George Franks

Direct ink writing of hierarchical porous ultra-high temperature ceramics (ZrB2)

Mitchell L Sesso, Sonya Slater, John Thornton, George V Franks

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

An approach to producing hierarchical multi-scale porous ultra-high temperature ceramics (zirconium diboride, ZrB2) using 3D print..

Elastic plastic fracture mechanics investigation of toughness of wet colloidal particulate materials: Influence of saturation.

George V Franks, Mitchell L Sesso, Matthew Lam, Yi Lu, Liqing Xu

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

HYPOTHESIS: Previous use of linear elastic fracture mechanics to estimate toughness of wet particulate materials underestimates th..

A tribute to Eric Raymond (Lou) Vance: Ceramic materials physicist and nuclear wasteform expert-15(th) November, 1942-7(th) March, 2019

Trevor R Finlayson, George V Franks, Daniel G Gregg

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the American Ceramic Society

This special issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society is a tribute to the life and work of Eric Raymond Vance. He was ..

3D printing of clay for decorative architectural applications: Effect of solids volume fraction on rheology and printability

SSL Chan, RM Pennings, L Edwards, GV Franks

Journal article  |  2020  |  Additive Manufacturing

The effect of varying the solids volume fraction of an aqueous clay paste suspension on its printability via an Additive Manufactu..

Direct ink writing of hierarchical porous alumina-stabilized emulsions: Rheology and printability

Shareen SL Chan, Mitchell L Sesso, George V Franks

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Bio‐inspired multi‐scaled (hierarchical) porous structures have remarkable strength and stiffness‐to‐density properties. Direct in..

Dry separation of fine particulate sand mixture based on density-segregation in a vibro-fluidized bed

J Oshitani, R Sugo, Y Mawatari, T Tsuji, Z Jiang, GV Franks

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Powder Technology

Separation of fine particulate solid materials is one of most important unit operations in industry. Utilization of gas-solid flui..

Development of a method for determining the maximum van der Waals force to analyze dispersion and aggregation of particles in a suspension

K Kushimoto, S Ishihara, S Pinches, ML Sesso, SP Usher, GV Franks, J Kano

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Powder Technology

A new method for determining the maximum value of the van der Waals force, Fv,max, has been developed to analyze the dispersion an..

Temperature-induced self-assembly and metal-ion stabilization of histidine functional block copolymers

Emma RL Brisson, James C Griffith, Ayana Bhaskaran, George Franks, Luke A Connal

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Histidine functional block copolymers are thermally self‐assembled into polymer micelles with poly‐N‐isopropylacrylamide in the co..

In situ study of aggregate sizes formed in chalcopyrite-quartz mixture using temperature-responsive polymers

Wei Sung Ng, Luke A Connal, Elizaveta Forbes, Krishna Mohanarangam, George V Franks

Journal article  |  2018  |  ADVANCED POWDER TECHNOLOGY

An interesting property of temperature-responsive polymers, such as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), is the ability to behave..

A review of temperature-responsive polymers as novel reagents for solid liquid separation and froth flotation of minerals

Wei Sung Ng, Luke A Connal, Elizaveta Forbes, George V Franks

Journal article  |  2018  |  MINERALS ENGINEERING

Over the past few decades, the study of temperature-responsive polymers has unlocked a vast array of potential applications in var..