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René M. Overney |
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Education
and Work Experience
Ph.D., University of Basel (Switzerland),
1993.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), Yokohama, Japan
(1993-1994).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Exxon - Corporate Research, Annandale, NJ (1994-1996).
Professor at the University of Washington,
Seattle, WA (1996 - )
Research Interests and
Applications
- Molecular Mobility and Transition Properties
in Organic Systems
- Engineering with Nanoconstraints
– Interfacial Engineering
- Nanotribology, Adhesion and Rheology
- Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials
- Transport and Separation
- Opto-Electronics (Photonics)
- Development of
Novel SPM Tools
Teaching
and Developments
- UG Teaching
in the ChemE Core Curriculum
(Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena)
- UG Teaching
in Engineering and Arts and Sciences
(Introduction to Molecular and Nanoscale Principles)
- Graduate
Teaching
(Transpport
Phenomena, Nanoscience)
- Outreach
Activity (nation-wide)
(NUE-UNIQUE (Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education –
Using Nanoscience Instrumentation for Quality
Undergraduate Education)
Research and Teaching Activities: Current & Plans (password access only)
Selected Publications and Books (see also http://depts.washington.edu/nanolab/publications.htm )
E. Meyer, R. Overney,
K. Dransfeld, and T. Gyalog,
NanoScience: Friction and Rheology on the Nanometer Scale, World Scientific Publ., Singapore,
(1998).
Interfacial Properties
on the Submicron Scale, eds. J. Frommer, R.M. Overney, ACS Symposium
Series 781, Oxford University Press (2001).
R.M. Overney, E. Meyer, J. Frommer,
D. Brodbeck, R. Lüthi, L. Howald, H.-J. Güntherodt, M. Fujihira, H. Takano, Y. Gotoh. Friction Measurements on Phase-Separated
Domains in Thin Organic Film with a Modified Atomic Force Microscope. Nature 359, 133-135 (1992).
R.M. Overney, C. Buenviaje, R. Luginbuehl, and F. Dinelli, Glass and Structural Transitions measured at
Polymer Surfaces on the Nanoscale, J. Thermal Analysis and
Calorimetry, 59, 205-225 2000.
S.Ge, Y. Pu. W.
Zhang, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov,
C. Buenviaje, R. Buckmaster,
and R.M. Overney, Shear Modulation Force Microscopy Study of Near Surface Glass
Transition Temperatures, Phys. Rev. Lett.,
85, 2340-2343 (2000).
M. He, A. Szuchmacher Blum, G.
Overney, R.M. Overney, Effect of
Interfacial Liquid Structuring on the Coherence Length in Nanolubrication,
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002), 88 (15), 154302/1-4
S.E. Sills, R.M. Overney, Creeping Friction Dynamics and Molecular
Dissipation Mechanisms in Glassy Polymers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91(9), 095501 (1-4), (2003).
S.E. Sills, T. Gray, R.M.
Overney, Molecular Dissipation
Phenomena of Nanoscopic Friction in the Heterogeneous Relaxation Regime of a
Glass Former, J. Chem. Phys., 123, 134902, (2005).
S. Sills, R.M. Overney, Probing Macromolecular Dynamics and Finite
Size Effects in “Applied Scanning Probe Methods III”, eds. B. Bhushan, H. Fuchs, Springer-Verlag,
Heidelberg, Germany, 83-130 (2006).
J. H. Wei,
M. He, R. M. Overney, Direct
Measurement of Nanofluxes and Structural Relaxations
of Perfluorinated Ionomer Membranes by Scanning Probe Microscopy, J. Membr. Sci. 279, 608-614
(2006).
S. Sills, K. Vorvolakos, M.K. Chaudhury, R.M. Overney, Molecular Origin of Elastomeric Friction in “Nanotribology in “Friction
and Wear on the Atomic Scale”, E. Gnecco and E. Meyer
(eds), Springer-Verlag,
T.-D. Kim, J.-W. Kang, J. Luo, S.-H. Jang, J.-W. Ka, N.
Tucker, J. B. Benedict, L. R. Dalton, T. Gray, R. M. Overney,
D. H. Park, W. N. Herman, A. K.-Y. Jen, Ultralarge and Thermally Stable Electro-Optic
Activities from Supramolecular Self-Assembled
Molecular Glasses, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 488-489 (2007).
J. Killgore,
R.M. Overney, Interfacial mobility and
Bonding Strength in Nanocomposite Thin Film Membranes, Langmuir, 24,
3446-3451 (2008).
T. Gray, T.-D. Kim, D. B. Knorr, J. Luo, A. K.-Y. Jen, R.M.
Overney, Mesoscale Dynamics and
Cooperativity of Networking Dendronized Nonlinear Optical Molecular Glasses,
NanoLetters, 8, 754-759 (2008).
more at http://depts.washington.edu/nanolab/publications.htm