Duncan McGillivray

Research Fellow

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Research School of Chemistry

The Australian National University

Phone: +61 2 6125 4132

Email: duncan.mcgillivray at anu.edu.au

Research

I started my research career studying for an Honours degree with Prof. John White at the Research School of Chemistry, investigating the deformation of myoglobin at the air/water interface.

I was then awarded a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford to study for a DPhil in the Thomas group, specialising in neutron reflectometry from surfactant systems at the solid/liquid interface.

This was followed by time with Prof. Mathias Lösche at the NIST Center for Neutron Research in the US, developing biomimetic model membranes, and studied the structure and function of membrane-associated proteins, supplemented with studies into other membrane-related systems, including looking at the association of highly-charged ions next to charged lipid layers.

Having returned to Canberra as a Research Fellow, I am continuing to follow my interest in biological surface-related problems while also working in materials development.

• Briscoe, W. H.; Titmuss, S.; Tiberg, F.; Thomas, R. K.; McGillivray, D. J.; Klein, J. Boundary lubrication under water, Nature, 2006, 444, 191

• Pittler, J.; Bu, W.; Vaknin, D.; Travesset, A.; McGillivray, D. J.; Lösche, M. Charge inversion at minute electrolyte concentration, Phys. Rev. Lett. , 2006, 97, 046102

• Dura, J. A.; Pierce, D.; Majkrzak, C. F.; Maliszewskyj, N.; McGillivray, D. J.; Lösche, M.; O'Donovan, K. V.; Mihailescu, M.; Perez-Salas, U. A.; Worcester, D. L.; White, S. H. AND/R: Advanced Neutron Diffractometer/Reflectometer for investigation of thin films and multilayers for the life sciences. Rev. Sci. Instr. 2006, 77, 074301.

• Valincius, G.; McGillivray, D. J.; Febo-Ayala, W.; Vanderah, D. J.; Kasianowicz, J. J.; Lösche, M Enzyme Activity to Augment the Characterization of tethered Bilayer Membranes, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 10213

• Shaw, W. J.; Ferris, K. F.; Krueger, S.,; Perez-Salas, U. A.,; Silin, V.; McGillivray, D. J.; Campbell, A. A.; Paine, M. L.; Snead, M. L. The Orientation of an Amelogenin on Hydroxyapatite Determined Using Neutron Scattering, Solid-State NMR and Computational Methods, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues, 2005, W. J Landis & J Sopek eds., University of Toronto Press

• McGillivray, D. J.; Ordered Stable Vesicles at the Silicon-Water Interface , in Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , 2004, J. A. Schwarz, C. Contescu, K. Putyera eds., Marcel Dekker Inc.

• McGillivray, D. J.; Thomas, R. K.; Rennie, A. R.; Sivia, D. S.; Penfold, J. Ordered Structures of Di-chain Cationic Surfactants at Interfaces, Langmuir 2003, 19, 7719 (Cover article).

• Reynolds, P. A.; McGillivray, D. J.; Gilbert, E. P.; Holt, S. A.; Henderson, M. J.; White, J. W. Neutron reflectivity from mixed polyisobutylene based surfactants at the air-water interface,  Langmuir 2003, 19, 752

• Holt, S. A.; McGillivray, D. J.; Poon, S.; White, J. W. Protein deformation and surfactancy at an interface, J. Phys. Chem. B 2000, 104, 7431

• Kienzle, P. A.; Doucet, M.; McGillivray, D. J.; O'Donovan, K. V.; Berk, N. F.; Majkrzak, C. F., ga_refl modeling software , http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/reflpak 2006