Robert D. Long
Research

Research is an important component of education for students planning a professional career in chemistry. Participating in an independant research project allows students to gain additional skills which can be important when going on to a job or for performing subsequent higher level graduate studies. All of the faculty in chemistry are happy to work with students at both undergraduate and graduate levels on independant studies.

Recent Publications/Presentations

  232nd American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting - oral presentation
   San Francisco, CA   Sep 12, 2006    Paper # 432 (Abstract)
    Novel aminomethanesulfonate buffer compounds developed for biological buffering in the acidic range

 232nd American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting - poster
   San Francisco, CA   Sep 11, 2006   Paper # 318 (Abstract)
    Biosensors based on biotin-linked viologen SAM's on gold in AAO pores

 My Research Themes

• Organic Synthesis (small molecules and electroorganic techniques)
• Polymer modifications
• Nanomaterials
• Materials for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell applications

Please feel free to contact me about the specifics on any of these projects or ideas of your own that you may be interested in pursuing that I may be able to help with.

Techniques

Some of the techniques that students working on research projects under my guidance employ may include (depending on project needs):

• Small molecule organic synthesis
• Polymer surface modification
• Electroorganic synthesis and/or electrochemical characterization
• FT/IR, GC/MS, UV/vis, NMR spectroscopy
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Computational chemistry