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PROF DAVID SOLOMON



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Organization: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science New South Wales University of Technology
Doctor of Science University of New South Wales
Master of Science New South Wales University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy University of New South Wales

Honours

Honour Date Awarded
Member of the Order of Australia

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) 01-Jan-2002
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 01-Jan-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Institution of Chemical Engineers NES Award for Novel Engineering Solutions 2007 01-Jan-2007
Prize Victoria Prize Victoria Prize 01-Jan-2006
Other (Award) Clunies Ross Science and Technology Award 01-Jan-1994
Medal CSIRO Medal 01-Jan-1990
Medal Australian Academy of Science Ian William Wark Medal and Lecture 01-Jan-1989
Other (Award) The Australian Bicentennial Science Achievement Award 01-Jan-1988
Medal CSIRO Medal 01-Jan-1987
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute Leighton Memorial Medal 01-Jan-1985
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute Applied Research Medal 01-Jan-1980
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute Polymer Medal 01-Jan-1978
Prize University of Melbourne David Syme Research Prize 01-Jan-1976
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute H.G. Smith Memorial Medal 01-Jan-1976
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute H.G. Smith Memorial Medal 01-Jan-1971
Prize Royal Australian Chemical Institute Archibald D. Olle Prize 01-Jan-1968

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
Preparations, properties, and applications of new hydrogels Chief Investigator GRADIPORE LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Novel nano particles for advanced automotive and industrial coatings Chief Investigator DU PONT AUST LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Nanogels: next generation polymeric particles Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
The synthesis and evaluation of white nano particles that reinforce the mechanical properties of elastomers Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
CRC FOR POLYMERS PROJECT 3.5 - POLYMERS FOR EVAPORATION MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES (SUBMISSION NUMBER - 0713665) Chief Investigator CRC FOR POLYMERS 14/12/2006

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 2008

Journal Articles

  • Autophobicity-Driven Surface Segregation and Patterning of Core#Shell Microgel Nanoparticles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Nano Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3010-3016
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  • Determination  of Dosimetric Perturbations Caused by Aneurysm Clip in Stereotactic Radiosurgery Using Gel Phantoms and EBT-Gafchromic Films
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Physics
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 744-752
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Evaporation, seepage and water quality management in storage dams: a review of research methods
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Environmental Health
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 84-97
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  • High-resolution measurements of small field beams using polymer gels
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Applied Radiation and Isotopes
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1160-1164
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • The chemistry of radical polymerization
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Admicellar polymerization of styrene with divinyl benzene on alumina particles: the synthesis of white reinforcing fillers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Materials Science
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 7474-7482
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  • An alternative pathway for the hydrolysis of epoxy ester compounds
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 8247-8252
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Patterning of microgel particles on polymer surfaces controlled by autophobicity and interfacial tension
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 231st ACS National Meeting
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 231st ACS National Meeting
    Issue: 94
    Page numbers: 266-267
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Effect of "glutaraldehyde" functionality on network formation in poly(vinyl alcohol) membranes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Applied Polymer Science
    Volume: 93
    Page numbers: 780-792
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • From hydrophobic to hydrophilic star-microgels
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Polymer Preprints
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 241-242
    Publisher: American Chemical Society
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  • From well defined star-microgels to highly ordered honeycomb films
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1286-1292
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Initiator efficiency in ATRP: the tosyl chloride/CuBr/PMDETA system
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2097-2104
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Polymerization-induced phase separations in branched poly(methyl methacrylate) synthesis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Applied Polymer Science
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1462-1468
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Dewetting of star nanogel/homopolymer blends from an immiscible homopolymer substrate
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 7857-7860
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Interpenetrating Amphipillic Polymer Networks of Poly(2-hydrooxyethyl methacrylate) and Poly(ethylene oxide)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 5650-5658
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Synthetic Hydrogels 3. Solvent effects on poly(2-hydroxylethyl methaacrylate) networks
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 4017-4027
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Polymers Based on Phenols
    Year: 2003
    Book: The Chemistry of Phenols
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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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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  • Degradation on polyacrylamide - Part I. Linear polyacrylamide
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 1331-1337
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  • Degradation on polyacrylamide - Part II. Polyacrylamide gels
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 3817-3826
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  • Poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels: their synthesis and steps towards control of electroendosmosis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Electrophoresis
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 12-19
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Structure control of star microgels by atom transfer radical polymerization
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Polymer Preprints
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 800-801
    Publisher: American Chemical Society
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  • Synthesis, characterization, and direct observation of star microgels
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 5650-5654
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Synthetic hydrogels. 1. Effects of solvent on poly(acrylamide) networks
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 6195-6203
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Synthetic hydrogels. 2. Polymerization induced phase separation in acrylamide systems
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 7335-7344
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Graft copolymerization studies. III. Methyl methacrylate onto polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Applied Polymer Science
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 898-915
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  • Controlling carbon microporosity: the structure of carbons obtained from different phenolic resin precursors
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Carbon
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 743-749
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Some aspects of the properties and degradation of polyacrylamides
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemical Reviews
    Volume: 102
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3067-3084
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Synthesis, characterization, and modelling of novel multifunctional acryloyl-based monomers: An experimental and computational study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 675-680
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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Major Reference Works

  • :Adsorption on Carbon
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Marcel Dekker(New York)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • 3,5-Dimethylphenol resole resins: their structure and mechanism of thermal decomposition leading to graphitisation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 7253-7529
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Complexes of benzene-1,2-diol mannich bases. 2. Novel aluminium (III) complexes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 383-389
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Complexes of benzene-1,2-diol mannich bases.1.Novel hexacoordinate zwitterionic silicon (IV)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 375-381
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Control of reactivity of novolac resins: the use of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran as a labile protecting group
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 6339-6345
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Controlled formation of microheterogeneous polymer networks: influence of monomer reactivity on gel structure
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 6396-6401
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Graft copolymerisation studies. III. Methyl methacrylate onto polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Applied Polymer Science
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 898-915
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  • Novel crosslinked homogeneous polyacrylamide gels with improved separation properties: Investigation of the crosslinker functionality
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Electrophoresis
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 4303-4310
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Novel crosslinked polyacrylamide matrices: An investigation using gradient gel electrophoresis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Electrophoresis
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 4297-4302
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Studies on microgels. 5. Synthesis of microgels via living free radical polymerisation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 5987-5991
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • The effect of formaldehyde to phenol ratio on the curing and carbonisation behaviour of resole resins
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 3355-3362
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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