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Natia Frank

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Summary

  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2000-2004
  • Assistant Director and Associate Director of Education & Diversity of NSF-STC (MDITR), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002-2004
  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2005-2011
  • Canada Research Chair Tier (II), Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2005-2010
  • Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2011-2020
  • Visiting Professor, Chemistry and Physics, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany, 2012
  • Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 2020 - present

Research interests

Organic materials chemistry for development of spin-based organic electronics, spintronics, photoactive quantum materials, organic photovoltaics, charge-storage materials, magnetoreception, magnetism in medicine, and biosensors.

Expertise: Organic materials chemistry, magnetism, charge transfer, charge transport, photochemistry, structural organic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, w88 casino games logincharacterization and property measurement of multifunctional materials, device fabrication and characterization.

Courses taught

  • Introduction to Organic Chemistry (I and II)
  • Honors Organic Chemistry (I and II)
  • Introduction to Organic Synthesis Advanced Organic Chemistry: Structure, Bonding and Reactivity
  • Advanced Organic: Structure and Function in Materials and Biology
  • Magnetism and Charge Transfer Processes in Chemistry
  • Measurements in Magnetometry Property Directed Synthesis Discussion

Education

  • B.A. Chemistry, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY1987
  • M.Sc.Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1990
  • Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1996

Selected publications

  • "Exploiting Chemistry and Chemical Systems for Quantum Information Science" Wasielewski, M., Forbes, M., Frank, N., Kowalski, K., Scholes, G., Yuen-Zhou, J., Baldo, M., Freedman, D., Goldsmith, R., Goodson, T., Kirk, M., McCusker, J., Ogilvie, J., Shultz, D., Stoll, S., and Whaley , B. Nat. Rev. Chem. (2020) Accepted May 2020. 
  • w88 casino“Antioxidant Sensing by Spiropyrans: Substituent Effects and NMR Spectroscopic Studies” Garcia, J; Addison, JB; Liu, SZ; Lu, S; Faulkner, AL; Hodur, BM; Balmond, EI; Or, VW; Yun, JH; Trevino, K; Shen, BW; Shaw, JT; Frank, NL; Louie, AY  J. Phys. Chem B. (2019) 123 (31), 6799-6809, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b03424
  • Opto-Spintronics: Photoisomerization-Induced Spin State Switching at 300 K in Photochrome-Cobalt Dioxolene Thin Films” Paquette, M. M.; Plaul, D.; Patrick, B.; Kurimoto, A.; Frank, N. L.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2018) 140, 14990−15000. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09190 (Highlighted as JACS Spotlight)
  • “Controlling Photoswitching via pcFRET Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles” Zhang, X.; Kurimoto, A.; Frank, N. L.; Harbron, E. J Phys. Chem C. (2018) 122 (39) 22728−22737 (Featured as ACS Editor’s Choice), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06900.
  • “Ultrafast Spintronics: w88 online casinoDynamics of the Photoisomerization-Induced Spin-Charge Excited State (PISCES) Mechanism in Spirooxazine-Based Photomagnetic Materials” Jenkins, A.; Mao, Z.; Kurimoto, A.; Mix, L. T.; Frank, N.; Larsen, D. J Phys Chem Lett. (2018) 9 (18) 5351-5357. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02166. 
  • “Modulating short wavelength fluorescence with long wavelength light” Copley, G.; Gillmore, J. G.; Crisman, J.; Kodis, G.; Gray, C. L.; Cherry, B. R.; Sherman, B. D.; Liddell, P. A.; Paquette, M. M.; Kelbauskas, L.; Frank, N. L.; Moore, A. L.; Moore, T. A.; Gust, D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014 136, 34, 11994-12003 (AUG 27 2014). DOI: 10.1021/ja504879p.

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