CURRICULUM VITAE - Stephen Edward Creager
Updated February 2016
PERSONAL DATA
Occupation: Professor of Chemistry
Address:
Hunter Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Clemson University,
Clemson, SC 29634
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1987, Chemistry
B.S, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1982, Chemistry
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Clemson University, 2013 - 2014, Provost’s Fellow
Clemson University, 2007 - 2013, Chemistry Department Chair
Clemson University, 2005 - 2007, Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Clemson University, 2000 - present, Professor
Clemson University, 1998- 2000, Associate Professor
Clinical Micro Sensors Inc., 1998, Visiting Research Scientist
Clemson University, 1995- 1998, Assistant Professor
Indiana University, 1989-1995, Assistant Professor
University of Texas, 1987-1989, Research Associate
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Clinical Micro Sensors, Pasadena, CA (electrochemical sensors)
Bace Technologies, Pickens, SC. (electrolytic capacitor technology)
ZettaCore Inc., Denver, CO (electrochemical computer memory technology)
OhmX LLC, Chicago IL (electrochemical sensors / medical diagnostics)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Chemical Society
The Electrochemical Society
Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society)
Phi Lambda Upsilon (Chemistry Honorary Society)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected since 2000)
Member of the Review Panels on Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical
Science and Engineering at the Army Research Laboratory, part of the Laboratory
Assessments Board, National Academies National Research Council, 2015-2017
Reviewer for the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program, spring 2015
Founding faculty advisor to Student Chapter of The Electrochemical Society, 2014 present
Co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the15th IUPAC Symposium on
MacroMolecular Complexes, August 2013
Chair of the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference, Jan 2010
Member of external department review committees, Northern Illinois University and
Auburn University chemistry departments, Spring 2008
Member of the Board of Directors, Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC),
2007 - 2012
Member of award jury, Carl Wagner Award of the Electrochemical Society, 2005 - 2013
Participant in NSF-sponsored workshop on “New Challenges of Chemical and Biological
Sensing”, Arlington, VA, January 2002
Participant in DOE-sponsored workshop on "Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale", Santa
Fe, NM, January 2002
Symposium organizer, “Electrochemical Detection in Flowing Streams; New
Developments”, Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry, March 2002.
Reviewer for CAREER award, Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, Chemistry
Division, National Science Foundation, 2001-2002, also 1997-98
Judge for the Student Summer Fellowships competition, The Electrochemical Society,
2000.
Member of award jury, Award in Electrochemistry, American Chemical Society
Analytical Chemistry Division, 2000 - 2003
Teacher of short course, "Introduction to Electrochemistry", Clinical Micro Sensors Inc.,
July 1999; DuPont Chemical Company, March 2000; Pittsburgh Conference, once
each year, 2001 - 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Research Publications
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S. E. Creager, D. A. Aikens and H. M. Clark, "The electroactive molybdenum(VI)
species in neutral citrate medium", Electrochimica Acta, 27, 1307-10, (1982)
S. E. Creager, G. T. Marks, D. A. Aikens and H. H. Richtol, "Linear sweep voltammetry
of adsorbed Neutral Red", Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 152, 197-209, (1983)
S. E. Creager and R. W. Murray, "Electrochemical studies of oxo(mesotetraphenylporphinato)chromium(I V). Direct evidence for epoxidation of olefins by an
electrochemically generated formal Chromium(V) state", Inorganic Chemistry, 24, 38248, (1985)
S. E. Creager, S. A. Raybuck and R. W. Murray, "An efficient electrocatalytic model
cytochrome P-450 epoxidation cycle", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 108,
4225-7, (1986)
S. E. Creager and R. W. Murray, "Electrochemical reactivity of manganese(II)
porphyrins. Effects of dioxygen, benzoic anhydride, and axial ligands", Inorganic
Chemistry, 26, 2612-18, (1987)
J. L. Sessler, M. R. Johnson, T. Y. Lin and S. E. Creager, "Quinone-substituted
monometalated porphyrin dimers: models for photoinduced charge separation at fixed
orientation and energy", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 110, 3659-61, (1988)
S. E. Creager and M. A. Fox, "Electrode modification by irreversible polyelectrolyte
adsorption. Static and dynamic coating of poly(p-xylyl viologen) on solid electrodes",
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 258, 431-50, (1989)
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C. P. Horwitz, S. E. Creager and R. W. Murray, "Electrocatalytic olefin epoxidation
using manganese Schiff-base complexes and dioxygen", Inorganic Chemistry, 29, 100611, (1990)
S. E. Creager, D. M. Collard and M. A. Fox, "Mediated electron transfer by a surfactant
viologen bound to octadecanethiol on gold", Langmuir, 6, 1617-20, (1990)
J. L. Sessler, M. R. Johnson, S. E. Creager, J. C. Fettinger and J. A. Ibers, "Synthesis and
characterization of quinone-substituted octaalkyl porphyrin monomers and dimers",
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 112, 9310-29, (1990)
S. E. Creager and M. A. Fox, "Solute permeation in thin adsorbed layers of poly-(p-xylylviologen): solvation, counterion, and electron transfer kinetic effects", Journal of the
Electrochemical Society, 137, 2151-7, (1990)
S. E. Creager and G. K. Rowe, "Redox properties of ferrocenyl-alkanethiols coadsorbed
with linear n-alkanethiols on polycrystalline bulk gold electrodes", Analytica Chimica
Acta, 246, 233-9, (1991)
G. K. Rowe and S. E. Creager, "Redox and ion-pairing thermodynamics in selfassembled monolayers", Langmuir, 7, 2307-12, (1991)
G. E. Poirier, B. K. Hance, J. M. White, M. A. Fox and S. E. Creager, "Determination of
the surface area of variously polished gold electrodes by scanning tunneling microscopy",
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, A, 9, 1630-33, (1991)
S. E. Creager, L. A. Hockett and G. K. Rowe, "Consequences of microscopic surface
roughness for molecular self-assembly", Langmuir, 8, 854-861, (1992)
S. E. Creager, "Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and electronic
conductivity mechanisms in oxidatively doped poly(N-methylpyrrole) thin films",
Journal of Physical Chemistry, 96, 2371-5, (1992)
S. E. Creager and G. K. Rowe, "Alcohol aggregation at hydrophobic monoalyer surfaces
and its effect on interfacial redox chemistry", Langmuir, 9, 2330-2336, (1993)
S. E. Creager and K. Weber, "On the interplay between interfacial potential distribution
and electron-transfer kinetics in organized monolayers on electrodes", Langmuir, 9, 844850, (1993)
L. S. Curtin, S. R. Peck, L. M. Tender, R. W. Murray, G. K. Rowe and S. E. Creager,
"Voltammetry at 115-180 K for self-assembled ferrocene-tagged alkanethiol monolayers
on gold and silver electrodes in butyronitrile/ethyl chloride solvent", Analytical
Chemistry, 65, 386, (1993)
K. A. Groat and S. E. Creager, "Self-assembled monolayers in organic solvents:
Electrochemistry at alkanethiolate-coated electrodes", Langmuir, 9, 3668-3674, (1993)
L. A. Hockett and S. E. Creager, "A convenient method for removing surface oxides from
tungsten STM tips", Review of Scientific Instruments, 64, 263-264, (1993)
S. E. Creager and G. K. Rowe, "Competitive self-assembly and electrochemistry of some
ferrocenyl-n-alkanethiol derivatives on gold", Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry,
370, 203-211, (1994)
S. E. Creager and J. Clarke, "Contact-angle titrations of mixed omega-mercaptoalkanoic
acid / alkanethiol monolayers on gold. Reactive vs. nonreactive spreading, and chain
length effects on surface pKa values", Langmuir, 10, 3675-3683, (1994)
G. K. Rowe and S. E. Creager, "Interfacial solvation and double-layer effects on redox
reactions in organized assemblies", Journal of Physical Chemistry, 98, 5500-5507,
(1994)
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G. K. Rowe and S. E. Creager, "Chain length effects on competitive self-assembly of
ferrocenyl-hexanethiol and n-alkanethiols onto gold", Langmuir, 10, 1186-1192, (1994)
K. Weber and S. E. Creager, "Voltammetry of redox-active groups irreversibly adsorbed
onto electrodes. Treatment using the Marcus relation between rate and overpotential.",
Analytical Chemistry, 66, 3164-3172, (1994)
S. E. Creager, K. D. Lawrence and C. R. Tibbetts, "A robust, easily constructed
salicylate-ion-selective electrode for use in the instructional laboratory", Journal of
Chemical Education, 72, 274-276, (1995)
S. E. Creager and C. M. Steiger, "Conformational rigidity in a self-assembled monolayer
of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid on gold", Langmuir, 11, 1852-1854, (1995)
L. A. Hockett and S. E. Creager, "Redox kinetics for ferrocene groups immobilized in
impermeable and permeable self-assembled monolayers", Langmuir, 11, 2318-2321
(1995)
S. E. Creager and K. A. Olsen, "Self-assembled monolayers and enzyme electrodes:
Progress, problems, and prospects." Analytica Chimica Acta, 307, 277-289, (1995)
