Professor, Chemistry
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science
Director, Alabama Space Grant Consortium
office: MSB 111
phone: (256) 824-6028
fax: (256) 824-6349
email: John Gregory
Résumé
Ph. D. Imperial College, London, Physical Chemistry (1967)
Started at UAH in 1973
Academic Experience
Teaching courses in physical chemistry.
Research Interests
My interests lie in two distinct areas of space science: a) the interaction of the Earth's atmosphere with surfaces of materials on satellites moving at high relative velocity, and b) measurement of the high energy radiation environment outside the atmosphere. Each of these programs involves the design and building of instruments to fly on satellites and high-altitude balloons (7 shuttle flights and 15 balloon flights, to date).
Selected Publications
"The Reaction of 5eV Oxygen Atoms with Polymeric and Carbon Surfaces in Earth Orbit", Polymer Preprints 28(2) (1987) 459.
"Surface Characterization of SiC Mirrors Exposed to Fast Atomic Oxygen", Surf. Interface Anal. 23(1) (1995) 77.
"Surface Processing of Semiconductor Materials With Fast Atomic Oxygen", NASA Conference on Centers for Commercialization & Development of Space (1995).
"Oxidation of Copper by Atomic Oxygen" in Oxidation of Metals 42 (1994) 1.