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Welcome to our Research and Teaching Home Page. Read on, and please feel free to send any comments or questions to me.
I invite highly motivated students and post-doctoral researchers to check out the
Opportunities page and the Research
page.
If you like what you see, or if you would like more information, contact me as soon as possible.
Prof. Paul A. Rowntree
Department of Chemistry
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
If you are looking for our Near Space Initiative
(a.k.a. GNSI), click here
Congratulations are in order! The Rowntree lab is proud to announce that two of our members have been awarded prestigious awards by the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry [(GWC)2]. Well done !
Stuart Read was awarded the prize for the best M.Sc. Seminar presentation for the Guelph campus.
Stuart was also awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to support his work on 2 Photon Surface Emission. Bravo!
Erin Sheepwash was awarded the R.H.F. Manske Prize, which recognizes the outstanding academic and research abilities of the recipient.
Research Overview
Our fundamental interest is the study, comprehension and control of
surface and interfacial processes. The systems that we are currently
interested in include organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) bound to metal
surfaces (e.g., Au, Ni, Pd, Rh, Hg, Ga), organometallic film precursors (e.g.,
Fe(CO)5,
Ni(CO)4, Al(CH3)3 ), and composite
materials for selective catalysis and electrocatalysis. By exploring the
molecular dynamics of these species in well-controlled environments, we hope to
be able to increase the selectivity of surface reactions and enhance the
mechanical properties of atomically-thin films. Please visit the Research page for project-specific information on what we have done and
where we are going.
Our techniques include infrared spectroscopy (IRRAS,
DRIFTS), electron-emission spectroscopy (XPS, AES, UPS, 2PPE) scanning probe
methods (STM, AFM, STS), low-energy electron beam irradiation and
high-temperature catalytic reactions; our instrumentation is typically designed
and built by us due to its specialized nature.
Academic Background
| B.Sc. |
University of Waterloo (Honours Chemistry, Philosophy Minor) |
| M.Sc. |
University of Waterloo (Chemistry, Molecular Beam Spectroscopy of Clusters) |
| Ph.D |
Princeton University (Chemistry, He Atom Diffraction from Molecular
Overlayers) |
| M.A. |
Princeton University |
| PDF |
Universite de Sherbrooke (Medecine Nucleaire et de radiobiologie) |
| Assistant Professor |
Universite de Sherbrooke (Medecine Nucleaire et de
radiobiologie) |
| Assistant, Associate and Full Professor |
Universite de Sherbrooke (Chemistry) |
| Full Professor |
University of Guelph (Chemistry) |
Contact Information
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My Office
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MacN-129A
Dept. of
Chemistry,
University of
Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
N1G 2W1
519-824-4120 x58127
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| Departmental FAX
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519-766-1499 |
| Laboratories
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Main Laboratory
: MacN-129 519-824-4120 x58013
Satellite Laboratory MacN-056 (no phone) |
| Electronic mail |
Rowntree@uoguelph.ca |
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