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Professor Ian Snook

Position

Professor

School / Work Unit

Applied Sciences

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2143

ian.snook@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 14
Level: 6
Room: 31

City Campus

Portfolio

Science, Engineering & Technology

"Picture of Ian Snook"

Qualifications

PhD ( Tasmania ), B Sc ( Tasmania )

Teaching/Work responsibilities

  • Honours coordinator
  • Computer simulation group

Research Interests

  • Computational techniques
  • Colloids
  • Surface physics
  • Structure of solids and liquids

Research Projects, Consultancy and Student Project

Atomistic computer simulation of

  • flow of fluid in thin channels
  • adsorption of gases in porous solids
  • adhesion of solids and crystallisation

Publications/Other

Book Chapter

  1. H. Bloom and I.K. Snook, "Models for Molten Salts". In Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, No. 9., Ed. B.E. Conway and J.O.M. Bockris, Plenum, N.Y., (1974) pp. 159-238
  2. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Machine Simulation of Colloidal Dispersions". In "Colloid and Interface Science" Vol IV Ed. Milton Kerker Academic Press, N.Y. (1976) pp. 1-13.
  3. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "The Structure of Liquids near Solid Surfaces". In "Computer Simulation of Macroscopic Properties". 1979 ISBN 09090099 43X.
  4. K. Gaylor, I.K. Snook, W. van Megen and R.O. Watts, "Application of Brownian Dynamics to Photon Correlation Spectroscopy". In "Light Scattering in Fluids and Macromolecular Solutions", Eds. E. Degiongio, M. Corti, and M. Giglio, Plenum, N.Y. (1980) pp. 71-80.
  5. I.Snook and S.Pickering, “Molecular Dynamics on a Massively Parallel Computer for Application to Surface Systems”, Computational Approaches for Novel Condensed Matter Systems, Editors M.Das and D.Neilson, Plenum, New York, (1995) pp. 125 - 138
  6. Robert Rees, Ian Snook, Tim Jakubov and David Mainwaring, "On the thermodynamic stability of adsorbed films and capillary condensation by molecular simulation", Adsorption Science and Technology, World Scientific, (2000) pp. 568-572
  7. Phillip McMahon and Ian Snook," Small Angle X-ray and Ultra Small Angle X-ray scattering from some fractal porous solids - Theory and experiment", Adsorption Science and Technology, World Scientific, (2000) pp. 573-577

