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Overview

David Nicholson is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work primarily focuses on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main research topics covered by Nicholson include:

  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis

Nicholson has published papers in several prominent venues, with repeated contributions to the Chemical Engineering Journal and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Other publication venues include Carbon, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects.

Recent publications by Nicholson include:

  • Consistency of NVT, NPT, µVT and Gibbs (NV2T and NPT) with kinetic Monte Carlo schemes, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Wedge pore modelling of gas adsorption in activated carbon: Consistent pore size distributions, 2020, Carbon
  • Lower Closure Point for Nitrogen or Argon Adsorption in Mesoporous Solids: Window-Induced Evaporation or Surface-Induced Cavitation?, 2021, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • The Henry constant and isosteric heat at zero loading for adsorption on energetically heterogeneous solids absolute versus excess, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Atomic Heat Contributions for Carbon Dioxide Adsorption in IRMOF-1, 2021, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Among frequent collaborators, Nicholson has worked notably with D.D. Do, Quang K. Loi, Shiliang Tan, Hui Xu, and D. D. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of studies and interdisciplinary approaches in their research output.

Nicholson has also contributed to book publications, including a release on pyOpenSci/software-peer-review published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Capillary condensation of adsorbates in porous materials.

    Toshihide Horikawa;D.D. Do;D. Nicholson

  • Water adsorption on carbon - A review

    Lumeng Liu;Shiliang Johnathan Tan;Toshihide Horikawa;D D Do

  • FLUID FLOW IN NANOPORES: ACCURATE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR CARBON NANOTUBES

    Vladimir P. Sokhan;David Nicholson;Nicholas Quirke

  • Nitrogen Adsorption in Slit Pores at Ambient Temperatures: Comparison of Simulation and Experiment

    Katsumi Kaneko;Roger F. Cracknell;David Nicholson

  • Fluid flow in nanopores: An examination of hydrodynamic boundary conditions

    V. P. Sokhan;D. Nicholson;N. Quirke

  • Molecular transport in nanopores: a theoretical perspective

    Suresh K. Bhatia;Mauricio Rincon Bonilla;David Nicholson

  • Monte Carlo grand canonical ensemble calculation in a gas-liquid transition region for 12-6 Argon

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  • A grand canonical Monte Carlo study of Lennard-Jones mixtures in slit shaped pores

    Roger F. Cracknell;David Nicholson;Nicholas Quirke

  • Study of hexane adsorption in nanoporous MCM-41 silica

    S. Z. Qiao;S. K. Bhatia;D. Nicholson

  • Determination of Micropore Size Distribution from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations and Experimental CO2 Isotherm Data

    S. Samios;and A. K. Stubos;N. K. Kanellopoulos;R. F. Cracknell

  • Tractable molecular theory of transport of Lennard-Jones fluids in nanopores

    Suresh K. Bhatia;Owen Jepps;David Nicholson

  • Rotational insertion bias: a novel method for simulating dense phases of structured particles, with particular application to water

    Roger F. Cracknell;David Nicholson;Neville G. Parsonage;Huw Evans

  • Separation of carbon dioxide-methane mixtures by adsorption: Effects of geometry and energetics on selectivity

    David Nicholson;Keith E. Gubbins

  • Some pitfalls in the use of the Knudsen equation in modelling diffusion in nanoporous materials

    Suresh K. Bhatia;David Nicholson

  • Modeling Fluid Behavior in Well-Characterized Porous Materials

    Roger F. Cracknell;Keith E. Gubbins;Michael Maddox;David Nicholson

  • On the Henry constant and isosteric heat at zero loading in gas phase adsorption

    D.D. Do;D. Nicholson;H.D. Do

  • Transport properties of nitrogen in single walled carbon nanotubes

    V. P. Sokhan;D. Nicholson;N. Quirke

  • Adsorption and selectivity of carbon dioxide with methane and nitrogen in slit-shaped carbonaceous micropores: Simulation and experiment

    Roger F. Cracknell;David Nicholson;Stephen R. Tennison;Jill Bromhead

  • Grand Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulation of Simple Molecules Adsorbed in Silicalite-1 Zeolite

    Roland J.M. Pellenq;David Nicholson

  • Hydrodynamic origin of diffusion in nanopores.

    Suresh K. Bhatia;David Nicholson

  • Molecular transport in nanopores

    Suresh K. Bhatia;David Nicholson

  • X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies at the Cobalt K-Edge on a Reduced Al2O3-Supported Rhenium-Promoted Cobalt Fischer−Tropsch Catalyst

    Arild Moen;David G. Nicholson;Bjerne S. Clausen;Poul L. Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Duong D. Do
Duong D. Do University of Queensland
Suresh K. Bhatia
Suresh K. Bhatia University of Queensland
Nick Quirke
Nick Quirke Imperial College London
Julian D. Gale
Julian D. Gale Curtin University
Roger Cracknell
Roger Cracknell Shell (Netherlands)
Jacek Jagiello
Jacek Jagiello Micromeritics
Keith E. Gubbins
Keith E. Gubbins North Carolina State University
Shi-Zhang Qiao
Shi-Zhang Qiao University of Adelaide
Kwong-Yu Chan
Kwong-Yu Chan University of Hong Kong

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