JOSEPH BRAGIN
Email: josephbragin@gmail.com  

 Dr. Joseph Bragin

 

Administrative, Teaching, and Research Experience

Papers and Publications

Grants

Seminars and Oral Papers

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PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:
NOTE: On January 4, 2015 Dr. Bragin came across a 47-year old article in Applied Optics which was taken from his Ph.D. dissertation. The article was attributed to Monroe Evans who supervised Joseph's work at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s. There was no attribution of his work, nor was he ever consulted. He immediately informed the editors and an appropriate correction was made. The article was taken, mostly verbatim, from pages 73-76 of Dr. Bragin's dissertation. The photograph in the article was taken from page 78 of the dissertation. See "Fabrication of a 90° Off-Axis Ellipsoidal Mirror"
  1. "Superconductivity in Lithium under Pressure," with M. Benkraouda and R. A. Jishi. (Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 147, Nos. 5/6, June 2007.)
  2. "Symmetry Selection in Artificial DNA Base Pairs," with R. A. Jishi. (Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111 (19), pp. 5357-5361, April 14, 2007)
  3. "Possibility of superconductivity in Mg2BC3" with R. A. Jishi and M. Benkraouda. Physics Letters A, Volume 306, Issues 5-6, Pages 358-362 (13 January 2003).  Click here for the abstract.
  4. "Band structure effects on electron transport in DNA," with R. A. Jishi, J. W. Mintmire, and C. T. White. Paper A18.015, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 12-16, 2001, Seattle, Washington.
  5. "Visualization in an Integrated College Science Curriculum: Molecular Concepts for Chemistry in a Biological Context," Division of Chemical Education, Paper 253, 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, August 22-26, 1999.
  6. "Electronic Structure of Short and Long Carbon Nanotubes from First Principles," with R. A. Jishi and L. Lou. Physical Review B, Volume 59, Number 15, April 15, 1999, pp. 9862-9865. molecules
  7. "Equilibrium Geometry and Properties of cyclo[(Gly-d-Ala)4] and {cyclo[(Gly-d-Ala)4]}2 from Density Functional Theory," with R. A.Jishi, R. M. Flores, M. Valderrama, and L. Lou. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 102, 9858 (1998).
  8. "Visualization in an Integrated Science Curriculum: Molecular Concepts for Chemistry in a Biological Context," with V. Bragin. Gordon Research Conference on International Science Education and Visualization in Chemistry, Queen's College, Oxford, UK. September 20-25, 1998.
  9. "Electronic Properties of Peptide Nanotubes," with R.A. Jishi, N.C. Braier, J.W. Mintmire, and C.T. White. Meeting of The American Physical Society, March 16-20, 1998, Los Angeles, CA, Paper K19 1.
  10. "DFT Equilibrium Geometry and Properties of Chiral Cyclo-Octapeptides," with R. A. Jishi, R. M. Flores, and M. Valderrama, Poster I38 12. Meeting of The American Physical Society, March 16-20, 1998, Los Angeles, CA.
  11. "DFT Equilibrium Geometry and Properties of Cyclo[(Gly-D-Ala)4] and {Cyclo[Gly-D-Ala)4}}2," with R. A. Jishi and L. Lou. Second Molecular Graphics and Modeling Electronic Conference, October 6-17, 1997, World-Wide Web.
  12. "A Comparison of I.R. and G.C. Methods for the Determination of Ethanol in Gasohol, Ninth Annual MBRS Symposium, 1982, with S. Haylock.
  13. "A Long-Path Infra-Red Study of Los Angeles Smog", Atmospheric Environment 16, 969 (1982), with P. L. Hanst and N. W. Wong.
  14. "The Vibrational Spectra and Structure of B6H6= and 1,6-C2B4H6," with D. Urevig and M. Diem, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 12, 86 (1982).
  15. "Electronic Spectra of Some Phenothiazine Charge Transfer Complexes", Ninth Annual MBS Symposium, with S. Haylock.
  16. "Distribution of Catecholamines in the Circumaesophageal Ganglia of Helix Aspersa", with W. Sermons, Ninth Annual MBS Symposium.
  17. "Preparation and Isolation of ɢ1,4Bicyclo(2.2.0)hexene", J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 100, 2264 (1978), with J. Casanova.
  18. "The Vibrational Spectrum and Lattice Dynamics of Polycrystalline Ammonium Hydrosulfide, with S. Chang and D. Guthals, J. Chem. Phys., 67, 1247 (1977).
  19. "An Analysis of the Vibrations of the Hexahydro-clovo-Hexaborate (2-) Anion, B6H6-2, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, E. D. Schmid, J. Brandmuller, W. Kiefer, B. Schrader, and H. W. Schrotter, eds., H. F. Schulz Verlag, Freiburg FRG, pg. 88, with M. Diem.
