Faculty Profiles

Warren S. Warren
Warren S. Warren
James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry
Office: 
2217 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: 
(919) 660-1604
Fax: 
(919) 287-2454
warren.warren@duke.edu
Warren Research Group
Research Interests: 

Our work focuses on the design and application of what might best be called novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter dynamics. The heart of the work is chemical physics, and most of what we do is ultrafast laser spectroscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance. It generally involves an intimate mixture of theory and experiment: recent publications are roughly an equal mix of pencil- and-paper theory, computer calculations with our workstations, and experiments. Collaborations also play an important role, particularly for medical applications.

Overview

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 1980

M.S., University of California at Berkeley 1979

Research Areas:
Physical, Biomolecular Structure and Function

Robles, FE, Fischer, MC, and Warren, WS. "Femtosecond pulse shaping enables detection of optical Kerr-effect (OKE) dynamics for molecular imaging." Optics Letters 39.16 (August 2014): 4788-4791. Full Text

Simpson, MJ, Glass, KE, Wilson, JW, Wilby, PR, Simon, JD, and Warren, WS. "Erratum: Pump-probe microscopic imaging of jurassic-aged eumelanin (Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2013) 4 (1924-1927) DOI: 10.1021/jz4008036)." Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 5.6 (March 20, 2014): 946-null. Full Text

Villafana, TE, Brown, WP, Delaney, JK, Palmer, M, Warren, WS, and Fischer, MC. "Femtosecond pump-probe microscopy generates virtual cross-sections in historic artwork." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111.5 (February 2014): 1708-1713. Full Text

Simpson, MJ, Wilson, JW, Robles, FE, Dall, CP, Glass, K, Simon, JD, and Warren, WS. "Near-infrared excited state dynamics of melanins: the effects of iron content, photo-damage, chemical oxidation, and aggregate size." The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A 118.6 (February 2014): 993-1003. Full Text

Claytor, K, Theis, T, Feng, Y, and Warren, W. "Measuring long-lived 13C2 state lifetimes at natural abundance." Journal of Magnetic Resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) 239 (February 2014): 81-86. Full Text

Theis, T, Feng, Y, Wu, T, and Warren, WS. "Composite and shaped pulses for efficient and robust pumping of disconnected eigenstates in magnetic resonance." The Journal of Chemical Physics 140.1 (January 2014): 014201-null. Full Text

Robles, FE, Wilson, JW, and Warren, WS. "Quantifying melanin distribution using pump-probe microscopy and a 2D morphological autocorrelation transformation for melanoma diagnosis." Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie 8949 (January 1, 2014). Full Text

Robles, FE, Wilson, JW, and Warren, WS. "Quantifying melanin spatial distribution using pump-probe microscopy and a 2-D morphological autocorrelation transformation for melanoma diagnosis." Journal of Biomedical Optics 18.12 (December 2013): 120502-null. Full Text

Wilson, JW, Vajzovic, L, Robles, FE, Cummings, TJ, Mruthyunjaya, P, and Warren, WS. "Imaging microscopic pigment chemistry in conjunctival melanocytic lesions using pump-probe laser microscopy." Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 54.10 (October 21, 2013): 6867-6876. Full Text

Feng, Y, Theis, T, Liang, X, Wang, Q, Zhou, P, and Warren, WS. "Storage of hydrogen spin polarization in long-lived 13C2 singlet order and implications for hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging." Journal of the American Chemical Society 135.26 (July 2013): 9632-9635. Full Text

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