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A/PROF TREVOR SMITH



Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/smith.php
Work: 8344 6272
Fax: 9347 5180
Room: 269
Level: 02
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy Australia
Time-resolved fluorescence microscopy Australia
Evanescent wave fluorescence spectroscopy Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Strathclyde Research
United States The Scripps Research Institute Exchange, Research
Japan Tohoku University Research, Teaching

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching University of Melbourne 30-Aug-2006
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 19-Mar-1983
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 02-May-1992

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member European Photochemistry Association Member 08-Jan-2008
Member Royal Australian Chemical Institute Member 10-Aug-2004
Member Asian Photochemistry Association Member 03-May-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Australian Academy of Science J.G. Russell Award 14-May-1999

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Dynamics of photon-induced processes in engineered polymer systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Ultrafast laser facility for chemical, biological and physical investigations of advanced materials Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2005
Towards Nano-Assembled Light Emitting Polymer Films Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
ENHANCED MICRO-RAMAN AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING FACILITY FOR BIOSYSTEMS AND MATERIALS Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 05/04/2006
MICROBIAL AND CELLULAR IMAGING AND ANALYSIS FACILITY Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009
Wine bottle colour and oxidative spoilage Chief Investigator GRAPE & WINE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORP Research Grants 01/07/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
ADVANCED MICROSCOPY OF PHARMACEUTICAL PENETRATION THROUGH SKIN Chief Investigator ACRUX DDS PTY LTD 25/07/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Characterization of the back surface reflection in InP using femtosecond luminescence up-conversion
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 045115/1-5
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  • Conformational Changes and Photophysical Behavior in Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] Thin Films Cast under an Electric Field
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry C
    Volume: 113
    Page numbers: 11657�11661
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  • Molar Mass Determination of Water-Soluble Light-Emitting Conjugated Polymers by Fluorescence-Based Analytical Ultracentrifugation
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2737-2740
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  • Observation of back surface reflection in GaAs excited by ultrashort pulses
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 102101/1-3
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Morphology Dependent Resonance Emission from Individual Micron-Sized Particles
    Year: 2008
    Book: Springer Series on Fluorescence: Fluorescence of Supermolecules, Polymers, and Nanosystems
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Growth and spectral analysis of ZnO nanotubes
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 0943031-0943035
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  • Navigating Transdermal Diffusion with Multiphoton Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Microscopy - Oxford
    Volume: 230
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 61-69
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  • The characteristic red chemiluminescence from reactions with acidic potassium permanganate: further spectroscopic evidence for a manganese(II) emitter
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Analyst
    Volume: 133
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-51
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • A Phase-Locked, 10 MHz Reference Signal for Frequency Domain Time-Resolved Fluorescence Measurements
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
    Volume: 78
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 053715/1-4
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  • Development of Ru-terpyridine cytochrome c bioconjugates
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 1899-1901
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  • Photophysics of a Dithioester RAFT Polymerization Agent and the Acenaphthenyl Model Light-Harvesting Chromophore
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 853-856
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  • Singlet Oxygen Quantum Yields Of Potential Porphyrin-Based Photosensitisers For Use In Photodynamic Therapy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 995-1002
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  • Time-resolved fluorescence microscopy of gunshot residue: an application to forensic science
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Microscopy - Oxford
    Volume: 226
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 18-25
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  • Two-photon Absorption Cross-Sections and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imaging Using Porphyrin Photosensitisers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1019-1026
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence studies of macromolecular adsorption
    Year: 2007
    Event name: SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume: 6483
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering(Washington)
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  • Two-photon characterization and microscopy of porphyrin photosensitisers
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Photonics West - Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences VII
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume: 6442
    Page numbers: 64421L/1-9
    Publisher: SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering(Washington)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Publications in 2005

Books

  • Energy transfer and trapping in engineered macromolecules
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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  • Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence anisotropy measurements
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Fluorescence studies on the conjugated polyelectrolyte DPS-PPV [poly (2,5-dipropoxy sulphonato para phenylene) vinylene] in aqueous solution
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Synthetic Metals
    Volume: 152
    Page numbers: 17-20
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Lausanne)
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  • Near-infrared chemiluminescence from the oxidation of ammonia in aqueous alkaline solution
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Luminescence
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 442-444
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  • Tuning the photophysical behavior of luminescent cyclam derivatives by cation binding and excited state redox potential
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry A
    Volume: 109
    Page numbers: 3788-3796
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Mechanisms of excimer formation in poly(acenaphthylene)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1175-1177
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Optically addressable nanostructured capsules
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Advanced Materials
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 23-24
    Page numbers: 2184-2189
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Protein engineering of cytochrome b562 for quinone binding and light-induced electron transfer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 101
    Issue: 51
    Page numbers: 17675-17680
    Publisher: National Academy of Sciences(Washington DC)
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  • Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence anisotropy for the determination of molecular conformational changes of proteins at an interface
    Year: 2004
    Journal: European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 130-139
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Major Reference Works

  • Measurements in polymer science:Encyclopedia of modern optics
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Measurements in polymer science
    Publisher: Elsevier(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fluorescence studies on the conjugated polyelectrolyte DPS-PPV poly[(2,5- di propoxy sulphonato) para phenylene vinylene] in aqueous solution
    Year: 2004
    Event name: International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM 2004)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM 2004)
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Chain length dependence of radical-radical termination in free radical polymerization: A pulsed laser photolysis investigation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 2032-2040
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Shedding light on the conformation of proteins and other macromolecules at an interface
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 1005-1012
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • The dependence of benzo-15-crown-5 ether-containing oligo paraphenylene vinylene (CE-OPV) emission upon complexation with metal ions in solution
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Fluorescence
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 427-436
    Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corp(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Chemically induced phosphorescence from manganese(II) during the oxidation of various compounds by manganese(III), (IV)break and (VII) in acidic aqueous solutions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Analytica Chimica Acta
    Volume: 451
    Page numbers: 181-188
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Fluorescence polarization measurements of the local viscosity of hydroxypropyl guar in solution
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 2736-2742
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Partial denaturation of silica-adsorbed bovine serum albumin determined by time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 9924-9931
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Photophysics of novel donor-{saturated rigid hydrocarbon bridge}-acceptor systems exhibiting efficient excitation energy transfer
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A -Chemistry
    Volume: 149
    Page numbers: 55-69
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Lausanne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fluorescence anisotropy measurements of the dynamic behaviour of biopolymers
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The Eleventh Gums and Stabilisers for the Food Industry Conference
    Conference Publication: Gums and stabilisers for the food industry 11
    Page numbers: 54-64
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Distance dependence of photoinduced electron transfer along Alpha-Helical polypeptides
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 105
    Issue: 42
    Page numbers: 10407-10415
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Photoinduced electron transfer on Beta-Sheet cyclic peptides
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 105
    Issue: 42
    Page numbers: 10416-10423
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Rheo-optics of a conjugated polymer system in shear
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 7755-7764
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Time-resolved fluorescence studies of the interactions between the thermoresponsive polymer host, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), and a hydrophobic guest, pyrene
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 2235-2240
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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