  20. "The Use of Raman Spectroscopy in Laboratory Simulation of the Outer Solar System, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, E. D. Schmid, J. Brandmuller, W. Kiefer, B. Schrader, and H. W. Schrotter, eds., H. F. Schulz Verlag, Freiburg FRG, pg. 78, with S. Chang, D. Guthals, and M. Diem (1976).
  21. Photochemistry of Ammonium Hydrosulfide, Bull. Amer. Astr. Soc. 8, 473 (1976), with S. Chang.
  22. "Vibrational Spectra and Structure of Bicyclo(2.1.0)Pentane, J. Phys. Chem. 79, 2139 (1975), with D. Guthals.
  23. A Direct Proton Magnetic Resonance Study of Hydrogen Bond Formation of Organic Lewis Acids with Triethylamine, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 95, 631 (1973), with A. Fratiello, R. E. Schuster, G. A. Vidulich, and D. Liu.
  24. Vibrational Spectra, Normal Modes, Force Field, and Barrier to Inversion of Phosphiran, Phosphiran-1-d1, and Phosphiran-2,3-d4, with L. W. Dennis, J. Mol. Struct, 17, 75 (1973).
  25. "Vibrational Spectra, Structure and Nature of the Phosphorus:Nitrogen Bond in N,P,P,P-Tetramethylphosphine Imide and N-methyl-d3-P,P,P-trimethyl-phos-phine Imide, with S. Chan, E. Mazzola, and H. Goldwhite, J. Phys. Chem., 77, 1506 (1973).
  26. "Low Frequency Modes in Molecular Crystals. XIX. Methyl Torsions and Barriers to Internal Rotation of Some Three Top Molecules with Cs Symmetry, with J. R. Durig, S. M. Craven, J. H. Mulligan, and C. W. Hawley, J. Chem. Phys., 58, 1281 (1973).
  27. "Low Frequency Vibrations in Molecular Solids. XVIII. Torsional Modes and Barriers to Internal Rotation of Some Isopropyl Compounds, with J. R. Durig, C. M. Player, Jr., Y. S. Li, and C. W. Hawley, J. Chem. Phys., 57, 4544 (1972).
  28. "Torsional Barriers in the Methyl Substituted Ethylenes, with J. R. Durig and C. W. Hawley, J. Chem. Phys., 57, 1426 (1972).
  29. "Vibrational Spectra and Barriers to Internal Rotation in Some Halogen Substituted Ethanes, with J. R. Durig, S. M. Craven, and C. W. Hawley, J. Chem. Phys., 57, 131 (1972).
  30. "Torsional Frequencies and Barriers to Internal Rotation from Far Infrared Spectra of Solids with J. R. Durig, S. M. Craven, C. M. Player, Jr., and Y. S. Li, in Developments in Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 9, A. L. Perkins and E. L. Grove, eds.
  31. "The Vibrational Spectra and Normal Modes of 2-Cyanopropene and 2-Cyanopropene-d5 with K. L. Kizer and J. R. Durig, J. Mol. Spectry., 38, 289 (1971).
  32. "The Vibrational Spectra of Trans- and Cis-Crotononitrile with J. R. Durig, C. K. Tong, and C. W. Hawley, J. Phys. Chem., 75, 44 (1971).
  33. "Low Frequency Vibrations of Molecular Solids. XIV. Raman and Far Infrared Spectra of HNCS and DNCS, with J. R. Durig, C. M. Player, Jr., and W. C. Harris, Mol. Cryst. and Liq. Cryst., 13, 97 (1971).
  34. "Low Frequency Vibrations in Molecular Solids. XII. Low Frequency Modes and Barriers to Internal Rotation of Some Dimethyl Compounds of Elements in Group VI, with J. R. Durig, C. M. Player, Jr., and Y. S. Li, J. Chem. Phys., 55, 2895 (1971).
  35. "Low Frequency Modes in Molecular Crystals. XI. Torsional Frequencies and Barriers to Internal Rotation of Some Single Methyl Rotors in the Solid State with J. R. Durig and C. M. Player, Jr., J. Chem. Phys., 54, 460 (1971).
  36. "The Low Frequency Vibrations of Molecular Solids. X. CH3CCl3, CD3CCl3, CH3CHCl2, CH2CHF2, and CH3CF3, with J. R. Durig, S. M. Craven and K. K. Lau, J. Chem. Phys., 54, 479 (1971).
  37. "Low Frequency Modes in Molecular Crystals. IX. Methyl Torsions and Barriers to Internal Rotation of Some Three-Top Molecules with J. R. Durig and S. M. Craven, J. Chem. Phys., 53, 38 (1970).
  38. "Low Frequency Vibrations in Molecular Crystals. VII. DMSO and DMSO-d6 with J. R. Durig and C. M. Player, Jr. , J. Chem. Phys., 52, 4224 (1970).
  39. "Low Frequency Modes in Molecular Crystals. VI. Methyl Torsions and Barriers to Internal Rotation of (CH3)4C, (CD3)4C, (CH3)4Si, (CH3)4Ge, and (CH3)4Sn with J. R. Durig and S. M. Craven, J. Chem. Phys., 52, 2046 (1970).
  40. "Low Frequency Vibrations of Molecular Solids. V. Globular Molecules (CH3)3MCl and (CH3)3MBr, with J. R. Durig and S. M. Craven, J. Chem. Phys., 51, 5663 (1969).
  41. "A simple, inexpensive recorder pen", with W. C. Harris, J. Chem. Ed., 46 (12), Dec. 1969, p. 850.
  42. "The Vibrational Spectra and Structure of Organogermanes. Normal Modes and Force Constants for Trimethylchlorogermane with J. R. Durig, K. K. Lau, and J. B. Turner, J. Mol. Spectry., 31, 419 (1969).
  43. "The Vibrational Spectra and Structure of S4N4 and S2N2 with M. V. Evans, J. Chem. Phys., 51, 268 (1969).
  44. "The Vibrational Spectra and Molecular Potential Fields of Mercurous Chloride, Bromide, and Iodide with J. R. Durig, K. K. Lau, G. Nagarajan, and M. Walker, J. Chem. Phys., 50, 2130 (1969).