Emeritus Professor, RMIT University
Editor (Asia and Australasia) - Colloids and Surfaces A (Elsevier)
Nano-chemistry, Environmental Management (inc solar energy)
PhD – University of West London (UK), 1975
Fellow - Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
post-doctoral positions : Brunel University, UK (1975), ETH Zurich (1976-1978), Uni of Melbourne (1978 to 1981)
CSIRO – 1981 to 1999 – ending as Chief Research Scientist/Program Manager
Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), RMIT University, 1999 to 2008
● ca 120 Refereed Journal Research Papers
● 4 Patents (adhesives, surface cleaners and biosensors) – 1978 to 2002
● more than 100 Technical Reports to Industrial partners while at CSIRO
● technology training courses for research partners in industry in Australia, the UK and China
● ca 24 invited Keynote International Conference Presentations – since 1986
● over 100 invited Research Seminars in Australia and elsewhere – since 1980
● supervision to successful completion of 6 PhD and 3 BSc(Hons) students
● actively developed an Australia/Japan exchange program in colloid science. This collaboration has led to 10 bi-annual Conferences (alternating between Australia and Japan) which from 2004 are formally endorsed by both the Australian and Japanese national colloid Divisions.
● co-ordinator of Australia/Vietnam and Australia/India Institutional Research Partnerships Program on behalf of RMIT University and the Australia/China NanoNetwork, on behalf of the Australian Technology Network.
Since returning to the research domain in late 2008 I am interested in using my past experience in nano-science research and research management to build collaborative research that will lead to the enhanced exploitation of nanomaterials and their special properties towards the environmental management and renewable energy sectors. I will work to build key features into such ‘nano-teams’ around (1) co-operation across potential discipline divides and (2) the development of graduate students towards the better understandings of the challenges behind some of the ‘big research questions’ in our areas of focus. Undoubtedly such understandings will only develop when graduate students are enabled to be actively involved in the international dimensions of the research areas that interest them.
D.N. Furlong
“Quartz Crystal Microgravimetry”, Chapter in “Modern Characterization in
Surfactant Systems”
ed B.P. Binks, Surfactant Science Series, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1999, pp 479
- 517
David .J. Elliot, Karen Grieve, D.Neil Furlong and Franz Grieser
“Preparation of Metal Chalcogenides in LB Films” , pp 610 - 645
Chapter in “Fine Particles : Synthesis, Characterization and Mechanisms of
Growth”(Surfactant Science Series 92), Ed. T. Sugimoto, Marcel Dekker ,
September 2000
K. Grieve, F. Grieser and D. Neil Furlong
"Formation of Nanoparticles in Organised Amphiphilic Films"
in Reactions and Synthesis in Surfactant Systems (J. Texter, Ed),
Marcel Dekker, Chapter 32, pp 639-665,2001
D.J. Elliot, K. Grieve, D.N.Furlong and F.Grieser
“Preparation of Q-State Particles in Langmuir-Blodgett Films”
Advances in Colloid and Interface Science , 91, 113 (2001)