Profile
Prof. Geoffrey Waterhouse is a principal investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology and an associate investigator in the Dodd Walls Centre for Photonics & Quantum Technologies (both are New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence). In addition to his recent appointment as a Chair Professor in the College of Chemistry and Material Science at SAU, he is also a Guest Professor in the Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) and an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research expertise includes nanomaterials synthesis, optical sensor development, catalysis and the development of drug delivery platforms. He has published more than 100 SCI journal articles in the past 6 years, including high impact factor journal publications in Nature Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, JACS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of Catalysis, ChemSusChem, Applied Catalysis B:Environmental, Chemical Communications and Scientific Reports. His journal articles have been cited almost 3000 times, and he has a h-index of 30. Geoffrey is one of New Zealand’s foremost users of synchrotron techniques, and holds a number of elected positions in the Australasian synchrotron science community including the New Zealand Synchrotron Group Access Committee and the Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee.
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Representative Publications
Self-Assembled Au/CdSe Nanocrystal Clusters for Plasmon-Mediated Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Shi, Run; Cao, Yinhu; Bao, Yanjun; Zhao, Yufei; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Fang, Zheyu; Wu, Li-Zhu; Tung, Chen-Ho; Yin, Yadong; Zhang, Tierui. Advanced Materials (2017), 29(27), DOI:10.1002/adma.201700803.
"Naked" Magnetically Recyclable Mesoporous Au-γ-Fe2O3 Nanocrystal Clusters: A Highly Integrated Catalyst System. Shang, Lu; Liang, Yunhui; Li, Mengzhu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Tang, Pei; Ma, Ding; Wu, Li-Zhu; Tung, Chen-Ho; Zhang, Tierui. Advanced Functional Materials (2017), 27(9), DOI:10.1002/adfm.201606215
Thiolate-Mediated Photoinduced Synthesis of Ultrafine Ag2S Quantum Dots from Silver Nanoparticles. Cao, Yitao; Geng, Wei; Shi, Run; Shang, Lu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Liu, Limin; Wu, Li-Zhu; Tung, Chen-Ho; Yin, Yadong; Zhang, Tierui. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2016), 55(48), 14952-14957. DOI:10.1002/anie.201608019
Catalytically Active Bimetallic Nanoparticles Supported on Porous Carbon Capsules Derived From Metal-Organic Framework Composites. Yang, Hui; Bradley, Siobhan J.; Chan, Andrew; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Nann, Thomas; Kruger, Paul E.; Telfer, Shane G. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016), 138(36), 11872-11881. DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b06736
Novel Au/TiO2 Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production in Alcohol-Water Mixtures Based on Hydrogen Titanate Nanotube Precursors. Dosado, Aubrey G.; Chen, Wan-Ting; Chan, Andrew; Sun-Waterhouse, Dongxiao; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. Journal of Catalysis (2015), 330, 238-254. DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2015.07.014
Effect of TiO2 Polymorph and Alcohol Sacrificial Agent on the Activity of Au/TiO2 Photocatalysts for H2 Production in Alcohol-Water Mixtures. Chen, Wan-Ting; Chan, Andrew; Al-Azri, Zakiya H. N.; Dosado, Aubrey G.; Nadeem, Muhammad A.; Sun-Waterhouse, Dongxiao; Idriss, Hicham; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. Journal of Catalysis (2015), 329, 499-513. DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2015.06.014
Heterojunction Synergies in Titania-Supported Gold Photocatalysts: Implications for Solar Hydrogen Production. Jovic, Vedran; Smith, Kevin E.; Idriss, Hicham; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. ChemSusChem (2015), 8(15), 2551-2559. DOI:10.1002/cssc.201500126
The Roles of Metal Co-Catalysts and Reaction Media in Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Performance Evaluation of M/TiO2 Photocatalysts (M = Pd, Pt, Au) in Different Alcohol-Water Mixtures. Al-Azri, Zakiya H. N.; Chen, Wan-Ting; Chan, Andrew; Jovic, Vedran; Ina, Toshiaki; Idriss, Hicham; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. Journal of Catalysis (2015), 329, 355-367. DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2015.06.005
Ni/TiO2: A Promising Low-Cost Photocatalytic System for Solar H2 Production from Ethanol-Water Mixtures. Chen, Wan-Ting; Chan, Andrew; Sun-Waterhouse, Dongxiao; Moriga, Toshihiro; Idriss, Hicham; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. Journal of Catalysis (2015), 326, 43-53. DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2015.03.008
Structural, Optical, and Catalytic Support Properties of γ-Al2O3 Inverse Opals. Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Chen, Wan-Ting; Chan, Andrew; Jin, Haishun; Sun-Waterhouse, Dongxiao; Cowie, Bruce C. C. Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2015), 119(12), 6647-6659. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00437
Effect of Gold Loading and TiO2 Support Composition on the Activity of Au/TiO2 Photocatalysts for H2 Production from Ethanol-Water Mixtures. Jovic, Vedran; Chen, Wan-Ting; Sun-Waterhouse, Dongxiao; Blackford, Mark G.; Idriss, Hicham; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. Journal of Catalysis (2013), 305, 307-317. DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2013.05.031
High Surface Area Polypyrrole Scaffolds for Tunable Drug Delivery. Sharma, Manisha; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.; Loader, Samuel W. C.; Garg, Sanjay; Svirskis, Darren. International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2013), 443(1-2), 163-168. DOI:10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.01.006
The Effect of Gold Loading and Particle Size on Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Ethanol over Au/TiO2 Nanoparticles. Murdoch, M.; Waterhouse, G. I. N.; Nadeem, M. A.; Metson, J. B.; Keane, M. A.; Howe, R. F.; Llorca, J.; Idriss, H. Nature Chemistry (2011), 3(6), 489-492. DOI:10.1038/nchem.1048
