Linford works in surface modification and characterization, particularly in studying organic thin films (monolayer and polymer), modifying silicon, diamond, silicon oxide, gold, and polymers, surface patterning, and organic chemistry. He also works with thin-film deposition using silanes, alkenes, thiols, and treats by sputtering.[2] In his group, they also undertake liquid chromatography (HPLC and TLC) and solid phase extraction (SPE), develop hydrophobic coatings for various materials. They study materials for optical data storage, and perform surface analysis by XPS, ToF-SIMS, wetting, optical ellipsometry, and FTIR. His lab also performs chemometrics of mass spectroscopic data (PCA, MCR, cluster analysis, and PRE).[3]
Academic history
Linford received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Brigham Young University in September 1990, followed by a Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering and a PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University later in June 1996. He served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Surface Sciences from July 1996 to June 1997.[4]
Linford has worked on topics including supercritical fluid chromatography and the formation of the first alkyl monolayers on silicon using diacyl peroxides. He has studied the use of synchrotron radiation to characterize monolayers on silicon, worked on the gas-phase free-radical modification of alkyl monolayers, devised a new method for coating particles, and studied the strong effect of ionic strength on surface dye extraction during dye-polymer multilayer formation. He has worked on growing semiconducting particles in polyelectrolyte multilayers, designed a cell to study the flow-induced orientation of polyelectrolytes on surfaces, described a mixing process using matrix algebra, also he synthesized and characterized films of new polyelectrolytes.[citation needed]
Service in industrial sector
Linford served for a few years in the industrial sector. While working as a senior scientist at Rohm and Haas Company, he developed an IR tool for the rapid screening of catalysts, and he designed and built a laser scanner for detecting defects on plastic sheets which can be used as a substrate for flat panel liquid crystal displays. He has worked as a senior scientist/consultant for Praelux, Inc. and developed methods to immobilize single nucleotides and DNA oligomers onto surfaces. He developed procedures to attach a nickel (NTA) chelator to glass coverslips to bind proteins with 6-his tags, developed novel methods to immobilize amines onto surfaces, performed surface patterning using microcontact printing, and worked on bioconjugation of a protein to glass microspheres.[citation needed]
Linford has served as a director of research for Nano-Tex, LLC. and developed the product "Nano-Dry" to make nylon and polyester hydrophilic. This product increases the comfort of fabrics, and it is currently being marketed throughout the United States. (Tiger Woods is shown in the October 2003 issue of Golf Digest is wearing a pair of pants that have this finish on them – Nano-Dry had become part of the Nike golf collection. He has been an inventor on 10 patents from work with Nano-Tex. He designed and synthesized numerous polymers (mostly free radical polymerizations of acrylates and methacrylates). He also formulated polymers, surfactants, wetting agents and defoaming agents.[citation needed]
Companies
Linford has been a founder of several companies.
Laser Array Technologies, which develops novel laser patterning of surfaces to make bioarrays.
Millenniata Inc. As of November 2009, Millenniata had approximately 35 employees, a brick-and-mortar site, and had raised approximately $12 million.[5] He served on the board of Millenniata from June 2007 to April 2010. It also had a manufacturing partner in Salt Lake City with more than $2 million of equipment dedicated for Millenniata production, in addition to a partner in Prague with more than $1MM of equipment dedicated for Millenniata production. Millenniata developed M-DISC, a write once optical disc recording technology.
Xeromax, Inc. In 2009 Xeromax received the "Outstanding Product: award at the Global Moot Corp competition at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2009 it also received First Place BYU Business Plan Competition and Second Place at the Wake Forest Elevator Pitch Competition (national business plan competition).
Linford received the BYU Technology Transfer Award on August 25, 2009 at the annual BYU university conference. He was invited and was the first speaker at the Nagasaki Syposium on Nano-Dynamics 2009, Nagasaki University in Japan. He was named to the editorial board of the journal Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters (NNL) in 2008. He was a Co-PI on a $1,000,000 grant from NSF in 2007.
Honors and awards
Linford was named a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 2014.[6]Linford is also an accomplished and high ranking tennis player for the state of Utah, and frequently takes time out of his research to travel and participate in national tennis tournaments. His 2018 Estimated Dynamic is 3.5559, his current NTRP 3.5 S, and estimated rating of 4.0 as of 2018.
Footnotes
↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 2 (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
↑ "Matthew Linford". The College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (CPMS). Retrieved 2024-04-17.
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