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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station A5300
Austin, TX 78712-0165
Contact Information
Office: WEL: 5.240
Phone: 471-4342
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Office:
Phone:
Fax: 471-7222
C. Grant Grant Willson
willson@che.utexas.edu
Professor, Faculty
Professor of Chemical Engineering Rashid Engineering Regents Chair
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Research GroupWillson Research Group |
EducationBS, University of California - Berkeley, 1962 MS, San Diego State University, 1969 PhD, University of California - Berkeley, 1973 |
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AwardsACS Award in Applied Polymer Science; Fritz Zernike Award, SPIE 2005, 2005 ACS Heroes in Chemistry Award, 2005 Fellow of the PMSE Division of ACS, 2000 National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, 1999 Malcolm E. Pruitt Award, 1999 SRC Aristotle Award, 1998 SRC Technical Excellence Award, 1996 Alumnus of the Year, San Diego State University, 1993 ACS Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science, 1993 Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 1992 ACS Carothers Awards, 1992 ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials, 1991 Alexander Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, FRG, 1988 A.D. Doolittle Award, PMSE Division of ACS, 1986 |
Affiliations
Microelectronics Research Center; Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology; Beckman Center for the Design and Fabrication of Sensor Arrays; Environmental Science Institute; Texas Materials Institute;
Organic Materials for Microelectronics: Polymer Synthesis, Photoresists, Liquid Crystals, Photochemistry
Our research projects are chosen to provide students with an interesting, challenging, and important interdisciplinary problem that will produce new and useful knowledge. The projects are designed to provide a framework in which graduate students learn to design and carry out experiments and to report the results of their work in written and oral form. Our group webpage is the best source of detailed information about the research group and current projects. The focus of the activity is the synthesis of new organic materials with properties that are valuable for engineering applications.
Representative Publications
Wu, K.; Wang, X.; Kim, E. K.; Willson, C. G.; Ekerdt, J. G. "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on Surfactant Segregation in Imprint Lithography" Langmuir 23(3) (2007): 1166-1170.
Long, B. K.; Keitz, B. K.; Willson, C. G. "Materials for Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL)" J. Mater. Chem. 17 (2007): .
Schmid, G. M.; Stewart, M. D.; Wetzel, J.; Palmieri, F.; Hao, J.; Nishimura, Y.; Jen, K.; Kim, E. K.; Resnick, D. J.; Liddle, J. A.; Willson, C. G. "Implementation of an Imprint Damascene Process for Interconnect Fabrication" J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 24(3) (2006): 1283-1291.
Grayson S. M; Long, B. K.; Kusomoto, S.; Osborn, B. P; Callahan, R. P; Chambers, C. R; Willson C. G. "Synthesis and Characterization of Norbornanediol Isomers and their Fluorinated Analogues" J. Org. Chem. 71(1) (2006): 341-4.
Schmid, M. J.; Manthiram, K.; Grayson, S. M.; Willson, J. C.; Meiring, J. E.; Bell, K. M.; Ellington, A. D.; Willson, C. G. "Feature Multiplexing-Improving the Efficiency of Microarray Devices" Angew. Chem. 45(20) (2006): 3338-3341.