Professor

David Solomon

AC FAA FTSE FRS

David Solomon
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Professor David Solomon has made many important contributions to basic and applied polymer chemistry. His pioneering work on the reaction kinetics of ester and alkyd polymerizations is internationally recognised and forms the basis of techniques used industrially. He has made similar advances for acrylic resins and vinyl-modified alkyd polymers. His clarification of fundamental mechanisms and interactions in glycerol/vegetable-oil reaction mixtures had led to major reassessments of theory and practice in the production and use of alkyd resins. More recently in his work on the interactions of organic compounds with mineral surfaces he has solved long-standing problems of clay colour-reactions, catalysis, and the initiation of polymerization at surfaces. The principles he has elucidated have been used to develop new industrial products within Australia and overseas. In each of these areas David wrote the definitive reference book.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3403 MACROMOLECULAR AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
    • 340304 Optical Properties of Materials
    • 340306 Polymerisation Mechanisms
    • 340309 Theory and Design of Materials
    • 340399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340501 Free Radical Chemistry
    • 340599 Organic Chemistry not elsewhere classified
40 ENGINEERING
  • 4016 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
    • 401609 Polymers and Plastics

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Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Polymerization
  • Polymers

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