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Hire Dr. Colin M.

United States

Profile Summary

Analytical and physical chemist with experience in intellectual property. Proven efficient publication record. Able to quickly take on new challenges.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ STEM
• ☆ Chemistry
• ☆ Surface Science
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ Analytical Chemistry
• ☆ Spectroscopy
• ☆ Liquid Chromatography/HPLC
• ☆ Nanotechnology
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Intellectual Property Law

Services

• Writing
• Consulting
• Product Development

Work Experience

Post doctoral scholar

Chalmers tekniska högskola

June 2016 - Present

Technology Transfer Intern

Tufts University - Boston Campus

September 2014 - Present

Quality Specialist

Pfizer Ireland

March 2008 - December 2009

Quality Analyst

Millipore Ireland

October 2006 - February 2008

Laboratory Technician

BP Spain

April 2006 - September 2006

Education

PhD. (Chemistry)

Tufts University

January 2010 - March 2015

BSc. (Hons) in Analytical Chemistry and Quality Assurance (Chemistry)

Cork Institute of Technology

2003 - 2006

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Tedros A. Balema, Nisa Ulumuddin, Colin J. Murphy, Diana P. Slough, Zachary C. Smith, Ryan T. Hannagan, Natalie A. Wasio, Amanda M. Larson, Dipna A. Patel, Kyle Groden, et al.(2019). Controlling Molecular Switching via Chemical Functionality: Ethyl vs Methoxy Rotors . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Melissa L. Liriano, Amanda M. Larson, Chiara Gattinoni, Javier Carrasco, Ashleigh E. Baber, Emily A. Lewis, Colin J. Murphy, Timothy J. Lawton, Matthew D. Marcinkowski, Andrew J. Therrien, et al. (2018). Chirality at two-dimensional surfaces: A perspective from small molecule alcohol assembly on Au(111) . The Journal of Chemical Physics.

E. A. Lewis, M. D. Marcinkowski, C. J. Murphy, M. L. Liriano, A. J. Therrien, A. Pronschinske, E. C. H. Sykes(2017). Controlling selectivity in the Ullmann reaction on Cu(111) . Chem. Commun. 53. (55). p. 7816--7819. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})

Melissa L. Liriano, Javier Carrasco, Emily A. Lewis, Colin J. Murphy, Timothy J. Lawton, Matthew D. Marcinkowski, Andrew J. Therrien, Angelos Michaelides, E. Charles H. Sykes(2016). The interplay of covalency, hydrogen bonding, and dispersion leads to a long range chiral network: The example of 2-butanol . The Journal of Chemical Physics. 144. (9). p. 094703. {AIP} Publishing

Colin J. Murphy, Xuerong Shi, April D. Jewell, Allister F. McGuire, Darin O. Bellisario, Ashleigh E. Baber, Heather L. Tierney, Emily A. Lewis, David S. Sholl, E. Charles. H. Sykes(2015). Impact of branching on the supramolecular assembly of thioethers on Au(111) . The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142. (10). p. 101915. {AIP} Publishing

Murphy, Colin J. and Shi, Xuerong and Jewell, April D. and Mcguire, Allister F. and Bellisario, Darin O. and Baber, Ashleigh E. and Tierney, Heather L. and Lewis, Emily A. and Sholl, David S. and Sykes, E. Charles. H. and Murphy, Colin J. and Shi, Xuerong and Jewell, April D. and Mcguire, Allister F. and Bellisario, Darin O. and Baber, Ashleigh E. and Tierney, Heather L. and Lewis, Emily A. and Sholl, David S. and Sykes, E. Charles. H.(2015). Impact of branching on the supramolecular assembly of thioethers on Au(111) . The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142. (10). p. 101915.

Murphy, Colin J and Baggett, Andrew W. and Miller, Daniel P and Simpson, Scott and Marcinkowski, Matthew D and Mattera, Michael F.G. and Pronschinske, Alex and Therrien, Andrew and Liriano, Melissa L. and Zurek, Eva and Liu, Shih-Yuan and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2015). Effect of BN/CC Isosterism on the Thermodynamics of Surface and Bulk Binding; 1,2-dihydro-1,2-azaborine Vs. Benzene . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. p. 150406122905000.

Murphy, Colin J. and Smith, Zachary C. and Pronschinski, Alex and Lewis, Emily A. and Liriano, Melissa L. and Wong, Chloe and Ivimey, Christopher J. and Duffy, Mitchell and Musial, Wojciech and J. Therrien, Andrew and Thomas III, Samuel W. and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2015). Ullmann coupling mediated assembly of an electrically driven altitudinal molecular rotor . Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17. p. 31931-31937. The Royal Society of Chemistry

Therrien, A. J. and Pronschinske, A. and Murphy, C. J. and Lewis, E. A. and Liriano, M. L. and Marcinkowski, M. D. and Sykes, E. C. H.(2015). Collective effects in physisorbed molecular hydrogen on Ni/Au(111)$ . Phys. Rev. B. 92. p. 161407. American Physical Society

Matthew D. Marcinkowski and Colin J. Murphy and Melissa L. Liriano and Natalie A. Wasio and Felicia R. Lucci and E. Charles H. Sykes(2015). Microscopic View of the Active Sites for Selective Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid on Cu(111) . ACS Catalysis. 5. (12). p. 7371-7378.

