Dr Sam Duyker

Staff Profile

Role at ANSTO

Sam Duyker joined the Bragg Institute in August 2011 to work within the Neutrons for the Hydrogen Economy Project. In collaboration with researchers at CSIRO, the CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, UNSW, Sydney, Adelaide, Monash and Melbourne Universities, he will be using neutron diffraction to investigate the gas absorption behaviour of porous metal-organic frameworks.

The information garnered from these experiments will help our collaborators improve the performance of these materials in applications such as carbon dioxide capture and conversion, hydrogen storage, and gas separations. Sam’s PhD work with Prof. Cameron Kepert at the University of Sydney and Dr Vanessa Peterson at ANSTO focused on the negative thermal expansion properties of coordination framework materials.

The use of neutrons was vital to understanding the mechanisms behind this unusual phenomenon, and Sam visited several major international facilities including OPAL, ISIS, LANSCE, the Advanced Photon Source and the Australian Synchrotron. He has experience with a wide array of experimental and modelling techniques for materials characterisation, along with considerable expertise in handling air-sensitive samples.
 

Qualifications & Achievements

• BSc (Hons I), The University of Sydney, 2007.
• Student Poster Award, 25th Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand, April 2007
• ANSTO-University of Sydney Joint Postgraduate Scholarship, 2007
• PhD in Chemistry, The University of Sydney, 2011.