Assistant Dean (Research)
Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Queensland University of Technology
Materials and Device Engineering
1986 - PhD in Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales
1981 - BSc in Physics (1st Class Honours), University of Sydney
2005 – present, Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
2003 – 2004, Director, Centre for BEE Research
2000 – 2003, Assistant Dean, Research, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, QUT
2001 – 2003, Program Co-Leader, Environmental Sustainability, CRC for Construction Innovation
1997 – 2001, Project Leader, Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy
1996 – 2004, Associate Professor in Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering at QUT
1994 – 1996, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology (half-time appointment)
1994 – 1996, Associate Professor in Applied Physics at UTS/Director Centre for Materials Technology
● Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, since 1998
● Chartered Professional Engineer
● Australian Institute of Physics
● Chairman of the New South Wales Branch, 1994
● Member of New South Wales Branch Committee, 1989-94
● Member of National Accreditation Committee of the AIP, 1992- 1996
● Member of the Australian Ceramics Society
● Member of the Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation and Engineering (United States)
● Member of the American Physical Society
● Member of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society (ANZSES)
• Modelling and simulation of charge transport in DSC and of DSC arrays
• Optimisation of materials for DSC, including recent research on improving light harvesting in DSC using mixed-sized particles.
• I have been collaborating with Dyesol, an Australian company leading in the development of DSC materials and products, and have received significant funding for experimental development of DSC materials over the past 3 years, including an ARC Linkage Project Grant (LP0776643), which focusses on counter-electrode materials.
• This began with leadership of a major ($1.8 million) project developing a sol-gel-based electrochromic device, which lead to the production of 0.3x0.9m prototypes by the Industry Partner, and established my international reputation in glazing research.
• Seminal work on the impact of electrochromic glazing on thermal and visual comfort of occupants in buildings
• Leadership of the Building Energy Efficiency program in the Australian CRC for Renewable Energy (1996-2000).
• Leadership of a project on Productivity and Health in Buildings in the CRC for Construction Innovation, 2003
• New work conducted in ARC LP0235814 on the characterization of thin film carbon materials has shown the critical importance of using UV-Raman excitation to probe the sp3 bonding in the materials
• With, others. I have also demonstrated polymer wrapping of carbon
nanotubes
Development of a novel atmospheric pressure arc discharge process utilising
liquid precursors for deposition of carbon and titania thin films
J.M. Bell, J.P. Matthews and I.L. Skryabin, "Smart Windows", Chapter in Encyclopaedia of Smart Materials (revised edition), Schwarz (ed), John Wiley & Sons (New York), 2008
Michele Giulianini, Eric Waclawick, John Bell and Nunzio Motta, Current-Voltage characteristics of Poly(3-hexyl-thiophene) diodes at room temperature, Appl. Phys. Lett., accepted for publication (4 February 2009)
Roland G.S. Goh, John M. Bell, Nunzio Motta, Peter K.-H. Ho and Eric R. Waclawik, p-Channel, n-Channel and ambipolar field-effect transistors based on functionalized carbon nanotube networks, Superlattices and Microstructures, in press, doi:10.1016/j.spmi.2008.12.027
Chun-Chih Lai, Nunzio Motta, John M. Bell, Atomic force microscopy measurements of bovine serum albumin adhesion forces on surfaces, Int. J. Nanoscience, accepted for publication, 17 September 2008
Thierry Paulmier, John M. Bell, Peter M. Fredericks, Plasma electrolytic deposition of titanium dioxide nanorods and nano-particles, J. Materials Processing Technology, 208, 117-123 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2007.12.101