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Justin M Gorham (Fed)

Research Chemist

Biography

Justin M Gorham is a Group Leader and research chemist in the Nanomaterials Research Group at NIST. Dr. Gorham received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 2003 and his PHD in surface chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University in 2008.  He was awarded a position as an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2009 to study environmentally induced transformations to the surface chemistry and stability of nanomaterials.  He became a research chemist in 2011 and a group leader in 2018.  Dr. Gorham currently works on research involving nano-enabled products, microplastic and nanoplastic metrology, standards development (both physical and documentary), and developing/applying surface chemical characterization methodologies especially with respect to the MMSD XPS facilities
 

Completed Research Projects

Please follow the link for Completed Research Projects for further details on past, completed projects on the following subjects:

  • Developing AgNP loaded textile test materials as control samples
  • X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) method development:  Surface chemical detection of MWCNT in polymer composites
  • Photo-oxidation of citrate AgNP suspensions
  • Impact of Storage Conditions on the physical and chemical stability of citrate stabilized AgNP suspensions
  • Reference Material Development:  RM 8017:  75 nm PVP Stabilized AgNP

 

Post-doctoral Opportunities

 

Awards

  • 2019 distinguished Le Chatelier Paper in Cement and Concrete Research.  2019
  • ASTM Emerging Professional –  2017
  • Runner up: Roon Award  Sung, L; Stanley, D.; Gorham, J.M; Rabb, S.; Gu, X.; Yu, LL and Nguyen, T. 2014
  • Runner-up for Best Poster, NIST Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Poster Presentation 2011

 

Publications

Growth and Decomposition of Pt Surface Oxides

Author(s)
Feng Yi, Shane Arlington, Justin Gorham, William Alexander Osborn, Slavomir Nemsak, Ethan Crumlin, David A. LaVan
The formation and thermal stability of Pt surface oxides on Pt thin film were studied in situ using ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS)
Created February 26, 2019, Updated June 7, 2023