Christopher Williams Email & Phone Number

Chicago

• R&D Chemist specialized in developing and improving new greases
• Predominantly focus on Calcium Sulfonate/Calcium Carbonate lubricating particle systems
• Cooperatively work with production team on product production
• Explore new additives and raw materials to use in greases to improve performance
• Develop new novel grease nano and micro structures
• Explore grease production processes and improve plant production of greases

Greater Chicago Area

• Temporary Chemist Position working in both QC and R&D
• Cooperatively work with production team on product production
• Evaluate properties of incoming raw materials and outgoing corrosion protectant products for metal surfaces
• Applying corrections to products as needed to ensure products had desired properties and protection properties
• Taught company faculty about IR theory and the potential benefits of its incorporation in product and raw material evaluation
• Created company technical documentation for use of FTIR

Bloomington, Indiana Area

• Research into organized surface structures for the functionalization of surfaces. Associate Instructor to general and inorganic chemistry courses.
• Utilized molecular design to allow for the observation of dehydrocyclization on low cost transition metal surfaces
• Designed a molecule to allow for the formation of a water resistant covalent organic framework (COF) formed through a dehydrogenation pathway
• Characterized the spectroscopic changes to 3,6-Di-2-pyridyl-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (DPTZ) as it coordinates to a metal creating chemically uniform metal catalysis sites in a supramolecular metal organic structure
• Observed selective gas adsorption to surface metal organic complexes

Greater Chicago Area

Developed a method to grow ordered films of metal organic frameworks (MOF) through seeding nano-crystals of MOFs on metal surfaces with varied terminal self-assembled monolayer (SAM) functional groups

Greater Chicago Area

Nanotechnology REU program designed for undergraduates to provide research experience with professors leading the nanotechnology field. Interacted with multiple professors at Northwestern in multiple disciplines, but did research on functionalized gold nanoparticles during my time in the program.

Naperville, Illinois

Research in developing new chemicals for improved lubrication and cooling

Materials Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry