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Department of Chemistry
5706 Aubert Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
A Member of the University of Maine System
Publications
- Tunable Photoluminescence of a Novel Silver-Gold Mixed Metal System, submitted, Chemical PhysicsLetters, 2006, Christie L. Larochelle and Howard H. Patterson.
- Silver Nanoclusters Doped in X and Mordenite Zeolites as Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Decomposition of Pesticides
in Solution,” accepted,Research on Chemical Intermediates, 2006, Sofian M. Kanan, Marsha C. Kanan, and Howard H. Patterson.
- “Nanoclusters of Silver Doped in
Zeolites as Photocatalysts,” in press, Catalysis Today, 2006, Howard H.
Patterson, Robert S. Gomez, Haiyan Lu, and Renante L. Yson.
- “Tunable Photolumminescence of Closed-shell
Heterbimetallic Au-Ag Dicyanide Layered Systems”, Journal of Physical Chemistry, B
109, 4317-4323(2005), J. C. F. Colis, C. Larochelle, E. J.
Fernández, J. M. López-de-Luzuriaga, M. Monge, A.
Laguna, C. Tripp and H. H. Patterson.
- “Structural studies of Lanthanide Ion Complexes
of Pure Gold, Pure Silver and Mixed Metal (Gold -Silver)
Dicyanides”, Dalton Trans 2005,1-5, J. C. F. Coles, C.
Larochelle, R. Staples, R. Herbst-Irmer and H. H. Patterson.
- “Metallophilic Interactions in Closed-Shell d10
Metal-Metal Dicyanide Bonded Luminescent Systems Eu[AgxAu1-x(CN)2]3 and
Their Tunability for Excited State Energy Transfer”, Journal
of Physical Chemistry B, 109,102 (2005). J.C. F Colis, R. Staples, C.
Tripp, D. Labrecque and H. H. Patterson.
- “Dioxin Alters Human Low-Density and
Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Structure with Evidence for Specific
Quenching of Trp-48 in Apolipoprotein C-II” Biochemistry, 43,
8503 (2004), Eric Arehart, Gregory Giasson, Mary T. Walsh(Boston
University School of Medicine), and Howard Patterson.
- “Photoluminescence Spectroscopy as a Probe of
Silver Doped Zeolites as Photocatalysts”, 2004, Current
Opinion in Solid State and Material Science, vol. 7/6, pp 443-449,
Sofian M. Kanan, Marsha C. Kanan, and Howard Patterson.
- “Luminescence Properties of Silver(I)
Exchanged Zeolite Y and Its Use as a Catalyst to Photodecompose
Carbaryl in the Presence of Natural Organic Matter”, Research
in Chem. Intermediates 29,691 (2003) M. C. Kanan, S. M. Kanan and H. H.
Patterson.
- “Write/Read/Erase with Laser Irradiation of
Dicyanoargentate(I) Doped and Pure Crystals”, J. Phys. Chem.
B, 107,14249 (2003) S. R. Hettiarachchi, H. H. Patterson and M. A.
Omary.
- “Photodecomposition of Carbaryl in the Presence
of Silver-Doped Zeolite Y and Suwannee River Natural Organic
Matter”, Environmental Science and Technology, 37, 2280-2285
(2003) M. C. Kanan, S. M. Kanan, R. N. Austin and H. H. Patterson.
- “Synthesis, Structure and Photoluminescence
Properties of the I-Dimensional Chain Compounds [(TPA)2Au][Au(CN)2] and
(TPA)AuCI (TPA= 1,3,5-Triaza-7-phosphaadamantane)”, Inorg.
Chem. 41, 6274 (2002) Zerihun Assefa, Mohammad A. Omary, Brian G.
McBurnett, John P. Fackler, Jr., Howard H. Patterson and Richard J.
Staples.
- “Reversible Luminescence Thermochromism in
Dipotassiumsodium Tri[dicyanoargentate(I)] and the Role of Structural
Phase Transitions”, J. Solid State Chem. 168, 274 (2002) P.
Fischer, B. Lucas, M. A. Omary, C. L. Larochelle, and H. H. Patterson.
- “Temperature Dependence of the Chemical Structure
of K2Na[Ag(CN)2]3” Applied Physics A 74, S1296 - S1298
(2002), P. Fischer, B. Lucas, H. H. Patterson, and C. L. Larochelle.
- “Spectroscopic Studies on “Exciplex
Tuning” for Dicyanoaurate(I) Ions Doped in Potassium Chloride
Crystals” J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 10058 (2002) Samanthika R.
Hettiarachchi, Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Sofian M. Kanan, Mohammad A.
Omary, Howard H. Patterson, Carl P. Tripp.
- “Excited-State Interactions for
[Au(CN)2‾]n and [Ag(CN)2‾]n Oligomers in Solution.
Formation of Luminescent Gold-Gold Bonded Excimers and
Exciplexes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 11237-11247 (2001), Manal
A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Mohammad A. Omary, Howard H. Patterson, and John P.
Fackler, Jr (Texas A&M University).
- “Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy as
Probes to Investigate Silver and Gold Dicyanide Clusters in A Zeolite
and their Photoassisted Degradation of Carbaryl”, J. Phys.
Chem. B, 105, 9441-9448 (2001), S. M. Kanan, C. P. Tripp, R. N. Austin,
and H. H. Patterson.
- “Photophysical Properties of Ag(I)-Exchanged
Zeolite A and Photoassisted Degradation of Malathion”, J.
Phys. Chem. B, 105, 7508-7516 (2001), S. M. Kanan, M.C. Kanan, and H.
H. Patterson.