Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Merck Professor of Chemistry, 2006-2011
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2003
Professor, Chemistry, UMN, 1990-present
Associate Professor, Chemistry, UMN, 1984-1990
Visiting Associate in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, February-March 1992
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UMN, l978-1984

Selected Publications

X. Cai, M.W. Burand, C.R. Newman, D.A. da Silva Filho, T.M. Pappenfus, M.M. Bader, J.-L. Bredas, K.R. Mann, C.D. Frisbie, "N- and P-Channel Transport Behavior in Thin Film Transistors Based on Tricyanovinyl-Capped Oligothiophenes", J. Phys. Chem. B, 110(30), 14590-14597 (2006).

M.W. Burand, K.A. McGee, X. Cai, D.A. Da Silva Filho, J.-L. Bredas, C. D. Frisbie, K. R. Mann, "Synthesis, X-Ray, Spectroelectrochemical, and Theoretical Studies of a Tricyanovinyl-Capped Quaterthiophene: A Correlation of Semiconductor performance with physical properties", Chem. Phys. Lett., 425(4-6), 251-256 (2006).

C. R. Newman, C. D. Frisbie, D. A. da Silva Filho, J.-L. Bredas, P. C. Ewbank, and K. R. Mann, "Introduction to Organic Thin Film Transistors and Design of n-Channel Organic Semiconductors", Chem. Mater., 16(23), 4436-4451 (2004).

D. E. Janzen, M. W. Burand, P. C. Ewbank, T. M. Pappenfus, H. Higuchi, D. A. da Silva Filho, V. G. Young, J.-L. BrŽdas, K. R. Mann, "Preparation and Characterization of p-Stacking Quinodimethane Oligothiophenes. Predicting Semiconductor Behavior and Bandwidths from Crystal Structures and Molecular Orbital Calculations", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126(46), 15295-15308 (2004).

R.J. Chesterfield, C.R. Newman, T.M. Pappenfus, P.C. Ewbank, M.H. Haukaas, K. R. Mann, L. L. Miller, C. D. Frisbie, "High Electron Mobility and Ambipolar Transport in Organic Thin-Film Transistors Based on a p-Stacking Quinoidal Terthiophene", Adv. Mat. (Weinheim, Germany), 15(15), 1278-1282 (2003).

J. Casado, M. C. R. Delgado, M. C. R. Merchan, V. Hernandez, J. T. Lopez Navarrete, T. M. Pappenfus, N. Williams, W. J. Stegner, J. C. Johnson, B. A. Edlund, D. E. Janzen, K. R. Mann, J. Orduna, B, Villacampa, "Optical, Redox, and NLO Properties of Tricyanovinyl Oligothiophenes: Comparisons Between Symmetric and Asymmetric Substitution Patterns", Chemistry--A European Journal, 12(21), 5458-5470 (2006).