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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Nanomaterials
  • Metal Ion Chemistry
  • Inorganic Materials
  • Actinide Chemistry and Materials (i.e., Uranium)
  • Geoforensics

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)

  • Panel Member,  National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Management of Nuclear Materials Homeland Security Issues
  • National Chairman, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (I & EC) Division of The American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Head, Materials Chemistry Secretariat, I & EC Division, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Co-Organizer, NATO Advanced Research Workshop Frontiers in Spectroscopy of Emergent Materials: Recent Advances Towards New Technologies, Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine.
  • Technical Advisor, Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development, National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA), U. S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, for actinides, materials, and nanochemistry.
  • Student Mentoring

AWARDS

  • Sigma Xi Research Award and Traineeship, University of Houston
  • National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
  • Miller Fellow (Chemistry), University of California, Berkeley
  • Outstanding Mentor Award for Undergraduate Research, U. S. Department of Energy
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (London)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of Houston
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry (London)
  • Materials Research Society (MRS)
  • Society of Sigma Xi
  • Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
  • Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Coblentz Society

PUBLICATIONS (Representative, Peer-Reviewed)

  1. Determination of Contaminants in Rare Earth Materials by Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA), Dale L. Perry, Gerald A. English, Richard B. Firestone, Gabor L. Molnar, and Zsolt Revay, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 265, 229(2005).

  2. Solid-State 207Pb NMR Studies of Lead-Group 16 and Mixed Transition-Metal-Lead-Group 16 Element-Containing Materials, Scott E. Van Bramer, Alicia Glatfelter, Steven Bai, Cecil Dybowski, Gunther Neue, and Dale L. Perry, Magn. Reson. Chem.,44, 357(2006).

  3. The Use of Prompt-Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) for the Analyses and Characterization of Materials: Thermochromic Materials, D. L. Perry, G. A. English, R. B. Firestone, K.-N. Leung, G. Garabedian, G. L. Molnar, and Zs. Revay, Nucl. Instrument. Methods Phys. Res., B, 213, 527(2004)

  4. A Facile Wet Synthesis of Nanoparticles of  Litharge, the Tetragonal Form of PbO, E. Spiller, D. L. Perry, T. J. Wilkinson, S. E. Derenzo, P. Berdahl, and M. Weber, Proceed. Mater. Res. Soc., 704, 117(2002).

  5. Neutron-Induced Prompt-Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) of Metals and Non-Metals in Ocean Floor Geothermal Vent-Generated Samples, D. L. Perry, R. B. Firestone, G. L. Molnar, Zs. Kasztovszky, R. C. Gatti, and P. Wilde,  J. Analyt.  Atom. Spectrom.., 17, 32(2002).

  6. Near-Infrared Turbidity of b-FeOOH Particle Suspensions, P. Berdahl, L. Espinoza-Nava,  D. Littlejohn, D.. Lucas, and D. L. Perry, Appl. Spectrosc., 54,  262(2000).

  7. Synchrotron Radiation-Induced X-Ray Fluorescence Microprobe of Calcium-Nickel-Potassium Oxide Thin Films, D. L. Perry, A. C. Thompson, R. E. Russo, X-L. Mao, and K. Chapman, Appl. Spectrosc.,  51, 1781(1997).

  8. Real-Time Characterization of Biogeochemical Reduction of Cr(VI) on Basalt Surfaces by SR-FTIR Imaging,  H.-Y. N. Holman,  D. L. Perry,  M. C. Martin,  G. M. Lamble, W. R. McKinney, and J. C. Hunter-Cevera, Geomicrobiology16,  307(1999).

  9. Physics and Forensics, T. J. Wilkinson, D. L. Perry, W. R. McKinney, and M. C. Martin, Physics World, 15, 43(2002).

  10. Investigation of Corrosion of Steel by Lead Bismuth Eutectic, by D. Koury, A. L Johnson, D. L. Perry, and J. W. Farley, Proceed. Amer.  Nucl. Soc. Topical Mtg. on Accel. Applicat, AccApp/ADTTA01, 2001  (2002).

  11. Instrumental Surface Analysis of Geologic Materials , VCH Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990.

Nanoparticles formed from the interaction of molten metal liquids with stainless steel

Dale L. Perry
Senior Scientist

Geochemistry Department

Phone: 510-486-4819
Email: dlperry@lbl.gov