Paul E. Laibinis

Biography

Education

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991
• M.A., Harvard University, 1987
• S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Chemical Engineering
• S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Chemistry
• Post-doctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1991-1993
  

Honors and Awards

• PPG Lecture on Polymers and Interfaces, Harvard University, 1999
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1998-2003
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1996
• Henry L. Doherty Career Development Professorship, 1996-1998
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 1996
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1996
• Beckman Foundation Young Investigator, 1995
• Texaco-Mangelsdorf Career Development Professorship, 1994-1996
• Victor K. LaMer Award, ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry, 1994
• NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1993
• Shell Foundation Fellow, 1987-88

Publications

1. G. Kane Jennings and Paul E. Laibinis: "Self-Assembled n Alkanethiolate Monolayers on Underpotentially Deposited Adlayers of Silver and Copper on Gold", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 5208-5214.
2. Jianfeng Lou, Anant Paravastu, Paul E. Laibinis, and T. Alan. Hatton: "Effect of Temperature on the Dielectric Relaxation in Solvent Mixtures at Microwave Frequencies", J. Phys. Chem. A 1997, 101, 9892-9899.
3. Seok-Won Lee and Paul E. Laibinis: "Protein Resistant Coatings for Glass and Metal Oxide Surfaces Derived from Oligo(ethylene glycol)-terminated Alkyltrichlorosilanes", Biomaterials 1998, 19, 1669-1675.
4. G. Kane Jennings, Jeffrey C. Munro, Tseh-Hwan Yong and Paul E. Laibinis: "Effect of Chain Length on the Protection of Copper by n-Alkanethiols," Langmuir 1998, 14, 6130-6139.
5. Mark D. Angelino and Paul E. Laibinis: "Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Supported Salen Ligand for Enantioselective Epoxidation", Macromolecules 1998, 31, 7581-7587.
6. Lifen Shen, Paul E. Laibinis and T. Alan Hatton: "Bilayer Surfactant Stabilized Magnetic Fluids: Synthesis and Interactions at Interfaces," Langmuir 1999, 15, 447-453.
7. Namyong Y. Kim and Paul E. Laibinis: "Improved Polypyrrole/Silicon Junctions by Surfacial Modification of Hydrogen-terminated Silicon Using Organolithium Reagents," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 7162-7163.
8. Seok-Won Lee and Paul E. Laibinis: "Directed Movement of Liquids on Patterned Surfaces Using Non-Covalent Molecular Adsorption," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 5395-5396.
9. Namyong Y. Kim, Noo Li Jeon, Insung S. Choi, Seiichi Takami, Yoshiko Harada, Krista R. Finnie, Gregory S. Girolami, Ralph G. Nuzzo, George M. Whitesides, and Paul E. Laibinis: "Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization on Silicon," Macromolecules 2000, 33, 2793-2795.
10. Lifen Shen, Agnieszka Stachowiak, Seif-Edeen K. Fateen, Paul E. Laibinis, and T. Alan Hatton: "Structure of Alkanoic Acid Stabilized Magnetic Fluids: A Small Angle Neutron and Light Scattering Analysis," Langmuir 2001, 17, 288-299
11. Seiichi Takami, G. Kane Jennings, and Paul E. Laibinis: "Composite Monolayer of Copper and Silver on Au(111) by Underpotential Deposition," Langmuir 2001, 17, 441-448.
12. Richard Michalitsch and Paul E. Laibinis: "Adsorption-Mediated Electrochemical Sensing of Halides," Angew. Chem. 2001, 113, 967-970.

Lectures

• "Tailoring Chemical Adsorption to Modulate Adhesion, Spreading, and Interfacial Contact," Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA (PPG Lecture on Interfaces and Polymers); October 22, 1999.
  
• "Molecular Interfacial Design," Volkswagen Foundation Advanced Materials Search Conference, Bremen, Germany; December 16, 1999.
  
• "Directed Movement of Liquid Drops on Patterned Surfaces Using a Reversible Self-Assembly Process," 2nd International Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability, and Adhesion, Newark, NJ; June 23, 2000.
  
• "Directing Oligonucleotide Adsorption at Surfaces," Gordon Conference on Chemistry at Interfaces, Meriden, NH: July 6, 2000.
  
• "Surface Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization," 3rd Joint China/USA Chemical Engineering Conference, Beijing, China: September 27, 2000.
  
• "New Possibilities for Chemical Separations Using Magnetic Nanoparticles with Tailorable Surfaces," 2nd Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaborative Research in Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; May 23, 2001.

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