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John LarseJohn Z. Larese
Professor-Joint Oak Ridge National Laboratory Faculty

B. A., Physics/Math, Central Connecticut State University, 1977
Ph.D. Physics, Wesleyan University, 1982
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 1982-1985
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1985-2002
Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 2002-present    
BP Institute, Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University, 2004-2007
Joint Faculty Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002-present

Professional Societies:

 American Physical Society

 American Chemical Society

 AAAS

 Materials Research Society

 Neutron Scattering Society of America

U.S. Patent Issued:

W. Kunnmann and J. Z. Larese, U.S. Patent #6.179.897 (2001). “Method for the generation of variable density metal vapors which bypasses the liquidus phase.”

Selected Publications:

  1. Larese, J. Z.; Arnold, T.; Frazier, L.; Hinde, R. J.; Ramirez-Cuesta, A. J., "Direct observation of H2 binding to a metal oxide surface," Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 165302/1 (2008).
  2. Larese, J. Z. “Neutron Scattering,” in Applications of Physical Methods to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Scott, R. A., and Lukehart. C. M. Ed., John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex (2007).
  3. Drummond, M.L.; Sumpter, B. G.; Shelton, W. A.; Larese, J. Z., “Electronic Structure Investigation of Surface-Adsorbate and Adsorbate-Adsorbate Interactions in Multilayers of CH4 on MgO(100),” J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 966 (2007).
  4. Drummond, M. L.; Sumpter, B. G.; Shelton; W. A.; Larese, J. Z., “Density functional investigation of the adsorption of a methane monolayer on an MgO (100) surface,” Phys. Rev. B, 73, 195313 (2006).
  5. Larese, J. Z.; Frazier, L; Adams, M A.; Arnold, T; Hinde, R J.; Ramirez-Cuesta, A., “Direct observation of molecular hydrogen binding to magnesium oxide (100) surfaces,”Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter , 385-386(Part 1), 144, (2006).
  6. Arnold, T.; Chanaa, S.; Clarke, S. M.; Cook, R. E.; Larese, J. Z., “Structure of an n-butane monolayer adsorbed on magnesium oxide (100).”Phys. Rev. B, 74(8), 085421/1, (2006).
  7. Yaron, P. N.; Telling, M. T. F.; Larese, J. Z., “Thermodynamic Investigation of n-Hexane Thin Films Adsorbed on Magnesium Oxide.” Langmuir, 22(17), 7203 (2006).
  8. Drummond, M. L.; Sumpter, B. G.; Shelton, W. A.; Larese, J. Z., “Density functional investigation of the adsorption of a methane monolayer on an MgO(100) surface,” Phys. Rev. B, 73(19), 195313/1-195313/6, (2006).
  9. Arnold, T.; Cook, R.; Larese, J. Z., “Thermodynamic Investigation of Thin Films of Ethane Adsorbed on Magnesium Oxide,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 109(18), 8799, (2005).
  10. Pearce, J. V.; Diallo, S. O.; Glyde, H. R.; Azuah, R. T.; Arnold T.; Larese, J. Z., “Enhanced Bose–Einstein condensation and kinetic energy of liquid 4He Near a Free Surface,” J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 16, 4391 (2004).
  11. Hillhouse, H. W.; van Egmond, J. W.; Tsapatsis, M.; Hanson, J. C.; Larese J. Z., “The interpretation of X-ray diffraction data for the determination of channel orientation in mesoporous films,” Microporous Mesoporous Mater., 44-45, 639 (2001).
  12. Larese, J. Z.; Martin y Marero, D.; Sivia, D. S.; Carlile, C. J., “Tracking the evolution of interatomic potentials with high resolution inelastic neutron spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 206102 (2001).
  13. Larese, J. Z.; “Neutron Scattering Investigations of the Dynamics of Thin Films Adsorbed on Solid Surfaces, in Materials Research Using Cold Neutrons at Pulsed Neutron Sources,”; Thiyagarajan, P., et al., Editors, World Scientific (1999).
  14. Larese, J. Z., “Neutron Scattering Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of Methane Adsorbed on MgO(100) Surfaces,” Physica B, 248, 297 (1998).

Materials Chemistry Group Staff

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Rev: April 2009