J. N. Richardson, S. R. Peck, L. S. Curtin, L. M. Tender, R. H. Terrill, M. T. Carter, R.
W. Murray, G. K. Rowe, and S. E. Creager, "Electron-transfer kinetics of self-assembled
ferrocene octanethiol monolayers on gold and silver electrodes from 115 to 170 K."
Journal of Physical Chemistry, 99, 766-772, (1995)
K. S. Alleman, K. Weber and S. E. Creager, "Electrochemical Rectification at a
Monolayer-Modified Electrodes" Alleman, K. S. and Creager, S. E., Journal of Physical
Chemistry, 100, 17050-17058, (1996)
S. E. Creager and G. K. Rowe, "Ion Solvation and Double-Layer Effects on Redox
Reactions in Self-Assembled Monolayers. Alkanethiolates and Ferrocenylalkanethiolates on Gold", Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 420, 291-299, (1997)
K. Weber, L. Hockett, and S. Creager, “Long-Range Electronic Coupling between
Ferrocene and Gold in Alkanethiolate-based Monolayers on Electrodes” Journal of
Physical Chemistry B, 101, 8286-8291, (1997).
J. J. Sumner, S. E. Creager, J. J. Ma, and D. D. DesMarteau, “Proton Conductivity in
Nafion 117 and in a Novel Bis((perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl)imide Ionomer Membrane”
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 145, 107-110 (1998)
M. French and S. E. Creager, “Enhanced Barrier Properties of Alkanethiol-Coated Gold
Electrodes by 1-Octanol in Solution” Langmuir, 14, 2129-2133 (1998)
S.E. Creager and T. Wooster, “A New Way of Using AC Voltammetry to Study Redox
Kinetics in Electroactive Monolayers” Analytical Chemistry, 70, 4257-4263 (1998)
K. S. Weber and S. E. Creager, “Reorganization Energetics for Ferrocene Oxidation /
Reduction in Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold” Journal of Electroanalytical
Chemistry, 458, 17-22 (1998).
S.E. Creager, C.J. Yu, C. Bamdad, S. O’Connor, T. MacLean, E. Lam, Y. Chong, G.T.
Olsen, J.Luo, M. Grozin, and J.F. Kayyem, “Electron Transfer at Electrodes through
Conjugated “Molecular Wire” Bridges” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 121,
1059-1064 (1999).
S. D. O'Connor, G. T. Olsen, S. E. Creager, "A Nernstian electron source model for the
ac voltammetric response of a reversible surface redox reaction using large-amplitude ac
voltages" Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 466, 197-202 (1999).
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S. E. Creager, J. J. Sumner, R. D. Bailey, J. J. Ma, W. T. Pennington, D. D. Desmarteau,
"Effects of ionomer equivalent weight and crystallinity on water uptake and proton
conductivity in bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide-based ionomers" Electrochemical and
Solid-State Letters, 2, 434-436 (1999)
P. Radford, M. French, S. E. Creager, "A signal amplification scheme for ultrasensitive
amperometric detection in flowing streams" Analytical Chemistry, 71, 5101-5108 (1999)
C. E. Taylor and S. E. Creager, "Electrochemiluminescence-based detection of ferrocene
derivatives at monolayer-coated electrodes" Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 485,
114 – 120 (2000)
J. J. Sumner, K. S. Weber, L. A. Hockett, and S. E. Creager, "Long-range heterogeneous
electron transfer between ferrocene and gold mediated by n-alkane and n-alkylcarboxamide bridges" Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104, 7449 – 7454 (2000).
J. Li, K. Schuler, S. E. Creager, “A Generalized Equivalent Circuit Model for
Electroactive Monolayers Exhibiting a Fixed Redox Potential and Distribution of
Electron-Transfer Rate Constants. Part 1: Square Distributions.” Journal of the
Electrochemical Society, 147, 4584 - 4588 (2000)
J. J. Sumner and S. E. Creager, “Topological effects on bridge-mediated electron transfer
between redox molecules and metal electrodes” Journal of the American Chemical
Society, 122, 11914-11920 (2000)
S. E. Creager and P. T. Radford, "Electrochemical reactivity at redox-molecule-based
nanoelectrode ensembles” Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 500, 21-29 (2001).
J. J. Sumner and S. E. Creager “Redox kinetics in monolayers on electrodes: Electron
transfer is sluggish for ferrocene groups buried within the monolayer interior” J. Phys.
Chem. B. 105, 8739-8745 (2001)
P. T. Radford and S. E. Creager, “A dual-stream flow-injection method for amplified
electrochemical detection of ferrocene derivatives” Analytica Chimica Acta, 449, 199 209 (2001)
Paulenova A., S. E. Creager, J. D. Navratil, Y. Wei “Redox Potentials and Kinetics of
the Ce3+/4+ Redox Reaction, and Solubility Of Cerium Sulfates In Sulfuric Acid
Solutions” Journal of Power Sources, 109, 431-438 (2002).
Geiculescu, O. E., J. Yang, R. Bailey-Walsh, G. Shafer, S. E. Creager, W. T. Pennington
and D. D. DesMarteau (2001). “Solid Polymer Electrolytes from Dilithium salts based on
new bis[(perfluoroalkyul)sulfonyl]imide dianions. Preparation and electrical
characterization.” Solid State Ionics 148, 173-183 (2002)
S. C. Savett, J. R. Atkins, C. R. Sides, J. L. Harris, B. H. Thomas, S. E. Creager, W. T.
Pennington, and D. D. DesMarteau “A Comparison of bis[(perfloroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide
Ionomers with Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomers for Applications in PEM Fuel Cell
Technology” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 149 (12), A1527-1532 (2002).
J F Smalley, H O Finklea, C E D Chidsey, M R Linford, S E Creager, J P Ferraris, K
Chalfant, T Zawodzinski, S W Feldberg, and M D Newton, "Heterogeneous electron
transfer kinetics for ruthenium and ferrocene redox moieties through alkanethiol
monolayers on gold", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125 (7), 2004 - 2013 (2003).
Atkins, J. R.; C. R. Sides, S. E. Creager, J. L. Harris, W. T. Pennington, B. H. Thomas,
and D. D. DesMarteau “Effects of Equivalent Weight on Ionic Conductivity in
Bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide Perfluorinated Ionomers", Journal of New Materials
for Electrochemical Systems, 6 (1), 9-16 (2003)
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D. Adams, L Brus, C E D Chidsey, S Creager, C Creutz, C R Kagan, P V Kamat, M
Lieberman, S Lindsay, R A Marcus, R M Metzger, M E Michel-Beyerle, J R Miller, M
D Newton, D R Rolison, O Sankey, K S Schanze, J Yardley, and X Zhu, "Charge
Transfer on the Nanoscale" J. Phys. Chem. B., 107, 6668-6697 (2003)
Biao Liu and Allen J. Bard, Michael V. Mirkin, Stephen E. Creager, " Electron Transfer
at Self-Assembled Monolayers Measured by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy", J.
Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 1485-1492 (2004).
O. E. Geiculescu, Jin Yang, Shuang Zhou, G. Shafer, Yuan Xie, J. Albright, S. E.
Creager, W.T. Pennington, D. D. DesMarteau, "Solid polymer electrolytes from
polyanionic lithium salts based on the bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide anion structure"
Journal of the Electrochemcal Society, 151 (9), A1363-1368 (2004)
J. R. Atkins, S. C. Savett, and S. E. Creager " Large-scale current fluctuations in PEM
fuel cells operating with reduced feed stream humidification" Journal of Power Sources,
128, 201-207 (2004).
O. E. Geiculescu, Yuan Xie, R. Rajagopal, S. E. Creager, D. D. DesMarteau " Dilithium
bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]diimide salts as electrolytes for rechargeable lithium
batteries" Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 125, 1179-1185 (2004).
John F. Smalley, Sandra B. Sachs, Christopher E. D. Chidsey, Stephen P. Dudek, Hadley
D. Sikes, Stephen E. Creager, C. J. Yu, Stephen W. Feldberg, and Marshall D. Newton
“Interfacial Electron-Transfer Kinetics of Ferrocene Through Oligophenyleneethynylene
Bridges Attached to Gold Electrodes as Constituents of Self-Assembled Monolayers:
Observation of a Non-Monotonic Distance Dependence” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (44)
14620-14630 (2004)
Norton JCS, Han MG, Jiang P, Shim GH, Ying YR, Creager S, Foulger SH “Poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-coated silica spheres: Electrochemical modulation of
the optical properties of a hydrogel-stabilized core-shell particle suspension” Chemistry
of Materials, 18(19) 4570-4575 (2006)
Stephen E. Creager, Bing Liu, Hua Mei, and Darryl DesMarteau “Electrochemical
grafting of an aryl fluorosulfonimide electrolyte onto glassy carbon” Langmuir, 22,
10747-10753 (2006).
Geiculescu, O. E.; Rajagopal, R.; Creager, S. E.; DesMarteau, D. D.; Zhang, X. W.;
Fedkiw, P., “Transport properties of solid polymer electrolytes prepared from oligomeric
fluorosulfonimide lithium salts dissolved in high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide)”
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, (46), 23130-23135 (2006)
Borodin, O.; Smith, G. D.; Geiculescu, O.; Creager, S. E.; Hallac, B.; DesMarteau, D.,
“Li+ transport in lithium sulfonylimide-oligo(ethylene oxide) ionic liquids and
oligo(ethylene oxide) doped with LiTFSI.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(47),
24266-24274 (2006).
Mark W. Perpall, Dennis W. Smith Jr, Darryl D. DesMarteau, and Stephen E. Creager,
“Alternative Trifluorovinyl Ether Derived Fluoropolymer Membranes and Functionalized
Carbon Composite Electrodes for Fuel Cells” Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part
C: Polymer Reviews, 46:297–313, 2006
Norton, J., M.G. Han, P. Jiang, S. Creager, and S.H. Foulger, “Electrochemical tuning the
optical properties of crystalline colloidal arrays composed of poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiophene) coated silica particles.” Journal Of Materials Chemistry, 2007.
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Hallac, P.B., O.E. Geiculescu, R. Rajagopal, C. Topping, S.E. Creager, and D.D.
Desmarteau, “Ionic melt electrolytes based on olgomeric PEG functionalized with
lithium fluorosulfonates or flurosulfonimide pendants.” Chimica Oggi-Chemistry Today,
2007. 25(3): p. 37-41.
Fears, K.P., S.E. Creager, and R.A. Latour, “Determination of the surface pK of
carboxylic- and amine-terminated alkanethiols using surface plasmon resonance
spectroscopy.” Langmuir, 2008. 24(3): p. 837-843.
Hallac, B.B., O.E. Geiculescu, R.V. Rajagopal, S.E. Creager, and D.D. DesMarteau,
“Lithium-conducting ionic melt electrolytes from polyether-functionalized
fluorosulfonimide anions.” Electrochimica Acta, 2008. 53(20): p. 5985-5991.
Mathis, B.J., C.W. Marshall, C.E. Milliken, R.S. Makkar, S.E. Creager, and H.D. May,
“Electricity generation by thermophilic microorganisms from marine sediment.” Applied
Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2008. 78(1): p. 147-155.
Rao, A.K. and S.E. Creager, “Superporous agarose-Reticulated vitreous carbon
electrodes for electrochemical sandwich bioassays.” Analytica Chimica Acta, 2008.
628(2): p. 190-197.
Rao, A.K. and S.E. Creager, “Preparation and characterization of superporous agarosereticulated vitreous carbon electrodes as platforms for electrochemical bioassays”
Analytica Chimica Acta, 2008. 622(1-2): p. 1-10.
Shim, G.H., M.G. Han, J.C. Sharp-Norton, S.E. Creager, and S.H. Foulger, “Inkjetprinted electrochromic devices utilizing polyaniline-silica and poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiophene)-silica colloidal composite particles” Journal of Materials
Chemistry, 2008. 18(5): p. 594-601.
Olt E. Geiculescu, Rama V. Rajagopal, Emilia C. Mladin, Stephen E. Creager and Darryl
D. Desmarteau, “Solid Polymer Electrolytes from Crosslinked PEG and Dilithium N,N'Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)perfluoroalkane-1,ω-disulfonamide and Lithium
Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide Salts” Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical
Communications 2008, Vol. 73, Issue 12, pp. 1777–1798
Chang Kyu Byun, Iqbal Sharif , Darryl D. DesMarteau, Stephen E. Creager and Carol
Korzeniewski, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl) Imide Ionomer
Membrane Materials”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009, 113, 6299 - 6304
Mahesha B. Herath, Stephen E. Creager, Rama V. Rajgopal; Olt E. Geiculescu and
Darryl D. DesMarteau “Ionic conduction in polyether-based lithium
arylfluorosulfonimide ionic melt electrolytes” Electrochimica Acta, 54, 5877 – 5883
(2009).
Kitiya Hongsirikarn, James G. Goodwin Jr., Scott Greenway, Stephen Creager,
”Influence of ammonia on the conductivity of Nafion membranes”, Journal of Power
Sources, 195, 30 - 38 (2010).
Bing Liu and Stephen Creager, “Carbon xerogels as Pt catalyst supports for polymer
electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications”, Journal of Power Sources, 195, 1812-1820
(2010)
Hemangi Y. Shedge, Stephen E. Creager, “Evaluation of non-specific binding
suppression schemes for neutravidin and alkaline phosphatase at the surface of reticulated
vitreous carbon electrodes”, Analytica Chimica Acta, 657, 154-162 (2010)
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Bing Liu and Stephen Creager, “Silica-sol-templated mesoporous carbon as catalyst
support for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications” Electrochimica Acta
55, 2721-2726 (2010)
Kitiya Hongsirikarna, James G. Goodwin Jr, Scott Greenway, Stephen Creager “Effect of
cations (Na+, Ca2+, Fe3+) on the conductivity of a Nafion membrane” Journal of Power
Sources 195 7213 – 7220 (2010)
Mahesha B. Herath, Stephen E. Creager, Alex Kitaygorodskiy, Darryl D. DesMarteau
“Perfluoroalkyl Phosphonic and Phosphinic Acids as Proton Conductors for Anhydrous
Proton-Exchange Membranes” ChemPhysChem 11, 2871-2878 (2010)
Mahesha B. Herath, Stephen E. Creager, Alex Kitaygorodskiy, and Darryl D.
