K-HHMI Visiting Fellows

Dr. Donald M. Cox - Volume II: Nanotechnology
Exxon Research and Engineering Company (Retired)

Dr. Cox was a physicist in the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Company. He received a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Indiana State College and his Ph.D. degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics from the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) at the University of Colorado. After postdoctoral research at New York University where he studied properties of thermal equilibrium alkali plasmas, he joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company in 1973, where he worked for 25 years.

At Exxon, Dr. Cox's research interests have encompassed a variety of areas, including laser isotope separation of molecules using infrared multiphoton excitation and dissociation; optoacoustic spectroscopy; studies of the electronic, magnetic, and chemical properties of size-selected transition metal cluster both in the gas phase and deposited on substrates; investigations probing the properties and uses of carbon clusters, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes; and most recently, studies of microporous materials useful in gas separations via membranes and sorption. He is a member of the APS and has two patents and over 100 publications.