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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

David E. Williams is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with significant contributions across subfields such as Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work addresses multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials

Among recent publications attributed to or closely involving David E. Williams is "Electrochemical sensors for environmental gas analysis" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. Other notable recent papers in related areas include:

  • Low-cost sensor networks and land-use regression: Interpolating nitrogen dioxide concentration at high temporal and spatial resolution in Southern California (2020) - Atmospheric Environment
  • Understanding and Correcting Unwanted Influences on the Signal from Electrochemical Gas Sensors (2021) - ACS Sensors
  • Novel Electrochemically Switchable, Flexible, Microporous Cloth that Selectively Captures, Releases, and Concentrates Intact Extracellular Vesicles (2020) - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Hierarchical network design for nitrogen dioxide measurement in urban environments (2020) - Atmospheric Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David E. Williams include Geoff S. Henshaw, Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić, Duncan J. McGillivray, Alireza Akbarinejad, and Jesna Ashraf, demonstrating active interdisciplinary work within their research areas.

Research findings are often disseminated through prominent publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Atmospheric Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Biosensors.

David E. Williams holds the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor conferred in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Point of care diagnostics: Status and future

    Vladimir Gubala;Leanne F. Harris;Antonio J. Ricco;Ming X. Tan

  • Semiconducting oxides as gas-sensitive resistors

    David E. Williams

  • Why stainless steel corrodes

    Mary P. Ryan;David E. Williams;Richard J. Chater;Bernie M. Hutton

  • Tin dioxide gas sensors. Part 1.—Aspects of the surface chemistry revealed by electrical conductance variations

    Jerome F. McAleer;Patric T. Moseley;John O. W. Norris;David E. Williams

  • Tin dioxide opals and inverted opals: near-ideal microstructures for gas sensors

    R. W. J. Scott;S. M. Yang;G. Chabanis;N. Coombs

  • The initiation of pitting corrosion on austenitic stainless steel : on the role and importance of sulphide inclusions

    J. Stewart;D.E. Williams

  • Techniques and mechanisms in gas sensing

    P. T. Moseley;J. O. W. Norris;D. E. Williams

  • Stochastic Models of Pitting Corrosion of Stainless Steels I . Modeling of the Initiation and Growth of Pits at Constant Potential

    D. E. Williams;C. Westcott;M. Fleischmann

  • The nucleation, growth and stability of micropits in stainless steel

    David E. Williams;John Stewart;Peter H. Balkwill

  • Inhibition of neuroblastoma tumor growth by targeted delivery of microRNA-34a using anti-disialoganglioside GD2 coated nanoparticles.

    Amanda Tivnan;Amanda Tivnan;Wayne Shannon Orr;Wayne Shannon Orr;Vladimir Gubala;Robert Nooney

  • Tin dioxide gas sensors. Part 2.—The role of surface additives

    Jerome F. McAleer;Patrick T. Moseley;John O. W. Norris;David E. Williams

  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex : evaluation with CT

    Thomas E. Hartman;Stephen J. Swensen;David E. Williams

  • Small-molecule agonists of SHIP1 inhibit the phosphoinositide 3-kinase pathway in hematopoietic cells.

    Christopher J. Ong;Andrew Ming-Lum;Matt Nodwell;Ali Ghanipour

  • Passivity breakdown and pitting corrosion of binary alloys

    D. E. Williams;D. E. Williams;R. C. Newman;Q. Song;R. G. Kelly

  • Composition changes around sulphide inclusions in stainless steels, and implications for the initiation of pitting corrosion

    David E. Williams;Matt R. Kilburn;John Cliff;Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse

  • Stochastic Models of Pitting Corrosion of Stainless Steels II . Measurement and Interpretation of Data at Constant Potential

    D. E. Williams;C. Westcott;M. Fleischmann

  • Stability and open circuit breakdown of the passive oxide film on titanium

    D.J. Blackwood;L.M. Peter;D.E. Williams

  • Elucidation of a Trigger Mechanism for Pitting Corrosion of Stainless Steels Using Submicron Resolution Scanning Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Microscopy

    David E. Williams;Tasneem F. Mohiuddin;Ying Yang Zhu

  • A microstructural model of semiconducting gas sensor response: The effects of sintering temperature on the response of chromium titanate (CTO) to carbon monoxide

    S.C. Naisbitt;K.F.E. Pratt;D.E. Williams;I.P. Parkin

  • Study of Surface Segregation of Antimony on SnO2 Surfaces by Computer Simulation Techniques

    B. Slater;C.R.A. Catlow;D.E. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
Jadranka Travas-Sejdic University of Auckland
Raymond J. Andersen
Raymond J. Andersen University of British Columbia
Ivan P. Parkin
Ivan P. Parkin University College London
Juliet A. Gerrard
Juliet A. Gerrard University of Auckland
Anthony Kucernak
Anthony Kucernak Imperial College London
Aboubakr M. Abdullah
Aboubakr M. Abdullah Qatar University
Dagan Wells
Dagan Wells John Radcliffe Hospital
Brian O. Patrick
Brian O. Patrick University of British Columbia
Richard D. Tilley
Richard D. Tilley University of New South Wales
Helen C. Hailes
Helen C. Hailes University College London

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