DesMarteau “The Effect of Perfluoroalkyl Chain Length on Proton Conduction in
Fluoroalkylated Phosphonic, Phosphinic and Sulfonic acids” J. Phys. Chem. B, 114,
14972-14976 (2010)
Mahesha B. Herath, Tom Hickman, Stephen E. Creager, and Darryl D. DesMarteau “A
New Fluorinated Anion for Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids”, J. Fluorine Chem., 132,
52-56 (2011).
Jung-Min Oh, Olt Geiculescu, Darryl DesMarteau, and Stephen Creager “Ionomer
binders can improve discharge rate capability in lithium-ion battery cathodes” J
Electrochem Soc 158, A207-A213 (2011)
Kitiya Hongsirikarna, Xunhua Moa, James G. Goodwin, Jr, and Stephen Creager “Effect
of H2O2 on Nafion® properties and conductivity at fuel cell conditions” J Power Sources,
196, 3060 – 3072 (2011)
Jung-Min Oh, Amar S. Kumbhar, Olt Geiculescu, and Stephen E. Creager, “Nanoscale
ZrO2 - embedded Mesoporous Carbon Composites: A Potential Route to Functionalized
Mesoporous Carbon Composite Materials”, Langmuir, 28, 3259-3270 (2012)
Jamie C. Sharp Norton, Moon G. Han, Stephen Creager, and Stephen H. Foulger,
“Electrochemical Redox of PEDOT-Coated Core-Shell Silica Spheres Stabilized in a
PEG-Based Hydrogel Maxtrix: Modulation of the Optical Properties by Doping with
Various Oxidative Mediators” Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 7, 3627 – 3637 (2012)
Jiyoung Park, Jung-Min Oh, Stephen E. Creager and Dennis W. Smith Jr. “Grafting of
Chain-End-Functionalized Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) Aryl Ether Ionomers onto
Mesoporous Carbon Supports” Chemical Communications, 48, 8225-8227 (2012)
Verma, R; Tomar, N; Creager, SE; Smith, DW “Statically non-wetting electrospun
perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) aryl ether polymer doped with room temperature ionic liquid
(RTIL)” Polymer, 53, 2211-2216 (2012)
C. K. Byun, T. Parker, C. Liang, I. Kendrick, N. Dimakis, E. S. Smotkin, L-M. Jin, D.
Zhuang, D. D. DesMarteau, S. E. Creager and C. Korzeniewski “Thermal processing as a
means to prepare durable, submicron thickness ionomer films for study by transmission
infrared spectroscopy” Anal. Chem. 84, 8127-8132 (2012)
M Nave, B Rubin, V Maximov, S Creager and K G Kornev “Transport-limited
electrochemical formation of long nanosharp probes from tungsten” Nanotechnology 24,
issue 35, article number 355702, doi 10.1088/0957-4484/24/35/355702 (2013)
Verma, Rajneesh; Creager, Stephen; Ballato, John; Smith, Dennis “Optimized statically
non-wetting hydrophobic electrospun surface of perflourocyclobutyl (PFCB) aryl ether
polymer” Polymer International 62, 1152-1158 (2013).
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Jung-Min Oh, Jiyoung Park, Amar Kumbhar, Dennis Smith Jr., and Stephen Creager
“Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction at Platinum / Mesoporous Carbon / Zirconia /
Ionomer Thin-Film Composite Electrodes” Electrochimica Acta, 138, 278-287 (2014)
Olt E. Geiculescu, Boutros B. Hallac, Rama V. Rajagopal, Stephen E. Creager, Darryl D.
DesMarteau, Oleg Borodin, Grant. D. Smith “The Effect of Low-Molecular-Weight
Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Plasticizers on the Transport Properties of Lithium
Fluorosulfonimide Ionic Melt Electrolytes”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118, 51355143 (2014)
Jamie A. Shetzline and Stephen E. Creager, “Quantifying Electronic and Ionic
Conductivity Contributions in Carbon/Polyelectrolyte Composite Thin Films” Journal of
the Electrochemical Society, 161 (14), H917-H923 (2014)
Bing Liu, Hua Mei, Darryl DesMarteau and Stephen E. Creager, “Electrochemical
Behavior of Platinum Nanoparticles on a Carbon Xerogel Support Modified with a
[(Trifluoromethyl)-benzenesulfonyl]imide Electrolyte”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B,
118, 14115-14123 (2014)
Christopher F. Huebner, Volodymyr Tsyalkovsky, Yuriy Bandera, Mary K. Burdette,
Jamie A. Shetzline, Charles Tonkin, Stephen E. Creager and Stephen H. Foulger
“Nonvolatile optically-erased colloidal memristors” Nanoscale 7, 1270-1279 (2015)
Bogdan Zdyrko, Yuriy Bandera, Volodymyr Tsyalkovsky, Christopher Huebner, Jamie
A. Shetzline, Parul Rungta, Ryan D. Roeder, Charles Tonkin, Stephen E. Creager, and
Stephen H. Foulger “Rational design of methacrylate monomers containing oxadiazole
moieties for single-layer organic light emitting devices” Journal of Polymer Science B:
Polymer Physics, 53, 1663-1673 (2015)
John A. Goodwin, Johnson Agbo, Justin Zuczek, Auquilla Samuel, Tyler H. Aslund,
Leanne R. Tuley, Johnathan A. Simmons, Robert J. Kimble, Erin Magee, Stephen
Creager and Jamie Shetzline “Electrochemical dioxygen reduction catalyzed by a (nitro)
cobalt(perfluorophthalocyanine) complex and the possibility of a peroxynitro complex
intermediate” Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 19, 1185-1196 (2015)
Bandera, Y; Burdette, MK; Shetzline, JA; Jenkins, R; Creager, SE; Foulger, SH,
“Synthesis of water soluble axially disubstituted silicon (IV) phthalocyanines with alkyne
& azide functionality”, Dyes and Pigments, 125, 72-79 (2016)
Olt. E. Geiculescu, Milena Stanga, Walter Navarrini, Stephen E. Creager, Darryl D.
DesMarteau “Solid polymer electrolytes from lithium (perfluorovinylether) sulfonate—
Derived salts dissolved in high-molecular-weight poly(ethylene oxide)”, Journal of
Fluorine Chemistry, 183, 14-22 (2016)
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Research publications in review / in press / in preparation
1. O.E. Geiculescu, D.D. DesMarteau, S. E. Creager, O. Haik, D. Hirshberg, Y. Shilina, E.
Zinigrad, M.D. Levi, D. Aurbach, and I.C. Halalay “Binary Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for
Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries Based on Mixtures of Sulfonamides and Lithium
Perfluorosulfonimide Salts”, J. Power Sources, in press
2. Ryan E. Hammonds, Kristi Whitehead, Jung-Min Oh, Yi Jie Wang, Jerrie M. Onley, Stephen
E. Creager, and J. Michael Henson “Microbial electrosynthetic acetate production from 12C-
and 13C-labeled bicarbonate using a microbial community derived from a bovine rumen”, in
preparation
Patents & Patent Applications
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"Binding Acceleration Techniques for the Detection of Analytes" G. Blackburn, S. E.
Creager, S. Fraser, B. D. Irvine, T. J. Meade, S. D. O'Connor, R. H. Terbrueggen, J. G.
Vielmetter, T. W. Welch, inventors; US Patent No. 6,264, 825, Filed June 23 1999,
Issued July 24, 2001. Assigned to Clinical Micro Sensors Inc., Pasadena, CA
"Compositions and Methods for Detecting Redox-Active Molecules in Solution" S. E.
Creager, Inventor. Filed March 13, 2001.
“Electrolyte for a Lithium Ion Battery” Ion C. Halalay, Damon R. Frisch, Olt E.
Geiculescu, Darryl D. DesMarteau, Stephen E. Creager, Changqing Lu. US 2011111308
(A1) May 12 2011. Assigned to General Motors Global Technologies Inc., Detroit,
Michigan
Conference Proceedings
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S. E. Creager, J. Fettinger, J. A. Ibers, J. Rodriquez, C. Kirmaier, D. Holton, "Quinonesubstituted porphyrin dimers: New photosynthetic model systems" Proceedings of the
Tenth International Congress on Photobiology, Jerusalem, Israel, 1988.
