Dr Trevor Lewis
Deputy Head of School & Senior Lecturer
BSc, PhD(Woll), MRACI
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Newnham Campus |
| Building |
Science Building |
| Room Reference |
272/325 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6324 3826 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6324 3839 |
| Email |
Trevor.Lewis@utas.edu.au |
Teaching Responsibilities
Broadly my teaching interests are analytical, physical and environmental chemistry. At first year level this covers: gases, solutions, chemical equilibria, thermodynamics, kinetics and electrochemistry. At higher levels it involves: electrochemistry (electroanalytical chemistry, solution chemistry, conducting polymers); instrumental analysis (with an emphasis on metal analysis); traditional wet chemistry techniques; water pollution and clean up and soil chemistry.
Units
Publications
- Methodoligical notes on redox potential (EH) measurements and the application of a multiple-electrode redox probe (MERP) for characterising sediments in-situ. P. R. Teasdale, A. I. Minett, K. Dixon, T. W. Lewis, G. E. Batley 1998 * Analytica Chimica Acta 367 210-13
- Electrofunctional polymers: their role in the development of new analytical sensors. T. W. Lewis, G. G. Wallace, M. R. Smyth 1999 * Analyst 124 213-9
- Development of Polypyrrole Based Electromechanical Actuators A. S. Hutchison, T. W. Lewis, S. E. Moulton, G. M. Spinks and G. G. Wallace 2000 * Synthetic Metals 113(1-2) 121-7
- Evaluation of solid polymer electrolytes for use in conducting polymer/nanotube actuators. T. W. Lewis, B. C. Kim, G. M. Spinks, G. G. Wallace 2000 * Proceedings of SPIE 3987 351-7
- Current state and future directions of research and development in conducting polymers. G. M. Spinks, P. C. Innis, T. W. Lewis, L. A. P. Kane-Maguire, G. G. Wallace, 2000 * Materials Forum 24 125-66
- Investigation of the applied potential limits for polypyrrole employed as the active components in a two-electrode device. T. W. Lewis, G. M. Spinks, G. G. Wallace, D. De Rossi, A. Mazzoldi 2001 * Synthetic Metals 122(2) 379-85
- Amorphous calcium silicate as a chemisorbent for phosphate. D. C. Southam, T. W. Lewis, A. J. McFarlane, J. H. Johnston 2004 * Current Applied Physics 4 355-8
- Copper/metal ratios in the gills of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) provide evidence of copper exposure under conditions of mixed-metal exposure. R. W. Daglish, B. F. Nowak, T. W. Lewis 2004 * Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 47(1) 110-116
Achievements
Dr Lewis gained his BSc and PhD from the University of Wollongong and was a Senior Lecturer in Environmental/Analytical Chemistry at that University until he moved to the University of Tasmania, Launceston, in 2000. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and is now involved in teaching and research on both Launceston and Hobart campuses.
Research Interests
My research interests fall into two broad areas: (i) applications of conducting electroactive polymers, highly dynamic plastics that conduct electricity, and (ii) environmental chemistry. Electroactive polymers change their chemical and mechanical properties significantly and reversibly when small electric potentials are appplied to them leading to a wide range of applications, including actuators and environmental sensors (eg volatile organics and the "electronic nose"). In environmental chemistry my interests lie in water treatment, especially water recycling and reuse of industrial waters, and the analysis and fate of pollutants in environmental waters. Research projects in this area involve the removal of inorganic pollutants (eg nitrates, phosphates, metals) and organic contaminants (sludges, resins, metal / organic complexes) from industrial and agricultural effluents and industrial process waters.
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