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Undergrad Andy Bei Wins AIChE Poster Award

Ronghua (Andy) Bei, who participated in the CSN Research Experience for Undergraduates program last summer, has won second place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences IX section of the student poster competition at AIChE, the Global Conference for Chemical Engineering. Andy’s poster was “A Computational Study of the Coverage of Poly(oxonorbornenes) and O-(2-carboxyethyl)-O′-(2-mercaptoethyl)heptaethylene Glycols on Gold Nanoparticles,” based on work he did in the lab of Professor Rigoberto Hernandez at Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ali Rahnamoun.

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez Receives Stanley Israel Award

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez of Johns Hopkins University has been selected for the SERMACS (SouthEastern Regional Meeting of the ACS) Stanley Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences. He received the award on November 1st, in Augusta, GA at the SERMACS conference.

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Prof. Juan Pablo Giraldo Joins the CSN

Welcome to Prof. Juan Pablo Giraldo from UC-Riverside, who is joining the CSN as a seed grant recipient! Prof. Giraldo aims to understand how physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials affect their interactions with plant cellular structures, and he applies nanotechnology to study and engineer plant physiological mechanisms. Check out Juan Pablo’s home page here.

CSN Publication: Stabilization of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles: Preservation and Improvement of Plasmonic Functionalities

Hyunho Kang’s manuscript, entitled “Stabilization of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles: Preservation and Improvement of Plasmonic Functionalities,” has been accepted by Chemical Reviews. Read the manuscript online here. Hyunho Kang, Joseph T. Buchman, Rebeca S. Rodriguez, Hattie L. Ring, Jiayi He, Kyle C. Bantz and Christy L. Haynes, Chemical Reviews, 2018, Accepted.

CSN Manuscript: Lipid Corona Formation from Nanoparticle Interactions with Bilayers

Laura Olenick’s manuscript, entitled “Lipid Corona Formation from Nanoparticle Interactions with Bilayers,” has been published in Chem. Read the manuscript online here. Laura L. Olenick, Julianne M. Troiano, Ariane Vartanian, Eric S. Melby, Arielle C. Mensch, Leili Zhang, Jiewei Hong, Oluwaseun Mesele, Tian Qiu, Jared Bozich, Samuel Lohse, Xi Zhang, Thomas R. Kuech, Augusto Millevolte, Ian Gunsolus, Alicia C. McGeachy, Merve Doğangün, Tianzhe Li, Dehong Hu, Stephanie R. Walter, Aurash Mohaimani, Angela Schmoldt, Marco D. Torelli, Katherine R. Hurley, Joe Dalluge, Gene Chong, Z. Vivian Feng, Christy L. Haynes, Robert J. Hamers, Joel A. Pedersen, Qiang Cui, Rigoberto Hernandez, Rebecca Klaper, Galya Orr, Catherine J. Murphy and Franz M. Geiger, Chem, 2018, 4 (11), 2709-2723.

CSN Study Featured on NSF News

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A recent CSN publication in the journal Chem, “Lipid Corona Formation from Nanoparticle Interactions with Bilayers,” has been featured on the National Science Foundation news feed with the headline “Study provides insight into how nanoparticles interact with biological systems.” With a total of 36 co-authors, the article’s first author was Laura Olenick, working in the lab of Professor Franz Geiger. You can read the original press release from Northwestern University here and the online article on the Chem site here.

CSN Publication: First-Principles and Thermodynamics Study of Compositionally Tuned Complex Metal Oxides: Cation Release from the (001) Surface of Mn-Rich Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide

Joe Bennett’s manuscript, entitled “First-Principles and Thermodynamics Study of Compositionally Tuned Complex Metal Oxides: Cation Release from the (001) Surface of Mn-Rich Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide,” has been published in Inorganic Chemistry. Read the manuscript online here. Joseph W. Bennett, Diamond T. Jones, Robert J. Hamers and Sara E. Mason, Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 57 (21), 13300-13311.

CSN Publication: Linking nanomaterial properties to biological outcomes: Analytical chemistry challenges in nanotoxicology for the next decade

Autumn Qiu’s manuscript, entitled “Linking nanomaterial properties to biological outcomes: analytical chemistry challenges in nanotoxicology for the next decade,” has been published in Chemical Communications. Read the manuscript online here. Tian Autumn Qiu, Peter Clement and Christy Haynes, Chemical Communications, 2018, 54 12787-12803.

CSN Publication: Copper Based Nanomaterials Suppress Root Fungal Disease in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus): Role of Particle Morphology, Composition and Dissolution Behavior,

Jaya Borgatta’s manuscript, entitled “Copper Based Nanomaterials Suppress Root Fungal Disease in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus): Role of Particle Morphology, Composition and Dissolution Behavior,” has been published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Read the manuscript 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, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6 (11), 14847-14856.