Dr Robert Knott
Phone +61 (0)2 9717 3218
E-Mail Robert.Knott@ansto.gov.au
Dr Robert Knott has a BSc from the University of Newcastle and PhD in physics from the University of New South Wales. He is Manager of the Nanostructure of Materials Project and has played a major role in the development of the small angle neutron scattering science program on AUSANS. His main expertise is in the application of X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to the determination of biological structures. He has developed a number of neutron scattering facilities, including large area neutron detectors.
Selected Recent Publications
S. I. Yun, D. Attard, V. Lo, J. Davis, H. Li, B. Latella, F. Tsvetkov, H. Noorman, S. Moricca, R. Knott, H. Hanley, M. Morcom, G. P. Simon, and G. E. Gadd, Spray-dried microspheres as a route to clay/polymer nanocomposites, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 108(3), 1550-1556 (2008).
T. Hanley, D. Sutton, I. Karatchevtseva, D. Cookson, R. Burford, and R. Knott, Effects of selected process parameters on the morphology of poly(ethylene terephthalate) preforms and bottles, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 106(1), 238-247 (2007).
T. L. Hanley, D. Sutton, E. Heeley, G. Moad and R. B. Knott, A Small Angle X-ray Scattering Study of the Effect of Chain Architecture on the Shear Induced Crystallisation of Branched and Linear Poly(ethylene terephthalate), J. Appl. Cryst. 40, s599-s604 (2007).
V. Luca, J. N. Watson, M. Ruschena, and R. B. Knott, Anionic surfactant templated titanium oxide mesophase: Synthesis, characterization, and mechanism of formation, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 1156-1168 (2006).
R. B. Knott, M. Lin, H. J. M. Hanley, and D. Muir, Preliminary SANS studies of the structure of nickel powders on the nanoscale, Physica B 385-386, 908-910 (2006).
T. L. Hanley, J. S. Forsythe, D. Sutton, G. Moad, R. P. Burford, and R. B. Knott, Crystallisation kinetics of novel branched poly(ethylene terephthalate): a small-angle X-ray scattering study, Polym. Int., 55(12), 1435-1443 (2006).
T. Hanley, D. Sutton, D. Cookson, E. Kosior, and R. Knott, Molecular morphology of petaloid bases of PET bottles: A small-angle X-ray scattering study, J. Appl. Polymer Science 99, 3328-3335 (2006).
R. P. Burford, M. G. Markotsis and R. B. Knott, Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks from Thermoplastic Elastomers, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 208, 58-65 (2003).
C. J. Garvey, R. B. Knott, E. Drabarek and P. W. Kuchel, The shear induced alignment of hemoglobin aggregates in human erythrocytes : small angle neutron scattering studies, accepted for publication in Biophysical Journal (2003).
B. Pejcic, R. De Marco, C. E. Buckley, C. Maitland and R. B. Knott, Evidence for Nanostructure in the Fex(Sb12Ge28Se60)100-x Ion-Selective Electrode using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, submitted to Talanta (2003).
S. Saricilar, R. B. Knott, C. Barner-Kowollik, T. Davis and J. Heuts, Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization of 3-[tris(trimethylsilyloxy)silyl]propyl methacrylate, Polymer 44, 5169-5176 (2003).
C. J. Garvey, E. P. Gilbert, J. C. Schulz and R. B. Knott, Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Research at ANSTO, Neutron News 14(4), 27-31 (2003).
D. Sutton, T. Hanley, R. B. Knott and D. Cookson, "Small-Angle X-ray Scattering on the ChemMatCars Beamline at the Advanced Photon Source: A Study of Shear-Induced Crystalliasation in Polypropylene", submitted to J. Synchrotron Radiation (2003).
T. W. Hambley, A. Katsifis, R. B. Knott, F. Mattner and B. Dikic, The Structures of Imidazenil and Iodoimidazenil, Aust. J. Chem. 55, 737-739 (2002).
C. J. Garvey, I. H. Parker, G. P. Simon, A. K. Whittaker and R. B. Knott, An Experimental Study by NMR and SANS of the Ambient Hydration of Paper, in Proceedings of 12th Fundamental Research Symposium, Oxford, September 2001
H. Hanley, J. Ruggles and R. Knott, Determining the Structure of Complex Fluids under Shear, submitted to Australian and New Physicist, 2001.
J. Travas-Sejdic, A. Easteal, R. Knott and J. S. Pedersen, Small-angle neutron scattering from poly(NIPA-co-AMPS) gels, J. Appl. Cryst. 33, 735-739 (2000).
R. Knott, submitted June 98. Neutron Sources - Reactors, IUCr International Tables for Crystallography Volume F Macromolecular Crystallography.
R. Knott, Neutron Scattering in Australia, Neutron News, 9, 23-32 (1998).