Richard S. Potember

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Richard Stanley Potember
Born
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMerrimack College (BS)
Inventor
Known forMolecular electronics

Nonlinear optics

Biomedical engineering

Biological neural networks

Biotechnology

Richard S. Potember is an American scientist and

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
from 1995 to 1998. He is best known for his pioneering work in developing electrical and optical materials and devices, as well as for his biomedical and biodefense research.

Education

Potember was born in

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in 1980. He received an M.S. in technical management from the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University in 1986.[2]

Research

Potember was first known for his groundbreaking work in

sol-gel processed switchable vanadium(IV) oxide thin film coating for energy conservation applications.[11][12]

Potember's recent achievements have focused on biotechnology and biomedical engineering. He performed pioneering work that demonstrated individual living nerve cells can be grown into controlled geometric patterns on substrates and these neurons can form true synaptic connections.[13][14][15] He also invented a pathogen neutralization technology[16] that can be used to destroy viruses, bacteria and spores real-time in ventilated air, and in heating or air conditioning systems.

Potember has also conducted research and development in the areas of

solid propellants
.

Commercial activities

Potember holds fourteen U.S. patents.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] His inventions have been licensed to industry five times.

Personal life

Potember has two sons and lives with his wife in Maryland.

Awards and achievements

His inventions in the field of biodefense were the basis for the formation of the Biodefense Research Group Inc., (BDRGI).[32] Potember was the recipient of the APL Master Inventor Award in 2007 and the APL Inventor of the Year Award in 2004.[33][34] He received a commendation from the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1989 for his work on optical switching materials.[35]

Community involvement

Potember served as a trustee at Goucher College for a full ten-year term (1996–2005).[36] He served on Howard County, Maryland Economic Development Authority Center for Business and Technology. He delivered hands-on science and engineering lectures to students in the Howard County, Maryland, school system. He served as a youth sailing instructor at the Potapskut Sailing Association, Pasadena, Maryland.

References

  1. ^ "Richard Potember". 2017-03-06.
  2. ^ "Richard Potember". Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals. 6 March 2017.
  3. PMID 11151392
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  4. doi:10.1006/jssc.2000.8679
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  5. doi:10.1063/1.90814
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  6. doi:10.1063/1.93591
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  7. doi:10.1016/0379-6779(96)80111-1
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  8. doi:10.1016/0379-6779(82)90007-8
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  9. PMID 20548672
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  10. ^ "US Patent 4825408A". Google Patents. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  11. ^ "US Patent 4957725A". Google Patents. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  12. doi:10.1016/0040-6090(88)90702-X
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  13. ISBN 978-0-385-48499-2
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  14. S2CID 3781587
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  15. S2CID 10905123
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  16. ^ US Patent 20040120845.
  17. doi:10.4271/981740
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  18. ^ "Miniature Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer - NSBRI". NSBRI. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  19. ^ "Current controlled bistable electrical organic thin film switching device".
  20. ^ "Electrical organic thin film switching device switching between detectably different oxidation states".
  21. ^ "Multistate optical switching and memory using an amphoteric organic charge transfer material".
  22. ^ "Method of fabricating a current controlled bistable electrical organic thin film switching device".
  23. ^ "Optical storage and switching devices using organic charge transfer salts".
  24. ^ "Multistate optical switching and memory apparatus using an amphoteric organic charge transfer material".
  25. ^ "Vanadium dioxide formed by the sol-gel process".
  26. ^ "Optical storage and switching devices using organic charge transfer salts".
  27. ^ "Electron density storage device and method using STM".
  28. ^ "Electron density storage device using a stm".
  29. ^ "Ventriculoperitoneal shunt with pressure responsive element".
  30. ^ "Enhanced optically sensitive medium using organic charge transfer materials to provide reproducible thermal/optical erasure".
  31. ^ "Biocompatible article for the treatment of water and production of energy".
  32. ^ "Press Release".
  33. ^ "Press Release".
  34. ^ "Press Release".
  35. PMID 20548672
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  36. ^ "Outcomes Assessment" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-23.
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