Kenneth Kustin

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

kustin@brandeis.edu

Departments/Programs

Chemistry

Degrees

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Ph.D.
Queens College, B.S.

Profile

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I continue to collaborate with colleagues on oscillating reactions, the bioinorganic chemistry of vanadium, and food safety issues.

Awards and Honors

Co-Chair, Fourth Vanadium Symposium (2004)

Board of Editors, Inorganic Chemistry, 1993-1995 (1993)

National Science Foundation, Program Directior, 1985-1986 (1985)

Board of Editors, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 1983-1990 (1983)

Fulbright-Hays Lecturer (1978)

Harvard University Medical School, Visiting Professor of Pharmacology (1977)

Postdoctoral, Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany, 1959-1961 (1959)

U.S. Public Health Service, Special Fellowship, 1959-1961 (1959)

Phi Beta Kappa (1955)

Scholarship

C. J. Doona, E. W. Ross, F. E. Feeherry, K. Kustin. "“Method for Microbiological Quasi-Kinetics Growth-Death Modeling in Food”." U. S. Patent Number 10,437,909, October 8, 2019 (2020).

C. J. Doona, K. Kustin. “Process for the Generation of Chlorine Dioxide”. Patent 9,517,934. Dec. 13, 2016.

V. Horváth, I. R. Epstein, K. Kustin. "Mechanism of the Ferrocyanide-Iodate-Sulfite Oscillatory Chemical Reaction." J. Phys. Chem. A 120. (2016): 1951-1960.

Kustin,Kenneth, A.K. Horvath, I. Nagypal, G. Peintler and I.R. Epstein. "Kinetics and Mechanism of the Decomposition of Chlorous Acid." J. Phys. Chem. A. 107. (2003): 6966-6973.

Kustin,Kenneth, I.A. Taub, R.E. Feeherry, E.W. Ross, and CJ. Doona. "A Quasi-Chemical Kinetics Model for the Growth and Death of Staphloccocus aureus in Intermediate Moisture Bread." J. Food Sci 68. (2003): 2530-2537.

Kustin,Kenneth, I.A. Taub, W. Roberts and S. LaGambina. "Mechanism of Dihydrogen Formation in the Magnesium-Water Reaction." J. Phys. Chem. A. 106. (2002): 8070-8078.

Kustin,Kenneth, P. Frank, W.E. Robinson, and K.O. Hodgson. "Unprecedented Forms of Vanadium Observed within the Blood Cells if Phallusia nigra Using K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy." J. Inorg. Biochem. 86. (2001): 635-648.