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Thin Film & Interfacial Chemistry

Our interests are in thin film and interfacial chemistry, generally. We are interested in learning how to actively control the spatial and temporal placement of molecules on the nanometer length scale, a capability which in different guises can be important in sensors, molecular separations, and advanced materials. We are part of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. We have research labs located in the Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering and we are active participants in the Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics Initiative.

Group News

November 2012

• Welcome to our new group members, 1st year grad students Erick Foster (chemical engineering dept.), Nameera Baig, and Wei Xu (chemistry dept.)!

October 2012

• Congratulations to Billy Wichert and Larry Zaino for passing their comprehensive exams!

• Welcome to our new postdoc, Dorothy Ahlf (joint with A. Hummon)!

• Best wishes to our departing postdoc, Barrett Duan in his new position at Tufts University!

September 2012

• Welcome to 1st year Chemistry grad students Wei Xu and Michelle Pillers doing a rotation in our lab this month!

August 2012

• Congratulations to Sneha Polisetti and Yang Yang for passing their comprehensive exams!

July 2012

• Welcome to incoming Chemistry graduate student, Nameera Baig, doing a summer rotation in our lab!

June 2012

• Best wishes to our departing grad student, Windy McNerney, as she begins her new position at Lawrence Livermore National Lab!

• Larry Gibson and Sean Branagan's paper is accepted for publication in Small:
  • Gibson II, L. R.; Branagan, S.P.; Bohn, P.W. "Convective Delivery of Electroactive Species to Annular Nanoband Electrodes Embedded in Nanocapillary Array Membranes," Small, 2012, in press. [DOI 10.1002/smll.201200237]
• Dr. Bohn is awarded an Advancing Basic Cancer (ABC) Research Grant from the Walther Foundation for work on a project with Amanda Hummon (PI) involving the develop of a powerful new imaging technique to construct a detailed chemical and structural understanding of the changes that occur in colorectal spheroids in response to chemotherapeutics

May 2012

• Congratulations to Barrett Duan for successfully defending his doctoral thesis!

• Larry Gibson's paper is accepted for publication in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research:
  • Swaminathan, V.V.; Gibson, L.R. II; Pinti, M.; Prakash, S.; Bohn, P.W.; Shannon, M.A.  “Ionic Transport in Nanocapillary Membrane Systems,” J. Nanopart. Res. 2012, 14, 951-965. [DOI 10.1007/s11051-012-0951-0]
• Sean Branagan's paper is accepted for publication in Analyst:
  • Branagan, S.P.; Bohn, P.W. "Plasmonic Response of Electrified Metal-Liquid Interfaces during Faradaic and non-Faradaic Reactions by Enhanced Optical Transmission,” Analyst, 2012, 137, 3932-3939. [DOI 10.1039/c2an35488h]