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Alexander Scheeline

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Contact Information

Department of Chemistry
463 RAL, MC-712, Box 48-5
600 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

Biography

Professor Alexander Scheeline received his B.S. degree from Michigan State University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. He joined the faculty at Illinois in 1981. His research interests are in optical spectrometry, nonlinear dynamics, oscillating reactions, and oxidative stress.

Education

B. S. Chemistry Michigan State University (1974)
Ph.D. Chemistry University of Wisconsin - Madison (1978)

Awards and Honors

Fellow, Society for Applied Spectroscopy
Honorary Member, Society for Applied Spectroscopy
Society for Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggars Award (1979)
Society for Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggars Award (1990)
ACS Newsmaker Award
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences

Additional Campus Affiliations

Highlighted Publications

Journal Articles

Scheeline, Alexander. "Cell Phone Spectrometry: Science in Your Pocket?" Trends in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC), vol. 85A, 2016, p. 20-25.

Scheeline, Alexander, and Thự Anh Bùi. "Stacked, Mutually-rotated Diffraction Gratings as Enablers of Portable Visible Spectrometry." Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 70, no. 5, 2016, p. 766-777.

Chainani, Edward T, Woo-Hyuck Choi, Khanh T Ngo, and Alexander Scheeline. "Mixing in Colliding, Ultrasonically Levitated Drops,". Analytical Chemistry, vol. 86, no. 4, 2014, p. 2229-2237.

Chainani, Edward T, Khanh T Ngo, and Alexander Scheeline. "Electrochemistry in an Acoustically Levitated Drop". Analytical Chemistry, vol. 85, no. 4, 2013, p. 2500-2506.

Barna, S. F, E. A. Ott, N. H. Thu, M. A. Shannon, and A. Scheeline. "Silica Adsorbents and Peroxide Functionality for Removing Paraquat from Wastewater,". Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, vol. 139, no. 7, 2013, p. 975-985.

Scheeline, A, W.-H Choi, E. T. Chainani, and K. T. Ngo. "Levitated Drop Microreactors for Biochemical Kinetics,". Advances in Materials Research, vol. 560, no. 561, 2012, p. 395-400.

Scheeline, A, and R. L. Behrens. "Potential of Levitated Drops to Serve as Microreactors for Biophysical Measurements,". Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 165, no. 166, 2012, p. 1-12.

Field, Christopher R. "Design and Implementation of an Efficient Acoustically Levitated Drop Reactor for In Stillo Measurements." Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 78, no. 12, 2007, p. 125102 1-8.

Book Contributions

Scheeline, Alexander. "Active Learning in the Introductory Graduate Student Analytical Chemistry Course: Getting Students to 'Think Analytically'." Active Learning: Models from the Analytical Sciences, Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2007, p. 248-258.