Donald Anthony Perry

University of Central Arkansas

Department of Chemistry

201 Donaghey

Conway, AR 72035

Phone: (501) 450-5937; e-mail: donp@uca.edu

 

EDUCATION:

4/00: Ph.D.-Physical Chemistry

University of California, Irvine, CA 

Thesis title: "Effects of Surface Hydrogen on the Adsorption and Decomposition of Various C6 Cyclic

and C2 Hydrocarbons on  Pt(111): A UHV Surface Analytical Study."

 

6/93: B.A.-Chemistry: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

7/02-present: Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry: University of Central Arkansas

   -Used Surface-enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy (SEIRA) to study a number of molecules of

    environmental, tribological, and biological interest that are adsorbed in proximity to rough metal

    surfaces.

 -Used various surface analytical techniques to study lubricants on ball bearings for manned space

   space flight missions. 

  -Used vibrational spectroscopy to study the surface acid/base chemistry of next-generation doped-

    Alv catalysts.

 

8/00-7/02: Postdoctoral Position  Advisor Professor Alan Campion

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: University of Texas, Austin, TX

   -Led a team of five to investigate charge transport across nanoscale polymer/metal interfaces

   -Created and characterized novel molecular monolayer surface charge transport structures

    on Ag(111) and Cu(111) using electron energy loss (EELS) and Raman spectroscopies

 

4/00-8/00: Summer Research Position

Department of Materials Science: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

   -Studied Ag nanocluster formation on silicon (Si) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) using Scanning

    Tunneling Microscopy (STM)

 

7/94-4/00: Graduate Research Assistant  Advisor: Professor John C. Hemminger

Department of Chemistry: University of California, Irvine, CA

   -Developed proficiency in ultrahigh vacuum surface science chambers and diagnostics applicable to

    surface science applications, catalysis, semiconductor device processing and next generation

    nanotechnology

   -Experience with UHV techniques for material characterization and preparation include: CMP,

    sputtering, CVD, Auger, XPS, SEM, TEM, LEED, TPD, and work function measurements

   -Fabricated and installed new computer interfacing for AES, quadrupole mass spectrometry (QMS),

    and HREELS systems

   -Designed and tested a temperature ramp control circuit for TDS studies

   -Constructed and implemented a new doser for the delivery of atomic H to a surface in vacuum

   -Explored the adsorption and decomposition properties of hydrocarbons on Pt(111)

   -Investigated the coadsorption effects of H and D on Pt(111)/hydrocarbon chemistry

   -Performed metallurgy studies of aluminum oxide formation when oxygen is exposed to NiAl

     single crystals

   -Studied hydrocarbon absorption on aluminum oxide films with and without the catalytic effects of

     Pt nanocrystals

 

1/94-7/94: Graduate Research Assistant  Advisor: Professor V.A. Apkarian

Department of Chemistry: University of California, Irvine, CA

   -Used degenerate 4-wave mixing to measure the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities of  

    microcrystalline CdS and Cr/CdS phases dispersed in a polysilsequioxane xerogel

 

 10/92-6/93: Undergraduate Researcher  Advisor: Professor Kathleen A. Robbins

Department of Chemistry:  University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

   -Performed geometry optimizations implementing several basis sets and computed vibrational

    frequencies for hydrocarbons using Gaussian 92 on a Cray super computer at UNLV

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

CHEM 1301- Chemistry Fundamentals

CHEM 1450-College Chemistry I

CHEM 1451-College Chemistry II

CHEM 4450-Physical Chemistry I (kinetics, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and lab)

CHEM 4351-Environmental Chemistry

CHEM 4152-Environmental Chemistry laboratory

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

June 2002: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Grant Progam ($20,000)-not funded

October 2002: Petroleum Research Fund Type G Grant ($35,000)-not funded

March 2003: University Research Council Summer Stipend ($2,600)-funded

April 2003: University Research Council Faculty Research Grant ($5,599)-funded

May 2003: Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Awards ($35,000)-not funded

