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Staff Profile

  John Wells
BSc(Hons) Adelaide, PhD ANU, DipEd Monash, GradDipComp La Trobe FRACI
Associate Professor

Room Location: Applied Science 1, Room 4.14
Ph: 5444 7371
Fx: 5444 7476
Email: j.wells@latrobe.edu.au


Teaching Responsibilities
  General chemistry
  Physical and analytical chemistry
  Colloid and polymer chemistry

Research Interests
  Adsorption of heavy metals and organic compounds to mineral surfaces, and implications for their availability in natural environments.
  Chemistry of surfaces implicated in foam formation in wastewater treatment plants.
  Interaction of endocrine disrupting chemicals with particulate solids.

Higher Degree Supervision
 

Current: Daniel Bennet (PhD), Jacqui Heard (PhD), Ali Shareef (PhD), Tristan Van Emmerik (PhD)

Completed: Michael Angove (PhD), Jaslin Ikhsan (MAppSc, PhD), Kurt Lakovic (PhD), Anthony Natoli (MAppSc), Lynne Muss (MAppSc), Craig Parnis (PhD), Darren Rodda (MAppSc), Kaye Spark (PhD), Lorraine Staehr (MAppSc)


Recent Publications
 

Ikhsan, J., Johnson, B.B., Wells, J.D. and Angove, M.J. Adsorption of aspartic acid on kaolinite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2004) 274, 1-5.

Ikhsan, J., Wells, J.D., Johnson, B.B. and Angove, M.J. The effect of aspartic acid on the binding of transition metals to kaolinite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2004) 273, 6-13.

Shareef, A. Parnis, C.J., Angove, M.J., Wells, J.D. and Johnson, B.B. Suitability of N,O-bis-(trimethylsilyl)-N-trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA) and N-(tert-butydimethylsilyl)-N-methyltrifluoroacetamide (MTBSTFA) as derivatisation reagents for the determination of the estrogens estrone (E1) and 17 -ethinylestradiol (EE2) by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). Journal of Chromatography A (2004) 1026, 295-300.

Lackovic, K., Wells, J.D., Johnson, B.B. and Angove, M.J. Modelling the adsorption of Cd(II) onto Muloorina. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2004) 270, 86-93.

Lackovic, K., Angove, M.J.,Wells, J.D. and Johnson, B.B. Modelling the adsorption of Cd(II) onto goethite in the presence of citric acid. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2004) 269, 37-45.

Lackovic, K., Johnson, B.B., Angove, M.J. and Wells, J.D. and Modelling the adsorption of citric acid onto Muloorina illite and related clay minerals. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2003) 267, 49-59.

T. Van Emmerik, M.J. Angove, B.B. Johnson, J.D. Wells & M.B. Fernandes, Sorption of 17B-estradiol onto selected soil minerals. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2003) 266, 33-39.

M.B. Fernandes, J.O. Skjemstad, B.B. Johnson, J.D.. Wells & P. Brooks, Characterization of carbonaceous combustion residues. I. Morphological, elemental and spectroscopic features. Chemosphere (2003) 51, 785-795.

K. Lackovic, M.J. Angove, J.D. Wells, B.B. Johnson, Modeling the adsorption of Cd(II) onto Muloorina illite and related clay minerals. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2003) 257, 31-40.

R.G. Harris, J.D. Wells & B.B. Johnson, Selective adsorption of dyes and other organic molecules to kaolinite and oxide surfaces. Colloids and Surfaces A (2001) 180 131-140.

J.D. Wells, L.K. Koopal & A. de Keizer, Monodisperse, nonporous, spherical silica particles. Colloids and Surfaces A (2000) 166 171-176.

J. Ikhsan, B.B. Johnson & J.D. Wells, A comparative study of the adsorption of transition metals on kaolinite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (1999) 217, 403-410.

M.J. Angove, J.D. Wells & B.B. Johnson, The influence of temperature on the adsorption of cadmium(II) and cobalt(II) on goethite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (1999) 211, 281-290.

M.J. Angove, J.D. Wells & B.B. Johnson, Adsorption of cadmuim(II) onto goethite and kaolinite in the presence of benzene carboxylic acids. Colloids and Surfaces A (1999) 146, 243-251.


Professional Memberships
  Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
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