Office: S 2203
Phone: 641-269-3159
Email: lyons@grinnell.edu

• CHM 100.23 TUT: Food: Technologies & Rituals
• CHM 129 General Chemistry
• CHM 130 Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry
• CHM 210 Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry
• CHM 222 Organic Chemistry Lab
• CHM 358 Instrumental Analysis

• Zhang, Zhengcheng; Lyons, Leslie J. ; West, Ryan ; Amine, Khalil ; and West, Robert. "Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Mixed Substituted Polysiloxanes with Oligoethyleneoxy and Cyclic Carbonate Substituents," Silicon Chemistry, 2007, 3, 259-266.
  
  
• *Harring, S.; *Straughan, M.; *Taggart, J.; Lyons, L. J.; Zhang, Z. C.; and West, R. "Ionic Conductivity Studies of Monosiloxane Electrolytes," PMSE Preprints, 2006, 94, 567.
  
  
• *Harring, S.; *Straughan, M.; Mobley, T. A.; Lyons, L. J.; Zhang, Z. C.; and West, R. "NMR Studies of Two Highly Conducting Monosiloxane Electrolytes," PMSE Preprints, 2006, 94, 541.
  
  
• Rossi, Nicholas, A. A.; Zhang, Zhengcheng; *Schneider, Yanika; *Morcom, Kathryn; Lyons, Leslie J.; Wang, Qingzheng; Amine, Khalil; and West, Robert, "Synthesis and Characterization of Tetra- and Trisiloxane-Containing Oligo(ethylene glycol)s," Chem. Mater., 2006, 18, 1289-1295.
  
  
• Zhang, Zhengcheng; Lyons, Leslie J.; *Jin, Jay J.; Amine, Khalil; and West, Robert, "Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Cyclosiloxanes with Ethyleneoxy-Containing Substitutents," Chem. Mater., 2005, 17, 5646-5650.
  
  
• *Morcom, K.; *Schneider, Y.; Lyons, L. J. Zhang, Z.; Rossi, N. A. A.; and West, R. "Ionic Conductivity and DSC Studies of Siloxane Electrolytes," PMSE Preprints, 2005, 92, 443.
  
  
• Leslie J. Lyons, Jay J. Jin*, Zhengcheng Zhang, Robert West, and Khalil Amine, "Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries Based on Polysiloxane Hosts," Analytical, Mechanistic, and Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry: Proceedings of the 6th International M. Baizer Award Symposium, Proceedings Volume 2004-10, The Electrochemical Society, Inc., 2004. 209-212.
  
  
• Zhang, Z. C.; *Jin, J. J.; *Bautista, F.; Lyons, L. J.; Shariatzadeh, N.; Sherlock, D.; Amine, K.; West, R. "Ion Conductive Characteristics of Cross-Linked Network Polysiloxane-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes," Solid State Ionics, 2004, 170, 233.
  
  
• Zhang, Z. C.; Simon, A.; *Jin, J. J.; Lyons, L. J.; Amine, K.; West, R. "Novel cross-linked network cyclic siloxanes with internal oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains: synthesis and ionic conductivity," Polymer Preprints, 2004, 45(1), 583.
  
  
• Zhang, Z. C.; Rossi, N. A. A.; Lyons, L. J.; Amine, K.; West, R. "Short chain polysiloxanes with oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains as polymer electrolytes for lithium polymer batteries," Polymer Preprints, 2004, 45(1), 700.
  
  
• Zhang, Z. C.; Sherlock, D.; West, R.; West, R.; Amine, K.; Lyons, L. J.; "Cross-Linked Network Polymer Electrolytes Based on a Polysiloxane Backbone with Oligo(oxyethylene) Side Chains: Synthesis and Conductivity," Macromolecules, 2003, 36, 9176.
  
  
• *Jin, J. J.; Lyons, L. J.; Wang, Q.; West, R. "Ionic Conductivity Studies of Methyl Polysiloxane Polymer Electrolytes with Oligo(oxyethylene) Side Chains," Polymer Preprints, 2003, 44 (1), 1148.
  
  
• R. Hooper, L. J. Lyons, D. A. Moline, R. West, "Novel Siloxane Polymers as Polymer Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium Batteries," Silicon Chemistry, 2002, 1,121.
  
  
• Richard Hooper, Leslie J. Lyons, Marie K. Mapes*, Douglas Schumacher*, David A. Moline, and Robert West, "Highly Conductive Siloxane Polymers," Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 931-936.
  
  
• Marie K. Mapes*, Douglas Schumacher*, Leslie J. Lyons, David Moline, Richard Hooper, and Robert West, "Ionic Conductivities of Polysiloxane Polymer Electrolytes with Varying Length of Linear Ethoxy Side Chains, Different Molecular Weights, and Mixed Copolymers," Polymer Preprints, 2000, 41(1), 309.
  
  
• Richard Hooper, Leslie J. Lyons, David Moline, and Robert West, "A Highly Conductive Solid-State Polymer Electrolyte Based on a Double-Comb Polysiloxane Polymer with Oligo(ethylene oxide) Side Chains," Organometallics, 1999, 18, 3249.
  
  
• Mary Elizabeth Williams, Joseph C. Crooker, Radha Pyati, Leslie J. Lyons, and Royce W. Murray, "A 10¹¹-Fold Range of Solvent Dynamics Control of Heterogeneous Electron Transfers of Cobalt (III/II)-tris(bipyridine)," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 10249.
  
  
• Mary Elizabeth Williams, Leslie J. Lyons, Jeffrey W. Long, and Royce W. Murray, "Transport and Electron Transfer Dynamics in a Polyether-Tailed Cobalt Bypyridine Molten Salt: Electrolyte Effects," J. Phys. Chem. B, 1997, 101, 7584.
  
  
• Leslie J. Lyons, *Barbara A. Southworth, *Danny Stam, Chien-Hua Yuan, and Robert West "Polymer Electrolytes based on Polysilane Comb Polymers", Solid State Ionics, 1996, 91, 169.
  
  
• David Pollock, Kelly Williamson, Kara Weber, Leslie J. Lyons, and Lee R. Sharpe "Ion Pairing and Ionic Conductivity in Amorphous Polymer Electrolytes: A Structural Investigation Employing EXAFS", Chemistry of Materials, 1994, 6, 1912.
  
  * denotes undergraduate co-author