December 2003: DOE Grant "NOx Emissions" ($16,666)-not funded

March 2004: DOE EPSCoR Grant "Methane Conversion" ($33,621)-not funded

April 2004: University Research Council Summer Stipend ($2,600)-funded

May 2004: UCA Student Research Fund Grant ($920)-funded

June 2004: DOE "Hydrogen Storage" ($21,735)-not funded

October 2004: NSF IGERT Grant ($107,000)-not funded

December 2004: Collaborative NASA ASGC Grant ($15,000)-not funded

March 2005: NASA Research Infrastructure/Student Grant ($7,500)-funded

May 2005: UCA Student Research Fund Grant ($900)-funded

June 2005: NSF CCLI  “Incorporating GC/MS into the Undergraduate Curriculum” ($129,194)-funded

October 2005: Petroleum Research Fund Type G Grant Resubmission ($35,000)-not funded

December 2005: SURF Grant: undergraduate research grant funded with Krissy Posy “Investigation of Substituted Nitroaniline Isomers and Larger Macromolecules using Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA)” ($3,900)-funded

March 2006: NASA Student Research Grant ($4,000)-funded

April 2006: University Research Council Faculty Research Grant ($5,800)-funded

April 2006: Arkansas Space Grant Consortium: Workforce Development Grant funded with Jacob Boucher "Study of Lubricants on the Ball-Bearings of Spacecraft" ($6,500)-funded

December 2006: SURF Grant: "Development of New Ways of Using Infrared Light in the Detection of Trace Amounts of Toxic Chemicals in Environmental Soil Samples" ($3,900)-not funded

August 2007:  Nanocenter Grant: "Surface-enhanced Vibrational Analysis of Nanofilms" ($33,000)-funded

November 2007: SURF Grant:" Investigation of Adsorption Properties in Cyano Containing Nanofilms" ($3,900)-not funded

 

AFFILIATIONS:

1994-present: Member of the American Chemical Society

2002-present: Member of the Mid-south Inorganic Chemists Association

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

"Incorporating GCMS into an Undergraduate Teaching and Faculty-Mentored Student Research Curriculum: Part II" Oral presentation given in the "NSF Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum" Section of the 234th Meeting the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA on August 20, 2007.

 

"Incorporating GCMS into an Undergraduate Teaching and Faculty-Mentored Student Research Curriculum" Oral presentation given in the "NSF Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum" Section of the 232nd Meeting the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA on September 14, 2006.

 

"Introducing Quantum Mechanics to Undergraduates" Oral presentation given at the Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on March 5, 2005.

 

"SEIRA Research with Undergraduates" Invited oral presentation given at the IGERT Grant Writing Colloquium at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on June 30, 2004.

 

"Electronic and Vibrational Studies of Molecules Adsorbed on Solid Surfaces"  Invited oral presentation given at the Arkansas State University on October 20, 2003.

 

"Interactions of C6  Cyclic Hydrocarbons with Co-adsorbed Hydrogen on Pt(111)." Oral presentation given at the 31st Annual American Vacuum Society Graduate Student Symposium, Orange, CA, on September 23, 1998.

 

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (recent):

234th Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA from August 19-23, 2007

232nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA from September 10-14, 2006

Annual NASA ASGC Meeting at Arkansas Tech. University on April 21, 2006

Bi-annual Arkansas INBRE in Fayettville, AR on February 24-25, 2006

Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on October 1, 2005

“Introduction to ion-trap mass spectrometry” held at Varian Inc. in Chicago, IL. from August 8-11, 2005

Gaussian Workshop held at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on March 28-April 1, 2005

Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on March 5, 2005

Attended the University of Memphis Undergraduate Research Conference on February 21, 2004

Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on March 15, 2003

Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on October 15, 2002

 

COMMUNITY OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Judge for the Envirothon on November 5, 2007.

Judge for the Arkansas Junior Academy of Science on March 31, 2007.

Judge for the Royal Academy of Sciences (Biophysical Chemistry Section) at UCA on April 30, 2007.

Judge for the Arkansas Junior Academy of Science (Environmental Science Program) on April 8, 2006.

