Professor

Office: 512 Physical Sciences Laboratory Building
Phone: (419) 372-8398
Email: dnewman@bgsu.edu

Biographical Facts
Joined the faculty in 1965
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1964)
M.S., New York University (1960)
B.A., Earlham College (1957)

Research Interests
Our research is focused primarily on discovering correlations between structures, transport properties, and thermodynamics of organic molten salts and chloroaluminates. These salts are liquid at relatively low temperatures and consequently can serve as the media for interesting chemical reactions. Recently we have invented an electrolytic device for "splitting" sodium sulfate into NaOH and H2SO4 using unusual materials that we have developed. We have also been studying transport properties of solid electrolytes and the kinetics of unusual solid state reactions.