, 1993

PROFESSOR OF CERAMIC ENGINEERING

[email protected]

Professional Experience

Professor University of New South Wales 1997-Present Assoc Professor University of New South Wales 1992-96 Senior Lecturer University of New South Wales 1989-91 Lecturer University of New South Wales 1987-89

Research Contributions The main focus of research has been in the processing of ceramics, including fabrication, forming, and densification of bulk materials, thick films, and thin films. The main research areas historically are:

Phase Equilibria 1976-Present Publications: 74 Crystal Growth 1977-80 Grants: $3.75 million High-Temperature Superconductivity 1987-00 Postgraduate Student Completions: 6 Bioceramics 1989-01 Microwave Heating of Ceramics 1997-04 Gas Sensors and Fuel Cells 1998-01 Photocatalytic Titania 1999-Present

Teaching Contributions (Last 5 Years) MATS1112 Phase Equilibria MATS2013 Ceramic Materials MATS1142 Crystallography & X-Ray Diffraction MATS2183 Refractories MATS1163 Chemistry of the Solid State MATS2263 Sintering of Ceramics MATS1244 Materials Industry Management A MATS2294 Thermal & Mechanical Properties of Ceramics MATS1464 Prof‘l Communication & PresentationMATS2314 Glass-Based Ceramics

Awards & Memberships (Last 5 Years) President Ceramics, Cells and Tissues Italy 2003 Fellow Australian Institute of Energy Australia 2003 Labino Lecture Glass Art Society USA 2005 Pfeil Award Institute of Materials UK 2006

Selected Publications (Last 5 Years) [1] C.C. Sorrell, S. Sugihara, and J. Nowotny, Editors, Materials for Energy Conversion. Woodhead

Publishing Limited, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 401. [2] J. Nowotny, C.C. Sorrell, T. Bak, and L.R. Sheppard, "Defect Disorder, Transport and

Photoelectrochemical Properties of TiO2", pp. 84-119 in Materials for Energy Conversion Devices. Edited by C.C. Sorrell, S. Sugihara, and J. Nowotny. Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, 2005.

[3] J. Nowotny, C.C. Sorrell, T. Bak, and L.R. Sheppard, ―Solar-Hydrogen: Solid-State Chemistry Perspective‖, pp. 169-215 in Advances in Solar Energy: An Annual Review of Research and Development in Renewable Energy Technologies, Vol. 17. Edited by D.Y. Goswami. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 2007.

[4] J. Nowotny, C.C. Sorrell, T. Bak, and L.R. Sheppard, "Solar-Hydrogen: Unresolved Problems in Solid-State Science", Solar Energy, 78 [5] 593-602 (2005).

[5] J. Nowotny, T. Bak, M.K. Nowotny, and C.C. Sorrell, "Charge Transfer at Oxygen/Zirconia Interface at Elevated Temperatures. Parts 1-12", Adv. Appl. Ceram., 104 [4] 147-231 (2005) {series of 12 papers}.



Academic Staff

Aibing Yu BEng (NEU), MEng (NEU), PhD (UoW), DSc (UNSW), FTSE, FIChemE

FEDERATION FELLOW and SCIENTIA PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience

Federation Fellow, Australian Research Council, 2008-2013

Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, 2008-

Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales, 2007-2012

Australian Professorial Fellow, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2005-2008

Professor, University of New South Wales, 2001-

Inaugural Director, Centre for Computer Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems (SIMPAS), University of New South Wales, 2000-2007

Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, 1998-2001

Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 1995-1998

Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 1992-1995

Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, 1991-1992

Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Mineral & Process Engineering, CSIRO, 1990-1991

Research Contribution Prof. Yu is a world-leading scientist in particle science and technology, and process engineering. His research theme is ―simulation and modelling of particulate systems‖, aimed at understanding the mechanisms governing particulate packing and flow through rigorous simulation and modelling of the particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions at both microscopic and macroscopic levels, with application oriented to mineral/metallurgical/material/chemical industries. He has made many significant contributions in research and development. Recognition of this includes: publications of >400 papers in various journals and conference proceedings, attraction of >$15M external research funds (>40 ARC grants) to UNSW, graduation of >30 PhD students, and the awards/memberships listed below.

Teaching Contributions Transfer phenomena including courses such as fluid flow & heat transfer, and kinetics and mass

transfer Modelling in metallurgical/materials engineering Others including diffusion, plant practice, and metallurgical reaction engineering

Awards & Memberships 1990 Postdoctoral Fellowship, CSIRO (90-91) 1992 Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, Australian Research Council (ARC) (93-97) 2002 Josef Kapitan Ironmaking Award, Iron and Steel Society (ISS) 2004 Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) 2004 Fellow, Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) 2005 Australian Professorial Fellowship, ARC (05-09) 2006 Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales (07-12) 2006 Member, College of Experts - Engineering and Environmental Science Panel, ARC (06-08) 2007 Doctor of Science (DSc), University of New South Wales 2007 Panel Member, Engineering and Technology, Research Quality Framework (RQF), Department

of Education, Science and Training (DEST) 2007 Panel Member, International Science Linkages (ISL) Program, Department of Innovation,

Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) (08-11) 2008 Federation Fellowship, ARC (08-12)

Selected Publications Please see the website for details: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au/profiles/acadstaff/ayu.html



Academic Staff

Sri Bandyopadhyay Bachelor‘s in Metallurgical Eng, IIT Kharagpur India Master‘s in Materials Science, IIT Kanpur India Ph D Polym Eng, Dept Mater Eng Monash Uni, Australia SENIOR LECTURER [email protected]

Professional Experience Visiting Professor, Bengal Eng & Sci Uni Shibpur India 2007 Visiting Academic, Materials Science Center, IIT Kharagpur India 2006 Sir Anthony Mason Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Physical Sciences, India, 2005 Visiting Professor, Center for Composites Materials, U Delaware, USA, 1997 – 1998 Visiting Professor, Polymer Laboratories, Ecole Polytechnic Lausanne Switzerland, 1997 Research Scientist /Senior Research Scientist : DSTO Materials Res Labs, Melbourne 1980 –1990 Materials Scientist, Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, Abbotsford, Melbourne, 1978 – 1980 Materials Engineer / Senior Engineer, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, India, 1969-1974 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Training School, Batch 12, Mumbai, India 1968 - 1969 Research Contribution Metal - Polymer Nanocomposites : obtained 8 – 10 orders of magnitude improvement in electrical conductivity using only with 1 vol % of Co-graphene nanoparticles – collaboration with UTS and UTS.

Through MOU with UCF USA, three times world first in fabrication and characterization of <20 nm size nanoparticles of ceria, zirconia and yttria-stabilised zirconia; Nanofabrication work with MGU/BESU India.

Quantitative atomic force microscopy of phase, morphology, interfaces/interphases with IIT Kharagpur India .

Australia – India Targeted Allocation research Nanocomposites in clean energy. Involving 6 Australians and 6 Indians.

Recycling of fly ash in polymer matrix composites : ARC Linkage with Cement Australia.

Teaching Contributions Polymer & Materials Science (Polymer Science, Polymer Eng, Polymer Production) Design & Materials Engineering (Mechanical Properties, Materials & Design, Fracture Mechanics) Service Teaching (Building/Civil Eng/Architecture) Marketing/ Management (Process Control, Nanotech I P &Comm Management, Decision Making) Awards & Memberships 1984: Best Scientist Award, DSTO – MRL Melbourne Australia 1991: Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 2006: ARC Linkage International Award to work on Nanoceria with UCF USA 2005: Sir Anthony Mason Fellowship to promote Australia – Indian Nanotechnology Collaboration 2004: Invited by President of India Dr A P J A Kalam to set up UNSW – India Nano research

Selected Publications 1. N A. Luechinger, N Booth, G Heness , S Bandyopadhyay, RN. Grass , W J. Stark : Surfactant-Free, Melt-Processable Metal-Polymer Hybrid Materials: Use of Graphene as a Dispersing Agent, Advanced Materials, 2008, Volume 20, Issue 16, 3044-3049 2. S Gong and Sri Bandyopadhyay : Fracture properties and fracture surface morphologies in rubber- PMMA composites, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 2007, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 607- 613 3. A Ghosh, RS. Rajeev, SK. De, W Sharp & S Bandyopadhyay :Atomic Force Microscopic Studies on Silicone Rubber-Fluororubber Blend Containing Ground Rubber Vulcanizate Powder - J Elast Plast 2006 38: 119-132 4. S. Gupta, P. Brouwer, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Patil, R. Briggs, J. Jain and S. Seal, TEM/AFM investigation of size and surface properties of nanocrystalline ceria, Journal of Nanosci and Nanotech 5(7), 1101-1107 (2005). 5. S. Shukla, S. Seal, R. Viz, S. Bandyopadhyay, ―Reduced Activation Energy for Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia, Nano Letters, 3, 397, 2003



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Sammy Chan BSc (Lond) PhD (Cantab) ARSM CEng CSci FIMMM

SENIOR LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, 2009- Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 2003-2008

Research Contribution Dr. Sammy Chan‘s research interests are in the areas of energy-materials, hydrogen storage and metal matrix composites (MMCs). On hydrogen trapping and embrittlement of steels he was able to determine the relative hydrogen trapping ability in different microstructures. On hydrogen storage materials and Ni-MH battery, the use of Ni encapsulation to hydrogen storage alloys enables the preparation of electrode using sintering rather than via the paste method. The papers on the synthesis of nanostructured Ni(OH)2 show that by careful control of the structure of Ni(OH)2, the performance of nickel electrodes increased by 30%. Another significant contribution is the work on aluminium matrix composites with nano-reinforcements. With only 1% of these reinforcements, the tensile properties of the composites are better than or comparable to those of composites with 10% micrometric reinforcements. Publications include 3 book chapters, 60+ refereed journal papers and similar number of conference papers. He was a recipient of Best Paper Awards from both Chinese Corrosion Engineers Association and Taiwan‘s Welding Association.

Teaching Contributions Courses are taught in the areas of Nanotechnology (Nanotechology II, Nanotechology III, Advanced Nanomaterials), Mechanical Properties of Materials, Corrosion and Corrosion Control, Surface Treatment and Wear, Specialty Alloys, Materials Design and Applications. The teaching receives excellent evaluations from students, with 100% student approval in all courses taught in 2007. Supervision of 10 postgraduate students and 14 honours students since coming to UNSW. Five postgraduates have graduated already.

Awards & Memberships Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK Chartered Engineer, UK Chartered Scientist, UK Professional Member, Chinese Society for Materials Science


1. Q.S. Song, G.K. Aravindaraj, H. Sultana and S.L.I. Chan, ―Performance Improvement of Pasted

Nickel Electrodes with Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes for Rechargeable Nickel Batteries‖,

Electrochimica Acta, 53 (2003) 1890-1896.

2. Z.M. Wang, C.Y.V. Li and S.L.I. Chan, ―Discharge Behaviour of MmNi3.66(CoAlMn)1.34 Hydrogen Storage Alloys‖, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 438 (2007) 298-302.

3. Z.G. Lin, S.L.I. Chan and F.A. Mohamed, ―Effect of Nano-scale Particles on the Creep Behaviour of 2014 Al‖, Materials Science and Engineering A, 394 (2005) 103-111.

4. Q.S. Song, Z.Y Tang, H.T. Guo and S.L.I. Chan, "Structural Characteristics of Nickel Hydroxide Synthesized by a Chemical Precipitation Route under Different pH Values", Journal of Power Source, 112 (2005) 428-434

5. Y.C. Kang and S.L.I. Chan, "Tensile Properties of Nanometric Al2O3 Particulate- reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites", Materials Chemistry and Physics, 85, (2004) 438-443.



Academic Staff

Sean Li B.Eng.(Wuhan), M. Eng.(Sth China), PhD(Auckland)

SENIOR LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Senior Lecturer, Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2007- Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 1998-2004 Adjunct Fellow, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (Singapore), 2002-2004 Research Associate, University of Wollongong, 1997-1998

Research Contribution Major contributions to the field are: (1) establishing a technique to experimentally discriminate lattice structural effects from electronic contributions to physical properties, and (2) discovery of semi-crystalline defect traps in self-aligned nanostructured MgB2. Areas of research cover electronic and photonic materials including spintronic materials, thermoelectric materials, superconductors and biophotonic materials. Recognition of this includes: 130+ papers in international referred journals; ~$3 m research funding since 2005, Completed 2 PhD and 3 M. Eng./M. Sc. in the past 4 years. Establishment of (1) thermal analysis laboratories, and (2) electronic and photonic property laboratories at the school.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of Crystallography, Physical Metallurgy of Alloys, Thin film Characterization, Advanced Nanotechnology, Materials Science and Engineering, Design of Advanced Materials.

Awards & Memberships 2006 - Vice-Chancellors Teaching and Research Award 2006 2005 - Committee Member of Electronic Division, American Ceramic Society. 2004 - Excellence in Teaching Award 2004, Nanyang Technological University

Selected Publications 1. K. Liao and S. Li, ―Interfacial Characteristics of Carbon Nanotube-Polystyrene Composite System‖,

Appl. Phys. Lett. 79 (25), 4225 (2001). 2. C.Q. Sun, Y. Wang, B. K. Tay, S. Li, H. Huang, Y. B. Zhang, "Correlation Between the Melting Point

of a Nanosolid and the Cohesive Energy of a Surface Atom", J. Phys. Chem. B 106 (41), 10701 (2002).

3. S. Li, Z.L. Dong, K. Maung Latt, H.S. Park and T. White, ―Formation of Cu Diffusion Channels in Ta layer of Cu/Ta/SiO2/Si Structure‖, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 2296 (2002).

4. S. Li, T. White, K. Laursen, T.T. Tan, C.Q. Sun, Z.L. Dong, Y. Li, S.H. Zhou, J. Horvat and S.X. Dou, ―Intense vortex pinning enhanced by semi-crystalline defect traps in self-aligned nanostructured MgB2‖, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 314 (2003).

5. S. Li, T. White, C.Q. Sun, Y.Q. Fu, J. Plevert and K. Lauren, ―Discriminating Lattice Structural Effects from Electronic Contributions to the Superconductivity of Doped MgB2 with Nanotechnology‖, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 16415 (2004).

6. S. Li, Z.W. Li, Y.Y. Tay, J. Armellin and W. Gao, ―Growth Mechanism and Photonic Behaviours of Nanoporous ZnO Microcheerios‖, Crystal Growth and Design 8(5), 1623 (2008).



Academic Staff

Nagarajan Valanoor BE, PhD (Maryland),

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH FELLOW & SENIOR LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 2005-current Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Forschungszentrum Juelich Germany (2003-2004) Visiting Researcher, University of Maryland (USA) 2005 Visiting Researcher, National University Singapore (USA) 2006

Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of thin film epitaxy- functional property relationships for ferroelectrics, dielectrics and multiferroic nanomaterials. Areas of research include thin-film oxide epitaxy;scanned probe microscopy of functional materials and Landau-Ginzburg modeling of phase-transitions. Recognition of this includes: 60+ papers in international journals; $4 m research funding since 2005, Currently supervising 7 PhD; competed 1 M Sc since starting at UNSW.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught are in the areas of Diffusion and Kinetics, Advanced Nanomaterials, Introduction to Materials Design and Nanotechnology, Solid State Chemistry and Nanofabrication.

Awards & Memberships 2006—Australian Research Fellow Since 1999- Member of Materials Research Society


1. C. L. Jia, V. Nagarajan, J. Q. He, L. Houben, T. Zhao,R. Ramesh, K.Urban and R.Waser , ―Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films‖, Nature Materials 6 64-69 (2007)

2. Z. H. Zhou, X. S. Gao, John Wang, K. Fujihara, S. Ramakrishna, and V. Nagarajan , ―Giant strain in PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 nanowires‖, Applied Physics Letters 90, 052902 (2007)

3. V. Nagarajan , J. Junquera, J. Q. He, C. L. Jia, K. Lee, Y. K. Kim, T. Zhao, Ph. Ghosez, K. M. Rabe, S. Baik, R. Waser and R. Ramesh, ―Scaling of structure and electrical properties in ultra-thin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures.‖ Journal of Applied Physics 100, 051609 (2006)

4. V. Anbusathaiah, V. Nagarajan and S. Aggarwal , ― High-resolution piezoresponse force microscopy investigation of imprint in ferroelectric thin films.", Applied Physics Letters 89 132912 (2006)



Academic Staff

Owen Standard BE(UNSW), PhD(UNSW)

SENIOR LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW, 2002– Visiting Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics – Centre of National Research (ISTEC–CNR), Faenza, Italy, 2006 Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW, 1997–2002 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW, 1994–1997 Research Scientist, CRC for Eye Research & Technology, UNSW, 1993–1994

Research Contribution Overall research processing-microstructure-property relationship of advanced ceramics for functional applications and include: colloidal processing of electroceramics, compositional and microstructural modification of bioactive and bioinert ceramics for orthopaedic and dental applications, development of functional (sol-gel) coatings on textile fibres, and ceramic coatings on biomedical alloys.

Teaching Contributions Courses are taught in the following areas: metallography and microstructural analysis, design and application of materials in science and engineering, materials industry management, mechanical properties of biomaterials, materials engineering laboratory, sintering of ceramics, and glass-based ceramics. Coordinator of honours research project in BE program. Coordinator of BE and BE/MBiomedE programs in Materials Science and Engineering.

Awards & Memberships Associate Editor, Journal of the Australasian Ceramic Society, 2006– Editor, Newsbulletin of the Australasian Ceramic Society, 1997–2000 Member, Advisory Panel on Orthopaedic Devices, Therapeutic Device Evaluation Committee, Therapeutic Goods Administration, ACT, Australia, 2001–2003

Selected Publications 1. L.-H. He, O.C. Standard, T.T.Y. Huang, B.A. Latella, and M.V. Swain, "Mechanical Behaviour of

Porous Hydroxyapatite", Acta Biomaterialia, 4, 577-586 (2008). 2. F. Heilmann, O. C. Standard, F. A. Müller, M. Hoffman, "Development of Graded

Hydroxyapatite/CaCO3 Composite Structures for Bone Ingrowth", Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 18, 1817-1824 (2007).

3. H.Okano, K.Hasegawa, B. Ben-Nissan, and O.C. Standard, "Preparation of Piezoelectric Ceramic Thin Films and their Applications to Ghz –Band Surface Acoustic Wave Devices", J. Aust. Ceram. Soc. 42 [2] (2006).

4. M.B. Pabbruwe, O.C. Standard, C.C. Sorrell, and C.R. Howlett, "Use of an Intramedullary In Vivo Model to Study Bone Formation and Maintenance in Ceramic Porous Domains", J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 68A [2] 305-313 (2004).

5. I.J. Bae, O.C. Standard, G. Roger, and D. Brazil, "Phase and Microstructural Development in Alumina Sol Gel Coatings on CoCr Alloy", Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 15 [9] 959-966 (2004).

6. K.R. Ratinac, O.C. Standard, and P.J. Bryant, "Lignosulphonate Adsorption on and Stabilisation of Lead Zirconate Titanate in Aqueous Suspension", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 273 [2] 442-454 (2004).



Academic Staff

Runyu Yang BE, ME (ZJU), PhD (UNSW), MIT (Sydney)

SENIOR LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Senior Lecturer, School Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2008 - Lecturer, School Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2006 - 2008 ARC-CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow, School Materials Science & Engineering UNSW, 2003-2006 Research Associate, School Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2002-2003

Research Contribution Dr. Yang‘s research interest mainly lies in the area of particle/powder science and technology. He has been mainly focusing on the numerical modelling of particle packing and compaction, granular flow and powder dispersion in pharmaceutical inhalers. His main contributions to these areas include: developing discrete element method (DEM) models to simulate the packing and compaction of cohesive particles; providing detailed analysis of microstructure of packings and quantifying the particle-particle and pore-pore connectivity in a packing by means of the Voronoi and Delaunay tessellations; applying a combined DEM-CFD model to simulate the multi-phase flow in stirred mills and modeling dry powder inhalers to improve our understanding and control on these processes. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers and attracted > $1m research funding from ARC, CSIRO and industries. He is currently supervising 1 postdoctoral fellow and 3 postgraduate students.

Teaching Contributions Courses taught including Material Balance and Heat Transfer, Heat, Fluid and Mass Flow, Modelling in Material Engineering, Pollution Control in Materials Processing and Physical Experiments in Materials Engineering.

Awards & Memberships Member of Australian Particle Technology Society

Selected Publications 1. Yang, R.Y., Zou, R.P., Choi, S.K., Yu, A.B. (2008), Forces in the packing of fine particles, Phys.

Rev. E 78, 031302. 2. Dong, K.J., Yang, R.Y., Zou, R.P. and Yu, A.B. (2006), Role of interparticle forces in the formation

of random loose packing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140555. 3. Yang, R.Y., Jayasundara, C., Yu, A.B., and Curry, D. (2006), DEM Simulation of the Flow of

Grinding Medium in IsaMill, Mineral Engineering 19, 984. 4. An, X.Z., Yang, R.Y., Dong, K.J., Zou, R.P., Yu, A.B. (2005). Micromechanic analysis of the

transition from loose to dense packing under one dimensional vibration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 205502/1-4.

5. Yang, R.Y., Zou, R.P. and Yu, A.B. (2003). A simulation study of the packing of wet particles. AIChE J. 49(7), 1656-1666.

6. Yang, R.Y., Zou, R.P., and Yu, A.B. (2003). Microdynamic Analysis of Particle Flow in a Horizontal Rotating Drum. Powder Technol. 130, 138-146.

7. Yang, R.Y., Zou, R.P. and Yu, A.B. (2000). Computer simulation of the packing of fine particles. Phys. Rev. E 62, 3900-3908.

8. Yang, R.Y. and Singh J. (1998), Study of the stability of hydrogenated amorphous silicon using tight-binding molecular dynamics, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 240, 29-34



Academic Staff

Guangqing Zhang BE, ME (China University of Petroleum), PhD (UNSW)

LECTURER [email protected] Professional Experience Lecturer, Materials Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2008- Professional Officer, University of New South Wales, 2003-2007 Senior Research Engineer, James Hardie Research, 2002-2003 Research Associate, University of New South Wales, 2000-2002 Visiting Research Fellow, University of New south Wales, 1996-1997 Lecturer, Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, China, 1984-1996

Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of thermodynamics and kinetics of metallurgical processes, especially in development of innovative technologies for extraction of light metals. Current projects include alternative technologies of titanium minerals processing, production of aluminium by carbothermal reduction, and production of solar grade silicon by synthesis and decomposition of silicon nitride. Other areas of investigation include utilisation by recycling of metallurgical wastes, energy analysis saving energy in metallurgical processes. Other interests of research include integrated utilization of coal for oil products and steel industry, sustainable operation of blast furnace ironmaking, etc.

Teaching Contributions Thermodynamics of Materials Materials Processing-Pyrometallurgy Pyrometallurgy I

Awards & Memberships American Chemical Society American Institute of Chemical Engineers The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Selected Publications 1. A. Adipuri, G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Chlorination of Titanium Oxycarbide Produced by

Carbothermal Reduction of Rutile. Metall. Mater. Trans. B. 39B(1), 2008, 23-34 2. T. Hamano, G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Manganese Furnace Dust: Drying and Reduction of Zinc

Oxide by Tar. ISIJ Int. 48(7), 2008, 906-911 3. R. Shen, G. Zhang, M. Dell 'Amico, P. Brown and O. Ostrovski, Sintering Pot Test of Manganese

Furnace Dust with Fine Manganese Ore and Behavior of Zinc. ISIJ Int. 47(2), 2007, 234-239 4. R. Shen, G. Zhang, M. Dell 'Amico, P. Brown and O. Ostrovski, Reduction of Zinc Oxide in

Manganese Furnace Dust with Tar. ISIJ Int. 46(1), 2006, 8-13 5. O. Ostrovski and G. Zhang, Reduction and Carburization of Metal Oxides by Methane Containing

Gas. AIChE Journal, 52(1), 2006, 300-309 6. O. Ostrovski and G. Zhang. Energy and Exergy Analyses of Direct Iron Smelting Processes.

Energy: the International Journal, 30(15), 2005, 2772-2783 7. G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Effect of Preoxidation and Sintering on Properties of Ilmenite

Concentrates. Int. J. Min. Process. 64(4), 201-218, 2002 8. G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Reduction of Ilmenite Ores by Methane-Containing Gas. Part I. Effects

of Ore composition, temperature and gas composition. Canad. Metall. Q. 40(3), 317-326, 2001 9. G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Kinetic Modeling of the Titania Reduction by A Methane-Hydrogen-

Argon Gas Mixture. Metall. Mater. Trans. B. 32B(3), 465-473, 2001 10. G. Zhang and O. Ostrovski, Reduction of Titania by Methane-Hydrogen-Argon Gas Mixture. Metall.

Mater. Trans. B. 31B(1), 129-139, 2000



Academic Staff

David J. Young BSc (Hons), PhD (Melbourne)

EMERITUS PROFESSOR [email protected] Professional Experience Head of School, Materials Science & Engineering, University, 1989-2003 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry, University of New South Wales, 1989-1988 Research Officer, Central Research Laboratories, BHP Steel, 1977-1978 Research Officer, Applied Chemistry, National Research Council of Canada, 1975-1977 Research Fellow, Materials Science & Engineering, Mcmaster University, 1971-1975 Post-doctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Toronto, 1969-1971 Visiting Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Mcmaster University, 1983 Visiting Professor, Istituto dei Materiali, Universita di Genova, 1986-1987 Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005 Distinguished Visiting Professor, INPT-CIRIMAT, Toulouse, 2006

Research Contribution Most significant contributions are in the field of high temperature alloy-gas interactions. Particular emphasis is placed on the diffusion and phase transformation processes which support these reactions. Current work includes fundamental studies of metal dusting reactions and of water vapour effects on oxidation. The work has led to two books, 6 patents and about 200 international journal papers. It has been recognised by election as chair of a Gordon Research Conference, appointment to ARC Advisory Panel, Engineering and Environmental Sciences (2001-2003), appointed to Board, CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development, and membership of editorial boards: Oxidation of Metals, J. Corrosion Science & Technology, J. Phase Equilibrium, Materials Science Forum, continuous funding from peer reviewed competitive grant schemes since 1979. Total of 47 PhD and Masters students graduated, including 10 since 2000.

Teaching Contributions Retired from teaching. During period as Head of School, revised all undergraduate programs and established the BSc(Nanotechnology) degree.

Awards & Memberships 1995 FRACI, 1990 FIMMA, FIEAust, 1993 FTSE 2003 Corrosion Medal (Australasian Corrosion Association) 2008 U. R. Evans Award (Institute Corrosion Science & Technology, UK) 2008 High Temperature Materials Outstanding Achievement Award (Electrochemical Scoiety, USA)

Selected Publications 1. D. J. Young, W.W. Smeltzer and J. S. Kirkaldy, Non-stoichiometry and Thermodynamics of Chromium

Sulphides, J. Electrochem. Soc., 120, 1221-4 (1973). 2. J.S. Kirkaldy and D.J. Young, "Diffusion in the Condensed State", Institute of Metals, London (1987). 3. D. J. Young and S. Watson, High Temperature Corrosion in Mixed Gas Environments, Oxid. Met., 44,

239-264 (1995). 4. C. Toh, D.J. Young & P.R. Munroe, Metal Dusting of Fe-Cr and Fe-Ni-Cr Alloys, Oxid. Met., 58, 1-22

(2002).

5. S. Hayashi, S. Ford, D. J. Young, D. J. Sordelet, M. F. Besser and B. Gleeson, - NiPt(Al) and phase equilibria of Ni-Pt-Al at 1150°C, Acta Mater., 53, 3319-28 (2005).

6. M. Hansel, W.J. Quadakkers and D.J. Young, Role of water vapour in chromia scale growth at low oxygen partial pressures, Oxid. Met., 59, 285-301 (2003)

7. D.J. Young, High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion of Metals, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2008).



FINANCIAL REPORT

The University operates on a semi-devolved funding model. Income which is used for running the activities of academic units is earned on the basis of undergraduate teaching and research activities, with a heavy weighting towards undergraduate teaching. In 2007, the University took 38% of this income, as earned from Federal Government Allocations, and used it for institutional activities such as building infrastructure, IT, research management, marketing and other such activities. The remainder was distributed to faculties. The Faculty of Science then appropriated approximately 12% for its own activities and distributed the remainder to Schools to cover their operational costs. Cross-subsidization between teaching and research is allowed and occurs to a significant degree in all major research-intensive universities in Australia. At the University of New South Wales, this cross-subsidization is at the discretion of faculties, with little cross-subsidisation undertaken between different parts of the University at a faculty level. Within the Faculty of Science, research income as-earned was weighted in 2007, at a factor of 0.46. The basis behind this reallocation is that income earned for teaching, generally exceeds costs for teaching, whereas the true cost of research in Australian universities is not covered by Federal Government funding. Due to the nature of the University‘s budgeting process in 2006, it was not possible to break down in detail, the basis for the School‘s earnings in regards to teaching and research, to the same level of detail as could be undertaken previously. However, income is heavily dependent upon teaching load, both undergraduate and postgraduate, at the course work and research levels. Figure 1 below, shows the School‘s teaching load for both local and international students, in each of these categories. It can be seen that total teaching load has been increasing strongly for a number of years. A seven-year trend is approximately 7% per year up to 2008. In addition, income is derived from research publications, completed postgraduate research students and a multiplier on external research income.

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Figure 1: Change in teaching load with year in Equivalent Fulltime Teaching Units (EFTSUs) in terms of (a) local and international students and (b) postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Financial Report


Expenditure The main component of expenditure is staff salaries. Other items are on undergraduate and research laboratories, equipment, repair and maintenance, which are controlled by the Head of School‘s Advisory Committee. The School also distributes income based on publications, research student enrolments and completions in reflection of these income drivers and a strategic desire to increase these research metrics. Table 1 below shows the Schools Income and Expenditure in 2007. A general feature of tertiary education is that operating income is increasing at approximately 2% per annum, while salaries are increasing at 5% per annum. The School faces an increasingly challenging situation as it derives a large proportion of its income from research, relative to other disciplines. However, there has been a steady decline in the income provided to the universities to support the cost of research. Concurrently, the School‘s salaries are increasing at a higher rate than the university average. The reason for this is, not the hiring of new staff, but rather that staff in the School are promoted, in general, at a far higher rate than that which occurs within the University, as promotions are predominantly based upon research performance and the School is a high performing research unit. The School‘s income increased by 5.3% from 2006 to 2007. Salaries decreased slightly by $61,000 due predominantly to a delay in replacing some technical staff who departed in 2007. Operating surplus in 2007 was $294,312 following an operating deficit in 2006 of approx $271,471.

Table 1: Income and Expenditure 2007

Income $

Total Allocation 3,419,480

Expenditure

Salaries (including Casual) 2,621,360

Administrative Services

(school office, photocopying,

telephone, internet, vehicle)

57,128

Safety 9,500

Laboratory expenses

(gas, laboratories & EM Unit)

75,444

Marketing (includes Nanotechnology) 38,000

Student Research($60,000 allocated)

Publications ($40,000 allocated)

Staff Development

Strategic Research Support

60,340

79,951

21,000

35,000

Education Technology 3,000

Repair/ Maintenance

Equipment

27,000

15,711

Scholarships 9,500

Faculty Research Grants & ECR

(Listed below)

72,234

Total Expenditure 3,125,168

Balance at end 2007 294,312

Carry Forward from 2006 (271,471)

Funds remaining 22,841

Financial Report


Faculty Research Funding The Faculty stipulates that a certain part of the School‘s operating budget should be allocated to research projects. The following projects were approved under this scheme in 2007:

STAFF AMOUNT

Runyu Yang $12,000

Aibing Yu $8,000

Nagarajan Valanoor $30,000 TOTAL $50,000

Early Career Research Funding The Faculty provides funding to the School based upon its proportional of early career researchers. This funding is then allocated to these staff. The following received funding under this scheme in 2007:

Staff Amount

Nagarajan VALANOOR $11,117

Runyu YANG $11,117

TOTAL $22,234

The School normally uses RIBG earnings to seed LIEF grants. In 2007, two applications were not made at the correct time and School operating funds were used to support them.

Project Amount

LIEF Integrated Electrochemical facility – South Australia $5,000

LIEF Near net shaped casting and alloy development facility – Deakin University

$10,000

TOTAL $15,000

Internal Research and Research Infrastructure Funding Additional funding is provided for development of School‘s research and research infrastructure. The University diverged from its policy of allocating RIBG funding in reflection of research earnings in 2007, to the School‘s detriment. The School received the following research funding in 2007 from the Faculty and the University in support of its research:

Project Amount

ARC Centre of Excellence – Design in Light Metals

ARC Centre of Excellence – Nanomaterials

LIEF Integrated Electrochemical facility – South Australia

LIEF Near net shaped casting and alloy development facility – Deakin University

LIEF Laser flash thermophysical properties analyser

$25,000

$50,000

$15,000

$30,000

$200,000

TOTAL $319,000

Financial Report


Other Central Funding

Project Amount

ARC Centre of Excellence – Design in Light Metals

ARC Centre of Excellence – Nanomaterials

India Australia Nanotechnology Project

50% ARC Research Fellow support (Valanoor)

UNSW – Anglo Coal salary support (Gupta)

VC‘s Teaching & Research Award (Li)

Bridging salary support (Cheng)

Goldstar Award (Hoffman)

Goldstar Award (Nowotny)

Enhance of Industry Linkages (Sahajwalla)

Dissemination of Online Learning (Crosky)

$125,000

$75,000

$5,000

$51,900

$48,750

$60,000

$42,500

$40,000

$40,000

$500,000

$180,000

TOTAL $1,168,150

External Research Income

In addition to operating income, the School‘s research including many of its staff and most student scholarships are supported by external research income through research grants. The graph below shows that the School‘s research income continues to grow strongly. The School received almost $7m in external research income in 2007 in keeping with a five-year trend of 25% p.a. increases.

Summary The School is currently on a sound financial footing in terms of its management structures. However, it is increasingly challenged by variations within the University in funding models. Its position remains secure due to its exceptional research performance and improving undergraduate teaching metrics.

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

The main objective of our undergraduate program is to produce graduates who will be recognised as the best suited and most appropriately trained to contribute to the institutions and industries of Australia. Teaching Programs: The major undergraduate programs taught by the School are:

Bachelor of Engineering (3135)

Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Biomedical Engineering combined program (3138)

Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce combined program (3136)

Bachelor of Science – Nanotechnology (3617) 2007 Enrolments by stages:

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

BE/BioMedE 6 2 6 5

BE 25 17 21 16

BE/BComm 1

Nanotechnology 29 24 33 16

Total 61 43 60 37

The BE program (3135) still has four study plans in the degree plan – Ceramics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Physical Metallurgy and Process Metallurgy. These study plans give the students the choice to specialise in the specific disciplines. This is reflected in the final year enrolment distribution:

2007 BE Final Year Enrolments by Study Plan:

Ceramics Engineering 2

Materials Engineering 4

Physical Metallurgy 7

Process Metallurgy 3

Total 16

With the introduction of the single BE degree program together with the success of the BSc (Nanotechnology) and the combined BE/MBiomedE programs, the enrolments for undergraduate teaching are being maintained at a reasonable level.


Enrolments: The intake of students in 2007 is shown in the Table below, where it is compared with that of previous years. The obvious features are the substantial increase in numbers of BE students enrolling in BE Materials, BE/MBiomedE and BE/BCom. A decrease in the number of students choosing to take Nanotechnology was observed. This nevertheless presents an overall increase in students taking materials courses as nanotechnology in approximately 25% materials and the decline is offset by an increase in the BE degree which is more materials focussed.

New Enrolments:

1999 2000 2001 2002

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Year 1 Ceramics 11 6 7 1

Materials 8 13 12 14

Metallurgy 6 7 4 1

Undeclared 17 19 15 18 21 25

Year 2 (Adv Standing) 4 2 1 0 1 2

BSc Mat Science 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 0

BSc Nanotechnology 1 17 29 32 40 32 29

BE/MBioMedE 1 10 8 6 1 6

BE/BComm 1

Total 29 28 27 50 60 56 64 55 63

The BE programs in Process Metallurgy and Ceramic Engineering attract only small numbers of students. Because the Australian university sector is underfunded, teaching such small classes presents cost-related challenges. There is, however, an increasing drive for graduates who can perform strongly in a variety of environments which drives a need for strong generic materials engineering skills which can support workplace learning. Student quality remains highly variable. Co-op scholarships attract exceptionally good students into the discipline but a number of students also enter with low marks. There was an extraordinary reduction in entrance grades in 2007, as a result of University enrolment decisions, leading to poor academic performances. 1st Year retention rates, however, remain well above University averages. Comparisons with other institutions are no longer able to be made as most institutions accept large numbers of students below published UAI cutoffs, through consideration of various other criteria. The School‘s undergraduate teaching load is predominantly to local students. However, there is a steady increase in international students and an overall consistent increase. The data also includes classes taught into other engineering programs.


Undergraduate Teaching Load (EFTSU):

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

DEST 111.1 91.6 90.9 82.6 73.1 73.1 139.2 166.7 169.4 198.7 179.2 158.5

ISFEE 6.5 13.2 10.6 11.7 10.8 15.4 22.2 22.7 25.3 31.2 31 32.5

Total 117.6 104.8 101.5 94.3 83.9 88.5 161.4 189.4 194.7 229.9 210.2 191

Note: Session 2 data only for 1996-2001, Session 1+2 data for 2002-2007.


EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATING CLASS 2007

Graduate employment remains extremely strong with almost all students attracted into the materials

industry.

PROGRAM 3135 BE - MATERIALS ENGINEERING PLAN

Benjamin Giles H1 Woodside Petroleum

Thanh Kim Lu Pass Metal Manufacturer Kembla

Reuben Bin Xu Pass Weir Minerals

PROGRAM 3135 BE – PHYSICAL METALLURGICAL PLAN

Timothy Burgess H1+Medal Postgraduate Studies - ANU

Ellanor Amber Drummond H2/1 Sandvik Steel - Sweden

Blane Patrick McGuiness H2/1 PhD at UNSW sponsored by OneSteel

Deon James Moore H2/1 Alcoa Aluminium

Christopher Waltos H2/1 Bluescope

PROGRAM 3135 BE – PROCESS METALLURGICAL PLAN

Matthew Cole H2/1 OneSteel

James Mark Oakley H1+Medal BHP Billiton

PROGRAM 3138 BE/MBiomedE – MATERIALS ENGINEERING PLAN

Johnson Hsiang-Yu Chung

H1 Postgraduate Studies - UNSW

Jonathan Robert Kirk H1 Cochlear Ltd

Ana Phan H2/1 Postgraduate Studies – Monash University


UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES 2007

The School offers a number of prizes for performance in undergraduate courses. In 2007, the recipients

were:

PRIZE & CONDITION AWARD WON BY

The ANSTO Prize For the best performance in NANO2002 Nanotechnology 2 in the Bachelor of Science in Nanotechnology program

$500.00 Rama Vasudevan

The Austral Bricks Prize For the best performance in Year 3 of the Bachelor Engineering in Ceramic Engineering program

$500.00 Christopher Dean

The Max Hatherly Prize For the best performance in MATS1142 Crystallography and X-Ray Diffraction

$275.00 Alan Xu

The Hugh Muir Prize For the best performance by a student in the final year seminar class, or who in the opinion of the Head of School has contributed most to the corporate life of the School of Materials Science and Engineering

$275.00 Timothy Burgess

The Materials Australia Prize For the best performance in MATS1092 Materials and Design 1

$200.00 & 1 year

membership Alan Xu

The Sialon Ceramics Prize For the best performance in an honours thesis that reflects an advancement and development of advanced ceramics in the Bachelor of Engineering in Ceramic Engineering

$100.00 Benjamin Giles

The Wallarah Minerals Prize For the best performance in an honours thesis in the Bachelor of Engineering in Ceramic Engineering program

$100.00 Zhuo Zhu Ye


POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

The research school has been maintained at a high level by a continuing stream of high quality students, both from Australia and internationally. There continues to be a steady increase in enrolment of postgraduate research students, and a decline in completions in recent years has been redressed, as shown below.

Postgraduate EFTSUs (session 2) and completions


Postgraduate Studies

The School‘s postgraduate student cohort contains local and international students, primarily enrolled in research programs. There is also a small number of students enrolled in coursework Masters programs offered by the School. These are indicated in the tables below:

Postgraduate Research EFTSU

YEAR

Local DEST International ISFEE

TOTAL Materials Textiles Materials Textiles

1993 26.5 21.5 48.0

1994 29.0 19.0 48.0

1995 35.8 24.5 60.3

1996 39.7 19.3 59.0

1997 38.8 12.3 14.8 15.5 81.4

1998 43.1 6.8 17.5 6.3 73.7

1999 44.3 9.3 19.5 6.5 75.4

2000 45.1 4.0 18.3 2.0 69.4

2001 57.8 13.4 71.2

2002 56.3 14.5 70.8

2003 53.8 18.0 71.8

2004 46.4 23 69.4

2005 40.8 30.8 71.6

2006 46.8 35.5 82.3

2007 59.1 40.5 99.6

Coursework Masters EFTSU

Year DEST ISFEE TOTAL

1995 3.3 3.8 7.1

1996 3.2 3.0 6.2

1997 0.1 1.5 1.6

1998 0.0 1.0 1.0

1999 0.5 4.5 5.0

2000 1.7 2.3 4.0

2001 0.0 4.1 4.1

2002 1.0 2.5 3.5

2003 0.9 2.4 3.3

2004 0.2 2.9 3.1

2005 1.1 6.4 7.5

2006

2007

0

0.8

2.9

0.6

2.9

1.4


Postgraduate Completions & Destinations

Postgraduate completions were strong in 2007, redressing a weakness in recent years. Destinations were diverse with a large proportion staying in research.

Name Degree Supervisor Destination/Organisation

ALQUATANI, Saad M. MScTech AC Private Company

DONG, Kejun PhD AY School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

CHAM, Seau Tsuey PhD VS WSN Environmental Solutions

GAO, Kevin PhD VS CSIRO

HAUPTSTEIN, Anneliese PhD SB DaWarda Jewellery Company – Owner & Designer

HYUNG, Anh Nhut ME AC Private Company

JAYASUNDARA, Chandana PhD AY School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

KARTONO, Rahmat PhD DY School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

LIU, Chang ME AY CCI Pty Ltd

McKENZIE, Warren Richard PhD PM Trinity College, Dublin

MOHSENI, Hamidreza MSc MF EM Unit, University of Sydney

NOWOTNY, Maria K. PhD CS School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

PARRY, Gavin Wayne PhD OO SINTEF(Norway)

RIDWAN, Surya D. MScTech VS Private Company

RUYS, David J. PhD AC School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

SAE-NGOW, Darika MScTech AC Private Company

SHEPPARD, Leigh R. PhD JN School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

SULTANA, Humara MSc SC PhD Studies, University of New York (UNY)

TSAI, Ping-Han (Hank) ME SL PhD Studies, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

VARATHARAJAN, Anbusathajan

MSc NV PhD Studies, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW

WANG, Lei ME AY Webb Welding Pty Ltd

YUEN, Albert Wai Ling PhD AY Longking Company

ZHOU, Zongyan PhD AY School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW


Postgraduates – Areas of Research

Name Current Degree

Supervisor Area of Research

ABDULLA, Hasan Z. PhD CS Surface Segregation in Biomaterials

ADIPURI, Andrew PhD OO Chlorination of Titanium Oxycarbide

AL-ASSADI, Mohammad H.N. PhD SL Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Spin

Transistors

AL-BUHAMAD, Oday H. PhD MF Thermo-Mechanical Processing of Aluminium Alloys

ANGEL, Lana M. ME CS Concrete Performance

ARMELLIN, Justin N. PhD SL Spintronic Materials

ARREDONDO ARECHAVALA, Miryam A.

PhD NV Zinc Oxide Ferroelectric Nanocrystallines

ATANACIO, Armand J. PhD JN Solid-State Electrochemistry

BEAN, Ian J. ME AY Blast Furnace Hearth Drainage

BERNTHALER, Timo PhD MH Microstructure - Property Relations in

Ceramics

BOMMA REDDY, Aravinda R. MSc MF High Resolution Analysis of Grain

Structures

BROSSARD, Sophie PhD PM Microstructual Analysis of Thermal Spray

Coatings

BURG, Tristan K. PhD TB Defect Chemistry and Semiconducting

Properties of Titania

CHANDRATILLEKE, Ganga Rohana

PhD AY Mixing of Particles

CHEN, Li PhD AY Nanotechnology

CHENG, Ching-Jung PhD NV Pulsed Laser Deposition of Piezoelectric Thin Films

CHU, Kai Wei (Kevin) PhD AY Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete

Element Method

CHUANG, Li-Pu (Kris) PhD SL Thermoelectric Materials

CURRY, Daniel C PhD AY Isamill Process

DAYAL, Pranesh PhD MH Deformation of Nanolayered Light Metals

DENG, Honghua PhD OS Effect of Surface Properties on Cellular Response

DEWAN, Mohammad A.R. PhD OO Response and Bone Formation Carbothermal Synthesis of Titanium Carbide

DICKER, Jonathan D. ME VS Slag Reactions in EAF Steelmaking

DOWNIE, Adriana MSc AC Pyrolysis of Biomass

EDISTA, Ignatius Edwin ME RY Simulation of Stockpiling of Cohesive Paticles

FELDMAN, Gavin R. PhD AC Wood-Polymer Nanocomposites

FENG, Yan (Ian) PhD AY Handling Properties of Coal

GILL, Trilochan S. PhD VS Pulversied Coal Injection in Blast Furnace

GRIGORE, Mihaela PhD VS Coke/Gas Reactions

GUN, Bulent PhD MF Secondary Processing of Mg-Based Glasses

GUO, Wei (Gregory) PhD MF Thermomechanical Behaviour of Titanium

Alloys

HAMBE, Michael PhD NV Ferroelectric/Ferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions

HANAOR, Dorian Amir Mphil CS Investigation of Optical Properties of Lower

Titanium Oxidates Composite Films

IDRIS, Maizlinda I. PhD MH Design of Sandwich Composite Structures



Name Current Degree


IKRAM UL-HAQ, Muhammad PhD VS Recycling of Refractories

IMLAO, Soodkhet (Bond) PhD MH Wear of Hard Coatings

JAHJA, Andreas PhD PM Surface Engineering

JANG, Dong-Min (James) PhD VS Recycling Waste Plastics in Manufacturing

KAZUBERNS, Kelli K. PhD VS Coke Reactions in a Blast Furnace

KEMAL, Indra PhD MH Developement of PVC Based Polymer Nano

Composites

KHAN, Konika M. PhD OO Carbon Gasification in Carbothermal Reduction

KIM, Byong-Chul (Moses) PhD VS Influence of Coal/Coke Properties on Coke

Gasification

KONG, Chua Hua (Charlie) PhD HS Gas Composition Profile in Coke-Packed

Bed Furnace

KONGKARAT, Somyote (Nick) MSc VS Refractory-Steel Interactions

KONONOV, Ring PhD OO Carbothermal Reduction of Manganese Ore

KOSHY, Pramod PhD VS Refractory Reactions in Alluminium

Processing

KUMAR, Anup PhD VS Dephosphorisation in Steelmaking

LAWS, Kevin J. PhD MF Rapid Solidification of Mg-Based Alloys

LEE, Si Hyung PhD VS Iron Oxide Reactions in Ironmaking

LI, Chi Ying Vanessa PhD SC Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Storage

LIN, Christine Yi Wen PhD CS Titania Coatings

LIN, Xuehan (Xavier) ME SL High-Temperature Superconductivity

LIN, Yun PhD PM Contact damage in TiN/DLC-based thin film coatings

LIU, Chang (Cindy) ME AY Packing of Particles

LIU, Fuhai (Gavin) MSc VS Refractory Reactions in Steel Processing

LIU, Peiyan (Peter) ME AY Synthesis and Application of Nanoparticles

LONE, Muhammad Yaser PhD HS Reactions in EAF Steelmaking

LOTT, Oliver PhD MH Interfaces of Composites

LUO, Zhenhua (Jerry) PhD MH Fatigue of PZT

MADA, Mykanth Reddy (Mike) PhD MH Thermomechanical Processing of Aluminium Alloys

MAHJOUB, Mohammad Reza PhD NV Hybrid Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions

MATEESCU, Nora M. PhD MF Grain Stability in Nanocrystalline Alloys

McNEIL, Steven PhD OS Sol-Gel Coating in Textiles

MD ABDULLA, Al-Motin (Roney) PhD DY Metal Dusting

MELHEM, George Nadim PhD SB Toughened and Strengthened Concrete

NAKARUK, Auppatham (Tan) PhD CS Tin Oxide Processing and Properties

NATH, Dilip Chandra Deb PhD SB Fly Ash-Polimer Composites

OTHMAN, Norinsan K. PhD DY High-Temperature Corrosion of Alloys

PALMER, Timothy C. PhD CS Piezoelectrics

PARRINGTON, Anthony James MSc CS Building Materials Cycle

PHOTONGKAM, Pat PhD SL Spintronics

PINCOTT, Matthew J. ME AC Stress Corrosion of Aluminium Alloys



Name Current Degree


QIU, Qiuo Yu (Joe) PhD NV Modelling of Ultra-Thin Ferroelectric

Nanostructures

RAHMAN, Mahbubur PhD AY Multiphase Flow in Blast Furnace

RAHMAN, Muhammad M. ME VS Slag Foaming in EAF Steelmaking

RAHMANZADEH KABIR, Kaveh PhD MH Impact Damage of Metal Forms

REN, Zheng (Erik) MSc SC Mechanical Behaviours of Titamium Metal

Matrix Composites

REZAN, Sheikh Abdul PhD OO Carbonthermal Reduction of Titania

RIDER. John R. PhD CS Raman Microspetroscopy of Ceramics

ROBIN, Lalu G. PhD MF Workability of Light Alloys

RUYS, David J. PhD AC Environmentally Sustainable Composites

SAFARZADEH, Maryam PhD DY Metal Dusting

SAMAT, Noorasikin PhD MH Design of PVC Polymer Nanocomposites

SANDERSON, Robert J. (Buzz) PhD AC Mechanical Properties of Rubber and Plastic

Bends

SHA, Yu Peng (Tony) Mphil CS Titania Coatings

SHEN, Yan Rong PhD SC Doped Nanostructual Nickel Hydroxide/Oxide

SHEN, Yansong (Ben) PhD AY Blast Furnace Ironmaking

SINGH, Rajnish K. PhD MH Cyclic Fatigue of PZT

SOKOLOVA, Julia PhD MF Superplastic Nanoforming

SPECK, Philip MSc DY Metal Dusting in CO/CO2 Atmospheres

SYED BAKAR, Sharifah S. PhD VS/RK Recycling of Waste Plastics

TAIB, Hariati PhD CS Microwave Heating of Ceramics

TONG, Zhenbo PhD AY Granular Simulation

TOPPLER, Karl J. ME AC Directed Fibre Placement

TOTH-ANTAL, Bence MSc MH Wear of Ceramics - Metal Composites

TSAI, Ben P.J. ME SC Hydrogen Storage

TSAI, Hank P.H. PhD SL Thermoelectrical Materials

VARATHARAJAN, Anbusathaiah PhD NV Piezoelectrics

WANG, Bo (Bob) PhD AY Separation Process in Coal Separation

WANG, Mengxi (Mark) ME AY Simulation of Granular Flow

WANG, Xufeng (Paolo) ME AC Properties of Specialist Polymers

WASAYA, Allah PhD VS Use of Coal in Ironmaking

WONG, Kenneth PhD AY Hydrogenation Reactions in Catalysts

WU, Jason J.S. PhD PM Thermal Spraying of Nickel Alloys

YANG, Jianliang (Jack) PhD SL Spintronics

YI, Liang Yu (Lance) MSc AY Simulation of Settling of Multi-Sized Particles in Liquids

YIN, Huaying (Maggie) PhD DY High-Temperature Oxidation

YUAN, Fei (Fred) ME SC Carbon Nanotubes for Metal Matrix Reinforcement

YUE, Yui On (Jeffrey) PhD AY Nanotechnology

YUNES RUBIO, Pedro J. PhD VS Ferro-Silicon Reactions

ZAENI, Akhmad PhD SB Properties and Characterisation of Single-

Phase and Multi-Phase Polymers

ZAFARULLAH, Muhammad ME SB Environmentally Friendly Polyurethane Foams

ZAHARIA, Magdalena PhD VS Recycling Waste Plastics in Steelmaking


Postgraduate Scholarship Holders

Surname Given Names Award Description

Adipuri Andrew ARC Alternative Processing Titanium Minerals1

Al Assadi Mohammad Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Angel Lana Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Armellin Justin ARC Spintronic Scholarship

Arredondo Arechavala Miryam ARC Materials Science Completing PhD- Top Up

Brossard Sophie ARC Thermal Spray of Advanced Alloys – Materials

Chandratilleke Ganga ARC Particle Mixing in Materials Sc & Eng

Chen Li ARC MD Modelling of nano composites

Chu Kaiwei APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Chu Kaiwei Commonwealth Training Scheme (CTS)

Chu Kaiwei ARC Particle-Fluid Flow Modelling Scholarship

Dayal Pranesh Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Dewan Mohammad APA(I) pre-2005 LP grants

Dewan Mohammad ARC Carbothermal Synth of Titanium Carbide

Dicker Jonathan Onesteel Steelmaking

Downie Adriana APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Feldman Gavin CRC-ACS Scholarships

Feng Yan APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Gill Trilochan Anglo Coal Scholarship

Guo Wei Commonwealth Training Scheme (CTS)

Guo Wei ARC Centre of Excellence Pgrd Scholarship

Hambe Michael Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Hambe Michael UPA 2007+ (University Postgraduate Award)

Haq Ayesha ARC Materials Science & Eng APA/UPA Top-Up

Haq Ayesha UPA S2 2004

Hou Qinfu UPA-equiv 2007+ (PR conversion)

Hou Qinfu University International Postgraduate Award

Hou Qinfu Science - Materials Science funded Top-ups

Ikram-Ul-Haq Muhammad Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Imlao Soodkhet Materials Sci Materials Study 1 Rsch School

Jahja Andreas APA(I) - 2005 & 2006 LP grants

Kazuberns Kelli CRC Step-change BF Technologies

Kemal Lydia ARC Self-Assembly Nano-Particles Scholarship

Kemal Indra APA(I) pre-2005 LP grants

Khan Konika Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Kim Byong-Chul Coke Behaviour in Blast Furnace Scholarship

Kongkarat Somyote Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Kononov Ring ARC Carbothermal Synth of Titanium Carbide

Koshy Pramod EIPRS

Koshy Pramod ARC Shinagawa Refractories

Li Chi-Ying Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Lin Yun Faculty Completion Scholarship

Lin Christine APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Lin Yun Supplementary Completion Scholarship

Liu Chang ARC Bulk Density of Coal Scholarship

Liu Peiyuan Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship


Postgraduate Scholarship Holders

Surname Given Names Award Description

Lone Muhammad APA(I) - 2005 & 2006 LP grants

Luo Zhenhua ARC Fatigue of PZT Ceramics Scholarship

Mada Mykanth Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Mahjoub Mohammad Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Md Abdulla Al-Motin ARC Metal Dusting

Nakaruk Auppatham Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Nath Dilip APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Othman Norinsan ARC High Temperature Corrosion PhD School

Palmer Timothy Science - Materials Science funded Top-ups

Photongkam Pat ARC Mat Sci Completing PhD- Top Up (1)

Pincott Matthew ARC Interrupted Ageing of Al Alloys

Qiu Qiao ARC Postgraduate Research Award

Rahman Muhammad Australian Postgraduate Award APA

Rahman Mahbubur APA(I) pre-2005 LP grants

Rahman Muhammad ARC Slag Foaming

Rahman Mahbubur ARC Blast Furnace Ironmaking

Rahmanzadeh Kabir Kaveh ARC MH CoE_1

Rezan Sheikh ARC Alternative Processing Titanium Minerals1

Robin Lalu ARC Centre of Excellence Pgrd Scholarship

Safarzadeh Maryam ARC Metal Dusting

Shen Yansong ARC Coal Combustion Scholarship

Shen Fenglei Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Shen Yansong EIPRS

Singh Rajnish EIPRS

Singh Rajnish ARC Hard Coatings Scholarship 1

Sobhani Bukhteir APA(I) - 2005 & 2006 LP grants

Sokolova Julia ARC Centre of Excellence Pgrd Scholarship

Speck Philip Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Tong Zhenbo Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Toppler Karl CRC-ACS Scholarships

Toth-Antal Bence Dvpt of Metal/Ceramic Composites Scholarship

Tsai Ping Science - CSIRO Funded Scholarships

Varatharajan Anbusathaiah Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Wang Bo APA(I) pre-2005 LP grants

Wang Bo ARC Particulate Modelling

Wang Xu-Feng CRC Self Healing Composites

Wang Mengxi Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Wasaya Allah Anglo Coal Scholarship

Wong Kenneth Science - Materials Science funded Top-ups

Wong Kenneth Australian Postgraduate Award APA

Wu Shimin The BHP Research-BF Solid Flow Scholarship

Wu Jason Materials Science - ARC funded Proposal KIT

Yang Jianliang UIPA-Faculty fee remission stipend

Yi Liang Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Yin Huaying APA(I) - 2007+ LP grants

Yin Huaying Science - Materials Science funded Top-ups

Yue Jeffrey Science - Materials Science funded Scholarship

Zaharia Magdalena EIPRS


Postgraduate Student Supervisors

Internal

AC = Alan Crosky Professor

AY = Ai-Bing Yu Professor

BG = Bao Yu Guo Research Associate

CS = Chris Sorrell Professor, Postgraduate Coordinator

DY = David Young Professor

GZ = Guangqing Zhang Lecturer

HP = Haiping Zhu Researcher

HS = Haiping Sun Senior Lecturer

JZ = Jianqing Zhang Lecturer

MF = Michael Ferry Professor

MH = Mark Hoffman Professor

NV = Nagarajan Valanoor Senior Lecturer

OO = Oleg Ostrovski Professor

OS = Owen Standard Senior Lecturer

PM = Paul Munroe Professor, Director of Electron Microscope Unit

QZ = Qinghua Zeng Postdoctoral Fellow

RK = Rita Khanna Senior Research Associate

RY = Run Yu Yang Lecturer

RZ = Ruiping Zou ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

SB = Sri Bandyopadhyay Senior Lecturer

SC = Sammy Chan Senior Lecturer

SG = Sushil Gupta Postdoctoral Fellow

SL = Sean Li Senior Lecturer

VS = Veena Sahajwalla Professor

XJ = Xuchuan Jiang Research Associate

YZ = Yong Zhao ARC Senior Research Fellow

External

AN = Alwin Nagel FH Aalen, Germany

AV = Andrew Vince ELSA Consulting Group, Queensland

AW = Alan Whittle Iplex Pipelines

BL = Bo Lindblom LKAB, Sweden

BQ = Ben Qi CRC-ARC

DK = Don Kelly UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

DL = Danny Lambino J&J Asia Pacific

DO = David Osborne Anglocoal

IB = Ian Blake BMA-BHP Billiton – Mitsubishi Alliance

JR = Juegen Roedel Tech Uni, Darmstad, Germany

JS = John Spink BHP Refractories

LS = Lazar Stezov BHP Research

MB = Michael Bannister UNSW CRC for Advanced Composite Structures

MH = Mats Hallin LKAB, Sweden

ML = Matthias Leonhardt Bosch Research, Gerlingen, Germany

ML¹ = Max Lu University of Queensland Department of Chemical Engineering

MP = Mike Pailthorpe LincLab Pty. Ltd

MP¹ = Mike Paulin Shinagawa


Postgraduate Student Supervisors

NL = Nathan Leicht Shinagawa

NM = Noble Mathew J&J Asia Pacific NS = Noel Simento CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development

PB = Peter Brown Tasmanian Electrometallurgical Co.

PO‘K = Paul O‘Kane OneSteel

PZ = Paul Zulli BHP Research

RB = Rob Burford UNSW School of Industrial Chemistry

RL = Roger Lumley CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology

RS = Ricjard Sukorovs CSIRO Energy technology

SG¹ = Samir Ganguly Tasmanian Electrometallurgical Co.

SS = Sudipta Seal University of Central Florida

Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center, USA

VI = Vince Ivancic Onesteel


SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS

The School operates two industry-supported scholarship programs. Co-op Scholarship Program: The Co-op Scholarship program provides students with a scholarship of $15,200 p.a. and approximately 18 months industrial training through the course of a 5-year degree. (See Co-op Program Report). Industry Partnership Scholarship Program: The Industry Partnership Scholarship program provides students with a $2,500 p.a. scholarship and industrial training in summer breaks for a 4-year degree. The School also offers small number of $1,000 p.a. scholarships. The aim of these programs is to attract the best and brightest students to our courses. The main attractions for students to take up our degrees include our strong partnership with industry, and the opportunities for interactions with industry through industry sponsorship of undergraduate scholarships, which are underpinned by the specialist undergraduate courses that we offer. There are now 21 industrial sponsors of scholarship programmes providing over $400,000 p.a. to in the School supporting 60 students. The table below shows a breakdown of these for 2005-2007. Table : Details of numbers of scholarship holders relative to the student intake

Year 2005 2006 2007

Total No of students 25 (7 in biomed) 19 (none in biomed) 28 (4 in biomed)

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No of school scholars 3 + 1 (Sir R. Myers Scholar)

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International students 2 1 1

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The School Scholarships Committee consists of Veena Sahajwalla (Chair) and Mark Hoffman who co-ordinate the Industry Partnership and Co-op scholarships programs, respectively.

Veena Sahajwalla

Chair – Scholarships Committee


CO-OP PROGRAM

The Co-op Program is a scholarship program run in cooperation between the University of NSW and industry to provide scholarships and industrial training for undergraduate students in various degree programs. In the School of Materials Science and Engineering, scholarships are provided by sponsors in each of the 4 academic specialisations of Ceramic Engineering, Materials Engineering, Physical Metallurgy, and Process Metallurgy. The Co-op Program attracts the academically strongest students (typically, UAIs are greater than 99.0) who, importantly, also have good leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. For students in Materials Science and Engineering, each scholarship provides ~$16,000 per annum for 5 years, 68 weeks of structured and highly relevant industrial training with up to 4 sponsor companies, the opportunity to experience typical graduate employment, and close access to potential employers. The Program provides industrial sponsors with highly motivated, capable students to complete important and valuable industrial work. It also provides sponsors the opportunity to have direct involvement in the education and development of our School‘s students and from whom they can potentially recruit their future managers and leaders. In 2007, the Co-op Program at UNSW celebrated its 20th anniversary. The first Co-op scholarships in Materials Science and Engineering commenced in 1989 and the success of the Co-op Program in delivering the above benefits to scholars and sponsors in Materials Science and Engineering is demonstrated by the strong and consistent support of the Program by industry: there has been a total of 116 scholarships from 30 different industrial sponsors since 1989. Co-op graduates are highly sought by industry and those students entering the materials industry usually rise to positions of leadership and management.

A total of 22 scholarships (Table 1) were provided by 11 industrial sponsors in 2007 (Table 2). This represents approximately 25% of the total undergraduate enrolment in the School and an investment by industry of over $340,000 for the year. As in previous years, the greatest number of scholarships was in Materials Engineering. Two new scholarships, one in Materials Engineering and the other in Ceramic Engineering, were established for 2008 (Table 3). In addition to benefits offered to current scholars and sponors, the Co-op Program is a highly visible and very effective means to attract students into our discipline – the School thanks all of its sponsors for their generous and continued support. Table 1: Co-op Program in Materials Science and Engineering –2003 to 2007 Cohort Statistics

Intake Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Total

Current Year of Degree 4 3 (IT) 3 (IT) 2 1

Number of Scholars:

Ceramic Eng. – 3 – 1 1 1 6

Materials Eng. 1 3 3 1 3 1 12

Physical Met. 2 1 1 1 1 – 6

Process Met. – – 1 1 – – 2

Total 3 7 5 4 5 2 26

Number of Sponsors 3 6 4 4 5 2


Co-op Program

Table 2: Co-op Program in Materials Science and Engineering – Current Sponsors

Alcoa Australia North Parkes Mines Rio Tinto Austral Brick Company OneSteel Ltd Bluescope Steel Industrial Markets Rio Tinto Aluminium Bluescope Steel Research Laboratories Shinagawa Thermal Ceramics Boral Bricks Capral Aluminium

TEMCO

Table 3: Co-op Program in Materials Science and Engineering – New Sponsors and Scholars

Sponsors New Scholars for 2008

Ceramic Engineering Austral Bricks Carolyn Mason

Materials Engineering BluescopeSteel Research Samantha Lee

Scholars completed the following industrial training (IT) placements during the year: IT1 (10 weeks) by students at the end of their first year; IT2 (10 weeks) by students at the end of their second year; and IT3 (24 weeks) and IT4 (24 weeks) by students midway through their third year of study. Each IT placement was reviewed by the Academic Coordinator in the form of an interview with the scholar and sponsor representative(s). The scholar and sponsor also provided written appraisals of the placement. Each scholar also gave a short presentation to industry sponsors and fellow Co-op students summarising their IT work and, importantly, the technical and professional benefit they obtained from the placement. Judging from the placement interviews, written appraisals, and presentations, all placements were completed successfully and fulfilled the philosophy and objectives of the Co-op Program – for both scholars and sponsors. The commitment of scholars and sponsors to the IT placements is fundamental to the success of the Co-op Program. The School thanks the sponsors for the efforts they put into organising the placements as well as their training, guidance, and support of scholars during the placements. Industry sponsors indicated the significant value of work completed by the scholars during their placements and the School is very proud of their performance and achievements. The School of Materials Science and Engineering Co-op Working Party met in March and October 2007 in conjunction with the IT presentations. Scholar‘s academic and IT performances were reviewed. Other School Co-op events during the year included a welcoming function for first year Co-op scholars and a recruitment evening for sponsors and year 3+4 scholars. The UNSW Co-op Office also hosted an evening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Co-op program. Prof. Mark Hoffman was promoted to Head of School in the latter half of 2007 and unfortunately this required him to vacate his role as Academic Coordinator of the School‘s Co-op Program. Mark held this position for approximately 6 years during which time his hard work, motivation, and enthusiasm for the Co-op Program was fundamental to its success. On behalf of scholars and sponsors I thank Mark for his work. This is my first report as Academic Coordinator and I look forward to facilitating and promoting the interaction between our brightest students and committed industry sponsors in the Co-op Program in Materials Science and Engineering at UNSW.

Owen Standard Academic Coordinator

Co-op Program in Materials Science and Engineering


MARKETING COMMITTEE

In late 2007, the School Marketing Committee welcomed Dr Sean Li as its Chair, aided by a new staff member, marketing officer Lucy Stride and the existing committee members (Prof. Veena Sahajwalla, Dr. Runyu Yang and Dr. Nagarajan Valanoor). The ongoing goals for the team remain clear: to engage in community outreach and to promote the School and its programs to prospective local and international undergraduate and postgraduate students. While Sean and Lucy, as new members, have lots to learn, they have benefitted greatly from the many years of experience previous committee members have shared. Hearty thanks to Prof. Alan Crosky and Ms. Anil Prakash-Singh for their advice. Special thanks extended also to Postgraduate student Pramod Koshy who has been very involved with the Marketing Committee. Our annual scholarship interviews were held in December 2007, attracting many applicants. The quality and number of scholarships on offer (both internal and industrial) continue to be a strong draw for many prospective students, as well as the fact that UNSW remains the one of the few universities within Australia to offer distinctive programs in Materials Science and Engineering. Raising the profile of Materials Science and Engineering is the major preoccupation of the School Marketing Committee. Through regular outreach activities, in particular those that foster links with High Schools via talks and scientific demonstrations both off and on campus as well as events such as HSC Info Day in January, Courses and Careers Day in September, Postgraduate Expo in October, as well as numerous high school visits throughout the year, the Committee speaks to a large number of potential students about the range of programs the School offers, as well as the multitude of career options open to them upon graduation. This year the Marketing Committee is exploring a new medium through which to promote the School; YouTube (see www.materials.unsw.edu.au). Filmed and produced by former UNSW Media and Communications student Emma Sampson, the short film clip gives a brief overview of the School. Over 10 hours of footage were condensed into just under 5 minutes, providing a fresh, innovative approach to promoting the School and all it has to offer.

Lucy Stride

Outreach & Student Recruitment Officer



OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

The School of Materials Science and Engineering is committed to providing a safe work environment for all staff, students, and visitors in compliance with the NSW Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 and the NSW Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001. This is achieved by the School's implementation and maintenance of the UNSW OHS Management Plan by the School Safety Committee in consultation with the UNSW Risk Management Unit and the Level 1 (University) and Level 2 (Faculty) Safety Management Committees. In 2007, the School Safety Committee consisted of Dr Owen Standard (acting chairperson and academic representative), Mr Philip Chatfield (safety officer), Prof. Mark Hoffman (management representative), Guangqing Zhang (technical staff representative), Mr Kevin Laws (student representative), and Yansong Shen (student representative). OHS activities during 2007 included: Development and Review of OHS Processes, Documentation, and Initiatives • Implementation of a training coversheet for risk assessments. • Review of the School's electronic database of OHS documentation including risk assessments,

chemical inventory, hazard and risk registers, standard operating procedures, committee minutes etc.

Scheduled Workplace Inspections • Laboratory safety audits were conducted bimonthly. Training • All new postgraduate students and research staff completed the Faculty of Science 2-day laboratory

safety training course. • All Honours students completed an in-house laboratory safety training course given by the Faculty

OHS Coordinator and the School's Safety Officer. Improvements in the School's Infrastructure • A lift in the stairwell of building E8 to service levels 1 and 2 was installed in the second half of 2007.

This lift enables the safe transport of goods between levels (replaces the crane) and provides a convenient access for the disabled.

• The workshop area in building D7 was refurbished into a smaller workshop and dedicated high temperature laboratory.

• Plans for the refurbishment of the central foundry/rolling area in building D7 were finalised in 2007 by the School Space Committee in consultation with UNSW Facilities and external architects.

Construction work is scheduled for the second half of 2008 and will involve extending the mezzanine floor across the entire process area, with offices and laboratories being installed on the ground floor and first floor.

• A new Thin Film Laboratory was established by Dr Sean Li in the Red Centre in the area vacated by the Electron Microscope Unit.

Dr Owen Standard OHS Chairperson (Acting)


LEARNING AND TEACHING

Under the School‘s leadership, the Faculty of Science was awarded a three year $180,000 Strategic Priorities Learning and Teaching Project grant in 2007 entitled Dissemination of best-practice online learning technology within the Faculty of Science. In addition to Materials Science and Engineering, the Schools of Maths, Chemistry, Physics and BABS are participating in the project. The goal of the project is to use an exemplar template based on a first year large class foundation course developed by Materials Science and Engineering more widely across the Faculty. The foundation course is a blended learning course containing both face-to-face and online components. Substantial scaffolding is provided online to support the online learning components.

A development officer has been employed to work on the project. To date, online prelab modules based on the exemplar template have been produced for Physics and BABS. A suite of materials engineering online tutorials for HSC students has also been completed.

The School also formed a Teaching & Learning Committee in late 2007. The inaugural members are Alan Crosky, Paul Munroe, Sammy Chan, Runyu Yang, Jane Gao and Mark Hoffman, ex officio, in his role as Head of School.

Alan Crosky Chair, Learning & Teaching Committee


RESEARCH

The School‘s research covers the breadth of materials science and engineering. Regular efforts to develop sub-categories for the types of research undertaken cause difficulties due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the School‘s research and its staff. This diversity makes the School robust through provision of a structure which enables staff to contribute to new areas of research in the discipline.

As a part of a Strategic Planning exercise in 2007, the School identified 7 areas of research in which it has a presence to varying degrees:

1. Process Metallurgy and Particulate Modelling

2. Advanced Functional and Structural Materials

3. Physical Metallurgy

4. Energy Materials

5. Biomedical Materials

6. Utilisation of Waste Materials

7. Nuclear Materials

The first three are considered areas of existing research strength and the latter four are emerging areas. The School balances it research across areas of high industrial relevance, which generally have lower scientific impact, and advanced materials development in areas such as nanotechnology and biomaterials which have high scientific impact.

The Research Highlights following, provide a snapshot of ongoing research within the School.


RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Particle/Powder Science and Technology

Dr Run Yu Yang‘s research is mainly in the area of particle/powder science and technology, including:

Packing and compaction of cohesive powders: This work aims to understand the fundamentals of the packing and compaction of cohesive particles at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. Agglomeration of fine particles was studied by DEM simulations with the focus on the effect of particle size on the agglomerate structure and strength. The results showed that both packing density and coordination number decay exponentially to their planar limits as agglomerate size increases. The good agreement between the direct measurement from the simulation and the estimation from the Rumpf model indicates that the equations formulated in the paper are useful to facilitate engineering applications.

Powder dispersion in pharmaceutical aerosol inhalers: This is an ARC DP collaborating with Faculty of Pharmacy at University of Sydney. This project seeks to develop fundamental understanding of the dispersion mechanisms of powders as aerosol for inhalation drug delivery and apply this understanding to the better design of dry powder inhalers. It couples computational simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element method (DEM) with experimental dispersion analysis to improve the efficiency of dry powder inhalers.

