Malkiat S. Johal
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College 

 

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Peer Reviewed Publications: Malkiat S. Johal, Talya L. Dayton, Hsing-Lin Wang “Fabricating Enzymatic Surfaces” (Book Chapter) 2006, Soft Nanomaterials, American Scientific Publishes, in press. Johal, M.S.; Chiarelli, P.A. “Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexation in Electrostatically Self-Assembled LBL Multilayers” (Review Article) 2006, Soft Matter, in press. Tang, Z.; Caculitan, N.; Johal, M.S.; Scudder, P.H.; Magyar, R.J.; Tratiak, S.; Wang, H-L. “A Study of the Non Covalent Interactions in Langmuir-Blodgett Films: An Interplay Between p-p and Dipole-Dipole Interactions” 2006, Soft Matter, submitted. Chiarelli, Peter, A.; Lui, D-G.; Watkins, E.B.; Trouw, F.R.; Majewski, J.; Casson, Joanna, L.; Tang, Z.; Johal, Malkiat, S.; Robinson, Jeanne, M.; Wang, H-L. "Interpenetration and Long-Range Order in the Langmuir-Blodgett Assembly of a Model Azobenzene Amphiphile" 2006, J. Phys. Chem. B, submitted. Howland, Michael, C.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Parikh, Atul, N. “Transition from Homogeneous Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers to Striped Bilayers Driven by a Wetting Instability in Octadecylsiloxane Monolayers” Langmuir 2005, 21(23), 10468-10474. Campbell, V.E.; Chiarelli, P.A.; Kaur, S.; Johal, M.S. “Coadsoprtion of a Polyanion and an Azobenzene Dye in Self-Assembled and Spin-assembled Polyelectrolyte Multilayers” Chemistry of Materials. 2005, 17, 186-190. Caculitan, N.; Scudder, P.H; Casson, J.L.; Wang, H-L.; Robinson, J.M.; Johal, M.S.  In Situ Kinetics of LBL Assembled NLO Amphiphiles Using Dynamic Surface Force Measurements” Langmuir 2004, 20, 8735-8739. Johal, M.S.; Ozer, B.H.; St. John, A.; Casson, J.L.; Wang, H.L.; Robinson, J.M. “Polymer-Surfactant Interactions in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers” Langmuir 2004, 20(7),  2792-2796. Johal, M.S.; Howland, M.; Robinson, J.M.; Casson, J.L.; Wang, H-L. “Photoluminescent Studies of Spin-Assembled MPS-PPV/Dendrimer Multilayers” Chemical Physics Letters. 2004, 383 (3-4), 276.Chiarelli, Peter A.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Casson, Joanna L.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Wang, Hsing-Lin.  “Fabrication of multilayered thin films via spin-assembly”   U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ.  (2004), 11 pp.  US  2004086649  A1  20040506  CAN 140:384233  AN 2004:372626. Johal, Malkiat S.; Casson, Joanna L.; Wang, Hsing-Lin; Robinson, Jeanne M.; El-Khouri, Rita Jaqueline.  “Fine-tuning the wetting behavior of polyelectrolyte films containing ionic surfactants” Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2003, 89, 841-843. Casson, Joanna L.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Liu, Ding-Guo; Shaw, Jennifer A.