Lindsay Amos

PhD Student

Email: lkamos@umich.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The need to quantitatively analyze volatile organic compounds (VOC) in complex mixtures is crucial to numerous problems of societal concern, including mapping/ remediating environmental pollution, assessing human exposure to toxic chemicals, diagnosing disease, battling terrorism, and ensuring indoor air quality. Analysis using microsensor arrays employing thiolate-monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles (MPN) as vapor detectors in a microfabricated gas chromatograph (mGC) is one way to assess these issues in real-time. My research interests include developing new materials that may lend selectivity toward nitroaliphatic/aromatic marker compounds of explosives (composite mixtures of MPNs and metal phthalocyanines (MPc)), investigating new transducers and combinations thereof that can provide a greater degree of discrimination among the components in vapor mixtures (a chemiresistor (CR), a thickness-shear mode resonator (TSMR), and an opto-fluidic ring resonator (OFRR)), and integrating these sensor technologies into a mGC.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Michigan (2009-present)

Department of Chemistry (Concentration: Analytical Chemistry)

B.A., Washington and Jefferson College

Concentration: Chemistry (Minor in Mathematics)

HONORS & AWARDS

Rackham Merit Fellowship
NIOSH Education Research Training Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

Zellers, E.T.; Serrano, G.; Chang, H.; Amos, L.K. “A Micro Gas Chromatograph for High-Speed Determinations of Explosive Markers” Proc. Transducers ’11, Beijing, China, June 5-9, 2011, pp. 2082-2085.

PRESENTATIONS

Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium, 08-2008, Akron University, “Synthesis and Optical Properties of Triphenylamine Substituted Anthracene Bisimide Derivatives”
ACS National Meetings: 04-2008, New Orleans, LA, & 03-2009, Salt Lake City, UT, “An Intramolecular Conjugate Addition Approach to the Synthesis of Lunamarine”
Vaughan Symposium 08-2010, Poster Presentation “Vapor Discrimination with Resistive Films of Gold-Thiolate Nanoparticles Doped with Metal Phthalocyanines”
Materials Student Seminar 03-25-2011, “Single and Multi-Transducer Arrays Employing Nanoparticle Interface Layers as Vapor Detectors for a Microfabricated Gas Chromatograph”
WIMS IAB Meeting 05-2011, Poster Presentation “Multi-Transducer Arrays using Nanoparticle Interface Layers for Vapor Discrimination”
WIMS IAB Meeting 05-2011, Poster Presentation “Integrated Nanoscale Sensor Arrays for Micro GC Detection”
Vaughan Symposium 07-2011, Poster Presentation “Multi-Transducer Arrays using Nanoparticle Interface Layers for Vapor Discrimination”

WHEN I AM NOT IN THE LAB, I AM

Reading, painting, watching The Big Bang Theory, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Penguins hockey, and learning how to shoot my bow.

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