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Positions:
Reader, Deprtment of Materials Engineering,
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria,
Australia
Telephone:
03 9905 4936
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03 9905 4940
International:
+61 3 9905 4940
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george.simon@eng.monash.edu.au
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Dr.George P. Simon
Department of Materials Engineering
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria
Australia 3800
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Education
BSc Chemistry, Adelaide 1981
BSc(Hons) Chemistry/Materials Eng. Adelaide 1982
PhD Chemistry/Materials Eng., Adelaide 1987
Dip. Met. Bureau of Meterology/Melbourne
/Monash 1987
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Liquid Crystalline Polymers.
The properties of main chain and side chain
liquid crystalline polymers are being investigated
by a range of techniques such as dielectric
relaxation and rheology. Areas of application
involve opto-electronics (non-linear optics) and
as high value engineering plastics for processing
and blending.
Polymer Blends.
Properties of polymer blends and their
interfaces are being studied in a number
of ways such as with regard to their dielectric
mobility and free volume properties. Blends
include those of plastics, blends with liquid
crystalline polymers and with ceramics,
often for biomedical applications.
Polymer Ceramic Nanocomposites.
New materials which involve blends or
mixtures of nano-sized ceramic units with
plastics are being investigated. This is
either via the sol-gel method or by intercalation
of single polymer molecules between mica-like
clay layers. These are useful in medical
applications, in gas separation membranes
and are being used to toughen thermosets.
Thermosets and Their Toughening.
Research is continuing into cure monitoring
(such as by infrared and dielectric relaxation)
of crosslinked polymers. They are being
toughened by addition of thermoplastic
phases and core-shell particles -
for ultimate use as aerospace materials.
Dendritic Materials.
Both dendrimers and hyperbranched
materials are being investigated in terms
of their homopolymer structure-property
relationships and in combination with other
thermoplastic and thermoset materials as
processing aids and toughening agents.
Relationships Between Polymer
Mobility,
Free Volume and Mechanical Properties.
The interrelationships between these
properties in a wide range of homopolymers,
copolymers, blends and naturally-occurring
polymers such as paper are being investigated.
Characterisation includes dielectric and
mechanical relaxation, thermally stimulated
currents and positron annihilation lifetime
spectroscopy (free volume determination).
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Polymer
Alloys and Blends, Eds. G.O. Shonaike
and G.P. Simon,
Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999,
ISBN 0-8247-1980-8
Polymer Characterisation
Techniques
and their Application to Blends,
Ed. G.P. Simon,
American Chemical Society, Washington
(1999/2000)
T.T. Hsieh, C. Tiu and G.P.Simon,
S.R.Andrews and G.Williams, Kuo-Huang
Hsieh and Chao-Hsun Chen
"Blends of Liquid Crystalline Poloymers with
other Liquid Crystalline Polymers",
in Polymer Alloys and Blends,
Eds. G.O. Shonaike and G.P. Simon,
Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999,
Ch. 12, pp 331- 363,
ISBN 0-8247-1980-8
G. M. Day,1 H. J. Kim, W. R.
Jackson
and G. P. Simon,
"Synthesis and Characterization of Novel
Chiral Liquid Crystalline Polysiloxanes",
Acta Polimerica, 50(2-3), 96 – 104 (1999)
G. P. Simon, C. L. Beatty, S. R.
Andrews,
S. Shinton, and G.Williams,
"Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy of a
styrene/n-butyl methacrylate Copolymer Series",
Polymer, 39(24), 5929 – 5937 (1998)
J.A. Brogan, C.C. Berndt, G.P. Simon
and D. Hewitt,
"Physical and Relaxation Properties of
Flame-Sprayed Ethylene-Methacrylic Acid
Copolymers",
Polym. Eng. and Sci., 38(11), 1873-1881 (1998).
G. P. Simon, M. Safari Ardi, A.A.
Goodwin,
M. D. Zipper S.R. Andrews, S. Shinton,
G. Williams, and M. Galop,
"Molecular Mobility of Substituted poly (p-phenylenes)
Characterised by a Range of Polymer Relaxation Techniques",
J. Polym. Sci, Pt. B., Polym. Phys., 36(9), 1465 - 1481 (1998)
G.P. Simon,
"The Use of Positron Annihillation Lifetime
Spectroscopy in Probing Free Volume of
Multicomponent Polymeric Systems",
Trends in Polymer Science, 5(12), 394 – 400 (1997)
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