REU Site: SENSORS--Design to Implementation IREE project summary October 2007- October 2008
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| Abstract | Under an international partnership between Dr. Caroline L. Schauer of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and Dr. Sabine Szunerits of the Institut d'Electronique, de Microelectronic et Nanotechnologie in Lille, France, and through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Keith Fahnestock and Holly McIlwee traveled to work in Lille for three months. The research goal was to investigate the selectivity of chitosan-gold nanoparticle thin film interfaces through the localized surface plasmon phenomenon. Upon completion of the program, a chitosan thin film interface had been tailored to the application, and it was found that chitosan has a chromium charge selectivity between trivalent and hexavalent chromium. As a result of this partnership, a paper with Drs. Schauer and Szunerits has been submitted to The Analyst and a poster was presented at the American Chemical Society's Fall 2008 national conference. |
| Contributor | Mourad Ouzzani
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| Bio | Keith Fahnestock was a SENSORS participant summer 2008 and is expected to receive his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University in June of 2009. His concentration is on polymeric materials. He plans to continue his education with Dr. Caroline Schauer at Drexel by pursuing a PhD investigating the synthesis and characterization of polymer thin film interfaces.
Holly McIlwee was a SENSORS participant summer 2007 and received her BS/MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University under the direction of Dr. Schauer June 2008. She received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2009-2011 and will begin her PhD at Harvard University in the Department of Bioengineering fall 2009. Caroline Schauer received a BS in Chemistry from Beloit College in Beloit, WI in 1991; MS and PhD in Chemistry from SUNY@ Stony Brook in 1994 and 1997, respectively. She was a postdoctoral researcher at SMCT at University Twente, the Netherlands, Chemistry Department at Tufts University and the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at NRL. She joined Drexel University as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering fall 2003. Her current work is focused on nanofibers for filtration and thin films of polysaccharides for metal ion detection. Dr. Schauer has over 26 peer-reviewed publications in such fields as thin films, biosensors, metal ion detection and nanofibers. Sabine Szunerits received an M.SC. (1994) in Chemistry from University of Vienna, Austria and a PhD (1998) in Physical Chemistry from the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Normale Super CNRS, Paris, France and the Chemistry Department at Tufts University. Since 2002, she is a professor at the Grenoble-INP Laboratoire d'Electrochimie et de Physiochimie des Materiaux et des Interfaces (LEPMI) in France. Dr. Szunerits has over 72 peer-reviewed publications in such fields as SPR, biosensors, modified diamond surfaces, LSPR and electrochemistry. |
| Cite this work | Researchers should cite this work as follows: Keith Fahnestock, Holly McIlwee, Caroline Schauer and Sabine Szunerits, "REU Site: SENSORS--Design to ImplementationIREE project summary October 2007- October 2008", Trip report presented at the NSF IREE 2008 Grantees Conference, May 2008, Washington, D.C. |
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