STAFF PROFILE
Professor William Van Megen
Position:
Emeritus Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
Phone:
+61399252140
Email:
bill.vanmegen@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
- Phase transitions in 2D hard sphere systems. Funded by: Department of Education Science and Training French-Aust Science and Technology Program (FAST) from (2005 to 2008)
- Phase Transitions in 2D Hard Sphere Systems. Funded by: French Embassy "One Off Travel to France" for S&T Cooperation Grant pre-2014 from (2005 to 2005)
- Materials and Surface Characterisation Facility. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2005 to 2005)
4 PhD Completions
- Van Megen, W.,SCHOPE, H. (2020). Entropic Identification of the First Order Freezing Transition of a Suspension of Hard Sphere Particles In: Physical Review Letters, 124, 1 - 6
- Ruiz-Franco, J.,Zaccarelli, E.,Schope, H.,Van Megen, W. (2019). Coincidence of the freezing and the onset of caging in hard sphere and Lennard-Jones fluids In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 151, 1 - 7
- Van Megen, W.,Schope, H. (2017). The cage effect in systems of hard spheres In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 146, 1 - 10
- Martinez, V.,Zaccarelli, E.,Sanz, E.,Valeriani, C.,Van Megen, B. (2014). Exposing a dynamical signature of the freezing transition through the sound propagation gap In: Nature Communications, 5, 1 - 8
- Martinez, V.,Thijssen, J.,Zontone, F.,Van Megen, W.,Bryant, G. (2011). Dynamics of hard sphere suspensions using dynamic light scattering and X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy: Dynamics and scaling of the intermediate scattering function In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 1 - 9
- Martinez, V.,Bryant, G.,Van Megen, W. (2010). Aging dynamics of colloidal hard sphere glasses In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 1 - 11
- Van Megen, W.,Martinez, V.,Bryant, G. (2009). Arrest of flow and emergence of activated processes at the glass transition of a suspension of particles with hard spherelike interactions In: Physical Review Letters, 102, 168301-1 - 168301-4
- Martinez, V.,Bryant, G.,Van Megen, W. (2009). Power law dependence of ageing in a colloidal hard sphere glass In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Condensed Matter And Materials Meeting, Wagga, Australia, 4-6 Feb 2009
- Van Megen, W.,Martinez, V.,Bryant, G. (2009). Scaling of the space-time correlation function of particle currents in a suspension of hard-sphere-like particles: Exposing when the motion of particles is brownian In: Physical Review Letters, 103, 258302-1 - 258302-4
- Martinez, V.,Bryant, G.,Van Megen, W. (2008). Slow dynamics and aging of a colloidal hard sphere glass In: Physical Review Letters, 101, 135702-1 - 135702-4