I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Marvin L. Illingsworth, Dept. of Chemistry, RIT
EDUCATION:
B.S.
Lafayette College, Chemistry, 1972
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Inorganic Chemistry, 1980
Dissertation entitled: “Bis-Quadridentate Schiff-base Monomers and Diquadridentate Schiff-base Polymers Containing Eight-Coordinate Zirconium(IV)”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1994-Present Professor, Inorganic Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
1990-1994
Associate Professor, Inorganic Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
1986-1990
Assistant Professor, Inorganic Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
1982-1986
Assistant Professor, General/Inorganic Chemistry, Hartwick College (non tenure
track)
1981-1982
Visiting Lecturer, General Chemistry, University of Delaware
1980-1981
Assistant Professor, General/Inorganic Chemistry, Randolph-Macon Women’s
College (non tenure track)
MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS:
NASA Exellence in Research Awards (2)
NASA JOVE Visiting Faculty (NASA Lewis Research Center)
Sigma Xi
ACS (Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Division of Polymer Chemistry, and Division of
Polymeric Materials, Science and Engineering)
SPIE
Optical Society of America
RESEARCH & THESIS ADVISING (PAST 5 YEARS):
1.
Gross, T.; M. S. Thesis (MS&E), RIT, 2004; “Beta-Barium Borate Thin Film Formation
on Silicon Through Metal-Organic Decomposition of Two Novel Precursors”.
2.
Galperin, E.; M. S. Thesis, RIT, 2003; “Novel Polyimides Based on 2,2-Bis(3-amino-4hydroxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane, 4,4’-(Hexafluoroisopropylidene)diphthalic
Anhydride, and Mellitic Acid Dianhydride, and their NLO Pendent Polymers”.
3.
Kamdar, A.; M. S. Thesis (MS&E), RIT, 2002; “Fiber-Reinforced Composites of a
Novel Pendent Polyimide: Optimum Processing and Mechanical Properties”.
4.
Cheng, W.; M. S. Thesis, RIT, 2001; “Two and Four Component Polyimides Based on
ODPA, 1,3-APB, MADA and Their Zr Pendent Polymers”.
5.
Wang, W.; M. S. Thesis, RIT, 2000; “Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized
Zirconium Pendent Polyamic Acids and Polyimides Based on 3,4’-ODA and ODPA”.
6.
Chow, D.; M. S. Thesis, RIT, 2000; “Atomic Oxygen Resistant Zr Pendent Polyimide
Based on 1,3-Aminophenoxybenzene”.
+ advised 25 undergraduate student research projects (22 RIT undergraduate students, 1 AirFlow
co-op student and 2 RIT Honors students) over this same period of time. There are 2 graduate
and 3 undergraduate researchers currently active: T. Scott, K. Friedman, R. Pasquarelli, B.
Loesch, and G. Horrocks, respectively.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS: (asterisk * denotes undergraduate researcher)
1. Wagner, S.*; Dai, H.; Stapleton, R. A.*; Siochi, E. J.; Illingsworth, M. L. “Pendent
polyimides using mellitic acid dianhydride. I. An atomic oxygen resistant, pendent 4,4’ODA/PMDA/MADA co-polyimide containing zirconium”, High Performance Polymers 2006,
18, 399-419.
2. Illingsworth, M. L.; Wang, W.; Hughes, K. A.*; Terschak, J. A.*; McCarney, J. P.*;
Stapleton, R. A.*; Wagner, S. R.*; Trotter, K. J.*; Courtney, R. E.*; Giacofei, R. A.*; Jensen, A.
J.*; Moisa, M. S.*; Browning, T. A.*; Puchebner, B. E.*; Theimer, C. A.*; Chen, Y.
“Functional Derivatives of [4-Amino-N,N’-bis(2-hydroxybenzidene)-1,2-phenylenediaminato][
N,N’-Bis(2-hydroxybenzidene)-1,2-phenylenediaminato]zirconium(IV), Zr(adsp)(rdsp), for Use
as Pendent Groups”, Syn. React. Inorg. Met-Org. Chem. 2004, 34(3), 593-609.
3. Illingsworth, M. L.; Schwartz, L.J.; Jensen, A. J.; Zhu, T.; Knappenberger, E.J.*; Sweet,
J.E*.; Stone, P. W.; Waltermire, B.E.; Rheingold, A.L. “A Bis(quadridentate)zirconium(IV)
Complex with 6,4,6-Membered Chelate Rings”, Polyhedron 2002, 21, 211-218.
4. Illingsworth, M. L.; Betancourt, J. A.; He, L. Chen, Y.; Terschak, J. A.*; Banks, B. A.;
Rutledge, S. K.; Cales, M. “Zr-Containing 4,4’-ODA/PMDA Polyimide Composites”, NASA
Technical Memo--2001-211099 (132 pages).
5. Yang, K.; Illingsworth, M. L. “Zirconium Pendent Polyamic Acid and Polyimide Based on
3,4’-ODA and ODPA”, Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.), 2000, 41, 211-212.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Illingsworth, M. L.; Peterson, J. J.*; Loesch, B. P.*; Pasquarelli, R. M.* “Progress Toward a
Solution-Imidized, UV-Curable NLO-Pendent Model Compound”, Presented at the 2006 Optical
Society of America Topical Meeting - Organic Photonics and Electronics, Rochester, NY,
October, 2006.
Peterson, J. J.*; Voegele, B. J.*; Illingsworth, M. L. “Toward a Colorless Nonlinear Optical
Pendent Polyimide”, Presented at the 2005 ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium, Nazareth
College, Pittsford, NY, April, 2005
Illingsworth, M. L.; Gross, T. R.; Gysling, H. J. “Beta-Barium Borate Powder and Thin Film on
Silicon Via Metal-Organic Decomposition of Two Novel Precursors, Barium Dimesitylborinate
and Barium (18 Crown 6) Cyclotriboroxane”, Presented at the 2004 Optical Society of America
Topical Meeting - Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, Waikoloa, HI,
August 2004.
Yang, K.; Illingsworth, M. L. “Zirconium Pendent Polyamic Acid and Polyimide Based on 3,4’ODA and ODPA”, Presented at the 219th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society,
San Francisco, CA, March 2000.
FUNDING HISTORY
External: AirFlow Catalyst, Inc., ’01-’02, NASA Augmentation Grant, ’96-’97, NASA JOVE
Grant, ’93-’95, Petroleum Research Fund, ’91-’92, Council for Undergraduate Research
Olin Charitable Foundation
Internal: Leave for Professional Development, ’99-’00, plus RIT funded grants (including RIT
Dean’s Summer Fellowships, RIT Dean’s Project Initiation Grants, a RIT FEAD Grant, a Firstin-Class Grant, and RIT Honors student summer support)