Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2003-present
Associate Professor (early tenure awarded), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999-2003
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-1999

Selected Publications

Langmuir 22, 5217-5219 (2006) (with Lee J.A., Meng L., Norris D. J. and Scriven L.E.) Colloidal Crystal Layers of Hexagonal Nanoplates by Convective Assembly.

Nature Materials 5, 400-408 (2006) (with Davis T.M., Drews T.O., Ramanan H., He C., Dong J., Schnablegger H., Katsoulakis M., Kokkoli E., McCormick A.V. and Penn R. L.) Mechanistic Principles of Nanoparticle Evolution to Zeolite Crystals.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 1154-1158 (2006) (with Choi J., Ghosh S. and Lai Z.) Uniformly a-Oriented MFI Films by Secondary Growth.

Science 300:(5618), 456-460 (2003) (with Lai Z., Bonilla G., Diaz I., Nery J.G., Sujaoti K., Amat M., Kokkoli E., Terasaki O., Thompson R. and Vlachos D.G.) Microstructural Optimization of a Zeolite Membrane for Organic Vapor Separation. (Appeared on the cover)

Nature Materials 2:(1), 53-58 (2003) (with Jeong H.K., Nair S., Vogt T. and Dickinson L.C.) A Highly Crystalline Layered Silicate with Three-Dimensionally Microporous Layers.

Journal of the American Chemical Society 124:(44), 12966-12968 (2002) (with Jeong H.K., Krohn, J. and Sujaoti K.) Oriented Molecular Sieve Membranes by Heteroepitaxial Growth.

Nature 412, 720-724 (2001) (with Kuznicki S. M., Bell V.A., Nair S., Hillhouse H.W., Jacubinas R.M., Braunbarth C.M. and Toby B.) A Titanosilicate Molecular Sieve with Tunable Pores and its Use in Gas Separations.

Journal of the American Chemical Society 122;(51), 12864-12865 (2000) (with Vlachos D.G., Kim S., Ramanan H. and Gavalas G.R.) Spontaneous Formation of Periodically Patterned Deposits by CVD.

AIChE Journal, 42(11), 3020-3029 (1996) (with Lovallo M.C.) Preferentially Oriented Submicron Silicalite Membranes.

Nature 381, 295-298 (1996) (with Freyhardt C., Lobo R.F., Balkus K.J. Jr. and Davis M.E.) A High Silica Zeolite with a 14-tetrahedral-atom Pore Opening.