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.