My Chemistry Page:This Chemistry site was last updated: July 22, 2006. My professional interests lie in the field of Chemistry and Materials Science, specifically Inorganic and Polymer Chemistry and Materials. Clearly I'm also interested in the field of Chemical Education (which, in turn, has caused me to become more interested in Physical Chemistry, as well). This site is devoted to those interests. This site contains an expanded version of my 'standard' resume. In addition, a list of my publications, conference proceedings and preprints can also be found here. Since September of 2001, I have been a Lecturer in
the
Department of Chemistry
at UC, San Diego.
During this time, I've been the instructor for the
Introductory Inorganic (i.e. General) Chemistry Laboratory class,
Chemistry
6BL, at UCSD.
With often up to (and sometimes over!) 500 students a Quarter,
I see pretty much every UCSD student who's interested
in any area of science. Over these last several years, I have set
about to revise this course in various ways, in the hopes of improving
it. Between Sept. 1998 and Sept. 2001, I worked at a small high-tech, R&D company by the name of Chemat Technology; My work at Chemat originally involved the development of electronic materials for semiconductor applications and integrated circuits (I.C.'s). Specifically the work involved the use polymer products as dielectric materials in I.C.'s. After the completion of the dielectric project, I rose to the position of Senior Research Scientist, where I helped to oversee all of the research performed at Chemat. To this day, I continue to be a consultant for Chemat's various projects. More details on this can be found in my resume. Before my work at Chemat, I was in Graduate School in the Dept. of Chemistry at UCLA, in Prof. Ric Kaner's research group (1993-1998). My research in the Kaner Group primarily involved the use of the conducting polymer, Polyaniline, as a membrane material in liquid separations (i.e. pervaporation). For a look at what research goes on in the Kaner Group, check out the Kaner Group website (and, yes, I was the original designer of the Kaner Group website too; this page is based on the original Kaner Group Home Page). In addition, in collaboration with UCLA Materials Science Prof. Yang Yang, I also researched the use of doped and sulfonated polyaniline as an electrode material in polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs) for display applications. My career in research began when I was an undergraduate. During that time, I spent two summers (1991, 1992) as an Research Intern at the Dow Chemical Western Center in Pittsburg, CA. I also worked for a year and a half in the reseach group of Professor Charles Lieber in the Dept. of Chemistry during my undergraduate studies at Harvard University (1989-1993); in Prof. Lieber's group my research was primarily devoted to Metallofullerenes. Finally, this page contains links to some of the web sites that are think revelvant to these topics (see sidebar, left).
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