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Wang, Hsing-Lin. “Polyelectrolyte trilayer combinations using spin-assembly and ionic self-assembly”  Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering  2003, 89, 33-34. El-Khouri, R. J.; Johal, M.S. “Fine-Tuning the Wetting Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Films with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate”, Langmuir 2003, 19, 4880. Johal, M.S.; Casson, J.L.; Chiarelli, P.; Lui, D-G.; Shaw, JA.; Robinson, J.M.; Wang, H-L. “Polyelectrolyte Trilayer Combinations Using Spin-Assembly and Ionic Self-Assembly” Langmuir 2003, 19 (No.21), 8876. Chiarelli, P. A.; Johal, M. S.; Holmes, D.J.; Casson, J. L; Robinson, J. M.; Wang, H. “Polyelectrolyte Spin-Assembly” Langmuir 2002, 18, 168-173. Casson, J.L.; Wang, H.; Roberts, J.B.; Parikh, A.N.; Robinson, J.M.; Johal, M.S. “Kinetics and Interpenetration of Ionically Self-Assembled Dendrimer and PAZO Multilayers” Journal of Physical Chemistry B.  2002, 106, 1697-1702. Chiarelli, P. A.; Johal, M. S.; Casson, J. L.; Roberts, J. B.; Robinson, J. M.; Wang, H. “Controlling Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Thin Film Fabrication Using Spin-Assembly” Advanced Materials 2001, 13, No. 15, August 3, 1167-1171. Casson, J. L.; Johal M. S.; Roberts, J. B.; Wang, H.; Robinson, J. M. “Reversal of Interfacial Dipole Orientation in Polyelectrolyte Superlattices Due to Polycationic Layers” Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2000, 104, 11996-12001. Johal, M. S.; Parikh, A. N.; Lee, Y.; Casson, J. L.; Foster, L.; Swanson, B. I.; McBranch, D. W.; Li, D. Q.; Robinson, J. M. “Study of the Conformational Structure and Cluster Formation in a Langmuir-Blodgett Film Using Second Harmonic Generation, Second Harmonic Microscopy, and FTIR Spectroscopy” Langmuir, 1999, 15(1), 1275-1282. Johal, M. S.; Cao, Y. W.; Smilowitz, L. B.; Robinson, J. M.; McBranch, D. W.; Li, D. Q. “Spontaneously Self-Assembled Polar Asymmetric Multilayers Formed by Complementary H-Bonds” Chemistry of Materials, 1999, 11(8), 1962-1965. Briggs, A. M.; Johal, M. S.; Davies, P. B.; Cooke, D. J. “Structure and Thermal Stability of Dichain Sugar Surfactants at the Solid/Water Interface Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy” Langmuir, 1999 15(5) 1817-1828. Huang, W.; Helvenston, M.; Casson, J. L.; Wang, R.; Bardeau, J. F.; Lee, Y.; Johal, M. S.; Swanson, B. I.; Robinson, J. M.; Li, D. Q.; “Synthesis, Characterization, and NLO Properties of a Phenothiazine-Stilbazole Monolayer” Langmuir, 1999, 15(19), 6510-6514. Casson, J. L.; Huang, W.; Lee, Y.; Bardeau, J. F.; Johal, M. S.; Wang, R.; Li, D. Q.; Swanson, B. I.; McBranch, D. W.; Helvenston, M.; Robinson, J. M. “NLO-Studies of a Novel Phenothiazine Self-Assembled Monolayer” Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, 1999, 3796, 238-241.  Johal, M. S.; Robinson, J. M.; McBranch, D. W.; Li, D. Q.; “Spontaneously Self-Assembled Polar Multilayers with High Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity” Organic Thin Films for Photonics Apps, 1997, Technical Digest Series, 14, 155-157.Johal, Malkiat S., Ward, Robert N., Davies, Paul B., “Coadsorption of Tri-Chain Surfactants and Dodecanol at a Hydrophobic Surface Studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy” Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 274-276. Johal, Malkiat, S., Usadi, Eric W., Davies, Paul B., “Structural Phase Transition of a 1-Dodecanol Monolayer at the Solid-Liquid Interface studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy” Journal of the Chemical  Society Faraday Transactions., 1996, 92(4), 573-578. Johal, Malkiat S., Usadi, Eric W., Davies, Paul B., “Coadsorption of Didodecyl dimethylammonium Bromide and 1-Dodecanol on a hydrophobic surface studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy” Faraday Discussion, 1996, 104, 231-243.

