Peter Hoffmann
- Title
- Dean and Professor
- Peter.Hoffmann@erau.edu Email
- Department
- Physical Sciences Department
- College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Nanomechanics, Biophysics, Science Teaching, Computational Physics
Biography
Peter M. Hoffmann is currently the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He studied physics & mathematics at Technische Universität Clausthal in Germany, earned an MS in physics from SIU Carbondale in 1994, and completed a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999. From 1999-2001 he was a research fellow at University of Oxford in the UK. From 2001-2022, he worked at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was professor of physics and also served as associate dean, senior associate dean and department chair. In August 2022, he joined ERAU, Daytona Beach, as Dean of Arts and Sciences.,Education
- Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
- M.S. - Master of Science in Physics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Publications
- Methods for making and observing model lipid droplets Pure Portfolio (2024)
- Effects of flow-induced electromagnetic field and surface roughness on antifouling activity of phenolic compounds Pure Portfolio (2024)
- Diffusion Dynamics of Water and Ethanol in Graphene Oxide Pure Portfolio (2023)
- Electron transport through a (terpyridine)ruthenium metallo-surfactant containing a redox-active aminocatechol derivative Pure Portfolio (2022)
- Live cell measurements of interaction forces and binding kinetics between Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 (DDR1) and collagen I with atomic force microscopy Pure Portfolio (2019)
- Quantitative Understanding of Biosystems: An Introduction to Biophysics Pure Portfolio (2019)
- QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF BIOSYSTEMS Pure Portfolio (2019)
- Diverging Effects of NaCl and CsCl on the Mechanical Properties of Nanoconfined Water Pure Portfolio (2018)
- Electrolytes related dynamic mechanical properties of nanoconfined water Pure Portfolio (2017)
- Revisiting the value of competition assays in folate receptor-mediated drug delivery Pure Portfolio (2017)
- Young's modulus of nanoconfined liquids? Pure Portfolio (2016)
- How molecular motors extract order from chaos (a key issues review) Pure Portfolio (2016)
- NaCl-dependent ordering and dynamic mechanical response in nanoconfined water Pure Portfolio (2016)
- Squeeze-out dynamics of nanoconfined water: A detailed nanomechanical study Pure Portfolio (2015)
- Viscosity of a nanoconfined liquid during compression Pure Portfolio (2014)
- AFM: Small Amplitude Pure Portfolio (2013)
- Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos Pure Portfolio (2012)
- Island growth in electrodeposition Pure Portfolio (2011)
- Island Growth in Electrodeposition Pure Portfolio (2011)
- Tracer diffusion in nanofluids measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy Pure Portfolio (2011)
- Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films Publications (2010)
- Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films Pure Portfolio (2010)
- Dissociation kinetics of an enzyme-inhibitor system using single-molecule force measurements Pure Portfolio (2010)
- Influence of thermal noise on measured bond lengths in force measurements using dynamic atomic force microscopy Pure Portfolio (2010)
- Improving a high-resolution fiber-optic interferometer through deposition of a TiO2 reflective coating by simple dip-coating Pure Portfolio (2009)
- Development of Micro Scanning Multiprobes for Material Characterization Pure Portfolio (2008)
- Simultaneous Normal and Shear Measurements of Nanoconfined Liquids in a Fiber-based Atomic Force Microscope Pure Portfolio (2008)
- Combined Atomic Force Microscopy and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Measurements to Study the Dynamical Structure of Interfacial Fluids. Pure Portfolio (2007)
- Solid or Liquid? Solidification of a Nanoconfined Liquid under Nonequilibrium Conditions Pure Portfolio (2006)
- Small-Amplitude Atomic Force Microscopy Pure Portfolio (2005)
- A highly sensitive Atomic Force Microscope for linear measurements of molecular forces in liquids Pure Portfolio (2005)
- Direct measurement of molecular stiffness and damping in confined water layers Pure Portfolio (2004)
- Low amplitude, force gradient imaging of Cu(100) surface using tunnel current feedback Pure Portfolio (2004)