Journal Articles

  1. G.H. Cheesman, A.J.T. Finney and I.K. Snook, “Studies in Halogen-Halogen Bonding”, Theoret. Chem Acta (Berl.), 16: 33-42 (1970)
  2. I.K. Snook and T.H. Spurling, “Interatomic Potential Energy Functions for Hydrocarbons Tested by Use of the Hamman-Lambert Model”, Aust. J. Chem., 23: 819-823 (1970)
  3. I.K. Snook and T.H. Spurling, “Intermolecular Interactions in Methane, Carbon Tetrafluoride and Sulphur Hexafluoride”, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. II, 68: 1359-1366 (1972)
  4. I.K. Snook, “An Alternative Derivation of Goddard’s OiiOperator”, Chem. Phys. Letters, 13: 229-232 (1972)
  5. I.K. Snook and T.H. Spurling, “Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory of Intermolecular Potentials: the Helium-Helium Interaction”, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 71: 852-861 (1975)
  6. I.K. Snook and R.O. Watts, “Ab-Initio Calculations for Gaseous and Liquid Helium-4”, Aust. J. Phys., 25: 735-741 (1972)
  7. T.H. Spurling and I.K. Snook, "INDO Calculations for F2, C12, Br2 and I2 using the Deb-Coulson Parameters", Faraday Trans. II, 69: 1183-1186 (1973)
  8. T.H. Spurling and I.K. Snook, "Calculation of Intermolecular Energies: The Water Dimer", Chem. Phys. Letters, 32: 159-162 (1975)
  9. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Colloidal Properties from First Principles", Chem. Phys. Letters, 33: 156-158 (1975)
  10. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "A Hard Sphere Model for Order-Disorder Transitions in Colloidal Dispersions", Chem. Phys. Letters, 35: 399-402 (1975)
  11. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Microscopic Approach to Colloidal Stability", Colloid and Interface Sci., 53: 172-177(1975)
  12. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Prediction of Ordered and Disordered States in Colloidal Dispersions", J.C.S Faraday Trans. II, 72: 316-223 (1976)
  13. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Forces and Structure in Hydrophobic Colloids", Proc. R.A.C.I., 43: 205-208 (1976)
  14. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Statistical Mechanical Approaches to Phase Transitions in Hydrophobic Colloids I. Effects of Electrolyte Concentration",
  15. Colloid and Interface Sci., 57: 40-46 (1976)
  16. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Statistical Mechanical Approaches to Phase Transitions in Hydrophobic Colloids II. Effects of Particle Size", Colloids and Interface Sci., 57: 47-51 (1976)
  17. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Ordered States in Systems of Macroscopic Particles", Nature, 262: 571-572 (1976)
  18. A. Homola, I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Excess Pressure in Colloidal Dispersions”, Colloid and Interface Sci., 61: 493-498 (1977)
  19. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Structure and Ordering in Dilute Dispersions of Spherical Particles", J. Chem. Phys., 66: 813-817 (1977)
  20. I.K. Snook and R.O. Watts, "Perturbation Theories in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics I. Methods Based on Time Displacement Operator",
  21. Mol. Phys., 33: 413-441 (1976)
  22. I.K. Snook and R.O. Watts, "Perturbation Theories in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics II. Methods Based on Memory Function Formalism",
  23. Mol. Phys., 33: 443-452 (1977)
  24. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Statistical Mechanical Approach to Phase Transitions in Colloids", Faraday Disc., Chem. Soc., 65: 92-100 (1978)
  25. I.K. Snook and D. Henderson, "Structure of Hard Sphere Fluids near Hard Walls", J. Chem. Phys., 68: 2134-2139 (1978)
  26. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Structure of Dense Liquids at Solid Interfaces", J. Chem. Phys., 70: 3099-3105 (1979)
  27. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Solvent Structure and Solvation Forces between Solid Bodies", Faraday Trans. II, 75: 1095-1102 (1979)
  28. K. Gaylor, W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Structure of Dispersions of Small Strongly Interfacing Particles", J.C.S Faraday Trans. II, 75: 451-455 (1979)
  29. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "The Grand Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Method Applied to Electrolyte Solutions", Mol. Phys., 39: 1043-1054 (1980)
  30. K. Gaylor, I.K. Snook, W. van Megen and R.O. Watts, "Brownian Dynamics Studies of Dilute Dispersions", Chem. Phys., 43: 233-239 (1979)
  31. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "The Solvation forces between Colloidal Particles", Phys. Letters, 74A: 332-334 (1979)
  32. W. van Megen, I.K. Snook and R.O. Watts, "Elastic Properties of Model Colloids", Colloid and Interface Sci., 77: 131-137 (1980)
  33. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Solvation Forces in Simple Dense Fluids", J. Chem. Phys., 72: 2907-2913 (1980)
  34. K. Gaylor, I.K. Snook, W. van Megen and R.O. Watts, "Brownian Dynamics of Many Body Systems", Faraday Trans II, 76: 1067-1078 (1980)
  35. K. Gaylor, I.K. Snook, W. van Megen and R.O. Watts, "Dynamics of Colloidal Systems : Time Dependent Structure Factors", Phys. A., 13: 2513-2520 (1980)