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Particle dynamics in different flow regimes in a rotating drum: Flow regimes in a horizontally rotating drum were investigated by DEM simulation. By varying the rotation speed and particle-wall sliding friction, six flow regimes were produced. The macroscopic and microscopic properties of particle flow were systematically analysed. The results showed although different flow regimes can be observed macroscopically, simple scaling laws exist as indicated by the normalised statistical distribution in terms of particle velocity, collision energy and frequency at a microscopic, particle scale.

Particle and fluid flow in IsaMill: This is an ARC LP in collaboration with Xstrata Technology. IsaMill is a

high speed stirred mill developed by Xstrata for fine grinding of minerals. The project aims to understand

the behaviours of the grinding media and slurry flow in an IsaMill through numerical simulations, and

apply such knowledge to the design and control of IsaMill process. The main outcomes will be a

combined CFD-DEM model simulating the particle-fluid flow at an individual particle level and providing

a cost effective way to quantify the grinding performance in relation to grinding medium, slurry, mill and

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Investigation of Surface Chemistry on Particle-Substrate Interactions During Plasma Spray Processing

Jason Wu and Paul Munroe

University of New South Wales

Project funded by the Australia Research Council

Thermal spray processing is used to deposit surface coatings on to functional substrates. Little is known

about the microstructural interactions which occur when particles (or splats) interact with the substrate

surface. In this project we have investigated this phenomenon as a function of surface chemistry, where,

in this case, PEEK particles are plasma sprayed on to aluminium substrates, which have been heat

treated to develop differing surface chemistries. The image below shows a secondary electron image of

a splat-substrate cross-section prepared using focused ion beam (FIB) microscopy. The cross-section

shows the PEEK particle (1) is well-adhered to a 300nm layer of aluminium oxide (2) on an aluminium

substrate surface (3). The oxide layer was grown prior to plasma spray processing. (The platinum later

is deposited in the FIB as a protective layer). Studies of other similar system shows that the presence of

the aluminium oxide layers is of critical importance in controlling the adherence of the splat (and hence

performance of the applied coatings) to the substrates.

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Combined Effect of Particle Size and Chemical Composition on the Degree of Whiteness of Fly Ash

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2Cement Australia Brisbane

We have made an investigation on the combined effect of particle size and chemical composition on the colour of fly ash – a property that determines whether fly ash polymer composites can be engineered to have very light to very dark grey appearance satisfying the need for a wide range of commodity applications, particularly in the building material and computer housing industry.

Some authors have suggested that colour of fly ash is controlled by a) the iron content and b) the content of unburned carbon [1]. By contrast, another group suggests that the particle size and its shape determine the colour of fly ash [2]. As the commercially effective way to recycle fly ash is to use fly ash directly from the power plant, in this paper the effects of a) chemical composition b) unburnt carbon content, and c) particle size / distribution on the colour of fly ash are investigated.

This work undertakes a study of the fly ash chemical structure, particle size and distribution, surface morphology and colour analysis. Four fly ash samples were used from Tarong thermal power plant in Queensland, Australia, the samples identified as T59, T60, T63 and T64. Particle sizes analysed using

Coulter light scattering particle size analyser were found to be 86, 21, 9 and 8 micron respectively - spherical to irregular particle morphology can be seen in figure 1.

Figure 1. SEM morphology of fly ashes. a) T59, b) T60, c) T63, and d) T64

Chemical composition determined by ICP-AES shows the fly ash samples contain weight % Fe2O3 of 5.14, 4.37, 1.10, and 0.57, and unburned carbon in wt % 0.25, 1.08, 0.56 and 0.99 for T59, T60, T63 and T64 respectively. Micro- Raman study (Figure 2a). qualitatively reveals that the black particles are mostly carbon material with strong peaks at ~1350 cm-1 (the defect-induced D-band peak) and at ~1580 cm-1 (the high energy G-band peak) which can be carbon amorphous (carbon black), glassy carbon, or graphite. However generally glassy carbon and crystalline graphite have an additional much weaker peak at ~1620 cm-1 which is absent from figure 2a. Consequently, these peaks represent the presence of amorphous carbon.

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The colours of fly ashes was analysed using a Topcon SR-3 telespectroradiometer from wavelength 380 nm to 780 nm with interval of 1nm. The y-axis are scaled between zero meaning totally black, and 1 indicating 100 % white [3]. A horizontal curve represents colourless (white, grey or black) – but if there is deviation from perfect flatness, then a colour is present [3]. The colour spectra of the four fly ash samples are shown in figure 2b. Conclusion:

When particle size is small, the iron content is small as well, however, the unburnt residual carbon does not depend on the particle size.

The whiteness of fly ash depends in a combined manner on the amount of iron and unburnt carbon content of the fly ash.

[ The authors have developed a methodology for changing the colour of fly ash to permanent attractive white – see Australian Provisional Patent no 2008901104. ]

References 1. Y. F. Yang, G. S. Gai, and Q. Chen, Powder handling & processing, 17 (1), 28-31, (2005). 2. M. Yasuda, T. Niimura, and M. Lizawa, Preceding International Ash Use symposium, 9th, GS-7162,.

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Computational Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites from Mineral Clays

Qinghua Zeng & Aibing Yu

Project funded by the Australia Research Council

Overview

Polymer nanocomposites have attracted considerable interest and investment in research and development worldwide in the past decade. Clay minerals are regarded as promising precursors for nanoparticles due to their unique layered structure, rich intercalation chemistry and low cost. This project aims to investigate, by means of molecular modeling techniques, the fundamentals of organoclays and polymer nanocomposites, in particular, their interfacial molecular structure and interactions. Such fundamental understanding will provide a guideline for the surface modification of clays, the dispersion of clay platelets in the target polymer matrix as well as the design, manufacturing and property controlling of polymer nanocomposites.

Research Highlights

The structure, dynamics and interaction of organoclays and intercalated polymer nanocomposites were studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The effects of various factors (i.e., clay charge deficiency and surfactant type and chain length) were examined. These work provided useful information for the design and fabrication of clay nanofiller and polymer nanocomposites. Recently, the atomistic models of exfoliated polymer nanocomposite have been developed, which will be used to study their interfacial structure, molecualr interaction and mechanical behaviors (e.g., nanoindentation, nanoscratch, nanoimpact).

Figure: Multiscale modeling and simulation of polymer nanocomposites (Zeng, Yu and Lu, Progress in Polymer Science, 2008, 33(2): 191-269)


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Discovery of Silver-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses

The discovery that bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) can be cast by conventional routes has generated

huge interest in the production and properties of these materials. This discovery has also generated

major interest in the development of precision forming processes for these materials. A process which

shows great promise is superplastic nanoforming for producing microcomponents for a range of

applications such as micro- electro- mechanical systems for use as nanodevices, nano- and

microtechnology, medical and optical

applications and data storage.

In a world‘s first, UNSW researchers within the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the

ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals have discovered a range of Silver-based BMGs

exhibiting a critical casting thickness of up to 3mm. Considering that silver has both the highest

electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals, the presence of such a high amount of this element in

the BMG lends support to the idea of an amorphous alloy exhibiting both high thermal and electrical

conductivity. Silver also has the highest light reflecting efficiency of all metals, suggesting that such

material may display similar light reflecting properties.

Possible applications of Ag-BMGs include electrical/thermal microdevices for electronics applications,

reflective macro/micro devices for optical/optical electronics applications, and in the area of decorative

jewellery.

Amorphous Structure

Ag-BMGs are completely amorphous (see e.g. Fig. 1) which results in a range of favourable properties,

including:

Hardness (~300HV) much harder than commercial silver alloys or high purity silver.

High elastic limit, low modulus and near zero damping capacity (for high efficiency/low energy losses

in reciprocating components).

Lack of crystalline structure or grain boundaries making the properties of these alloys truly

homogeneous.

High corrosion resistance due to the absence of crystalline phases thereby creating a continuous,

homogeneous passivating oxide film.

The ability to be superplastically formed in the supercooled liquid (SCL) region (see next).

Nanoformability and Surface Replication

The SCL region is large enough for Ag-BMGs to allow them to be deformed superplastically in a

manner similar to thermoplastics or silicate glasses.

The alloys may also be able to replicate surface features with high aspect ratios on a submicron

scale during forming in the SCL region (termed superplastic nanoforming).

The ability to produce/reproduce very small geometric details on a surface by a simple stamping

process enables these materials to be used in fine electronic devices as either electrical or thermal

conducting devices, negating the need for expensive lithographic etching or laser/ion beam milling.

The high reflectivity of these alloys also extends their use as an ultra-small reflecting grating or

device in optical electronic devices.


Research Highlights

Figure 1: X-ray diffraction spectra showing the amorphous nature of the newly-discovered Ag-BMGs.

Potential for Solid-State Bonding/Soldering

Ag-BMGs may be bonded to most any substrate using a solid-state soldering process, whereby the

alloy in the SCL state ‗wets‘ the substrate material under an applied load creating a bond of strength

comparable to the glass.

These BMGs may also be self-bonded by this solid-state soldering process.

K.J. Laws, K. Shamlaye, B, Gun and M. Ferry


Research Highlights

Preparation and Superconducting Properties of SmO0.8F0.2FeAs Wires

The recent discovery of superconductivity in iron-based compounds of the formula RE(O1-xFx)FeAs (where RE = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd) has introduced a new and important family of high-temperature superconductors. RE(O1-xFx)FeAs have rather high critical temperatures (Tc >50 K) and upper critical fields (Hc2(0) >100 T) , suggesting their uses in high-field applications above 30 K, where conventional superconductors cannot play a role owing to their low Tcs. Similarly to the high-Tc cuprates, where CuO2 sheets are responsible for superconductivity, the new compounds also are layered materials, with the superconductivity‘s occurring in FeAs sheets, with the RE-O layers acting as a charge reservoir. Data for electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, Hall coefficient, and Seebeck coefficient reveal that these new superconductors exhibit a spin density wave (SDW) transition at 130-150 K, suggesting a pairing mechanism of spin fluctuation type. In the present work, the fabrication of SmO0.8F0.2FeAs wires using the powder-in-tube method (PIT) and data for the critical current density and flux pinning characteristics of the wires by magnetization measurements are reported. The results show that SmO0.8F0.2FeAs has a very high intragrain critical current density. SmO0.8F0.2FeAs wires were fabricated by an in situ PIT method using fine, well ground powder mixtures of SmAs, Fe, Fe2O3, and FeF3 of purities >99 %. SmAs was prepared by reacting powders of Sm and As at 500°C for 15 hours and then at 900°C for 12 hours in evacuated quartz tubes under vacuum. Tantalum tubes of outer diameter 8 mm and wall thickness 1 mm were used to sheathe the tightly packed powders following removal from the quartz tubes. All processes were done in glove box filled with pure argon. The tantalum tube then was sealed on two ends, swaged, and drawn to wires of 2.5 mm in diameter. Four segments of the green wires were sealed into the quartz tubes under vacuum, heated at 1150°C for 48 hours, and then quenched to room temperature.

Figure 1.

(a) Photograph of the cross-section

of a SmO0.8F0.2FeAs wire;

（ b） SEM micrograph showing the

reaction between the

superconductor core and Ta tube

(the separation of the core and the

tube in the wire is highlighted with

the arrows); (c) SEM micrograph

showing the granular structure of

the SmO0.8F0.2FeAs superconductor

core.

Figure 2.

Jc(H) curves at various temperatures for

SmO0.8F0.2FeAs wires (a peak effect can be seen

for the Jc-H relations in the range 10-40 K)

Conclusion: Ta-sheathed SmO0.8F0.2FeAs superconducting wires with Tc = 52.5 K have been fabricated using the powder-in-tube (PIT) method and the superconducting properties of the wires have been investigated. The wires exhibit a very large intragrain critical current density at a temperature below 30 K. A peak effect with maximal Jc = 0.6 MA/cm

2 at 10 K under 6 T field was observed. The peak field

Hpear is strongly temperature-dependent. The wires also show a power law temperature dependence for the irreversibility line with Hirr (1-T/Tc)

1.5.

Yong Zhao

ARC Professor


Research Highlights

Synthesis and Chlorination of Titanium Oxycarbide

Oleg Ostrovski, Guangqing Zhang, Mohammad A. R. Dewan, Sheikh A. Rezan and Andrew Adipuri

Processing of titanium minerals to TiO2 pigment or titanium metal involves a chlorination process in which titanium dioxide is conventionally converted to titanium tetrachloride. TiO2 is a stable oxide; its chlorination occurs at high temperatures in the range 800-1100 oC. At these temperatures, impurities are also chlorinated, what requires high quality materials such as rutile, synthetic rutile or TiO2-rich slag. Chlorination of titanium oxycarbide has an advantage over chlorination of titanium dioxide as it occurs at much lower temperatures. However, conventional synthesis of titanium carbide or oxycarbide requires high temperature and is energy intensive. In our research in carbothermal reduction of stable metal oxides, we have discovered that gas atmosphere has a strong effect on reduction kinetics; reduction of titania to titanium oxycarbide is much faster in hydrogen than in inert gas atmosphere. Formation of titanium oxycarbide in hydrogen

was close to completion in 120 min at 1300 Co , 60 min at 1400 Co and less than 30 min at 1500 Co . The

reduction in argon and helium had close rates and reached 90-95% after 300 min at 1400-1500 °C. The chlorination of titanium oxycarbide was ignited at 150-200 oC. Chlorination of titanium oxycarbide at 235-400oC was close to 100 pct in less than 30 min (Figure 1). Low-temperature synthesis of titanium oxycarbide and its chlorination stimulate further research in alternative technologies for processing of titanium minerals.

Figure 1: Chlorination of titanium oxycarbide at temperatures from 235 to 400

oC with chlorine flow

rate 250 mL∙min-1

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Research Highlights

Damage-Free Focused Ion Beam Milled Ferroelectric Nanostructures

Michael Hambe, Samantha Wicks and Valanoor Nagarajan School of Materials Science & Engineering,

University of New South Wales LuWi Chang and Marty Gregg

Centre for Nanostructured Media, School of Maths and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast. U. K.

Focused ion beam milling (FIB) has emerged as a powerful tool which quickly enables ferroelectric (or any material for that matter) test structures on nanometer length scales to be developed. Inherent in the FIB process is the tendency for ion beam damage to occur, which can manifest itself as a disruption of crystal structure or implantation of gallium ions, which leads to the formation of non ferroelectric gallium oxides. Both of these effects have been found to reduce, if not destroy, ferroelectric polarization. Traditionally either a top protective hard mask, which also doubles as an electrode or post-mill annealing has been used to recover the ferroelectric properties. However fundamental limitations of such processes are that the metal over-layer severely limits nanoscale visualization of the ferroelectric domain structure by SPM techniques and annealing destroys the virgin domain state. We have developed a novel ―protection followed by etch‖ method allowing nanoscale test structures to be developed without the usual effects of gallium implantation, thereby obviating the need for post – mill anneals.

The top two images compare an unprotected (top left) and a protected device (top right). Serious damage, i.e. total loss of ferroelectricity results from complete amorphization of the PZT mesa in the left case but not so for the protected sample. The TEM image (bottom left) corresponds to the PZT – resist interface (of top right), with lattice fringes indicating crystalline, undamaged PZT. The graph (bottom right) represents an elemental analysis line scan (yellow line in top right), It can be seen that ion beam damage has been minimized to ~10nm of the side wall, with no trace of gallium beyond this region. This proposal was funded by the ARC Discovery project, UNSW postgraduate award and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the U. K.

Amorphous PZT

Protected Mill


Research Highlights

Film Thickness-Misfit Strain Phase Diagrams and Phase Transitions in Epitaxial PbZr1-

xTixO3 Ultra-thin Ferroelectric Films

Q. Y. Qiu and V. Nagarajan

The question of size-effect in ultra-thin ferroelectrics and strain-engineering of ferroelectric thin films has now become an intensely debated topic. Despite the various contradicting results and theoretical approaches, there is unanimous consent that that mechanical and electrical boundary conditions control the ultimate phase stability in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films. Distinctly, the theoretical models reported so far treat these boundary and the system‘s geometric conditions as almost independent parameters with no one work that takes into account the entire possible parameters. We present a full-scale non-linear thermodynamic model based on a Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire formalism and the theory of dense polydomain structures in a multi-parameter space to predict the phase stability of (001) oriented PbZr1-xTixO3 epitaxial thin films as a function of film thickness and epitaxial strain. The developed methodology, which accounts for electrostatic boundary conditions as well as the formation of misfit dislocations and polydomain structures, produces a thickness-strain phase stability diagram where it finds that the rotational phases (the so called r- and ac-phases) in epitaxial PZT films are possible only in a much smaller window than the previous predictions. Subsequently the high dielectric and piezoelectric coefficients that are associated with the rotational polar domains exist only in this very small window of phase stability. We find that for experimentally used thickness or strains (or both)

that often fall outside this window, the film is in the c or c/a/c/a polydomain state.

Figure above is the film thickness - strain phase diagram for epitaxial [001] PTO as a function of numerical misfit strain. The y-axis is the relative thickness, i.e., the ratio of the real thickness and the critical correlation length. For this particular case, the critical correlation length was taken as 1.4 nm. The x-axis is the numerical misfit strain calculated based on the paraelectric effective cubic lattice parameter of the ferroelectric and the substrate lattice parameter at growth temperature (TG=873 K); the inset shows a contour map displaying the variation of the c-

domain fraction 0c in the stability area of the

c/a/c/a polydomain pattern at RT in the same parameter space; (b) film thickness - strain phase diagram at 473 K; (c) at 673 K; and (d) at 873 K.

Financial support of ARC Discovery Grant DP0666231 is acknowledged.

RL

0

mu

(a) PTO at RT RL

0

mu

(b) 473K

RL

0

mu

(c) 673K RL

0

mu

(d) 873K


Research Highlights

Development of Polymer Nanocomposite PVC with High Stiffness and Toughness Mark Hoffman, Indra Kemal, Tania Vodenitcharova and Dr Alan Whittle (Iplex Pipelines)

The inclusion of nanometer-sized particles in polymers has been found to yield extraordinary mechanical property behaviour. A major limitation of this development, however, has been the difficulties faced in incorporating this structure into production techniques suitable for commodity items. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used for many thousands of kilometres of reticulating water pipe throughout Australia and, when applied in agricultural environments, will lead to a significant reduction in water loss through evaporation redressing significant water resource issues. The aim of this research has been to incorporate calcium carbonate (CaCO3) nanoparticles into PVC to realise the advantages associated with a polymer nanocomposite structure in a commonly used commodity polymer. The work is being undertaken in conjunction with Iplex Pipelines Australasia, Australia‘s largest manufacturer of PVC piping, and is enabled driven, in part, by the development of new techniques, which enable cheap processing of CaCO3 in nanoparticulate form. The issue, however, is whether it is possible to integrate this CaCO3 into the polymer using standard processing techniques. Through the use of traditional polymer blending techniques, most notably the two roll mill, it has been possible to blend calcium carbonate particles in the ranges of 3-20 volume percent with granulated PVC to realise a well dispersed microstructure. The addition of titanates has enabled this process to also be used in laboratory scale extrusion equipment due to the improved bonding between the CaCO3 and the PVC matrix, which assists dispersion of the nanoparticulate particles. Most notably the inclusion of these particles has lead to an increase in stiffness and impact toughness. These are the two critical properties for pipeline materials; increased stiffness reduces the possibility of buckling during installation, and increased impact resistance demonstrates robustness of the piping material and also reflects an increase in fracture toughness. The reason that this improved behaviour has been able to be realised is that the CaCO3 has higher stiffness than the polymer, which by rules of mixtures, leads to a

higher stiffness. This philosophy has been applied for some time with the inclusion of much larger particulates into PVC. This traditionally leads to reduce strength and toughness. However, in the case of nanoparticulates, the particles themselves, rather than acting as defect fracture initiation sites, serve as sites to nucleate cavitations, hence in energy dispersion within the polymer. This is most obvious in Figure 1a, which shows nanoparticulates on an impact fracture service and Figure 1b which shows that at the base of

nucleated sites on a tensile sample.

Figure 1 Nanoparticulate CaCO3 on the fracture surface following (a) impact and (b) tensile failure. Particles can be seen to be well-dispersed, weakly bonding and act a cavitation initiation sites.

(a)

(b)

Research Highlights


Finite element modelling (Figure 3), shows the development of plastic deformation zones around

the particles.

Figure 2 Finite element model of cavity in plastically-deforming PVC showing development of plastic zone.

Most notably, toughness enhancements achieved by the inclusion of relatively small fractions of calcium carbonate nanoparticles, are in excess of those obtained through the traditional route of including relatively expensive rubber toughening modifiers, such as CPE (Figure 3a). Futhermore, these enhancements are achieved with a lesser reduction in strength than that normally incurs with the inclusion of rubber toughened modifiers (Figure 3b).

Figure 3 (a) Impact energy and (b) strength as a function of nanoparticle filler contact and compared with rubber-modifed PVC

Research Highlights


Green Steelmaking Research SMaRT@UNSW

Pioneering science that uses plastic and rubber tyres (polymer) as an alternative to coal-based carbon for electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking, which reduces reliance on coke and coal in EAF steelmaking. Invented by materials scientist Professor Veena Sahajwalla (Director of centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, SMaRT@UNSW), the technology partially replaces coke and coal with plastic/rubber thereby reducing landfills and producing a win for the environment. Adding polymer to the process reduces electricity consumption and reduces power on time. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power. Professor Sahajwalla commented ―The new business deal is gratifying because what would otherwise become waste is recycled to become a raw material for EAF steelmaking,‖ she says. ―If we want to move along the path to sustainability, this is one way to go, and OneSteel is leading the way by example. The world-leading polymer recycling technology will provide both environmental and economic benefits by reducing the amount of waste plastic sent to landfill and lowering the costs for steel manufacturers. Environmental benefits result from reduced electricity consumption, plastics recycling, reduction in coking coal usage and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. UNSW and OneSteel are in the process of commercialising a new technology that has the potential to use significant amounts of recycled plastic and rubber tyres in the process of making steel. Called the Polymer Injection Technology, it allows electric-arc steelmakers to substitute a portion of typical Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) carbon injectant (Coke) with polymers including plastic or rubber. The technology boosts steel making productivity, cuts power consumption, and reduces the potential for tyres to be diverted to landfill. The practical application of substituting plastic and rubber for coke is the result of an intensive three-year development and testing program of the process, made possible by the close collaboration between UNSW and OneSteel. UNSW‘s recently established Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT@UNSW), headed by Professor Veena Sahajwalla, brings together world class researchers in

materials and industrial sustainability; turning one industry‘s waste into a resource for another industry. Sahajwalla has invented a novel process – Polymer Injection Technology – which enables a significant proportion of coke to be replaced with carbon-rich, rubber in Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking, responsible for 40% of the world‘s steel production. The operating efficiency of EAF steelmaking is largely dictated by carbon/slag reactions, associated evolution of gases and slag foaming. In this world first, patented process (WO-2006/024069/A1) the rubber/coke mixture devised by Sahajwalla has been shown to produce a more stable foamy slag compared to coke only. As a result, this technology reduces energy and coal injectant consumption and improves production efficiency, providing an innovative breakthrough for an industry looking to reduce costs and improve production in a highly competitive industry. In operating this technology as part of normal business process at OneSteel‘s Sydney and Laverton steel mills, there is opportunity to divert more than 250,000 passenger tyres from landfill to steel products per annum. Signing an exclusive rights agreement for this unique technology, OneSteel has the ability to sub-licence the technology to more than 300 EAF steel-makers worldwide. Please see pages 14-15 on the UNSW Research Magazine link below for Centre for SMaRT@UNSW http://download.digitaldm.com/download/ResearchAtUNSW0809_1249_olw.htm


Director of SMaRT@UNSW T: +61 2-9385 4426 Email: [email protected]

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ELECTRON MICROSCOPE UNIT

The Electron Microscope Unit, while operating separately from the School, in closely linked with its research activities. The School‘s researchers are the majority users of the facility and Prof. Paul Munroe, the Director, is a School staff member. The unit continually updates its facilities and two of its more recent acquisitions are shown below.

