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Dr Alan Buckley

 

Alan Norman Buckley

B.Sc.(Hons) Syd., Ph.D. Monash
Professor (adjunct), Surface Science & Technology
E-mail: a.buckley@unsw.edu.au

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Ph.D. in solid state physics, 1971. Senior Teaching Fellow in chemistry at Monash University, 1970-1975. CSIRO 1975-1998; Senior Principal Research Scientist in Energy Technology from 1992. At UNSW since July 1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy to fundamental aspects of minerals processing and materials utilisation. Sulfide mineral flotation and hydrometallurgy. Coal preparation. The forms of nitrogen and sulfur in bituminous coals and their pyrolysis products. Industrial carbon materials.

For more details please see the Surface Science and Technology Group web pages.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • The initial products of the anodic oxidation of galena in acidic solution and the influence of mineral stoichiometry. I.J. Kartio, K. Laajalehto, E.J. Suoninen, A.N. Buckley, R. Woods. Colloids Surfaces, 133 (1998) 303-311.
  • Surface chemical analysis in coal preparation research: complementary information from XPS and ToF-SIMS. A.N. Buckley, R.N. Lamb. Int. J. Coal Geol. 32 (1996) 87-106.
  • Identifying chemisorption in the interaction of thiol collectors with sulfide minerals by XPS: adsorption of xanthate on silver and silver sulfide. A.N. Buckley, R. Woods, Colloids Surfaces, 104 (1995) 295-305.
  • Measurement of an intrinsic softening temperature for coal-tar pitch by proton magnetic resonance thermal analysis. J. Cao, A.N. Buckley, L.J. Lynch. Carbon, 32 (1994) 493-497.
  • A survey of the application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to flotation research. A. N. Buckley. Colloids Surfaces, 93 (1994) 159-172.
  • Nitrogen functionality in coals and coal-tar pitch determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. A.N. Buckley. Fuel Processing Technology, 38 (1994) 165-179.
  • The surface composition of natural sphalerites under oxidative leaching conditions. A.N. Buckley, H.J. Wouterlood, R. Woods. Hydrometallurgy, 22 (1989) 39-56.