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	Associate Professor Erica Wanless
Position:	Associate Professor in Chemistry
Faculty/Division:	Faculty of Science and Information Technology School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Contact Details:	Staff Directory Entry
Qualifications:	B.Sc. [ANU 1990] Ph.D. [ANU 1995]
Research Areas:	*Surface and Colloid Science* Surfactant and polymer adsorption at the solid/solution interface: kinetics and equilibrium Polymeric colloids: diblock copolymer micelles & microgels Coatings and thin films Colloid stability
Research Grants:
Honours, Distinctions, Societies:	MRACI, CChem
Teaching Interests:	Surface and Colloid Science Physical Chemistry
Supervision of Students:	Jason Kilpatrick - PhD (Chemistry) Measurement of Dynamic Surface Forces using Atomic Force Microscopy Emelyn Smith - PhD (Chemistry) Organised Layers Of Adsorbed Copolymer Micelles Benjamin Tremain - PhD (Physics) Preventing Particle Agglomeration with Chemical Spacers
Professional Positions:	RACI Colloid & Surface Science Division (secretary) Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium 2007 (secretary)

Publications:	Link to: Researcher Report Link to: Recent Publications (.pdf) Top Five Webber, G. B., Wanless, E. J., Armes, S. P., Tang, Y., Li, Y., Biggs, S.,"Nano-Anemones: stimulus-responsive copolymer micelle surfaces." Adv. Mater. 16, 1794 (2004). Atkin, R., Craig, V., S.J., Wanless, E. J., Biggs, S., "Mechanism of Cationic Surfactant Adsorption at the Solid-Aqueous Interface" Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 103 (3), pp 219 – 304 (2003). Webber, G. B., Wanless, E. J., Bütün V., Armes, S. P., Biggs, S., "Self-organised monolayer films of stimulus responsive micelles" Nano Letters, 2, 1307, (2002). Velegol, S. B., Fleming, B. D., Biggs, S., Wanless, E. J., Tilton, R. D., "Counterion effects on hexadecyltrimethylammonium surfactant adsorption and self-assembly on silica" Langmuir 16, 2548, (2000). Wanless, E. J. & Ducker, W. A., "The organisation of sodium dodecylsulfate at the graphite-solution interface" J. Phys. Chem. 100, 3207, (1996).