Lee Sharpe
sharpe@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
641-269-3008
Fax: 
641-269-4984
Unit (Dept., Office, Center, etc.): 
Chemistry
Position: 
Associate Professor of Chemistry
On-Campus Address: 
Science-2035
Education / Degrees: 
Postdoctoral Fellow 1987-89, University of Cincinnati
Ph.D., 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., 1983, Ripon College (Elected to Phi Beta Kappa 1983)
Publications: 
TitleURLSynopsis
"Electroluminescence in Silicon Oxynitride Films"Price, K.J.;Sharpe, L.S.; McNeil, L.E.; Irene, E.A. J. Appl. Phys., 1999, 86(5), 2638.
"The Effects of Adsorption of Gaseous Ambients on the Photoluminescence Intensity of a Powdered CdS:Te Phosphor"Manish Patel, CunJaing J. Pu, and Lee R. Sharpe, Langmuir 1995, 11(6), 2003.
"Ion Pairing and Ionic Conductivity in Amorphous Polymer Electrolytes: A Structural Investigation Employing EXAFS"David Pollock, Kelly Williamson, Kara Weber, Leslie J. Lyons, and Lee R. Sharpe, Chem. Mater. 1994, 6, 1912.
Primary Academic Interest: 
The development of environmental chemical sensors based on fluorescent, powdered, semiconductor materials.

Courses taught:

On leave academic year 2009-2010

Research

Professor Sharpe is interested in the development of environmental chemical sensors based on fluorescent, powdered, semiconductor materials. He and his students have found that these materials indicate the presence of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (precursor of acid rain) by the decrease in the fluorescent intensity of the semiconducting materials. Another area of interest is the use of Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, EXAFS, spectroscopy to study ion conductivity in polymers. Summer 2010 Research Description for Lee Sharpe