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File:McIlroy.jpg David N. McIlroy
Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University Group website
OKPVRI Advisory Committee Email: dave.mcilroy@okstate.edu

Dave McIlroy is Professor and Head of Physics at Oklahoma State University. He has a B.A. in Physics from the University of California-Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island. He was a postdoc at the University of Nebraska and was at the University of Idaho for 21 years before joining the Department of Physics at OSU. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist and specializes in optical, electronic, and chemical properties of 1D and other novel structures. He is particularly interested in the emergent behavior of complex hierarchical materials, where spatial confinement amplifies the effects of electron correlation. He has applied components of his research, which includes alternative energy, such as solar cells. He has published 100+ papers in an eclectic range of topics from biomaterials to hydrogen storage.

Recent Publications

  • Signal-to-Noise Enhancement of a Nanospring Redox-Based Sensor by Lock-in Amplification Pavel V. Bakharev and David N. McIlroy, Sensors 2015, 15, 13110-13120; doi:10.3390/s150613110
  • Preparation, surface characterization and performance of a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst of cobalt supported on silica nanosprings Blaise-Alexis Fouetio Kengne, Abdulbaset M. Alayat, Guanqun Luo, Armando G. McDonald, Justin Brown, Hayden Smotherman, David N. McIlroy, Applied Surface Science 359 (2015) 508-514.
  • Self-Assembled Monolayers of Thiols Adsorbed on Au/ZnO Functionalized Silica Nanosprings: Photoelectron Spectroscopy-Analysis and Detection of Vaporized Explosives Blaise-Alexis Fouetio Kengne, Saswata Karmakar, Mamta Kaura, V.V.R. Sai, Giancarlo Corti, Ishwar B. Niraula, Alexander Larin, Jessica Hall, Dewayne Sowell, Patrick J. Hrdlicka, Vladimir Dobrokhotov, and David N. McIlroy, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, available online July 2014, DOI: 10.1021/am504371k
  • Observation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Pumping of Optical Eigenmodes of Gold-Decorated Gallium Nitride Nanowires Jency Pricilla Sundararajan,Pavel Bakharev, Ishwar Niraula, Blaise Alexis Fouetio Kengne, Quinn MacPherson*, Meredith Sargent*, Brian Hare*, and David N. McIlroy, Nano Letters, 12, 5181 (2012).
  • Synthetic osteogenic extracellular matrix formed by coated silicon dioxide nanosprings, Jamie L Hass, Erin M Garrison, Sarah A Wicher*, Ben Knapp*, Nathan Bridges, DN Mcllroy and Gustavo Arrizabalaga, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 10:6 (2012).

Recent Presentations

  • EMN Meeting on Nanowires: The Physics of Electronic Transport in 1D-Nanostructures: From One to a Disordered Array of Many, May 17th, 2016, Amsterdam.
  • Conference on the Implementation of Microreactors in Biotechnoloyg, Plenary Presentation: Integration of high surface area nanostructures into microreactors, May 11, 2015, Opatija, Croatia.
  • The merging of nanoscale engineering and fundamental physics, United States Patent and Trademark Office, October, 2014. It was a webinar with almost 400 participants.
  • The Role of Surface Science for Deciphering Complex Sensor Response-Au Nanoparticle Decorated Gallium Nitride Nanowire Sensors as a Case Study, 2013 Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, Sept. 19th, 2013.

Student Information

Current Graduate Students: 2