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Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-3673 Fax: (805) 893-4731 Office Location: 3327 Engineering II Address: Chemical Engineering Dept.
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University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080 USA
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Name: Pat White Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-2214 Fax: (805) 893-4731
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BS: Department of Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1982)
PhD: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1990)
Honors: 2006 Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry of Materials
2006 Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2006 Chalmers Jubilee Visiting Professorship, Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden
2005 Visiting Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2004, 2005 Profesor Invitado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
1996-98, 2003 Professeur Invite, University of Paris, Jussieu
1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Award
1993 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award
1993 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award
1992 New Young Investigator Award, NSF Division of Materials Research
1989 NSF Division of Chemistry Post-doctoral Fellowship Award
1989 NSF-NATO Post-doctoral Fellowship Award
Correlation of macroscopic material properties and function with molecular structure and dynamics, particularly in heterogeneous macromolecular solids. Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled inorganic-organic and mesoporous materials for catalysis, separations, and opto-electronic applications. Molecular dynamics and structure in hierarchically ordered polymers, liquid crystals, nanocrystals, and biominerals. Development and application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods for characterizing structure, dynamics, adsorption, transport, and reaction properties of new solid-state materials.
Online Publication List
S. Cadars, D. H. Brouwer, B. F. Chmelka, "Probing the Local Structures of Siliceous Zeolite Frameworks Using Solid-State NMR and DFT Calculations of 29Si-O-29Si Scalar Couplings," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., published on-line January 28, DOI: 10.1039/b815361b (2009).
D. Serrano, J. Aguado, G. Morales, J. M. Rodrguez, A. Peral, M. Thommes, J.D. Epping, B.F. Chmelka, "Molecular, meso- and macroscopic properties of hierarchical nanocrystalline ZSM-5 zeolite prepared by seed silanization," Chemistry of Materials, 21, 641-654 (2009).
Y.I. Kim, S. Cadars, R. Shayib, T. Proffen, C.S. Feigerle, B.F. Chmelka, R. Seshadri, "Local structure of polar wurtzites Zn1-xMgxO by Raman and 25Mg/67Zn NMR spectroscopy and by total neutron scattering," Phys. Rev. B, 78, 195205 (2008).
S. Bracco, A. Comotti, B.F. Chmelka, P. Sozzani, "Molecular rotors in hierarchically-ordered mesoporous organosilica frameworks," Chem. Comm., 4798-4800 (2008).
S. Cadars, N. Mifsud, A. Lesage, J.D. Epping, N. Hedin, B.F. Chmelka, L. Emsley, "Dynamics and Disorder in Surfactant-Templated Silicate Layers Studied by Solid-State NMR Dephasing Times and Correlated Lineshapes," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 9145-9154 (2008).
S. Kirmayer, E. Dovgolevsky, M. Kalina, E. Lakin, S. Cadars, J.D. Epping, A. Fernndez-Arteaga, C. Rodrguez-Abreu, B.F. Chmelka, G.L. Frey, "Syntheses of Mesostructured Silica Films Containing Conjugated Polymers from Tetrahydrofuran-Water Solutions," Chemistry of Materials, 20, 3745-3756 (2008).
G. Morales, G.L. Athens, J.A. Melero, B.F. Chmelka, R. van Grieken, "Aqueous-sensitive reaction sites in sulfonic acid-functionalized mesoporous silicas," Journal of Catalysis, 254, 205-217 (2008).
C.A. Steinbeck, M. Ernst, B.H. Meier, B.F. Chmelka, "Mesostructured Silica/Block Copolymer Solids as Alignment Media for Self-Assembled Porphyrin J-Aggregates," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 2565-2573 (2008)
G.L. Athens, Y. Ein-Eli, B.F. Chmelka, "Acid-Functionalized Mesostructured Aluminosilica for Hydrophilic Proton Conduction Membranes," Advanced Materials, 19, 2580-2587 (2007).
A.W. Moses, C. Raab, R.C. Nelson, H.D. Leifeste, N.A. Ramsahye, S.K. Chattopadhyay, J. Eckert, B.F. Chmelka, S.L. Scott, "Spectroscopically Distinct Sites Present in Methyltrioxorhenium Grafted onto Silica-Alumina, and Their Abilities to Initiate Olefin Metathesis," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 8912-8920 (2007).
E.S. Toberer, J.D. Epping, B.F. Chmelka, R. Seshadri, "Hierarchically Porous Rutile Titania: Harnessing Spontaneous Phase Changes in Mixed Metal Oxides," Chem. Mater., 18, 6345-6351 (2006).
B.F. Chmelka, "Large Molecules Welcome," Nature Materials, 5, 681-682 (2006).
S. Cadars, A. Lesage, N. Hedin, B.F. Chmelka, L. Emsley, "Selective Measurements of Homonuclear Scalar Couplings in Isotopically Enriched Solids," Journal of Physical Chemistry, B, 110, 16982-16991 (2006).
J.D. Epping, B.F. Chmelka, "Nucleation and Growth of Zeolites and Inorganic Mesoporous Solids: Molecular Insights from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy," Current Opinions in Colloid and Interface Science, 11, 81-117 (2006).
S.C. Christiansen, N. Hedin, M.T. Janicke, J.D. Epping, Y. del Amo, M. Demarest, M. Brzezinski, B.F. Chmelka, "Sensitivity Considerations in Polarization Transfer and Filtering Using Dipole-Dipole Couplings: Implications for Biomineral Systems," Solid-State NMR, 29, 170-82 (2006).
C.A. Steinbeck and B.F. Chmelka, "Rapid 1H{13C}-Resolved Diffusion and Spin-Relaxation Measurements by NMR Spectroscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 11624-11635 (2005).
R.C. Hayward, B.F. Chmelka, E.J. Kramer, "Cross-Linked Poly(styrene)-block-Poly(2-vinylpyridine) Thin Films as Swellable Templates for Mesostructured Silica and Titania," Adv. Mater., 17, 2591-2595 (2005).
R.C. Hayward, B.F. Chmelka, E.J. Kramer, "Template Cross-Linking Effects on Morphologies of Swellable Block Copolymer and Mesostructured Silica Thin Films," Macromolecules, 38, 7768-7783 (2005).
