Dr John McDonald-Wharry
Lecturer in Materials
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
Directed Studies and Honours Research Projects
Biodegradable fishing gear
Millimeter-scale mechanics in 3D printed structures
Optimising 3D printer settings for natural fibre reinforced 3D printing material
Dynamic sheet forming of nanocellulose
Research Interests
Biomass processing and the associated quality control or product characterisation along with bio-derived composite engineering with a focus on interface chemistry. Specialising mainly in areas of materials characterisation, polymer chemistry, and analytical chemistry. My research has involved analyse of carbonaceous materials (including biochars, activated carbons, reduced graphene oxides, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, carbon fibres and graphites) and polymers (thermoplastics and thermosets). Current research activity is mainly on the “Additive manufacturing and 3D and/or 4D printing of bio-composites” spearhead project which is part of the “Science for Technological Innovation” “National Science Challenge”.
Recent Publications
Barbier, M., Le Guen, M. J., McDonald-Wharry, J., Bridson, J. H., & Pickering, K. L. (2021). Quantifying the shape memory performance of a three-dimensional-printed biobased polyester/cellulose composite material. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. doi:10.1089/3dp.2020.0166
Sunny, T., Pickering, K. L., & McDonald-Wharry, J. (2021). Improving the Alignment of Dynamic Sheet-Formed Mats by Changing Nozzle Geometry and Their Reinforcement of Polypropylene Matrix Composites. Journal of Composites Science, 5(9), 226. doi:10.3390/jcs5090226 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14547
McDonald-Wharry, J., Amirpour, M., Pickering, K. L., Battley, M., & Fu, Y. (2021). Moisture sensitivity and compressive performance of 3D-printed cellulose-biopolyester foam lattices. Additive Manufacturing, 40. doi:10.1016/j.addma.2021.101918
Huang, D. Y. M., Tighe, R. C., & McDonald-Wharry, J. S. (2019). Thermographic assessment of fibre reinforced 3d printing filament. In International Conferences on Composite Materials Vol. 2019-August (pp. 3759-3763). Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.iccm-central.org/
Keywords
Chemistry; Materials and Processing
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Phone: +64 7 838 4466 ext 6573