Maria Skyllas-Kazacos
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Professor
School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
Telephone: +61 (2) 9385 4335
Facsimile: +61 (2) 9385 5966
Email: M.Skyllas-Kazacos@unsw.edu.au
EDUCATION
BSc [Hons] in Chemical Technology, University
of New South Wales, 1974
University Medal, 1974
PhD in Chemical Technology,University of New
South Wales, 1978
EMPLOYMENT
E.R. Squibb and Sons Pharmaceuticals, Athens, Production Manager, 1974
Bell Telephone Laboratories, CSIRO, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 1978-79
University of New South Wales,
Queen Elizabeth II Post-doctoral Research Fellow in School of Physics, 1980-81
School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Lecturer, 1982-1986
Senior Lecturer, 1986-1988
Associate Professor, 1988-1992
Professor, 1993-
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical
Institute
Fellow, Institution of Engineers,
Australia
Member, Electrochemical Society of USA
Chartered Professional Engineer
Member, Australasian Electric Vehicle Society
INDUSTRIAL CONSULTING
Bell Laboratories, 1978
Comalco Australia, 1984-
Besco Batteries, 1983-1984
Telektronics1984
NSW Energy Authority, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Advisory Committee Member
1982
Vehicles Energy Technology Advisory Committee Member 1983-1984
Agnew Clough Ltd1987-1990
Mitsubishi Chemicals (Japan) 1994-
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Metal Extraction and Molten Salts
Aluminium electrowinning, cryolite and alternative electrolytes. Aluminium
plating from room temperature electrolytes. Electrochemical studies in molten
glass. Vanadium extraction from fly-ash and spent catalysts.
Battery Research
Vanadium Redox-cell batteries for remote area and
load levelling applications. Commercial prototype design and development. Field
testing of vanadium battery in Solar House applications and electric golf cart.
Lead acid batteries, electrode reactions and effect of additives. Batteries for
electric vehicles.
Electrode Processes and Electrode Materials
Chronopotentiometry, cyclic voltammetry and rotating ring-disc voltammetry for
study of mechanisms of electrode reactions at different electrode surfaces.
Preparation and characterization of conductive polymers and conductive plastic
composites. Electrode activation and modification.
Membranes for Electrochemical Systems
Membrane characterization for redox cell applications. Membrane modification.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
M. Skyllas-Kazacos, "A Rotating Ring-Disc Electrode Study of Impurity
Effects on Lead Corrosion in Sulphuric Acid", J. Power Sources, 13, [1984]
55-64.
M. Skyllas-Kazacos and R.G. Robins, "All Vanadium Redox Battery", US
Patent No. 849,094 [1986], Japan Patent Appl. [1986], Australian Patent No.
575247 [1986].
M. Skyllas-Kazacos, D. Kasherman, R. Hong and M. Kazacos, "Characteristics
and Performance of 1 kW Vanadium Redox Battery", J.Power Sources, 35,
[1991] 399-404.
P.K. Lai and M. Skyllas-Kazacos, "Electrodeposition of Aluminium in
AlCl3/t-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium chloride", J.Electroanal.Chem., 248,
[1988] 431.
S.C. Raj and M. Skyllas-Kazacos, "Electrochemical Studies on Wettability of
Sintered TiB2 Electrodes in Aluminium Electrolysis", Electrochimica Acta,
37, [1992] 1395-1401.
S. Zhong, V. Haddadi-Asl, M. Kazacos and M. Skyllas-Kazacos, "Conducting
Plastic Electrodes" PCT Patent Application AU93/00456, Sept. 1993.
M. Skyllas-Kazacos and M. Kazacos, "Stabilized Vanadium Solutions for
Vanadium Redox Battery", PCT Patent Application, AU94/00711, Nov. 1994.
T. Mohammadi and M. Skyllas-Kazacos, "Characterisation of Novel Composite
Membranes for Redox Flow Cell Applications", J.Membrane Sci, 98 (1995) 77.
Over 160 publications including 12 patents and patent applications.
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Last modified on 3 September 1996 by D.E. Wiley