Department of Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

Louis Scudiero

Clinical Assistant Professor

Address

office: Fulmer 208

phone: (509) 335-2669
email: scudiero@wsu.edu

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 Louis Scudiero

Education
  • Ph.D Materials Science-Physics, 2002
    Washington State University, Pullman, WA
  • MS Physics, 1995
    Washington State University, Pullman, WA
  • BS Physics, 1993
    Washington State University, Pullman, WA
  • DEST Physics Instrumentation, 1989
    Université de Metz, Metz, France

 

Research

Study of geometrical and electronic properties of metalorganic materials such as porphyrins to build multilayered devices. These molecules are adsorbed or co-adsorbed on a variety of substrates (Au, HOPG etc ...) either from solutions or by sublimation in UHV to form self-assemble monolayers.   These systems are studied by XPS, UPS, AFM and STM.

A second very important topic of study is the investigation of substrate-adsorbate and adsorbate-adsorbate bond strengths. These interactions play an important role in 2D and 3D-pattern formations and will allow one to carefully design or select the molecules and the appropriate substrate for the formation of supramolecular structures. This is studied by UPS and XPS thermal desorption.

Furthermore, I have been extending the use of the chemistry spectroscopic facilities (XPS/Auger/UPS, SPM, IR, Raman and SEM/EDS) to outside high tech companies.

 

 

Selected Publications
  • L. Scudiero and K. W. Hipps."Controlled manipulation of Self-Organized Ni(II)-Octaethylporphyrin Molecules Deposited from Solution on HOPG with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope" J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 15516-15520,(2007)
  • Ayowale Ogunrinde, K.W.Hipps and L. Scudiero. " A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Self-Assembled Nickel(II) Octaethylporphyrin Deposited from Solution on HOPG” Langmuir  22, 5697-5701 (2006).
  • K.W. Hipps and L. Scudiero. “Electron Tunneling, a Quantum Probe for the Quantum World of Nanotechnology” J. Chem. Edu. (2005), 84, 5, 704-711.
  • Dan Barlow, Louis Scudiero, and K.W. Hipps, "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of 1, 2, and 3 Layers of Electroactive Compounds", Ultramicroscopy, 97 (2003), 47-53.
  • L Scudiero, K.W. Hipps, Dan E. Barlow, and Manning P. Cooke. "A Self-organized 2-Dimensional Bifunctional Structure", J. Phys. Chem. B (2003), 107, 2903-2909.
  • K.W. Hipps, L. Scudiero, Dan E. Barlow, and Manning P. Cooke, "A self-organized 2-dimensional bifunctional structure formed by supramolecular designed", JACS Communications, 2002, 124(10); 2126-2127
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