Role at ANSTO
Linggen is a senior research chemist working with Nuclear Fuel Cycle Research group. He joined ANSTO in January 2001 after obtaining Ph.D. from USyd. He was one of the founders of ANSTO’s subsidiary business unit, Ceramisphere, which was privatised in 2010. Since then, he has been developing a platform technology producing metal oxide ceramics and glass-ceramics with different crystal structures using soft chemistry route for various applications. He involved in 6 patents and has published about 60 journal articles since 2001.
Expertise
- Sol-gel science and technology, especially the ceramic particle synthesis
- Emulsion, colloid and interface science
- Synthesis ceramic nano and micron spheres via emulsion
- Encapsulation of active molecules in nano and micron spheres
- Controlled release of active molecules
- Radiolabelling of nanomaterials
- Nanoparticle properties, such as stability and suspension
- Synthesis crystal high density and homogeneity metal oxides using soft chemical approach
Design and synthesise inorganic ceramic materials with different crystal structure, composition, morphology and scales
Qualifications and Achievements
He joined ANSTO in 2001 after obtaining Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Sydney. He was one of the founders of ANSTO’s subsidiary business unit, Ceramisphere, which was privatised in 2010. In recent years, he has been developing a platform technology producing metal oxides and glass-ceramics with different crystal structures using a soft chemistry route for various applications. His expertise is to design and synthesise various types of inorganic ceramic materials. He was involved in 6 patents and has published about 50 journal articles since 2001.