The Surface Chemistry Group, part of the Department of Chemistry, conducts research in several areas of interfacial science. The main areas of interest are:

• Structures of monolayers at the air/water interface
• Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of monolayers and multilayers
• Neutron and X-ray reflectivity from monolayers and multilayers
• Phospholipid/surfactant protein monolayers, vesicles and dispersions
• Physical and chemical characterisation of coal

Dr Ian Gentle, Senior Lecturer
        Director, Brisbane Surface Analysis Facility
Phone +61 7 3365 4800, email gentle@chemistry.uq.edu.au
Dr Geoff Barnes, Honorary Research Consultant, email barnes@chemistry.uq.edu.au
Dr Jian Bang Peng, Research Officer, email peng@chemistry.uq.edu.au
Dr Wilfred Fullagar, Australian Synchrotron Research Program Postdoctoral Fellow, email fullagar@chemistry.uq.edu.au
David Ferguson, PhD student, email d.ferguson@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Karen Gunton, PhD student, email k.gunton@mailbox.uq.edu.au
My Linh Tran, PhD student, email l.tran@chemistry.uq.edu.au
Ben O'Driscoll, PhD student, email b.odriscoll@chemistry.uq.edu.au

The structures of Langmuir-Blodgett films of fatty acids and their salts (review article), J.B. Peng, G.T. Barnes and I.R. Gentle, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 2000, in press.

Superstructures and correlated metal ion layers in Langmuir-Blodgett films of cadmium soaps observed with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction, J.B. Peng, G.T. Barnes, I.R. Gentle and G.J. Foran, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, in press.

Structures of mixed Langmuir-Blodgett films of tetrakis(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)porphinatocopper(II) with cadmium arachidate: a grazing incidence X-ray diffraction study, J.B. Peng, G.T. Barnes, G.J. Foran,  M.J. Crossley and I.R. Gentle, Langmuir, 2000, 16, 207.

Self-Assembled Films of Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine, G.A. Lawrie, G.T. Barnes and I.R. Gentle, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physiochemical and Engineering Aspects, 1999, 155, 69-84.

Scanning Probe Microscopy as a Tool for Materials Research, I.R. Gentle, Materials Forum, 1998, 22, 121-137.

Phase Transitions in Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Cadmium Stearate: Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Studies, J.B. Peng, G.J. Foran, G.T. Barnes and I.R. Gentle, Langmuir, 1997, 13, 1602.

Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Thin Films Using an Imaging Plate Detection System, G.J. Foran, J.B. Peng, R. Steitz, G.T. Barnes and I.R. Gentle, Langmuir, 1996, 12, 774.
 

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