  36. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Solvation Forces in Simple Fluids II. Effect of Chemical Potential", J. Chem Phys., 74: 1409-1411 (1981)
  37. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "The Grand Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Applied to the Electrical Double Layer", J. Chem.Phys., 73: 4656-5662 (1980)
  38. K. Gaylor, I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Comparison of Brownian Dynamics and Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Particles",
  39. J. Chem. Phys., 75: 1682-1689 (1981)
  40. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Calculation of Solvation Forces between Solid Particles Immersed in a Simple Fluid", Faraday Trans. II, 77: 181-190 (1981)
  41. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Finite Ion Size Effects in the Electrical Double Layer", J. Chem. Phys., 75: 4104-4106 (1981)
  42. B.N. Preston, W.D. Comper, A.E. Hughes, I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Diffusion of Dextran at Intermediate Concentrations", Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. I, 78: 1209-1221 (1982)
  43. I.K. Snook, W. van Megen, K. Gaylor and R.O. Watts, "Computer Simulation of Colloidal Dispersions", Advances in Colloidal and Interface Science, 17: 33-49 (1982)
  44. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen,"Adsorption of Gases at High Pressure I. The Critical Region", Mol. Phys., 45: 629-636 (1982)
  45. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Solvation Forces in Simple Dense Fluids III. Monolayer and Submonolayer Region", J.Chem. Phys., 75: 4738-4739 (1982)
  46. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Physical Adsorption of Gases at High Pressure II. The Effect of Temperature", Mol. Phys., 47: 1417-1428 (1982)
  47. W. van Megen I.K. Snook and B. Vincent, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Small Particle Adsorption at the Solid Electroyte-Solution Interface", Colloid. and Interface Sci., 92: 262-264 (1983)
  48. W. van Megen, I.K. Snook and P.N. Pusey. "Diffusion in Concentrated Hard Sphere Dispersions I. Effects of Two and Three Particle Mobilities", J. Chem. Phys., 78: 931-936 (1983)
  49. W. van Megen, I.K. Snook and A.J.A. Tough, "Diffusion in Concentrated Hard Sphere Dispersions II. Effective Two Particle Mobility Tensors", J. Chem. Phys., 78: 5825-5836 (1983)
  50. Y.M. Tricot, D.N. Furlong, W.H.F. Sasse, P. Daivis, I.K. Snook and W van Megen, "Dihexadecylphosphate Vesicle Dispersions - Preparation, Physical Properties and Inter-actions with Cationic Components used in the Solar Photolysis of Water", Colloid and Interface Sci., 97: 380-391 (1984)
  51. Y.M. Tricot, D.N. Furlong, W.H.F. Sasse, P. Daivis and I.K. Snook, "Adsorption Properties and Stability of Dihexadecylphosphate Vesicles", Aust J. Chem., 36: 609-612 (1983)
  52. W. van Megen and I. K. Snook, "Hard Sphere Perturbation Theories Applied to Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions", Colloid and Interface Sci., 100: 359-371 (1984)
  53. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Calculation of the Wave-Vector Dependent Diffusion Constant in Concentrated Electrostatically Stabilized Dispersions", Colloid and Interface Sci., 100: 194- 202 (1984)
  54. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "A Simple Model for the Interpretation of Static Structure Factors of Ion-Exchange Lattex Suspensions", Colloid and Interface Sci., 102: 446-452 (1984)
  55. I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Concentrated Charge Stabilized Dispersions. Self Diffusion", Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. II, 80: 383-394 (1984)
  56. D. Henderson and I.K. Snook, "The Adsorption of Gases and Vapours on a Solid Surface", J. Chem. Phys., 87: 2956-2959 (1983)
  57. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Equilibrium Properties of Suspensions", Advances in Colloid Interface Science, 21: 119-194 (1984)
  58. W. van Megen and I. K. Snook, "Diffusion in Concentrated Monodispersed Colloidal Solutions : The Hard Sphere - Thermodynamic or Hydrodynamic?", Disc. Faraday Soc., No. 76 151-163 (1984)
  59. P. Daivis, I.K. Snook, W. van Megen, B.N. Preston and W.D. Comper, "Dynamic Light Scattering Measurements of Diffusion in Polymer-Polymer-Solvent Systems", Macromolecules, 17: 2376-2380 (1984)
  60. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Physical Adsorption of Gases at High Pressure III. Adsorption in Slit-Like Pores", Mol.Phys., 54: 741-755 (1985)
  61. W. van Megen, S.M. Underwood and I.K. Snook, "Tracer Diffusion in Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions", J. Chem. Phys., 85: 4065-4072 (1986)
  62. E.R. Smith,I.K. Snook and W. van Megen, "Hydrodynamic Interactions in Brownian Dynamics I. Periodic Boundary Conditions for Computer Simulations", Physica, 143A: 441-467 (1987)
  63. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Dynamic Computer Simulation of Concentrated Dispersions", J. Chem. Phys., 80: 1185-1191 (1988)
  64. M.R. Reich, S.P. Russo, I.K. Snook and H.K. Wagenfeld, "The Application of S.A.X.S. to the Determination of Fractal Properties of Porous Carbon Based Solids", Colloid and Interface Science., 135: 353-362 (1990)