S. E. Creager and K. A. Weber, "Monolayer electrochemistry in highly viscous aqueous
sugar solutions" Proceedings of the Symposium on New Directions in Electroanalytical
Chemistry, J. Leddy and R. M. Wightman, Editors. Based on a symposium held at the
Electrochemical Society National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 5-10, 1996.
P. Radford, M. French, S. E. Creager, “Redox amplification for Ultrasensitive
Amperometric Detection in Flowing Streams” Proceedings of the Symposium on New
Directions in Electroanalytical Chemistry, J. Leddy, M. Porter, P. Vanycek, organizers.
Based on a symposium held at the Electrochemical Society National Meeting, Seattle,
WA, May 1999.
S. E. Creager, S. Savett, B. Thomas, D. D. DesMarteau, “New
Bis[{perfluoroalkyl}sulfonyl]imide Ionomers for PEM Fuel Cells” Proceedings of a
Symposium on Polymers for Batteries and Fuel Cells. T. Zawodzinski, J. P. Ferraris, and
G. Wnek, organizers. Based on a symposium held at the American Chemical Society
National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 1999.
D. D. DesMarteau, S. E. Creager, B. Thomas, J. McClellan, S. Zhou, S. Savett,
"Perfluorinated Ionomers containing the Sulfonimide Acid Function: Promising PEM
and Electrocatalyst Application for Fuel Cells" Proceedings of the Third International
Fuel Cell Symposium, held in Nagoya, Japan, December 1999
S. E. Creager, S. Savett, B. Thomas, D. DesMarteau, "Bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide
perfluorinated ionomers in PEM fuel cell technology" Proceedings of the 1999
Membrane Conference on Technology / Planning, held in Newton, MA, Dec. 1999
S. E. Creager, “Fluoropolymer usage in PEM fuel cell technology. Issues and
opportunities” Proceedings of the Fluoropolymers 2000 conference, sponsored by ACS
Fluorine Division, held Oct 2000, Savannah, GA
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Creager SE, Smith DW, DesMarteau DD "NER: New fuel cell electrodes from carbon
aerogels with internally grafted fluoropolymer electrolytes", Proceedings of the 2004
National Science Foundation Design, Service and Manufacture and Industrial Innovation
Grantees and Research Conference, Dallas, Texas, January 5-8, 2004
M. Perpall, H. Zengin, K. Perera, W. Zhou, H. Shah, X. Wu, S. Creager, D. Smith, S.
Foulger, and J. Ballato, “Processable High Carbon-Yielding Polymer for Micro- and
Nanofabrication,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 4979, Micromachining and
Microfabrication Process Technology VIII, pp. 307 – 316 (2003).
Creager SE, Liu B, Mei H, Perpall M, Smith DW, DesMarteau DD "NER: New fuel cell
electrodes from carbon aerogels with internally grafted fluoropolymer electrolytes",
Proceedings of the 2005 National Science Foundation Design, Service and Manufacture
and Industrial Innovation Grantees and Research Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, January
2005
Stephen E. Creager, Hua Mei, Bing Liu, Mark W.Perpall, Ibrahim Shaban, Dennis W.
Smith, Jr, Darryl D. Desmarteau, Fluorinated sulfonimide electrolytes grafted onto
carbon: A potential route to high-performance PEM fuel cell electrodes. Prepr. Pap.-Am.
Chem. Soc., Div. Fuel Chem. 2004, 49 (2), U667.
Perpall MW, Shaban IS, Mei H, Creager SE, DesMarteau DD, Smith DW.
Functionalized nanostructured carbons for fuel cell electrodes. Prepr. Pap.-Am. Chem.
Soc., Div. Fuel Chem. 2004, 49 (2), U666.
Perpall MW, Liu B, Creager SE, Smith DW “Fluoropolymer functionalization of carbon
particles” Prepr. Pap.-Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Fuel Chem. 2005, 230: U4255-U4256 564POLY AUG 28 2005
Stephen E. Creager, Peter Hallac, Olt Geiculescu, Rajagopal Rama, Mahesha Herath and
Darryl D. DesMarteau “Ionic Melt Electrolytes for Lithium Battery Applications” ECS
Transactions, 3, XXXXX (2007) In press
Stephen E. Creager, Peter Hallac, Olt Geiculescu, Rajagopal Rama and Darryl D.
DesMarteau “Lithium-Conducting Ionic Melt Electrolytes from PolyetherFunctionalized Fluorosulfonimide Anions” ECS Transactions, 3, XXXXX (2007) In
press.
O.E. Geiculescu, R.V. Rajagopal, Jung Min Oh, S.E. Creager and D.D. DesMarteau
“PEGME-based Zwitterionic RTILs Functionalized with Imidazole-modified Lithium
Fluorosulfonate/Fluorosulfonimide Pendants” Proceedings of the PMSE division
symposium, American Chemical Society meeting, Philadelphia PA, Fall 2008
John Alan Goodwin, Tyler H. Aslund, Leanne R. Tuley, Johnathan A. Simmons, Robert
J. Kimble, Stephen Creager, and Jamie Shetzline A Ligand-Assisted Oxygen Reduction
Reaction Catalyzed by (Nitro)Cobalt Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines ECS Trans. 2013
53(37): 7-13
Other Scholarly Publications
1.
S. E. Creager, "Reports on The Electrochemical Society Summer Fellowship Awards.
The Edward G. Weston Summer Fellowship Report. Electrochemical reactivity of
manganese porphyrins with dioxygen", Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 134, 22021C, (1987)
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S. E. Creager, "Electrochemical oxygen activation with chromium, manganese, and iron
porphyrins. A study in homogeneous electrocatalysis", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988)
S. E. Creager, "Molecular Wires", Invited contribution to the 2001 Yearbook of Science
and Technology, McGraw Hill, New York NY, 2001.
S. E. Creager, “Self-Assembled monolayer films: Electrochemical properties” Invited
contribution to the Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, Elsevier,
published 2001.
S. E. Creager, “Solvents and Electrolytes” Chapter 3 in Handbook of Electrochemistry,
edited by Cynthia G. Zoski. Elsevier, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51958-0.
Iqbal Sharif, Stephen Creager, Darryl DesMarteau “Fluorinated ionomers and ionomer
membranes containing the bis[(perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl]imide protogenic group” Chapter
22 in a book titled “Handbook of Fluoropolymer Science and Technology”, edited by
Dennis W. Smith, Jr., Scott T. Iacono, and Suresh Iyer, published by John Wiley and
Sons, spring 2014.
Stephen Creager, “Nanomaterials for Energy, A Look Forward”, Chapter 11 in a book
titled “Nanomaterials for Energy”, Jingbo Louise Liu and Sajid Bashir Editors, ACS
Symposium Series, Volume 1213, published by the American Chemical Society,
Washington DC, December 2015. ISBN13: 9780841231160
HONORS AND AWARDS
Crystal Flame Innovation Award, presented at FuelCellSouth 2004 conference in
Columbia SC to team of Creager, Smith, and DesMarteau, March 2004
Clemson College of Engineering and Science Award for Faculty Excellence in the
Sciences, May 2003
Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award, 1992
Summer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University, 1990
National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health, 1987-89
Edward G. Weston Fellow, The Electrochemical Society, 1986
Centennial Scholarship, American Chemical Society North Carolina Local Section, 1986
O. K. Rice Fellow, University of North Carolina, 1984
Governor's Board Fellow, University of North Carolina, 1983-84
Microelectronics Fellow, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, 1982-83
American Institute of Chemists Outstanding Chemistry Graduate, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, 1982
SPONSORED RESEARCH
I. Current external grant support
“Water Isotope Separation Testing”
SCUREF Award# B139024, funded by SRNL
7/20/2015 – 9/30/2016, $90,007 to Clemson
Creager is PI
"Fluoropolymer Electrolytes, Composites, and Electrodes" (renewal of below)
Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences
1/1/2013 - 12/31/2016, $525,000
Creager is PI, J. Thrasher and D. DesMarteau are co-investigators.
