Dr. Tripp started his academic career as Associate Professor of Chemistry and member of the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) in the summer of 1998 after spending 12 years in industry at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and Bomem Inc.  He is also President and Co-founder of Orono Spectral Solutions  Inc. {OSS}

Education

Ph.D., Ottawa (1988)

Research interests

• materials and sampling methods for optical based sensors
• Layer-by-layer deposition
• Sol-gel synthesis of nanostructured metal oxides
• biomembranes
• Surfactant/polyelectrolyte adsorption on pigments
• Surface reactions in supercritical fluids
• particle-particle interactions

electroluminescent  and solar cell devices