PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
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Jefferson Chan |
Development of assays to quantify critical biomarkers for aging, neurological disorders, and cancer; discovery of changes in the tissue microenvironment during disease progression through synthesis of responsive imaging agents; design of responsive platforms for ondemand and site-selective drug discovery |
Andrew A. Gewirth | Alternative energy; batteries; fuel cells; solar; interfacial electrochemistry; spectroscopy; structure |
Hee-Sun Han | High throughput, high-resolution omics technologies: lab on a chip platforms, imaging-based spatial transciptomics; Synthetic cell assembly; Systems biology in brains and microbial populations. |
Prashant K. Jain | Energy chemistry; sustainable chemical synthesis; electrochemistry; plasmonics; artificial photosynthesis; multielectron catalysis; nanoscale imaging |
Christy F. Landes | Developing new spectroscopic tools to image chemical dynamics at interfaces at the limit of a single event; creating new models to understand and predict macroscale processes like protein separation and photocatalysis |
Stephan Link |
Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy |
Xiaotang Lu (starting January 2025) |
Brain circuit imaging for understanding the development and pathology of the central nervous system: correlated multidimensional (from nanoscale to whole brains) and multiplexed (transcriptomic and proteomic) imaging; (bio)chemical probes; nanoparticles; tissue chemistry; and advanced microscopy |
Catherine J. Murphy | Inorganic nanomaterials for chemical sensing and cellular imaging; bioanalytical studies of the “protein corona” around nanoparticles; photothermal therapy with targeted nanoparticles |
Interfacial electrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM); spectroelectrochemistry; automated electrochemistry; nanoelectrodes; batteries; electrocatalysis; graphene electrodes; redox polymers; electrochemical simulation; reactive oxygen species | |
Mei Shen | Bioanalytical chemistry; nanoelectrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy; synaptic neurotransmission; neurochemistry; single-cell signaling at high spatiotemporal resolution; fast-scan cyclic voltammetry; monitoring real-time neurotransmitter and cytokines dynamics in mice brain; inflammation; immune response; Alzheimer’s disease; glioblastoma; gut-brain axis; plant biology |
Jonathan V. Sweedler | Analytical neurochemistry, including development of new tools for metabolomics; peptidomics and singlecell characterization; increasing our understanding of cell signaling in the brain |
Other Faculty with Interests in Analytical Chemistry:
PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
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Rohit Bhargava (faculty affiliate) | Infrared and Raman spectroscopy; chemical imaging; cancer pathology; 3D printing for tumor models |
Dana D. Dlott (emeritus faculty) | Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions |
Mary L. Kraft (faculty affiliate) | Biomembrane composition imaging |
Liviu M. Mirica | Development of diagnostic and imaging agents for neurological disorders; electrocatalysis for small molecule activation |
Shuming Nie | Quantum Dots; SERS; Nanomedicine; Image-Guided Surgery; Biomaterials; Cancer Immunotherapy |
Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty) | Condensed phase interfaces; analytical protocols |
Elena Romanova (research faculty) | Mass spectrometry-based discovery and characterization of peptides in tissues and individual cells |
Stanislav Rubakhin (research faculty) | Microbioanalytical chemistry; mass spectrometry imaging; single-cell and single-organelle sample preparation |
Stephen G. Sligar (emeritus faculty) | Nanobiotechnology; drug discovery |
Huimin Zhao (faculty affiliate) | Synthetic biology; AI/ML; automation; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; natural product biosynthesis; biocatalysis |