Associate Professor Craig Buckley.
Brief CV: Associate Professor Buckley is a Lecturer/Researcher and Post Graduate
Coordinator in the Department of Applied Physics at Curtin University
of Technology.
Associate Professor Buckley was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in
1993 to conduct Postdoctoral research in the UK. In 1998 he was awarded
a 5 year Curtin University Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2000 he was
awarded The Dean's Medallion for Emerging Research Effort in the
Discipline of Science at Curtin University. In the years 2000 to
2002 Associate Professor Buckley assumed the lead role in setting up
the SAXS Facility at Curtin University, the first of its kind in
Australia. He is a CI on a 2004 ARC Discovery grant ($435,000), a
2003 ARC Discovery grant ($160,000), a 2004 ARC LIEF grant ($400,000)
for Australian researchers access to advanced neutron beam techniques,
a 2001 ARC RIEF grant ($482,000) for a SAXS facility, a 2001 RIEF
grant for a portable neutron generator ($210,000), a WAPRC/ANSTO
research grant ($235,000), 3 small ARC grants ($34,647) and one CURG
grant ($10,000). He was also an Associate Investigator on a 2000
Large ARC grant ($144,629).
Brief summary of expertise and significant research achievements:
Associate Professor Buckley's major contribution to the MMSN network will be
his expertise in small angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS & SANS).
Small angle scattering is a powerful technique for determining particle
size distributions in bulk materials. He was awarded a 2001 RIEF grant,
worth $482,000 as First Chief Invesigator (CI), for the purpose of
purchasing a state-of-the-art SAXS instrument. The SAXS facility is in
the Department of Applied Physics at Curtin University, and has been
operating since early 2002. From 1994 to the present, he has been
successful on several occasions in being awarded beam-time for a range
of neutron and X-ray experiments at The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
(ORNL), USA, ISIS at The Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), UK,
The Institut Max von Laue - Paul Langevin (ILL), France, The Australian
National Beam Facility (ANBF), Japan, GKSS, Germany and ANSTO.
Since 1998, he has been a Chief Invesigator or Associate Investigator on the following awarded beam-time grants: 2 grants on LOQ at ISIS and 2 ultra small angle scattering (USANS) grants at NIST, several Australian Institute of Nuclear Science (AINSE) grants ($205,000) for SANS, diffraction, NMR and SIMS experiments, 3 AINSE Post Graduate Research awards as University supervisor or co-supervisor ($126,000) and 2 Australian Synchrotron Research grants ($10,500). Associate Professor Buckley has authored and co-authored 28 refereed journal publications (3 more have been submitted for publication), 21 refereed conference papers and 52 non-refereed conference papers and abstracts.
Associate Professor Buckley will contribute to the MMSN ARC Network by providing access to the W.A. SAXS facility and being involved in SAXS/SANS workshops and Summer Schools. There are only 2 SAXS instruments (with 2-D detectors) of this type in Australia (the other is at RMIT). At the W.A. SAXS Facility we not only collect SAXS data, but also have the modelling capabilities to analyse the data. Therefore it would be of benefit to researchers from the eastern states to be able to access the instrument and the data modelling expertise.
International linkages:
Dr. Carrington from Bristol University, U.K and Dr. John Cooper,
Cambridge University, U.K , concerning high temperature superconductors
(HTSC). Production of high quality ceramic crucibles for HTSC
single crystal growth.
Prof. Howard Birnbaum, University of Illinois, USA, and Prof Keith Ross, Salford University UK. Hydrogen Storage systems.
Students and postdocs likely to be involved in or use
the Network:
Post Doctoral Researchers: Dr. Joan Connolly, Dr. Rob Hart, Dr. Nigel Kirby.
PhD Students:
Clinton Maitland, Drew Sheppard, Kat Kealley, Karsten Winter.
Website:
http://www.physics.curtin.edu.au/staff_personal/buckleyc/craigBuckley.htm
Relevant grants:
| 2000-2002 | Low, Lawn & Buckley, ARC Large, $144,269. |
| 2003-2004 | De Marco, Buckley & Rohl, ARC Discovery,$160,000. |
| 2004-2006 | Parkinson, St. Pierre, Buckley, Cowley and Wright, ARC Discovery, $435,000 |
| 2004 | AINSE, Gray et al.,ARC (LIEF), DISR and universities,$400,000. |
| 2001 | Buckley, O'Connor, St.Pierre, Middleton & Thurgate., ARC RIEF (total - all contributions),$482,000. |
| 2001 | Middleton, Powell, Buckley, Dyskin & Joer, ARC RIEF (total - all contributions), $210,000. |
| 2002-2004 | Buckley, Edwards, Knott & Hanley, ANSTO/WAPRC, $235,300. |
| 1999 | Buckley, Low & van Riessen, ARC Small, $9,147. |
| 2000 | Buckley, Rohl & O'Connor, ARC Small, $12,200. |
| 2003 | Buckley & Rohl, CUTSG (ARC small), $13,300. |
| 1999 | Van Riessen & Buckley, Curtin University Research Grant, $10,000. |
| 1999-2003 | Buckley et al., AINSE, ASRP, DISR, $215,524. |
| 2000-2003 | Buckley & van Riessen, AINSE Post Graduate Awards, $125,595. |
| 1999 2000 | Buckley, Curtin Research Award, $15,000. |
Relevant publications:
1. Stability of the Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Plateaux in
LaNi5-H. Part 5: H CAPACITY. T. Blach, E.MacA. Gray and C.E. Buckley.
