Research

Bioanalytical Chemistry on Surfaces of Nanomaterials: 

From Nanofabrication, to Sensors and Chips

      Our research focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of nanomaterials and applying this understanding to engineer nanomaterial surface properties, particularly those relevant to analytical, biological, and material problems. Currently, we have these projects running in the group:

Project #1: Bench-Top Nanolithography

We employ economic and facile processes for material surface molecular environment control and functional nanomaterial synthesis, and explore their uses on analytical platform designs.

Project #2: Nanomaterials for Biosensing

We are interested in both surface-based and colloid-based sensors. Sensing chips take advantage of the surface environment control we have, while functional colloidal materials rely on the unique green chemistry preparation developed in the group.

Project #3: Novel Analytical Platforms

Substrates with delicate surface environment control can be used for many special analytical chemistry applications. Furthermore, we are also interested in portable devices due to their ease of operation and on-site detection properties. We work on both optical and electrical devices.