Fei Nova 200 Nanolab Dual Beam Focused Ion Beam Microscope

JEOL 8500F Field Emission Electron Probe Microanalyser


STAFF ACTIVITIES

Membership of Committees

UNIVERSITY NAME

SEMLAC Library Committee S. Bandyopadhyay

Member - Solid State Advisory Group, UNSW Analytical Centre M. Ferry

Member High Performance Computing Unit Management Committee

Review Panel-UNESCO Centre for Membrane Technology

Presentation-Promotion to Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor

Electron Microscopy Management Committee (From 1/8/07)

Management Committee Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion(From 1/8/07)

M. Hoffman

Electron Microscopy Management Committee (to 31/7/07)

Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion (to 31/7/07)

O. Ostrovski

Member Academic Board

Member Academic Board Committee on Research

Member Board of Directors of the International House

University Promotions Committee - Professor

V. Sahajwalla

FACULTY NAME

Education Progress Academic Committee : Academic Advisor School

Faculty Standing Committee

S. Bandyopadhyay

Faculty International Strategies Committee S. Chan

Faculty of Science Undergraduate Committee A.Crosky

Faculty of Engineering Academic Promotions Committee: Lecturer-to-Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science Postgraduate Coursework Committee

M. Ferry

Faculty Executive Committee

Faculty Board Committee

Science Faculty Promotions Committee – Associate Professor

M. Hoffman

UNSW Faculty of Medicine – Professorial Promotion Committee P. Munroe

Faculty Standing Committee (to 31/7/07)

Faculty Executive Committee (to 31/7/07)

O. Ostrovski

Member, Faculty of Science Occupational Health and Safety Committee

Member, Faculty of Engineering

Academic Promotions Committee: Associate Lecturer to Lecturer

O. Standard

Research Committee Member A. Yu


Staff Activities

SCHOOL COMMITTEES Head of School’s Advisory Committee Oleg Ostrovksi (to 31/7/07) Mark Hoffman – (Chair from 1/8/07) Alan Crosky Philip Chatfield Sean Li Anil Prakash Marketing Committee Sean Li (Chair) Veena Sahajwalla (as Chair of Scholarships Committee) Anil Prakash Lucy Stride Runyu Yang Nagarajan Valanoor

OH&S Committee Owen Standard (Chair) Philip Chatfield (Safety Officer) Mark Hoffman Ruiping Zou Postgraduate student Undergraduate student

Teaching Committee Alan Crosky (Chair) Paul Munroe Sammy Chan Runyu Yang Jane Gao

Postgraduate Research Committee Chris Sorrell (Chair) Oleg Ostrovksi Lana Strizhevsky Sean Li (as Chair of Marketing Committee) Research Management Committee O. Ostrovski (to 31/7/07) Aibing Yu –(Chair from 1/8/07) Chris Sorrell Veena Sahajwalla Paul Munroe Nagarajan Valanoor Scholarships Committee Veena Sahajwalla (Chair) Owen Standard Alan Crosky Lucy Stride / Anil Prakash Space Committee Michael Ferry (Chair) George Yang Anil Prakash


Staff Activities

ROLES ON EXTERNAL BODIES NAME

Technical Committee : ACAM 2007, 5th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, 10-12 December 2007, Brisbane

UNSW POC : UCF/USA -UNSW Nanotechnology Research Collaboration

Expert-in-Chief, India‘s First National Winterschool on Nanotechnology, UNSW SMSE & LDRP Inst Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Expert Panel Member, Rubbercon 2008 : International Rubber Technology Conference, IIT Kharagpur 2008

S. Bandyopadhyay

Member - ARC Centre of Excellence (Design in Light Metals) Executive Committee

Member - ARC Centre of Excellence (Design in Light Metals) Research Management Committee

New South Wales Branch Councillor of Institute of Materials Engineering, Australia

Co-chair - Amorphous & Quasicrystalline Materials Symposium, Nov 6-9, 2007, Jeju Island, Korea

IEAust External Accreditation panel member

Member - Instrument Advisory Team: Australian Replacement Nuclear Reactor (ANSTO)

Member of Advisory Committee for LIEF-funded TMP Laboratory, Deakin University

Member of Advisory Committee for LIEF-funded Casting Facility, Deakin University

M. Ferry

Secretary of NSW Branch of Australasian Ceramic Society

Committee Member and Publicity Officer for Australian Fracture Group

National Council Member Institute of Materials Engineers Australia (IMEA)

Chair, Education Committee, Materials Australia

Council Member World Congress of Fracture

Program Leader, ARC Centre of Excellence in Design in Light Metals

Events Committee and Workshop Organiser ARC Advanced Materials Network

Materials Engineering Program Review Committee, Institute of Engineers, Singapore

Program Reviewer, Carrick Institute

Research Management Committee, ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals

M. Hoffman

American Ceramic Society: Committee Member of Electronic Division

Member of Instrument Advisory Team for Time of Flight Polarization Analysis Spectrometer, Bragg Institute, ANSTO

S. Li


Staff Activities

ROLES ON EXTERNAL BODIES NAME

ASTED International Conference on Nanotechnology and Applications – Technical Committee

Australian Microscopy and Microscopy Research Facility - Technical Committee (Chair)

Australian Microscopy and Microscopy Research Facility - IT Committee

Australian Microscopy and Microscopy Research Facility - Operations Group Committee

P. Munroe

Member, Organising Committee for the Conference on Sustainable Materials in the Built Environment

Executive Committee of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology

AIST, Australian Section

V. Sahajwalla

Board, CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development

Japan-Australia Iron & Steelmaking Symposium , Co-chair

High Temperature Corrosion & Protection, International Symposium Committee

D. Young

Member - College of Experts, Australian Research Council (ARC) Member - Research Quality Framework (RQF) in Engineering and Technology Panel, Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) Panel Member - Endeavour Awards, DEST President - Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia (FOCSA) Honorary Secretary- NSW Division, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Member - Management Committee, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials

A.Yu

Senior Member, Materials Research Society of China

Senior Member, Electronics Society of China

Council Member, Association of Superconductivity of Science and

Technologies of China

Y. Zhao


Staff Activities

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES NAME

Editorial Advisory Board, Int J Structural Health Monitoring;

Editorial Advisory Board, Int J Plastics Technology

Co-Guest editor : Materials & Manufacturing, Issue 22 (6), 2007

Refereeing activities for over 15 international journals

S. Bandyopadhyay

Member, Board of Review Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A

ARC OZ Reader of Discovery/Linkage Grant applications

Reviewer of ANSTO neutron diffraction beam-line Grant applications

M. Ferry

Associate Editor of the Journal of American Ceramic Society

Editorial Board of Key Engineering Materials

Editorial Board of International Journal of Nanomanufacturing

International Advisory Board, Chiang Mai Journal of Science

M. Hoffman

Microscopy Research and Technique

Research Letters in Materials Science

P. Munroe

Member, Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science), USA

Member, Advisory Board, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan International

V. Sahajwalla

Session Chair, 3rd Asian Particle Technology Symposium, 3-5 Sept, Beijing, China

Invited referee for a number of scholarly journals, including Powder Technology, I&EC Research, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science,

AICheE J.

ARC Oz Reader

R. Yang

Member of Editorial Board, Particuology, Elsevier (ISSN: 1672-2515)

Member of Editorial Board, Science in China – B: Chemistry, Springer (ISSN: 1006-9291)

Member of Editorial Board, Recent Patent on Engineering, Bentham Science Publisher (ISSN: 1872-2121)

Member of Editorial Board, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology (ISSN: 1872-2105)

Member of Editorial Board, Powder Technology, Elsevier (ISSN: 0032-5910)

Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (IJESMS), Interscience Publishers (ISSN: 1755-9758)

A. Yu

Editorial Board, Corrosion and Materials

Editorial Board, J Corrosion Science & Technology

Editorial Board, J Phase Equilibrium

Editorial Board, Oxidation of Metals

Editorial Board, Materials Science Forum

D. Young

Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Editorial Board, Journal of Instrument Technique and Sensors

Y. Zhao


Staff Activities

Presentations to External Bodies and Conferences

BANDYOPADHYAY, Sri

Jan 2007 : Invited lecture on Nanomaterials for Tertiary College Lecturers, organized by Jadavpur Uni Nano Centre India, [Prof S Mukherjee]

Jan 2007 : Atomic Force Microscopy Lecture for Tertiary College Lecturers, organized by Jadavpur Uni Nano Centre India, [Prof S Mukherjee]

January 2007 : Invited Panel Presentation on Rubber technology national Workshop, Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur India,

16 Feb 2007 : Polymer Research Seminar, UCF USA, AMPAC and MMAE,

21 December 07 : Invited paper on Polymer Nanocomposites : Indian Polymer Science Symposium 2007 - upon invitation by Prof Dipankar Chattopadhyay & Prof A Nandi at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur

28 Dec 2008 Workshop on Nanocomposites - Optoelectronics devices at Banaras Hindu University, India Dept of Electronics & Electrical Engineering

FERRY, Michael

3rd International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Deju Island, Korea, 10-15 June 2007

Materials and Austceram 2007, Brighton, Sydney, 4-6 July 2007

2nd International Symposium on Ultralight Materials and Structures, Beijing, China, 14-16 September 2007.

6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, Deju Island, Korea, 6-9 November 2007

2nd Annual Workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, The University of New South Wales, 4-5 December 2007

Conference Sessions Chaired

3rd International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Deju Island, Korea, 10-15 June 2007

Materials and Austceram 2007, Brighton, Sydney, 4-6 July 2007

6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, Deju Island, Korea, 6-9 November 2007

2nd Annual Workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, The University of New South Wales, 4-5 December 2007



HOFFMAN, Mark

Research in Materials at UNSW, Technical University Aalen, Germany 22 December 2007

Three-dimensional finite element analysis of human teeth from x-ray determined tooth structure, International Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Biological Materials, Hawaii, USA 11 Dec 2007

Microstructure/property relationships of healthy and hypomineralised dental enamel: Inelastic Deformation of Human Tooth Enamel, International Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Biological Materials, Hawaii, USA 11 December 2007

Hybrid Composites Research in Light Metals, Annual Workshop of ARC CoE Design in Light Metals, 5 December 2007

UNSW Contributions to Nuclear Materials Research, ANSTO, 23 October 2007

Materials Education in Australia, Materials Australia National Council Meeting, 29 October 2007

Materials Research at UNSW, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, 17 October 2007

Materials Research at UNSW, National Taiwan University, 17 October 2007

Materials Research at UNSW, National Tsing Hwa University, Taiwan, 17 October 2007

Study in Materials at UNSW, Tung Hai University, Taiwan, 17 October 2007

Contact Damage Response of Carbon Fibre Skin/Aluminum Foam Sandwich Composites, Austceram08, Brighton le Sands, 5 July 2007

Mechanical Properties of PVC-Based Polymer Nanocomposites, Austceram08, Brighton-Le-Sands, 5 July 2007

Development of Abrasion Resistant Coatings, City University Hong Kong, 18 May 2007

Deformation of Thin ‗Brittle Films on Ductile Substrates:DLC, TiN –based, Workshop, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India, 7 February 2007

MUNROE, Paul

―Microstructural Analysis of Complex DLC-Based Coatings‖, Microscopy 2007, Auckland, New Zealand, February, 2007.

―Deformation Behaviour of DLC Coatings on (111) Silicon Substrates‖. International Conference on Metallurgical Thin Films and Coatings, San Diego, USA, April 2007

―Application of Focused Ion Beam Systems to Materials Analysis‖, 15th Biennial Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis Conference (NCTA), Melbourne, November 2007 (Invited)

―Characterization of Thin Films and Surfaces via (Electron) Microscopy‖, International Forum on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, Brisbane, October 2007 (Invited)

―Characterization of Nanomaterials - Tools for Structural Chemical and Crystallographic Analysis‖, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, September, 2007 (Invited)

OSTROVSKI, Oleg

XI World Congress on Titanium, Kyoto, 3-5 June 2007

Advances in Metallurgical Processes and Materials, Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), 27-30 May 2007

European Metallurgical Conference, Düsseldorf (Germany), 11-15 June 2007



SAHAJWALLA, Veena

Keynote/Opening/Invited Talks

Engineers Australia, Women‘s Leadership Forum, Invited speaker, Sydney, December 2007

University of Science & Technology Liaoning, Invited Speaker, China, December 2007

Engineers Australia Excellence Awards, Keynote speaker, Sydney, September 2007

Community Engagement Invitations

Bridges Investment Company, Invited Speaker, Sydney, December 2007

Rotary Club, Invited Speaker, Wahroonga, Sydney, December 2007

Engineers Australia, Keynote speaker at the inaugural ―Discover Engineering‘ day for Years 10, 11 and 12 students at Harbord High School, Sydney, March 2007 and Baulkham Hills High, Sydney, September 2007

Union, University & Schools Club of Sydney, Invited Speaker at the monthly meeting, Sydney, August 2007

NSW Board of Studies, Invited speaker at the Symposium on Science & Technology, K-6 Syllabus on Technology Education for the Future, Sydney, August 2007

Sydney Girls High School, Invited speaker to Year 10 students, Sydney, June 2007

L‘Oreal Australia for Women in Science, Invited Speaker, April 2007 STANDARD, Owen

• "Role of Trace Elements in Osteogenesis Within Porous Bioceramics In Vivo", Materials and Austceram 2007 International Conference, Sydney, Australia, 4-6 July , 2007

VALANOOR, Nagarajan

Invited talk "Combinatorial discovery of a new Pb-free high Tc morphotropic phase boundary piezoceramic", International Conference on Electroceramics, ICE 2007, Arusha, Tanzania.

YANG, Runyu

―Simulation of Packing of Particles‖, Keynote speaker, 3rd Asian Particle Technology Symposium, 3-5 Sept, Beijing, China

―Numerical simulation of flow regimes in a rotating drum‖, 9th International Conference on Bulk Materials Storage, Handling and Transportation, 9-11 October, Newcastle, Australia.

―DEM modelling of disc wear in the IsaMill process‖, 9th International Conference on Bulk Materials Storage, Handling and Transportation, 9-11 October, Newcastle, Australia.

―DEM Simulation of the Compaction of Fine Particles‖, Conference of Particulate Processes In the Pharmaceutical Industry II, Feb 3-8, San Juan, Puerto Rico

―Numerical Modelling of the De-agglomeration of Pharmaceutical Powders‖, Conference of Particulate Processes In the Pharmaceutical Industry II, Feb 3-8, San Juan, Puerto Rico

YOUNG, David

Spring Meeting Japan Institute of Materials, Tokyo, Japan.

International Corrosion Engineering Conference, Seoul, Korea.

Gordon Research Conference on High Temperature Corrosion, New London, NH, USA.

Australasian Corrosion Association Annual Conference, Sydney.



YU, Aibing

Plenary Lecturer: ―Discrete particle simulation: a design tool for bulk solids handling?‖ 9th International Conference on Bulk Materials Storage, Handling and Transportation, Newcastle, Australia, October 8 -11 2007

Guest Speaker: ―Recent developments in computational particle technology‖, 13th symposium on particle technology and fluidization, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 3-7, 2007

Guest Speaker: ―Workshop of rock formation, structure, and alteration‖ at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company, USA, July 26-27 2007

Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Scholars in Science and Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Dec 26-29 2007

Australian Coal Preparation Conference, Sunshine Coast, Australia, March 11-15 2007.

FLUDIZATION XII: New Horizons in Fluidization Engineering, British Columbia, Canada, May 13-18 2007

International Conference on DEM, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 27-29 2007.

17th CAETS Convocation: Environment and Sustainable Growth, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 21-26 2007 (member of ATSE (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering) delegation).

ARC Centre of Excellence on Functional Nanomaterials Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Nov. 11-13 2007

30Th ATSE National Symposium, Perth, Australia, Nov. 18-20 2007 ZHAO, Yong

6th International Conference on New Discoveries, New Theories, and New Materials of Superconductivity, Jan 4-7, 2007, Sydney, Australia.

Asian Conference on Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics, December 2-4, 2007, Xi‘an, China.

20th International Symposium on Superconductivity ( ISS2007), Nov.1-4. 2007 Japan.

9th international Conference on Superconductivity, December, 10-14, 2007, Xi‘an , China


Staff Awards

Alan Crosky

Carrick Citation for Teaching

Mark Hoffman


2007 Vice Chancellor‘s Teaching Award for Postgraduate Supervision

Paul Munroe


Veena Sahajwalla

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2007), the premier national institution for the advancement of engineering and technology, for ‗Achievements as an exceptional, innovative engineer with an established record of successful conversions of research to high-value products‘.

Yong Zhao

Golden Summit Prize for International Collaboration, Government of Sichuan Province, China

Proud Carrick Award Winners from left: Paul Munroe, Mark Hoffman, Belinda Allen, Alan Crosky &

Prof. Richard Johnstone (Executive Director of the Carrick Institute)


CENTRES

Simulation and Modelling Of Particulate Systems (SIMPAS) Laboratory Particulate matter is widely encountered in nature and industries but is poorly understood. Intensive research of particulate matter is therefore important. The research theme is ―simulation and modelling of particulate systems‖, aimed at understanding the fundamentals governing particulate packing and flow. It will be approached through rigorous simulation and modelling of the particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions at microscopic and macroscopic levels, with its application oriented to mineral/metallurgy/chemical/materials industries. Its goal is to become an internationally recognised research centre through excellence in fundamental and applied research in particulate science and technology. Its mission is:

to establish a world-class interdisciplinary research team, supported by the rapidly developed computational techniques and computer technology, in the field of particulate science and technology;

to provide a forum to research scientists from various disciplines for exchanging ideas and developing collaborative research in computational particulate technology;

to promote the application of particulate science and technology, newly developed understanding and research techniques in particular, to industry; and

to contribute to the education and training of high quality postgraduates in particulate science and technology.

The centre is composed of academic/research staff with different expertise, as listed below:

Dr Aibing Yu (Professor, Centre Director, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr John Burgess (Adjunct Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Mark Hoffman (Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Sammy Chan (Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Sri Bandyopadhyay (Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Runyu Yang (Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Ruiping Zou (Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Haiping Zhu (Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Baoyu Gao (Research Associate, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Qinghua Zeng (Research Associate, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Xuefeng Dong (Research Associate, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Xuchuan Jiang (Research Associate, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Kejun Dong (Research Associate, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Chandana Jayasundara (ARC APD-I, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Zongyan Zhou (ARC APD-I, School of Materials Science and Engineering) Dr Rose Amal (Professor, School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry) Dr Soji Adesina (Professor, School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry) Dr Graeme Bushell (Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry) Dr Eddie Leonardi (Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) Dr David Waite (Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering)

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SIMPAS Summaries in 2007 (Research funding, publications, HDR enrolments and completions):

Overseas Professors & External Experts visited SIMPAS at UNSW in 2007

1. Professor K. Shinohara, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University Jan 22- March 22 2007.

2. Prof. En Ge Wang, Director, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China Feb. 11-12 2007

3. Dr Zhiguo Luo, School of Materials and Metallurgy Engineering, North-eastern University, China, March 16 2006 to March 15 2007.

4. Prof. Alain Deryck, Powder Technology Center, Ecole des Mines d‘Albi, France, Jan 18 2007- Jan 18 2008.

5. Professor Jin Ooi, Division of Particulate Solid Mechanics, Institute for Infrastructure & Environment, School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh, Feb 28 –Aug 18 2007.

6. A/Professor Peter Wypych, Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Wollongong, Feb.14, 2007.

7. Dr Renhu Pan, Longking Pty Ltd, China, Feb. 13-15, 2007

8. Prof. James Hill, Nanomechanics Group, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, May 18 2007.

9. Prof. Rangsu Liu, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hunan University, P.R. China, May 15-June 14 2007

10. Prof Tomaso Aste, Department of Applied Mathematics, Australian National University, June 1 2007.

11. Dr Zhidong Pan, School of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, P.R. China, July- Oct, 2007.

12. Dr Yongxiang Yang, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Delft University of Technology, Switzerland, Aug. 24 2007

2007

Research Funding in Cash $1,782,000

Publications

33

HDR Enrolments 17

HDR Completions

3PhD 2 MEng

New Enrolments 3PhD 1MEng

Total members of Simpas 30

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13. Professor Jun-Jchiro Yagi, Physical Process Control Lab., Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sept. 17-Dec. 14 2007

14. Prof. Richard Williams, Institute of Powder Technology, University of Leeds, UK, Sept. 16-18 2007.

15. Prof. Ping Peng, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hunan University, P.R. China, Dec 2006- Dec 2007.

16. Dr John Burgess, Director, Scena Consulting, Nov. 24-26 2007.

17. Prof. Mark Jones, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Nov. 30, 2007.

18. Dr Darol Garchev, Managing Director of PIXELTEC PTY LTD, Australia, 13 June 2007.

19. Professor Jim Litster, School of Engineering, The University of Queensland, June 14 2007.

20. Prof. Stefan Luding, Particle Technology Group, Department of Chemical Technology Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Aug. 23-26. 2007.

21. Mr. Per Anders Eidem (exchange PhD student), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, July-Oct. 2007.

22. Mr. Dion Lucke, Mount Pleasant Coal Chain and Services, Rio Tinto Coal, Australia, 21, Feb., & 3 Sept. 2007

23. Mr. Peter Newling, Petan Enterprises Pty Ltd, Australia, 21, Feb. & 3 Sept. 2007

24. Dr Andrew Vince, Director, Elsa Consulting Group Pty Ltd, a number of times in 2007

25. Dr Paul Zulli, BlueScope Steel, a number of times in 2007

26. Mr. J. Third (PhD student), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, Oct., 16 2007.

27. Dr Qicai Huang (& other 4 researchers), Science-Technology Development Department, Bao-Steel, Shanghai, China, Nov 15-20 2007.

28. Prof. Jinghai Li, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing), Nov. 13-17, 2007.

29. Prof. Yunzhi Wang, Ohio State University, USA, Dec 2-6 2007.

Prof Aibing Yu

Centres


ARC Centre of Excellence Design in Light Metals

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals was established in 2005 with the vision to be an innovative, internationally-competitive strategic fundamental research Centre of Excellence, advancing scientific knowledge and understanding in, and enhancing technology development, awareness and applications of, the light metals aluminium, magnesium and titanium. The Centre combines the expertise of the leading Australian light metals researchers based at Monash University, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Deakin University, University of Sydney and University of Melbourne. The Centre embraces a novel ‗design-directed‘ approach to the systematic identification of research initiatives for maximising the competitiveness of light alloys and light metal hybrids based on aluminium, magnesium and titanium. The ‗design-directed‘ approach provides an effective linkage between fundamental research and engineering application. The Centre maintains national partnerships with the Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing (CAST CRC) and the CSIRO Light Metals Flagship, as well as global linkages with major international Centres in Europe, North America and Asia.

The Centre‘s second full year of operation in 2007 was highly successful, with some notable highlights including: Consolidation of the Centre Research Portfolio and full implementation of five Research Programs

comprising thirteen truly cross-institutional projects.

Consolidation of the Australian Partnership in Light Metals Research, engaging the Centre with the CAST CRC in a Research Cluster with the CSIRO Light Metals Flagship.

ARC-Linkage Infrastructure Funding to establish a National Light Metal Powder Processing Facility.

The second Annual Workshop held on 4-5 December, 2007 at UNSW that attracted over 100 Centre participants including several eminent local and overseas Partner Investigators. This Workshop also represented the first occasion on which the Centre‘s full research portfolio was canvassed publicly.

The School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW, plays a major role in the Centre and is active in several research programs with Profs Michael Ferry and Mark Hoffman leading Program A (Alloy Design, Processing and Properties) and Program C (Hybrid Structures), respectively. The general structure of these programs and some 2007 highlights of the work carried out by UNSW researchers are given below:

Program A – This program currently consists of the following projects targeted at the design of

microstructures through alloying, thermal and mechanical treatment for optimizing the strength,

formability and stability of light alloys.

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Some notable outcomes of the work involving UNSW researchers in 2007 include: The use of accumulative roll bonding to produce an Al-base composite material containing alternating

layers of coarse and fine grained material (Figure 1). Two papers from this work were published in Acta Materialia discussing microstructural development and conditions for minimising shear banding in the multi-layered material.

The discovery, based on sound theoretical principles, of several new classes of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) including Cu-base BMGs without the usual Zr additions, Ag-base BMGs and Zn-base BMGs. These BMGs exhibited critical diameters exceeding 1 mm and have suitable properties that enables them to superplastic formed in the supercooled liquid region. Preliminary work has also demonstrated the possibility of producing the world‘s first Al-base BMG. The microformability of Cu- and Ag-base BMGs is being investigated due to their potential use as critical components in microelectronic devices. Based on this work, an application has been lodged for a provisional patent.

Completion of two PhD theses, one MSc thesis and three honours year theses and the publication of 13 journal papers with 5 others submitted/accepted.

