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Juana Vivó Acrivos, SJSU EM. Professor of Chemistry

Our logo was designed in 1996 by student Vu Nguyen (MD, 2000).

The SCF electron density map in the CuO₂ layer of superconducting cuprates shown above is important to understand experimental results in the 21^st Century. To read on computational chemistry go to: Int. J. Quantum Chemistry, 46, 55 (1993). The electron density above is shown increasing from .005 electrons/bohr³ in the (CuO₂)₅O₆^-22lamella in the crystal field of the two dimensional superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O₇ made up of 346 atoms and point charges. The CuO₂^-2 conduction layer of superconducting cuprates, the highest filled orbitals, are mostly oxygen type. Click on the above reference to see how the electron density changes as the energy levels fill up. Note that the highest filled states are mostly overlapping diagonally adjacent O:2p_x, 2p_y states. The conductivity as well as the orientation dependence of photo-emission measurements can be explained by the direction of delocalized MO orbitals in the highest filled states. This is still true in the year 2000. Other research maybe accessed from menu below.

To read on X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and SJSU please look up published work on "Dynamic phenomena in layer superconducting cuprate and organic metals", Superlattices and Microstructures,18, 197 (1995). The 21^st Century finds us studying phase diagrams on the non-metal to metal/superconducting transition as envisioned by N.F. Mott (see Research Philosophy).

To read on Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) at the SJSU educational/research facility please look up published work on " Dynamic Phenomena In the Organic Metal (BEDT-TTF)₃Ta₂F₁₁", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 284, 411 (1996). The use of organic/metals superconductors is a very important topic of the 21^st Century. New Bruker EMX/ESR is used for teaching/research purposes.

To read on Critical Phenomena see "Spin Exchange Term in the Solvent Equation of State Near the Critical Point for Electron Transfer Reactions", see J.V. Acrivos, J. Solid State Chemistry, 150 April (2000). This is a very important topic for reactions in critical and supercritical fluids (see Research Philosophy).

Spring 2000: Emerita (01/21/00). Reduced SJSU laboratory facilities to DH17 from DH9, DH15A and DH17. Continues to do research (with 6 students at SSRL, Stanford and ALS, LBL) and teach seminar courses.

Information on special lectures on Advanced Analytical Chemistry on modern topics (not found in textbooks or regular curricula, see Teaching Philosophy and CHEM 159XAS and CHEM 159ESR). New EMX Bruker spectrometer is used for this course.

OTHER:

CCC Chair's Report Meeting Hayward State University, July 11 and 12 1997.

CHEM291D Fall 1998 Astrochemistry Seminar Series by NASA and SJSU Scientists.

Juana Vivó Acrivos, SJSU EM. Professor of Chemistry

Table of Contents

1. Short C.V.

2. Teaching Philosophy

3. Research Philosophy

4. CSU MERLOT Teaching/Learning Sources