Prof Don Kearley
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Prof Don Kearley has a fair experience of most neutron-scattering techniques, particularly inelastic and quasielastic methods. Currently most of his work is in providing modelling support for the neutron scattering activities of scientists at the Bragg institute and elsewhere, which is usually in the form of understanding the underlying mechanism in function.
Previous positions
- Neutron Scattering Group Leader, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
- Chair of Radiation Physics at Delft University of Technology where he was also head of the Neutron Scattering and Mossbauer Spectroscopy Department at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute
- Head of the then newly formed Scientific-Computing group at ILL
- Instrument responsible for the cold neutron time-of-flight spectrometer, IN5, at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble
- PhD from the University of East Anglia
Publications
Mohamed Zbiri, Mark R. Johnson, Gordon J. Kearley and Fokko M. Mulder, Density functional calculations of potential energy surface and charge transfer integrals in molecular triphenylene derivative HAT6 Theor. Chem. Acc 125 445-451 (2010).
V. K. Peterson, G. J. Kearley, Y. Wu, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, E. Kemner, and C. J. Kepert, Local Vibrational Mechanism for Negative Thermal Expansion: A Combined Neutron Scattering and First-Principles Study, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 49(3), 585-588 (2010).
M. Zbiri, M. R. Johnson, L. Haverkate, F. M. Mulder and G. J. Kearley, Molecular Modelling of Ground and Excited-States Vibrations in Organic Conducting Devices: Hexakis(n-hexytoxy)triphenylene (HAT6) as Case Study. Aus. J. Chem., 63, 388 (2010).
G. J. Kearley and M. R. Johnson, Vibrational Spectroscopy with Neutrons Where Are We Now? J. Vibspec. 53, 54-59 (2010).
Kruglova O, Mulder FM, Kearley GJ, Picken SJ , Stride JA, Paraschiv I, Zuilhof H Dispersive kinetics in discotic liquid crystals. Phys. Rev. E 82 5 051703 (2010)
Bartkowiak M, Kearley GJ, Yethiraj M, Mulders AM Symmetry of ferroelectric phase of SrTi18O3 determined by ab initio calculations Phys. Rev. B 83 6 064102 (2011).
Peterson Vanessa K.; Shoko Elvis; Kearley Gordon J. The effect of host relaxation and dynamics on guest molecule dynamics in H(2)/tetrahydrofuran-hydrate Faraday Discussions, 151 37-46 (2011).
Chan WK, Haverkate LA, Borghols WJH , Wagemaker M, Picken SJ, van Eck ERH, Kentgens APM, Johnson MR, Kearley GJ, Mulder FM Direct View on Nanoionic Proton Mobility Advanced Functional Materials 21 8 1364-1374 (2011).
W. Miiller, M. Avdeev, Q. Zhou, A. J. Studer, Andrew, B. J.Kennedy, G. J. Kearley, C. D. Ling, Spin-gap opening accompanied by a strong magnetoelastic response in the S=1 magnetic dimer system Ba3BiRu2O9 Phys. Rev. B 84, 22, 406-406 (2011).
Lucas A. Haverkate, Mohamed Zbiri, Mark R. Johnson, Bruno Deme, Fokko M. Mulder, and Gordon J. Kearley Conformation, Defects, and Dynamics of a Discotic Liquid Crystal and Their Influence on Charge Transport J. Phys. Chem B 115, 13809 13816 (2011).
Miiller, W, Avdeev, M, Zhou, QD, Kennedy, BJ, Sharma, N, Kutteh, R, Kearley, GJ, Schmid, S, Knight, KS, Blanchard, Ling, CD, Giant Magnetoelastic Effect at the Opening of a Spin-Gap in Ba3BiIr2O9, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134 3265-3270 (2012)
Kearley, GJ, Stare, J, Kutteh, R, Daemen, LL, Hartl, MA, Eckert, J, Methyl Dynamics Flattens Barrier to Proton Transfer in Crystalline Tetraacetylethane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 116 2283-2291 (2012).