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Robert E. Robson

James Cook University
Verified email at jcu.edu.au
Cited by 4569

Solubilization of phospholipids by detergents structural and kinetic aspects

D Lichtenberg, RJ Robson, EA Dennis - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 1983 - Elsevier
Most amphiphiles in biological membranes including phospholipids, steroids, and membrane
proteins are insoluble amphiphiles and would form liquid crystals or insoluble precipitates …

The alternative nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum is a vanadium enzyme

RL Robson, RR Eady, TH Richardson, RW Miller… - Nature, 1986 - nature.com
The requirement for molybdenum in biological dinitrogen fixation, first reported by Bortels 1 ,
is due to its involvement at or near the site of reduction of N 2 in conventional nitrogenase. …

The size, shape, and hydration of nonionic surfactant micelles. Triton X-100

RJ Robson, EA Dennis - The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1977 - ACS Publications
Calculations of the size, shape, and hydration of micelles composed of the nonionic surfactant
Triton X-100 were performed based on molecular weight and intrinsic viscosity data. …

Oxygen and hydrogen in biological nitrogen fixation

RL Robson, JR Postgate - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 1980 - annualreviews.org
Understanding of biological nitrogen fixation, an exclusively microbiologiн cal process, has
developed almost explosively in the last two decades. The appearance of numerous books, …

[BOOK][B] Hydrogen as a fuel: learning from nature

R Cammack, M Frey, R Robson - 2001 - books.google.com
There continues to be widespread interest in the applications of hydrogen as a clean fuel and
its potential for local electricity production and use in transport. Recent years have seen a …

Kinetic theory of charged particle swarms in neutral gases

…, HR Skullerud, RE Robson - Australian Journal of …, 1980 - CSIRO Publishing
The kinetic theory of charged test particles in a neutral gas, in the presence of static and
uniform electric and magnetic fields, is reviewed. The effects of inelastic processes and …

The vanadium nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum. Purification and properties of the VFe protein

RR Eady, RL Robson, TH Richardson… - Biochemical …, 1987 - portlandpress.com
1. Nitrogenase activity of a strain of Azotobacter chroococcum lacking the structural genes
for conventional nitrogenase (nifHDK) was separated into two components: an Fe-containing …

Velocity distribution function and transport coefficients of electron swarms in gases. II. Moment equations and applications

KF Ness, RE Robson - Physical Review A, 1986 - APS
A representation of the hierarchy of kinetic equations formulated earlier [Phys. Rev. A 33,
2068 (1986)] for reacting charged-particle swarms in gases is obtained in the Sonine …

Is the classical two-term approximation of electron kinetic theory satisfactory for swarms and plasmas?

RD White, RE Robson, B Schmidt… - Journal of Physics D …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
The'two-term'approximation (representation of the electron distribution by the first two terms
of an expansion in spherical harmonics in velocity space) continues to occupy a central role …

Recent advances in the application of Boltzmann equation and fluid equation methods to charged particle transport in non-equilibrium plasmas

RD White, RE Robson, S Dujko… - Journal of Physics D …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The kinetic theory of charged particles in gases has come a long way in the last 60 years or
so, but many of the advances have yet to find their way into contemporary studies of low-…