Jorge M. Seminario

Jorge M. Seminario is a Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in the Materials Science and Engineering program in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He also holds the Fox Family endowed Professorship. Jorge’s research has focused on the development of scenarios, systems and materials for sensors, molecular and nanoelectronics, and catalysis following his own theory guided approach. Jorge has published over 140 papers and book chapters, edited six books, and is a coinventor on 2 patents. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. He has been a short course instructor for several universities, professional societies, and companies and he has organized numerous symposia. He has given over 50 invited presentations in 15 different countries. Jorge’s work in nanotechnology has a strong connection with his multidisciplinary education. He holds the B.S. degree in electrical sciences and a professional degree in electronics, M.S. degree in physics, and Ph.D. degree in molecular science in addition of postdoctoral work in chemistry and field engineering work in broadcasting and nuclear engineering.

Biography Updated on 3 September 2007

Personal Home Page

http://che.tamu.edu/seminario

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Determination of precise harmonic force constants for alanine polypeptides
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 818, no. 1-3, pp. 125–129, 2007
  2. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Vibrational Signature Transfer from a Glycine Peptide Chain to Nanosized Gold Clusters
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8366–8371, 2007
  3. Electronic and structural properties of oligophenylene ethynylenes on Au(111) surfaces
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 126, no. 18, p. 184706, 2007
  4. Field-induced conformational changes in bimetallic oligoaniline junctions
    Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 2, 2007
  5. Transfer of signatures from the vibrational spectrum of benzene to a silicon complex
    Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 6, 2007
  6. Conductance model of gold-molecule-silicon and carbon nanotube-molecule-silicon junctions
    Physical Review B, vol. 76, no. 11, 2007
  7. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 44, pp. 12298–12302, 2006
  8. Intensity enhancement of the vibrational spectrum of oxygen when attached to a platinum nanocluster
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 17, p. 174302, 2006
  9. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 35, pp. 17452–17459, 2006
  10. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 43, pp. 11968–11974, 2006
  11. Transient behavior at the nanoscale
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 124, no. 17, p. 171102, 2006
  12. Cascade configuration of logical gates processing information encoded in molecular potentials
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 107, no. 3, pp. 754–761, 2006
  13. Electron transport in Nano-Gold–Silicon interfaces
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 440–450, 2006
  14. Moletronics modeling toward molecular potentials
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 106, no. 8, pp. 1964–1969, 2006
  15. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 1060–1064, 2006
  16. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 13, pp. 4574–4581, 2006
  17. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 12, pp. 4260–4265, 2006
  18. Encoding and Transport of Information in Molecular and Biomolecular Systems
    IEEE Transactions On Nanotechnology, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 436–440, 2006
  19. Encoding Information Using Molecular Vibronics
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 675–684, 2006
  20. The Nanocell: A Chemically Assembled Molecular Electronic Circuit
    IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1614–1626, 2006
  21. International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 669, 2006
  22. International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 705, 2006
  23. Scenarios for molecular-level signal processing
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 10, pp. 1753–1764, 2005
  24. Ab initio analysis of electron currents in thioalkanes
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 711–723, 2005
  25. Density functional theory study of adsorption of OOH on Pt-based bimetallic clusters alloyed with Cr, Co, and Ni
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 410, no. 4-6, pp. 275–281, 2005
  26. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 9712–9715, 2005
  27. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 30, pp. 6628–6633, 2005
  28. Molecular electronics: Approaching reality
    Nature Materials, vol. 4, no. 2, Article ID nmat1313, 2 pages, 2005
  29. Vibrational Study of a Molecular Device Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 484–495, 2005
  30. Clustering Effects on Discontinuous Gold Film NanoCells
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 907–917, 2004
  31. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 22, pp. 6915–6918, 2004
  32. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 46, pp. 17879–17885, 2004
  33. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 108, no. 30, pp. 6378–6384, 2004
  34. A Molecular Device Operating at Terahertz Frequencies: Theoretical Simulations
