Chemistry
  Dr. Joseph Williams Sr.

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Office: Turner Hall, room 228
Phone: 757-727-5429
Email: joseph.williams@hamptonu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS Analytical and Physical Chemistry; Environmental Analysis; Biomedical Analysis; Pharmaceutical Analysis; Characterization of Advanced Materials.

CURRENT PROJECTS

1997-2000 NASA Research Grant, "Characterization of Molecular Interactions at Metal-Polymer Composite Surfaces and Interphases"

UHV Electron Spectroscopy (XPS,AES, SEM, AFM)

Vibrational Spectroscopy (FTIR, RAIRS, ATR, IRE, Raman)


PUBLICATIONS

"Chemical Characterization of Titanium Alloy (Ti 15-3) Surface Treatments for Adhesive Bonding", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of NOBCCHE, 1998, 25, 70 (1998).

"Thermodynamic Analysis of Cyanide and Fluoride Binding to Cytochrome C Peroxidase and a Selected Mutant" Biochemical Journal 1994, 302, 437 42.

"Thermodynamic Analysis of Heparin Binding to Human Antithrombin" Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1992, 1159, 141-149.

"Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Titration Calorimetry of Heparin Binding to Human Antithrombin" Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers 1991, 18, 260.

"HPLC Studies of the Development Chloroquine as a New Drug for Human Eye Diseases" Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers 1991, 18, 90.

"Flow Injection Immunoanalysis of Lipoprotein Cholesterol Part I: "Enzymatic Fluorescence Determination of Total Serum Cholesterol" Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Organization for the Advancement Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers 1991, 18, 71.

Note: Research performed during 1979-1987 was of proprietary nature and therefore not published.

"Transient Kinetic Studies of the Binding of Methotrexate to MB 1428 Dihydrofolate Reductase" Biochemical Journal, 1978, 2, 145.

"Mechanism of Complexation of Nickel (II) in DMSO and Copper (II) in Methanol with Monodentate Ligands" Inorganic Chemistry 1974, 13, 1968.

"Temperature-Jump Relaxation Kinetics of the Chelation of Nickel (II) and Cobalt (II) with Aromatic Ligands" Journal of the American Chemical Society 1973, 95, 7619.

"Pressure-Jump Relaxation Kinetics of the Complexation of Nickel (II) Thiocyanate in Methanol" Journal of Physical Chemistry 1973, 77, 130.