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Ryan M. Richards, Ph.D. - Professor of Chemistry


Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry
304 Coolbaugh Hall
1500 Illinois St
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: (303) 273-3612
Fax: (303) 273-3629
E-mail: rrichard@mines.edu


Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry










News:
  • Congratulations to Chris Cadigan for successsfully defending his thesis and earning his Ph.D.!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Richards for his promotion to full professorship!
  • Congratulations to Xue Wang for successfully defending her thesis and earning her Ph.D.!
  • Congratulations to Jason Christ for being the Chemistry/Geochemistry Departmental Award Winner for Best Presentation at CEER 2013!
  • Congratulations to April Corpuz for succesfully defending her thesis and earning her Ph.D.!
Activities:
  • 2012 Chair Colorado Section ACS
  • Nanoscience programming, ACS National Meetings, Division of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Associate Site Director, Colorado Center for Biofuels and Biorefining (C2B2)
Upcoming Activities:
  • Group Party
Recent Publications:


Please click below for the most up-to-date listing of our group's publications.

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Recent publications:
  • Chi-Ping Li, Feng Lin, Ryan Richards, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Anne Dillon, Robert Tenent, Colin Wolden, Ultrasonic Spray Deposition of High Performance WO3 Films using Template-assisted Sol-Gel Chemistry, Electrochemistry Communications 2012 (DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2012.09.017)
  • Christopher A. Cadigan, April R. Corpuz, Christopher M. Caskey, Kenneth B. H. Finch, Xue Wang, Feng Lin, Ryan M. Richards, Nanoscale (111) faceted rock-salt metal oxides in catalysis, Catalysis Science and Technology, in press, 2012.
  • Lifang Chen, G. Jeremy Leong, Maxwell Schulze, Huyen Dinh, Bryan Pivovar, Juncheng Hu, Zhiwen Qi, Yunjin Fang, Sergey Prikhodko, Marta Pozuelo, Suneel Kodambaka, Ryan M. Richards, Controlled Synthesis of Nanoscale Icosahedral Gold Particles at Room Temperature, ChemCatChem 2012, in press, DOI:10.1002/cctc.201200230.
  • Jason M. Christ, K.C. Neyerlin, Heli Wang, Ryan Richards, Huyen N. Dinh, "Impact of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Degradation Products on the Activity of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Platinum Catalysts," ECS Transactions, 2012 in press.
  • April Corpuz, Timothy Olson, Prajeeb Joghee, Svitlana Pylypenko, Arelaine Dameron, Huyen Dinh, Kevin O'Neill, Katherine Hurst, Guido Bender, Thomas Gennett, Bryan Pivovar, Ryan M. Richards, Ryan O'Hayre, Effect of a nitrogen-doped PtRu/carbon anode catalyst on the durability of a direct methanol fuel cell, Journal of Power Sources 2012, 217, 142-151.
  • Casey McAlpin, Kent Voorhees, April Corpuz, Ryan M. Richards, Identifying Biomolecules: Direct Characterization of Low Molecular Weight Lipids Using MALDI-MS Instrumentation, Analytical Chemistry 2012, in press.
  • Divakara Soorly Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee, Ryan Richards, Dispersion of TiO2 on high surface area mesoporous silica: Functionalization with tungstophosphoric acid and application in solvent-free, aerobic oxidation of n-hexadecane, Applied Organometallic Chemistry 2012, in press.
  • Catalyst For Oxygenate Synthesis, Oxygenate Production Apparatus, And Method Of Producing Oxygenate R. M. Richards and C. Cadigan, Patent Application No. 61/607688 (Application date March 7th,2012)
  • Feng Lin, Jifang Cheng, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Anne Dillon, Dennis Nordlund, Rob Moore, Tsu-Chien Weng, S.K.R. Wiliams, Ryan M. Richards, In situ crystallization of high performing WO3- based elecrochromic materials and the importance for durability and switching kinetics, Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012, 22, 16817-16823.
  • Irantzu Sádaba, Manuel Ojeda, Rafael Mariscal, Ryan Richards and Manuel López Granados, Preparation and Characterization of Mg-Zr Mixed Oxide Aerogels and Their Application as Aldol Condensation Catalysts, ChemPhysChem 2012, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201200440.
  • Kenneth B.H. Finch, Ryan M. Richards, Aurore Richel, Andrei V. Medvedovici, Nicoleta G. Gheorghe, Marian Verziu, Simona M. Coman, Vasile I. Parvulescu, Catalytic hydroprocessing of lignin under thermal and ultrasound conditions, Catalysis Today, Available online 20 March 2012.
  • Xue Wang, Lifang Chen, Meng Shang, Feng Lin, Juncheng Hu and Ryan M Richards, "Nanoscale gold intercalated into mesoporous silica as a highly active and robust catalyst" Nanotechnology 2012, 23 (29), 294010.
  • Feng Lin, Chi-Ping Li, Gang Chen, Robert Tenent, Colin Wolden, Dane Gillaspie, Anne Dillon, Ryan Richards, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Low-temperature ozone exposure technique to modulate the stoichiometry of WOx nanorods and optimize the electrochromic performance, Nanotechnology 2012, 23, 255601.
  • Kake Zhu, Weiming Hua, Wei Deng, Ryan M. Richards, Preparation of MgO nanosheets with polar (111) surfaces by ligand exchange and esterification- synthesis, structure and application as catalyst support, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 17, 2869-2876.