Description of Research Program of Dr. Jonathan Gutow

OFFICE: HS-412
LAB: HS-425
PHONE: 424-1326
E-MAIL: gutow@uwosh.edu

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AREA: Behavior of coatings and  molecular monolayers.  We are studying self-assembled coatings (multi and monolayers) on solid substrates and films on water as model membranes.  We do vibrational spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), X-ray flourescence (XRF), scanning electron microscopy (SEM),  and contact angle measurements on these films.

EQUIPMENT USED: IR spectrometer, Langmuir Trough, AFM, Quartz Crystal Microbalances, XRF, SEM, Microscope and Computers.

MINIMUM REQUIRED STUDENT EXPERIENCE: General chemistry
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Quantitative analysis, one semester organic

Latest Research Group Picture
OLDER PICTURES OF GROUP:
2003 | 2004

COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH AREA: Contributions to the Jmol molecular visualization package: 1) development of the export to web function for automatic generation of interactive molecular visualization web pages/tutorials using Jmol; 2) debugging the GAMESS file reader; 3) development of an interface for quickly visualizing and comparing many molecular views within Jmol.

Current Experimental Projects

SOME POSTERS PRESENTIONS AT MEETINGS:
       IR spectroscopy(Sp 2005, Sp 2004, Colloids 2008)
      QCM (Sp 2004)

PAST FUNDING:These projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation (CHE-0136844), the American Chemical Society Petroluem Research Fund (36594-B5), Research Corporation, the UW Oshkosh Faculty Development Program and the UW Oshkosh Student-Faculty Collaborative Program.

STUDENT COLLABORATORS: Matt Farkas is presently working on the apatite growth project. Please feel free to talk to him about the projects and doing research in general. Other students who have done research in my lab are: Jessica Seefeldt, Brooke Koshel, Scott Vander Wielan, Nicole Kitzerow, Brendon Thompkins, Kim Hopsfensperger, Chris Potratz, Patrick Roach, Allan Stockinger, Katie Jensen, Jenny Dahl, Dustyn Sawall, Scott Zirngible, Brian Koeck, Jeremy Leveille, Mike Faley, Margaret Nguyen, Michael Phillips, Julie Wieland and Robert Kleisner.

SOME PUBLICATIONS

1. R. J. Kleisner, B. H. Koeck, M. R. Phillips, J. A. Wieland, J. H. Gutow, V. Boiadjiev and W. T. Tysoe. "A System Based on Metal Alkyl Species that Forms Chemically Bound Organic Overlayers on Hydroxylated Planar Surfaces." Thin Solid Films 381(1), 10 (2001)
2. V. Boiadjiev, A. Blumenfeld, J. Gutow and W. T. Tysoe. "Infrared and NMR Spectroscopic Studies of n-Alkanethiols Chemically Grafted on Dimethylzinc-Modified Silica Surfaces." Chem. Mater. 12(9), 2604 (2000).


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