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Dr Franca Jones
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Job Description/Background
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Leader, Crystallization Program
Fields of Interest
Crystallization, barium sulfate, scale formation in particular, desilication products, morphology control of particles, nanoparticle formation.
Research Activities
- Scale in the alumina process (part of AJ Parker CRC for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions)
- Barium sulfate precipitation
Biography
- BSc (Hons) in Chemistry awarded by the University of Sydney in NSW in 1989. My honours project was "The Mechanism of Second Harmonic Generation in Germanium Doped Optical Fibres". Dr M. Sceats was my supervisor.
- 1990 - 1994 Experimental Scientist with the CSIRO Division of Mineral Products (now Division of Minerals)
- 1995 - Oct 1997 PhD studies at the Curtin University of Technology in conjunction with the AJ Parker CRC for Hydrometallurgy. My thesis title was "The Mechanism of Bayer Residue Flocculation". My supervisors were Dr. J. Farrow from CSIRO and Dr. B. van Bronswijk from Curtin University of Technology.
- Oct 1998 - Jan 2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfacial Science, Golm, Germany. I worked with Dr. Helmut Cölfen in the Colloid department, Biomineralisation group.
Selected Publications
- S. Piana, F. Jones and J. D. Gale (2006), "Assisted desolvation as a key kinetic step for crystal growth", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(41) 13568-13574.
- F. Jones, W. R. Richmond, A. L. Rohl (2006) "Molecular modelling of phosphonate molecules onto barium sulfate terraced surfaces" J. Phys. Chem., 110, 7414-7424.
- F. Jones, W. R. Richmond, A. L. Rohl (2006) "Molecular modelling of phosphonate molecules onto barium sulfate terraced surfaces" in press J. Phys. Chem., March issue
- F. Jones, M. I. Ogden, G. M. Parkinson, A. L. Rohl (2005), "Comparison of the effect inhibitors have on an isostructural pair of salts", CrystEngComm,7(52), 320-323.
- F. Jones, M. Mocerino, M. I. Ogden, A. Oliveira and G. M. Parkinson (2005), "Bio-Inspired calix[4]arene additives for crystal growth modification of inorganic materials" Cryst Growth & Design, 5(6), 2336-2343.
- F. Jones, A. Oliveira, G. M. Parkinson, A. L. Rohl, A. Stanley, T. Upson(2004) "The effect of calcium ions on the precipitation of barium sulphate 1: calcium ions in the absence of organic additive", J. Crystal Growth, 262, 572-580.
- F. Jones, A. Oliveira, G. M. Parkinson, A. L. Rohl, A. Stanley, T. Upson (2004), "The effect of calcium ions on the precipitation of barium sulphate 2: calcium ions in the presence of organic additives", J. Crystal Growth, 270, 593-603.
- F. Jones, A. Stanley, A. Oliveira, A. L. Rohl, M. M. Reyhani, G. M. Parkinson, M. I. Ogden (2003) "The role of phosphonate speciation on the inhibition of barium sulfate precipitation" J. Crystal Growth, 249, 584 -593.
- F. Jones, J. Clegg, A. Oliveira, A. L. Rohl, M. I. Ogden, G. M. Parkinson, A. M. Fogg, M. M. Reyhani (2001) "Anomalous behaviour within a systematic series of barium sulfate growth modifiers", CrystEngComm, 40, 1-3.
- F Jones, H. Cölfen, M. Antonietti (2000) "Iron oxyhydroxide-colloids stabilized with polysaccharides", Colloid Polm. Sci., 278, 491-501.
- F. Jones, H. Cölfen, M. Antonietti (2000) "Interaction of k-carrageenan with nickel, cobalt and iron hydroxides", Biomacromolecules, 1, 556-563.
- F. Jones, A.L. Rohl, J.B. Farrow and W. van Bronswijk (2000) "Molecular Modelling of Water Adsorption on Hematite", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2, 3209-3216.
