The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor Robert Burns
School: School of Environmental and Life Sciences
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Doctor Robert Burns 1 AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering) Use of Facilities Only Multinuclear magnetic resonance studies of the Cation environments in compounds of the type?, where M=Mo and W.   280  
Associate Professor Marcel Maeder;Doctor Robert Burns;Dr Graeme Puxty;Mr Yaser Beyad 2010 3 CSIRO - Energy Technology Postgraduate Research Scholarship Investigation of the interactions of SO2 with aqueous amine solutions   126000  
Associate Professor Marcel Maeder;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance;Doctor Robert Burns 2008 1 University of Newcastle Near Miss Grant A general predictor for amine-based post combustion capture of CO2 in coal-fired power stations   20000  
Associate Professor Marcel Maeder;Dr Graeme Puxty;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance;Doctor Robert Burns;Dr Moetaz Attalla;Ms Duong Phan 2008 2 CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation National Research Flagship Project An investigation into the chemical processes crucial to amine based PCC   204000  
Doctor Robert Burns 2007 2 University of Newcastle Publication Performance Grant (16) Advanced Synthetic Materials   26496  
Associate Professor Scott Donne;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance;Doctor Robert Burns;Professor Eric Kennedy;Professor Bogdan Dlugogorski;Associate Professor George Franks;Dr Peter Lye;Dr Trevor Brown;Dr Paul Thomas;Assoc. Prof Abhi Ray 2006 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Advanced Surface and Porosity Characterisation Facility   158000  
Doctor Robert Burns 2005 1 AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering) Research Grant Neutron defraction studies of the Anhydrous Hetrogeneous Polyoxometate Catalysts   11120  
Doctor Robert Burns 2005 1 University of Newcastle Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) 2005 RIBG allocation   44886  
Doctor Robert Burns 2004 1 AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering) Use of Facilities Only Anomalous structural trends in alkali metal phosphopolyoxotungstate compounds of the Type ?where M=Na, K, Rb and Cs.   560  
Doctor Robert Burns;Emeritus Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Biomedical availability and speciation: An investigation of aluminium and related elements in aqueous solution.   8800  
Emeritus Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki;Doctor Robert Burns 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Mass spectral studies of the species resulting from the hydrolysis of the Group IIIA metallic elements.   6000  
Doctor Robert Burns 2002 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Catalytic syntheses of acrylic monomer precursors by polyoxometalates   8000  
Doctor Robert Burns 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Catalytic Syntheses of Acrylic Monomer Precursors by Polyoxometalates.   8000  
Doctor Robert Burns;Emeritus Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki 1999 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Electrospray Mass Spectral Analysis of Isopolymetalates and Heteropoly-molybdates and -tungstates of Group 7 and 9 Transition Elements.   9000  
Doctor Robert Burns 1998 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant STRUCTURAL STABILITY REGIMES IN POLYOXOMETALATE CHEMISTRY   8000  
Doctor Robert Burns 1997 1 Australian Research Council Small Grant Structural Stability Regimes in Polyoxometalate Chemistry.   8000  
Doctor Robert Burns;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance 1996 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Formation, structures and reactivity of new transition metal heteropolyometalates   7000  
Doctor Robert Burns;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance 1995 1 Australian Research Council Small Grant Formation, Structures and Reactivity of New Transition Metal Heteropolymetalates.   11500  
Doctor Robert Burns;Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrance 1994 1 Australian Research Council Small Grant Formation, Structure and Reactivity of New Transition Metal Heteropolymetallates   10000  
Doctor Robert Burns 1993 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Photochemical and Chemical Generation of Clusters Containing Transition Metal and Main Group Elements   2000  
Doctor Robert Burns 1992 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Heteroatomic Cluster Synthesis And Potential Catalytic Applications   2500  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Nanosized Ligand-Stabilized Single Metal and Mixed Metals Clusters: Exploring Possible Routes to Synthesis by Symmetry Breaking and Testing for Singlet Oxygen Generation
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Anodic Behaviour of Titanium
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Catalysis of Carbon Dioxide Absorbtion in Aqueous Solution and Development of On-Line Analyses for Post-Combustion Capture Processess
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Development of a general predictor for amine based Post Combustion Capture (PCC) of C02 in coal fired power stations
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Improved Energy Utilization in the Manganese Dioxide Cathode
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Infrared and Modelling Studies on the Interactions between Co2 and Organic Amines for Application in Co2 Capture
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Model Soil Systems and Heavy Metal Loading
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Novel Quantitative and Robust Determination of Chiral Recognition Based on Global Analysis of Circular Dichroism Titrations. and. Investigation of the Interactions of SOx with Aqueous Amine Solutions
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Optimisation of EMD for Applications in Lithium Batteries
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor To Be Advised
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Trace Element Removal Techniques with Iron Oxyhydroxides and the Absorption/Co-precipitation Removal Mechanism
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Understanding the Surface Characteristics of Biochar for use in Enviornmental Remediation and Fertilizer

