The Pennsylvania State University
Departments of Chemistry and Physics
104 Davey Laboratory, Box 23
University Park, PA  16802
USA

Phone: +1 (814) 863–8220
Fax: +1 (814) 863–5516
e-mail:  rksmith@psu.edu
URL: http://stm1.chem.psu.edu/~rks

1999–present                   The Pennsylvania State University – University Park, PA
                                             Ph.D. in Chemistry, expected graduation date ca. 2005.
                                             Preceptor:  Paul S. Weiss, “Precision Nanoscale Assemblies:
                                             Gold Clusters and Self-Assembled Monolayers”

1995–1999                         University of Oregon – Eugene, OR
                                             Robert D. Clark Honors College
                                             Degrees awarded:     B.A.: Biochemistry (1999)
                                                                              B.A.: Spanish (1999)
                                             James E. Hutchison, research advisor

2003–2004                      Graduate student representative to Selection Committee for Chemistry Department Colloquium speakers,
                                        and Priestly and Marker Lecturers.

Fall 2002                          Teaching assistant for Chemistry 500: Seminar in Chemistry
                                        Assisted first-year graduate students with scientific writing and their evaluations of
                                            department seminars

2000–2001                      Graduate representative, Graduate Counseling Committee
                                         Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University

1999–2000                      Graduate teaching assistantship
                                          Courses: Chemistry 011: General Introduction to Chemistry
                                          Chemistry 015: General Chemistry Laboratory II

1997–1999                      Undergraduate researcher – University of Oregon
                                          Advisor:  James E. Hutchison

Measurements of precise nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, and P. S. Weiss, American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA (March 2005).

Elucidation of the Electronic Properties of Immobilized Ligand-Stabilized Au Clusters Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, G. Woehrle, B. A. Mantooth, J. E. Hutchison and P. S. Weiss, American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA (August 2004).

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Lateral Force Microscopy Studies of Microcontact-Printed SAMs.  R. K. Smith, J. R. Hampton, A. A. Dameron, C. E. Inman, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss, American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA (April 2004).

Elucidation of the Electronic Properties of Alkanethiolate-Stabilized Gold Clusters and Nanoparticles Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, B. A. Mantooth, T. P. Pearl, P. S. Weiss, G. Woehrle, and J. E. Hutchison.  2003 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (December 2003).

Elucidation of the Electronic Properties of Alkanethiolate-Stabilized Gold Clusters and Nanoparticles Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, B. A. Mantooth, T. P. Pearl, P. S. Weiss, G. Woehrle, and J. E. Hutchison.  226^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, NY (September 2003).  Poster 156 (Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry).

Controlling and Measuring Molecular-Scaled Properties for Molecular Nanoelectronics, R. K. Smith and P. S. Weiss (invited talk).  Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Research Experience for Teachers (MRSEC-RET) Workshop, University Park, PA, June 2003.

Control of Placement of Molecules in Monolayers, R. K. Smith and P. S. Weiss (invited talk).  Molecular and Chemical Nanofabrication Workshop (National Nanofabrication Users Network), Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park, PA, May 2002.

Investigations of Stability in Hydrogen Bonding Self-Assembled Monolayers, R. K. Smith, R. S. Clegg, S. M. Reed, and J. E. Hutchison.  54^th Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Portland, OR, June 1999.  Paper 370 (Organic Thin Films).

Quartz Crystal Gravimetry as a Technique for Studying the Stability of Self-Assembled Monolayers, R. K. Smith.  Clark Honors College, Eugene, OR, May 1999.

Investigations of Order in Hydrogen Bonding Self-Assembled Monolayers, R. K. Smith, R. S. Clegg, S. M. Reed, and J. E. Hutchison.  53^rd Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Richland, WA, 1998.  Paper 79 (Materials by Design I).

Investigations of Order in Peptide-Containing Self-Assembled Monolayers, R. K. Smith, R. S. Clegg, S. M. Reed, and J. E. Hutchison.  Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 1998.

Nanometer-Scale Electronics and Storage, K. F. Kelly, Z. J. Donhauser, P. A. Lewis, R. K. Smith, and P. S. Weiss, in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Characterization, Nanofabrication, and Device Application of Functional Materials, P. Vilarinho, Y. Rosenwaks, and A. Kingon, eds., NATO ASI Series II: Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry (Kluwer Academic, 2005) vol. 186, pp. 333–354.

Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers.  Smith, R. K.; Lewis, P. A.; Weiss, P. S.  Progress in Surface Science, 75, 1–68 (2004).

Controlling and Measuring Molecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Nanoelectronics, R. K. Smith and P. S. Weiss, in Molecular Nanoelectronics, eds. T. Lee and M. A. Reed, American Scientific Publishers, pp. 153–157 (2003).

 Nanofabrication Using Self-Assembled Monolayers – Precise Nanolithography Using Intermolecular Interactions and Self-Assembly, H. Tanaka, M. E. Anderson, R. K. Smith, Z. J. Donhauser, A. Hatzor, P. A. Lewis, L. P. Tan, M. W. Horn, and P. S. Weiss, Japanese Society of Applied Physics: Thin Film and Surface Physics Division 118, 10 (2003). (in Japanese)

Phase Separation within a Binary Self-Assembled Monolayer on Au{111} Driven by an Amide-Containing Alkanethiol.  Smith, R. K.; Reed, S. M.; Lewis, P. A.; Monnell, J. D.; Clegg, R. S.; Kelly, K. F.; Bumm, L. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Weiss, P. S.  Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 1119 (2001).

