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Dr Andrew Lewis

Position: Research Fellow
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: Information Technology Engineering and the Environment Divisional Office
Group: Appl Cntr Struct & Synch Study
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: H1-49
Telephone: +61 8 830 25523
Fax: +61 8 830 23683
Email: Andrew_dot_Lewis_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Andrew.Lewis


Qualifications

PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

BSc (Hons) in Geological Oceanography, University of Wales, Bangor, UK

BMus (Hons) in Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK


Research interests

  • Surface coatings for industrial applications
  • Surface analysis especially of minerals, using ToF-SIMS and XPS
  • Commercialisation of research

Research publications

SIMOVIC S, HEARD P, HUI H, SONG Y, PEDDIE F, DAVEY AK, LEWIS A, RADES T, PRESTIDGE CA 2009 Dry Hybrid Lipids Silica Microcapsules Engineered from Submicron Lipid Droplets and Nanoparticles as a Novel Delivery System for Poorly Soluble Drugs. Mol. Pharmaceutics, 6 (3), pp 861–872

PAPAGEORGIOU I, YIN Z, LADON D, BAIRD D, LEWIS AC, SOOD A, NEWSON R, LEARMONTH ID, CASE CP 2007 Genotoxic effects of particles of surgical cobalt chrome alloy on human cells of different age in vitro. Mutat Res 619:45-58.

DICKINSON M, HEARD PJ, BARKER JHA, LEWIS AC, MALLARD D, ALLEN GC 2006 Dynamic SIMS Analysis of Cryo-Prepared Biological and Geological Specimens. Appl Surf Sci 252:6793-6796.

LEWIS AC, LADON D, HEARD PJ, PETO L, LEARMONTH I 2007 The role of the surface chemistry of CoCr alloy particles in the phagocytosis and DNA damage of fibroblast cells. J Biomed Mater Res A 82:363-372.

LEWIS AC, KILBURN MR, HEARD PJ, SCOTT TB, HALLAM KR, ALLEN GC, LEARMONTH ID 2006 The entrapment of corrosion products from CoCr implant alloys in the deposits of calcium phosphate: a comparison of serum, synovial fluid, albumin, EDTA and water. J Orthop Res 24:1587-1596.

SCOTT TB, ALLEN GC, HEARD PJ, LEWIS AC 2005 The extraction of uranium from groundwaters on iron surfaces. Proceeding of The Royal Society: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 461:1247-1259.

LEWIS AC, ROBERTS DJ. 2005 New techniques for following the oxidation of sodium sulfite in mass transfer studies. Ind Eng Chem Res 44:183-185.

LEWIS AC, HEARD PJ 2005 The effects of calcium phosphate deposition upon corrosion of CoCr alloys and the potential for implant failure. J Biomed Mater Res A 75:365-373.

LEWIS AC, KILBURN MR, PAPAGEORGIOU I, ALLEN GC, CASE CP 2005 Dissolution and corrosion properties of synovial fluid, phosphate buffered saline solution and water upon CoCrMo alloys as used in orthopaedic implants. J Biomed Mater Res A 73:456-467.

DAVIES AP, SOOD A, LEWIS AC, NEWSON R, LEARMONTH ID AND CASE CP 2005 Metal-specific differences in levels of DNA damage caused by synovial fluid recovered at revision arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Br 87:1439-1444.




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