Adam R. Kurland Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Chemistry phone: 814-863-8220 104 Davey Laboratory fax: 814-863-5516 Pennsylvania State University e-mail: axk181@psu.edu University Park , PA 16802 www: http://www.nano.psu.edu/~ark Education B.S. in Chemistry;Ithaca College , May 2003. Minor in Mathematics GPA: 3.8/4.0 Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry; The Pennsylvania State University Advisor: Prof. Paul S. Weiss Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009, GPA: 3.8/4.0 Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant; Ithaca College , August 2002-May 2003 General Chemistry Teaching Assistant; The Pennsylvania State University , August 2003-December 2003 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Teaching Assistant; The Pennsylvania State University , January 2006-May 2006 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Teaching Assistant; The Pennsylvania State University , January 2007-Present Organic Chemistry Laboratory Research Experience Undergraduate Research; Ithaca College , Ithaca , NY , January 2001-July 2003 Advisor: Prof. Heinz F. Koch Undergraduate Research; Universiteit Leiden, Leiden , The Netherlands , June 2002 – August 2002 Advisors: Prof. Gerrit Lodder / Prof. Heinz Koch Research Assistant; The Pennsylvania State University , July 2003 to present Advisor: Prof. Paul S. Weiss Performing quantitative syntheses of fluoro-substituted aromatic compounds for proton transfer/exchange kinetic studies. Designing density functional molecular orbital calculations to determine energies of solvation of methanolic methoxide by additive single methanol molecules, and of energies of transfer between carbon acids and methanolic methoxide in solution. Developing methods to control self-assembled multilayer resist growth as a bottom-up alternative to conventional lithographic techniques to fabricate sub-100 nm, precisely placed metallic structures on silicon. Operating and maintaining an extreme high vacuum cryogenic low temperature (XHV-LT) scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and performing experiments at 300 K, 77 K and 4 K. Experience in insitu surface preparative methods for obtaining atomically flat single crystal surfaces. e.g. Au{111} , Pd{111} Investigating surface-catalyzed reactions on an atomic scale. Investigating the dynamics of hydrogen adsorption on and absorption in single crystal Pd{ 111} to elucidate the processes involved in, but not limited to, hydrogen storage, Pd-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions, hydrogen separation and transport in hydrogen energy devices. Measuring conductance properties of single molecules inserted into alkanethiolate self assembled monolayers on Au{ 111} . Awards DANA Internship Research Scholarship, Ithaca College - Summer 2002 Chemistry Department Research Fellowship - Fall 2003, Spring 2004 Chemistry Department Travel Award, American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston , MA – Fall 2005 Publications “Proton transfer reactions. 6. Transfer between Carbon acids and methanolic methoxide in solution and by density functional molecular orbital calculations” V. F. Deturi, H. F. Koch, J. G. Koch, G. Lodder, M. Mishima, H. Zuilhof, N. M. Abrams, C. E. Anders, J. Biffinger, P. Han, A. R. Kurland, J. M. Nichols, A. M. Ruminski, P. R. Smith, and K. Vasey. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, submitted April 2005. Presentations 1. “Comparing proton-transfer reactions of p-NO2C6H4CHClCF3 in methanolic methoxide to other YC6H4CHClCF3” H. F. Koch, A. R. Kurland, G. Lodder, and M. Slegt. American Chemical Society Meeting, March 2003. (POSTER) 2. “Self-assembled multilayers creating tailored resists for nanostructure fabrication” M. E. Anderson, E. M. Carter, A. R. Kurland, C. Srinivasan, M. W. Horn, and P. S. Weiss. American Chemical Society Meeting, August 2004. (POSTER) 3. “Probing subsurface hydrogen in Pd{111} at 4 K using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy” A. R. Kurland, L. C. Fernández-Torres, E. C. H. Sykes, P. Han, S. U. Nanayakkara, and P. S. Weiss. American Chemical Society Meeting, August 2005. (POSTER) 4. “Tunneling spectroscopy of self-assembled monolayers of 1-adamantanethiolate on single crystal metallic substrates” A. R. Kurland, A. A. Dameron, P. Han, S. U. Nanayakkara, and P. S. Weiss. American Vacuum Society Meeting, November 2005. (ORAL) 5. “Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy: An atomic-scale perspective on subsurface hydrogen in single crystal Pd{111}” A. R. Kurland, R. Zhang, M. M. Blake, L. C. Fernández-Torres, and P. S. Weiss. Lion Lecture Series In Chemistry at Penn State University , February 2007. (ORAL) (C.V. last updated 3/13/2007)