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Details of Dr. Mark D. Hollingsworth

Associate Professor

B.A., Carleton College (1979)
Ph.D. Yale University (1986)
SERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge (1985-6)
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge (1986-7)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1991-3)

Email: mdholl@ksu.edu
Office Phone: 785-532-2727
Lab Phone: 785-532-5419
Fax: 785-532-6666

Research Overview

My research is in the area of solid state organic chemistry, which lies at the interface between physical organic chemistry and materials science. This is a rapidly emerging discipline that combines the creative power of organic synthesis with physical, spectroscopic and structural studies of macroscopic crystals. Although I have broad interests in many areas of chemistry, our current research program is concerned with two main themes: (1) understanding, predicting and controlling the three dimensional structures and shapes of organic crystals, and (2) understanding, predicting and controlling the response of crystalline solids to perturbative stresses, including photochemical bond cleavage, high electric fields, intense laser fields (NLO), and external anisotropic stresses. Many of the studies involve organic inclusion compounds because it is a relatively straightforward matter to change the guest identity, host-guest stoichiometry, relative populations of guests in solid solutions, or solvent of crystallization while keeping the host structure more or less constant. Although we are mindful of possible applications of the systems that we study, our approach is much more fundamental than applied as we use organic crystals to ask and answer important questions about molecular recognition and about collective and long-range interactions in crystals. We are pursuing these goals by utilizing a variety of chemical and physical methods, including organic synthesis, crystal engineering and growth, solid state NMR, single crystal EPR, videomicroscopy, and optical spectroscopy, as well as several types of diffraction and scattering.

Selected Publications

1. M. D. Hollingsworth, J. A. Swift, B. Kahr, "J. Michael McBride at 65 - An Appreciation," Cryst. Growth Des., 5, 2022-2035 (2005). (See cover image.)

2. M. D. Hollingsworth, M. L. Peterson, J. R. Rush, M. E. Brown, M. J. Abel, A. A. Black, M. Dudley, B. Raghothamachar, U. Werner-Zwanziger, E. J. Still, J. A. Vanecko,  "Memory and Perfection in Ferroelastic Inclusion Compounds," Cryst. Growth Des., 5, 2100-2116 (2005).

3. M. D. Hollingsworth and M. L. Peterson, "Twinning, Epitaxy, and Domain Switching in Ferroelastic Inclusion Compounds," Proceedings of the NASA Microgravity Materials Science Conference 2002, D. Gillies, N. Ramachandran, K. Murphy, D. McCauley, N. Bennett, eds., 283-288, Feb. 2003.

4. M. D. Hollingsworth, "Crystal Engineering: from Structure to Function," Science, 295, 2410-2413 (March 29, 2002). (See cover image.)

5. M. D. Hollingsworth, M. E. Brown,M. Dudley, H. Chung, M. L. Peterson and A. C. Hillier, "Template Effects, Asymmetry and Twinning in Helical Inclusion Compounds," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 41, 965-969 (2002).

6. M. D. Hollingsworth, M. L. Peterson, K. L. Pate, B. Dinkelmeyer and M. E. Brown, "Unanticipated Guest Motion During a Phase Transition in a Ferroelastic Inclusion Compound," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 2094-2095 (2002).

7. M. D. Hollingsworth, U.Werner-Zwanziger, M. E. Brown, J. D. Chaney, J. C. Huffman, K. D. M. Harris and S. P. Smart, "Spring-loading at the Molecular Level: Relaxation of Guest-Induced Strain in Channel Inclusion Compounds," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 9732-9733 (1999).

8. U. Werner-Zwanziger, M. E. Brown, J. D. Chaney, E. J. Still, M. D. Hollingsworth, "Deuterium NMR Studies of Guest Motions in Urea Inclusion Compounds of 1,6-Dibromohexane with Analytical Evaluation of Spectra in the Fast Motion Limit," Appl. Magn. Reson., 17(2-3), 265-281 (1999).

9. P. Girard, A. E. Aliev, F. Guillaume, K. D. M. Harris, M. D. Hollingsworth, A.-J. Dianoux, P. Jonsen, "Dynamic Properties of Dioctanoyl Peroxide Guest Molecules within the Urea Tunnel Structure: Incoherent Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Solid State 2H NMR Investigations," J. Chem. Phys., 109, 4078-4089 (1998).

10. P. Girard, A. E. Aliev, F. Guillaume, K. D. M. Harris, M. D. Hollingsworth, A.-J. Dianoux, P. Jonsen, "Reorientational Motions of Dioctanoyl Peroxide Guest Molecules within the Urea Tunnel Structure: Assessment of Two-site Jump Models," Physica B (Amsterdam), 234-236, 112-114 (1997).