    IEEE Transactions On Nanotechnology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 215–218, 2004
  35. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 49, pp. 13671–13680, 2003
  36. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 47, pp. 14240–14241, 2003
  37. An ab initio approach to the calculation of current-voltage characteristics of programmable molecular devices
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1958–1975, 2003
  38. Analysis of a dinitro-based molecular device
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 4, p. 1671, 2002
  39. Theoretical Interpretation of Switching in Experiments with Single Molecules
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 35, pp. 10266–10267, 2002
  40. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 23, pp. 5616–5617, 2001
  41. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 5, pp. 791–795, 2001
  42. Molecular Gain in a Thiotolane System
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 49, pp. 12418–12419, 2001
  43. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 33, pp. 7917–7925, 2001
  44. Computational characterization of energetic materials
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 573, no. 1-3, pp. 1–10, 2001
  45. Theoretical Study of a Molecular Resonant Tunneling Diode
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 13, pp. 3015–3020, 2000
  46. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 25, pp. 5937–5941, 2000
  47. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 15, pp. 2830–2840, 1999
  48. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 39, pp. 7883–7887, 1999
  49. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 2, pp. 411–416, 1999
  50. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 33, pp. 8486–8493, 1998
  51. Energetics of ammonium dinitramide decomposition steps
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 427, no. 1-3, pp. 123–129, 1998
  52. SCMEH-MO calculations on lanthanide systems V. A comparison of DFT and SCMEH-MO methods on Nd(CO)6
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 425, no. 1-2, pp. 25–28, 1998
  53. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 2646–2655, 1998
  54. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 16, pp. 3970–3974, 1998
  55. Ab initio Methods for the Study of Molecular Systems for Nanometer Technology: Toward the First-Principles Design of Molecular Computers
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 852, no. 1 MOLECULAR ELE, pp. 68–94, 1998
  56. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 42, pp. 7742–7748, 1997
  57. Density functional analysis of a decomposition of 4-nitro-1,2,3-triazole through the evolution of N2
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 389–392, 1997
  58. Systematic study of the lowest energy states of Aun (n=1-4) using DFT
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 749–758, 1997
  59. Density-functional investigation of some decomposition routes of methyl nitrate
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 205–210, 1997
  60. Systematic study of the lowest energy states of Pd, Pd2, and Pd3
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 515–523, 1997
  61. Reaction energetics of tetrahedrane and other hydrocarbons: Ab initio and density functional treatments
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1351–1360, 1996
  62. Calculation of intramolecular force fields from second-derivative tensors
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1271–1277, 1996
  63. Density functional study of amine sensitization of nitromethane
    Molecular Physics, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 1511–1520, 1996
  64. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 26, pp. 10837–10848, 1996
  65. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 49, pp. 12945–12948, 1994
  66. Some applications of local density functional theory to the calculation of reaction energetics
    Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 85, no. 1-3, pp. 127–136, 1993
  67. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 20, pp. 7699–7702, 1991
  68. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 1601–1605, 1991
  69. Effects of the simultaneous presence of nitro and amine substituents in cubane and some azacubanes
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 153–166, 1991
  70. Effect of the amine group on relative bond strengths in cubane and azacubanes
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 567–573, 1991
  71. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 2320–2323, 1990
  72. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 624–628, 1990
  73. Relative bond strengths in tetrahedrane, prismane, and some of their aza analogs
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29–32, 1990
  74. Computational analysis of some possible initial steps in the unimolecular thermal decompositions of 1,3-diazacyclobutane and its 1,3-dinitramine derivative
    Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. 359–367, 1990
  75. Calculated structures, relative energies and electrostatic potentials of some tetraaza cyclic systems
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 325–332, 1990
  76. Isoelectronic changes in energy of quark atoms and molecules via the Levy equation
    Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 57–60, 1990
  77. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 588–592, 1989
  78. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 12, pp. 4742–4745, 1989