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PROF WILLIAM ANDREW DUCKER



Contact Details

Organization: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.chemeng.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/ducker.html
Work: 8344 3430
Fax: 8344 4153
Room: 320
Level: 03
Building: Chemical Engineering #1
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science The Australian National University 01-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philisophy The Australian National University 10-Sep-1992

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
Biologically-inspired recognition & processing in colloidal systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Federation Fellowships 01/01/2003
FOUNDATIONAL NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Artificial Peptides for Antibiofouling and Colloidal Processing Applications Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2006
Artificial Proteins for the Control of Colloid and Surface Properties Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
ARTIFICAL PEPTIDES FOR ANTIBIOFOULING AND COLLOIDAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS 2 Chief Investigator AINSE Awards (AUST. INST. OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) 01/08/2006
EFFICIENT AND PRACTICAL HYDROGEN FUELLED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES - VIC Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT) 20/08/2007
Macromolecular Self-Assembly of Amyloid Fibrils Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
POLYMER CHARACTERISATION FACILITY (PCF) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL IMAGING USING AFM TIP PHOTOLUMINESCENCE Chief Investigator VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY 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

Book Chapters

  • Adsorption of Surfactants and Its Influence on the Hydrodynamics of Flotation
    Year: 2007
    Book: Froth Flotation: A Century of Innovation
    Publisher: The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration(Colorado)
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Journal Articles

  • A Nanoscale Gas State
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physical Review Letters
    Volume: 2007
    Issue: 98
    Page numbers: 136101-1 to 136101-4
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  • Formation of Interfacial Nanodroplets Through Changes in Solvent Quality
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 12478-12480
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  • No-Slip Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition for Hydrophilic Particles
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physical Review Letters
    Volume: 2007
    Issue: 98
    Page numbers: 028305-1 to 028305-4
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  • Surface Chemistry and Rheology of Polysulfobetaine-Coated Silica
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 7587-7593
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  • Thin Film Lubrication For Large Colloidal Particles: Experimental Test of the No-Slip Boundary Condition
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 111
    Page numbers: 16300-16312
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Flip-flop in adsorbed bilayers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 110
    Page numbers: 23365-23372
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  • Measurement of the absolute separation for atomic force microscopy measurements in the presence of adsorbed polymer
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
    Volume: 77
    Page numbers: 0537061-0537066
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • An atomic force microscope tip as a light force
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Cloning strategy for producing brush-forming protein-based polymers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biomacromolecules
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1912-1920
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  • Confinement-Induced Phase Transition and Hysteresis in Colloidal Forces for Surfactant Layers on Hydrophobic Surfaces
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 10089-10095
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  • Effect of Degassing and Ionic Strength on AFM Force Measurements in Octadecyltrimetylammonium Chloride Solutions
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 5831-5841
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  • Modeling of confinement-induced phase transitions for surfactant layers on amphiphilic surfaces
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 11534-11545
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Refractive index of thin, aqueous films between hydrophobic surfaces studied using evanescent wave atomic force microscopy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 12153-12159
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Relationship between scattered intensity and separation for particles in an evanescent field
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 5783-5789
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Scanning near-field optical microscopy utilizing silicon nitride probe photoluminescence
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Unnatural Proteins for the Control of Surface Forces
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 1497-1506
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Effect of dissolved gas on the force between silica and glass in aqueous ocyadecyltrimetylammonium chloride solutions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Centenary of Flotation Symposium
    Conference Publication: Centenary of Flotation Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 659-666
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Atomic Force Microscopy Colloid-Probe Measurements with Explicit Measurement of Particle-Solid Separation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 7616-7622
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  • Confinement-induced phase behaviour and adsorption regulation of ionic surfactants in the aqueous film between charged solids
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 15033-15042
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  • Forces between Glass Surfaces in Mixed Cationic-Zwitterionic Surfactant Systems
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 4553-4558
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  • Is There a Thin Film of Air at the Interface between Water and smooth Hydrophobic Solids?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1843-1849
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  • Proximal Adsorption at Glass Surfaces: Ionic Strength, pH, Chain Length Effects
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 378-388
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  • Self-Consistent Field Analysis of Ionic Surfactant Adsorption Regulation in the Aqueous Film between Two Neutral Solids
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 3633-3643
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  • Surfactant Adsorption at Solid-Aqueous Interfaces Containing Fixed Charges: Experiments Revealing the Role of Surface Charge Density and Surface Charge Regulation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 1667-1676
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Atomic Force Microscopy of Adsorbed Surfactant Micelles
    Year: 2003
    Book: Adsorption and Aggregation of Surfactants in Solution
    Publisher: Dekker - Marcel Dekker(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A Strategy for the Sequential Patterning of Proteins: Catalytically Active Multiprotein Nanofabrication
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Nano Letters
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 691-694
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  • Exchange Rates of Surfactant at the Solid-Liquid Interface Obtained by ATR-FTIR
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    Volume: 107
    Page numbers: 9011-9021
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  • Forces between Colloid Particles in Natural Waters
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Environmental Science & Technology
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 3303-3308
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