Professor Tim White

Email: tim.white@anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 3543
Office: 032A

Current Research Interests

Tim White has over twenty years of experience in the design and demonstration of advanced materials for environmental, superconducting, ionic conductivity and hydrogen storage applications. His particular interests lie in tailoring ceramics at the atomic scale to develop or enhance particular properties. These studies have been supported and facilitated through the use and deep knowledge of advanced characterization methods, including atomic resolution electron microscopy, crystal refinement using X-ray and neutron diffraction, and synchrotron-based surface analysis for the investigation of chemical states and molecular environments. He is author or co-author of over 100 publications, 2 conference proceedings, 3 patents and numerous confidential reports to industry. Recent professional activities include holding the position of secretary of the Materials Research Society (Singapore) and acting as convenor of the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies to be held in 2005.

Biographical Information

Tim White received his his PhD from the Australian National University was taken in Mineral Chemistry and Crystallography. Since then, he has held various posts at the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (Singapore), The University of South Australia (Adelaide), University of Queensland (Brisbane), The University of Melbourne, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Sydney), A*STAR Institure for Environmental Science & Engineering, and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)..Secondments have included the Institute for Transuranium Elements (Germany), Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute and The University of New Mexico (US). His research awards include the Cowley-Moodie Award for Electron Microscopy and a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and an Asia Fellowship.

Recent Publications

• Lim, S.H., Phonthammachai, N., Zhong, Z., Han, Y.F. and White, T.J.: Robust Gold-Decorated Silica-Titania Pebbles for Low Temperature CO Catalytic Oxidation, Langmuir, 25, 9480–9486 (2009).
• Xu, H., Liu, C., Silberschmidt, V., Pramana, S.S., White, T. and Chen, Z.: A re–examination of the Mechanism of Thermosonic Copper Ball Bonding on Aluminium Metallization Pads, Scripta Materialia, 61, 165–168 (2009).
• Baikie, T., Ng, G.M.H., Madhavi, S., Pramana, S.S., Blake, K., Elcombe, M. and White, T.J.: The Crystal Chemistry of the Alkaline Earth Apatites A10(PO4)6CuxOy(H)z (A = Ca, Sr and Ba), Dalton Trans., 6722–6729 (2009).
• Pramana, S.S., White, T. J., Schreyer, M.K., Ferraris, C., Slater, P.R., Bastow, T. J., Mangold, S., Doyle, S., Tao, L., Fajar, A., Srinivasan, M. and Baikie T.: Pseudomorphic 2A · 2M · 2H Phase Transitions in Lanthanum Strontium Germanate Electrolyte Apatites, Dalton Trans., 8280–8291 (2009).
• Wang, S., Jiang, S.P., White, T.J. and Wang, X.: Electrocatalytic Activity and Interconnectivity of Pt Nanoparticles on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes foor Fuel Cells, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 18935–18945 (2009).
• Baikie, T., Pramana, S.S., Huang, Y., Knight, K.S., Ahmad, Z. and White, T.J.: Polysomatic Apatites Acta Crystallogr. B, 66, 1–16 (2010).