Member

	Dr. Gabriel LeBlanc
Wellspring Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Tulsa	Group website
OKPVRI Member	Email: gabriel-leblanc@utulsa.edu

Gabriel LeBlanc is a husband, father, teacher, and scientist currently serving as the Wellspring Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Tulsa. Originally from Little Rock, AR, Gabriel attended Lyon College where he became interested in the field of chemistry while synthesizing novel ruthenium compounds under the guidance of Dr. Flyod Beckford. After graduating in 2010 with a B.S. in Chemistry, he then continued his education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. There he worked with Dr. David Cliffel on a solar energy project where biomaterials were interfaced with electrodes. After completing his PhD. in 2014, he spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin working with Dr. Delia Milliron on a "smart-window" project to improve energy conservation in buildings by utilizing the unique properties of metal oxide nanoparticles and composites.

Currently, Gabriel is interested in how electrochemistry and materials science can be used to understand new phenomena and to solve real world problems.

Selected Publications

• Gizzie, E. A., LeBlanc, G., Jennings, G. K., Cliffel, D. E. Electrochemical Preparation of Photosystem I-Polyaniline Composite Films for Biohybrid Solar Energy Conversion. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2015.
• Kim, J.; Ong, G. K.; Wang, Y.; LeBlanc, G.; Williams, T. E.; Mattox, T. M.; Helms, B. A.; Milliron, D. J. Nanocomposite Architecture for Rapid, Spectrally-Selective Electrochromic Modulation of Solar Transmittance. Nano Lett. 2015.
• LeBlanc, G.; Gizzie, E. A.; Yang, S.; Cliffel, D. E.; Jennings, G. K. Photosystem I Protein Films at Electrode Surfaces for Solar Energy Conversion. Langmuir 2014, In Press.
• Darby, E., LeBlanc, G., Gizzie, E. A., Jennings, G. K., Cliffel, D. E. Photoactive Films of Photosystem I on Transparent Reduced Graphene Oxide Electrodes. Langmuir 2014, 30, 8990-8994.
• LeBlanc, G., Winter, K. M., Crosby, W. B., Jennings, G. K., Cliffel, D. E. Integration of Photosystem I with Graphene Oxide for Photocurrent Enhancement. Adv. Energy Mater. 2014, 4, 1301953.

Student Information

Current Graduate Students: 1 Denise Wirth

Current Undergraduate Students: 8 Heather Whitehead, Camden Schinnerer, Katie Burch, Jack Yungbluth, Bethany Sutterfield, Matthew Cain, Gwendolyn Ludewick, and Mohammad Albenayyan