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Dr Catherine Kealley

Kealley,_C_150.jpgPost-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Food Science Project

Phone +61 (0)2 9717 7221
Email  Catherine.Kealley@ansto.gov.au

Dr Catherine Kealley uses small angle scattering and other techniques to study the crystal structure of ?dry proteins?.

Catherine's expertise includes powder diffraction and small angle neutron scattering techniques

Although she has been visiting ANSTO for the past four years as an AINSE Post-Graduate Research Student, Catherine officially joined the Bragg Institute in April 2006, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Food Science Project.

Qualifications and achievements

  • PhD from the University Technology, Sydney. Her research focused on the production of a composite material - carbon nanotube reinforced synthetic hydroxyapatite. This material is potentially biocompatible and could be used in such applications as artificial hip joints and other surgical implants
  • BSc(Hons) Applied Physics from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia.

Key Publications

Kealley, C., Elcombe, M., van Riessen, A., and Ben-Nissan, B. (2005), Development of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics, Physica B, In Press.

Lewis, K., Kealley, C., Elcombe, M., van Riessen, A., and Ben-Nissan, B. (2005), Neutron Diffraction Comparison of Bone Derived and Synthetic Hydroxyapatite, Journal of the Australasian Ceramic Society, 41(2), p52-55.

Kealley, C., Ben-Nissan, B., van Riessen, A., and Elcombe, M. (2005), Development of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics, Key Engineering Materials, 309-311, p597-600.

Kealley, C., Elcombe, M., van Riessen, A., and Ben-Nissan, B. (2005), Neutron Characterisation of Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics, Key Engineering Materials, 309-311, p61-64.