Abraham Clearfield
Distinguished Professor

Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Building, Room 329
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3255

Email: clearfield@mail.chem.tamu.edu
Phone: 979.845.2936
Fax: 979.845.4719

Department Website

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE
• Former Director, Material Science and Engineering Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. C.V.K. Sharma and A. Clearfield, Macrocyclic Leaflets, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 1558
(2000).
2. A. Clearfield, Inorganic Ion Exchangers, Past, Present and Future, Solv. Extrn. Ion Exch.
18, 655-678 (2000).
3. C.V.K. Sharma and A. Clearfield, Three-Dimensional Hexagonal Structures from a Novel Self-Complementary Molecular Building Block, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 4394-4402 (2000).
4. Z. Wang, J. Heising and A. Clearfield, Sulfonated Microporous Organic-Inorganic Hybrids
as Strong Bronsted Acids , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 10375-10383 (2003) .
5. A. Tripathi, D.G. Medvedev, M. Nyman and A. Clearfield, Selectivity for Cs and Sr in Nb-Substituted Titanosilicate with Sitinakite Topology, J. Solid State Chem . , 175, 72-83, (2003) .
6. A. Tripathi, T. Hughbanks and A. Clearfield, The First Framework Solid Composed of Vanadosilicate Clusters , J Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 10528-10529, (2003)