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A/PROF MICHELLE GEE



Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: http://www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/gee.php
Work: (03)8344 4978
Fax: (03)93475180
Room: 267
Level: 02
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
colloid and interface science wetting, spreading, surface forces Australia, United States of America
biophysics membranes, membrane proteins, cell nanomechanics Australia, France
polymer physics polymer adsorption, molecular conformation Australia, United Kingdom
mesoporous materials bioseparations Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
France Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris Research
France CNRS Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles Exchange, Research
United States Carnegie Mellon University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy Institution not known

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Royal Australian Chemical Institute Member 19-Apr-1993
Member American Chemical Institute Member 02-Oct-1995
Member Australian Biophysics Society Member 01-Dec-2006

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
Emulsion stability & solvent extraction equipment design in the pharmaceutical industry Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003
Nanoporous bioaffinity adsorbents for separations in the pharmaceutical industry Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
EARLY EVENTS IN ARTERIOLAR REMODELLING: ADAPTATION TO PROLONGED CASOCONSTRICTION Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NSW Project Grants (NHMRC) 01/01/2005
Probing membrane rafts using surface-selective multi-dimensional microscopy Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
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
EVANESCENT WAVE INDUCED FLUORESCENCE AS A PROBE OF FLUIDICS IN NOVEL POLYMER MATERIALS Chief Investigator MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Research Networks (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 25/07/2006
Interfacial structure of adsorbed polymeric micelles Chief Investigator AINSE Awards

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
ADVANCED ADSORPTION SENSING FACILITY FOR NANOSCALE BIOTECHNOLOGY Chief Investigator A E ROWDEN WHITE FOUNDATION 01/07/2007

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

  • Hierarchical mesoporous silica materials for separation of functional food ingredients - A review
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 243-248
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  • Spatially resolved force spectroscopy of bacterial surfaces using force-volume imaging
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 206-213
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  •  Friction Studies of Polymer Lubricated Surfaces
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 2126-2133
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  • Effect of Adsorption History on the Surface Morphology of a Self-Associating Diblock Copolymer: A Surface Forces Study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 4644-4653
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Nanoporous Silica Materials as Supports for Bioaffinity Separations


    Year: 2007
    Event name: CHEMECA 2007
    Conference Publication: Chemical Engineering Conference Australia
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 98-100
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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  • 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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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Amino functionalisation of microemulsion templated mesoporous silica foams.
    Year: 2006
    Book: Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (Characterisation of Porous Solids VII)
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Journal Articles

  • Probing the Microporous Nature of Hierarchically Templated Mesoporous Silica Via Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Solid State Chemistry
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 67-75
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  • Probing the microporous nature of hierarchically templated mesoporous silica via positron annihilation spectroscopy.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Solid State Chemistry
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 67-75
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence anisotropy measurements
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Atomic force microscopy study of the interaction between adsorbed poly(ethylene oxide) layers: Effects of surface modification and approach velocity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 2199-2208
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Postsynthesis vapor-phase functionalization of MCM-48 with hexamethyldisilazane and 3-aminopropyldimethylethoxylsilane for bioseparation applications
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 109
    Issue: 34
    Page numbers: 16263-16271
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Microemulsion templated mesoporous silica: characterisation via small angle x-ray scattering and stability in aqueous buffers
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials
    Conference Publication: Nanoporous Materials IV, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, Niagra Falls, Canada
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 717-724
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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  • Microemulsion templated nanoporous silica: Stability for biomolecule separations
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering - Glasgow2005
    Conference Publication: 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering - Glasgow2005
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Institution of Chemical Engineers(Rugby)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • 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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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Comparative study of silylation methods to improve the stability of silicate MCM-41 in aqueous solutions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 619-624
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Interation forces measured between mica-adsorbed quaternarized poly(2-vinylpyridine) layers: Effects of pH and compression
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Adhesion
    Volume: 79
    Page numbers: 937-953
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Abingdon)
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  • Optically profiling a draining aqueous film confined between an oil droplet and a solid surface: Effect of nonionic surfactant
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 7911-7918
    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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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Surface coating of MCM-48 via a gas phase reaction with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS)
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Nanotechnology in mesostructured materials
    Conference Publication: Studies in surface science and catalysis 146 - Nanotechnology in mesostructured materials
    Volume: 146
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 493-496
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • An imaging reflectometry study of the effect of electrolyte on the drainage and profile of an aqueous film between an oil droplet and a hydrophilic silica surface
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 4729-4735
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Controlling the adsorbed conformation and desorption of polyelectrolyte with added surfactant via the adsorption mechanism: A direct force measurement study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 9401-9408
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Interaction forces between a bare silica surface and an alpha-alumina surface bearing adsorbed polyelectrolyte and surfactant
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 2649-2657
    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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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Biochemical separation via mesoporous molecular sieves
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 8
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Improving the hydro-stability of MCM-41 by post-synthesis treatment and hexamethyldisilazane coating
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 3rd International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials
    Conference Publication: Nanoporous Materials III - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials
    Volume: 141
    Page numbers: 221-228
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(London)
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  • The draining profile of an aqueous film between an oil droplet and a solid surface
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 8
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Time resolved polarised attenuated total reflection spectroscopy of a protein film at the silica/solution interface
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 10
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Time-resolved polarised attenuated total reflection spectroscopy of a protein film at the silica/solution interface
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Gums and Stabilisers for the Food Industry
    Conference Publication: Gums and Stabilisers in the Food Industry II
    Volume: 278
    Page numbers: 65-72
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Effect of surfactant on the drainage of an aqueous film between an oil droplet approaching a hydrophobic solid surface
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 3784-3787
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  • Imaging of droplet profiles during drainage of a film between a droplet and an interface
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Oil and Gas Science and Technology
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 33-40
    Publisher: Editions Technip(Paris)
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  • Interaction forces between alpha-alumina fibers with coadsorbed polyelectrolyte and surfactant
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 4932-4939
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Measurement of weak, short-range attractive forces superimposed on dominant, longer ranged interactions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 7439-7441
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Surface forces between adsorbed quaternarized poly(2-vinylpyridine) layers: Molecular rearrangements and bridging interactions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 4151-4158
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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