News
10/30/2007
Katy's paper entitled: "Improved Solid-Contact Electrochemical Polyion Sensors for Monitoring Peptidase Activities" Fordyce K., Shvarev A.,
was accepted for the publication in Analytical Chemistry.
10/29/2007 Please welcome new group members:
Valeriya Bychkova, David Ohm, and Erika Scortino. Valeriya is a first year PhD student. David and Erika are undergraduate students at OSU.
09/06/2007
VERY SMALL ANIMALS
This is not the Milky Way!
Katy synthesized a batch of submicron-sized poly(decyl methacrylate) particles using emulsion polymerization process.
We plan to use them as a photoresponsive sensing platform. The polymeric beads were loaded with DiIC18, objective 100x.

09/02/2007
Alexey is back after working in the Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory at UC Davis.
06/21/2007
Alexey officially announced his summer visiting professor appointment in the Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory at University of California at Davis.
06/20/2007
We plan to have an informal group meeting at the Lane County Ice Center in Eugene on Sunday June 24 at 2 pm. Let's do some ice skating. Summer is hot, we will stay on the ice.
06/19/2007
We officially started our collaboration with Dr. Shane Peper of Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory (PNNL). Our work is funded by a subcontract from PNNL.
05/23/2007
Hasini Perera has been selected to receive Milton Harris Graduate Fellowship during the summer 2007
and 2007 Courtney and Dorothy Benedict Award presented annually to a graduate student who demonstrated excellence in research.
Congratulations!
05/16/2007
Our first proposal was funded! The program "ONAMI Nanometrology and Nanoelectronics Initiative" is funded by ONAMI and Office of Naval Research.
"Beyond sensing under equilibrium: photoresponsive nanoprobes for rapid localized acid-base titration", Collaborators Oksana Ostroverkhova (OSU) and David McIntyre (OSU).
05/09/2007
Our second paper entitled:
Perera H., Fordyce K.M., Shvarev A. Pulsed Galvanostatic Control of Solid-State Polymeric Ion-Selective Electrodes , Anal. Chem. 2007, ASAP article, published online May 9.
has been accepted for the publication in Analytical Chemistry.