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Dr Daniel Southam

Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

Fields of Interest

Solid state and minerals chemistry: synthesis and characterisation of amorphous materials; materials, minerals and the environment; sustainable materials and minerals processing

Education

2000: BAppSc(Hons), Inorganic Analytical Chemistry, University of Tasmania

2005: PhD, Materials Chemistry, University of Tasmania

Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Chartered Chemist

Biography

1999 - 2005: Tutor Coordinator, Australian Maritime College

2005 - 2007: Research Fellow, NRI, Curtin University of Technology

2008 - : Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

Teaching

Selected Publications

Southam, DC, Lewis, TW, McFarlane, AJ, Borrmann, T, Johnston, JH, ‘Calcium-phosphorus interactions at a nano-structured silicate surface’, J Colloid Interface Sci, 2008. 319(2): 489-497

Southam, DC; Brent, GF; Felipe, F; Carr, C; Hart, RD; Wright, K. ‘Towards more sustainable minefills - replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement with Geopolymer Cements’, Publications of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2007. 9: 157-164.

Hart, RD, Lowe, JL, Southam, DC, Perera, DS, Walls, P, Vance, ER, Gourley, T, Wright, K, ‘Aluminosilicate inorganic polymers from waste materials’. Publications of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2006. 3: 93-103.

Southam, DC, Lewis, TW, McFarlane, AJ, Johnston, JH, ‘Amorphous Calcium Silicate as a Chemisorbent for Phosphate’, Curr Appl Phys, 2004. 4(2-4): 355-8.

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