Associate Professor William (Bill) Skinner

 
Associate Professor William (Bill)  Skinner Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia

Address: Ian Wark Research Institute
Mawson Lakes Campus
Phone: +61 8 830 23690
Fax: +61 8 830 23683
Email: William.Skinner@unisa.edu.au
Webpage: http://people.unisa.edu.au/William.Skinner
Research Group:
USouthAust, Ian Wark Research Institute
 

Role in the network

Experienced Researcher (ER)  

Materials Research Focus

Materials solutions for advanced manufacturing  

Current Research Activities

Solid state materials surface chemistry and electronic properties. Surface modification and treatments. Surface and near surface analytical techniques: XPS, static and dynamic-SIMS, EMS, AES, synchrotron radiation XPS, XRF/XANES  

Selected Publications

External Publication List

Séguin, V., Courchesne, F., Gagnon, C., Martin, R.R., Naftel, S. and Skinner, W., Mineral weathering in the rhizosphere of forested soils, in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere. P.M. Huang and G.R. Gobran, (eds.), Elsevier, New York (2005)

Martin, R.R., Kempson, I.M., Naftel, S.J. and Skinner, W.M., Preliminary synchrotron analysis of Pb in hair from a lead smelter worker, Chemosphere, 58, 1385-1390 (2005)

Kempson, I.M. and Skinner, W.M., ToF-SIMS analysis of elemental distributions in human hair, Science of the Total Environment, 338, 213-227 (2005)

Kempson, I.M., Kirkbride, K.P., Skinner, W.M. and Coumbaros, J., Applications of synchrotron radiation in forensic trace evidence analysis, Talanta, 67(2), 286-303 (2005)

Khmeleva, T.N., Skinner, W. andBeattie, D.A., Depressing mechanisms of sodium bisulphite in the collectorless flotation of copper-activated sphalerite, International Journal of Mineral Processing, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, 43-53 (2005)

Skinner, W.M., Nesbitt, H.W. and Pratt, A.R., XPS Identification of Bulk Hole and Itinerant Electronic Defects in Natural Troilite (FeS), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68/10, 2259-2263 (2004)

Kempson, I.M., Skinner, W.M. and Kirkbride, P.K., Calcium distributions in human hair by ToF-SIMS, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1624, Issues 1-3, 1-5 (2003)

Early Development of Al, Ca and Na Compositional Gradients in Labradorite Leached in pH 2 HCl Solutions, H.W. Nesbitt and W.M. Skinner Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(5), pp. 715-727, 2001

Elemental Content of Airway Surface Fluid from Infants with Cystic Fibrosis, J. Hull, W. M. Skinner, C. Robertson and P. Phelan, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 157 10-14 (1998)

Martin, R.R., Naftel, S.J., Skinner, W.M., Jones, K.W. and Feng, H., Synchrotron micro-X-ray fluorescence and metal distribution across a black spruce tree stem, X-ray Spectrometry, 32, 402-407 (2003)  

Awards and Distinctions

AINSE Councillor (UniSA), 3 years
Standard Australia ISO/TC 201 Technical Committee for Surface Spectroscopy
Key Researcher: ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and Materials Interfaces, UniSA  

International Linkages

Canada, US, US, Netherlands

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