Pronschinske, Alex and Pedevilla, Philipp and Murphy, Colin J and Lewis, Emily A and Lucci, Felicia R and Brown, Garth and Pappas, George and Michaelides, Angelos and Sykes, E Charles H(2015). Enhancement of low-energy electron emission in 2D radioactive films. Nature materials. Nature Publishing Group

Murphy, Colin J and Sykes, E Charles H(2014). Development of an Electrically Driven Molecular Motor . The Chemical Record. 14. (5). p. 834--840.

Murphy, Colin J and Carrasco, Javier and Lawton, Timothy J and Liriano, Melissa L and Baber, Ashleigh E and Lewis, Emily a and Michaelides, Angelos and Sykes, E Charles H(2014). Structure and energetics of hydrogen-bonded networks of methanol on closed packed transition metal surfaces . The Journal of chemical physics. 141. (1). p. 014701.

Lewis, E A and Le, D and Jewell, A D and Murphy, C J and Rahman, T S and Sykes, E C H(2014). Segregation of Fischer-Tropsch reactants on cobalt nanoparticle surfaces . Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 50. (49). p. 6537--9.

Lewis, Emily A. and Marcinkowski, Matthew D. and Murphy, Colin J. and Liriano, Melissa L. and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2014). Hydrogen Dissociation, Spillover, and Desorption from Cu-Supported Co Nanoparticles . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 5. (19). p. 3380--3385.

Lewis, E. A. and Murphy, C. J. and Pronschinske, A. and Liriano, M. L. and Sykes, E. C. H.(2014). Nanoscale insight into C–C coupling on cobalt nanoparticles . Chemical Communications. 50. (70). p. 10035.

Lewis, Emily A and Murphy, Colin J and Liriano, Melissa L and Sykes, E Charles H(2013). Atomic-scale insight into the formation, mobility and reaction of Ullmann coupling intermediates . Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 50. (8). p. 0--2.

Boucher, Matthew B and Marcinkowski, Matthew D and Liriano, Melissa L. and Murphy, Colin J. and Lewis, Emily A. and Jewell, April D. and Mattera, Michael F G and Kyriakou, Georgios and Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Maria and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2013). Molecular-scale perspective of water-catalyzed methanol dehydrogenation to formaldehyde . ACS nano. 7. (7). p. 6181--7.

Marcinkowski, Matthew D and Jewell, April D. and Stamatakis, Michail and Boucher, Matthew B and Lewis, Emily A. and Murphy, Colin J. and Kyriakou, Georgios and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2013). Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect . Nature materials. 12. (6). p. 523--528. Nature Publishing Group

Lewis, Emily A. and Le, Duy and Jewell, April D. and Murphy, Colin J. and Rahman, Talat S. and Sykes, E. Charles H(2013). Visualization of compression and spillover in a coadsorbed system: Syngas on cobalt nanoparticles . ACS Nano. 7. (5). p. 4384--4392.

Lewis, Emily A. and Le, Duy and Murphy, Colin J. and Jewell, April D. and Mattera, Michael F. G. and Liriano, Melissa L. and Rahman, Talat S. and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2012). Dissociative Hydrogen Adsorption on Close-Packed Cobalt Nanoparticle Surfaces . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116. (49). p. 25868--25873.

McGuire, Allister F. and Jewell, April D. and Lawton, Timothy J. and Murphy, Colin J. and Lewis, Emily A. and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2012). Hydrogen Bonding and Chirality in Functionalized Thioether Self-Assembly . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116. (28). p. 14992--14997.

Jewell, April D. and Peng, Guowen and Mattera, Michael F G and Lewis, Emily A. and Murphy, Colin J. and Kyriakou, Georgios and Mavrikakis, Manos and Sykes, E. Charles H(2012). Quantum tunneling enabled self-assembly of hydrogen atoms on Cu(111) . ACS Nano. 6. (11). p. 10115--10121.

Tierney, Heather L. and Murphy, Colin J. and Jewell, April D. and Baber, Ashleigh E. and Iski, Erin V. and Khodaverdian, Harout Y. and McGuire, Allister F. and Klebanov, Nikolai and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2011). Experimental demonstration of a single-molecule electric motor . Nature Nanotechnology. 6. (10). p. 625--629. Nature Publishing Group

Tierney, Heather L. and Murphy, Colin J. and Sykes, E. Charles H.(2011). Regular scanning tunneling microscope tips can be intrinsically chiral . Physical review letters. 106. (1). p. 1--4.

Alex Pronschinske and Philipp Pedevilla and Benjamin Coughlin and Colin J. Murphy and Felicia R. Lucci and Matthew A. Payne and Andrew J. Gellman and Angelos Michaelides and E. Charles H. Sykes Atomic-Scale Picture of the Composition, Decay, and Oxidation of Two-Dimensional Radioactive Films . ACS Nano. 0. (0). p. null.