Senior Lecturer, Nanochemistry Research Institute
Curtin University
Precipitation-based nanoparticle synthesis
Iron oxide chemistry
Electron microscopy
Crystallisation control
Particle morphology control
PhD(Chemistry), University of Western Australia, 1993.
BSc(Hons), University of Western Australia, 1988.
● Senior Lecturer, Curtin University of Technology, Applied Chemistry, 2005- present
● Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology, Applied Chemistry, 2001- 2005
● Research Chemist, Sirtex Medical Ltd, 1999 - 2001
Dr Richmond has held a number of research positions including a fellowship in France at the Université de Nancy in 1994. From 1999-2001, Bill was Research Chemist at Sirtex Medical Ltd., a medical research and development company that is developing and commercializing innovative treatments for liver cancer. While at Sirtex, the developed synthetic methods for the production of magnetic nanoparticles used in a novel hyperthermia treatment for liver cancer. Dr Richmond is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Curtin University, and Course Coordinator for the BSc(Nanotechnology) degree.
His more resent research activities lie in the field of materials chemistry, with a particular emphasis on the control of nanoparticle formation in precipitation reactions. Current work is aimed at understanding the mechanisms of crystallisation that give rise to unique morphologies in common nanoparticle synthesis methods. This work is of particular importance in the development of synthetic methods for the production of functional nanoparticles.
S. Sperinck, T. Becker, K. Wright and W. R. Richmond, “Synthesis and characterisation of lamellar ZnS nanosheets containing intercalated diamines”, J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem. Accepted.
J. G. Hockridge, F. Jones, M. Loan and W. R. Richmond, “An electron microscopy study of the crystal growth of schwertmannite needles through oriented aggregation of goethite nanocrystals”, J. Cryst. Growth, 311, 2009, 3876-3882
Dale Carroll and William R. Richmond, “Incorporation of Molybdate Anion into β−FeOOH”, Amer. Mineral, 93, 2008, 1641-1646.
U. Aschauer, F, Jones, W. R. Richmond, P. Bowen, A. L. Rohl, G. M. Parkinson and H. Hofmann., “Growth modification of hematite by phosphonate additives,” J. Cryst. Growth, 310, 2008, 688-698.
Franca Jones, Phillip Jones, William R. Richmond, Andrew L. Rohl and Mark I. Ogden, “The interaction of EDTA with barium sulfate,” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 316, 2007, 553-561.
“Effect of benzoic acids on barite and calcite precipitation,” Sandra R. Freeman, Franca Jones, Mark I. Ogden, Allan Oliveira and William R. Richmond., Cryst. Growth Design, 6, 2006, 2579-2587.
Franca Jones, William R. Richmond and Andrew L. Rohl, "Molecular modelling of phosphonate molecules onto barium sulfate terraced surfaces." J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 2006, 7414-7424.