Judge for the Royal Academy of Sciences (Chemistry Section) at UCA on April 7, 2006.

Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Memphis, TN on November 4, 2005.

Judge for the Arkansas Junior Academy of Science (Environmental Science Program) on April 1, 2005.

Judge for the Arkansas Junior Academy of Science (Environmental Science Program) on April 3, 2004.

Presentation at Greenbrier High School titled “Issues in Environmental Science” on January 27, 2004.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Reviewed:

-"s-Bond Metathesis on a Surface: Dehydrogenation of Cyclohexane on Hydrogen-

Saturated Pt(111)." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2000, 111, 8079.

   

-"Surface-enhanced Infrared Adsorption (SEIRA) Study of Nitroaniline Isomers" Krystal Posey and Donald Perry.  Abstracts, 57th Southeast/61st Southwest Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Memphis, TN, United States, November 1-4 (2005).

 

-"Surface-enhanced Infrared Adsorption (SEIRA) Study of Flourinated Lubricants" Brittany Carpenter and Donald Perry.  Abstracts, 57th Southeast/61st Southwest Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Memphis, TN, United States, November 1-4 (2005).

 

-"Incorporating GCMS into an Undergraduate Teaching and Faculty-Mentored Student Research Curriculum" Abstracts, 232nd Meeting the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA on September 14 (2006).

 

"Surface-enhanced Infrared Adsorption (SEIRA) Study of P-nitrobenzoic Acid and Nitroaniline Isomers" Krystal Posey and Donald Perry.  Abstracts, 232 Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA November 10-14 (2005).

 

-"Incorporating GCMS into an Undergraduate Teaching and Faculty-Mentored Student Research Curriculum: Part II" Abstracts, 234th Meeting the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA on August 20 (2007).

 

-"Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Analysis of Various Aromatic Isomers" Abstracts, 234th Meeting the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA on August 19-23 (2007).

 

"Surface-Enhanced Vibrational and TPD Study of Nitroaniline Isomers" Krystal L. Posey, Mark G. Viegas, A. Jacob Boucher, Chen Wang, Kaitlyn R. Stambaugh, Merritt M. Smith, Brittany G. Carpenter, Bridget L. Bridges, Steven E. Baker and Donald A. Perry.  Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007, 111, 12352-12360. 

 

OTHER SCOLARLY ACTIVITES:

-NSF CCLI Panel Reviewer in Washington D.C. on July 25 and 26, 2005.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF UNDERGRAUDATE RESEARCH:

-To date I have had seventeen students perform undergraduate research in my laboratory: Dan Edwards, Krystal Posey, Jacob Boucher, Bridgette Bridges, Mark Viegas, Chen Wang, Merritt Smith, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Brittany Carpenter, Steve Baker, Nathan Shirley, Scott Cordova, Hye Jin Son, Ram Panday, Sean Oakley, Amanda Garner, and Lauren Smith.

 

STUDENT POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

-“Surface-enhanced Vibrational and TPD Spectroscopic Studies of Aromatic Isomers”  Student oral presentation given by Scott Cordova and Ram Pandey at the UCA Student Chalk Talk November, 2007.  

 

-"Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy  (SERS) Analysis of Various Aromatic Isomers" Poster presentation given at the 234th Meeting the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA on August 20, 2007.

 

- "A Surface Science Investigation of the Adsorption Properties of the Active Ingredients in Three Common Painkillers: Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic acid), Tylenol (Acetamidophenol), and Motrin (Ibuprofen)" Student presentation given by Merritt Smith, Steve Baker, Hye-Jin Son, and Amanda Garner at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 20, 2007.

 

- "Photolysis of the Pesticide Permethrin in Solution and Adsorbed on Surfaces: A Continuing Study in Environmental Chemistry Lab" Student presentation given by Bridget Burkard, Stan Chivers, Michael Gray, Jeremey Mackey, Ram Pandey, and Drew Pendergraft at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 20, 2007.