II. Past external grant support
“REU Site: Advanced Functional Membranes
National Science Foundation
Summer 2011 – summer 2013
S Husson is PI, Creager is one of several co-Investigators
"Fluoropolymer Electrolytes, Composites, and Electrodes"
Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences
6/15/2008 - 6/14/2012, $750,000
Creager is PI, D. Smith and D. DesMarteau are co-investigators.
"Electroalcoholgenesis: Bioelectrochemcial Reduction of CO2 to Butanol
Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E)
07/09/2010-07/08/2013, $715,927 for Clemson subcontract
Harold May at MUSC is PI, Creager is Clemson PI, Creager and M Henson are Clemson
investigators.
“New Highly Conductive Electrolytes for Rechargeable Li-ion Batteries”
General Motors
06/08/09-06/07/11, $406,800
Geiculescu is technical PI, Creager is administrative PI, DesMarteau is co-investigator.
“Capacity Building for Study Abroad: Cooperative Bachelor’s Degree Programs
U.S. State Department
8/2009 – 8/2011, $100,000
M McKnew is PI, Creager is one of several co-I
“Fluoroalkylphosphonic-acid-based proton conductors”
Department of Energy
4/1/2006 - 3/31/2011, $800,000
Creager is PI, DesMarteau is co-investigator.
"New Battery Electrolytes Based on Oligomeric Lithium bis((perfluoroalkyl)sulfonyl)imide
salts"
Department of Energy (subcontract via University of California / Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab)
1/31/2002 - 5/31/2009, $1,246,374
DesMarteau is PI, Creager is co-investigator.
"New proton-conducting fluoropolymer electrolytes for PEM fuel cells"
Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
8/15/2005 - 10/15/2008, $750,000 (no-cost extension awarded until late 2009)
Creager is PI, Smith and DesMarteau are co-investigators.
“Fibers for Textile-Based Electrical Energy Storage”
Department of Commerce; National Textile Center
5/1/2006 - 8/30/2008, $171,209
4/1/2008 - 3/31/2009, $53,969
Creager is PI, Brown and Gregory are co-investigators.
“Effect of impurities on fuel cell performance and durability”
Department of Energy
1/1/2007 - 12/31/2009, $750,000
Goodwin is project PI, Creager is co-investigator.
“An anode array microbial fuel cell (MFC) for high-throughput MFC research”
NASA EPSCoR
1/1/2005 - 12/31/2007, $30,000
Creager is project PI, May at MUSC is co-investigator.
"NSF ERC Transitional Electronics Technology for the Nano-Bio Era"
Sponsor is SCRA EPSCoR
2008, $10,000
Guiseppi-Elieis PI, Creager is co-I
"Nanocomposite Materials Consisting of Fluorous Ponytail Quinhydrones Dissolved in
Fluorocarbon Matrices"
Sponsored by NASA EPSCoR thru College of Charleston
6/1/2002 to 6/20/2004, $30,000
Bill Pennington from Clemson is PI, Creager is co-investigator along with D.
DesMarteau from Clemson.
"Acquisition of a High-Speed, High-Sensitivity Ellipsometer for Materials Research and
Education"
Sponsored by National Science Foundation
9/1/2002 to 8/31/2004, $78,568.00
Mike Kilbey from Clemson is PI, Creager is co-investigator along with Husson and
Gregory from Clemson.
"Ultrasensitive Detection of Tagged Oligonucleotides on Electrodes"
Clinical Micro Sensors Inc., Pasadena, CA.
3/99 - 2/2001, $129,882
Creager is PI
“Ultrasensitive Amperometric Detection of Redox Molecules: Fundamentals and Bioanalytical
Applications”
Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Chemistry Division, Analytical & Surface
Chemistry Program (#CHE-0101847)
8/2001 - 7/2004, $262,560
Creager is PI
"New Carbon Aerogel Electodes for Electrochemical Supercapacitors"
Sponsored by Institute of Research and Innovation (IRI), Kashiwa-City, Tokyo, Japan, as
a sub-contract in a project sponsored by NEDO in Japan
1/15/2003 to 4/31/2004, $115,000 (extended to Aug 2004)
Creager is PI, Navratil from Clemson EE&S is co-investigator for the Clemson subcontract.
"NER: New Fuel Cell Electrodes from Carbon Aerogels with Internally Grafted Fluropolymer
Electrolytes"
Sponsored by National Science Foundation
8/1/2003 to 7/31/2004, $93,471
Creager is PI, Smith and DesMarteau are co-investigators
“Very Long-Range Electron Transfer at Metal Electrodes”
Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the American Chemical Society),
9/98 - 8/2000, $59,960 (extended through Aug 2003)
Creager is principal investigator
"Preparation and Characterization of Non-Aqueous Gel Electrolytes for use with Electrodes
Modified with Redox-Active Monolayers"
Sponsored by ZettaCore Inc., Denver, CO
5/15/2002 to 5/14/2003, $10,000
Creager is principal investigator
"Theoretical Analysis of the Production of Hydrogen from Calcium Sulfide"
Sponsored by E&C Williams Company, Charleston, SC
7/11/2002 to 8/15/2002, $3,009
Creager is principle investigator
"Electronic Coupling and Adiabaticity in Heterogeneous Electron Transfer"
National Science Foundation, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate,
Chemistry Division, Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program,
1/97 - 1/2000 Principal Investigator, $289,000 (Extended through December 2001)
"Electrochemical Studies of Long-Range Electron Transfer in DNA"
National Science Foundation, GOALI program supplement to above grant.
6/99 - 5/2000, Principal Investigator, $36,856
“Research on New Materials for Redox Flow Batteries”
Contract from Institute for Research and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
Co-investigator with Prof. James Navratil, Clemson EES
9/2000 – 4/2001, $60,4000
"Electrochemical Power Sources. Novel Fluorinated Electrolytes for Batteries and Fuel Cells"
U.S. Department of Energy EPSCoR.
Overall project PI: Prof. R. E. White, Department of Chemical Engineering, University
of South Carolina at Columbia. Clemson project PI: Professor Darryl DesMarteau,
Department of Chemistry, Clemson University. Co-Principal Investigator with W.T.
Pennington, Y.-P. Sun, D.D. DesMarteau, (Clemson University) and H. Ploehn
(University of South Carolina).
9/99 - 8/2000, $750,000 from DOE plus state match, renewable for 1 year.
“Novel Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Secondary Lithium Batteries”
U.S. Army Research Office, DoD EPSCoR.
11/97 - 11/2000, Co-Principal Investigator with D. DesMarteau and W. Pennington.
$389,000 from ARO, plus state match.
"A Miniaturized Total Analytical System for Environmental Analysis” (Clemson)
Clemson University Research Grant. (11/97). Principal Investigator. $2586
"Electron Transfer in Organized Monolayers" (Indiana)
National Science Foundation, Chemistry Division, Analytical & Surface Chemistry
Program (#CHE-9216361), (1/93 - 1/96), Principal Investigator, $296,200
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Chemically Modified Gold Electrodes" (Indiana)
Petroleum Research Fund (#ACS-PRF 24073-G5), (9/91 - 8/94), Principal Investigator,
$26,000
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Modified Electrodes" (Indiana)
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, (5/90 - 8/90), Principal Investigator,
$4,500
"Transport of Ions and Molecules in Supported Model Membranes" (Indiana)
National Institutes of Health (Division of Research Resources) Biomedical Research
Support Grant (# PHS-S07RR7031N), (9/90 - 4/91), Principal Investigator, $5,000
"Electrochemical Detection in Flowing Streams" (Clemson)
Gift-in-kind equipment donation, ESA Inc., Clemsford, MA, 5/96, $10,725
Unrestricted grant in support of research (Indiana)
The Upjohn Company, (5/91), $15,000
Unrestricted grant in support of research (Indiana)
The Eli Lilly Corporation, (12/92), $20,000
III. Grant Proposal Submissions for which decisions are currently pending
STUDENT ADVISING
Current Graduate Student Advising
Jamie Shetzline, “Carbon/ionomer composites for electrochemical energy converstion”, entered
Clemson in fall 2011.