  65. I.K. Snook, W. van Megen and P.N. Pusey, "The Structure of Colloidal Glassses Calculated by the Molecular Dynamics Method and Measured by Light Scattering", Physical Review, A, 43: 6900 - 6907 (1991)
  66. K. Hunter, D. Swingler, I. Snook and H.K. Wagenfeld, "Monte Carlo Calculation of the Contribution of Backscattered Electrons to the Secondary Electron Yield of Aluminium", J.Physics D, J.Applied Physics, 23: 1738-1743 (1990)
  67. K.Briggs, E.R.Smith, I.K.Snook and W.van Megen, "Positive Definitness of the Mobility Matrix for Computer Simulation of Systems of Hard Spheres with Stick Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions", Physics Letters, A154: 149-153 (1991)
  68. M.R. Reich, I.K.Snook and H.K.Wagenfeld,"A Fractal Interpretation of the Effect of Drying on Pore Structure of Victorian Wet and Dry Brown Coal ", Fuel, 71: 669-672 (1992)
  69. I.K.Snook and J.B. Hayter "Static Structure of Strongly Interacting Colloidal Particles”, Langmuir, 8: 2880 - 2884 (1992)
  70. P.R.Johnston, P.McMahon, M.R. Reich,I.K. Snook and H.K.Wagenfeld, " The Effect of Processing on the Fractal Pore Structure of Victorian Brown Coal”, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 155: 146-151 (1993)
  71. I.Snook and P.McMahon, “Fractal Pore Surfaces in Brown Coal, Their Changes on Processing and Their Effect on Combustion”, Langmuir, 9: 2726 - 2729 (1993)
  72. K.L. Hunter, I.K. Snook and H.K. Wagenfeld, “Enhanced Secondary Electron Emission from Multilayer Surfaces : Experiment and Monte Carlo Simulation “ J. Phys. D :Appl.Phys. 27: 1769-1773 (1994)
  73. S.D. Moss, R.A. O'Sulivan, P.J.K.Paterson, I.K. Snook, A.J. Russo, A. Katsaros and N. Savvides, "Modification of the adhesion and contact resistance of the Ag/YBa2Cu3O7 interface with keV electron irradiation", J. Appl. Phys., 78: 5782 - 5786 (1995)
  74. K.Hunter, I.Snook and H.Wagenfeld, "Monte Carlo study of electron transmission and backscattering from metallic thin films", Phys. Rev. B, 54: 4507 - 4510 (1996)
  75. S. Pickering and I. Snook, "A Parallel Implementation of Molecular Dynamics", J. High Performance Computing, 3: 15 - 22 (1996)
  76. P. McMahon and I. Snook, "Small angle scattering from porous mass fractal solids", J. Chem. Phys., 105: 2223 - 2227 (1996)
  77. A. McDonough, A. Panjkov, S. Russo and I. Snook, "Implementation of a molecular dynamics simulation on a transputer array in parallel C", Computer Phys. Comms., 103: 157-169 (1997)
  78. S. Pickering and I. Snook, "Molecular dynamics simulation of crystallisation of metastable fluids", Physica A, 240: 297 - 304 (1997)
  79. I.K.Snook, K.M. Briggs and E.R.Smith, "Hydrodynamic interactions and some new periodic structures in three particle sediments ", Physica A, 240: 547-559 (1997)
  80. S. Pickering and I.K. Snook, "A massively parallel molecular dynamics algorithm for the MasPar supercomputer", Computer Physics Communications, 108: 200-210 (1998)
  81. S.L. Lai, W.J. Ma, W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Liquid glass transition phase diagram for concentrated charge-stabilized colloids", Phys. Rev. E, 56: 766-769 (1997)
  82. B. O'Malley, I. Snook and D. McCulloch, "Reverse Monte Carlo analysis of the structure of glassy carbon using electron-microscopy data", Phys. Rev. B, 57: 1-10 (1998)
  83. G. Grechola, S. Russo and I. Snook, "An ab-initio potential for Ne2 and the equilibrium properties of neon", Mol. Phys., 95: 471-475 (1998)
  84. I. Snook, "Brownian Dynamics, Hydrodynamics and Colloidal Dynamics", Current Topics in Colloid and Interface Science, Research Trends, India, Volume 2, 111-129 (1997)
  85. Ian Snook, “Some personal reminiscences on John Barker and his influence in Australia”, Molecular Physics, 95: 127 (1998)
  86. P.J. McMahon, I.K. Snook, S.D. Moss and P.R. Johnston#, “Influence of Fractal Pores on the Oxidation Behaviour of Brown Coal”, Energy and Fuels, 13: 965 (1999)
  87. A. McDonough, S.P. Russo and I.K. Snook, "Long time behaviour of the velocity autocorrelation function for moderately dense, soft-repulsive and Lennard-Jones fluids", Phys. Rev. E, 63: 26109 - 26117 (2001)
  88. Phillip J. McMahon, Ian Snook and Edgar Smith," An alternative derivation of the equation for small angle scattering from pores with fuzzy interfaces", J. Chem. Phys., 114: 7117-7118 (2001)
  89. M.G. Mcphie, P.J. Daivis, I.K. Snook, J. Ennis and D.J. Evans," Generalised Langevin equation for nonequilibrium systems", Physica A, to appear (2001)
  90. S.R. Williams, I.K. Snook and W. van Megen," Molecular dynamics study of the stability of the hard sphere glass", 64: 21506-21512 (2001)

Conferences Papers/Publications

  1. W. van Megen and I.K. Snook, "Microscopic Approach to the Properties of Model Colloids", Proc. International Conference on Surface and Colloid Science”, Budapest, Vol. 2, Ed. E. Wolfram. (1976) pp. 185-192
  2. M. Setek, I.K. Snook and H.K. Wagenfeld, "Determination of the Microstructure of Wet and Dry Brown Coal by Small angle X-Ray Scattering", The Chemistry of Low Rank Coals, A.C.S.Symposium No.264, Ed. H.H. Schobert, A.C.S, Washington (1984)

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