recent conferences and publications:
conferences
"The electrochemical basis for the protection of steel and aluminum by polyaniline and polyphenylene ether coatings," at Smart Coatings 2006, Orlando, FL, February 15-17, 2006.
"Conductive polymers and porphyrins," at the XIIth International Seminar on the Technology of Inherently Conductive Polymers, Boston, October 2-4, 2005.
"Strategies for monitoring the performance of smart polyphenylene ether coatings," at the European Coatings Conference, SMART COATINGS IV, Berlin, June 9-10, 2005.
publications
"Investigations of an electrochemical basis for the protection of steel and aluminum by polyaniline and polyphenylene ether coatings," in SMART COATING 2006, ACS Books, in press.
"Poly(2,6-dimethylphenylene ether): an electroactive anticorrosion coating for aluminum," p. 136 in Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention of Low Density Metals and Alloys, R. G. Buchheit, B. A. Shaw, J. P Moran, eds., PV 2000-23, The Electrochemical Society Inc., Pennington NJ.
"A DC electrochemical method for studying the inhibition of metal corrosion by chromate-containing paint," Prog. Org. Coatings 1999, 35, 277.
"XPS evidence of redox chemistry between cold colled steel and polyaniline," Chem. Mater. 1997, 9, 1949.