Exploiting Intermolecular Interactions and Self-Assembly for Ultrahigh Resolution Nanolithography, Anderson, M. E.; Smith, R. K.; Donhauser, Z. J.; Hatzor, A.; Lewis, P. A.; Tan, L. P.; Tanaka, H.; Horn, M. W.; Weiss, P. S.  Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 20, 2739 (2002). (Proceedings of the EIPBN).

The Role of Buried Hydrogen Bonds in Self-Assembled Mixed Composition Thiols on Au{111}.  Lewis, P. A.; Smith, R. K.; Kelly, K. F.; Bumm, L. A.; Reed, S. M.; Clegg, R. S.; Gunderson, J. D.; Hutchison, J. E.; Weiss, P. S.  Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 10630 (2001).

Control and Placement of Molecules via Self-Assembly.  Lewis, P. A.; Donhauser, Z. J.; Mantooth, B. A.; Smith, R. K.; Bumm, L. A.; Kelly, K. F.; Weiss, P. S.  Nanotechnology 12, 231 (2001). (Foresight MNT8 Special Issue).

The Interplay of Lateral and Tiered Interactions in Stratified Self-Organized Molecular Assemblies.  Clegg, R. S.; Reed, S. M.; Smith, R. K.; Barron, B. A.; Rear, J. A.; Hutchison, J. E.  Langmuir 15, 8876 (1999).

Smith, Rachel K.  B.A. Thesis, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.  Quartz Crystal Gravimetry as a Technique for Studying the Stability of Self-Assembled Monolayers.

STM Studies of Immobilized Gold Nanoparticles on Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers with Inserted Alkyldithiols, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, G. Woehrle, T. P. Pearl, B. A. Mantooth, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss, manuscript in preparation.

Characterization of Organic Thin Film Interfaces for the Attachment of Nanometer-Scale Structures, R. K. Smith, C. L. McGuiness, S. Uppili, D. L. Allara, and P. S. Weiss, manuscript in preparation.

Nanayakkara, S. U.; Smith, R. K.; Pearl, T. P.; Mantooth, B. A.; Weiss, P. S.; Woehrle, G.; Hutchison, J. E.  Elucidation of the Electronic Properties of Isolated Alkanethiolate-Passivated Gold Nanoclusters by Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy.  AVS 50^th International Symposium, Baltimore, MD (November 2003).

Mantooth, B. A.; Donhauser, Z. J.; Kelly, K. F.; Smith, R. K.; Weiss, P. S.  Nano-Scale Measurements and Analyses of Individual, Coupled, and Distributed Nanostructures.  224^th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, August 2002 (poster).

Lewis, P. A.; Smith, R. K.; Kelly, K. F.; Bumm, L. A.; Reed, S. M.; Clegg, R. S.; Gunderson, J. D.; Hutchison, J. E.; Weiss, P. S.  Controllable Patterning of Self-Assembled Monolayers Using Buried Functionality, contributed talk.  STM '01: The 11^th Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2001.

D'Onofrio, T. G.; Hatzor, A.; Smith, R. K.; Keating, C. D.; Natan, M. J.; Weiss, P. S.  Interdependence of Curvature and the Local Structure of Model Membranes, poster.  200^th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 2000.

Lewis, P. A.; Smith, R. K.; Kelly, K. F.; Monnell, J. D.; Santagata, N. M.; Bumm, L. A.; Weiss, P. S.; Reed, S. M.; Clegg, R. S.; Hutchison, J. E.  Phase Separation within an Internally-Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayer, poster.  200^th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 2000.

Smith, R. K.; Clegg, R. S.; Reed, S. M.; Hutchison, J. E.  Quartz Crystal Gravimetry as a Technique for Studying the Stability of Self-Assembled Monolayers.  Undergraduate Research Fair, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 1999.

Smith, R. K.; Clegg, R. S.; Reed, S. M.; Hutchison, J. E.  Investigations of Order and Stability in Hydrogen-Bonding, Self-Assembled Monolayers.  Undergraduate Research Fair, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 1998.

Braucher Scholarship (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University), September 2004.

ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (226^th National Meeting), poster award.

Graduate Research Travel Award (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University), August 2004 and 2002.

ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Summer Fellowship (sponsored by the Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh), April 2002.

Braucher Scholarship (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University), August 2001.

Dan Waugh Memorial Teaching Award, Honorable Mention (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University), October 2000.

Roberts Fellowship (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University), August 1999.

William J. Robert Fellowship for Most Distinguished Science Thesis, June 1999 (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon): “Quartz Crystal Gravimetry as a Technique for Studying Order and Stability in Self-Assembled Monolayers.”

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 1998.  Preceptor: James E. Hutchison.

American Vacuum Society Science and Technology, 2004–present.

Materials Research Society, 2001–present.

American Chemical Society, 1998–present.