- Linear measurements of nanomechanical phenomena using small-amplitude AFM Pure Portfolio (2004)
- Dynamics of small amplitude, off-resonance AFM Pure Portfolio (2003)
- Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy Pure Portfolio (2002)
- Quantitative atom-resolved force gradient imaging using noncontact atomic force microscopy Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Nanomechanics using an ultra-small amplitude AFM Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Nanomechanics using an ultra-small amplitude AFM Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Nucleation and Growth of Copper on TiN from Pyrophosphate Solution Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Energy dissipation in Atomic Force Microscopy and Atomic Loss Processes Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Direct measurement of interatomic force gradients using an ultra-low amplitude atomic force microscope Pure Portfolio (2001)
- Electrochemical Etching of n-Type Silicon in Fluoride Solutions Pure Portfolio (2000)
- Growth Kinetics for Copper Deposition on Si(100) from Pyrophosphate Solution Pure Portfolio (2000)
- In Situ STM Characterization of Step-Bunching on Miscut Si(111) Surfaces in Fluoride Solutions Pure Portfolio (1999)
- Analysis of the Impedance Response due to Surface States at the Semiconductor / Solution Interface Pure Portfolio (1998)
- Energetics and Kinetics of Surface States at n-Type Silicon Surfaces in Aqueous Fluoride Solutions Pure Portfolio (1996)
- In Situ Measurements of Interface States at Silicon Surfaces in Fluoride Solutions Pure Portfolio (1996)
- Electrical Properties of n-Type (111)Si in Aqueous K4Fe(CN)6 Solution Pure Portfolio (1996)
- Freezing/melting transition of physically restricted n-decane Pure Portfolio (1995)
Publications
Selected publications:
Gobin R. Acharya, Madhusudan Tyagi, Eugene Mamontov, Peter M. Hoffmann, "Diffusion dynamics of water and ethanol in graphene oxide", Journal of Physical Chemistry (2023)
Anwesha Sarkar, Anjum Sohail, Jiayin Dong, Marco Prunotto, Kazuhiko Shinki, Rafael Fridman, Peter M. Hoffmann, “Live cell measurements of interaction forces and binding kinetics between Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 (DDR1) and collagen I with atomic force microscopy”, BBA-General Subjects 1863, 129402 (2019).
Thomas M. Nordlund, Peter M. Hoffmann, “Quantitative understanding of biosystems: an introduction to biophysics”, CRC Press 2019.
Steven K. Jones, Anwesha Sarkar, Daniel P. Feldman, Peter Hoffmann and Olivia Merkel, “Revisiting the value of competition assays in folate receptor-mediated drug delivery”, Biomaterials 138, 35 (2017).
Shah H. Khan, Edward L. Kramkowski, and Peter M. Hoffmann, “NaCl-dependent ordering and dynamic mechanical response in nanoconfined water”, Langmuir 32, 10802 (2016).
Peter M. Hoffmann, “How molecular motors extract order from chaos (a key issues review)”, Rep. Prog. Phys. 79, 032601 (2016).
Shah H. Khan, Edward L. Kramkowski, Peter J. Ochs, David M. Wilson, Peter M. Hoffmann, “Viscosity of a nanoconfined liquid during compression”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 023110 (2014).
Peter M. Hoffmann, “Life’s Ratchet – How molecular machines extract order from chaos”, Basic Books, 2012
Lian Guo, Gerko Oskam, Aleksandar Radisic, Peter M. Hoffmann, Peter C. Searson, “Island Growth in Electrodeposition”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 44, 443001 (2011).
Venkatesh Subba-Rao*, Peter M. Hoffmann, Ashis Mukhopadhyay, “Tracer diffusion in nanofluids measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 13, 6313 (2011).
Shah Khan, George Matei, Shivprasad Patil, Peter M. Hoffmann, “Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films”, Physical Review Letters 105, 106101 (2010).
Professional Experience
1999-2001, Research Fellow, University of Oxford
2001-2022, Professor of Physics, Wayne State University
2012-2015, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, WSU
2015-2017, Senior Associate Dean for Research, WSU
2020-2022, Chair of Department of Physics and Astronomy, WSU
2022-Present, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Awards, Honors and Recognitions
Sultana N. Nahar Prize for Distinction in Teaching Physics and Astronomy, WSU, 2017
Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award, WSU, 2009
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2003