CSN graduate student Natalie Hudson-Smith has won one a 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota.This grant will help support Natalie’s stay in Valencia, Spain to do CSN-related protein corona studies central to Associate Director Christy Haynes’ sabbatical research. ¡Felicitaciones!
Meng Wu’s manuscript, entitled “Solution NMR Analysis of Ligand Environment in Quaternary Ammonium-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles: The Effect of Surface Curvature and Ligand Structure,” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read the online publication here. Meng Wu, Ariane M. Vartanian, Gene Chong, Arun Kumar Pandiakumar, Robert J. Hamers, Rigoberto Hernandez and Catherine J. Murphy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, Accepted.
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy and Murphy group alumna Ariane Vartanian were recently interviewed by the American Chemical Society in honor of the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can read the interview here.
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, which is granted by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section. Dr. Murphy will present the Remsen Lecture on May 30 at the 47th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Congratulations, Cathy!
The CSN manuscript entitled “Curvature-driven adsorption of cationic nanoparticles to phase boundaries in multicomponent lipid bilayers,” has been published in Nanoscale. Read the online publication here. Jonathan Sheavly, Joel A. Pedersen and Reid C. Van Lehn, Nanoscale, 2019, 11 (6), 2767-2778.
The manuscript entitled “β-Cyclodextrin Polymers on Microcrystalline Cellulose as a Granular Media for Organic Micropollutant Removal from Water,” has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology and the Center for Sustainable Polymers. Read the online publication here. Diego M. Alzate-Sánchez, Yuhan Ling, Chenjun Li, Benjamin P. Frank, Reiner Bleher, D. Howard Fairbrother, Damian E. Helbling and William R. Dichtel, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, Accepted.
CSN graduate student Sunipa Pramanik (Haynes group) recently defended her thesis, entitled “Interactions of Semiconductor Nanoparticles with Environmentally Relevant Bacteria Model.” Congratulations, Dr. Pramanik! Sunipa Pramanik (left) defends her doctoral thesis
CSN graduate student Joe Buchman (Haynes group) recently defended his thesis, entitled “An investigation of nanoparticle toxicity mechanisms against environmentally-relevant organisms and the potential for sustainable agriculture applications.” Congratulations, Dr. Buchman!
The CSN manuscript by Borgatta et al, entitled “Copper Based Nanomaterials Suppress Root Fungal Disease in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus): Role of Particle Morphology, Composition and Dissolution Behavior,” has been highlighted by a ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering special issue that you can read online here. Jaya Borgatta, Chuanxin Ma, Natalie Hudson-Smith, Wade Elmer, Cristian David Plaza Pérez, Roberto De La Torre-Roche, Nubia Zuverza-Mena, Christy L. Haynes, Jason C. White and Robert J. Hamers (2018). ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6 (11), 14847-14856. Read the article online here.
Wade Elmer’s manuscript, entitled “Nanoparticles for plant disease management,” has been accepted by Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. Read the online publication here. Wade Elmer, Chuanxin Ma and Jason White, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2018, 6 66-70.
