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  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas P. Beebe is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science and environmental science, with particular focus on polymers and plastics, computational mechanics, environmental chemistry, geochemistry and petrology, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their main research topics include conducting polymers and applications, ion-surface interactions and analysis, polymer nanocomposite synthesis and irradiation, arsenic contamination and mitigation, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Recent publications by Thomas P. Beebe include:

  • Soft Ion Sputtering of PAni Studied by XPS, AFM, TOF-SIMS, and STS, 2020, published in Coatings
  • Reactivity of binary manganese oxide mixtures towards arsenite removal: Evidence of synergistic effects, 2021, published in Applied Geochemistry

The scientist has collaborated with various co-authors, including:

  • Christopher M. Goodwin
  • Zachary E. Voras
  • Xiao Tong
  • Boyoung Song
  • Elizabeth B. Cerkez

Thomas P. Beebe has contributed to academic literature primarily in the journals Coatings and Applied Geochemistry.

Among awards, Thomas P. Beebe was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Kinetics of the activated dissociative adsorption of methane on the low index planes of nickel single crystal surfaces

    Thomas P. Beebe;D. Wayne Goodman;Bruce D. Kay;John T. Yates

  • Graphite: a mimic for DNA and other biomolecules in scanning tunneling microscope studies

    Carol R. Clemmer;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Thiol labeling of DNA for attachment to gold surfaces

    Thomas P. Beebe;Carol E. Rabke-Clemmer

  • Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Oligo(ethylene glycol) Methyl Methacrylate from a Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayer on Gold

    Hongwei Ma;Hongwei Ma;Matthew Wells;Thomas P. Beebe;Ashutosh Chilkoti

  • Direct observation of native DNA structures with the scanning tunneling microscope.

    TP Beebe;TE Wilson;DF Ogletree;JE Katz

  • Infrared spectroscopic observations of surface bonding in physical adsorption: The physical adsorption of CO on SiO2 surfaces

    T.P. Beebe;P. Gelin;J.T. Yates

  • An in situ infrared spectroscopic investigation of the role of ethylidyne in the ethylene hydrogenation reaction on palladium/alumina

    Thomas P. Beebe;John T. Yates

  • Experimental studies on vacancy induced ferromagnetism in undoped TiO2

    Abdul K. Rumaiz;Bakhtyar Ali;Abdullah Ceylan;Abdullah Ceylan;M. Boggs

  • Oxidation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in dilute aqueous solutions by ozone as affected by ultrasound

    Minghua Li;Mary Boggs;Thomas P. Beebe;C.P. Huang

  • Measurement of cell migration on surface-bound fibronectin gradients.

    Jason T. Smith;John K. Tomfohr;Matthew C. Wells;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Loading-rate dependence of individual ligand-receptor bond-rupture forces studied by atomic force microscopy

    Yu-Shiu Lo;Ying-Jie Zhu;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Chemical bonds studied with functionalized atomic force microscopy tips

    Taejoon Han;John M. Williams;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Specific Interactions between Biotin and Avidin Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy Using the Poisson Statistical Analysis Method

    Yu Shiu Lo;Neil D. Huefner;Winter S. Chan;Forrest Stevens

  • Organic and Inorganic Contamination on Commercial AFM Cantilevers

    Yu-Shiu Lo;Neil D. Huefner;Winter S. Chan;Paul Dryden

  • Microstamping on an Activated Polymer Surface: Patterning Biotin and Streptavidin onto Common Polymeric Biomaterials

    Jinho Hyun;Yingjie Zhu;§ Andrea Liebmann-Vinson;and Thomas P. Beebe

  • Characterization of silane-modified immobilized gold colloids as a substrate for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

    Lydia G. Olson;Yu-Shui Lo;Thomas P. Beebe;Joel M. Harris

  • Neurite outgrowth on well-characterized surfaces: preparation and characterization of chemically and spatially controlled fibronectin and RGD substrates with good bioactivity.

    Zhanping Zhang;Raphael Yoo;Matthew Wells;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Surface Chemical Characterization of 2.5-μm Particulates (PM2.5) from Air Pollution in Salt Lake City Using TOF-SIMS, XPS, and FTIR

    Ying-Jie Zhu;Neal Olson;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Quantitative characterization of catalyst layer degradation in PEM fuel cells by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

    Feng-Yuan Zhang;Suresh G. Advani;Ajay K. Prasad;Mary E. Boggs

  • "Molecule corrals" for studies of monolayer organic films.

    David L. Patrick;Victor J. Cee;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Kinetics of Graphite Oxidation: Monolayer and Multilayer Etch Pits in HOPG Studied by STM

    Forrest Stevens;Lisa A. Kolodny;Thomas P. Beebe

  • Chemical reactivity studies of hydrogen sulfide on Au(111)

    Andrew J. Leavitt;Thomas P. Beebe

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Yates
John T. Yates University of Virginia
Joel M. Harris
Joel M. Harris University of Utah
Robert L. Opila
Robert L. Opila University of Delaware
Chaoying Ni
Chaoying Ni University of Delaware
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Ashutosh Chilkoti Duke University
Miquel Salmeron
Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ying-Jie Zhu
Ying-Jie Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David A. Muller
David A. Muller Cornell University
John F. Rabolt
John F. Rabolt University of Delaware
S. Ismat Shah
S. Ismat Shah University of Delaware

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