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Dr Peter Lamb

Research interests:

Dr Lamb's research is focussed on utilizing physics to make better materials and solve industrial problems. In more than thirty years of research he has worked on elementary particle physics, engineering noise control, robotic sheep shearing, textile yarn engineering and the prediction of spinning performance, plasma physics and now functional nanomaterials. He has been project leader and inventor or co-inventor of a number of significant textile and fibre related developments such as Siroclear, Solospun and Sirolan Yarnspec. Siroclear was the first detector of coloured contaminants in yarn, of which more than 200,000 units have been sold globally resulting in $4M in royalties. Sirolan Yarnspec, the first software and knowledge package for the prediction of yarn properties and spinning performance, has been used to benchmark and improve performance in wool spinning mills around the world. It has also quantified the relative importance of different fibre properties and changed the premiums and discounts for some properties, which has impacted right back to sheep breeding. He has also been actively involved in Tournament of Minds for more than twenty years and in the effective use of lateral thinking, creative problem-solving and teamwork.


Current projects:


Dr Lamb primarily has a mentoring and support role in functional nanomaterials, plasma projects and textile engineering.

Qualifications:

• D.Phil. (University of Oxford, UK - 1976)
• M.Sc. (University of Melbourne, Australia - 1972)
• B.Sc.(Hons) (University of Melbourne, Australia - 1971)

Relevant employment history:

2007 - present: Research Fellow, Deakin University

2004 - 2007: Private Consultant

1977 - 2004: Research Scientist/Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

1. X. J. Dai*, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, P. R, Lamb, Lu H Li, J. du Plessis, D. G. McCulloch and X. Wang (2011) Controlled surface modification of boron nitride nanotubes, Nanotechnology 22 245301, [DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/24/245301]
2. J. H. Zhao, W. P. Michalski, C. Williams, L. Li, H. S. Xu, P. R. Lamb, S. Jones, Y. M. Zhou, X. J. Dai*, Controlling cell growth on titanium by surface functionalization of heptylamine using a novel combined plasma polymerization mode, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.33035]
3. P. R. Lamb, L. Wang and X. Wang, Twist distribution in staple fibre yarns, J. Text. Inst. 2010, 101(4), 293?303. [DOI: 10.1080/00405000802387028]
4. P. R. Lamb and X. Wang, ?Siro and Solo Spinning?, chapter 8, pp.217-236 in Advances in yarn technology, ed. C. A. Lawrence, Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles: Number 99, Woodhead Publishing Limited 2010, Cambridge, UK. [ISBN 978-1-84569-444-9]
5. L. Li, X. J. Dai*, H. S. Xu, J. H. Zhao, P. Yang, G. Maurdev, J. du Plessis, P. R. Lamb, B. L. Fox, W. P. Michalski, Combined Continuous Wave and Pulsed Plasma Modes: for More Stable Interfaces with Higher Functionality on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces, Plasma Process. Polym. 2009, 6(10), 615. [DOI: 10.1002/ppap.200900042]
6. H. S. Xu, X. J. Dai, P. R. Lamb, Z. M. Li, Poly(L-lactide) Crystallization Induced by Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes at Very Low Loading, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2009, 47(23), 2341-2352. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.21830]
7. H. S. Xu, X. J. Dai*, L. Li, J.H. Zhao, P. Yang, P. R. Lamb, B. L. Fox, and W. P. Michalski, Z. M. Li, Improved Biocompatibility of PLLA/MWCNT Composites, (paper P1.8.21), 19th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Bochum, Germany, July 26th - 31st, 2009
8. C. J. Hurren, Q. Li, P. R. Lamb and X. G. Wang, The Effect of Ultrasonic Irradiation in an Aqueous Environment on the Mechanical Properties of Single Wool Fibres, The Fiber Society 2009 Spring Conference, P784, Shanghai, China, 2009

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