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Alon McCormick

Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Office:
Phone: 612-625-1822
Email: mccormic@umn.edu
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Professional Preparation:

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Tulane University, 1983 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1987

Professional Appointments

Selected Publications

"Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals," T. Davis, T. Drews, H. Ramanan, C. He, J. Dong, H. Schnablegger, M. Katsoulakis, E. Kokkoli, A.V. McCormick, R. L. Penn and M. Tsapatsis, Nature Materials, 16 April (2006).

"Silver carboxylate nanostructure nucleation and growth on AgBr crystals," J. Dong, D. R. Whitcomb, A. V. McCormick and H. T. Davis, Nanotechnology 16, S592-S600 (2005).

"Solubility of sodium soaps in aqueous salt solutions," B. Lin, A. V. McCormick, H. T. Davis, R. Strey, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 291, 543-549 (2005).

"Crystallization of Silver Stearate from Sodium Stearate Dispersions," B. Lin, J. Dong, D. R. Whitcomb A. V. McCormick and H. T. Davis, Langmuir 20, 9069-9074 (2004).

"Synthesis and Characterization of Submicron-to-Micron Scale, Monodisperse, Spherical, and Nonporous Zirconia Particles," B. Yan, C. V. McNeff, P. W. Carr, A. V. McCormick, Journal of American Ceramic Society 88 [3], 707-713 (2005).

"Synthesis and Reactivity of a Super-Reactive Metastable Intermolecular Composite (MIC) Formation of Al/KMnO4," A. Prakash, A. V. McCormick and M. R. Zachariah, Advanced Materials, in press (2004).

"Chromatography Using Ultra-Stable Metal Oxide-based Stationary Phases for HPLC," J. Nawrocki, C. Dunlap, A. McCormick, P. W. Carr, Journal of Chromatography A 1028, 1-30 (2004).

"Effect of Lamp Cycling on Conversion and Stress Development in Ultraviolet-Cured Acrylate Coatings," D. M. Vaessen, F. A. Ngantung, M. L. B. Palacio, L. F. Francis, A. V. McCormick, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 84, 2784-2793 (2002).

"Kinetic Gelation Modeling: Structural Inhomogeneity during Cross-Linking Polymerization," M. Wen and A. V. McCormick, Macromolecules 36, 4140-4150 (2003).

"Reactions of a Trifunctional Silane Coupling Agent in the Presence of Colloidal Silica Sols in Polar Media", by Michael Daniels, Jan Sefcik, Lorraine Francis and Alon McCormick, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 219, pp. 351 Ð 356 (1999).