Associate Professor Daniel Fornasiero
Contact Details
Tel: +61 8 8302 3677
Fax: +61 8 8302 3683
Email: daniel.fornasiero@unisa.edu.au
Position
Associate Research Professor
Sector Coordinator: Colloids & Nanostructures
Qualifications
Maitre es Science Grenoble, France PhD Adelaide
Background
Daniel Fornasiero is a is a physical chemist with specific expertise in spectroscopy and interfacial chemistry. His PhD project was a spectroscopic study of nucleic acids and dye-DNA interaction. At the University Louis Pasteur (1981-1983) in Strasbourg, his research involved the application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in medicine. At the University of Melbourne, he worked as a National Research Fellow (1985-1988) studying the stability of colloidal particles, micelles, microemulsions and emulsions. Daniel joined the Ian Wark Research Institute at the University of South Australia in 1989.
Research Interests
His present research interests are in the field of mineral processing
and embrace solution and surface spectroscopy; adsorption of small ions,
molecules and polymers on to surfaces and modelling of adsorption
processes; interfacial electrochemistry of metal sulphides and oxides;
interfacial reactions, including the dissolution and oxidation of metal
sulphides, bubble-particle interactions and flotation. Daniel is also working on the characterisation of lipid-DNA complexes and on the stability of these complexes in gene therapy.
Current Projects
Daniel is a chief investigator on several Australian Research Council
(ARC) and Industry sponsored research projects such as:
AMIRA P260
series of projects (1989-present)
P498 series of projects
(1999-present)
ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and Material
Interfaces (2000-2008)
CSIRO flagship collaboration fund (Preconcentration
and agglomeration to enhance heap leaching of nickel laterite,
2009-2011)
ARC Linkage projects: Optimising the recovery of fine and course
particles in mineral flotation - Impact of recyled and low quality water
on sustainable mineral processing practices
Industry projects: Enhanced depression and dispersion of minerals in
flotation (AMIRA P498C) - Improving sulphide mineral flotation (AMIRA
P260E)
Significant Publications
Daniel is the author of 127 refereed publications (94 C1
and 33 E1) from 1981 to 2008 on aspects of spectroscopy, colloid and
surface chemistry and mineral processing. Examples of his
recent publications:
Whitby, C.P., Fornasiero, D. and Ralston, J., Effect of Oil Soluble
Surfactant in Emulsions Stabilised by Clay Particles, Journal of
Colloids and Interface Science, 323, 410-419, 2008.
Parkinson, L., Sedev, R., Fornasiero, D. and Ralston, J., The Terminal
Rise Velocity of 10-100 µm Diameter Bubbles in Water. Journal of Colloid
and Interface Science. 322, 168-172, 2008.
Yang, J., Duan J., Fornasiero, D. and Ralston. Kinetics of Nanobubble
Formation at the Solid-water Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics, 9, 6327-6332, 2007
Ralston, J., Fornasiero, D., Grano, S, Duan, J. and Ackroyd, T. Reducing
Uncertainty in Mineral Flotation - Flotation Rate Constant Prediction
for Particles in an Operating Plant Ore. International Journal of
Mineral Processing, 84, 89-98, 2007
Gontijio, C., Fornasiero, D. and Ralston, J.,The Limits of Fine and
Coarse Particle Flotation, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 85,
739-747, 2007
Bertrand, E., Blake, T.D., Ledauphin, V., Ogonowski, G., De Coninck, J.,
Fornasiero, D. and Ralston. J. Dynamics of Dewetting at the Nanoscale
Using Molecular Dynamics, Langmuir, 23, 3774-3785, 2007
Mishchuk, N., Ralston, J. and Fornasiero, D., Influence of very small
bubbles on particle-bubble heterocoagulation,. J. Colloid and Interface
Science, 301, 168-175, 2006
Harmer, S., Thomas, J., Fornasiero, D. and Gerson, A. The evolution of
surface layers formed during chalcopyrite leaching. Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 4392-4402, 2006
He, S., Fornasiero, D. and Skinner, W. Effect of oxidation potential and
zinc sulphate on the separation of chalcopyrite from pyrite.
International Journal of Mineral Processing, 80, 169-176, 2006
Fornasiero, D., and Ralston, J. Effect of Surface Oxide/hydroxide
Products on the Collectorless Flotation of Copper-activated Sphalerite,
International Journal of Mineral Processing, 78, 231-237, 2006
Farrokhpay, S., Morris, G. E., Fornasiero, D., Self, P. Titania pigment
particles dispersion in water-based paint films. Journal of Coatings
Technology, Research. 3(4), 275-283, 2006.