ProfessorDaryl Williams
Professor of Particle Science
Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Professor of Particle ScienceDepartment of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 5611 (Work)
- 439, ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Biography
Professor of Particle Science 2017-
Reader in Particle Science 2012- 2017
Director of Discovery Space 2008-2011
Director of Pilot Plant Project 2003-2007
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, 1999-2011
Director of External Relations 1994- 1997
EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London. 1991-1996
Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London. 1990-1991
PhD Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London - " Interfacial Phenomena in Aramid Composites". 1985-1989
Experimental; Officer, MRL, Australia 1981-1985
MSc.(Polymer Science) Lehigh University, USA 1982-1983
B.Sc.(Hons.) Physical Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1977-1980
Research interests
My current research interests focus on the particulate materials and their surfaces including their role in product manufacture for both biological and non-biological materials. These interests range from manufacture of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, thought to antimicrobial materials for water cleaning and new adsorbents for cleaning air. I have invented a number of new experimental methods for determining a range of surface and bulk physicochemical properties of powders and particulate materials including mechanical, topographical, chromatographic and surface properties.
Current studies have included studies of protein aggregation, freeze drying, peptide formulations, peptide chromatographic purification, adsorbents for CO2, SO2, VOC and organic pollutant capture, novel engineered sponges, caking and powder flow for complex powders, antimicrobial polymer surfaces, surfactant coated polymers and reactant diffusion in catalyst particles . The group has world leading expertise in gravimetric characterisation methods as well as inverse chromatographic methods, having pioneered many of these approaches. For example, the water sorption characterisation of many classes of materials, especially pharmaceuticals, bio-materials and biopharmaceutical is an area of significant interest. Current and new project areas include:
Adsorption and new adsorbents for CO2 and SO2 capture
Effect of water vapour on adsorbent performance
Surface energy and powder flow for pharmaceutical powders
Surface properties of Complex Polymer Substrates
Micromechanics of agglomerates and cellular entities
Stability and performance of MaB bioformulations
Second virial coefficients and peptide-peptide aggregation behaviour
Fundamentals of RPLC chromatographic separation of peptides
Stability and the freeze drying of therapeutics
Nano-engineered sponges for microbe and oil pollutant capture
Miniature instrumentation for process monitoring
Diffusion of liquid phase reactants in porous catalyst particles
Solid state peptide synthesis
Surfaces and Particle Engineering Laboratory
SMS - UK Surface Measurement Systems
Professor of Particle Science 2017-
Reader in Particle Science 2012- 2017
Director of Discovery Space 2008-2011
Director of Pilot Plant Project 2003-2007
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, 1999-2011
Director of External Relations 1994- 1997
EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London. 1991-1996
Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London. 1990-1991
PhD Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London - " Interfacial Phenomena in Aramid Composites". 1985-1989
Experimental; Officer, MRL, Australia 1981-1985
MSc.(Polymer Science) Lehigh University, USA 1982-1983
B.Sc.(Hons.) Physical Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1977-1980
Research interests
My current research interests focus on the particulate materials and their surfaces including their role in product manufacture for both biological and non-biological materials. These interests range from manufacture of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, thought to antimicrobial materials for water cleaning and new adsorbents for cleaning air. I have invented a number of new experimental methods for determining a range of surface and bulk physicochemical properties of powders and particulate materials including mechanical, topographical, chromatographic and surface properties.
Current studies have included studies of protein aggregation, freeze drying, peptide formulations, peptide chromatographic purification, adsorbents for CO2, SO2, VOC and organic pollutant capture, novel engineered sponges, caking and powder flow for complex powders, antimicrobial polymer surfaces, surfactant coated polymers and reactant diffusion in catalyst particles . The group has world leading expertise in gravimetric characterisation methods as well as inverse chromatographic methods, having pioneered many of these approaches. For example, the water sorption characterisation of many classes of materials, especially pharmaceuticals, bio-materials and biopharmaceutical is an area of significant interest. Current and new project areas include:
Adsorption and new adsorbents for CO2 and SO2 capture
Effect of water vapour on adsorbent performance
Surface energy and powder flow for pharmaceutical powders
Surface properties of Complex Polymer Substrates
Micromechanics of agglomerates and cellular entities
Stability and performance of MaB bioformulations
Second virial coefficients and peptide-peptide aggregation behaviour
Fundamentals of RPLC chromatographic separation of peptides
Stability and the freeze drying of therapeutics
Nano-engineered sponges for microbe and oil pollutant capture
Miniature instrumentation for process monitoring
Diffusion of liquid phase reactants in porous catalyst particles
Solid state peptide synthesis
Surfaces and Particle Engineering Laboratory
SMS - UK Surface Measurement Systems
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Particle Science