 

- "Surface-enhanced Vibrational and Mass Spectroscopic Investigation of Aromatic Isomers Adsorbed on Vacuum-evaporated Ag Films and Ag Powders" Student presentation given by Brittany Carpenter, Jacob Boucher, Krissy Posey, Ram Pandey, Nathan Shirley, Scott Cordova, and Sean Oakley at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 20, 2007.

 

- "Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy 

(SERS) Analysis of the P-nitrobenzoate ion and the Ortho, Meta, and Para-nitroaniline

Isomers" Poster presentation given by Krystal Posey at the 232nd Meeting the American Chemical

 Society in San Francisco, CA on September 11, 2006.

 

-“ Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of

Para-nitrobenzoic Acid and Nitroaniline Isomers” Student poster presentation given by Kaitlyn

Stambaugh and Steve Baker at the Annual NASA ASGC Meeting at Arkansas Tech. University on

April 21, 2006.

 

-“ Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of

Para-nitrobenzoic Acid and Nitroaniline Isomers” Student poster presentation given by Chen Wang, Mark Viegas and Krissy Posey at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 21, 2006.

 

-“SEIRA Analysis of Para-nitrobenzoic Acid and Nitroaniline Isomers” Student poster presentation given by Jacob Boucher and Brittany Carpenter at the Arkansas INBRE at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville on February 24, 2006.

 

-“An Infrared NASA Collaboration” Student oral presentation given by Jacob Boucher at Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier, AR on November 16, 2005.

 

-“Investigation of Substituted Nitroaniline Isomers and Larger Macromolecules using Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA)”  Student oral presentation given by Krissy Posey at the Southeast Regional American Chemical Society in Memphis, TN on November 4, 2005.

 

-“Infrared Studies on Alv”  Student oral presentation given by Chen Wang and Mark Viegas at the UCA Student Chalk Talk on October 25, 2005.  

 

-“SEIRA Analysis of Nitroaniline Isomers” Student oral presentation given by Merritt Smith and Kaitlyn Stambaugh at the Bi-annual Meeting of the Mid-South Inorganic Chemists Association (MICA) on October 1, 2005.

 

-"Advances in SEIRA" Student oral presentation given by Krissy Posey and Brittany Carpanter at the UCA Student Chalk Talk on July 22, 2005.

 

-"SEIRA I: AFM and UV/VIS Characterization of Ag Films as Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) Spectroscopy" Student poster presentation given by Jacob Boucher, Bridgette Bridges, Merritt Smith, Crystal Posey, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Mark Viegas, and Chen Wang at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 22, 2005.

 

-“SEIRA II: Investigation of p-nitrobenzoic acid and o, m, p-nitroaniline" Student poster presentation given by Jacob Boucher, Bridgette Bridges, Merritt Smith, Crystal Posey, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Mark Viegas, and Chen Wang at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 22, 2005.

 

-“FTIR, 27MASNMR, and GC/MS Study of Alv Based Catalysts" Student poster presentation given by Jacob Boucher, Bridgette Bridges, Merritt Smith, Crystal Posey, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Mark Viegas, and Chen Wang at the UCA Student Poster Symposium on April 22, 2005.

 

- “Surface-enhanced Infrared Absorption.”  Student oral presentation given by Jacob Boucher and Bridgette Bridges at a UCA Student Chalk Talk on September 30, 2004.

 

"Oxidation of CO by Au on Highly Active Al2O3 Support" Contribution to a poster presented in collaboration with Dr. David Lindquist at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock at the 227th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Divison of Inorganic Chemistry, Anaheim, CA, March 28-April 1, 2004.

 

EXTRAS:

A student, Jacob Boucher, and I visited the John Glenn NASA Research facility in Cleveland, OH to discuss future research collaborations with Dr. Stephen Pepper on May 26, 2005.

 

Jacob Boucher did an internship at the John Glenn NASA Research Facility in Cleveland, OH under Dr. Stephen Pepper in the summer of 2006.

 

Stephen Baker and I visited the John Glenn NASA Research facility in Cleveland, OH to discuss future research collaborations with Dr. Stephen Pepper and to receive an update on Jacob Boucher's research on July 20, 2006.