North Dakota State University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
NDSU Dept. 2735
Fargo
ND
58108-6050
United States
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Background
Seth Rasmussen is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at North Dakota State
University (NDSU) with a focus in the areas of materials chemistry and chemical
history. Prof. Rasmussen is a native of the Seattle area, earning a B.S. in
Chemistry from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry
from Clemson University. His work in the area of organic materials began during
a postdoctoral position at the University of Oregon. Following his postdoc,
he accepted a teaching position at the University of Oregon in 1997 and then
joined the faculty at NDSU in 1999.
The primary area of research expertise of Prof. Rasmussen is the synthesis
and design of new conjugated organic materials, particularly in the area of
low band gap polymers. In addition to the development of new organic semiconducting
materials, Prof. Rasmussen studies applications of these materials to both organic
photovoltaics (solar cells) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) via academic
collaborations with Prof. Paul Dastoor and Dr. Warwick Belcher at the University
of Newcastle (NSW, Australia) and Dr. Konstantin Pokhodnya at NDSU’s Center
of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), as well as industrial collaborations
with Plextronics, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA.
In addition to his very active work in the organic semiconducting materials,
Prof. Rasmussen maintains an active interest in the teaching and research of
the history of chemistry and currently serves as the Program Chair of the History
of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Not surprisingly, his
historical efforts have included work in the history of materials and he has
recently co-edited (with E. Thomas Strom, UT-Arlington) a book on the history
of plastics to be published shortly by the American Chemical Society.
Prof. Rasmussen is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Materials
Research Society, Alpha Chi Sigma, the Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry, and the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
Group. His materials research has been previously recognized through a CAREER
award from the National Science Foundation in 2002 and a Young Scientist Award
from the International Conference on Synthetic Metals in 2004.