Professor Rob Short
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Head of Sustainable Materials Research Cluster
Professor of Chemistry
+44 114 222 9336
Full contact details
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Dainton Building
13 Brook Hill
葫芦影业
S3 7HF
- Profile
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Rob studied Chemistry (BSc) and Physical Chemistry (PhD) at the University of Durham (UK) and joined the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of 葫芦影业 in 1988, where he held the Chair of Material and Biomaterial Chemistry from 2001. During this period, Rob helped develop a materials-cell technology (myskin) for treating severe burns and scalds; adopted in the UK by the NHS, this technology was used over a decade in all the UK鈥檚 major burns centres. Rob also established Plasso Technology, an advanced materials for life science research company. Plasso developed technology that now underpins a range of products (PureCoatTM) sold globally for cell culture and cell therapy.
In 2006, Rob joined the University of South Australia, where he held the positions of Director of an advanced manufacturing research institute, Dean of Research and Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President. At the invitation of the Minister of Education he served on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts for three years.
In Australia, he successfully co-led bids for an A$110M national centre for wound management innovation and a A$60M national centre for cell therapy manufacturing. Both have resulted in successful innovations in wound care and cell therapy. These include the companies, Carina Biotechnology (), which is developing a novel CAR-T cell therapy for solid (cancer) tumours and Tekcyte (), whose products include a cell-based therapy for non-healing wounds, which entered clinical trials at the beginning of 2022.
Rob returned to the UK as the Director of the Lancaster Material Science Institute, where he helped establish the Material Social Futures Centre for Doctoral Training, focusing on how materials鈥 innovations shape society (and vice versa). See Material Social Futures | Lancaster University. This centre is training 22 PhD students.
Last year, Rob cofounded with Dr Endre Szili (UniSA) Plasma-4 () a company that is developing novel plasma (ionised gas)-materials technology for the treatment of a range of clinical indications.
Over his career, Rob has won over A$250M of grants and investments, including ARC Discovery, Linkage etc, CRC, and in the UK, EPSRC, Wellcome, Leverhulme, Royal Society etc. He has supervised to completion 25 PhDs and 30 post-doctoral researchers. He has published over 250 substantive peer reviewed papers.
In 2013, Rob was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Rob rejoined the University of 葫芦影业 in October 2022.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Advanced Healthcare Materials.
- . Advanced Functional Materials, 34(21).
- . Applied Physics Letters, 124(21).
- . Journal of Wound Management, 25(3), S1-S84.
- . ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15(16), 19989-19996.
- . IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 7(1), 96-102.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 121(8), 084102-084102.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55(12), 125207-125207.
- . Mutagenesis, 36(5), 380-387.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 119(5), 054104-054104.
- . Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 30(3), 035009-035009.
- . Plasma Medicine, 11(4), 73-84.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 18(3), 2000195-2000195.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54(3), 035203-035203.
- . Biointerphases, 15(6), 061007-061007.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(23), 7306-7310.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 52(50), 505203-505203.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 114(9), 093701-093701.
- , 1861-1861.
- . Clinical Plasma Medicine, 9, 8-9.
- . Plasma Medicine, 8(3), 269-277.
- . Cytotherapy, 20(2), 169-180.
- . Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57(1), 0102B9-0102B9.
- . Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 106(5), 1887-1896.
- . Trends in Biotechnology, 36(6), 594-602.
- . The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 226(13), 2873-2885.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50(27), 274001-274001.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(4), 3445-3454.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 14(9), 1600194-1600194.
- . Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, 30(3), 317-323.
- . Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 10(4), 441-458.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(48), 32675-32687.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 109(20), 203701-203701.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 49(30), 304005-304005.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(25), 16493-16502.
- . Cytotherapy, 18(6), S65-S65.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 13(7), 678-689.
- . Langmuir, 32(1), 301-308.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(49), 15359-15369.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48(49), 495401-495401.
- . Regenerative Medicine, 10(8), 925-930.
- . Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, 28(3), 439-444.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 107(10), 103703-103703.
- . Biointerphases, 10(2), 029511-029511.
- . Cytotherapy, 17(6), S67-S67.
- . Cytotherapy, 17(6), S14-S14.
- . Cytotherapy, 17(6), S75-S75.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48(20), 202001-202001.
- . Biomicrofluidics, 9(1), 014124-014124.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 12(8), 817-826.
- . Plasma Medicine, 5(2-4), 125-143.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47(36), 362001-362001.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 11(9), 888-896.
