Professor Rose Amal

 

Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (ACT/NSW node) Address: ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney Phone: 61-2-93854361 Fax: 61-2-93855966 Email: r.amal@unsw.edu.au Webpage: http://www.pcrg.unsw.edu.au/staff/rose.htm Research Group: UNSW, Engineering, ChSE, PartCat

 

Role in the network

Experienced Researcher (ER)  

Materials Research Focus

Innovative structural and functional materials for diverse applications  

Current Research Activities

Prof Rose Amal has been involved the area of particle technology for over 10 years. During the last 5 years she has undertaken extensive research into fine particle aggregation, photocatalysis and more recently, nanoparticle synthesis and their applications. She has also applied her expertise on particle microproperties to particle macroproperties in solid-liquid separation technologies.

She has secured a large number of external grants from sources including the Australian Research Council (ARC), CRC-Waste Management and Pollution Control (WMPC), Environmental Trust Funds and the Sugar Research Development Corporation (SRDC). The total funding amassed has exceeded $4 million.

She has published over 120 refereed papers and has strong links with various industry members and public sectors.
 

Selected Publications

External Publication List

Ten career-best publications

1 Amal, R., Raper, J.A. and Waite, T.D. (1990), “Fractal structure of hematite aggregates”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 140: 158. (I.F: 2.023 Cited 57 times)
2 Amal, R., Coury, J.R., Raper, J.A., Walsh, W.P., and Waite, T.D. (1990) “Structure and kinetics of aggregating colloidal hematite”, Colloids and Surfaces 46(1): 1-19 (I.F: 1.499 Cited 36 times)
3 Spicer, P., Sotiris, P., Raper, J.A., Amal, R., Bushell, G.C. and Meesters, G. (1998), “Effect of shear schedule on particle size and structure during flocculation in stirred tanks”, Powder Technology, 97: 26-34. (I.F: 1.219 Cited 55 times)
4 Amal, R., Raper, J.A. and Waite, T.D. (1992), “Effect of fulvic acid adsorption on the aggregation kinetics and structure of hematite particles”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 151: 244. (I.F: 2.023 Cited 35 times)
5 Guan, J., Waite, T.D. and Amal, R. (1998), “Rapid Structure Characterisation of Bacterial Aggregates”, Environmental Science and Technology, 32: 3735-3742. (I.F: 4.054 Cited 31 times)
6 Beydoun, D., Amal, R., Low, G. and McEvoy, S. (2000), “Novel photocatalyst: titania coated magnetite - activity and photodissolution”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104: 4387-4396. (I.F: 4.033 Cited: 52 times)
7 Selomulya, C., Amal, R., Bushell, G. and Waite, T.D. (2001), “Evidence of shear rate dependence on restructuring and breakup of latex aggregates”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 236: 67-77. (I.F: 2.023 Cited 28 times)
8 Bushell, G., Yan Y., Woodfield, D., Raper, J. and Amal, R. (2002), “On techniques for the measurement of the mass fractal dimension of aggregates”, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 95: 1-50. (I.F: 4.198 Cited 70 times)
9 Vamathevan, V., Amal, R., Beydoun, D., Low, G. and McEvoy, S. (2002), “Photocatalytic Oxidation of Organics in Water Using Pure and Silver-Modified Titanium Dioxide Particles”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A, 148(1-3): 233-245. (I.F: 2.286 Cited 44 times)
10 Chiang, K., Amal, R., and Tran, T. (2002), “Photocatalytic degradation of cyanide using titanium dioxide modified with copper oxide”, Advances in Environmental Research, 6(4): 471-485 (I.F: 2.08 Cited 23 times)
 

Membership/Fellowship of Key Organisations

Member - IChemE
Member - AWWA
Member - IOC for International Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy
Member - ARC College of Expert  

Awards and Distinctions

2003 Vice Chancellor Awards for Teaching Excellence  

Professional Recognition and Outreach

Due to the international reputation of the group in photocatalysis coupled with her significant contribution to novel structured materials in photocatalysis, she is elected to be the Chair of the International Organizing Committee for the next International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS 17) to be held in Sydney in 2008. She currently serves as an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research and has been regularly invited to referee manuscripts for many international learned journals (including Chemistry Materials, Journal of Catalysis, NanoLetters, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, Chemical Engineering Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Hazardous Materials and others). In 2002, she was one of the key members of the Committee of the World Congress on Particle Technology 4 (WCPT4). This conference was held in Sydney with 600 delegates in attendance Following the conference she was invited to act as a guest editor for a Special Issue of Particle and Particle System Characterisation – an issue devoted to the top papers presented at WCPT4. Due to her expertise in the field, she has also been invited to contribute to Land and Water Australia’s Portfolio Investment Planning – Selecting strategic issues on opportunities for future Research and Development investment on Nanotechnology and a member of ARC College of Experts. In a lot of occasion, she has also being invited to give keynote lectures at international conferences, including Particle System Analysis (UK), Control of Particulate Processes (Netherlands), Solid Liquid Separation (Switzerland) and Partech (Germany). She was also invited to give lectures at the Summer School on Particle Technology at the University of Florida, and to apply for a Chair position at the Institute of Nanomanufacturing, University of Leeds, UK, as well as invited by A Star Singapore to apply for a prominent position at their Research Institute  

International Linkages

Professor Sotiris Pratsinis (ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland), Professor Richard Williams (University of Leeds, UK), Dr. Pierre Pichat (CNRS, France), Professor Akihiko Kudo (Tokyo Science University, Japan), Professor Kevin Kendall (University of Birmingham, UK), Professor Detlef Bahnemann (Institute for Technical Chemistry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , University of Hannover, Germany).

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