Penn State Hazleton

Mamoun M. Bader
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Office: K108
Phone: (570) 450-3385
E-mail: mmb11@psu.edu

   
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General Information
  •  Organic Semiconductors: design, synthesis, and crystal structural studies
  •  Photostability of organic nonlinear optical materials
  •  Theoretical calculations on conjugated organic molecules
  •  Thiphene chemisty

Grants & Awards

  •   NSF-MRSEC team member, University of Minnesota, 2002-present http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/irg2.shtml
  •   ACS-PRF Summer Research Fellowship Grant, Summer 1999 (at the Optical Technology Center, Montana State University, Boxman, MT). Host: Prof. Charles W. Spangler
  •  Research Development Grant PSU 1997 - 2003
  • QNRF - UREP 2007 - 2008

Selected Publications

  •   "Single Crystal Field Effect Transistor of a Y-Shaped Ladder-Type Oligomor", Pham, Phuong-T.; Yu, Xia; Frisbie, C. Daniel; Bader, Mamoun, Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2008), accepted.
  •  "N- and P-Channel Transport Behavior in Thin Film Transistors Based on Tricyanovinyl-Capped Oligothiophenes" Cai, Xiuyu; Burand, Michael W.; Newman, Christopher R.; da Silva Filho, Demetrio A.; Pappenfus, Ted M.; Bader, Mamoun M.; Bredas, Jean-Luc; Mann, Kent R.; Frisbie, C. Daniel. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2006), 110(30), 14590-14597.
  • Hydrogen-bonded host frameworks with tunable cavities: structural characterization and inclusion-based separations of molecular isomers Horner, Matthew J.; Grabowski, Sara; Sandstrom, Kevin; Holman, K. Travis; Bader, Mamoun; Ward, Michael D.; Kim, Woo-Sik. ACA Transactions (2004), 39 130-139.
  • Third-order optical nonlinearities of a,w-dithienylpolyenes and oligo(thienylvinylene). Sun, Wenfang; Bader, Mamoun M.; Carvalho, Taiala. Optics Communications (2003), 215(1-3), 185-190.2003.
  •  Tricyanovinyl-Substituted Oligothiophenes. Bader, Mamoun M.; Custelcean, Radu; Ward, Michael D. Chemistry of Materials 15(3), 616-618, 2003.
  •   Nucleation and Growth of Molecular Crystals on Self-Assembled Monolayers. Frostman, Lynn M.; Bader, Mamoun M.; Ward, Michael D. Langmuir (1994), 10(2), 576-82.
  •  Investigation of the Electronic and Geometric and Nonlinear Optical Properties of 8-Hydroxyquinoline Derivatives. Mamoun M. Bader ; T. Hamada ; and A. Kakuta, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 114, 6475-6479, 1992.

Recent Conference Presentations

  • Structural Analysis of Oligothiophenes and Some of their Derivatives:A Combined X-Ray SIngle Crystal Data and DFT Calculations. Mamoun, Bader, Materials Research Society Symposium Spring Meeting, April 2007, San Francisco, CA 
  • Incorporation of Current Research in the General and Organic Chemistry Courses and Laboratories, P. T. Pham; Mamoun M. Bader, Abstracts of Papers, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, (2007), CHED.
  • Theoretical study of the electronic and geometrical structures of organic semiconductors. Bader, Mamoun M.; Gutshall, Gregory P.; Di Marco, Aniello Scotto; Lin, Hui, Abstracts of Papers, 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, United States, March 26-30, 2006 (2006), COMP-265. 2.
  • Role of strong electron acceptors in promoting pi-stacking in substituted oligothiophenes. Bader, Mamoun M.; Pham, Phuong T.; Macjewiski, John P.; Chen, Jie Qiong; Elandaloussi, El Hadj; Ward, Michael D.; Frisbie, C. Daniel. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005 (2005), PMSE-130.

Patents

  •  Nonlinear Optical Device Containing Organic Metal Complex. Mamoun Bader [Chem. Abstr. vol.119, 1993, P 213728f.]
  •  Organic Nonlinear Optical Material For Second Harmonic-Generating Optical Waveguide Device. Mamound Bader [Chem. Abstr. vol.121, 1994, P 95570q.]

 

    
 

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