 

Recent Presentations: “Fabricating Enzymatic Surfaces using Electrostatic Self-Assembly.” Invited speaker at the Chemistry Seminar, University of Tampa, November, 2005. Co-author on 2 presentations at the 229th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA March 13-17, 2005. Co-author on 2 presentations at the 226th ACS National Meeting in New York, September 7-11, 2003. Co-author on 2 presentations at the 55th Southeastern Meeting of the ACS, Atlanta, GA, November 2003. Co-author on 6 presentations at the 224th ACS National Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, LA, March 2003. “Fabrication of Charge Alternating Polyelectrolyte Multilayers by Self-Assembly and Spin-Assembly.” Invited speaker at the Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Florida, March 4, 2003. Thesis students/professor presentation at the New College Admissions Open House, November 2001, 2002, & 2003. “Polymer-Surfactant Interactions in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers.” (In addition to being co-author on 3 other presentations) 223rd ACS National Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, FL, April 7-11, 2002. Thesis students/professor presentation at the Florida Collegiate Honors Council, 2002 Conference, New College of Florida, Sarasota. MRS Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 26-30, 2001, Polymer Interfaces and Thin Films, “Spin-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayered Thin Films: An Alternative for Self-Assembly.” Hsing-Lin Wang, Jeanne M. Robinson, Joanna L. Casson; Peter Chiarelli, Malkiat S. Johal. “Spin-Assembly of Polyelectrolytes,” Western Spectroscopy Association Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 2001. “Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Polyelectrolyte Superlattices,” Western Spectroscopy Association Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 2001. “Polyelectrolyte Self-Assembly,” Western Spectroscopy Association Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 2001. “Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Polyelectrolyte Superlattices,” Western Spectroscopy Association Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 2000. “NLO Studies of a Novel Phenothiazine Self-Assembled Monolayer,” The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1999 SPIE Conference, Denver, Colorado, 1999. “Workshop on Self-Assembling and Biomimetic Materials,” Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1997. “Spontaneously Self-Assembled Polar Multilayers with High Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity” Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Optical Society of America, Long Beach, California, 1997. “Coadsorption of DDAB and Dodecanol at the Solid-Liquid Interface,” Faraday Discussion Group No. 104, Cambridge, UK, 1996. “Coadsorption of Tri-Chain Surfactants at the Solid-Liquid Interface,” International Symposium on Micelles, Monolayers and Microemulsions, Gainesville, Florida, 1995. “Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy at the Solid-Liquid Interface,” Poster, Third UK Colloid & Interface Science Student Meeting, Hull, UK, 1995. “Structure of Surfactants at Buried Interfaces,” Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1995.

 

Recent ACS Abstract Publications: Caculitan, Nina G.; Scudder, Paul H.; Casson, Joanna L.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Rodriguez, Analiz; Tang, Zhexiong; Wang, Hsing-Lin; Johal, Malkiat S.  Incorporating NLO surfactants into polyelectrolyte multilayers and Langmuir-Blodgett assemblies”  Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005  (2005), COLL-321. Dayton, Talya L.; Walstrom, Katherine M.; Johal, Malkiat S.. “Using polyelectrolyte films to study M15 and alpha-protein interactions”    Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005  (2005), COLL-381. Johal, Malkiat S.; Casson, Joanna L.; Wang, Hsing-Lin; Robinson, Jeanne M.; El-Khouri, Rita Jaqueline “Fine-tuning the wetting behavior of polyelectrolyte films containing ionic surfactants” Abstracts of Papers, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, United States, September 7-11, 2003. Casson, Joanna L.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Liu, Ding-Guo; Shaw, Jennifer A.