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Aaron Massari

Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Office: 5 Smith Hall
Phone: 612-626-8416
Email: massari@umn.edu
Departmental Page ¦ Group Website

Professional Preparation:

Arizona State University, Chemistry, B.S., 1999
Northwestern University, Chemistry, Ph.D., 2004
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2004-2006

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UMN, 2006-present


Selected Publications

I.J. Finkelstein, A.M. Massari, M.D. Fayer, "Viscosity-Dependent Protein Dynamics", Biophys. J., 92, 3652-3662 (2007)

A.M. Massari, B.L. McClain, I.J. Finkelstein, M.D. Fayer, "Cytochrome c(552) mutants: Structure and Dynamics at the Active Site Probed by Multidumensional NMR and Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy", J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 18803-18810 (2006)

A.M. Massari, I.J. Finkelstein, M.D. Fayer, "Dynamics of Proteins Encapsulated in Silica Sol-gel Glasses Studied with IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 3990-3997 (2006)

A.B.F. Martinson, A.M. Massari, S.J. Lee, R.W. Gurney, K.E. Splan, J.T. Hupp, S.T. Nguyen, "Organic Photovoltaics Interdigitated on the Molecular Scale ", J. Electrochem. Soc., 153, A527-A532 (2006)

A.M. Massari, K.J. Stevenson, J.T. Hupp, "Development and Application of Patterned Conducting Polymer Thin Films as Chemoresponsive and Electrochemically Responsive Optical Diffraction Gratings", J. Electroanal. Chem., 500, 185-191, (2001).

I.J. Finkelstein, H. Ishikawa, S. Kim, A.M. Massari, M.D. Fayer, "Substrate Binding and Protein Conformational Dynamics Measured by 2D-IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy", Proc. Nat. Acad. USA, 104, 2637-2642 (2007)

A.M. Massari, I.J. Finkelstein, B.L. McClain, A. Goj, X. Wen, K.L. Bren, R.F. Loring, M.D. Fayer, "The Influence of Aqueous Versus Glassy Solvents on Protein Dynamics: Vibrational Echo Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations" J. Am. Chem.Soc., 127, 14279-14289 (2005)

I.J. Finkelstein, A.Goj, B.L. McClain, A.M. Massari, K.A. Merchant, R.F. Loring, M.D. Fayer, "Ultrafast Dynamics of Myoglobin Without the Distal Histidine: Stimulated Vibrational Echo Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations", J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 16959-16966 (2005)

K.E. Splan, A.M. Massari, J.T. Hupp, "A Porous Multilayer Dye-based Photoelectrochemical Cell that Unexpectedly Runs in Reverse", J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 4111-4115 (2004)

X.J. Dang, A.M. Massari, J.T. Hupp, "Electrochemically Modulated Diffraction - A Novel Strategy for the Determination of Conduction-band-edge Energies for Nanocrystalline Thin-film Semiconductor Electrodes" Electrochem. Sol. St. Letters, 3, 555-558, (2001).