People in the Department

Dr Nick Evans

Senior Lecturer, Radiochemistry
Telephone: +44(0)1509 222564, 07799 063 184
E-mail: N.D.M.Evans@lboro.ac.uk

Interests and Experience

Nick Evans trained as a chemist at the University of Southampton (BSc 1980) and as a secondary school teacher (PGCE 1982). He taught chemistry to "A"-level in England and Germany until 1999.  He then took an MSc in Analytical Chemistry at Loughborough University (2000), achieving a distinction, and did his PhD on “Studies on Metal ά-isosaccharinic acid complexes’ at Loughborough under the supervision of Professor Peter Warwick.  He was then appointed as a Research Associate and has worked on organic complexation in the Near Field of a radioactive Waste repository and on radionuclide transport in the environment, with emphasis on the role of humic substances, publishing many papers and reports, detailed below.  He was appointed as a Lecturer in Radiochemistry in May 2007, and Senior Lecturer in January 2011.

He is the leader of Work Package 1 for the EPSRC DIAMOND Consortium (www.diamondconsortium.org), and is involved in the NERC BIGRAD Consortium (www.bigr adnerc.com), the EC FP7 ReCOSY European project (www.recosy.eu) and the EC FP7 SKIN European project.

He was the leader of Work Package 1.3 in the FUNMIG EU Integrated Project involving coordinating work in 5 different countries.  He was Chair of the Technical Organising Committee for the Workshop “UK Long-Term Nuclear Waste Management: Next steps?”  He has organised conferences and Workshops on behalf of Aquanet (www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/aquanet), COGER (http://coger.org.uk) and the European Integrated Project FUNMIG (www.funmig.com) as well as the UK Long-term Nuclear Waste Management Meeting held at Loughborough in 2006.

Current Research

Chemistry of nuclear waste disposal, particularly complexation of radionuclides with organics
Humic acid interactions with selected radionuclides and pollutants
Migration of radionuclides in the environment

External Activities

Secretary of Royal Society of Chemistry Radiochemistry Group
Member of Coordinating Group on Environmental Radioactivity (COGER) Committee
Associate Editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters

Current PhD students

Papers:

1. Warwick, P., Evans, N., Hall, A. and Vines, S., ''Complexation of Ni(II) by α-isosaccharinic Acid from pH 7 to pH 13’’, Radiochimica Acta, 93, 2003, pp 233-240
   
2. Warwick, P., Evans, N., Hall, T. and Vines, S., ''Stability Constants of Uranium (IV)-α-isosaccharinic Acid and Gluconic Acid Complexes'', Radiochimica Acta, 92 , 2004, pp 897-902
   
3. Warwick, P., Inam, E. and Evans, N., ''Arsenic's interactions with humic acid'', Environmental Chemistry, 2(2) , 2005, pp 119-124
4. Warwick, P., Evans, N., Hall, A., Walker, G. and Steigleder, E., ''Stability constants of U(VI) and U(IV)-humic acid complexes'', Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 266 (2) , 2005, pp 179-190
   
5. Muhammad Haleem Khan, Peter Warwick and Nick Evans, Spectrophotometric Determination of Uranium with Arsenazo-III in Perchloric Acid, Chemosphere, 63, 2006, pp 1165-1169
   
6. Peter Warwick, Nick Evans and Sarah Vines, Studies on some divalent Metal α-Isosaccharinic Acid Complexes, Radiochimica Acta, 94(6-7), 2006, pp 363-369.
   
7. S. Aldridge, P. Warwick, N. Evans and S. Vines., Degradation of tetraphenylphosphonium bromide at high pH and its effect on radionuclide solubility, Chemosphere, 66(4), 2007, pp 672-676
   
8. H. Lippold, N.D.M. Evans, P. Warwick, H. Kupsch, Competitive effect of iron(III) on metal complexation by humic substances: characterisation of ageing processes, Chemosphere, 67, 2007, 1050-1056
   
9. Bryan Nick D., Jones Dominic L.M., Keepax Rose E., Farrelly Dean H., Abrahamsen Liam G., Warwick Peter, Evans Nick, The Role Of Humic Non-Exchangeable Binding In The Promotion Of Metal Ion Transport In The Environment, J. Environ. Monit. 9, 2007, 329-347
   
10. P. Warwick, S. Aldridge, N. Evans and S. Vines, The Solubility of Technetium(IV) at High pH, Radiochimica Acta – 2007, 95(12), 709-716
    
11. P. Reiller, N.D.M. Evans, and G. Szabó, Conditional Stability Parameters for the Actinides(IV)-Humic Acid System: A Search for Consistency, Radiochimica Acta – 2008 – Accepted
    
12. Nick Evans, Binding Mechanisms of Radionuclides to Cement, Cement and Concrete Research, 2008, 38(4), 543-553 (10.1016/j.cemconres.2007.11.004)
13. Influence of Humic Acid on the Sorption of Uranium(IV) to Kaolin, Nick Evans, Peter Warwick, Tara Lewis and Nick Bryan, Environmental Chemistry Letters, DOI:10.1007/s10311-009-0241-y
14. Chemistry – an important element in the safe disposal of radioactive wastes, P. Warwick and N. Evans, Education in Chemistry, July 2009 – submitted
15. Carbon Nanoparticle Surface Functionalisation: Converting Negatively Charged Sulphonate to Positively Charged Sulphonamide,  John D. Watkins, Ruth Lawrence, James E. Taylor, Steven D. Bull, Geoff Nelson, John S. Foord, Daniel Wolverson, Liza Rassaei, Nick D.M. Evans, Silvia Antón Gascon, and Frank Marken, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics,  2010, 12, 4872-4878, DOI:10.1039/B927434K
16. The Effects Of Humic Substances On The Transport Of Radionuclides: Recent Improvements In The Prediction Of Behaviour And The Understanding Of Mechanisms, Nick D. Bryan, Liam Abrahamsen, Nick Evans, Peter Warwick, Gunnar Buckau, Liping Weng, Willem H. Van Riemsdijk, Applied Geochemistry, 2012, 27, 378-389, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.09.008
17. Sorption of Tc(IV) to some geologic materials with reference to radioactive waste disposal, Hallam, R.J.; Evans, N.D.M.; Jain, S.L., Mineralogical Magazine, 2011, 75(4), 2439–2448, DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2011.075.4.2439
18. Sorption Of Ni And Eu In A Multi-Element System, F.S. Ebong, N.D.M Evans, Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, B1, 2011, 504-515
19. Modelling the Sorption of ⁶³Ni to Granitic Materials: Application of the Component Additive Model, F.S. Ebong, N.D.M Evans, Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering – Accepted
20. The Interaction of Phosphorus with Humic Acid, Edu Inam, Peter Warwick and Nick Evans, International Journal of Chemical, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Research, 1(3), 1-8
21. Prediction and Measurement of Complexation of Radionuclide Mixtures by α-Isosaccharinic, Gluconic and Picolinic Acids, Nick Evans, Peter Warwick and Sarah Vines - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry – Accepted
22. The Complexation of Tc(IV) with EDTA and Picolinic Acid at High pH, N.D.M. Evans and R.J. Hallam, Accepted by Mineralogical Magazine, December 2011
23. Effect of Competition from other Metals on Nickel Complexation by α-Isosaccharinic, Gluconic and Picolinic Acids, N.D.M. Evans, Silvia Anton Gascon and Sarah Vines, Submitted to Mineralogical Magazine, December 2011

Extended list of Publications