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Malkiat
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Dr. Johal joined the department in July 2006. He teaches courses
in Accelerated General Chemistry, Physical Chemistry (Thermodynamics,
Statistical Mechanics, and Chemical Kinetics), Soft Nanomaterials, and Physical
Chemistry Laboratory. His research activities focus on using
self-assembly and ionic adsorption processes to fabricate nano-materials
for optical and biochemical applications. Undergraduate research students are
heavily involved in both the construction of and the detailed characterization
of ultra-thin assemblies. These functional
materials include bioactive surfaces (immobilized proteins) within
polyelectrolyte multilayers, asymmetrically orientated surfactant multilayers,
and self-assembled polyelectrolytes with desirable photoluminescent,
photovoltaic and NLO-active properties. Professor Johal’s laboratory also
explores fundamental phenomena such as ion-pair complexation, adsorption,
surface wettability, and intermolecular non-covalent interactions that
lead to highly ordered structures. His laboratory is also exploring the use of
functionalized stacked waveguides and piezoelectric quartz crystal resonators
as platforms for chemical and biological detection, catalysis, and the
nano-fabrication of photovoltaic and organic LED materials. Research students
in his laboratory use a variety of surface analysis tools including Dual
Polarization Interferometry, Quartz-Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation
Monitoring, Surface Tensiometry, Spectroscopy (e.g. ATR-FTIR), X-Ray
Reflectivity, Multi-Wavelength Ellipsometry, and Contact Angle analysis.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the
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