Dr Craig Priest
Contact Details
Tel: +61 8 8302 5146
Fax: +61 8 8302 3683
Email: craig.priest@unisa.edu.au
Position
Research Fellow
Qualifications
BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Background
Dr Craig Priest has extensive experience studying the wettability of
tailored interfaces and fluid control in microfluidic devices. He received
his PhD in 2005 from the University of South Australia for his thesis on the
wettability of chemically patterned surfaces. He has since extended this
work to reveal more details about the role of microscopic roughness on
wetting and, particularly, wetting hysteresis. In his postdoctoral position
at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Goettingen,
Germany, he expanded his research to include droplet-based microfluidic
systems. He demonstrated the viability of microfluidic generation,
manipulation, and coalescence of nanolitre droplets at high dispersed-phase
volume fractions, where the droplet arrangements are spatially controlled by
interfacial tension and the channel geometry.
In his present position as Research Fellow at The Wark, he is focused on the
role of functional interfaces in controlling liquid samples within
microfluidic channels and developing new opportunities for exploiting
microfluidic devices to drive process intensification in industry. In 2012,
he was appointed as Deputy Director of the South Australian Node of the
Australian National Fabrication Facility.
Craig is regularly involved in community activities and has written articles
for InDaily and SA Mines and Energy Magazine. He was a successful nominee to
the national competition for science communication, Fresh Science (2009),
and was awarded the Early Career Researcher - Tall Poppy of the Year Award
at the South Australian Science Excellence Awards in 2011. He is currently a
member of the South Australian Government's Premier's Science and Industry
Council, the Access Committee for the South Australian node of the
Australian National Fabrication Facility, and is an elected member of the
Executive Policy and Planning Committee of the Ian Wark Research Institute (UniSA).
Research Interests
Material and interface science
Fabrication of functionalised and structured interfaces
Microfluidics - Discrete and Digital Microfluidics - Extraction -
Encapsulation
Wettability and contact angle hysteresis on heterogeneous and structured
surfaces
Mineral extraction/separation
Supervisor - Available Postgraduate/Honours Projects
High-speed
spreading and controlled entrainment of fluids in microfluidic devices
(P)
Liquid crystal
wetting properties for novel microfluidic sensors (P)
Publications
Priest, C., Sedev, R., Ralston, J., A quantitative experimental study of
wetting hysteresis on chemical heterogeneity, Journal of Adhesion Science
Technology, 2012, accepted. Invited Article.
Priest, C., Zhou, J., Klink, S., Sedev, R., Ralston, J., Microfluidic
solvent extraction of metal ions and complexes from leach solutions
containing nanoparticles, Chemical Engineering & Technology, 2012, accepted.
Invited Article.
Al-Bataineh, S.A, Szili, E.J, Gruner, P.J., Priest, C., Griesser, H.J.,
Voelcker, N.H., Short, R.D., Steele, D.A., Fabrication and operation of a
microcavity plasma array device for microscale surface modification, Plasma
Processes & Polymers, 2012, accepted.
Paneru, M., Priest, C., Ralston, J., Sedev, R., Electrowetting of ionic
liquids on Teflon AF1600 in ambient hexadecane, Journal of Adhesion Science
Technology, 2012, accepted. Invited Article.
Priest C., Forsberg P.S.H., Sedev R., Ralston J., Structure-induced wetting
of liquid in micropillar arrays, Microsystem Technologies, 18, 167 (2012).
Priest C., Reid M.D., Whitby C., Formation and stability of nanoparticle-stabilised
oil-in-water emulsions using a microfluidic chip, Journal of Colloid
Interface Science, 363, 301, (2011).
Priest. C., Gruner P.J., Szili E.J., Al-Bataineh S.A., Bradley J.W., Ralston
J., Steele D.A., Short R.D., Microplasma patterning of bonded microchannels
using high-precision ??injected?? electrodes, Lab Chip, 11, 541 (2011)
Priest C., Zhou J., Sedev R., Ralston J., Aota A., Mawatari K., Kitamori T.,
Microfluidic extraction of copper from particle-laden solutions, Int. J.
Mineral Process., 98, 168 (2011)
Priest C., Surface patterning of bonded microfluidic channels,
Biomicrofluidics, 4, 032206 (2010)
Paneru M., Priest C., Sedev R., Ralston J., Static and Dynamic
Electrowetting of an Ionic Liquid in a Solid/Liquid/Liquid System, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 132, 8301 (2010)
Paneru M., Priest C., Sedev R., Ralston, J., Electrowetting of Aqueous
Solutions of Ionic Liquid in Solid-Liquid-Liquid Systems, J. Phys. Chem. C,
114, 8383 (2010).
Forsberg P. S. H., Priest C., Brinkmann M., Sedev R., Ralston J., Contact
line pinning on microstructured surfaces for liquids in the Wenzel state,
Langmuir 26, 860 (2010).
Iwashita Y., Bahr C., Priest C., Herminghaus S., Seemann R., Dynamic x-ray
optics with microfluidics: stabilization of gas bubbles by surface ordering
and freezing, Houille Blanche-Revue Internationale de L Eau, 6, 129, (2009)
Surenjav E., Herminghaus S., Priest C., Seemann R., Discrete microfluidics:
Reorganizing droplet arrays at a bend, Applied Physics Letters 95, 154104
(2009)
Evans H. M., Surenjav E., Priest C., Herminghaus S., Seemann R., Pfohl T.,
In situ formation, manipulation, and imaging of droplet-encapsulated fibrin
networks, Lab on a Chip 9, 1933 (2009)
Priest C., Albrecht T. W. J, Sedev R., Ralston J., Asymmetric wetting
hysteresis on hydrophobic microstructured surfaces, Langmuir 25, 5655 (2009)
Surenjav E., Priest C., Herminghaus S., Seemann R., Manipulation of gel
emulsions by variable microchannel geometry, Lab on a Chip 9, 325 (2009)
Priest C., Quinn A., Postma A., Zelikin A.N., Ralston J., Caruso F.,
Microfluidic polymer multilayer adsorption on liquid crystal droplets for
microcapsule synthesis, Lab on a Chip 8, 2182 (2008)
Ray S., Sedev R., Priest C., Ralston J., Influence of the work of adhesion
on the dynamic wetting of chemically heterogeneous surfaces, Langmuir 24,
13007 (2008)
Priest C., Stevens N., Sedev R., Skinner W., Ralston J., Inferring
wettability of heterogeneous surfaces by ToF-SIMS, Journal of Colloid and
Interface Science 320, 563 (2008)
Priest C., Sedev R., Ralston J., Asymmetric wetting hysteresis on chemical
defects, Physical Review Letters 99, 026103 (2007)
Palms D., Priest C., Sedev R., Ralston J., Wegner G., Directed
crystallisation of zinc oxide on patterned surfaces, Journal of Colloid and
Interface Science 303, 333 (2006)
Priest C., Herminghaus S., Seemann R., Controlled electrocoalescence in
microchannels: Targeting a single lamella, Applied Physics Letters 89,
134101 (2006)
Priest C., Herminghaus S., Seemann R., Generation of monodisperse gel
emulsions in a microfluidic device, Applied Physics Letters 88, 024106
(2006)
Stevens N., Priest C., Sedev R., Ralston J., Wettability of photoresponsive
titanium dioxide surfaces, Langmuir 19, 3272 (2003)
Priest C. I., Jacobs K., Ralston J., Novel approach to the formation of
smooth gold surfaces, Langmuir 18, 2438 (2002)
Professional Memberships
Royal Australian Chemical Institute
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network