Raffaella Demichelis
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Raffaella Demichelis completed his PhD in January 2010 at Università degli Studi di Torino, where he subsequently became a post-doctoral research fellow. He joined Curtin University as a post-doctoral fellow in September 2010. He have recently been awarded an Early Career Curtin Research Fellowship, which he commenced in January 2013.
Research Interest
My interest is focused on the following topics: Structure and composition of olivines, pyroxenes and serpentines; processes and catalysis at the corresponding mineral/fluid interface (carbon dioxide storage and hydrogen production) Biomineralisation, nucleation, crystal growth and polymorphism (carbonates, oxalates, phosphates) Vibrational spectroscopy of minerals Hydrogen bond in minerals Computational tools for the ab initio simulation of carbon and inorganic nanotubes
Publications
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Y Cheng, A Memar, M Saunders, J Pan, C Liu, et al. “Dye functionalized carbon nanotubes for photoelectrochemical water splitting - role of inner tubes†Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 2473-2483
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R Demichelis, M De La Pierre, M Mookherjee, CM Zicovich-Wilson, R Orlando. “Serpentine polymorphism: a quantitative insight from first-principle calculations†CrystEngComm, 18, 4412-4419
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W Zhao, N Sharma, F Jones, P Raiteri, JD Gale, R Demichelis. “Anhydrous Calcium Oxalate Polymorphism: A Combined Computational and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study†Cryst. Growth Des., 16, 5954-5965