- . Desalination, 344, 274-279.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 11(9), 833-841.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47(15), 152002-152002.
- . Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 25(5), 1367-1373.
- . Desalination, 333(1), 101-106.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 11(3), 263-268.
- . RSC Advances, 3(33), 13540-13540.
- . RSC Advances, 3(32), 13437-13437.
- . The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 45(11), 2698-2705.
- . Soft Matter, 9(26), 6167-6167.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 10(9), 767-778.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 5(12), 5387-5391.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 46(18), 185401-185401.
- . Langmuir, 29(8), 2595-2601.
- . Electrochimica Acta, 106, 494-499.
- . Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2(4), 585-590.
- . RSC Advances, 2(31), 12007-12007.
- . Chemistry of Materials, 24(20), 3998-4003.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(30), 14889-14889.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4(7), 3566-3574.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 9(9), 840-843.
- . Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 23(8), 2013-2021.
- . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4(5), 2455-2463.
- . Desalination, 290, 125-129.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 9(7), 638-646.
- . Acta Biomaterialia, 8(5), 1739-1748.
- . Langmuir, 28(5), 2710-2717.
- . Biomaterials, 33(4), 1007-1016.
- . International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 2(4), 321-333.
- . Nanotechnology, 22(41), 415601-415601.
- . Langmuir, 27(19), 11943-11950.
- Plasma research at UniSA: Reconnecting the physics with the chemistry?. Australian Physics, 48(5), 143-148.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 8(8), 695-700.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 8(8), 687-688.
- . Polymer, 52(8), 1725-1730.
- . Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357(7), 1647-1656.
- The structural role of Zr within alkali borosilicate glasses for nuclear waste immobilisation. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 8(5), 367-372.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 8(4), 287-294.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115(8), 3429-3433.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 8(1), 38-50.
- . Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 24(13-14), 2215-2236.
- . Biochemical Society Transactions, 38(4), 1062-1066.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 7(9-10), 824-835.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 7(5), 365-365.
- . Nanotechnology, 21(21), 215102-215102.
- . Surface and Coatings Technology, 204(14), 2279-2288.
- . Polymer, 51(8), 1737-1743.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 7(2), 102-106.
- . Biomaterials, 31(3), 392-397.
- . Glycobiology, 19(12), 1537-1546.
- The impact of increased waste loading on vitrified HLW quality & durability. Nuclear Future, 5(4), 211-216.
- . Chemical Communications(24), 3600-3600.
- . Langmuir, 25(8), 4243-4246.
- . Biomaterials, 30(6), 1066-1070.
- Developing a new way of investigating glycosaminoglycan: Protein interactions: The "Sugar chip". 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008, 3, 1382.
- . Advanced Materials, 20(6), 1166-1169.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 3(6-7), 419-430.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 38(7), 1109-1116.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 38(11), 1497-1504.
- . Regenerative Medicine, 1(6), 809-821.
- Erratum: The effect of ion energy upon plasma polymerization deposition rate for acrylic acid (Chemical Communication (2005) (348-349) DOI: 10.1039/b210781c)). Chemical Communications(44), 5586.
- The World Nuclear University Summer Institute. Nuclear Future, 1(6), 251-252.
- . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 340(2-3), 179-186.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(8), 3207-3211.
- . MRS Proceedings, 824.
- Clinical evaluation of a plasma polymer surface for culture and transfer of keratinocytes for chronic wounds. Transactions - 7th World Biomaterials Congress, 1068.
- Fabrication and characterisation of chemical gradient surfaces for cell culture. Transactions - 7th World Biomaterials Congress, 1119.
- . Wound Repair and Regeneration, 12(6), 626-634.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(37), 14000-14004.
- . Microscopy and Microanalysis, 10(S02), 796-797.
- . Analytical Biochemistry, 330(1), 123-129.
- . Diabetic Medicine, 21(7), 786-789.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14(3), 408-408.
- . Tissue Engineering, 9(6), 1123-1131.
- . Tissue Engineering, 9(5), 919-930.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 13(7), 1546-1546.
- . Polymer, 44(11), 3173-3176.
- . Vacuum, 70(1), 67-71.
- . Surface and Coatings Technology, 162(2-3), 294-300.
- . Chemical Communications(3), 348-349.
- . Chemical Communications(14), 1766-1766.
- . Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 64A(1), 80-87.
