DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY |
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Hua Mei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
| Telephone Number: |
504-520-5408 |
| Room Number: |
NCF - Room 301C |
| Email Address: |
hmei@xula.edu |
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| Courses |
Organic Chemistry Lab,
Molecular Structure and Organic Synthesis Lab |
| Short Professional Biography |
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Dr. Hua Mei received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Sichuan Normal University in 1999. And then she worked at Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1999 to 2001, involved monomer synthesis with organic metallic catalyst. She earned her Ph.D. from Clemson University in 2006, working with Prof. Darryl D. DesMarteau on Perfluoroalkyl(aryl) Sulfonimide Zwitterions for Fuel Cell. After graduation, she taught at Loyola College in Maryland for one year. As a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she worked with Prof. Josef Michl on unsaturated olefin polymerization using organic catalyst (2007-2009). She joined Xavier in fall 2009. |
| Research Interest |
Dr. Mei’s research interests are in the area of synthetic organic materials. The overall objective of her research is to provide new materials for electrolyte in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell. She currently is working on the synthesis of perfluorinated diazonium salts and polymers. Various characterization methods are used, such as NMR, IR, X-ray and GC/MS. |
| Current Grant Support |
- LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA), 2011-2012.
- Xavier Space Grant Research scholars from Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE), 2011-2012.
- Center for Undergraduate Research (CUR) MiniGrant, 2010.
- LaSPACE grant for undergraduate student, 2010- 2011.
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| Recent Publications |
- Mei, Hua; Douvris, Christos; Volkis, Victoria; Hanefeld, Phillip; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Michl, Josef. “Radical Copolymerization of Isobutylene and Ethyl Acrylate with Li[CB11Me12] Catalyst,” Macromolecules, 44 (8), 2552–2558, 2011.
- Aguirre, Rodney; Hudson, Jacoby; Mei, Hua. “Synthesis of Perfluoroalky(aryl) Sulfonimide Diazonium Monomer for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC),” ACS SE/SW 2010 Regional Meeting, New Orleans, December 4, 2010.
- Volkis, Victoria; Mei, Hua; Michl, Josef. “Method for Copolymerization Isobutylene,” Application 61/151,437, Patent Accepted, 2009.
- Volkis, Victoria; Mei, Hua; Shoemaker, Richard K.; Michl, Josef. “LiCB11(CH3)12-Catalyzed Radical Polymerization of Isobutylene: Highly Branched Polyisobutylene and an Isobutylene−Ethyl Acrylate Copolymer, ” Journal of American Chemical Society, 131(9), 3132–3133, 2009.
- Creager, Stephen E.; Liu, Bing; Mei, Hua; DesMarteau, Darryl D. “Electrochemical Grafting of an Aryl Fluorosulfonimide Salt onto Glassy Carbon,” Langmuir, 22 (25), 10747 -10753, 2006.
- Mei, Hua; Creager, Stephen E.; DesMarteau, Darryl D. “Perfluoroalkyl(aryl)sulfonamide Functionalized Diaznonium Zwitterions,” 18th Winter Fluorine Conference, January 14-19, 2007.
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