My graduate research presentation can be downloaded as a PDF.
A summary of my research can be viewed here. It is entitled: “Design, Syntheses, and Analyses of Organic Materials for Electronic, Photonic, or Medicinal Applications.”
My dissertation, publications, and related writing examples can be found here.
A list of my chemistry skills, containing my characterization, purification, polymer, and synthetic organic skills, is located here.
You can also view presentations of my research at NAWCWD, USC, and MCJ, by clicking on each of the images below.
- ACI Technologies, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
Description: Provide chemistry expertise relating to failure analysis and process recommendations for commercial analytical and manufacturing services.
Industry: Electronics manufacturing.
Achievements: Use my knowledge and experience towards improving current and developing new technology.
Status: Evaluating devices for failure analysis and processing, including state of cleanliness and solderability.
Plans: Build upon my knowledge of technology development from the manufacturing point of view.
Contacts: Analytical chemists; chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineers; materials scientists; etc. Most of my colleagues are from disciplines other than chemistry, so I am able to converse well with people that have other skill sets.
- NanoSelect, Inc., Newark, DE.
- Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Materials and Chemistry Division, Polymer Science and Engineering Branch, China Lake, CA.
- University of Southern California, Department of Chemistry and Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
- Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Core Facility, Neurochemistry Research, Jacksonville, FL.
Description: Designed, synthesized, and characterized materials for use in sensors.
Industry: Applied research in environmental monitoring in a start up industrial setting.
Achievements: Used my knowledge and experience towards developing new technology.
Status: Synthesized materials and evaluated devices.
Plans: Build upon my knowledge of sensor development, as well as carbon nanotubes.
Contacts: Analytical chemists; chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineers; materials scientists; synthetic organic chemists; etc. Many of my colleagues were from a variety of foreign countries: China; India; Panama; Turkey; and others.
Description: Design and synthesis of heterocyclic and nonheterocyclic conjugated polymers for use in electro-optical devices, photovoltaics, and advanced charge storage devices (supercapacitors).
Industry: Applied research. Military with academic and industrial collaborations. The work spans several branches of chemistry: organic and polymer synthesis; analytical characterization, using electrochemistry, NMR and optical spectroscopy, etc.; chemical engineering, for device applications and considerations; etc.
Achievements: Synthesized and characterized polymers with novel architectures. Expanded on my synthetic organic methodology to include more heterocyclic chemistry. Learned how to perform electroanalytical chemistry experiments on polymer systems.
Status: Left my position as a Postdoctoral Researcher when I obtained employment in Delaware.
Plans: Assisting my former supervisor in getting my work published in peer-reviewed publications.
Contacts: Analytical chemists; chemical / polymer engineers; explosives chemists; organic / polymer synthetic chemists; etc.
Description: Design and synthesis of conjugated polymers and organic ligands. Tuned their photophysical properties by changing the structure of the systems. Developed experiments to determine energy transfer parameters for polymers donating energy to visible and infrared emissive materials.
Industry: Applied research. Academic with academic collaborations. The work spanned several branches of chemistry: organic and polymer synthesis; analytical characterization, using NMR and optical spectroscopy, etc.; physical organic; etc.
Achievements: Synthesized and characterized polymers with novel architectures. Energy transfer was shown to occur from polymer to organic ligand to lanthanide ion. Expanded on my knowledge of organic synthesis and structure-property relationship studies. Learned how to perform optical spectroscopy experiments, with fluorescence, phosphorescence, and lifetime studies. Preliminary studies led to MRS, PMSE, and SPIE publications, as well as oral and poster presentations at national conferences.
Status: Finished the research, which went into my dissertation, then led to my defense and graduation.
Plans: Writing up most of the work for publication. The plan is to have three papers which span the terpyridine polymer with europium(III) complexes, the beta-diketonate polymers with europium(III) complexes, and the beta-diketonate polymers with erbium(III) complexes.
Contacts: Analytical chemists; crystallographers; electrical engineers; organic / polymer synthetic chemists; organometallic chemists; physical chemists; scientific glassblowers; etc. Many of my colleagues were from a variety of foreign countries: China; Finland; Japan; India; Sri Lanka; Sweden; and others.
Description: Synthesized carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, monomers and oligomers of peptide nucleic acids via solution or solid-phase synthesis.
Industry: Applied research. Medicinal with academic collaborations. The work spanned several branches of science: organic synthesis, in solution and solid-state synthesis; analytical characterization, using polarimetry, NMR spectroscopy, etc.; molecular biology; etc.
Achievements: My work led to multiple publications for the primary investigators. Learned a great deal about how to perform synthetic organic research and structure-activity relationship studies. Trained as a Hazardous Materials Technician for membership on MCJ’s Chemical Spill Team.
Status: Left my position as Research Technologist when I started graduate school.
Plans: I still use much of the knowledge and techniques that I gained in medicinal organic research in my current position focused in materials organic research.
Contacts: Analytical chemists; medical doctors; molecular biologists; neuroscientists; organic synthetic chemists; etc. Many of my colleagues were from a variety of foreign countries: Algeria; China; Pakistan; and others.
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