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Dr. Wayne Reed

Dept. of Physics

2001 Percival Stern Hall

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA 70118

 

 

 

Wayne F. Reed, Ph.D.

Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

 

Office: 5068 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3185

 

Lab(s): 5048, 5058, 5062, 5070 Percival Stern Hall

Lab Phone: (504) 862-5523

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: wreed@tulane.edu

 

Other Sites: Personal Website

Research Interests:

Polymer Physics & Biophysics

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 321/621 – Molecular Biophysics

PHYS 235/6 – Introduction to Modern Physics I & II

PHYS 131/2 – General Physics I & II

PHYS 363 – Electromagnetic Theory

PHYS 465 – Optics

 

Education:

Ph.D., Clarkson (1984)

 

Recent Publications:


R. de Cunha Michel, W.F. Reed, "New Evidence for the Non-equilibrium Nature of the "Extraordinary Diffusional Phase" in Polyelectrolyte Solutions", Biopolymers, 53, 19-39, 2000


W.F. Reed, "A Method for Online Determination of Polydispersity during Polymerization Reactions", Macromolecules, 33, 7165-7172, 2000


A. Giz, H. Giz, J.L. Brousseau, A. Alb, and W.F. Reed, "Kinetics and Mechanism of Acrylamide Polymerization by Absolute, Online Monitoring of Polymerization Kinetics", Macromolecules, 34, 5, 1180-1191, 2001


G.A. Sorci, W.F. Reed, "Electrostatic and Association Phenomena in Aggregates of Polymers and Micelles", Langmuir, 18, 353-364, 2002


G.A. Sorci, W.F. Reed, "Electrostatically enhanced second and third virial coefficients, viscosity and interparticle correlations for linear polyelectrolytes", Macromolecules, 35, 5218-5227, 2002


A. Giz, A. Oncul Koc, H. Giz, A.M. Alb, W.F. Reed "Online monitoring of reactivity ratios, composition, sequence length, and molecular weight distributions during free radical copolymerization", Macromolecules, 35, 6557-6571, 2002.


W.F. Reed, "Monitoring Kinetic Processes in Polymer Solutions with Time Dependent Static Light Scattering (TDSLS)", Ch. 12, pp. 131-151, in Scattering Methods for the Investigation of Polymers, J. Kahovec, Ed., Wiley VCH, 2002


A.M. Alb, E. Mignard, M.F. Drenski, W.F. Reed, "In Situ Time dependent signatures of light scattered from solutions undergoing polymerization reactions", Macromolecules, 37, 2578-2587, 2004


M.F. Drenski, E. Mignard, A.M. Alb, W.F. Reed, "Simultaneous in Situ Monitoring of Parallel Polymerization Reactions using Light Scattering; a New Tool for High Throughput Screening", J. Combinatorial Chemistry, 6, 710-716, 2004


F.H. Florenzano, V. Fleming, P. Enohnyaket, W.F. Reed, "Coupling of Near Infra-Red spectroscopy to Automatic Continuous Online Monitoring of Polymerization Reactions", European Polymer Journal, 41, 535-545, 2005


A.M. Alb, R. Farinato, J. Calbeck, W.F. Reed, “Online monitoring of polymerization reactions in inverse emulsions”, Langmuir, 22, 831-840, 2006


A.M. Alb, P. Enohnyaket, M. Drenski, A. Head, A.W. Reed, W.F. Reed, “Online monitoring of copolymerization using comonomers of similar spectral characteristics”, Macromolecules, 39, 5705-5713, 2006


A.M. Alb, A. Paril, H. Çatalgil-Giz, A. Giz, W. F. Reed, “Evolution of composition, molar mass, and conductivity during the free radical copolymerization of polyelectrolytes”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 8560-8566, 2006


 

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