Rolf Schmidt, PhD
Facility manager and research officer, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Office: | SP 201-16 Richard J. Renaud Science Complex, 7141 Sherbrooke W. |
Lab: | SP 280-19 |
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 3345 |
Email: | rolf.schmidt@concordia.ca |
Education
- PDF Concordia University, Montreal
- PDF Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (USA)
- PhD Institut Charles Sadron, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France)
- Diplôme d'Ingénieur Chimiste, Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Industries Chimiques, Strasbourg (France)
Interests
Dr. Rolf Schmidt is our facility manager. He provides research support and regular maintenance for the instrumentation of the Centre for NanoScience Research.
He also coordinates access to our instruments for external and internal users.
Sample services are provided with or without data analysis for some of our instruments.
For all information regarding instrumentation, availability, training, and sample service please contact the facility manager.
- E. Mansuri, L. Zepeda-Velazquez, R. Schmidt, M. A. Brook and C. E. DeWolf Surface Behavior of Boronic Acid-Terminated Silicones, Langmuir 2015, 31, 9331-9339. DOI
- A. Rajasingam, R. Schmidt, S. Woo, C. E. DeWolf and P. Forgione Efficient Preparation of Novel Phenolic Surfactants for Self-Assembled Monolayers, Synthetic Communications 2014, 44, 1066-1075. DOI
- P. Payrow, M. R. Nokken, D. Banu, R. Schmidt, C. E. DeWolf and D. Feldman Effect of UV and UV-ozone treatment of polyolefin fibers on toughness of fiber concrete composite, Advanced Civil Engineering Materials 2013, 2, 51-61.
- V. Balhara, R. Schmidt, S.-U. Gorr and C. E. DeWolf Membrane selectivity and biophysical studies of the antimicrobial peptide GL13K, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2013, 1828, 2193-2203. DOI
- M. Ahmida, S. Dufour, H.-S. Li, H. Kayal, R. Schmidt, C. E. DeWolf and S. H. Eichhorn Face- and Edge-on Orientations of Octa-Acid and -Alcohol Substituted Tetraazaporphyrins in Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers, Soft Matter 2013, 9, 811-819. DOI
- S. Aleksanian, B. Khorsand, R. Schmidt and J. K. Oh Rapidly Thiol-Responsive Degradable Block Copolymer Nanocarriers with Facile Bioconjugation, Polymer Chemistry 2012, 3, 2138-2147. DOI
- S. Aleksanian, A. Nelson-Mendez, R. Schmidt and J. K. Oh Thiol-Responsive Degradable Block Copolymers Micelles, Polymer Preprints 2011, 52, 536-537.
- B. Khorsand Sourkohi, R. Schmidt and J. K. Oh New Thiol-Responsive Mono-Cleavable Block Copolymer Micelles Labeled with Single Disulfides, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2011, 32, 1652-1657. DOI
- C. Madwar, W. Chu Kwan, L. Deng, O. Ramström, R. Schmidt, S. Zou and L. A. Cuccia Perfluorophenyl Azide Immobilization Chemistry for Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy of the Concanavalin A/Mannose Interaction,Langmuir 2010, 26, 16677-16680. DOI
- N. Subramanian, R. Schmidt, P. M. Wood-Adams and C. E. DeWolf Space-Filling Trialkoxysilane: Synthesis and Self-Assembly into Low-Density Monolayers, Langmuir 2010, 26, 18628-18630. DOI