Lakshman Ventrapragada “Carbon-based nanomaterials for electrochemical energy converstion
and storage”, being co-advised with Prof. Apparao Rao in Physics and Astronomy,
entered Clemson fall 2013.
Yutung Chen “Electrodes and electrolytes for alkaline fuel cells” entered Clemson fall 2014
Kyle Beard “Polymer Electroltyes for Alkaline Fuel Cells”, entered Clemson fall 2014
Saheed Bukola, “Electrochemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage”, entered Clemson fall
2015.
Current Undergraduate Student Advising;
None in summer 2016 but two are registered for a new Creative Inquiry project for fall 2016.
Doctoral Graduates (16 total)
Rowe, Gary K., "Preparation and Characterization of Ferrocene-Containing Monolayers on
Gold", Ph.D., Indiana University, November 1993
Hockett, Lisa A., "Electron-Transfer Kinetics in Ferrocene-Containing Self-Assembled
Monolayers on Gold Macro and Microelectrodes Studied by Fast-Scan Cyclic
Voltammetry", Ph.D., Indiana University, December 1995
Olsen, Kimberly Groat, "Self-Assembled Monolayers in Electroanalysis: Alkanethiol-Coated
Electrodes in Non-Aqueous and Biologically Important Media" , Ph.D., Indiana
University, July 1996
Weber, Kara, “Electron-Transfer Kinetics in Ferrocene-Containing Monolayers on Gold
Electrodes“, Ph.D., Indiana University, September 1997.
Savett, Scott, "The Characterization of New Fluorinated Ionomers for using in Polymer
Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells” Ph.D., Clemson University, May 2000.
Sumner, James, "Studies of Bridge-Mediated Electron Transfer between Redox Molecules and
Electrodes” Ph.D. Clemson, December 2002
Radford, Phil, “Electrochemical amplification of Redox-Active Solutes” Ph.D. Clemson,
December 2002
Geiculescu, Olt, “Electrochemical studies of polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries" Ph.D.
awarded in May 2004.
Atkins, Jennie, “Electrochemical studies of novel ionomers for fuel cells” Ph.D. awarded in May
2006
Peter Hallac "Studies on Lithium Battery Electrolytes". PhD awarded in December 2007
Ashwin Rao "Electrochemical Biosensors", PhD awarded May 2008.
Jamie Norton "New carbon-tube-electrode-based electrochemical biosensors". PhD awarded in
May 2008
Bing Liu, "SYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION OF MESOPOROUS CARBONS AND THEIR
APPLICATION IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS", PhD
awarded Dec 2009.
Mahesha Herath, “Fluoroalkylphosphonic Acid Electrolytes for PEM Fuel Cells”, PhD awarded
Aug 2010
Jung Oh, “Li Battery and PEM fuel cell materials” PhD student, PhD awarded, Dec 2011
Jiyoung Park “Fluoropolymer electrolytes for electrochemical energy conversion devices”,
entered Clemson in fall 2008, PhD awarded Dec 2013. Co-advised by Dennis Smith, U
Texas Dallas
Masters Graduates (8 total)
Steiger, Christine M., "Preparation and Infrared Spectroscopic Characterization of Thioaromatic
Monolayers on Gold", M.S., Indiana University, June 1995
Alleman, Kent S., "Electron-Transfer Mediation by Ferrocene-Containing Self-Assembled
Monolayers", M.S., Indiana University, December 1995
Smith, Schanen, “Preparation and Characterization of Ultrathin Perfluoroionomer Films on
Metals“ M.S., Clemson University, August 1997
French, Marla, “Electrochemical Amplification by Ferrocene-Mediated Oxidation at
Alkanethiol-Coated Gold Electrodes “, M.S., Clemson University, December 1997
Taylor, Rick “Electrochemiluminescent Detection of Ferrocenes at Monolayer-Modified
Electrodes” M.S., Clemson University, May 2000.
Xinyu Wu, "Electrochemistry of carbon materials from low-temperature high carbon content
processible precursors" M.S., Clemson University, December 2002
Angela Thomason “Ultrasensitive Detection of Redox-Tagged DNA oligomers”. MS degree
awarded in May 2006
Hemangi Shedge "Electrochemical Biosensors", MS awarded May 2009.
Undergraduate Research Projects Directed (18 total, 17 at Clemson)
Clarke, James S., "Contact-Angle and Double-Layer Capacitance Titrations of Self-Assembled
Mixed Monolayers", B.S. chemistry major, Indiana University, graduated May 1994
(Mr. Clarke received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in spring 1999.)
Moore, Karen, “Microelectrode-based ionomer membrane diagnostics” B.S. chemistry major,
Clemson University, graduated May 1998.
Kennedy, Andrew "Synthesis of 10-ferrocyenyldodecanethiol and N-(8-mercaptooctyl)
ferrocenecarboxamide". B.S. chemistry major, Clemson University, graduated May
1999. (Mr. Kennedy enrolled in graduate school in chemistry at the University of North
Carolina in fall 1999)
Shuler, Kaleta, "Computer Simulations of Redox Kinetics in Electroactive Monolayers” B.S.
chemistry major, graduated in winter 1999.
Sides, Charles, “Studies of water uptake by perfluorinated ionomers for fuel cell applications”
B.S. chemistry degree awarded summer 2000. (Mr. Sides ultimately earned a chemistry
PhD at U Florida.)
Kerns, Josh, “A Study of Long-Range Electron Transfer Systems”, BS Chemistry, Winter 2000.
Blum, Matthew "Computer Simulations of Redox Kinetics in Electroactive Monolayers"
B.S. Chemistry, Spring 2001
Goodine, Duane, “Research on Lithium Battery Electroltyes” B.S. chemistry, spring 2001.
Jeremy Albright "New Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries", B.S. chemistry, spring 2002
Lavonia Mitchell “New Carbon Materials for High-Surface-area electrodes” B.S. chemistry, fall
2002
Elizabeth Hughes, "Gel Electroltyes and Electron Transfer in Electrode-Monolayer Systems",
graduated May 2003
Jennifer Ford, “Electrochemical Bioassays in Small-Volume Electrochemical Cells”, B.S.
Chemistry degree with Honors including Honors thesis, May 2006
James Dibella; Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries based on Fluorophosphonic acids, graduated
May 2011
Eric McGuirk, “Halogen bonding effects on oxidation-reduction reactions” fall 2014 – spring
2015, graduated May 2015
Trey Williams “Halogen bonding effects in iodide-based electrolytes for solar cells” spring 2014
– spring 2015 graduated May 2015
Melanie Margraf “Synthesis of mixed sulfonic / phosphonic acid hydrocarbon ionomers”
summer 2015, graduated August 2015
Morgan Norton, “Synthesis of mixed sulfonic / phosphonic acid hydrocarbon ionomers” spring
2016
Zachary Zaiger, “Synthesis of mixed sulfonic / phosphonic acid hydrocarbon ionomers” spring
2016
Other student advising:
Carpenter, Cathy, "Microelectrode-based ionomer membrane diagnostics", M.S. candidate at
Clemson University, 1995-1997.
