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Rob Atkin is a physical chemist with diverse research interests that span fundamental to applied areas including ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents, surfactant and polymer adsorption, surface coatings, lubricants, electrolytes, production of biofuels from coal and biomass, microencapsulation, preparation of 2D materials, protein droplet formation in cells. Atkin makes extensive use of cutting edge facilities in the UWA Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, such as atomic force microscopy and external radiation scattering facilities such as ANSTO and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, and has collaborations with academics and industry partners in Australia and internationally.
Keywords
- Energy
- Mining and Resources
- Transport
- Agriculture and Food
- Surface science
- Physical chemistry
- Tribology
- lubrication
- Ionic liquids
- Deep eutectic solvents
- Biofuels
- Coatings
- Materials science
- Surfactants
- Polymers
- Particles
- Electrolytes
- Encapsulation
- Emulsions
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Projects 2018 2020
Ionic Liquids for Scalable Production of Monolayer 2D Materials
Atkin, R., Warr, G., Tabor, R. & Padua, A.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Bio-inspired ionic liquid solvents for biomass refining
Atkin, R., Li, H., Zhang, D., Simmons, B., Warr, G., Imberti, S. & Dutta, T.
University of Western Australia
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Research Output 2000 2019
Progress on the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass employing ionic liquids
Halder, P., Kundu, S., Patel, S., Setiawan, A., Atkin, R., Parthasarthy, R., Paz-Ferreiro, J., Surapaneni, A. & Shah, K., 1 May 2019, In : Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 105, p. 268-292 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Ionic liquids
Biomass
Lignin
Vapor pressure
Feedstocks
Amphiphilically Nanostructured Deep Eutectic Solvents
McDonald, S., Murphy, T., Imberti, S., Warr, G. G. & Atkin, R., 19 Jul 2018, In : Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9, 14, p. 3922-3927 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
eutectics
Eutectics
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Ionic Liquids
Nanostructures
Ionic Liquid Adsorption at the Silica-Oil Interface Revealed by Neutron Reflectometry
Cooper, P. K., Li, H., Yepuri, N. R., Nelson, A., Webber, G. B., Le Brun, A. P., Darwish, T. A., Warr, G. G. & Atkin, R., 25 Oct 2018, In : Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122, 42, p. 24077-24084 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Ionic Liquids
Ionic liquids
Silicon Dioxide
Neutrons
Oils
Low cost ionic liquid-water mixtures for effective extraction of carbohydrate and lipid from algae
To, T. Q., Procter, K., Simmons, B. A., Subashchandrabose, S. & Atkin, R., 1 Jan 2018, In : Faraday Discussions. 206, p. 93-112 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Ionic Liquids
carbohydrates
algae
Algae
lipids
Nanostructured ionic liquids and their solutions: Recent advances and emerging challenges
Jiang, H. J., Atkin, R. & Warr, G. G., 1 Aug 2018, In : Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 12, p. 27-32 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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