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.500
PhD 3.530

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Chemistry) 2004 Cation Effects on the Catalytic Activity of the [PMo12O40]3- Ion in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Isobutyraldehyde

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Wang Xiaoguang, Conway William Owen, Fernandes Debra, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Burns Robert Colin, Puxty Graeme, Maeder Marcel, ’Kinetics of the reversible reaction of CO2(aq) with ammonia in aqueous solution’, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115 6405-6412 (2011) [C1]

Kendell Shane M, Alston Amy-Sue, Ballam Nick J, Brown Trevor C, Burns Robert Colin, ’Structural and activity investigation into Al3+, La3+ and Ce3+ addition to the phosphomolybdate heteropolyanion for isobutane selective oxidation’, Catalysis Letters, 141 374-390 (2011) [C1]

Wang Xiaoguang, Conway William Owen, Burns Robert Colin, McCann Nichola, Maeder Marcel, ’Comprehensive study of the hydration and dehydration reactions of carbon dioxide in aqueous solution’, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114 1734-1740 (2010) [C1]

Angus-Dunne Sarah, Burns Robert Colin, Craig Donald C, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Synthesis and crystal structure of the palladium(IV) polyoxomolybdate, K0.75Na3.75[PdMo6O24H3.5] 17H2O’, Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 636 727-734 (2010) [C1]

Puxty Graeme, Rowland Robert, Allport Andrew, Yang Qi, Bown Mark, Burns Robert Colin, Maeder Marcel, Attalla Moetaz, ’Carbon dioxide postcombustion capture: A novel screening study of the carbon dioxide absorption performance of 76 amines’, Environmental Science & Technology, 43 6427-6433 (2009) [C1]

McCann Nichola, Phan Duong Thuy, Wang Xiaoguang, Conway William Owen, Burns Robert Colin, Attalla Moetaz, Puxty Graeme, Maeder Marcel, ’Kinetics and mechanism of carbamate formation from CO2(aq), carbonate species, and monoethanolamine in aqueous solution’, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113 5022-5029 (2009) [C1]

McCann Nichola, Phan Duong Thuy, Attalla Moetaz, Puxty Graeme, Fernandes Debra, Conway William Owen, Wang Xiaoguang, Burns Robert Colin, Van Altena Ian Andrew, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Maeder Marcel, ’Molecular interactions between amine and carbonate species in aqueous solution: Kinetics and thermodynamics’, Energy Procedia, 1 995-1002 (2009) [C1]

Stapleton Andrew John, Sloan Matthew E, Napper Nathan J, Burns Robert Colin, ’Transition metal-substituted Dawson anions as chemo- and regio-selective oxygen transfer catalysts for H2O2 in the epoxidation of allylic alcohols’, Dalton Transactions, - 9603-9615 (2009) [C1]

Kendell S M, Brown T C, Burns Robert Colin, ’Accurate low-pressure kinetics for isobutane oxidation over phosphomolybdic acid and copper(II) phosphomolybdates’, Catalysis Today, 131 526-532 (2008) [C1]

Angus-Dunne S J, Lee Chin Lisa Eong Peng, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Metallocene and organo-main group trifluoromethanesulfonates’, Transition Metal Chemistry, 31 268-275 (2006) [C1]

Lin Xiaomei, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Heavy metals in wastewater: The effect of electrolyte composition on the precipitation of cadmium(II) using lime and magnesia’, Water Air and Soil Pollution, 165 131-152 (2005) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Irwin Jennifer Anne, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Reaction kinetics and mechanism of formation of MnW6O24 (8-) by hypochlorous acid oxidation of Mn(II)(aq) in the presence of tungstate’, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, 5 181-195 (2005) [C1]

Silviani Enny, Burns Robert Colin, ’Synthesis and characterization of soluble alkali metal, alkaline earth metal and related Keggin-type [PMo12O40]3- salts for heterogeneous catalysis reactions’, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A-Chemical, 219 327-342 (2004) [C1]

Lin Xiaomei, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Effect of Cadmium(II) and Anion Type on the Ageing of Ferrihydrite and its Subsequent Leaching under Neutral and Alkaline Conditions’, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 143 155-177 (2003) [C1]

