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2025 ACS SanDiego Shaw Group Agenda

Our research focus can be summarized as analytical surface-science. Nearly all of our research is based on measurements of chemical interactions with surfaces, and most of our instrumentation is specifically designed to examine interfacial phenomena. If you've ever wondered why oil spreading on water looks like a rainbow, why you can only make sand castles with wet sand, or how Rain-X® keeps your windshield so clean, you might be interested in our work. We use precice measurements of chemical behaviors to create new, fundamental understanding of these types of questions to address important challenges in environmental remediation, materials development, and energy science. 

Detailed descriptions of our research projects and some laboratory pictures can be found within this website.  If you have questions, feel free to send us an email or arrange a visit to our lab.  Follow us on Twitter @shawschem (group) or @shawchem (Prof Shaw)

Research for All

The Shaw group accepts that scientific advancement suffers without participation from all varied communities. We proactively engage all people regardless of status or ability. We acknowledge institutional challenges within the sciences, both for and against, certain groups of people. To counter this and provide clearer pathways to success, we work to create an inviting and enjoyable environment to do, and share, good science for all. Through formal training and informal interactions, we continuously strive to improve ourselves while advocating for each others’ success. We hope our efforts will support positive changes within our field.

 

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Departmental Events

Analytical Seminar- Nick Schnicker

Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30pm
Pomerantz Center
"Analytical Chemistry in Protein Research"

Organic Seminar- Md Iqbal Hossain

Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30pm
Chemistry Building
"Sulfur and Nitrogen-containing Conductive Polymers and their Applications"

Colloquium: Prof. Karah Knope

Friday, April 25, 2025 3:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Dr. Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown UniversityGroup website: https://knopelab.com/Research Interests: Our group is broadly interested in self-assembly processes, phase formation, and structure-property relationships in f-element materials. All projects have a significant synthetic component and involve the characterization of new materials. Current research areas include:Lanthanide based inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materialsOur group is developing...
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Professional Development Events

Health and Human Physiology Research and Experiential Learning Showcase & Poster Session

Friday, May 9, 2025 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
The HHP Undergraduate Honors & Graduate Student End of Year Showcase Committee invites you to this annual event showcasing academic research, insight from industry leaders, and HHP student presentations, recognitions, and awards.This event is highlighted by keynote Louis E Alley Memorial Lecture and will acknowledge HHP undergraduate honors students and recognize scholarship recipients.Afternoon poster session & social includes student presentations of their peer reviewed projects from HHP...
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2025 Virtual Dissertation Camp

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 9:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Writing Center's Dissertation Writing Camp takes place via Zoom from Tuesday May 27 to Friday June 6. Graduate students from colleges and departments across campus meet in facilitated discussion groups, write together, track their progress on blogs, meet individually with Writing Center consultants, and attend presentations on dissertation-related topics. Events include presentations from staff in the UI Libraries, the Graduate College, and Student Health about resources to support graduate...
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2025 Virtual Dissertation Camp

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 9:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Writing Center's Dissertation Writing Camp takes place via Zoom from Tuesday May 27 to Friday June 6. Graduate students from colleges and departments across campus meet in facilitated discussion groups, write together, track their progress on blogs, meet individually with Writing Center consultants, and attend presentations on dissertation-related topics. Events include presentations from staff in the UI Libraries, the Graduate College, and Student Health about resources to support graduate...
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2025 Virtual Dissertation Camp

Thursday, May 29, 2025 9:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Writing Center's Dissertation Writing Camp takes place via Zoom from Tuesday May 27 to Friday June 6. Graduate students from colleges and departments across campus meet in facilitated discussion groups, write together, track their progress on blogs, meet individually with Writing Center consultants, and attend presentations on dissertation-related topics. Events include presentations from staff in the UI Libraries, the Graduate College, and Student Health about resources to support graduate...
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2025 Virtual Dissertation Camp

Friday, May 30, 2025 9:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Writing Center's Dissertation Writing Camp takes place via Zoom from Tuesday May 27 to Friday June 6. Graduate students from colleges and departments across campus meet in facilitated discussion groups, write together, track their progress on blogs, meet individually with Writing Center consultants, and attend presentations on dissertation-related topics. Events include presentations from staff in the UI Libraries, the Graduate College, and Student Health about resources to support graduate...
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Articles

Publications

Scott K Shaw's Google Scholar

Spielvogel, K.D.; Stumme, N.C.; Fetrow, T.V.; Wang, L.; Luna, J.A.; Keith, J.M.; Shaw, S.K.; Daly, S.R., Quantifying Variations in Metal–Ligand Cooperative Binding Strength with Cyclic Voltammetry and Redox-Active Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 2022 61 (5), 2391-2401. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03014

DeYoung, J.L.; Holyoake, E.A.; Shaw S.K., What Are the Differences between Two Environmental Films Sampled 1 km Apart? ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2021 5 (12), 3407-3413. DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00257

Samanta, A.; Huang, W.; Parveg, A.S.M.S.; Kotak, P.; Auyeung, R.C.Y.; Charipar, N.A.; Shaw, S.K.; Ratner, A.; Lamuta, C.; Ding, H., Enabling Superhydrophobicity-Guided Superwicking in Metal Alloys via a Nanosecond Laser-Based Surface Treatment Method. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021 13 (34), 41209-41219. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c09144

Horvath, A.; Curry, J.; Haverhals, L.M.; Shaw, S.K., Practical Online Monitoring of Ionic Liquid Fiber Welding Solvent. ACS Omega 2021 6 (34), 22367-22373. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03122

Pitawela, N.R.; Shaw S.K., Imidazolium Triflate Ionic Liquids’ Capacitance–Potential Relationships and Transport Properties Affected by Cation Chain Lengths. ACS Measurement Science Au 2021 1 (3), 117-130. DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00015

Pitawela, N.R.; Shaw, S. K., Capacitive Hysteresis Effects in Ionic Liquids: 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Trifluoromethanesulfonate on Polycrystalline Gold Electrode. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 2021, 168, 046510. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abf4ac

DeYoung, J.; Shaw, S. K., Evaluating Environmental Film Maturation through a Deliquescence–Efflorescence Model. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2021, 5 (3), 645-650. DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00335

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