My expertise is in the area of Physical Chemistry, Materials simulation and Computational Chemistry and involves applying an extensive range of methodologies including electronic first principles and forcefield / classical methods to chemical, biological and materials related problems.

My current research involves using computational and theoretical methods to

(i) develop gallium-based nano-catalysts,

(ii) investigate the stability and reactivity of metal complexes under physiological conditions and

(iii) design pigments for heat insulating coatings.

In addition to my own research group I maintain a number of collaborations both within Murdoch University as well as across industry (Bluescope Steel) and other institutions (RMIT University and Kyoto University). These collaborations include:

An experimental research project with Professors Bernie Dell (Agricultural and Fisheries Sciences, Murdoch) and Richard Harper (Agricultural and Fisheries Sciences, Murdoch) identifying and quantifying deep soil carbon in Western Australian soils,

A joint project with Professor Irene Yarovsky (RMIT) and Bluescope Steel designing Environmentally Responsive Clean Coatings,

A collaboration with Professor Sati Bhattacharya (RMIT) to investigate near-infrared pigments and

A collaboration with Professor Akitomo Tachibana (Kyoto) to explore the physical chemistry of main-group metal particles.

Uddin, K., Poirier, R., Henry, D., (2016), Mechanistic study of the aquation of nutritional supplement chromium chloride and other chromium(III) dihalides, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1084, , pages 88 - 97. Henry, D., Ichikawa, K., Nozaki, H., Tachibana, A., (2016), Bonding in doped gallium nanoclusters: Insights from regional DFT, Computational Materials Science, 115, , pages 145 - 153. Walden, L., Harper, R., Mendham, D., Henry, D., Fontaine, J., (2015), Eucalyptus reforestation induces soil water repellency, Soil Research, 53, 2, pages 168 - 177. Uddin, K., Ralph, D., Henry, D., (2015), Mechanistic investigation of halopentaaquachromium (III) complexes: Comparison of computational and experimental results, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1070, 2015, pages 152 - 161. Henry, D., Laird, D., (2014), How Old is my Bronze Cannon? A Laboratory Exercise Linking Analytical Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Metallurgy, Journal of Laboratory Chemical Education, 2, 4, pages 73 - 78. shaw, l., Yiapanis, G., Henry, D., Maclaughlin, S., Evans, E., Yarovsky, I., (2013), Surface crosslinking effects on contamination resistance of functionalised polymers, Soft Matter, 9, , pages 1798 - 1806. Kaur, B., Bhattacharya, S., Henry, D., (2013), Interpreting the near-infrared reflectance of a series of perylene pigments, Dyes and Pigments, 99, , pages 502 - 511. Laird, D., Henry, D., (2013), Is There Ni in My Liquor? A Hands-On Laboratory Exercise for Relating Chemistry to Extractive Metallurgy (ONLINE FIRST NOV 2013), Journal of Chemical Education, 90, 12, pages 1671 - 1674. Henry, D., (2013), Hydrogen Adsorption on Gallium Nanoclusters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C: Nanomaterials, Interfaces and Hard Matter, 117, 49, pages 26269 - 26279. Henry, D., (2012), Structures and stability of doped gallium nanoclusters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C: Nanomaterials, Interfaces and Hard Matter, 116, 46, pages 24814 - 24823. Yiapanis, G., Henry, D., Maclaughlin, S., Evans, E., Yarovsky, I., (2012), Effect of Substrate on the Mechanical Response and Adhesion of PEGylated Surfaces: Insights from All-Atom Simulations, Langmuir: the A C S journal of surfaces and colloids, 28, 50, pages 17263 - 17272. Prime, E., Henry, D., Yarovsky, I., Qiao, G., Solomon, D., (2011), Comb polymers: Are they the answer to monolayer stability?, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 384, 1-3, pages 482 - 489. Plazzer, M., Henry, D., Yiapanis, G., Yarovsky, I., (2011), Comparative study of commonly used molecular dynamics force fields for modeling organic monolayers on water, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 115, 14, pages 3964 - 3971. Menon, A., Henry, D., Bally, T., Radom, L., (2011), Effect of substituents on the stabilities of multiply-substituted carbon-centered radicals, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 9, , pages 3636 - 3657. Varano, A., Henry, D., Yarovsky, I., (2011), Role of hydrogen in dimerizaton of aluminum clusters: A theoretical study, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment and General Theory, 115, 26, pages 7734 - 7743. D. J. Henry, P. Szarek, K. Hirai, K. Ichikawa, A. Tachibana, I. Yarovsky (2011) Reactivity and Regioselectivity of Aluminium Nanoclusters: Insights from regional density functional theory J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 1714. D. J. Henry, V. I. Dewan, E. Prime, G. Qiao, D. H. Solomon, I. Yarovsky (2010) Monolayer structure and evaporation resistance: An MD study of octadecanol on water. J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 3869. A. Varano, D. J. Henry, I. Yarovsky, (2010) DFT study of H adsorption on magnesium doped aluminium clusters.J. Phys.Chem. A 114, 3602. G. Yiapanis, D. J. Henry, E. Evans, I. Yarovsky (2010) Simulations of nano-indentation of polymer surfaces: Effects of surface crosslinking on adhesion and hardness. J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 478. D. J. Henry, A. Varano, I. Yarovsky (2009) First principles investigation of H addition and abstraction reactions on doped aluminum clusters. J. Phys.Chem. A, 113, 5832.