- A plasma polymer surface for the co-culture of human dermal fibroblasts and human epidermal keratinocytes for wound healing. European Cells and Materials, 4(SUPPL. 2), 36-37.
- Proopiomelanocortin anti-inflammatory peptide signalling in human skin keratinocyte cells. European Cells and Materials, 4(SUPPL. 2), 46.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 12(9), 2726-2732.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106(22), 5596-5603.
- . Surface and Coatings Technology, 154(1), 8-13.
- . Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 121(1-3), 281-297.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105(24), 5730-5736.
- . The Journal of Adhesion, 77(1), 1-24.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 31(11), 1074-1076.
- . Dental Materials, 17(1), 1-6.
- Cerebellar granule cell attachment and growth on allylamine plasma polymerised surfaces. Second Smith and Nephew International Symposium - Tissue Engineering 2000: Advances in Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials and Cell Signalling, 106.
- Adsorption of proteins to plasma-co-polymers of acrylic acid/octa-1,7-diene. Second Smith and Nephew International Symposium - Tissue Engineering 2000: Advances in Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials and Cell Signalling, 93.
- Osteoblast attachment to plasma polymers with a range of surface oxygen functionalities. Second Smith and Nephew International Symposium - Tissue Engineering 2000: Advances in Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials and Cell Signalling, 103.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 10(12), 2795-2801.
- . Measurement Science and Technology, 11(12), 1726-1731.
- . Chemistry of Materials, 12(9), 2664-2671.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104(30), 7150-7153.
- . Langmuir, 16(13), 5654-5660.
- . Chemistry of Materials, 12(4), 866-868.
- . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, 18(6), 3008-3011.
- . Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 47(3), 379-387.
- . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1(13), 3117-3121.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 103(21), 4423-4430.
- . Applied Surface Science, 137(1-4), 179-183.
- . Plasmas and Polymers, 4(2/3), 113-132.
- . Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 30(1), 49-57.
- . Journal of Dental Research, 77(12), 1999-2004.
- . Biomaterials, 19(19), 1717-1725.
- . Langmuir, 14(17), 4827-4835.
- . Chemical Communications(11), 1221-1222.
- . Chemistry of Materials, 10(4), 1176-1183.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 94(4), 559-565.
- Plasma polymers for suitable surfaces. Materials World, 6(2), 70-72.
- . Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 29(3), 241-250.
- . Plasmas and Polymers, 3(2), 97-114.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 8(12), 2583-2584.
- . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, 16(5), 3131-3133.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 8(1), 37-42.
- Surface analysis of silane treated ceramics surfaces using XPS.. JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH, 77, 678-678.
- Surface analysis of leucite-reinforced feldspathic ceramics using XPS.. JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH, 77, 655-655.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 25(4), 261-274.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 93(10), 1961-1964.
- . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 101(18), 3614-3619.
- On the effects of energy transfer to PS, PP, PE and PET from an AR plasma. American Chemical Society, Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, 38(1), 1099-1100.
- Plasma polymerisation/co-polymersation to engineer surfaces at a molecular level for probing cellular response. American Chemical Society, Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, 38(1), 1012-1013.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 93(17), 3173-3178.
- . International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, 4(2), 133-151.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 93(6), 1141-1145.
- . Plasmas and Polymers, 2(4), 277-300.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 24(6), 419-421.
- Plasma polymers coatings to mimic bioactive ionomers. Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials in conjunction with the International Biomaterials Symposium, 2, 216.
- . Macromolecules, 29(15), 5172-5177.
- . Langmuir, 12(7), 1892-1894.
- . Journal of Materials Science, 31(7), 1879-1885.
- . Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 7(4), 195-199.
- . Polymer, 37(24), 5537-5539.
- . Biomaterials, 17(5), 501-507.
- . Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 196(11), 3695-3705.
- . Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 16(11), 799-806.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 91(13), 2051-2051.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 91(9), 1363-1363.
- . Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 91(21), 3907-3907.
- . Polymer, 36(8), 1559-1567.
- . Polymer, 36(18), 3439-3450.
- . Textile Research Journal, 64(8), 493-493.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 45(3), 339-346.
- . Polymer, 35(20), 4382-4391.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 43(1), 67-74.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 43(3), 385-391.
- . Textile Research Journal, 63(6), 362-368.
- . Clinical Oral Implants Research, 4(3), 144-150.
- . Polymer, 34(9), 1795-1799.
