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PROF DEREK YAU CHEONG CHAN



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Organization: Mathematics and Statistics
Position: PERSONAL CHAIR
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Homepage: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=141

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of New South Wales 31-Dec-1972
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1975

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
Particulate Fluids Processing Centre Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Special Research Centres 01/01/2000
Spectroscopy of complex fluids in flow Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
AUSTRALIAN MINERAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ("AMSRI") Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006

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 2007

Journal Articles

  • Anomalous pH dependent stability behavior of surfactant-free nonpolar oil drops in aqueous electrolyte solutions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 9335-9340
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  • Atomic force microscopy: Loading position dependence of cantilever spring constants and dector sensitivity
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
    Volume: 78
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 116102-116102-3
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  • Dynamics of Interactions Involving Deformable Drops: Hydrodynamic Dimpling under Attractive and Repulsive Electrical Double Layer Interactions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 626-637
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Dynamic forces between two deformable oil droplets in water
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 313
    Page numbers: 210-213
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  • Electrical double layer interactions between dissimilar oxide surfaces with charge regulation and Stern-Grahame layers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    Volume: 296
    Page numbers: 150-158
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A Scalable Parallel Monte Carlo Method for Free Energy Simulations of Molecular Systems
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Computational Chemistry
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 72-77
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • Effect of Chain Stiffness on Polyelectrolyte Condensation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 3017-3025
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Interaction Forces Between Oil-Water particle Interfaces-Non-DLVO forces
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Faraday Discussions
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 111-124
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Measurement of Dynamical Forces between Deformable Drops Using the Atomic Force Microscope. I. Theory
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 2912-2922
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Modelling drop-drop interactions in an atomic force microscope
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: C805-C819
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • The influence of discrete surface charges on the force between charged surfaces
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
    Volume: 122
    Issue: 10 (Paper #104705)
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Hydrodynamic drainage and interaction forces between oil droplets studied using atomic force microscopy
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow 2005
    Conference Publication: 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Institution of Chemical Engineers(Rugby)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Electric-field-directed growth of gold nanorods in aqueous surfactant solutions
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 571-579
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Forces between two oil drops in aqueous solution measured by AFM
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    Volume: 273
    Page numbers: 339-342
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A boot-strap poisson-boltzmann theory for the structure and thermodynamics of charged colloidal solutions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 5248-5259
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Forces between a rigid probe particle and a liquid interface: Comparison between experiment and theory
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 2124-2133
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Modeling the structure of charged binary colloidal dispersions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1121-1126
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Monte carlo simulations of stretched charged polymers
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 107
    Page numbers: 8131-8139
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Stochastically evolving networks
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 066124 (23 pp.)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A simple algorithm for calculating electrical double layer interactions in asymmetric electrolytes - poisson - boltzmann theory
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    Volume: 245
    Page numbers: 307-310
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Solvent quality dependant continuum van der waals attraction and phase behaviour for colloids bearing nonuniform adsorbed polymer layers
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 7845-7852
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • The phase behavior of charged colloidal systems in the mean spherical approximation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
    Volume: 116
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 8588-8595
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The interpretation of forces involving deformable interfaces
    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: 11
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Density functional theory of charged colloidal systems
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: American Physical Society(Maryland)
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  • Forces between a rigid probe particle and a liquid interface, I. the repulsive case
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    Volume: 236
    Page numbers: 141-154
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  • Hydrodynamic and electrokinetic properties of decane droplets in aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate solutions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 7210-7218
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Phase separation in deionised colloidal systems: extended debye-h\"{u}ckel theory
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 4202-4210
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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