J. Alloys and Compds., 292-293, 57-61, 1999.
2. Calculation of the Radial Distribution Function of Bubbles
in the Aluminum Hydrogen System. C.E. Buckley, H.K. Birnbaum, D. Bellmann
and P.Staron. J. Alloys and Compds., 292-293, 231-236 1999.
3. Modelling the Liquid Infiltration Kinetics in Alumina Preforms.
C.E. Buckley, P. Manurung and I.M. Low. J. Aust. Ceram. Soc. 36, 127-134, 2000.
4. Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction Characterisation of
Corrosion Deposits Induced by Carbon Dioxide on Mild Steel. S. Sembiring,
B. O'Connor, D. Li, C.E. Buckley, I. Low and R. De Marco.
Advances in X-ray Analysis 43, 319-325, 2000.
5. Characterisation of H-Defects in the Aluminium-Hydrogen System
using Small Angle Scattering Techniques. C.E. Buckley, H.K. Birnbaum,
J.S. Lin, S. Spooner, D. Bellmann, P. Staron, T.J. Udovic and E. Hollar.
J. Appl. Cryst. 34, 119-129, 2001.
6. A Computational Investigation of the Structure of k-Alumina
using Interatomic Potentials. G. Paglia, A.Rohl, C.E. Buckley and
J.D. Gale. Journal of Materials Chemistry 11, 3310-3316, 2001.
7. Phase Compositions and Depth-Profiling of Calcium Aluminates
in a Functionally-Graded Al2O3-CA6 Composite. D. Asmi, I.M. Low,
B.H. O'Connor and C.E. Buckley.
Journal of Materials Processing Technology 118, 219-224, 2001.
8. Characterisation of the Charging Techniques used to introduce
Hydrogen in Aluminium. C.E. Buckley and H.K. Birnbaum. J. Alloys and
Compds. 330-332, 649-653, 2002.
9. Diagnostic X-ray Dosimetry using Monte Carlo Simulation.
J.L. Ioppolo, R.I. Price, T. Tuchyna and C.E. Buckley. Physics in
Medicine and Biology, 47, 1707 - 1720, 2002.
10. Towards the Determination of the Structure of g-Alumina.
G. Paglia, C.E. Buckley, A. Rohl and L. Byrne, J. Aust. Ceram. Soc,
38, 92-98, 2002.
11. Compressive Strength and Microstructural Character of
Aluminosilicate Geopolymers. Subaer, A. van Riessen, B.H. O'Connor
and C.E. Buckley. J. Aust. Ceram. Soc.38, 83-86, 2002.
12. SAXS Studies on Lanthanum-Doped Mesoporous Alumina, M. Singh
and C.E. Buckley. J. Aust. Ceram. Soc,38, 87-91, 2002.
13. A New Structural Model for Boehmite-derived g-Alumina.
G. Paglia, C.E. Buckley, A.L. Rohl, B.A. Hunter, R.D. Hart, J.V. Hanna
and L.T. Byrne. Phys. Rev. B., 68, 144110-1 - 144110-11, 2003.
14. The boehmite-derived g-alumina system I: structural evolution
with temperature, with the identification and structural determination
of a new transition phase, g'-alumina. G. Paglia, C.E. Buckley,
A.L. Rohl, R.D. Hart, K. Winter, A.J. Studer, B.A. Hunter, and
J.V. Hanna. Chemistry of Materials, 16, 220-236, 2004.
15. Delamination and Re-assembly of Surfactant-Containing Li/Al
Layered Double Hydroxides. M. Singh, M.I. Ogden, G.M. Parkinson,
C.E. Buckley and J. Connolly. Journal of Materials Chemistry,
14, 871 - 874, 2004.
16. Determination of the size and ordering of pores in mesoporous
silica using small angle neutron scattering. J. Connolly, M. Singh
and C.E. Buckley. Physica B., in press (accepted November 2003).
17. Evidence of the Iron Nanostructure in the Fex(Ge28Sb12Se60)100-x
Glass Ion-Selective Electrode using Small Angle Neutron Scattering and
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. B. Pejcic, R. De Marco,
C.E. Buckley, C.F. Maitland and R. Knott. Talanta, in press
(accepted November 2003).
18. The boehmite-derived g-alumina system, 2: consideration of
hydrogen and surface." G. Paglia, C.E. Buckley, T.J. Udovic,
A.L. Rohl, F. Jones, C.F. Maitland, and J. Connolly. Journal of The
Chemistry of Materials., in press (accepted March 2004).
