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Associate Professor Phillip Pendleton
Position: Associate Professor
Division/Portfolio: Division of Health Sciences
School/Unit: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Campus: City East Campus
Office: R5-28
Telephone: +61 8 830 22188
Fax: +61 8 830 21087
Email: Phillip_dot_Pendleton_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Phillip.Pendleton


Why not visit my research group's web site?

My research group, the Porous Materials Research Group has recently merged with two other research groups, the Analysis and Sensors Group and the Food Science and Technology Centre. We are now known as the Centre for Molecular and Materials Sciences. Our new site has just been released but is also under continuing change, as it should be! Thank you for your patience.

Centre for Molecular and Materials Sciences

Teaching interests

  • Adsorption Science and Technology
  • Separation Processes
  • Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Biochemical Process Design

I teach the following courses

CHEM 2015Biochemical Process Design 200
CHEM 2016Biochemical Process Design 201
CHEM 3015Applications Research Project 301
CHEM 3016Biochemical Process Design 301

Professional associations

International Adsorption Society

International Water Association

Royal Australian Chemical Institute

Sigma Xi

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Bristol University)

M.Sc. (Bristol Univeristy)

B.Sc.(Hons) (Edinburgh Univeristy)

Research interests

  • Gas and solution adsorption by porous solids
  • Investigations into fundamental adsorption phenomena
  • Application of fundamental adsorption principles to industrial problems and opportunities

Research publications

R. McCallum, P. Pendleton, R. Schumann and M-U. Trinh, “Determination of Geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol in Water Using Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography – Chemical Ionisation/Electron Impact Ionisation – Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry”, Analyst, 123, 2155, (1998)

P. Pendleton, C. Sauerland and C. Howard, “SANS by Activated Carbons Used in Drinking Water Treatment”, NIST Annual Report # S4-14 (1998)

P. Agren, P. Pendleton and J. Rosenholm, “Microstructural Analysis of the Effects of Poly(ethylene glycol) on an Acid Catalyzed Sol-Gel Derived Ceramic Material”, Adsorption, 5, 305, (1999)

P. Pendleton, “Temperature Influence of Benzene Adsorption by a Microporous Silica”, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 227, 227, (2000)

R. Considine, R. Denoyel, P. Pendleton, R. Schumann and S-H. Wong, “The Influence of Surface Chemistry on Activated Carbon Adsorption of 2-mehtylisoborneol from Aqueous Solution”, Colloids and Surfaces A. Physiochem. & Eng. Asp., 179, 271, (2001)

P. Pendleton, S-H. Wong and R. Schumann, “Microcystin-LR Adsorption by Activated Carbon”, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 240, 1, (2001)

A. Badalyan, P. Pendleton and H. Wu, “Development of an Automated Gas Adsorption Apparatus for the Characterisation of the Surface Area, Pore Size Distribution and Density of Powdered Materials”, Rev. Sci. Intrum., 72, 3038, (2001)

A. Nemati, P. Pendleton, A. Badalyan, M. Abedini and M.M. Amini, “Oxidation of Silica-supported Co(II)-substituted Heteropolyacids”, J. Mol. Catal. A, 175, 277, (2001)

S. H. Wu and P. Pendleton, "Adsorption of Anionic Surfactant by Activated Carbon: Effect of Surface Chemistry, Ionic Strength, and Hydrophobicity", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 243, 306, (2001)

A. Nemati, P. Pendleton, A. Badalyan, M. Abedini and M.M. Amini, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and TOF-SIMS of Nickel Formate Decomposition on Sol-Gel Alumina”, J. Catalysis, 205, 7, (2002)

P. Pendleton, S.H. Wu, and A. Badalyan, "Activated Carbon Oxygen Content Influence on Water and Surfactant Adsorption", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 246, 235, (2002)

Kharat, A.N., Abedini, M., Amini, M.M., Pendleton, P., and Badalyan, A. "Investigation of the Preyssler phosphotungstate heteropolyanion, [NaP5W30O110]14-, properties with different counter ions", Transition Metal Chem., 28, 339, (2003)

Pendleton, P. and Wu, S.H. "Kinetics of dodecanoic acid adsorption from caustic solution by activated carbon", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 266, 245, (2003)

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Chemical Technology

  • Adsorption Separation Process (Chemical Engineering)
  • Porous Materials
  • Surface Chemistry
  • Water Purification
  • Chemical Technology

Research Degree Supervisor

I am the Director of the Center for Molecular and Materials Sciences and an Associate Professor of Adsorption Technology in the School of Pharmaceutical, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences. I lecture and supervise postgraduate, honors and undergraduate students in the subjects of Adsorption Science, Separation Processes and Thermodynamics.

The principal directions of my research are the application of surface thermodynamics to interpret fundamental adsorption processes at the solid-gas and at the solid-liquid interfaces. I like to give my research students every opportunity to explore and develop their own abilities to solve the problems associated with adsorption. Periodically, my research requires the modification of either the surface chemistry or the porosity to impress an understanding of the adsorption processes.

I provide my students with their own PC and equipment and bench space to perform their research, as well as provide opportunities to present their research directly to our research sponsors. Sometimes, opportunities are provided to perform collaborative research at other first-class facilities around the world.



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