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

General chemistry 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), Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs), and organometallic precursors for CVD.

“Nanoscale Imaging Systems”, National Science Foundation (NSF), Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM), Division of Materials Research, PI– Dr. Lamartine Meda, 09/01/2009–08/31/2014, $3,000,000.

L. Meda, J-G Zhang, E. Maxie, US Patent 6,886,240, 2005

L. Meda, J-G Zhang, E. Maxie, US Patent 6,852,139, 2005.

L. Meda, S. Hayek, K.H-Dahmen, H. Garmestani, "X-ray diffraction residual stress calculation on textured La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film," J. Cryst. Growth, 263, 185 (2004).

L. Meda, R.C. Breitkopf, T.E. Haas, and Rein U. Kirss "Investigation of electrochromic properties of nanocrystalline tungsten oxide thin film," Thin Solid Films, 402, 126 (2002).

L. Meda, L. Kennon, C. Bacaltchuck, K.H-Dahmen, H. Garmestani, "The effects of thermal annealing on the texture of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films," J. Mater. Res., 16, 1887 (2001).

L. Meda, C. Bacaltchuck, K.H-Dahmen, H. Garmestani, "Residual strain and texture in La2/3Sr1/3MnO3," J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Electron.,12, 143 (2001).

R.U.Kirss and L. Meda, "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Tungsten Trioxide,"Applied Organometallic Chem., 12, 155 (1998).

W.M.Reiff, J. Kreisz, L. Meda, R.U. Kirss, "On the mixed valence behavior and cooperative 3D ordering of a series of tris-oxalato Ferrates", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 273, 181 (1995).