Furthermore, she has received 9 patents. She is a member of German Chemical Society, The Electrochemical Society, Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, Material Research Society and The American Chemical Society. We have found that the most fundamental property of materials, work function, can be modulated by interaction with electrically neutral molecules. The research involves electrochemical synthesis, and spectroscopic characterization of organic semiconductors. The goal is to learn about the origin of the selective and sensitive interaction of a guest molecule with an organic semiconductor matrix.
Special skills required are electrochemistry and instrumentation analysis.
We collaborate with the Material and Interfaces Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and with Microelectronic Devision at the Sandia National Laboratory. The collaborative efforts include testing the use of of novel materials in chemical sensors for different transduction principles. D.R.Baer., M.H.Engelhard, J.Janata, M.Josowicz. Preparation and Characterization of Polyaniline-Palladium Composite Films. Application of Conducting Polymers in Potentiometric Sensors.