ROBERT M. METZGER Professor  PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY molecular electronics, electrical conductivity in organic crystals, unimolecular organic rectifiers B.A., 1962, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., 1968, California Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1969-1971, Stanford University. office: 1088B Shelby Hall Telephone: (205) 348-5952 Fax: (205) 348-9104 e-mail: rmetzger@bama.ua.edu Metzger Group home page affiliations: Material Science Program, Center for Materials for Information Technology

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Research Interests

Dr. Robert M. Metzger has been a professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Alabama since 1986. He was born of Hungarian parents in Yokohama, Japan and educated in Merano, Italy, He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962 (where he worked with Willard F. Libby) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1968 (advisor: Harden McConnell). He held a post-doctoral position at Stanford University and rose through the academic ranks in the Chemistry Department of the University of Mississippi (1971-1986), ending as Coulter Professor of Chemistry. His research interests encompass single-crystal X-ray crystallography, electron paramagnetic resonance, Madelung energies of organic metals, organic and cuprate superconductors, magnetic materials, Langmuir-Blodgett films and (for the last 20 years) unimolecular devices, He has published more than 218 articles, edited four books (one more in press), organized three international conferences, and has written a graduate-level textbook "The Physical Chemist's Toolbox" (in press). He directed the research of 14 Ph.D. students and one M.S. student. He has been a guest professor or researcher at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Florence, Kyoto, Padua, Parma, Rennes, Vienna, Delft, and is now concurrently Mercator Professor of Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He was the recipient of the 1998 Blackmon-Moody Faculty Award at the University of Alabama. He has presented lectures in 30 foreign countries, and also is very fluent in Hungarian, Italian, French and German.

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Representative Publications

"Unimolecular electronics." Metzger, R. M. J. Mater. Chem. 18, 4364-4396 (2008).

"Unimolecular electronic devices." Metzger, R. M. Intell. Mater., 205-230 (2008).

"Elastic and inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of a new rectifying monolayer." Honciuc, A.; Metzger, R. M.; Gong, A.; Spangler, C. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 8310-8319 (2007).

"Unimolecular rectification of monolayers of CH₃C(O)S-C₁₄H₂₈Q⁺-3CNQ^- and CH₃C(O)S-C₁₆H₃₂Q⁺-3CNQ^- organized by self-assembly, Langmuir-Blodgett, and Langmuir-Schaefer techniques." Jaiswal, A.; Rajagopal, D.; Lakshmikantham, M. V.; Cava, M. P.; Metzger, R. M. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 9, 4007-4017 (2007).

"Polarization of Charge-Transfer Bands and Rectification in Hexadecylquinolinium 7,7,8-Tricyanoquinodimethanide and Its Tetrafluoro Analog." Honciuc, A.; Otsuka, A.; Wang, Y.-H.; McElwee, S. K.; Woski, S. A.; Saito, G.; Metzger, R. M. J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 15085-15093 (2006).

"Spectroscopy and Rectification of Three Donor-Sigma-Acceptor Compounds, Consisting of a One-Electron Donor (Pyrene or Ferrocene), a One-Electron Acceptor (Perylenebisimide), and a C₁₉ Swallowtail." Shumate, W. J.; Mattern, D. L.; Jaiswal, A.; Dixon, D. A.; White, T. R.; Burgess, J.; Honciuc, A.; Metzger, R. M. J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 11146-11159 (2006).

"Current Rectification in a Langmuir-Schaefer Monolayer of Fullerene-bis-[4-diphenylamino-4''-(N-ethyl-N-2'''-ethyl)amino-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene] Malonate between Au Electrodes." Honciuc, A.; Jaiswal, A.; Gong, A.; Ashworth, K.; Spangler, C. W.; Peterson, I. R.; Dalton, L. R.; Metzger, R. M. J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 857-871 (2005).

"From Solution to Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Spectroscopic Study of a Zwitterionic Dye." Terenziani, F.; Painelli, A.; Girlando, A.; Metzger, R. M. J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 10743-10750 (2004).

"Electrical rectification in a monolayer of zwitterions assembled by either physisorption or chemisorption." Jaiswal, A.; Amaresh, R. R.; Lakshmikantham, M. V.; Honciuc, A.; Cava, M. P.; Metzger, R. M., Langmuir, 19, 9043-9050 (2003).

"Unimolecular Electrical Rectifiers”, R. M. Metzger, Chem. Reviews 103, 3803-3834 (2003).

Edited Books:

Science and Technology of Fullerene Materials, Patrick Bernier, Donald S. Bethune, Long Y. Chiang, Thomas W. Ebbesen, Robert M. Metzger, and John W. Mintmire, Eds., Mater. Res. Soc. Symp.Proc., Vol. 359, MRS: Pittsburgh, PA (1995).

Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics, R. M. Metzger, P. Day, and G. C. Papavassiliou, Editors, NATO ASI Ser. B248, Plenum: New York (1990).

R. M. Metzger, Editor, High-Temperature Superconductivity: The First Two Years , Gordon and Breach: New York (1988).

Crystal Cohesion and Conformational Energies, R. M. Metzger, Editor, Topics in Curr.ent Physics Vol. 26, Springer: Berlin (1981).

Complete list of Dr. Metzger's publications (2/10/09)

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