Lawrence Kerr, “Electrochemical Studies of Nanoscale Charge Transfer” MS candidate at
Clemson, 2001 - 2002
Hung Pham Doc, “Fluoropolymers for batteries and fuel cells”, co-advised with Joe Thrasher,
entered Clemson in fall 2010- 2013, left for medical reasons
TEACHING
Courses Taught; Clemson University, beginning fall 1995
CH 1410, Chemistry Orientation. 1 credit. Fall 2010 (56 students), fall 2011 (49 students),
F2012 (75 students), F2013 (51 students) F2014 (49 students) F2015 (46 students)
CH-3130, Quantitative Analysis. 3 credits. F1996 (46 students), F1997 (58 students) F2000 (37
students), F2001 (40 students), F2002 (52 students), F2004 (53 students), F2013 (32
students) F2014 (40 students)F2015 (30 students)
CH 152 / 452, Chemical Communication. 2 credits. Spring 2010 (60 students).
CH-315, Quantitative Analysis Lab. 2 credits. F96 (16 students), F97 (18 students)
CH-317, Quantitative Analysis Lab. 1 credit. F96 (30 students), F97 (40 students)
CH-411, Instrumental Analysis. 3 credits. S97 (18 students), S99 (36 students)
CH-412, Instrumental Analysis Lab. 2 credits. S97 (18 students), S2000 (15 students) S2001
(15 students)
CH-8130, Electrochemical Science. 3 credits. S1996 (10 students), F1998 (7 students) S2001 (4
students), S2003 (11 students, 3 auditors) Fall 2006 (11 students) Spring 2011 (18
students) Summer 2012 (4 students) Spring 2015 (14 students)
CH-816, Separations Science. 3 credits. F1999 (5 students), S2002 (18 students)
CH-8180, Surface and Thin Film Analysis, S2004 (17 students) F2007 (14 students) S2014 (11
students) S2016 (14 students)
CH-851, Graduate Student Seminar. 1 credit. F95, S96, F96, S97, F97 (approximately 40
graduate students / semester).
CH-8910, Research, F95 – present. Variable credit and enrollment.
CH-910, Special topics, taught as Introduction to Graduate Research, F2002 (21 students)
CH-9910, Doctoral Research, F95 – present. Variable credit and enrollment.
I have presented guest lectures in several CU classes including BE 440, Alternative Energy, and
CH 450, Capstone in Chemistry. I have also regularly presented a lecture on Fuel Cells
in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
Courses Taught; Indiana University, spring 1990 - spring 1995
C-512, Advanced Analytical Methods II. S90. 4 credits (*), 12 graduate students
C-317, Equilibrium and Electrochemistry. S90. 2 credits(*), 90 undergraduate students
C-611, Electroanalytical Chemistry. F 90, F 91, F 92, F 93, F 94. 3 credits, 13 graduate students
/ semester average
C-315, Chemical Measurements Laboratory. S91, S92, S93, S94. 3 credits, 40 undergraduate
students / semester average
C-125, Experimental Chemistry I. S95. 3 credits, 430 undergraduate students.
(*) Taught jointly with Prof. D. G. Peters, Indiana University
SHORT COURSES (since 2000)
1.
“Electrochemistry: Fundamentals, Sensors, and Detectors”
Pittsburgh Conference, every Spring from 2001 to 2010
2. “X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy”, Clemson University Advanced Materials Research Lab,
Fall 2008.
DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, AND PUBLIC SERVICE
I. Present committee and related service:
Chemistry Department
Chair, ad-hoc committee to identify candidates for future faculty searches, 2014-present
Chair, department newsletter committee, 2015 - present
Chair, department web page committee, 2013 – present
Member, undergraduate committee, 2014- present
Member, department assessment committee, 2012 - present
Member, chemistry faculty search screening committee, 2015-16
Undergraduate academic co-advisor to class of 2015 (2011 – present)
Clemson University
COS representative to Facilities Prioritization Committee, 2015 - present
COES representative to University Admissions Appeals Committee, 2014 - present
COES representative to Research Council, 2014 - present
II. Past committee and related service
Chemistry Department
Department Chair, August 2007 – August 2013
Member, ad-hoc committee to evaluate the chemistry undergraduate program, 2014-2015
Member, ad-hoc committee to examine Hunter laboratory space utilization, 2014-15
Member, chemistry faculty search screening committee, 2014-15
Chair, Department Newsletter committee, 2007-2014, 2015 - present
Chair, scholarship / awards committee, 2005 - 2007
Graduate Coordinator, 2002 - 2004
Chair, graduate admissions committee, 1999-2001
Member, tenure and promotion committee, 2002 - 2003
Chair, analytical faculty search committee, 1998-99
Chair, seminar committee, 1996-97
Member, materials / inorganic faculty search committee, 2001-2002
Member, faculty search committee, 2002 - 2003
Member, head faculty search committee, 2000-2001
Member, graduate admissions committee, 1998-99
Member, seminar committee, 1997-98
Member, computer committee, 1996-97
Member, graduate program committee, 1997-98
Member, scholarship / awards committee, 1995-1997, 1998-2002
Member, undergraduate recruitment committee, 1996-1997
Clemson University
Member of COES Strategic Planning committee, Fall 2013
Provost’s Fellow, 2013- 2014
Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School, 2005 – 2007
Chair, Engineering and Science dean search committee, 2005-06
Chair, Graduate School dean search committee, 2003-04
Member, Library advisory committee (COES representative), 2004 - 2012
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee (COES representative), 2000 - 2003
Member, Institutional Biosafety Committee, Chemical Hazards Subcommittee
Indiana University Chemistry Department
Member, graduate admissions committee, 1990-95
Member, graduate standards committee, 1991-95
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK
From August 2013 to August 2014 I served as a Provost’s Fellow with responsibility for
advising Interim Provost Dr. Nadim Aziz on issues relating to campus space.
From August 2007 to August 2013 I served as chair of the chemistry department, in which
capacity I had overall responsibility for all department operations. The following are some select
accomplishments for the chemistry department as a unit and for me as chair over the time I have
served as chair.
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The chemistry undergraduate program experienced high growth with 165 chemistry
majors registered in fall 2013, up from 110 in fall 2007.
The numbers of general and organic chemistry lecture and lab sections being offered in
2011 are at all-time highs. In fall 2010 we implemented night labs in organic chemistry
for the first time.
The chemistry graduate program remained stable with approximately 100 PhD students
registered. In 2010-2011 we awarded 21 graduate degrees, of which 15 were PhDs.
Research productivity of the faculty remained high and steady at approximately 100 peerreviewed publications and $4.6 million in research expenditures per year.
The overall number of chemistry T/TT faculty held steady at 22-23 and the number of
non-TT faculty held steady at 12 since 2007. Classified staff grew from 10 in 2009 to 12
in 2011 to meet service course demands associated with increased enrollment.
The number of undergraduate SCH taught in chemistry rose while I was chair. In fall
2010 chemistry taught 13,670 SCH for undergraduate classes, up from 11,124 in fall
2007, an increase of 22 percent over three years.
Since 2007 I oversaw the hiring of four new T/TT faculty including three new assistant
professors (Anker, Tennyson and Whitehead) and one new full professor with tenure
(Thrasher). I also oversaw the hiring of four new non-TT faculty (Schroeder, Heltzel,
Hickman and Wetzler) and several staff (new and replacements).
I was chair when four cases of promotion to associate professor with granting of tenure
and four cases of promotion to full professor were considered
Among the department activities / functions for which I was partially or solely
responsible are the following: assign / approve all faculty goals and workload, evaluate
all faculty and some staff, oversee all department course scheduling and teaching
assignments including graduate student teaching assignments, manage department space
assignments, manage building renovations, make purchasing decisions for teaching labs
and department research infrastructure, make department committee assignments, and
manage department budgets. Each summer since 2009 I prepared a department annual
report, a copy of which will be provided upon request.
From August 2005 to August 2007 I served as Interim Associate Dean of the Clemson
University Graduate School, where I was responsible for all aspects of graduate student
admissions and recruitment at Clemson University. I oversaw a staff of six admissions
counselors and two IT staff.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
In March 5-7 2014 I attended Maximizing your Leadership Potential, a leadership development
program offered by the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro NC. The three-day
program is designed to immerse participants in four fundamental areas: Self-awareness;
Learning agility; Communication; and Influence.