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Professor Graeme George
- g.george@qut.edu.au
- Queensland University of Technology
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Position
Programme Leader in the Co-operative Research Centre for Polymers, and Head of the Biomedical Polymers laboratory in the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Brisbane.
Expertise
- Polymer free radical chemistry.
- Technology for monitoring free radical kinetics in polymer oxidation.
Key Areas of Research
- Development and application of novel sensitive spectroscopic techniques to study the olymerisation, structure and performance of thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers and biopolymers.
- Mechanism and kinetics of thermal and photooxidation of polyolefins, elastomers and composite materials. Properties and performance of novel biodegradable polymer composites.
- Stochastic modelling of the infectious spreading of oxidation.
- Characterisation of organic materials by luminescence techniques.
- Pro-fluorescent probes for monitoring and mapping alkyl radical reactions.
- Kinetics and mechanisms of free radical crosslinking reactions of hydrogels and networks by spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques.