Simmons College

Doctor of Philosophy
Purdue University

Bachelor of Science
Benedictine University

(boldface names are Simmons students)

"Templating the Nucleation of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate via Micropatterned Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold," Tania Cabrera, Leigh Friguglietti, Christina King, Amanda Larson-Mekler, Chelsea Graham, and Richard W. Gurney, Crystal Growth & Design 2007, 7, 2436 — 2443.

"Organic Photovoltaics Interdigitated on the Molecular Scale," A.B.F. Martinson, A.M. Massari, S.J. Lee, R.W. Gurney, K.E. Splan, J.T. Hupp, S.B.T. Nguyen, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2006, 153(3), A527 - A532.

"Approaches to Conjugated Macromolecules via Electrophilic Carbohydrate Reagents," Marcy Keddy, R. Gurney, B. Tran, D. J. Sandman, Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 2005, 46(1), 601 - 602.

"Comparative X-ray Standing Wave Analysis of Metal-Phosphonate Multilayer Films of Dodecane and Porphyrin Molecular Square Thin Films," J.A. Libera, R.W. Gurney, C. Schwartz, H. Jin, T.-L. Lee, S.B.T. Nguyen, J.T. Hupp, M.J. Bedzyk, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005, 109(4), 1441 - 1450.

"Walljet Electrochemistry: Quantifying Molecular Transport through Metallopolymeric and Zirconium Phosphonate Assembled Porphyrin Square Thin Films," A.M. Massari, R.W. Gurney, C.P. Schwartz, S.B.T. Nguyen, J.T. Hupp, Langmuir, 2004, 20(11), 4422 - 4429.

"X-ray Nanoscale Profiling of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Metal Organo-Phosphonate Films," J.A. Libera, R.W. Gurney, S.B.T. Nguyen, J.T. Hupp, C. Liu, R. Conley, and M.J. Bedzyk, Langmuir, 2004, 20, 8022 - 8029.

"Charge Transfer Between a Gold Substrate and CdS Nanoparticles Assembled in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Films," Alexander Samokhvalov, Richard W. Gurney, Meir Lahav,Sidney Cohen, Haggai Cohen, Ron Naaman, J. Chem. Phys. B, 2003, 107, 4245 — 4252.

"Ultrathin Micropatterned Porphyrin Films Assembled via Zirconium Phosphonate Chemistry," A.M. Massari, R.W. Gurney, S.-H. K. Huang, M. Wightman, S.B.T. Nguyen, J. T. Hupp, (invited article) Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 3065 — 3072.

"A Crystalline Langmuir Monolayer Designed as a Template for Selective Intercalation of Water Soluble alpha-Amino Acids," C. Alonso, R.W. Gurney, R. Eliash, S.-C.l Hong, Y. R. Shen, T.R. Jensen, K. Kjaer, O. Konovalov, M. Lahav, L. Leiserowitz, Crystal Growth and Design, 2003, 3(5), 683 — 690.

"Adsorption Energetics of Potassium Sulfate Dye Inclusion Crystals," D.J. Carter, A.L. Rohl, J.D. Galeb, A.M. Fogg, R.W. Gurney, B. Kahr, Journal of Molecular Structure, 2003, 647(1-3), 65 — 73.

"Electronic Properties of Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Langmuir Blodgett Films Containing CdS Quantum Particles," A. Samokvalov, R.W. Gurney, M. Lahav, R. Naaman, J. Chem. Phys. B, 2002, 106, 9070 — 9078.

"Incorporation of Fluorescent Molecules and Proteins into Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Single Crystals," L.A. Touryan, R.H. Clark, R.W. Gurney, P.S. Stayton, B. Kahr, V. Vogel, J. Cryst. Growth, 2001, 233(1-2), 380 — 388.

"Dyeing crystals," B. Kahr, R.W. Gurney, Chem. Rev. 2001, 101, 893 — 951.