Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry

Biography    Research activities    Teaching    Publications   

Education

PhD (Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London)

Research interests

Biophysical, Environment, Organic, and Physical Chemistry.

Current research projects

Interaction of antimicrobial peptides with model membranes

Pollutant (small molecule oxidants and nanoparticle) damage to lung surfactant

Langmuir monolayer structure and organization

• CHEM 234: Physical Chemistry I
• CHEM 335: Biophysical Chemistry
• CHEM 451: Nanochemistry
• CHEM 435: Interfacial Phenomena

Selected recent publications

P.A. RojasGutierrez, C. DeWolf, J.A. Capobianco (2016),Formation of a Supported LipidBilayer on Faceted LiYF4:Tm3 ,Yb3 UpconversionNanoparticles, Particle &Particle Systems Characterization ASAP.

S. Selladurai, R.Schmidt, C. DeWolf (2016), Influence of SubphaseComposition on Model LungSurfactant Films, Langmuir 32, 10767-10775.

E. Mansuri, L.Zepeda-Velazquez, R. Schmidt, M. A. Brook, and C.E. DeWolf (2015), SrfaceBehaviour of Boronic Acid-Terminated Silicones,Langmuir, 31, 9331-9339

A. Rajasingam, R. Schmidt, S. Woo, C.DeWolf, P. Forgione, Efficient preparationof novel phenolic surfactants forself-assembled monolayers, Synthetic Communications,2014, 44; 1066-1075 .

V. Balhara, R. Schmidt, S.-U. Gorr,C. DeWolf, Membrane selectivity andbiophysical studies of the antimicrobialpeptide GL13K,  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) –Biomembranes, 1826;2193–2203 (2013).

M. Ahmida, S. Dufour, H.–S. Li,H. Kayal, R. Schmidt, C. E. DeWolfand S. H.Eichhorn (2013), Face– and Edge–On Orientations of Octa–Acid and–AlcoholSubstituted Tetraazaporphyrins in Langmuir and Langmuir-BlodgettMonolayers, SoftMatter, 9,811-819.

M. Vidal, V. Kairouz, C. DeWolf,A.R. Schmitzer (2011).A Molecular Chalice with Hydrophobic Walls andHydrophilic Rim: Self-assemblyand Complexation Properties, Chem. Comm., 47, 12834- 12836.

N. Subramanian, R. Schmidt, P. M. Wood-Adams and C. E.DeWolf (2010). Space-FillingTrialkoxysilane: Synthesis and Self-Assembly intoLow-Density Monolayers, Langmuir, 26; 18628-18630