School of Chemistry

Kelvin Tapley

Senior Lecturer
Research section: Colour Science

Contact details

Keywords

Analysis
Colorants
Polymers
Enviromental

Research interests

Novel techniques and applications in capillary electrophoresis. Monitoring reactions using analytical techniques (especially spectroscopic techniques). FT-Infrared and FT-Raman Spectroscopy for the analysis and characterisation of materials. Environmental analysis and effluent treatments. Hair chemistry, treatment and characterisation. Reactions of reactive dyes (analysis and kinetics of). Pigments.

Teaching interests: Environmental impact of coloured materials, analysis and characterisation of materials, colorants – properties and applications.

Principle Leadership, Management & Administration duties: Pro-Dean for Learning & Teaching (Mathematics and Physical Science), Chair of the University of Leeds Student Education Bulletin Board, Chair of the University of Leeds Student Education Conference and Chair of the Publications Award Committee of the Society of Dyers and Colourists.

Selected publications

K N Tapley, Capillary electrophoretic analysis of the reactions of bifunctional reactive dyes under various conditions including a study of the analysis of the traditionally difficult to analyse phthalocyanine dyes, Journal of Chromatography A, 1995, 706, 555-562

D M Lewis, X M Shen and K N Tapley, NIR FT-Raman spectroscopy for monitoring the synthesis of azo dyes, Mikrochimica Acta [Supplement], 1997, 14, 751-754

F Zhang, J S Knapp and K N Tapley, Decolourisation of cotton bleaching effluent with wood rotting fungus, Water Research, 1999, 33, 919-928

H Skelton, J A Hawkes and K N Tapley, Nanocrystalline Inorganic Pigments, Proceedings of 6th International High Performance Pigments Conference, Miami, 1999