W.H. Mulder B.Sc. M.Sc. Leiden Ph.D. Utrecht Professor (Physical) willem.mulder@uwimona.edu.jm

Current Research Interests:

• Electron transfer at modified electrodes;
• Classical and statistical thermodynamics of electrified interfaces;
• Structural phase transitions in minerals of the calcite group;
• Properties of molecules in excited states (dipole moments, acidity constants and other thermodynamic properties, heterogeneous electron transfer).

Selected Publications

• W.H. Mulder, J.J. Calvente, R.Andreu, "A kinetic model for the reductive desorption of self-assembled thiol monolayers." Langmuir, 17 (2001), 3273.
• W.H. Mulder, C. Párkányi, "Theory of the salt effect on solvatochromic shifts and its potential application to the determination of ground-state and excited-state dipole moments." Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 106 (2002) 11932.
• W.H. Mulder, "The use of size distributions of circular domains in Langmuir monolayers for determining physical parameters of surfactants." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 264 (2003) 558.
• W.H. Mulder, "Effect of medium relaxation on the acidity constants of electronically excited states obtained by the Förster cycle method." Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 161 (2003), 21.
• K.J. Donald, W.H. Mulder, L. v. Szentpály, "Success and failure of polarized-ion models: Bending and atomization energy of groups 2 and 12 dihalides." Journal of Chemical Physics, 119 (2003) 5423.
• W.H. Mulder, J.J. Calvente, R. Andreu, "The electrocapillary effect at an electrode modified with an insoluble redox-active self-assembled monolayer." Langmuir, 20 (2004) 869.
• S.M. Antao, W.H. Mulder, I. Hassan, W.A. Crichton, J.B. Parise, "Cation disorder in dolomite, CaMg(CO₃)2, and its influence on the aragonite + magnesite = dolomite reaction boundary." American Mineralogist, 89 (2004) 1142.
• W.H. Mulder, R. Andreu, M. Molero, W.R. Fawcett, "Calculation of ionic surface excess concentrations in the diffuse double layer at low field strengths for a restricted primitive model electrolyte." J. Electroanal. Chem.,
  575 (2005) 211.
• J.J. Calvente, G. López-Pérez, P. Ramírez, H. Fernández, M.A. Zón, W.H. Mulder, R. Andreu, "Experimental study of the interplay between long-range electron transfer and redox probe permeation at self-assembled monolayers: Evidence for potential-induced ion gating." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127 (2005) 6476.
• W.H. Mulder, "Thermodynamic analysis of some electrochemical properties of transition metal complexes in electronically excited states." Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 187 (2007) 247.