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Over at The World’s Fair, they have an interesting post on The Uncombable Hair Syndrome, and a brief discussion of some reasons why cures for more infectious diseases are not available. It’s worth a few minutes of your time.
is one who forgets to blog about one of their students. In my hurry to finally start blogging again, I seem to have forgotten to write about Victoria, and she caught me. Victoria, I apologize!
Victoria is studying the SERS of p-aminothiophenol on Ag/Au alloy nanoparticles. She has perfected the synthesis of the nanoparticles that Evan started last summer, and has some really amazing extinction spectra to prove it. And now she deserves to give me a hard time. Doh!
So, you happen to work in a lab with a CO2 laser. (And really, who doesn’t?) It’s close to Easter, and you have a box of Peeps, no where to go, nothing to do, and some sweet metal on your iPod. What to do? Take a look:
A late update, of course. Summer research started two weeks ago. This summer, I am working with 4.5 students – you can see who they are by clicking the link to the right, or this one. One of the students, Diane, will be familiar to anyone who read this blog before. Diane is continuing her work with p-(dimethyl)amino cinnamaldehyde, doing some Gaussian calculations to help us assign the SERS spectra.
Katie is working with Liz Atkinson (one of my colleagues) and I. She’s making Au nanoparticle doped aerogels which she’ll use to look at p-mercaptobenzoic acid as potential SERS sensors.
Tracy has started to work on the SERS of polyphenyl oxidase (PPO), and related enzyme kinetics. This is a joint project with Mike Roberts in our biology department.
Yuhong Cao is working on the photoreduction kinetics of p-nitrobenzoic acid on Ag/Au alloy nanoparticle surfaces.
You’ll hear more from each of them as the summer goes on!
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