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Overview

George V. Franks is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research focuses on the field of Engineering, with particular attention to subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Computational Mechanics.

Their work spans several main topics including:

  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Advanced ceramic materials synthesis
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Coagulation and Flocculation Studies

Their recent published papers include:

  • 3D printing of clay for decorative architectural applications: Effect of solids volume fraction on rheology and printability, 2020, Additive manufacturing
  • Direct ink writing of hierarchical porous alumina-stabilized emulsions: Rheology and printability, 2020, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • New Structural Insights into Densely Assembled Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Direct ink writing of hierarchical porous ultra-high temperature ceramics (ZrB 2 ), 2021, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Subnanometric Stacking of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials: Insights from the Nanotexture Evolution of Dense Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes, 2023, ACS Nano

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with George V. Franks include:

  • Mitchell L. Sesso
  • Shareen S. L. Chan
  • Jackquline C. Eardley
  • Wei Sung Ng
  • Jun Oshitani

The venues where they have most frequently published research are:

  • Advanced Powder Technology
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
  • Minerals Engineering
  • Additive manufacturing

Best Publications

  • The role of particles in stabilising foams and emulsions

    Timothy N Hunter;Robert J Pugh;George V Franks;Graeme J Jameson

  • Surface chemistry-rheology relationships in concentrated mineral suspensions

    Stephen B. Johnson;George V. Franks;Peter J. Scales;David V. Boger

  • Zeta potentials and yield stresses of silica suspensions in concentrated monovalent electrolytes: isoelectric point shift and additional attraction

    George V. Franks

  • Charging Behavior at the Alumina–Water Interface and Implications for Ceramic Processing

    George V. Franks;Yang Gan

  • Flocculation Mechanism Induced by Cationic Polymers Investigated by Light Scattering

    Ying Zhou;George V Franks

  • The isoelectric points of sapphire crystals and alpha-alumina powder

    George V. Franks;Laurence Meagher

  • Extended DLVO theory : Electrostatic and non-electrostatic forces in oxide suspensions

    Mathias Boström;Vivianne Deniz;G.V. Franks;B.W. Ninham

  • Colloidal Processing: Enabling Complex Shaped Ceramics with Unique Multiscale Structures

    George V. Franks;Carolina Tallon;André R. Studart;Mitchell L. Sesso

  • Effect of interparticle forces on shear thickening of oxide suspensions

    George V. Franks;Zhongwu Zhou;Nanda J. Duin;David V. Boger

  • Modeling the IR spectra of aqueous metal carboxylate complexes: correlation between bonding geometry and stretching mode wavenumber shifts.

    Catherine C. R. Sutton;Gabriel da Silva;George V. Franks

  • The mechanism for hydrothermal growth of zinc oxide

    Nathan Johann Nicholas;Nathan Johann Nicholas;George V. Franks;William A. Ducker

  • Effect of counterion size on short range repulsive forces at high ionic strengths

    Miroslav Colic;George V. Franks;Matthew L. Fisher;Fred F. Lange

  • Influence of Ion Size on Short-Range Repulsive Forces between Silica Surfaces

    Miroslav Colic;Matthew L. Fisher;George V. Franks

  • Ion-specific strength of attractive particle networks

    George V. Franks;Stephen B. Johnson;Peter J. Scales;David V. Boger

  • Plastic‐to‐Brittle Transition of Saturated, Alumina Powder Compacts

    George V. Franks;Fred F. Lange

  • 3D printing of clay for decorative architectural applications: Effect of solids volume fraction on rheology and printability

    Shareen S.L. Chan;Ryan M. Pennings;Lewis Edwards;George V. Franks

  • First Principles pKa Calculations on Carboxylic Acids Using the SMD Solvation Model: Effect of Thermodynamic Cycle, Model Chemistry, and Explicit Solvent Molecules

    Catherine C. R. Sutton;George V. Franks;Gabriel da Silva

  • Solid-liquid separations with a temperature-responsive polymeric flocculant: effect of temperature and molecular weight on polymer adsorption and deposition.

    John-Paul O'Shea;Greg G Qiao;George V Franks

  • Controlling the microstructure of ceramic particle stabilized foams: influence of contact angle and particle aggregation

    Chayuda Chuanuwatanakul;Carolina Tallon;David E. Dunstan;George V. Franks

  • Temperature controlled surface hydrophobicity and interaction forces induced by poly (N-isopropylacrylamide).

    Elizaveta Burdukova;Haihong Li;Naoyuki Ishida;John Paul O'Shea

  • Stimulant sensitive flocculation and consolidation for improved solid/liquid separation

    George V. Franks

  • Low temperature chemically sintered nano-crystalline TiO2 electrodes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

    H.C. Weerasinghe;P.M. Sirimanne;G.V. Franks;G.P. Simon

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme J. Jameson
Graeme J. Jameson University of Newcastle Australia
Fred F. Lange
Fred F. Lange University of California, Santa Barbara
Greg G. Qiao
Greg G. Qiao University of Melbourne
Peter J. Scales
Peter J. Scales University of Melbourne
Simon Biggs
Simon Biggs University of Western Australia
David V. Boger
David V. Boger University of Melbourne
Gabriel da Silva
Gabriel da Silva University of Melbourne
Thomas W. Healy
Thomas W. Healy University of Melbourne
Dave E. Dunstan
Dave E. Dunstan University of Melbourne
Matthew P. A. Fisher
Matthew P. A. Fisher University of California, Santa Barbara

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