Professor Bruce Alan Parkinson
Bruce Alan Parkinson, Ph.D. is
Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University.
His research areas are photoelectrochemical energy conversion,
ultrahigh vacuum surface science, scanning probe microscopies, and
inorganic fullerenes.
Bruce coauthored
Preparation and Characterization of Terraced Surfaces of
Low-Index Faces of Anatase, Rutile, and Brookite,
A Simple Sol—Gel Synthesis of Superconducting
MgB2 Nanowires,
TaS2 nanoplatelets produced by laser ablation,
Adsorption, Desorption, and Sensitization of Low-Index
Anatase and Rutile Surfaces by the Ruthenium Complex
Dye N3,
Dye Sensitization of the Anatase (101) Crystal Surface by a Series of
Dicarbonxylated Thiacyanine Dyes, and
Formation of Nanooctahedra in Molybdenum Disulfide and Molybdenum
Diselenide Using Pulsed Laser Vaporization.
Read the
full list of his publications!
His patents include
Semiconductor liquid junction photocell using surface modified GaAs
electrode,
Gallium arsenide devices having reduced surface recombination
velocity,
Etching of nanoscale structures, and
Fluorescent compounds for absorption and re-emission of radiation.
Bruce earned his B.S. in Chemistry at
Iowa State University in 1972, his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1977 with the thesis “Experimental
Studies of Interfacial Electrochemistry”, and completed his Postdoctoral
Studies with Adam Heller at Bell Laboratories in 1978.