Program C – The purpose of this program is to create light metal-based structures with exceptional

properties by exploiting novel structures on all size scales. The method utilised in the program is to

hybridise light metals with low volumes of other ‗materials‘ such that structural properties, especially,

may be achieved which are in regions of ‗property space‘, not realizable using traditional metallurgical

strategies. The structure of the program (below) is focused upon synthetically and in situ processed

structures.

Figure 1: SEM micrograph showing a unique

multilayered composite material using Al and Al-

Sc alloys: the latter does not recrystallize after

ARB and annealing (high strength layers). These

are bounded by lower strength but ductile

recrystallized layers.

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The projects in this program are in their third year. Some notable outcomes of the work involving UNSW-base researchers include:

Prediction of the strength and impact resistance of aluminium foam sandwich panels with carbon fibre and aluminium skins. By assessing the bend strength as a function of yield strength of the skin, models have been developed which may be used to predict the bending strength as a function of panel geometry;

The effect of impacts and contacts on aluminium foam and sandwich panels. The deformation of metal foams is a combination of buckling and tearing of the foam walls, depending upon the contact geometry. The addition of a skin changes the contact mode and hence the energy absorption of the system;

Development of aluminium nanolayered structures with exceptional mechanical properties. The nanolayering of aluminium with a material with a similar lattice structure but different shear modulus – palladium – has created a coating with a higher hardness than either of the individual constituents with a few volume percent of the palladium phase.

Figure 2: Deformation of aluminium foam under a square contact showing buckling of cell walls leading to crushing and tearing near the edge of the contact. (M. Idris)

Figure 3: Nanopillar milled in a Al/Pd nanolayered film for compression testing. (P. Dayal)

Overall, 2007 was a very successful year for the CoE and 2008 is expected to be even more exciting following a recent invitation from the federal government for the Centre to make a formal application to extend its ARC funding to 2014.

Michael Ferry Deputy Director, Education & Training

ARC Centre of Excellence for DESIGN IN LIGHT METALS

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Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT@UNSW)

Background

Achieving the sustainability targets set by industry

has created a need for commercially relevant and

globally significant R&D. The Centre for Sustainable

Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) works

with industry partners to address that need.

SMaRT brings together the distinctive research

capabilities of UNSW‘s academics and a track record

of delivering research and technology suitable for

rapid implementation.

The expected benefits are a significant reduction in

energy intensity, waste generation and greenhouse

gas emissions, and the development of materials

with longer service lives and recyclability.

SMaRT will be an internationally recognised

centre for the development of sustainable

materials technologies.

Goals of the Centre ̶ Research, develop and implement sustainable

materials technologies ̶ Enhance the sustainable development of

industries ̶ Reduce environmental impact of waste and

by-products ̶ Technology transfer for industry transformation.

Capability

SMaRT brings together internationally recognised

researchers in the fundamental sciences of

materials, process engineering and technology

transfer.

The Centre‘s research targets the strategic

requirements of industry sectors, particularly steel,

aluminium, and mining.

SMaRT currently has over 15 researchers, 40

postgraduate students and several corporate

industry partners.

Contacts:


Director of SMaRT@UNSW

T: +61 2-9385 4426

Email: [email protected]

Academics forming part of SMaRT are: Prof Veena Sahajwalla, known internationally for her advances in plastic and rubber recycling in electric arc furnace steelmaking and sustainable materials processing; Prof Alan Crosky, known for his research on the use of renewable materials in the manufacture of composites; Dr Obada Kayali, known for his research on the use of ‗waste‘ industrial products such as fly ash and blast furnace slag; Prof Oleg Ostrovski, recognised for his research into the alternative extraction of Ti and Mn; Prof Michel Ferry, recognised for his research in light metals; and A/Prof Sami Kara is a world leader in Life Cycle Engineering, it defines the life cycle of a product from raw material, use and disposal stage in order to reduce the environmental impact; Dr Ganga Prusty research on mechanical strength characterisation and analysis of materials; other internationally recognised academics include Prof Deo Prasad, A/Prof Patrick Zou, Ms Kirstin Maté and A/Prof Sri Bandyopadhyay.

Track Record Pioneering research in partnership with Australian steelmaker OneSteel has resulted in a lower energy intensity electric arc furnace steelmaking through recycling plastics and rubber tyres.Ironmaking research collaborations have been conducted with steel companies worldwide including US steel companies. These included investigations of coke and char fines in blast furnace off-gas emissions using x-ray diffraction technique and fundamental understanding influence of carbon structure and mineral matter on coal/coke reactions.

Industry

Partnerships

Life Cycle Engineering of

Materials &

Processes

New Sustainable

Materials & Processes

Research Themes

Sustainable Materials

Research & Technology

Recycling &

Renewable

Materials

Sustainability

of Current

Materials

Industries



MATSOC (Materials Science Student Society)

The prospect of fourth year for most presents a mixed bag of trepidation, excitement and an anxious desire to finally reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Being myself three-quarters of the way there, I can honestly say that those feelings, whilst they may be cliché, are not wholly unfounded. There is the major gauntlet of thesis to get through, not to mention getting through the usual rigmarole of classes and on top of everything there this the minor detail of securing employment post-graduation. That is not to say that in fourth year we are left to fend entirely for ourselves. Both staff and fellow students are usually more than happy and/or understanding enough when it comes to the scheduling of deadlines or help with the coursework and the School's excellent exposure to relevant industries has proven beneficial to more than one when securing full time employment. The graduating class of 2008 would agree with me though, that being in your final year of tertiary education is not without its highlights. There is for instance a permanent cause for celebration upon the completion of major tasks or at the realisation of significant events i.e. literature survey, final exams, happy hour at the roundhouse etc. It may all seem trivial on paper, but the completion of each task or the submission of each assignment, is yet another milestone marking the fast approaching end of university life. Stopping to savour the little wins along way helps with staying motivated. MATSOC (The Materials Science Student Society) do their part to alleviate the day-to-day stresses, and not just for fourth year, but for all years one through to five. Matsoc's involvement in student life is seen to be quite pronounced. As a society they have increased their integration with other co-operative societies, namely Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Student Society (CEUS), Industrial Chemistry Undergraduate Student Society (ICUS), Food Science and Technology Student Society and Petroleum Engineering Student Society (PESS). This year Matsoc were successfully involved with the First Year Orientation Camp. With increased support for the school and with greater student participation than last year, the camp, held over a weekend in April, proved quite successful. Much the same can be said about the success of other events Matsoc have been involved with, i.e. Annual Engineering Cruise, countless BBQ‘s and social outings. I've mentioned a little about the challenges fourth year face, of these challenges the most defined would unquestionably be the undertaking and subsequent completion of thesis. Everybody may have a different topic with its own separate set of hurdles to get through, but in essence everyone is in the same boat. Luckily, the allocation of topics is done by preference and so there is the advantage of having the option to immerse yourself in an area of research that is of special interest to you. I chose to study the feasibility of doping hydroxyapatite (a naturally occurring mineral and a bio-ceramic) with zinc cations, an area of research I felt not only consolidated my knowledge gained as a ceramics major and as a biomedical engineer, but also piqued my interest in a field I now hope to further my professional career. Undertaking a thesis project, in my experience will teach you a great deal about what you are really interested in, your self-directed capabilities, your commitment and drive and it will also lend some focus to what may seem like an everlasting stream of unrelated bits of information. Fourth year is most definitely a singular experience that is personally, bittersweet. I'm excited to have completed such a significant part of my degree, but also saddened to be tying up more than just loose ends. In saying goodbye to thesis and other academic challenges, I will also be saying goodbye to most of my peers and when this academic year finally comes a close, I think I will miss them the most.

Lauren Estabillo Social Director 2007-2008, Matsoc

4th Year, Ceramics Engineering Major


A Foreign Student’s Perspective

Let me start by introducing myself… My name is Audrey Lejune, I am French and live in France. I am studying at the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials (ECPM) in Strasbourg. My major is Material Sciences and Engineering. This is a 3-year-program school, after two years of intensive lessons in physics and chemistry at what we call ―prep school‖ in France to enter engineering schools. In order to get my degree I need to do internships. For my Masters degree, I really wanted to go to Australia. It has been a dream of mine since I was a child. Was it for the kangaroos, the surfers or from the Australian TV shows I used to watch while a teenager, I don‘t really know! Once in Australia, Sydney was the most appealing city and UNSW being one of the most successful universities in Australia, the choice was logical. Currently, I am working on a project within the biomaterial field with Mark Hoffman. I am finding it really interesting as I am planning on working in a biotechnology company after my studies. The campus of UNSW is really different from those you see in France since, usually, campuses in France are not that separate from the city but more ―inside‖ with school buildings, shops and houses all together. My school in Strasbourg is a little different since it is the only school on the whole CNRS campus and it is not a ―real‖ university. What surprised me the most when I first walked onto the campus is the amount of people from different back-grounds. I really think that exchange students like me are made more welcome here than in the typical university in France. For instance I was able to take a trip to Canberra thanks to the international office here at UNSW. Though there are differences, there are also a lot of similarities such as sport on campus or artistic events. I went to see a play here on the campus and it was really fun. As for sport, I joined the UTS Handball team since UNSW didn‘t have one. The funny thing is that most players are European. So, life in Sydney is great! Though there are a lot of French people here, it really is an Australian City and I love it! What is peculiar about Sydney is that you can be in the CBD and in few minutes in a national park! That is great and very unique in the world, I think. Besides, it is a very multicultural city and this is very interesting! If it weren‘t for the 26-hour-flight back home, living in Sydney is definitely something I would consider for my future.

Audrey Lejune


PROJECTS

An Australia – India (Targeted AISRF) Nanotechnology Project A sustained interaction over past 3 - 4 years with DST India by Associate Professor Sri

Bandyopadhyay of our School has met with success whereby a prestigious $1.55 Million top-down (Targeted Allocation) project has been allocated to UNSW and its Australian allies UQ, ANU and Flinders by DIISR and to SINP and four other Indian institutions by DST.

This is the first project of its kind where UNSW has taken lead in a truly Australia – India collaboration aiming to develop and characterise Nanocomposites for long term clean energy. The next task is to reach a focussed, well – defined plan through a series of workshops and subsequently reach a target of fabrication, evaluation and modelling of the correct nanocomposite.

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A 3 Year Top- Down Collaborative Novel Research Proposal on:

‘NANOCOMPOSITES’

For Electronics, Light yet Strong Engineering Applications,

Coatings, Fuel Cell and Clean Energy Use

Indian Team: Prof Dipankar Chakravorty, IACS; Prof Anil K Bhowmick, IIT Kharagpur; Prof Subrata Ray, IIT Roorkee; Prof N R Bandyopadhyay, Mat Sci, BESU; Prof Milan K Sanyal, SINP

Australian Team: Prof Max Lu, UQ; Prof Martin Green, UNSW; Prof John White, ANU; Prof Aibing Yu, UNSW; Prof Janis Matisons, Flinders; Assoc Prof Sri Bandyopadhyay, UNSW

The Aussie research team welcome at The School of Materials Science & Engineering by Head of School, Prof Mark Hoffman during their first workshop for the project.


EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS 2007

The School‘s research-only personnel, in particular research students and research-only academics are

supported, predominantly, by its external research income. Research income in 2007 was the highest

ever and is broken down as follows:

Grant type Amount Fraction

Industry-focused research $2,934,629 43%

Fundamental research $3,497,535 51%

Research Infrastructure $446,560 6%

TOTAL $6,878,724 100%

List of grants received:

Name of Funding Agency Project Name Principal Amount($)

ARC Granular dynamics: theories, modelling and simulation

Aibing Yu

137,065

ARC Fellowship Granular dynamics: theories, modelling and simulation

Aibing Yu

135,822

ARC Linkage Grant - Project LP0455427

Blast Furnace Ironmaking:From fundamental Simulation to Process Modelling

Aibing Yu

128,000

ARC Linkage project Grant Fundamental studies of screening processes in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

74,297

ARC Linkage Project LP0668157 Linkage Project Aibing Yu

141,390

ARC Linkage Project LP0668157 Linkage APAI Aibing Yu

24,000

ARC CoE - Sub contract with University of Queensland

Grandular dynamics: from discrete simulation towards continuing modelling

Aibing Yu

76,774


Micro dynamic modelling & analysis of gas fluidisation of particle mixtures

Aibing Yu

76,774


Molecular Dynamics simulation of Nanocomposites

Aibing Yu

50,000

ARC Linkage Partner - Bluescope Steel Ltd

Blast Furnace Ironmaking: from fundamental Simulation to Process Modelling

Aibing Yu

85,000

ARC Linkge - Partner BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance

Fundamental Studies of screnning processes in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

70,000

ARC Linkage Project Grant (with Bluescope Steel Research Laboratories)(APAI & APDI)LP0455427

Blast Furnace ironmaking : from fundamental simulation to process modelling

Aibing Yu

117,821

ARC LP0668157 - Bluescope Steel industry contribution

Model studies of transport and solidification phenomena in blast furnace

Aibing Yu

75,000


External Research Grants


CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund Sanding amount & rate prediction Aibing Yu

97,000

ARC Linkage Award - LX0776121 Particle scale studies of power mixing in bladed mixers

Aibing Yu

18,000

ARC LP0775286 - Project Particle scale modelling of dense medium cyclones in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

101,784

ARC LP0775286 - APAI Particle scale modelling of dense medium cyclones in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

25,627

ARC LP0775286 - APAI Particle scale modelling of dense medium cyclones in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

25,627

ARC Linkage Partner - Aust Coal Association Research Program

Particle scale modelling of dense medium cyclones in coal preparation

Aibing Yu

150,000

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd Optimum control of bulk density of Coal in Coke making

Aibing Yu

100,000

DEST CH070068 Multiscale modelling & analysis of particu

Aibing Yu

28,000

ARC CoE subcontract - Univ of Qld. CE0348243

Molecular Dynamics simulation of nano composites

Aibing Yu

90,000

ARC Discovery

Temper Development using secondary precipation for stress corrosion control cracking resistance in 7xxx series Aluminium Alloys

Alan Crosky

63,688

CRC for Advanced Composite Structures

General composites Alan Crosky

17,847


PhD scholarship for Xufeng Wang Alan Crosky

12,559

Monash Univ. ARC COE Sub project Crosky1

Design in Light Metals Alan Crosky

32,500


Scholarship for Gavin Fieldman - Long term behaviour of wood fibre plastic composities

Alan Crosky

25,627


Scholarship for Karl Toppler - Damage accumulation during bearing loading of carbon fibre luga with steered fibre reinforcement

Alan Crosky

25,627

ARC Fellowship High-Performance Magnesium Diboride-Based Nanocomposite Conductors

Cecily Cheng

45,469

ARC Linkage Project - LP0561833 - Project

Surface Processing of Photo- sensitive oxides for solar hydrogen

Chris Sorrell

239,734

ARC Linkage Project - LP0561833 - APAI

Surface Processing of Photo- sensitive oxides for solar hydrogen

Chris Sorrell

25,627

AVTRONICS

Chris Sorrell

2,500




Sialon Ceramics Surface Processing of Photo- sensitive oxides for solar hydrogen

Chris Sorrell

10,000

ARC Linkage - Brikworks Ltd. Surface Processing of Photo- sensitive oxides for solar hydrogen

Chris Sorrell

60,000

Dr Chrstopher Bremner

The replication & testing of hydrogen and helium disassociationand recombination prototype services

Chris Sorrell

12,973

ARC Discovery - DP0665786 - Project

Metal dusting of austenitic alloys & its control

David Young

122,949

ARC Discovery - DP0665786 - Fellowship

Metal dusting of austenitic alloys & its control

David Young

93,240

ARC Aust Research Networks Advanced Materials

Travel Grant - MD Abulla Al-Motin David Young

5,000

ARC Linkage Project - LP0775033 Understanding & minimising oxidation during hot rolling metal coating of steel strip

David Young

117,718

ARC Linkage APAI- LP0775033 Understanding & minimising oxidation during hot rolling metal coating of steel strip

David Young

25,118

ARC Industry Partner - Bluescope Steel Ltd LP0775033

Understanding & minimising oxidation during hot rolling and metal coating of steel trip

David Young

15,000

ARC Discovery project - 2006 - DP0665275

Research Professor position on Solar Hydrogen

Janusz Nowotny

80,000

ANSTO - AMRF

Janusz Nowotny

103,963

International Science & Technology-

Frequency effect on Domain texture development & lattice starin of ferroelectric/ferroelastic ceramics under mechanical load

Mark Hoffman

11,900

ARC Discovery Development of Cyclic fatigue degradation criteria for piezoelectric

Mark Hoffman

122,069

ARC Linkage Development of PVC based polymer nanocomposites

Mark Hoffman

12,813

Monash Univ. ARC COE - Sub Project-Hoffman1

Design in Light Metals Mark Hoffman

32,500

Monash Univ. ARC COE - Sub project - Hoffman2


150,933

Monash Univ. ARC COE- Sub project - Hoffman3


32,500

ARC Linkage Project Grant ( with IPLEX Pipelines Australia.) (APAI)

Development of PVC-based Polymer Nanocomposites

Mark Hoffman

11,778

ANSTO access to research facility AMRFP Domain switching kinetics in mechanically loaded PZT

Mark Hoffman

11,560

Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. Erosive wear of Elastomers in Pump Lining Application

Mark Hoffman

5,000




ARC Discovery

3 - D investigation of internal interfaces in annealed metalsusing 3-D focussed ion beam tomography

Michael Ferry

122,069

Monash Univ. ARC COE Sub project- Ferry2

Design in Light Metals Michael Ferry

121,961

Monash Univ. ARC COE Sub project Ferry1


139,233

Monash Univ. ARC COE Sub project Ferry3


32,500

Department of Education, Sceince & Training

Novel Pb-free high performance piezoceramic for sustainable technologies

Nagarajan Valanoor

14,000

ARC Discovery Project - DP0666231

Phase transitions in ultra thin epitaxial polar oxide films

Nagarajan. Valanoor

56,440

ARC Discovery - Fellowship Phase transitions in ultra thin epitaxial polar oxide films

Nagarajan. Valanoor

46,620

2007 ARC Discovery DP0771432

Nagarajan. Valanoor

71,417

ANU ARC ARNAM Travel support for A. Varatharajan Nagarajan. Valanoor

5,000

ANU ARC ARNAM Travel support for M. Arredondo-Arechavala

Nagarajan. Valanoor

5,000

NEDO Joint International Proposal

Nano scale engin. & exploration of new functional materials toward high performance of a multi ferroic sensor device

N. Valanoor

30,000


Low temperature carbothermal reduction of alumina

Oleg Ostrovski

93,567

ARC Linkgae - Project Carbothermal synthesis of Titanium carbide

Oleg Ostrovski

43,551

ARC Linkage Project Grant

A study of wettability and reduction behaviour in carbothermal prodcution of manganese alloys

Oleg Ostrovski

54,546

Industry Grant - BHP Billiton Research & Development

Development of high temperature electron microscopy for research in steel making

Oleg Ostrovski

164,800

ARC Linkage - Industry Partner (Tasmanina Electronmetallurgical Company

A Study of wettability & reduction behavious in carbothermal production of manganese alloys

Oleg Ostrovski

13,500

ARC Discovery Project

Alternative technology for titanium Tetrachloride production & chlorination of titanium oxycarbonitride

Oleg Ostrovski

125,479

ARC Discovery - Fellowship

Alternative technology for titanium Tetrachloride production & chlorination of titanium oxycarbonitride

Oleg Ostrovski

77,030

ARC Linkage project Grant LP0667526 (project)(with BHP Billiton Technology)

Carbothermal synthesis of Titanium carbide

Oleg Ostrovski

57,180




ARC Linkage LP0667526 (APAI) Carbothermal synthesis of Titanium carbide

Oleg Ostrovski

25,000

TEMCO - Linkage project LP0667526

Utilisation of manganese sludge in production of manganese alloys

Oleg Ostrovski

12,820

ARC Linkage Grant - Project Chicken litter char for soil health carbon sequestration

Paul Munroe

10,591

ARC Linkgae - Grant - APAI Chicken litter char for soil health carbon sequestration

Paul Munroe

25,118

ARC Linkage - Swinburne University

Improving tribological performance through the control of surface microstructure using plasma based surface engineering technologies

Paul Munroe

75,395

ARC linkage Indsutry partner - Bishop Innovation Ltd - Swinburne University

Improving tribological performance through the control of surface microstructure using plasma based surface engineering technologies

Paul Munroe

18,000

Best Energies Australia Ltd - Indusrt Partner

Chicken litter char for soil health carbon sequestration

Paul Munroe

10,000

ARC Linkage Project LP0775415 - APDI

Fundamental investigation of Praticle fluid flow in the Isa Mill grinding process

Runyu Yang

77,049

ARC shared grant with University of Sydney -

Discrete simulation od powder dispersion in pharmaceutical aerosol inhalers

Runyu Yang

55,000

ARC Industry Partner - X-Strata Industry for LP0775415

Fundamental investigation of Praticle fluid flow in the Isa Mill grinding process

Runyu Yang

40,000


Micromechanic analysis and midekking of the packing of Nano-amd micr-particles

Ruping Zou

62,378

ARC Linkage LP0776712 - Project

Model studies of the flow & thermal behaviour of non-spherical particles in fluid bed reactors

Ruiping Zou

6,098

ARC Linkage LP0776712 - APDI


Ruiping Zou

38,524

Industry partner - Bluescope Steel Ltd LP0776712


Ruiping Zou

40,000

ARC Linkage International AwardLX0667387

UCF-UNSW developing of sol gel derived non agglomeration cerium oxide nano particles

Sri Bandyopadhyay

12,476

ARC Linkage project - LP066837 Utilisation of fly ash in manufacturaing polypropylene composite

Sri Bandyopadhyay

24,650




ARC Linkage project - LP0669837 - APAI

Utilisation of fly ash in manufacturaing polypropylene composite

Sri Bandyopadhyay

25,626

Cement Australia Fly ash polypropylene composite Sri

Bandyopadhyay

10,000

CSIRO Flagship Collaborative Research program

Hydrogen storage in magnesium based materials

Sammy Chan

28,409

CSIRO Flagship Collaborative Research program

Hydrogen storage in carbons Sammy Chan

21,307

CSIRO Flagship Collaborative Research programHydrogen storage in Porous materials

Sammy Chan

21,307

Monash Univ. ARC COE Sub project Chan1

Design in Light Metals Sammy Chan

16,250

DEST-ISL Competitive Grants CG120078

Combination technique for synthesis of LaNi5 based/carbon nanotube composite thin films for hydrogen storage & mini fuel cells

Sammy Chan

7,100

ARC Discovery project DP0665539

Development of advanced diluted magnetic semiconductors with high injection efficiency and carrier concentration of spin transistors

Sean Li

57,180

ARC Discovery grant DP0666412 Separation subtle interplay between competing/cooperating superconductivity & magnetism

Sean Li

41,585

CSIRO Top Up Postgraduate scholarship for Hank Tsai

Sean Li

10,909

ARC Linkage infrastructure Grant - LE0775511

Laser flash thermophysical properties analyser

Sean Li

300,000


Contribution from ANSTO - laser flash

Sean Li

80,000


Contribution from Univ of Wollongong - laser flash

Sean Li

55,000

ARNAM Sythesis of AB5/AB2 multilayer hydrogen storage thin films

Vanessa Li

3,750

ARC Recycling of Waste Plastics in Electric Furnace Steelmaking: Kinetics of Carbon

Veena Sahajwalla

84,917

ARC Linkage Project Grant ( with Shinagawa Thermal Ceramics Pty. Ltd.)

Fundamental Investigation of metal/refractory interations in processing of non-ferrous metals - Wettability Phenomena

Veena Sahajwalla

38,139

ARC Linkage Project

Fundamental investigation of refractory reactions occurring at high temp.in continuous steel casting processes

Veena Sahajwalla

93,320

ARC Linkage - Partner contribution-Bluescope Steel

Fundamental investigation of refractory reactions occurring at high temp.in continuous steel casting processes

Veena Sahajwalla

20,000

LKAB Study of Ferrous Materials feed for blast furnaces

Veena Sahajwalla

50,000




ARC Discovery project DP0774100

Veena Sahajwalla

102,025

ARC Linkage project Grant LP0775466 - project

Recycling of Waste Plastics in Electric ARC

Veena Sahajwalla

280,689

ARC Linkage Project- One Steel NSW Pty Ltd

Recycling Waste Plastics in electric arc furnace -plastic/slag interaction

Veena Sahajwalla

50,000

ARC Project

Improvement of Critical Current Density of High Temperature Superconductors by Reforming Microstructure at Nanoscale

Yong Zhao

47,333

ARC Fellowship

Improvement of Critical Current Density of High Temperature Superconductors by Reforming Microstructure at Nanoscale

Yong Zhao

115,565

ARC Discovery project - Fellowship

Development of room temperature diluted magnetic semiconductors for spintronics devices

Yuebin Zhang

77,030

ARC Discovery Project Development of room temperature diluted magnetic semiconductors for spintronics devices

Yuebin Zhang

78,118


SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS FOR 2007

The School‘s research publications are one of its strongest indicators of high-level research performance and continue to grow, both in terms of total number and also DEST points which measures contribution to the School‘s income. In 2007, the School‘s researchers published 151 refereed journal papers, which is more than any other School in the University, and 196 total papers, which is behind only two of the biggest Schools. In 2009, Australia‘s universities will be subjected to a research quality assessment (ERA). As a part of this assessment, journal quality has been ranked within disciplines. Based upon these rankings, 47% of the School‘s journal papers are in top-ranked (A* and A banded) journals. The graph below shows the trend of the School‘s publication output.

