Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry and Nanoscale Science
B.S.: West Virginia State University, 1998
Ph.D.: University of South Carolina, 2002
Postdoc: Dreyfus Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 2002-2004
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006-2011
ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award, 2007
Carl Storm Minority Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference, 2007
American Chemical Society Leadership Development Award, 2007
(704) 687-6761
sobare@uncc.edu
Research Interests:
Research in the Obare group focuses on three main aspects: (1) Development of optical and electrochemical sensors for biological and environmental applications, (2) design of nanoscale materials for multi-electron transfer reactions (these materials are being investigated in water-splitting, carbon-dioxide reduction and environmental remediation), and (3) nanoscale catalysts composed of metallic and bimetallic nanoparticles for biomass conversion.
Scanning tunneling microsocopy (STM), scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), electrochemistry, fluorescence spectroscopy and electron microscopy are central to the understanding of the structure-property relationship of the materials designed in the lab.