CSN Director Bob Hamers has been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new types of chemical sensors based on arrays of NV centers in single-crystal diamond. This work is an outgrowth from nanoparticles developed by CSN. For more information, see press released from UW-Madison and the NSF.
Two CSN graduate students recently received awards at the annual conference of the National Organization for the professional advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). UW-Madison student Izzy Foreman-Ortiz won a NOBCChE poster award, which provides $500 and support to attend Pittcon in 2019, for her poster, “Anionic Nanoparticles disrupt Gramicidin A (gA) Activity in Model Phospholipid Bilayers.” University of Iowa student Diamond Jones received an Advancing Science Conference Grant to attend the conference and present her talk, “Modeling the Dissolution of Compositionally-Tuned Complex Metal oxides from First Principles.”
Arielle C. Mensch’s manuscript, entitled “Quaternary Amine-Terminated Quantum Dots Induce Structural Changes to Supported Lipid Bilayers,” has been published in Langmuir. Read the manuscript online here. Arielle C. Mensch, Joseph T. Buchman, Christy L. Haynes, Joel A. Pedersen and Robert J. Hamers, Langmuir, 2018, 34 (41), 12369-12378.
Eric Melby and Caley Allen published a manuscript entitled “Peripheral Membrane Proteins Facilitate Nanoparticle Binding at Lipid Bilayer Interfaces” in Langmuir. Read the manuscript online here. Eric S. Melby*, Caley Allen*, Isabel Foreman-Ortiz, Emily Caudill, Thomas R. Kuech, Ariane M. Vartanian, Xi Zhang, Catherine J. Murphy, Rigoberto Hernandez and Joel A. Pedersen, Langmuir, 2018, 34 (36), 10793-10805. *Authors contributed equally
Denise N. Williams’s manuscript, entitled “Adverse Interactions of Luminescent Semiconductor Quantum Dots with Liposomes and Shewanella oneidensis,” has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Read the manuscript online here. Denise N. Williams, Sunipa Pramanik, Richard P. Brown, Bo Zhi, Eileen McIntire, Natalie V. Hudson-Smith, Christy L. Haynes and Zeev Rosenzweig, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1 (9), 4788-4800.
Professor Cathy Murphy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was recognized in the recent “Women in Nanotechnology” virtual issue of the journal ACS Nano. The description of the issue says, “Growing numbers of exciting nanoscience and nanotechnology projects led by women scientists are increasing our knowledge of fundamental physical, chemical, and biological properties of materials and applying these advances across science, engineering, and medicine. In this virtual issue, ACS Nano highlights the work of research groups led by women investigators worldwide in a celebration of their contributions to excellent science.” See the full virtual issue here.
Liz Laudadio’s manuscript, entitled “Impact of Phosphate Adsorption on Complex Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticle Dispersibility in Aqueous Media,” has been published in Environmental Science & Technology. Read the manuscript online here. Elizabeth D. Laudadio, Joseph Bennett, Curtis Green, Sara E. Mason and Robert J. Hamers, Environmental Science & Technology, 2018, 52 (17), 10186-10195.
Stephanie L. Mitchell’s manuscript, entitled “Tiny Things with Enormous Impact: Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Infectious Disease,” has been accepted by ACS Infectious Diseases. Read the manuscript online here. Stephanie L. Mitchell and Erin E. Carlson, ACS Infectious Diseases, 2018, 4 (10), 1432-1435.
Gene Chong’s manuscript, entitled “Adsorption Dynamics and Structure of Polycations on Citrate-Coated Gold Nanoparticles,” has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Read the manuscript online here. Gene Chong and Rigoberto Hernandez, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018, 122 (34), 19962-19969.
Jason White’s News & Views article, entitled “Achieving food security through the very small,” has been published in Nature Nanotechnology. Read the manuscript online here. Jason C. White and Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Nature Nanotechnology, 2018, 13 (8), 627-629.