List of School publications:

Chapter - Scholarly Research

1. Badwal, SP., Green, MA., Nowotny, J. & Sorrell, CC. 'Ceramics in Energy and Environmental Applications in Australia'. In: , eds. Global Roadmap for Ceramic and Glass Technology with CD-ROM. 1. New York, USA: Wiley Interscience, 2007.

2. Bandyopadhyay, S., Bhowmick, AK. & Gupta, SK. 'Applications of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in the

field of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites'. In: , eds. Functional Nanostrucatures Processing, Characterization and Applications. : Springer, 2007.

3. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Sheppard, LR. & Sorrell, CC. 'Solar-Hydrogen: A Solid-State Chemistry Perspective'.

In: D. Yogi Goswami, eds. Advances in Solar Energy. 1. London, UK: Earthscan, 2007.

Journal - Scholarly Refereed

1. Abdullah, HZ., Taib, H. & Sorrell, CC. 'Coating methods for self-cleaning thick films of titania'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 105 - 112.

2. Abdullah, HZ. & Sorrell, CC. 'TiO2 Thick Films by Anodic Oxidation'. Journal of the Australian Ceramic

Society 2007; 43: pp. 125 - 130.

3. Ahmed, A., Neely, AJ., Shankar, K. & Chan, SL. 'Tensile behaviour of nano-particulate reinforced aluminium matrix composites at elevated temperature'. Material Science Forum 2007; 561-565: pp. 761 - 764.

4. Al Motin, M., Munroe, PR., Brady, M. & Young, DJ. 'Metal dusting of ferritic Fe-Ge in the absence of

cementite'. Scripta Materialia 2007; 56(4): pp. 281 - 284.

5. Anbusathaiah, V., Aggarwal, S. & Valanoor, N. 'Nanoscale polarization relaxation kinetics in polycrystalline ferroelectric thin films'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 101(8): pp. 084104-1 - 084014-6.

School Publications for 2007 (cont.)


6. Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Defect Chemistry of Tinanium Dioxide. Effect of

Interfaces'. Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society 2007; 43: pp. 49 - 55.

7. Bak, T., Burg, TK., Nowotny, J. & Blennerhassett, PJ. 'Electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power of CaTiO3 at n-p transition'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 101 - 104.

8. Bandyopadhyay, S., Basumallick, A., Khan, GG., Sarkar, J., Bandyopadhyay, NR. & Samudrala, SK.

'Synthesis of Ordered Nano porous Alumina Template for Quasi One - dimensional Nanostructures Fabrication'. Journal of the Institution of Engineers(India) 2007; 88: pp. 27 - 31.

9. Becker, PC. & Young, DJ. 'Carburization resistance of nickel-base, heat-resisting alloys'. Oxidation of

Metals 2007; 67(5-6): pp. 267 - 277. 10. Belashchenko, DK., Kuskov, O. & Ostrovski, O. 'Application of the embedded-atom method to liquid Fe-S

solutions'. Inorganic Materials 2007; 43(9): pp. 998 - 1009. 11. Blairs, S. 'Review of data for velocity of sound in pure liquid metals and metalloids'. International Materials

Reviews 2007; 52(6): pp. 321 - 344. 12. Blairs, S. 'Sound velocity of liquid metals and metalloids at the melting temperature'. Physics and

Chemistry of Liquids 2007; 45(4): pp. 399 - 407. 13. Budzakoska, E., Carr, D., Stathers, P., Li, H., Harrison, R., Hellier, AK. & Yeung, W. 'Predicting the J

integral fracture toughness of Al 6061 using the small punch test'. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures 2007; 30(9): pp. 796 - 807.

14. Buha, J., Lumley, R., Crosky, AG. & Hono, K. 'Secondary precipitation in an Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloy'. ACTA

Materialia 2007; 55(9): pp. 3015 - 3024. 15. Burg, TK., Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Sheppard, LR., Sorrell, CC. & Vance, ER. 'Effect of sintering on

microstructure of TiO2 ceramics'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 57 - 62. 16. Cairney, JM., Saxey, D., Ringer, S. & McGrouther, D. 'Site-specific specimen preparation for atom probe

tomography of grain boundaries'. Physica B-Condensed Matter 2007; 394(2): pp. 267 - 269. 17. Chan, K., Van Zwieten, L., Meszaros, I., Downie, A. & Joseph, S. 'Agronomic values of greenwaste

biochar as a soil amendment'. Australian Journal of Soil Research 2007; 45(8): pp. 629 - 634. 18. Chen, G. & Ferry, M. 'Crystallization and thermally induced surface relief effects in a Mg

65Cu25Y10 bulk metallic glass'. Journal of Materials Science 2007; 42(2): pp. 646 - 651.

19. Cheng, CH., Yang, Y., Munroe, PR. & Zhao, Y. 'Comparison between nano-diamond and carbon nanotube

doping effects on critical current density and flux pinning in MgB2'. Superconductor Science & Technology 2007; 20(3): pp. 296 - 301.

20. Cheng, Z., Wang, X., Dou, SX., Ozawa, K., Kimura, H. & Munroe, PR. 'Fabrication, Raman spectra and

ferromagnetic properties of the transition metal doped ZnO nanocrystals'. Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics 2007; 40(21): pp. 6518 - 6521.

21. Cheng, CH. & Zhao, Y. 'Repair of grain boundary by preferential-doping in YBa2Cu3O7-y'. Physica C-

Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 174 - 177. 22. Cheng, CH. & Zhao, Y. 'Significant improvement of flux pinning and irreversibility field of nano-Ho2O3

doped MgB2'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 220 - 224. 23. Cheng, CH., Lin, H., Sorrell, CC. & Zhao, Y. 'Theoretical analysis of ac losses in high temperature

superconducting bulks'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 431 - 435.



24. Chew, S., Guo, Z., Wang, J., Chen, JJ., Munroe, PR., Ng, S., Zhao, L. & Liu, HK. 'Novel nano-

silicon/polypyrrole composites for lithium storage'. Electrochemistry Communications 2007; 9(5): pp. 941 - 946.

25. Connelly, K., Kelly, D., Zhang, Y., Prior, D., Martin, JA., Cox, A., Thai, K., Feneley, MP., Tsoporis, J. and

others. 'Functional, structural and molecular aspects of diastolic heart failure in the diabetic (mRen-2)27 rat'. Cardiovascular Research 2007; 76(2): pp. 280 - 291.

26. Daniels, J., Finlayson, T., Davis, MD., Studer, AJ., Hoffman, MJ. & Jones, JL. 'Neutron diffraction study of

the polarization reversal mechanism in [111](c)-oriented Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O-3-xPbTiO(3)'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 101(10): .

27. Daniels, J., Finlayson, T., Studer, AJ., Hoffman, MJ. & Jones, JL. 'Time-resolved diffraction measurements

of electric-field-induced strain in tetragonal lead zirconate titanate'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 101(9): .

28. Dong, X., Yu, A., yagi, J. & Zulli, P. 'Modelling of multiphase flow in a blast furnace: Recent developments

and future work'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(11): pp. 1553 - 1570. 29. Eichler, j., Roedel, J., Eisele, U. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Effect of grain size on mechanical properties of

submicrometer 3Y-TZP: Fracture strength and hydrothermal degradation'. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2007; 90(9): pp. 2830 - 2836.

30. Feng, Y. & Yu, A. 'Microdynamic modelling and analysis of the mixing and segregation of binary mixtures

of particles in gas fluidization'. Chemical Engineering Science 2007; 62(1-2): pp. 256 - 268. 31. Ferry, M. & Burhan, N. 'Microstructural evolution in a fine-grained Al-0.3 wt.% Sc alloy produced by severe

plastic deformation'. Scripta Materialia 2007; 56(6): pp. 525 - 528. 32. Ferry, M., Xu, W., Mateescu, NM., Cairney, JM. & Humphreys, J. 'On the viabilty of FIB tomography for

generating 3-D orientation maps in deformed and annelaed metals'. Materials Science Forum 2007; 550: pp.55- 64.

33. Ferry, M. & Burhan, N. 'Statistical aspects of grain coarsening in a fine-grained Al-Sc alloy'. Materials

Science Forum 2007; 558-559: pp. 729 - 734. 34. Ferry, M. & Burhan, N. 'Structural and kinetic aspects of continuous grain coarsening in a fine-grained Al-

0.3Sc alloy'. ACTA Materialia 2007; 55(10): pp. 3479 - 3491. 35. Gao, X., Wang, J., Fujihara, K., Ramakrishna, SS., Valanoor, N. & Zhou, Z. 'Giant strain in

PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 nanowires'. Applied Physics Letters 2007; 90(5): pp. 052901-1 - 052901-3. 36. Gong, S. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 'An equation for Young`s modulus in rubber-toughened PMMA as a

function of strain rate and rubber content'. Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites 2007; 26(2): pp. 147 - 153.

37. Gong, S. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 'Fracture properties and fracture surface morphologies in rubber-PMMA

composites'. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 2007; 16(5): pp. 607 - 613. 38. Gong, S. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 'Mechanical properties and fracture surface morphologies in unnotched

specimens of rubber-PMMA composites'. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 2007; 16(5): pp. 601 - 606.

39. Grigore, M., Sakurovs, R., French, D. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Effect of carbonisation conditions on mineral

matter in coke'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(1): pp. 62 - 66. 40. Grzesik, Z., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. & Henry, BI. 'Chemical diffusion in amphoteric oxide semiconductors'.

Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 77 - 81.



41. Gu, M., Sun, CQ., Yeung, T., Li, S., Tan, CM., Nosik, V. & Chen, Z. 'Size, temperature, and bond nature

dependence of elasticity and its derivatives on extensibility, Debye temperature, and heat capacity of nanostructures'. Physical Review B 2007; 75(12): p. 125403.

42. Gun, B., Laws, KJ. & Ferry, M. 'Elevated temperature flow behaviour of a Mg-based bulk metallic glass'.

Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 2007; 471(1-2): pp. 130 - 134.

43. Gupta, SK., Dubikova, M., French, D. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Characterization of the origin and distribution of

the minerals and phases in metallurgical cokes'. Energy & Fuels 2007; 21(1): pp. 303 - 313. 44. Gupta, SK., Sahajwalla, VH. & Kang, T. 'Characterizing swelling behaviour of iron oxides during solid state

reduction for COREX application and their implications on fines generation'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(11): pp. 1590 - 1598.

45. Gupta, SK., Dubikova, M., French, D. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Effect of CO2 gasification on the

transformations of coke minerals at high temperatures'. Energy & Fuels 2007; 21(2): pp. 1052 - 1061. 46. Haji Amini, S., Brungs, MP. & Ostrovski, O. 'Dissolution of dense lime in molten slags under static

conditions'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(1): pp. 32 - 37. 47. Haq, AJ., Munroe, PR., Hoffman, MJ., Martin, P., Bendavid, A. 'Deformation behaviour of DLC coatings on

(111) silicon substrates'. Thin Solid Films 2007; 516(2-4): pp. 267 - 271. 48. Heilmann, F., Standard, OC., Muller, F. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Development of graded hydroxyapatite/CaCO3

composite structures for bone ingrowth'. Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine 2007; 18(9): pp. 1817 - 1824.

49. Hoffman, MJ., Man, HM., Furukawa, T., Imlao, S. & Luo, Z. 'An indirect implicit model for frequency

dependent hystrese of piezoelectric ceramics'. Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society 2007; 43(2): pp. 169 - 174.

50. Hoffman, MJ., Deneke, C. & Kidson, LJ. 'Effect of Crack Growth Resistance Upon Fracture of

cermaic/Polymer'. Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society 2007; 43(1): pp. 18 - 23. 51. Hossain, FM., Murch, G., Sheppard, LR. & Nowotny, J. 'Ab initio electronic structure calculation of oxygen

vacancies in rutile titanium dioxide'. Solid State Ionics 2007; 178(5-6): pp. 319 - 325. 52. Hossain, FM., Murch, G., Sheppard, LR. & Nowotny, J. 'Reactivity of ideal and defected rutile TiO2 (110)

surface with oxygen'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 95 - 100. 53. Idris, M., Vodenitcharova, T. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Resistance of thin Al foam panels to deep indentation'.

Materials Science Forum 2007; 561-565(PART 1): pp. 357 - 360. 54. Jiang, X., Kemal, L. & Yu, A. 'Silver-induced growth of selenium nanowires in aqueous solution'. Materials

Letters 2007; 61(11-13): pp. 2584 - 2588. 55. Jiang, X., Zeng, Q. & Yu, A. 'Thiol-frozen shape evolution of triangular silver nanoplates'. Langmuir 2007;

23(4): pp. 2218 - 2223. 56. Jones, JL., Motahari, S., VarlioglU, M., Lienert, U., Bernier, J., Hoffman, MJ. & Uestuendag, E. 'Crack tip

process zone domain switching in a soft lead zirconate titanate ceramic'. ACTA Materialia 2007; 55(16): pp. 5538 - 5548.

57. Jones, JL., Hoffman, MJ. & Vogel, S. 'Ferroelastic domain switching in lead zirconate titanate measured

by in situ neutron diffraction'. Mechanics of Materials 2007; 39(4): pp. 283 - 290.



58. Kartono, R., Monceau, D. & Young, DJ. 'Continuous thermogravimetric analysis during the cyclic oxidation

of Ni-22Al-15Pt+1 wt.% Hf at 1200 degrees C'. Scripta Materialia 2007; 57(7): pp. 647 - 650. 59. Kemp, NT., McGrouther, D., Cochrane, JW. & Newbury, R. 'Bridging the gap: Polymer nanowire devices'.

Advanced Materials 2007; 19(18): pp. 2634 - 2639. 60. Kendall, K., Amal, R., Jiang, X. & Yu, A. 'Effect of adhesion on aggregation in nanoparticle dispersions'.

Journal of Adhesion 2007; 83(6): pp. 573 - 585. 61. Khanna, R., Rahman, MF. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Novel sessile drop software for quantitative estimation of

slag foaming in carbon/slag interactions'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B-Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science 2007; 38(4): pp. 719 - 723.

62. Khanna, R., Spink, J. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Role of ash impurities in the depletion of carbon from alumina-

graphite mixtures in to liquid iron'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(2): pp. 282 - 288. 63. Laws, KJ., Gun, B. & Ferry, M. 'The production and elevated temperature characteristics of Ca65 Mg15

Zn20 bulk metallic glass'. Materials Forum 2007; 31: pp. 132 - 135. 64. Laws, KJ., Gun, B. & Ferry, M. 'The production and elevated temperature properties of Ca65 Mg15 Zn20

bulk metallic glass'. Materials Science Forum 2007; 561-565: pp. 1263 - 1266. 65. Li, S. & Dou, SX. 'Intrinsic Behaviour and Properties of Nanocrystalline MgB2'. International Journal of

Condensed Matter and Communication 2007; 7: pp. 147 - 168. 66. Li, S. & Yang, C. 'Investigation of cohesive energy effects on size-dependent physical and chemical

properties of nanocrystals'. Physical Review B 2007; 75(16): . 67. Li, G., Pu, M., Zhou, H., Du, XM., Zhang, YB. & Zhao, Y. 'Possible new single-buffer layers for

YBa2CU3O7-y coated conductors prepared by chemical solution deposition'. Journal of Materials Research 2007; 22(9): pp. 2398 - 2403.

68. Li, S. & Yang, C. 'Quasi-isochoric superheating of nanoparticles embedded in rigid matrixes'. Journal of

Physical Chemistry B 2007; 111(25): pp. 7318 - 7320. 69. Li, S., Armellin, JN. & Yang, C. 'Size and temperature dependence of phase stability in nanocrystalline

pentacene thin films'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007; 111(47): pp. 17512 - 17515. 70. Lim, s., Murakami, M., Sarney, W., Ren, S., Varatharajan, A., Fujino, S., Wuttig, M., Takeuchi, I.,

Salamanca-Riba, L. & Valanoor, N. 'The effects of multiphase formation on strain relaxation and magnetization in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films'. Advanced Functional Materials 2007; 17(14): pp. 2594 - 2599.

71. Littleton, B., Lai, K., Longstaff, D., Sarafis, V., Munroe, PR., Heckenberg, N. & Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H.

'Coherent super-resolution microscopy via laterally structured illumination'. Micron 2007; 38(2): pp. 150 - 157.

72. Liu, R., Dong, KJ., Tian, Z., Liu, HK., Yu, A. & Peng, P. 'Formation and magic number characteristics of

clusters formed during solidification processes'. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 2007; 19(19): . 73. Longbottom, R., Ostrovski, O., Zhang, J. & Young, DJ. 'The Stability of cementite formed from hematite

and titanomagnetite ore'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B-Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science 2007; 38(2): pp. 175 - 184.

74. Ma, LW., Cairney, JM., McGrouther, D., Hoffman, MJ. & Munroe, PR. 'Three dimensional imaging of

deformation modes in TiN-based thin film coatings'. Thin Solid Films 2007; 515(6): pp. 3190 - 3195.



75. Mateescu, NM., Ferry, M., Xu, W. & Cairney, JM. 'Some factors affecting EBSD pattern quality of Ga+ ion-milled face centred cubic metal surfaces'. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2007; 106(1): pp. 142 - 148.

76. McGrouther, D. & Munroe, PR. 'Imaging and analysis of 3-D structure using a dual beam FIB'. Microscopy

Research and Technique 2007; 70(3): pp. 186 - 194. 77. Mohanty, B., Gupta, A., Bohidar, HB. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 'Effect of gelatin molecular charge

heterogeneity on formation of intermolecular complexes and coacervation transition'. Journal of Polymer Science Part B-Polymer Physics 2007; 45(13): pp. 1511 - 1520.

78. Mukhtar, A., Zhang, DL., Kong, CH. & Munroe, PR. 'Effect of Composition on the Morphology and

Hardness of Nanostructured Cu Based Composite and Alloy Powders/Granules Produced by High Energy Mechanical Milling'. Advanced Materials Research 2007; 29-30: pp. 143 - 146.

79. Nakajima, T., Sheppard, LR., Prince, K., Nowotny, J. & Ogawa, T. 'Niobium segregation in TiO2'.

Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 82 - 88. 80. Ng, C., Chen, TP., Wong, J., Yang, M., Khor, T., New, C., Li, CM., Trigg, A. & Li, S. 'Performance of silicon

nanocrystal non-volatile memory devices under various programming mechanisms'. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2007; 7(1): pp. 329 - 334.

81. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Burg, TK., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Effect of grain boundaries on

semiconducting properties of TiO2 at elevated temperatures'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007; 111(27): pp. 9769 - 9778.

82. Nowotny, MK., Bak, T. & Nowotny, J. 'Electrical conductivity of TiO2 within n-p transition Part I -

Verification of defect disorder model'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 63 - 70. 83. Nowotny, MK., Bak, T. & Nowotny, J. 'Electrical conductivity of TiO2 within n-p transition Part II - Electrical

conductivity components'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 71 - 76. 84. Nowotny, J., Bak, T. & Burg, TK. 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2 at elevated temperatures.

Electrical conductivity'. Physica Status Solidi (B) 2007; 244(6): pp. 2037 - 2054. 85. Nowotny, J., Bak, T. & Burg, TK. 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2. Prolonged

oxidation kinetics'. International Journal of Ionics 2007; 13(2): pp. 79 - 82. 86. Nowotny, J., Bak, T. & Burg, TK. 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2: Thermoelectric

power'. International Journal of Ionics 2007; 13(3): pp. 155 - 162. 87. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Titanium dioxide for solar hydrogen iv. Collective

and local factors in photoreactivity'. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; , pp. 1 - 9. 88. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen I. Functional

properties'. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; 32(14): pp. 2609 - 2629. 89. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen II. Defect

chemistry'. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; 32(14): pp. 2630 - 2643. 90. Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, MK. & Sheppard, LR. 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen III: Kinetic

effects at elevated temperatures'. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; 32(14): pp. 2644 - 2650. 91. Oliver, D., Bradby, JE., Williams, JS., Swain, MV. & Munroe, PR. 'Giant pop-ins and amorphization in

germanium during indentation'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 101(4): .



92. Pan, X., Shen, T., Li, G., Cheng, CH. & Zhao, Y. 'Doping effect of Pr6O11 on superconductivity and flux

pinning of MgB2 bulk'. Physica Status Solidi A-Applied Research 2007; 204(5): pp. 1555 - 1560. 93. Perkins, GM. & Sahajwalla, VH. 'Modelling of heat and mass transport phenomena and chemical reaction

in underground coal gasification'. Chemical engineering research and design : transactions of the Institution of Chemical Enginners, Part A 2007; 85(3 A): pp. 329 - 343.

94. Pu, M., Du, X., Zhao, Y., Li, G. & Zhang, H. 'Deposition of potential Y2-xBixO3 buffer layers for YBCO

coated conductor'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 589 - 593. 95. Qiu, QY. & Valanoor, N. 'Theoretical investigation of polarization scaling in ultrathin epitaxial Pb Zrx Ti1-x

O3 films'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 102(10): pp. 104113-1 - 104113-12. 96. Quadir, MZ., Ferry, M., Al-Buhamad, O. & Bassman, L. 'Development of a recovered/recrystallized

multilayered microstructure in Al alloys by accumulative roll bonding'. ACTA Materialia 2007; 55(16): pp. 5438 - 5448.

97. Quadir, MZ., Mateescu, NM., Bassman, L., Xu, W. & Ferry, M. 'Three-dimensional morphology of

microbands in a cold-rolled steel'. Scripta Materialia 2007; 57(11): pp. 977 - 980. 98. Rahman, M., Suarez, Y., Chen, Z. & Rahman, SS. 'Unsuccessful hydraulic fracturing cases in Australia:

Investigation into causes of failures and their remedies'. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 2007; 57(1-2): pp. 70 - 81.

99. Ruffell, S., Bradby, JE., Williams, JS. & Munroe, PR. 'Formation and growth of nanoindentation-induced

high pressure phases in crystalline and amorphous silicon'. Journal of Applied Physics 2007; 102(6): . 100. Sahajwalla, VH., Khanna, R., Kapilashrami, E. & Seetharaman, S. 'Depletion of carbon from

Al2O3-C mixtures into liquid iron: Rate controlling mechanisms'. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 2007; 46(1): pp. 25 - 32.

101. Saxey, D., Cairney, JM., Honma, T., Ringer, S. & McGrouther, D. 'Atom probe specimen fabrication

methods using a dual FIB/SEM'. Ultramicroscopy 2007; 107(9): pp. 756 - 760. 102. Schuler, L., Valanoor, N., Miller, P., Guy, I., Reeves, R. & Alkaisi, M. 'The effect of substrate material and

postannealing on the photoluminescence and piezo properties of DC-sputtered ZnO'. Journal of Electronic Materials 2007; 36(4): pp. 507 - 518.

103. Shen, R., Zhang, G., Dell'Amico, M., Brown, PR. & Ostrovski, O. 'Sintering pot test of manganese ore with

addition of manganese furnace dust'. ISIJ International 2007; 47(2): pp. 234 - 239. 104. Sheppard, LR., Atanacio, AJ., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. & Prince, K. 'Bulk diffusion of niobium in single-crystal

titanium dioxide'. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2007; 111(28): pp. 8126 - 8130. 105. Sheppard, LR., Zhou, M., Atanacio, AJ., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. & Prince, K. 'Determination of niobium

diffusion in titania and zirconia using secondary ion mass spectrometry'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 89 - 94.

106. Sheppard, LR. & Nowotny, J. 'Materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion'. Advances in Applied

Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 9 - 20. 107. Sheppard, LR., Nowotny, J. & Bak, T. 'Reactivity of TiO2 with water and oxygen: surface science

perspective'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 49 - 56. 108. Sheppard, LR., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. & Nowotny, MK. 'Titanium Dioxide for solar hydrogen V . Metallic -

type Conduction of NB Doped Tio2'. International journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; , pp. 1 - 4.



