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Dr Bruce Coller

Bruce Coller Senior Lecturer
MSc, PhD (Melbourne), DPhil (Oxford)
Room: 221N, Building 23N, Clayton
Phone: +61 3 9905 4626
Fax: +61 3 9905 4597
email: bruce.coller@sci.monash.edu.au
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Teaching Commitments

  • Molecular statistics & theories of chemical kinetics
  • electrochemistry
  • biophysical chemistry
  • environmental chemistry
  • basic chemistry for nursing
  • phys chemistry lab & assessment of errors (a special interest in improving quality of data analysis & reporting)

Research Areas

  • Mechanism of an industrial chlorination of phenol
  • aluminium and its speciation in water supplies
  • removal of acrylonitrile from waste water

Recent Research

  • iodisation of amino-acids
  • toxic elements in gold mine wastes
  • corrosion
  • swimming pool chemicals
  • foaming
  • crystal dissolution
  • kinetics of polymer formation
Industrial collaboration - many short consultations

Research Areas

  • 3 books, 1 reprinted in UK & 1 in Spanish
  • 61 refereed research papers
  • 12 internal reports
  • Post-graduates: BSc Hons 17 MEnvSc10 MSc 9 PhD10