- . Polymer, 34(11), 2250-2255.
- . Vacuum, 44(11-12), 1143-1160.
- . Polymer, 34(20), 4179-4185.
- . Polymer, 34(13), 2714-2719.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 18(9), 667-672.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 18(1), 13-22.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2(2), 259-259.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 38(2), 147-154.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 32(1), 71-77.
- . Polymer Degradation and Stability, 31(2), 211-218.
- . Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 39(3), 539-551.
- . Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 39(9), 1973-1982.
- . Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 39(9), 1827-1835.
- . International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 62(2-3), 97-103.
- . Biomaterials, 11(4), 228-234.
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, 14(3), 115-120.
- . International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 57(3), 183-187.
- Nitration of cellulose by a nitronium ion salt. Polymer communications Guildford, 30(12), 366-368.
- 13C n.m.r. study of cellulose nitrates. A comparison between nitration in nitric acid dichloromethane mixes and technical mixed acids. Polymer communications Guildford, 30(7), 217-220.
- . International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes, 89(2-3), 149-155.
- Characterization of polymer colloid surfaces by SSIMS and X.p.s.. Polymer communications Guildford, 29(12), 365-367.
- NITRATION OF CELLULOSE IN MIXED ACIDS: THE ROLE OF THE NITRONIUM ION.. Polymer communications Guildford, 27(8), 251-254.
- . Advanced Functional Materials.
- . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11.
- . Plasma, 5(2), 233-246.
- . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(35), 19327-19341.
- . Chemical Communications, 55(100), 15129-15132.
- . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(10), 7033-7042.
- . Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 27(1), 014001-014001.
- . Scientific Reports, 7(1).
- . Frontiers in Physics, 5.
- . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(7), 5637-5646.
- . Frontiers in Physics, 3.
- . Biomater. Sci., 2(6), 875-882.
- . Tissue Engineering Part A, 140123085146001-140123085146001.
- . Biomater. Sci., 1(4), 368-378.
- . Lab Chip, 11(3), 541-544.
- . ChemInform, 27(10), no-no.
- . Plasma Processes and Polymers, 7(5), 366-370.
- . Chem. Commun.(6), 659-661.
- . J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.(10), 1053-1054.
Chapters
- , Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion, Volume 2 (pp. 539-549). CRC Press
- , Surface Modification of Biomaterials: Methods Analysis and Applications (pp. 3-39).
- , Surface and Interfacial Aspects of Cell Adhesion (pp. 425-462). CRC Press
- , Surface Modification of Biomaterials (pp. 3-39). Elsevier
- (pp. 165-180). Wiley
Conference proceedings papers
- . Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 58(SA) (pp SAAB01-SAAB01)
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 1665 (pp 253-259)
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 1518 (pp 21-39)
- . Thin Solid Films, Vol. 528 (pp 106-110)
- Rhenium volatilisation as caesium perrhenate from simulated vitrified high level waste from a melter crucible. International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference, GLOBAL 2013: Nuclear Energy at a Crossroads, Vol. 1 (pp 450-452)
- Vitrification of high molybdenum waste. Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A, Vol. 53(4) (pp 166-171)
- . SPIE Proceedings
- . SPIE Proceedings
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 1193
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 1107
- . Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 203(5-7) (pp 822-825)
- Surface chemical gradients to optimise substrata for self-renewal of ES cells. European Cells and Materials, Vol. 11(SUPPL.2) (pp 41)
- (pp 476-481)
- Molybdenum in glasses containing vitrified nuclear waste. Glass Technology, Vol. 46(2) (pp 121-124)
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 807
- Molybdenum in Nuclear Waste Glasses - Incorporation and Redox state. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, Vol. 757 (pp 141-146)
- . Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 174-175 (pp 872-876)
- (pp 119-133)
- . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 19(4) (pp 1531-1536)
- . MRS Proceedings, Vol. 544
- . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 16(3) (pp 1702-1709)
- . Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 57(8) (pp 1023-1032)
- . The Mechanics of Thin Film Coatings
- . Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 22(1-12) (pp 477-482)
- Analysis of cellulose ethers by Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy. Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Proceedings of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 59 (pp 729-733)
- Surface characterization on biodegradable polyesters by Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) and Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA). Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Proceedings of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 59 (pp 263)
- Surface characterisation and modification of biodegradable polyesters and their sterilization by oxygen glow discharge plasma treatment. Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Proceedings of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 59 (pp 739-743)
- (pp 179-187)