Professor Thomas W Healy

Current Research Activities

Chair, Scientific Board, Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, (Australian Research Council) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of The Australian Academy of Science, (1983)
• Fellow of The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1991)
• Fellow of The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1975)
• Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
• Member and Founding Committee Member, International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS)
• Member of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, the Chemical Society of Japan.
• Elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering, (2008).

Honours/Awards

• Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (1965).
• Rennie Medal, 1968.
• Grimwade Prize, University of Melbourne (1974).
• Chemical Society (London) Lecturer (1980).
• Freundlich Centennial Lecturer 55th Colloid Symposium, American Chemical Society (ACS), (1981).
• Liversidge Lecturer, ANZAAS, (1985).
• ICI (Aust) Inaugural Bicentennial RACI Lectureship, (1988).
• Plenary Lecturer IACIS Conference, Hakone, Japan, (1989).
• Plenary Lecturer, RK Iler Symposium, ACS, Washington DC (1990).
• AE Alexander Lectureship, RACI and the University of Sydney, (1991).
• Royal Society of Victoria, Medallist, (1992).
• The Ian Wark Medal & Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science, (1999).
• TGH Jones Memorial Lecture, The University of Queensland (2001).
• School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne established the T.W. Healy Award (2002).
• Centenary of Federation Medallist (2003).
• The Royal Australian Chemical Institute 40 year Membership Award (2003).
• Impact Faraday Lecture, Royal Chemical Institution of Great Britain (2003).
• Senior Australian of the Year – Victoria Finalist (2004).
• Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 40 Year Membership Award (2005).
• Officer in the Order of Australia (2005).
• Journal of Colloid & Interface Science Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Certificate (2005).
• Winner of the inaugural NATURE Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Australasian Science (2006).
• A. M. Gaudin Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), (2008).

Selected Recent Publications

"The Isoelectric Point/Point-of Zero-Charge of Interfaces formed by Aqueous Solutions and Non-Polar Solids, Liquids and Gases", Corresponding Author: Thomas W Healy and Douglas W Fuerstenau J.Colloid & Interface Sci., 309 183-188 (2007).

"Electrical double layer interactions between dissimilar oxide surfaces with charge regulation and Stern Grahame layers", DYC Chan, TW Healy, T Supasiti and S Usui, J.Colloid & Interface Sci., 296 150-158 (2006).

"Adsorption of Organic Matter at Mineral/Water Interfaces VI Effect of Inner-Sphere Versus Outer-Sphere Adsorption of Colloid Stability", SB Johnson, GE Brown Jnr, TW Healy and PJ Scales, Langmuir 21 (14) 6356-6365, (2005).

“Zeta Potential of Stearic Acid Monolayer at the Air-Aqueous Solution Interface”, S Usui, TW Healy, JCIS, 250: 371-378 (2002).

“The Binding of Monovalent Electrolyte Ions on a-Alumina. I.Electroacoustic Studies at High Electrolyte Concentration”, SB Johnson, PJ Scales, TW Healy, Langmuir, 15: 2836-2843 (1999).

“Shear Yield Stress of Partially Flocculated Colloidal Suspensions”, PJ Scales, S Johnson, TW Healy and PC Kapur, AIChE.J Vol 44 No 3, 538-544 (1998).

“Yield Stress and Contact Forces in Coagulated Oxide Dispersions; Role of Electrostatic Interactions”, R Buscall, R Ettelaie and TW Healy, J Chem Soc., Faraday Trans., 93 (22), 4009-4015 (1997).

“The Role of Dispersants in Kinetics and Energetics of Stirred Ball Mill Grinding”, PC Kapur, TW Healy, PJ Scales, DV Boger and D Wilson. Int. J. Miner. Process 47, 141-152 (1996).

“Double Layer Forces between Heterogeneous Charged Surfaces”; SJ Miklavic, DYC Chan, LR White and TW Healy, J. Phys Chem. 98 9022-9032 (1994).

“Evanescent Wave Spectroscopy; Application to the Study of the Spatial Distribution of Charged Groups on an Adsorbed Polyelectrolyte at the Silica/Water Interface, M Trau, F Grieser, TW Healy and LR White, J Chem Soc. Faraday Trans., 90 (9), 1251-1259 (1994).