109. Singh, S., Siddhanta, A., Meena, R., Prasad, K., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Bohidar, HB. 'Intermolecular

complexation and phase separation in aqueous solutions of oppositely charged biopolymers'. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2007; 41(2): pp. 185 - 192.

110. Singh, S., Bohidar, HB. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 'Study of gelatin-agar intermolecular aggregates in the

supernatant of its coacervate'. Colloids and Surfaces B - Biointerfaces 2007; 57(1): pp. 29 - 36. 111. Song, Q., Aravindaraj, G., Sultana, H. & Chan, SL. 'Performance improvement of pasted nickel electrodes

with multi-wall carbon nanotubes for rechargeable nickel batteries'. Electrochimica ACTA 2007; 53(4): pp. 1890 - 1896.

112. Sugihara, S. & Sheppard, LR. 'Development and basic study of TiO2 coatings'. Advances in Applied

Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): pp. 45 - 48. 113. Sun, H. & Easman, WJ. 'Interfacial phenomena and reaction kinetics between the carbon and slag in the

ironmaking process'. Energy & Fuels 2007; 21(2): pp. 413 - 418. 114. Sun, H. 'Interfacial tension between CaO-Al2O3 slag and iron containing

nonmetal or tramp elements'. Steel Research International 2007; 78(6): pp. 455 - 459. 115. Sun, H. 'Mathematical modelling and experimental investigation of coke reduction of FeO in slag'. Steel

Research International 2007; 78(9): pp. 659 - 666. 116. Taib, H. & Sorrell, CC. 'Preperation of Tin Oxide'. Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society 2007; 43: pp.

56 - 61. 117. Tay, YY., Li, S., Boey, F., Cheng, Y. & Liang, M. 'Growth mechanism of spherical ZnO nanostructures

synthesized via colloid chemistry'. Physica B-Condensed Matter 2007; 394(2): pp. 372 - 376. 118. Tilbrook, MT. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Approximation of curved cracks under mixed-mode loading'. Engineering

Fracture Mechanics 2007; 74(7): pp. 1026 - 1040. 119. Tilbrook, MT., Rutgers, LJ., Moon, RJ. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Fatigue crack propagation resistance in

homogenous and graded alumina-epoxy composites'. International Journal of Fatifue 2007; 29(1): pp. 158 - 167.

120. Tilbrook, MT., Paton, DJ., Hoffman, MJ. & Xie, Z. 'Microstructural effects on indentation failure

mechanisms in TiN coatings: Finite element simulations'. ACTA Materialia 2007; 55(7): pp. 2489 - 2501. 121. Tsai, HP., Li, S., Chen, Z. & Tay, YY. 'Texturing behaviors and kinetics of NaCo2O4-ä thermoelectric

materials'. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2007; 90(6): pp. 1908 - 1911. 122. Uchic, MD., Holzer, L., Inkson, BJ., Principe, EL., Munroe, PR. 'Three-Dimensional Microstructural

Characterization Using Focused Ion Beam Tomography'. MRS Bulletin 2007; 32(5): pp. 408 - 416. 123. Valanoor, N., Misirlioglu, IB. & Alpay, S. 'Comment on "Simulation of interface dislocations effect on

polarization distribution of ferroelectric thin films"(Appl.Phys.Lett.88,092903 2006)'. Applied Physics Letters 2007; 90: pp. 23601 - 23602.

124. Valanoor, N., Varatharajan, A. & Wicks, S. 'Nanoscale domain switching behaviour in polycrystalline

ferroelectric thin films'. Nanotechnology 2007; 18(46): . 125. Valanoor, N., JIA, CL., He, JQ., Houben, L., Zhao, T., Ramesh, R., Urban, K. & Waser, R. 'Unit-cell scale

mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films'. Nature Materials 2007; 6: pp. 64 - 69.



126. Wang, Z., Li, C. & Chan, SL. 'Discharge behavior of MmNi(3.66)(CoAlMn)(1.34) hydrogen storage alloys'.

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2007; 438(1-2): pp. 298 - 302. 127. Wang, Z., Zhou, H., Zou, R. & Yao, Q. 'Effect of sintering conditions on the formation of single-phase

NdMgNi4 compound and its hydrogen storage properties'. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2007; 429(1-2): pp. 260 - 263.

128. Wang, Y., Lam, K., Kraegen, EW., Sweeney, G., Zhang, J., Tso, A., Chow, W., Wat, N., Xu, J. and others.

'Lipocalin-2 is an inflammatory marker closely associated with obesity, insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia in humans'. Clinical Chemistry 2007; 53(1): pp. 34 - 41.

129. Wang, B., Chu, KW. & Yu, A. 'Numerical study of particle-fluid flow in a hydrocyclone'. Industrial and

Engineering Chemistry Research 2007; 46(13): pp. 4695 - 4705. 130. Wu, S., Zhu, H., Yu, A. & Zulli, P. 'Numerical investigation of crater phenomena in a particle stream impact

onto a granular bed'. Granular Matter 2007; 9(1-2): pp. 7 - 17. 131. Wu, DJ., Baker, I., Munroe, PR. & George, EP. 'The yield strength anomaly of single-slip-oriented Fe-Al

single crystals'. Intermetallics 2007; 15(2): pp. 103 - 107. 132. Xie, Z., bendavid, A., Martin, PJ., Munroe, PR., Hoffman, MJ. & Singh, RK. 'Contact damage evolution in a

diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating on a stainless steel substrate'. Thin Solid Films 2007; 515(6): pp. 3196 - 3201.

133. Xie, Z., Hoffman, MJ., Munroe, PR., bendavid, A., Martin, PJ. & Singh, RK. 'Microstructural response of

TiN monolithic and multilayer coatings during microscratch testing'. Journal of Materials Research 2007; 22(8): pp. 2312 - 2318.

134. Xie, Z., Mahoney, E., Kilpatrick, N., Swain, MV. & Hoffman, MJ. 'On the structure-property relationship of

sound and hypomineralized enamel'. ACTA BIOMATERIALIA 2007; 3(6): pp. 865 - 872. 135. Xu, JQ., Zou, R. & Yu, A. 'Analysis of the packing structure of wet spheres by Voronoi-Delaunay

tessellation'. Granular Matter 2007; 9(6): pp. 455 - 463. 136. Xu, W., Ferry, M., Cairney, JM. & Humphreys, J. 'Application of FIB-EBSD tomography for understanding

annealing phenomena in a cold rolled particle-containing nickel alloy'. Materials Science Forum 2007; 558-559: pp. 413 - 418.

137. Xu, W. & Ferry, M. 'Recrystallization behaviour of cold rolled low carbon stel strip with various starting

microstructures'. Materials Science Forum 2007; 558-559: pp. 419 - 424. 138. Xu, H. & Yu, A. 'Synthesis and sintering of tin-doped indium oxide nanoparticles with uniform size'.

Materials Letters 2007; 61(19-20): pp. 4043 - 4045. 139. Xu, W., Ferry, M., Mateescu, NM., Cairney, JM. & Humphreys, FJ. 'Techniques for generating 3-D EBSD

microstructures by FIB tomography'. Materials Characterization 2007; 58(10): pp. 961 - 967. 140. Xu, W., Ferry, M., Cairney, JM. & Humphreys, FJ. 'Three-dimensional investigation of particle-stimulated

nucleation in a nickel alloy'. ACTA Materialia 2007; 55(15): pp. 5157 - 5167. 141. Yang, B., Brady, M., Wang, H., Turner, J., More, K., Young, DJ., Tortorelli, P., Payzant, E. & Walker, L.

'Protective nitride formation on stainless steel alloys for proton exchange membrane fuel cell bipolar plates'. Journal of Power Sources 2007; 174(1): pp. 228 - 236.

142. Yang, R., Zou, R., Dong, KJ., An, X. & Yu, A. 'Simulation of the packing of cohesive particles'. Computer

Physics Communications 2007; 177(1-2 SPEC ISS): pp. 206 - 209. 143. Yang, F., Li, G., Han, SH., Peng, P. & Yu, A. 'Studies on the stability of on-top Al13Inm (n=1 similar to 12,

m =-1, 0, +1) Clusters'. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry 2007; 26(1): pp. 84 - 90.



144. Yeung, W., Wuhrer, R., Cortie, M. & Ferry, M. 'Equal channel angular extrusion of high purity gold'.

Materials Forum 2007; 31: pp. 31 - 35. 145. Young, DJ. 'Simultaneous oxidation and carburisation of chromia forming alloys'. International Journal of

Hydrogen Energy 2007; 32(16): pp. 3763 - 3769. 146. Yu, A., Wu, Y. & Hill, J. 'A finite element method for granular flow through a frictional boundary'.

Communication in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 2007; 12(4): pp. 486 - 495. 147. Zeng, Q., Yu, A. & Lu, GQ. 'Effect of nanofillers on phase separation behavior of diblock copolymer: A

molecular dynamic study'. KEY Engineering Materials 2007; 334-335 II: pp. 753 - 756. 148. Zeng, Q., Jiang, X., Yu, A. & Lu, G. 'Growth mechanisms of silver nanoparticles: a molecular dynamics

study'. Nanotechnology 2007; 18(3): . 149. Zeng, Q., Paul, DR., Yu, A. & Lu, GQ. 'The swelling behavior of organoclays'. Key Engineering Materials

2007; 353-358: pp. 2239 - 2243. 150. Zhang, J. & Young, DJ. 'Effect of copper on metal dusting of austenitic stainless steels'. Corrosion Science

2007; 49(3): pp. 1450 - 1467. 151. Zhang, J. & Young, DJ. 'Kinetics and mechanisms of nickel metal dusting I: Kinetics and morphology'.

Corrosion Science 2007; 49(3): pp. 1496 - 1512. 152. Zhang, J. & Young, DJ. 'Metal Dusting of Nickel and its Alloys'. ECS Transactions 2007; 3(14): pp. 27 - 41. 153. Zhao, Y., Pu, M., Li, G., Du, X., Zhou, H., Zhang, YB., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Sun, R. & Cheng, CH.

'Development of a new series of buffer layers for REBCO coated conductors'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 574 - 579.

154. Zhao, Y., Yang, Y., Cheng, CH. & Zhang, Y. 'Doping and effect of nano-diamond and carbon-nanotubes

on flux pinning properties of MgB2'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 165 - 169.

155. Zhao, Y., Wu, Y., Kong, CH., Wexler, D., Vos, MD., Went, M. & Dou, SX. 'Phase evolution in PLD MgB2

films during the in situ annealing process'. Superconductor Science and Technology 2007; 20(11): pp. S467 - S471.

156. Zhou, J., Yu, A. & Zhang, YB. 'A boundary element method for evaluation of the effective thermal

conductivity of packed beds'. Journal of Heat Transfer-Transactions of the ASME 2007; 129(3): pp. 363 - 371.

157. Zhou, H., Yang, Y., Li, G., Cheng, CH., Pu, M. & Zhao, Y. 'Mn doping effect on superconductivity and

magnetic properties of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4 system'. Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 2007; 463: pp. 170 - 173.

158. Zhu, H., Zhou, Z., Yang, R. & Yu, A. 'Discrete particle simulation of particulate systems: Theoretical

developments'. Chemical Engineering Science 2007; 62(13): pp. 3378 - 3396. 159. Bendavid, A., Martin, PJ., Comte, C., Preston, E., Haq, AJ., Ismail, F. & Singh, RK. 'The mechanical and

biocompatibility properties of DLC-Si films prepared by pulsed DC plasma activated chemical vapor deposition'. Diamond and Related Materials 2007; 16(8): pp. 1616 - 1622.



Journal - Other Refereed

1. Nowotny, J. & Sheppard, LR. 'Materials for hydrogen energy'. Advances in Applied Ceramics 2007; 106(1-2): p. 1.

2. Nowotny, J. & Sheppard, LR. 'Solar-hydrogen'. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2007; 32(14): pp.

2607 - 2608.

Journal - Letter or Note

1. Bandyopadhyay, S. & Zeng, Q. 'Materials and Manufacturing: Guest editorial'. Materials and

Manufacturing Processes 2007; 22(6): p. 678.

2. Wachsman, E., Thangadurai, V., Nowotny, J. & Scrosati, B. 'Professor Werner Weppner - On the occasion of his 65th birthday'. International Journal of Ionics 2007; 13(3): pp. 101 - 102.

3. Ye, L., Hu, XX. & Hoffman, MJ. 'Professor Yiu-Wing Mai'. Composites Science and Technology 2007;

67(2): pp. 149 - 150.

Conference - Full Paper Refereed

1. Abdullah, HZ. & Sorrell, CC. 'Preparation and characterieation of TiO2 thick films fabricated by electrophoretic deposition'. In: Materials Science Forum, Vol 561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Stafa-Zuerich, CH-8712, Switzerland, pp. 2159 - 2162 2007.

2. Abdullah, HZ. & Sorrell, CC. 'Preparation and characterisation of TiO2 thick films by gel oxidation'. In:

Materials Science Forum, Vol 561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Stafa-Zuerich, CH-8712, Switzerland, pp. 2167 - 2170 2007.

3. Abdullah, HZ. & Sorrell, CC. 'Preparation and characterisation of TiO2 thick films fabricated by

Electrophoretic Deposition'. In: Materials Science Forum, vol 561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Stafa-Zuerich, CH-8712, Switzerland, pp. 2159 - 2162 2007.

4. Chowdhury, A., Ray, PK. & Singh, RK. 'Privacy Management in Consumer e-Health'. In: (HEALTHCOM

2007) 9th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services - Ubiquitous Health in Aging Societies

5. . Piscataway, NJ, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., pp. 29 - 33 2007.

6. Dong, KJ., Wang, B., Yu, A. & Brake, I. 'Numerical Study of Particle Flow on a Vibrating Screen'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

7. Dong, KJ., Guo, B., Yu, A. & Brake, I. 'Simulation of liquid-solid flow in a coal distributor'. In: Proceedings

of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

8. Ferry, M., Bassman, L., Al-Buhamad, O. & Quadir, MZ. 'Formation of recrystallized and recovered

multilayered microstructure in a hybrid aluminium alloy, PRICM-6 conference'. In: Materials Science Forum, Vols 561-565. Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications, pp. 131 - 134 2007.

9. Ferry, M., Al-Buhamad, O. & Quadir, MZ. 'Processing of multi-layered Al-Al(Sc)hybrid sheet by

accumulative roll boding'. In: Materials Science Forum, vols 558-559. Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications, pp. 307 - 312 2007.



10. Gupta, SK., Kim, B., Grigore, M., French, D., Sahajwalla, VH. & Sakurovs, R. 'Effect of iron-bearing

minerals on coke gasification'. In: AISTech 2007 Proceedings, Indianopolis, USA, Volume 1, May 7-10, 2007. USA, Association for Iron and Steel Technology, AISTECH, Warrendale, PA 15086 7528, United States, pp. 101 - 109 2007.

11. Kleine, HH., Hiraki, K., Timofeev, E., Ohashi, K., Maruyama, H., Hayashida, T., Jun, Y., Kitamura, K.,

Nakajima, T. and others. 'Visual determination of the onset of irregular blast wave reflection'. In: Proc. of 27th International congress on high-speed photography and photonics. USA, SPIE -International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham WA, WA 98227-0010, United States, p. 62791 2007.

12. Li, S., Liang, MH. & Tay, YY. 'Investigating the Photonic Behaviours of ZnO Nanocrystals'. In: Proceedings

of 31st Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting 2007. Wagga Wagga, Australia, Australian Institute of Physics, 2007.

13. Li, S. & Yang, C. 'Size Dependence of Critical Transition Temperature of MgB2'. In: Proceedings of 31st

Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting 2007. Wagga Wagga, Australia, Australian Institute of Physics, 2007.

14. Mcelroy, LP., Bao, J., Yang, R. & Yu, A. 'Development of Soft-Sensors for Flow Patterns Detection Guided

by DEM Models'. In: CHEMECA 2007. Melbourne, Australia, CHEMECA, pp. 485 - 493 2007. 15. Mitchell, JR., Wong, JC. & Plume, JD. 'Design Collaboration Using IFC: A Case Study of Thermal

Analysis'. In: Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures 2007. The Netherlands, Springer, pp. 317 - 329 2007.

16. Ostrovski, O., Shen, R., Zhang, G., Dell'Amico, M. & Brown, P. 'A Feasibility Study of Recycling of

Manganese Furnace Dust'. In: X1 International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry. New Delhi, Indid, Macmillan India Ltd, pp. 507 - 519 2007.

17. Ostrovski, O., Dewan, MA., Zhang, G. & Liu, D. 'Carbothermal Reduction of Alumina and Titania in

Different Gas Atmospheres'. In: European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2007. Horizons of Sustainable Growth of the Non-feffour Metals Production. Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, GDMB Medienverlag, pp. 1361 - 1375 2007.

18. Ostrovski, O., Kononov, R. & Ganguly, S. 'Carbothermal Solid State Reduction of Manganese Ores'. In:

X1 International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry. New Delhi, India, Macmillan India Ltd, pp. 258 - 267 2007.

19. Ostrovski, O., Adipuri, A. & Zhang, G. 'Chlorination of Titanium Oxycarbide Produced by Carbothermal

Reduction of Rutile'. In: Ti-2007 Science and Technology, Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Titanium. Japan, The Japan Institute of Metals, pp. 71 - 74 2007.

20. Ostrovski, O., Lone, MY., Sun, H. & Ganguly, S. 'Interfacial Phenomena and Reaction Kinetics for the

Carbon -MnO Containing Slag System'. In: X1 International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry. New Delhi, India, Macmillan India Ltd, pp. 595 - 602 2007.

21. Ostrovski, O., Dewan, MA. & Zhang, G. 'Synthesis of Titanium Oxycarbide by Carbothermal Reduction of

Titania'. In: Ti-2007 Science and Technology, Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Titanium. Japan, The Japan Institute of Metals, pp. 75 - 78 2007.

22. Ostrovski, O., Rezan, SA. & Zhang, G. 'Synthesis of Titanium Oxycarbonitride by Carbothermal Reduction

of Titania Containing Gas mixtures'. In: Ti-2007 Science and Technology, Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Titanium. Japan, The Japan Institute of Metals, pp. 79 - 82 2007.

23. Saha-Chaudhury, N., Sahajwalla, VH., Guzzon, M., Mapelli, C., Memoli, F. & Pustorino, M. 'Recycling

Ladle Slag as Slag Former for EAF Steelmaking - A Study of Foaming Behaviour'. In: AISTech2007 Proceedings. USA, The Association for Iron and Steel Technology, 2007.



24. Sahajwalla, VH., Zaharia, M., Antony, A., Lee, J., Darma, S., Khanna, R., Saha-Chaudhury, N., Knights,

D., O'Kane, P. & Pretorius, E. 'Combustion of organic waste materials for their utilization in electric arc furnace steelmaking'. In: AISTech 2007 Proceedings. USA, Association for Iron and Steel Technology, AISTECH, Warrendale, PA 15086 7528, United States, pp. 927 - 935 2007.

25. Sahajwalla, VH., Gupta, SK., Kim, B. & Lee, SH. 'Devolatilization and cracking behaviour of Australian

lumpy coals at high temperatures'. In: AISTech 2007 Proceedings, Indianapolis USA Volume I, May 7-10, 2007. , Association for Iron and Steel Technology, AISTECH, Warrendale, PA 15086 7528, United States, pp. 81 - 90 2007.

26. Sahajwalla, VH., Gupta, SK. & Osborne, DJ. 'Meeting Coal Quality Challenges for Global coke demand'.

In: AISTech 2007 Proceedings. USA, The Association for Iron and Steel Technology, 2007. 27. Sahajwalla, VH., Rahman, MM., Khanna, R. & Dicker, JD. 'Novel industrial trials demonstrating the use of

plastics for EAF slag foaming'. In: AISTech 2007 Proceedings, Indianopolis, USA, Volume I, May 7-10, 2007, Association for Iron and Steel Technology, AISTECH, Warrendale, PA 15086 7528, United States, pp. 811 - 822 2007.

28. Sorrell, CC. & Taib, H. 'Synthesis of Tin Oxide (SnO2) by the Oxalate Route: Effects of Addition Method

and Ageing'. In: Materials Science Forum, Vol 561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech, pp. 973 - 976 2007.

29. Taib, H. & Sorrell, CC. 'Particle size characterisation of tin oxide (SnO2) precipitated by various

techniques: Consistency of data'. In: Materials Science Forum, Vol 561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Stafa-Zuerich, CH-8712, Switzerland, pp. 2155 - 2158 2007.

30. Taib, H. & Sorrell, CC. 'Synthesis of Tin Oxide (SnO2)by Precipation'. In: Materials Science Forum, Vol

561-565. Zurich, Switzerland, Trans Tech, pp. 969 - 972 2007.

31. Wu, S., Zhu, H., Yu, A. & Zulli, P. 'Numerical Study of Coke Collapse by Discrete Element Method'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

32. Xu, W. & Ferry, M. 'Study of the early stages of recrystallization in a cold rolled ELC steel using FIB-EBSD

tomography'. In: . , Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Stafa-Zuerich, CH-8712, Switzerland, pp. 2013 - 2016 2007.

33. Yang, R., Yu, A. & Bao, J. 'Numerical Simulation of Particle Dynamics in different flow regimes in a

rotating drum'. In: ICBMH. Australia, ASBSH, pp. 1 - 9 2007. 34. Yu, A., Zou, Z. & Kuang, S. 'An Improved Point-locating Algorithm for Discrete Particle Simulation of

Particle-Fluid Flow under Convex Polyhedral Meshes'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

35. Yu, A., Rahman, M., Zhu, H. & Bridgwater, J. 'DEM Simulation of Particle Percolation in a Packed Bed'. In:

Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

36. Yu, A., Wang, B., Chu, KW. & Xu, DX. 'Discrete Particle Simulation of GAs-solid Flow in Cyclone

Seperator'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

37. Yu, A., Yang, R., Jayasundara, C. & Curry, D. 'Discrete particle simulation of particle flow in IsaMill- Effect

of operational variables'. In: Discrete Element Methods 07. Australia, Minerals Engineering International, 2007.

38. Yu, A., Chu, KW. & Wang, B. 'Discrete particle simulation of the gas-solid flow in a circulating fluidized

bed'. In: ECI Engineering Conferences International Symposium series. , , 2007.



39. Yu, A., Chandratilleke, GR., Stewart, RL. & Bridgwater, J. 'Effects of Blade Rake Angle and Gap on mixing

in a cylindrical mixer'. In: Discrete Element Methods 07. Australia, Minerals Engineering International, 2007.

40. Yu, A., Wang, B., Chu, KW. & Vince, A. 'Modelling of the Multiphase Flow in Dense Medium Cyclone'. In:

Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07 (CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

41. Zhang, J. & Young, DJ. 'Alloy Composition Effects in Metal Dusting of Fe-Ni alloys'. In: Corrosion Control

007 Paper. Sydney, Australia, Australasian Corrosion Association, pp. 1 - 8 2007. 42. Zhang, J., Young, DJ., Munroe, PR., Brady, MP., Al Motin, M. 'Effects of Alloy Additions on Metal Dusting

of Iron'. In: Corrosion Control 007 Paper. Sydney, Australia, Australasian Corrosion Association, pp. 1 - 10 2007.

43. Zhang, J., Young, DJ. & Yin, H. 'Metal dusting of 2.25Cr-1Mo IN CO-H2-H20'. In: Corrosion Control 007.

Sydney, Australia, Australasian Corrosion Control, pp. 1 - 10 2007. 44. Zhang, J., Young, DJ. & Othman, NK. 'Steam Effects on Cyclic Oxidation of Chromia Forming Alloys'. In:

Corrosion Control 007 Paper. Sydney, Australia, Australasian Corrosion Association, pp. 1 - 12 2007. 45. Zhou, Z., Yu, A. & Zulli, P. 'Particle Scale Study of Heat Transfer in Packed Beds'. In: Proceedings of

Discrete Element Methods 07(CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007.

46. Zhu, H. & Yu, A. 'DEM Simulations of Granular Flow in a Hopper'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element

Methods 07(CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modeling 07, 2007. 47. Zhu, H., Zhou, Z., Yu, A. & Zulli, P. 'Stress Fields of the Solid Flow in a Model Blast Furnace Based on

CFD-DEM Simulation'. In: Proceedings of Discrete Element Methods 07(CD Rom). UK, Minerals Engineering Conferences - Discrete Element Modelling 07, 2007.

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