Sahureka Frans, Burns Robert Colin, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Electrospray ionisation mass spectroscopic characterisation of isopolyoxo-niobates and -tantalates’, Inorganica Chimica Acta 69-78 (2003) [C1]

Sahureka Frans, Burns Robert Colin, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Electrospray identification of new polyoxochromate species’, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 332 7-17 (2002) [C1]

Hu Ji, Burns Robert Colin, ’Homogeneous-phase catalytic H2O2 oxidation of isobutyraldehyde using Keggin, Dawson and transition metal-substituted lacunary heteropolyanions’, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 184 451-464 (2002) [C1]

Sahureka Frans, Burns Robert Colin, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Isopolyoxorhenates observed by positive ion electrospray mass spectrometry’, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 5 23-27 (2002) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation of Mn(II)aq by bromate and peroxomonosulfate in the presence of molybdate to form [MnIVMo9O32]6-’, Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions 3065-3073 (2002) [C1]

Sahureka Frans, Burns Robert Colin, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Electrospray characterization of perrhenate systems’, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 12 1136-1143 (2001) [C1]

Fletcher H, Allen Christine Corinna, Burns Robert Colin, Craig D C, ’Pentapotassium dodecatungstoborate (III) hexadecahydrate’, Acta Crystallographica Section C- Crystal Structure Communications, C57 505-507 (2001) [C1]

Walanda Daud Karel, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Electrospray mass spectrometry of aqueous solutions of isopolyoxotungstates’, JOURNAL OF CLUSTER SCIENCE, 11 5-28 (2000) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Craig D C, ’Octasodium hexatungstomanganate(IV) octadecahydrate’, ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA C: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS, C56 729-730 (2000) [C1]

Rossignoli Monica, Burns Robert Colin, Craig D C, ’Photolytic, pryolytic and trimethylamine N-oxide induced CO removal from [BiFe4(CO) 16]3-: Synthesis, X-ray crystal structure and properties of [N(PPh3)2]2[Bi2Fe5(CO)17]’, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 53 975-982 (2000) [C1]

Hu Ji, Burns Robert Colin, ’The effect of cation type and H+ on the catalytic activity of the Keggin anion [PMo12040]3- in the oxidative dehydrogenation of isobutyraldehyde’, JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS, 195 360-375 (2000) [C1]

Hu Ji, Burns Robert Colin, Guerbois J-P, ’The solid-state thermal rearrangement of the Dawson anion [P2Mo18O62]6- into a Keggin-type [PMo12O40]3- -containing phase and their reactivity in the oxidative dehydrogenation of isobutyraldehyde’, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A:CHEMICAL, 152 141-155 (2000) [C1]

Walanda Daud Karel, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Unknown isopolyoxovanadate species detected by electrosspray mass spectrometry’, INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA, 305 118-126 (2000) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Allen Christine Corinna, Burns Robert Colin, Craig D C, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’X-ray structural studies of K6[CoIIW12040].~16H20 and K5[CoIIIW12O40].~16H2O and structural trends along the [XW12O40]n- series, where X=P(V), Si(IV), Co(III) and Co(II)’, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 53 59-66 (2000) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Allen Christine Corinna, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Wilkes Eric Neville, Hambley T W, ’Crystal Structure of Na9[H3W12042].24H20, a compound containing the protonated paratungstate B anion ('Acid paratungstate'), and cyclic voltammetry of acidified [H2W12042]10-solutions’, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 52 955-963 (1999) [C1]

Walanda Daud Karel, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Electrospray mass spectral study of isopoloxomolybdates’, Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions 311-321 (1999) [C1]

Walanda Daud Karel, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’New isopolyoxovanadate ions identified by electrospray mass spectrometry’, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2 487-489 (1999) [C1]

Lin Xiaomei, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Effect of Electrolyte Composition, and of added Iron(III) in the Presence of Selected Organic Complexing Agents, on Nickel(II) Precipitation by Lime’, Water Research, 32 3637-3645 (1998) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Allen Christine Corinna, Burns Robert Colin, Craig Db, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Monomeric and Dimeric Cobalt(III) Polyoxomolybdates: Crystal Structures and Cyclic Voltammetry of Na3 [H6CoMo6O24].8H2O and K6 [H4Co2Mo10O38].7H2O’, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 51 825-834 (1998) [C1]

Nolan Annette Louise, Burns Robert Colin, Lawrance Geoffrey Alan, ’Oxidation of [Co11W12O40]6- to [CoIIIW12O40]5- by peroxomonosulfate in strong and weak acid solutions, an example of zero-order kinetics’, Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions 3041-3047 (1998) [C1]

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