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Prof Don Kearley

Kearley,_D_150.jpgNeutron scattering group leader

Phone +61 (0)2 9717 7274
Email Gordon.Kearley@ansto.gov.au

Prof Don Kearley provides strategic and scientific leadership to the group of scientists at the Bragg Institute. Conception of research projects, and ensuring development and productivity of the scientific team and its resources, particularly with respect to the neutron scattering activities.

Don's areas of expertise include neutron scattering, molecular modelling, numerical methods and energy materials.

Don received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in the field of solid-state phase transitions and molecular spectroscopy. After a short post-doctoral period he moved to the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble where he became instrument responsible for the cold neutron time-of-flight spectrometer, IN5. He later became head of the newly formed Scientific-Computing group at ILL before moving to the chair of Radiation Physics at Delft University of Technology where he was also head of the Neutron Scattering and M?ssbauer Spectroscopy Department at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute. He moved to The Bragg Institute as Neutron Scattering Group Leader in October 2006.

Qualifications and achievements

  • Chair of Radiation Physics at Delft University of Technology where he was also head of the Neutron Scattering and M?ssbauer 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

Key Publications

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, G. J. Kearley, and F. M. Mulder, Density functional calculations of potential energy surface and charge transfer integrals in molecular triphenylene derivative HAT(6), Theor. Chem. Acc. 125, 445-451 (2010).

G. J. Thorogood, B. J. Kennedy, V. K. Peterson, M. M. Elcombe, G. J. Kearley, J. V. Hanna, and V. Luca, Anomalous lattice parameter increase in alkali earth aluminium substituted tungsten defect pyrochlores, J. Solid State Chem. 182, 457-464 (2009).   (1st paper from WOMBAT)

F. Fontaine-Vive, F. Merzel, M. R. Johnson, and G. J. Kearley, Collagen and component polypeptides: Low frequency and amide vibrations, Chem. Phys., 355(2-3), 141-148 (2009).

C. E. White, J. L. Provis, D. P. Riley, G. J. Kearley, and J. S. J. van Deventer, What Is the Structure of Kaolinite? Reconciling Theory and Experiment, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113(19), 6756-6765 (2009).

M. Wagemaker, W. J. H. Borghols, E. R. H. van Eck, A. P. M. Kentgens, G. J. Kearley, and F. M. Mulder, The Influence of Size on Phase Morphology and Li-Ion Mobility in Nanosized Lithiated Anatase TiO2, Chem.Eur. J., 13(7), 2023-2028 (2007).

G. J. Kearley, M. R. Johnson, J. Tomkinson. "Intermolecular interactions in solid benzene." J. Chem. Phys 124, 044514 (2006).

F. Fontaine-Vive, M. R. Johnson, and G. J. Kearley. "How phonons govern the behavior of short, strong hydrogen bonds in urea-phosphoric acid." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 2963 (2006).

F. Fontaine-Vive, M. R. Johnson, G. J. Kearley, J. A. Cowan, J. A. K. Howard and S. F. Parker, "Phonon-driven proton transfer in crystals with short hydrogen bonds." J. Chem. Phys., 124 234503 (2006).

N. Iqbal, N. H. van Dijk, S. E. offerman, M. Moret, L. Katergman and G. J. Kearley. "Microscopic view on grain nucleation and growth kinetics during solidification of aluminium alloys." Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 840, 7121, (2005).

F. C. Grozema, A. S. Best, L. van Eijck, J. Stride, G. J. Kearley, S. W. de Leeuw and S. J. Picken. "Dynamics and lithium binding energies of polyelectrolytes based on functionalized Poly(para-phenylene terephthalamide)." J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 7705 (2005).

N. Iqbal, N. H. van Dijk, S. E. Offerman, M. P. Moret, L. Katergman and G. J. Kearley. "Real-time observation of grain nucleation and growth during solidification of aluminium alloys." Acta Materialia, 53, 2875 (2005).

Special issue, Chemical Physics "Combining Simulations and Neutron Scattering Experiments: from Models to Systems of Biological and Technological Interest" Edited by M. Gonzalez, M. Johnson, G.J. Kearley and T. Mounir, 317, Issues 2-3, 111-318 (2005).

F.M. Mulder, T.J. Dingemans, M. Wagemaker and G.J. Kearley. "Modelling of hydrogen adsorption in the metal organic framework MOF5." Chemical Physics 317, 113 (2005).

H. G. Schimmel, G. J. Kearley, J. Huot, and F. M. Mulder. "Hydrogen diffusion in magnesium metal (alpha phase) studied by ab initio computer simulations." Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 404, 235 (2005).

Lambert van Eijck , Adam S. Best, John Stride, Gordon J. Kearley. "Softening of the potential-energy surface in polymer electrolytes on the addition of nanoparticles." Chemical Physics 317, 282 (2005).