Lamartine Meda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of PREM

General Chemistry I and II Lecture and Lab

Dr. Meda earned a B.S. in chemistry from Salem State College, Salem, MA in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Materials Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 from Northeastern University where he worked on the synthesis of organometallic precursors, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and thin film electrochemical characterization. From 1999 until 2001, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Center for Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Aeroscience at The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Center for Materials Research and Technology at Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, FL under Professor Hamid Garmestani. From 2002 to 2006, Dr Meda served as a Senior Research Scientist at Excellatron Solid State. There, he worked on the development of thin film batteries using plasma-enhanced metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (PE-MOCVD). He held two patents in thin film batteries. Dr. Meda joined the chemistry faculty at Xavier University of Louisiana in 2008 after spending two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Auburn University.

Dr. Meda’s research interests are in multifunctional nanomaterials, materials for electrochemical energy storage (batteries), chemical vapor deposition of one-dimensional  Nanomaterials

“Nanoscale Imaging Systems”, National Science Foundation Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (NSF-PREM), PI– Dr. Lamartine Meda, 09/01/2009–08/31/2014, $3,000,000.
“Louisiana Alliance for Simulation Guided Materials Applications (LA-SiGMA),” National Science Foundation – Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF – EPSCoR) program, “Growth of Multiferroic nanomaterials,” subproject, Dr. Lamartine Meda (Principal Investigator, Dr. Michael Khonsari), 09/10 – 09/15, $250,000. (direct costs)
Xavier NSF RII C2 Pilot Funding for Collaborative Computational Research Program” National Science Foundation, “Computational and Experimental Investigations of the Reversible Reactions of Lithium with Nanostructured RuO2 as Potential Lithium Ion Battery Electrode Materials” Principal Investigator Dr. Lamartine Meda and CoPIs Drs. B. Ramu Ramachandran and Collin Wick (LATech), 8/11 – 8/13, $34,000.

1. Electrochemical Properties of Tungsten Oxide Nanowires Compared to Bulk Particles, Lamartine Meda, Aaron M. Dangerfield, Mila’na C. Jones, Christian M. White, Anantharamulu Navulla, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (2012). In press

1. Lipon thin films grown by plasma-enhanced metalorganic chemical vapor deposition in a N2-H2-Ar gas mixture, Lamartine Meda and Eleston E.  Maxie, Thin Solid Films 2012, 520, 1799. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2011.08.091.

1. Growth of Ruthenium and Ruthenium oxide nanoplates, Lamartine Meda and Geoffrey D. Stevens. Materials Research Society Proceedings, 2011, 1309, 615. DOI:10.1557/opl.2011.615.

1. Plasma-Enhanced Metalorganic Chemical Vapor deposition of Lipon Thin Films, Lamartine Meda, Materials Research Society Proceedings 2011, 1313, 702. DOI:10.1557/opl.2011.702.