Dr. James Batteas will join the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor in August of 2005. Dr. Batteas received his B.S. degree from The University of Texas at Austin and completed his graduate work at The University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at The City University of New York where he developed several projects in the area of nanoscale materials and devices. He later moved to the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland where he is currently a Staff Scientist.
Dr. Batteas is an expert in surface science, with a focus on scanned probe microscopies, and his research activities cover a broad range of fundamental surface and interfacial phenomena. Research projects in his group will include investigation of charge transport in organic molecules on surfaces, electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires, tribological properties of oxide surfaces, self-organizing nanoscale materials for device applications, protein-surface interactions, plant biopolymers, and nanofabrication approaches for the development of electronic and sensing architectures.
To learn more about the research being carried out in Dr. James Batteas?s group, go to http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=1194.