My research interests include nanoscience, the chemistry of radical ions, conducting polymers, anodized coatings for metals, and environmental issues.
I have collaborated on the nanostructuring of redox polymers with Professor Alesander Timonov and the deposition of nanoparticles in TiO2 films with Professor Tatiana Boitsova at the Herzen State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. I have collaborated on electrochemical and environmental projects with Professor Andre Darchen at the National College of Chemistry in Rennes, France.
I am interested in teaching and research in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. In that regard, I have worked over the past several years with Professor Cliff Chancey in the Physics Department to develop an interdisciplinary nanoscience curriculum at the UNI Center for Educational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CENN).
Funding from various grants have permitted the renovation of laboratories and the acquisition of equipment including atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes, scanning electron microscope, thermal analysis equipment, magnetometer, X-ray diffractometer, and fiber optic spectrometers, all of which enable UNI undergraduate students to have hands-on experiences with instrumentation which probe the nanoscale.