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Wang, Hsing-Lin. “Polyelectrolyte trilayer combinations using spin-assembly and ionic self-assembly” Abstracts of Papers, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, United States, September 7-11, 2003. Hicks, R.; El-Khouri, R.J.; Johal, M.S. “Further Investigations in Fine-Tuning the Wetting Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Films with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate” Abstract of Papers, 55th Southeastern Meeting of the ACS, Atlanta, GA, November 2003, 909. Huang, P.; Browne, W.; Blower, P.; Johal, M.S. “Data Acquisition of Chemical Processes using UV-Visible Spectrophotometery and LabVIEW” Abstract of Papers, 55th Southeastern Meeting of the ACS, Atlanta, GA, November 2003, 329. Campbell, V.; Johal, M.S. “Incorporating Azobenzene Dyes into Self-Assembled and Spin-Assembled Polyelectrolyte Multilayers” Abstracts of Papers, 224rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003. COLL-211. Joanna L. Casson, Peter A. Chiarelli, Malkiat S. Johal, Dan Hooks, Jaroslaw Majewski, Greg S. Smith, Ding-Guo Liu, Gabriela E. Sanchez, Jeanne M. Robinson, Hsing-Lin Wang. “Polyelectrolyte Trilayer Combinations Using Spin-Assembly and Ionic Self-Assembly.” Abstracts of Papers, 224rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003. COLL-214. obinson, Jeanne M.; Liu, Ding-Guo; Majewski, Jaroslaw; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Casson, Joanna L.; Lookman, Turab; Johal, Malkiat S.; Wang, Hsing Lin.  “Aligning amphiphilic molecules in ultrathin films.”   Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003, COLL-209. Michael Howland, Malkiat S. Johal, Joanna L. Casson, Jeanne M. Robinson, Hsing-Lin Wang “Photoluminescence Studies of Polyelectrolyte Spin-Assembled Multilayers.” Abstracts of Papers, 224rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003. COLL-213. Rita Jaqueline El-Khouri, Malkiat S. Johal. “Dynamic Contact Angles Measurements of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Containing Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate.” Abstracts of Papers, 224rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003. COLL-210. Ashlee St. John, Malkiat S. Johal, Joanna L. Casson, Jeanne M. Robinson, Hsing-Lin Wang. “Mixed Surfactant-Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Containing Sodium Dodecylsulfate and Poly(ethyleneimine).” Abstracts of Papers, 224rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003. COLL-212. Casson, Joanna L.; Wang, Hsing Lin; Roberts, Jerrad; Parikh, Atul N.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Johal, Malkiat S. “Kinetics of dendrimer/PAZO multilayer films and the effect of interfacial dipole interactions on NLO properties”.    Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002  (2002), COLL-371. Robinson, Jeanne M.; Liu, Ding-Guo; Wang, Hsing-Lin; Casson, Joanna L.; Mc Branch, Duncan W.; Whitten, David; Johal, Malkiat S.; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Smith, Gregory S.; Majewski, Jaroslaw.  “Fabrication and characterization of multilayered NLO films based on a novel alternating copolymer”.   Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002  (2002), COLL-370. Ozer, Byram H.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Casson, Joanna L.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Wang, Hsing-Lin.  “Polymer-surfactant interactions in a polyelectrolyte multilayer”.    Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002  (2002), COLL-188.  Johal, Malkiat S.; Ozer, Byram H.; Casson, Joanna L.; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Wang, Hsing-Lin.  “Polyelectrolyte multilayers containing amphiphiles constructed by "dipping" and spin-assembly”.    Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002  (2002), COLL-147. Wang, Hsing-Lin; Chiarelli, Peter; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Casson, Joanna L.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Holmes, Daniel J.  “Polyelectrolyte Spin-Assembly”.    Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002  (2002), COLL-020.  Wang, Hsing-Lin; Robinson, Jeanne M.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Casson, Joanna L.; Chiarelli, Peter A.; Roberts, Jerrad B.  “Synthesis and characterization of spin-assembled polyelectrolyte multilayered thin films”.    Abstracts of Papers, 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, August 26-30, 2001  (2001), COLL-259. Robinson, Jeanne M.; Foster, Laura L.; Wilson, Kevin R.; Smilowitz, Laura B.; Casson, Joanna L.; Dubey, Manvendra K.; Johal, Malkiat S.; Wilson, Bryan F.  “Capillary absorption of methane on model Titan ices: Implications for a hidden hydrocarbon ocean”.    Book of Abstracts, 218th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Aug. 22-26  (1999),  PHYS-290.  Lee, Yongwoo; Johal, M. S.; Parikh, A. N.; Foster, L.; Robinson, J. M.; McBranch, D. W.; Li, D.  “An SHG study of L-B films from 4-eicosyl-oxo-(E)-stilbazolium iodide”. Book of Abstracts, 216th ACS National Meeting, Boston, August 23-27 (1998), COLL-145.