Alexander DeQuan Li

Present Position
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Education
Professor Li received his B. S. in polymer chemistry at Jilin University, China, his M. S. and Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. He was a postdoctoral director fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1990 where he later became a Technical Staff Member before joining the faculty at WSU in 2000.

Recent Publications:
Surface Electronic Properties of Self-Assembled, Oppositely Charged Macrocycle and Polymer Multilayers on Conductive Oxides, L. S. Li, R. Wang, M. Fitzsimmons, D. Q. Li, J. Phys. Chem. 2000, 104(47), 11195-11201.

Nanosponges for Water Purification, D. Q. Li and M. Ma, Manuscript submitted (Invited Paper) Clean Products and Processes, 2000, 2(2), 112-116.

Laser Active Polymer Optical Fibers (POF) Doped with Nonlinear Optical (NLO) Materials, G. D. Peng and D. Q. Li, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 2001, 39(15), 1794.

Probing Surface Electronic Potentials and Photovoltaic Effects of Self-Assembled Multilayers Constructed from Metal Phthalocyanine and Oligomeric Viologen, Lin Song Li and Alexander D. Q. Li, J. Phys. Chem. 2001, 105, 10022-28.

The Effects of Organic Self-Assembled Polymer and Metal Phthalocyanine Multilayers on the Surface Photovoltaic Properties of Inorganic Conductive and Semiconductive Materials. Lin Song Li, Q. X. Jia, and Alexander D. Q. Li, Chem. Mater. 2002, Manuscript in press.