Associate Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse

BSc, MSc(1st class), PhD, FNZIC, MRSNZ

Associate Professor

In: Chemical Sciences » Faculty of Science

Biography

Theme Leader (Energy), The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (2019-)
Associate Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland (2017-)
Chair Professor, College of Chemistry and Material Science, Shandong Agricultural University (2017-)
Guest Professor, Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016-)
Principal Investigator, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (2016-)
Chair Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (2015-)
Associate Investigator, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies (2015-)
Senior Lecturer - above the bar, School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland (2012-2017)
Coordinator of Synchrotron Science, The University of Auckland (2011-2014)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (2013)
Associate Investigator, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (2009-2016)
Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland (2009-2012)
Research Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Auckland (2007-2009)
NZST Research Fellow, IFS, Massey University (2004-2007)
Staff Scientist, Light Metals Research Centre, Auckland (2003-2004)
Research Fellow, Dept. of Food Science, The University of Auckland (2001-2003)
PhD(Chemistry), The University of Auckland (2004)

Research | Current

Current research is clustered in four distinct areas;

Development of efficient semiconductor catalysts for solar water splitting, alcohol photoreforming, carbon dioxide reduction and nitrogen fixation.
Fabrication of smart optical coatings, in particular photonic crystal thin films, for sensing and optoelectronic applications.
Manipulation of the composition, structure and electronic properties of rare earth-doped oxide and oxynitride phosphors for white LED applications.
Advancement of synchrotron techniques (XPS, XANES, XRD, IR) in materials science research.

Our research in these areas supports the six year science plans of two NZ Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs), the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and the Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies.

Teaching | Current

PHARMACY 211 - Applied Science for Pharmacy (Lecturer and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Coordinator)
CHEM 310 - Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Lecturer and Coordinator)
CHEM 340 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry (Lecturer)
CHEM 360 - Contemporary Green Chemistry (Lecturer)
CHEM 380 - Materials Chemistry (Lecturer)
CHEM 710 - Structural and Computational Chemistry (Lecturer and Coordinator)

Responsibilities

Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry/Materials Science

Areas of expertise

Surface chemistry
Heterogeneous catalysis
Photocatalysis
Renewable energy technologies
Photonic crystal engineering
Photonics

Committees/Professional groups/Services

University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee (2016-now)

Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee (2015-2018)

New Zealand Synchrotron Group Access Committee (2013-now)

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Zhang, T., Wei, S., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Fu, L., Liu, L., Shi, W., ... Ai, S. (2020). Chromium (VI) adsorption and reduction by humic acid coated nitrogen-doped magnetic porous carbon. Powder Technology, 360, 55-64. 10.1016/j.powtec.2019.09.091
Sun, Y., He, J., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Xu, L., Zhang, H., Qiao, X., & Xu, Z. (2019). A selective molecularly imprinted electrochemical sensor with GO@COF signal amplification for the simultaneous determination of sulfadiazine and acetaminophen. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, 30010.1016/j.snb.2019.126993
Guo, M., Hou, Q., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Hou, J., Ai, S., & Li, X. (2019). A simple aptamer-based fluorescent aflatoxin B1 sensor using humic acid as quencher. Talanta, 20510.1016/j.talanta.2019.120131
Li, Y., Xu, M., Yin, H., Shi, W., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Li, H., & Ai, S. (2019). Yolk-shell Fe<inf>3</inf>O<inf>4</inf> nanoparticles loaded on persimmon-derived porous carbon for supercapacitor assembly and As (V) removal. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 810.10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.151887
Wen, B., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Jia, M. Y., Jiang, X. H., Zhang, Z. M., & Yu, L. M. (2019). The feasibility of polyaniline-TiO<inf>2</inf> coatings for photocathodic antifouling: antibacterial effect. Synthetic Metals, 257.10.1016/j.synthmet.2019.116175
Shi, R., Zhao, Y., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Zhang, S., & Zhang, T. (2019). Defect Engineering in Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation. ACS CATALYSIS, 9 (11), 9739-9750. 10.1021/acscatal.9b03246
Wang, S., Li, F., Dai, X., Wang, C., Lv, X., Waterhouse, G. I. N., ... Ai, S. (2019). Highly flexible and stable carbon nitride/cellulose acetate porous films with enhanced photocatalytic activity for contaminants removal from wastewater. Journal of hazardous materials10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121417
Yang, H., Shang, L., Zhang, Q., Shi, R., Waterhouse, G. I. N., Gu, L., & Zhang, T. (2019). A universal ligand mediated method for large scale synthesis of transition metal single atom catalysts. Nature communications, 10 (1)10.1038/s41467-019-12510-0