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| Lindsay Freeman at Research Expo on Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 |
NanoEngineering meets chemic engineering meets electrical engineering for Lindsay Freeman, a graduate pupil at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. Freeman is getting a Ph.D. inwards chemic engineering, her dwelling solid subdivision is NanoEngineering, in addition to she is doing her query inwards an electrical engineering lab.
Freeman presented a poster on the fusion betwixt optical physics in addition to chemical scientific discipline at Research Expo on Thursday, Apr xiv (see abstract below in addition to consider all poster abstracts here).
“The nucleic acids inwards deoxyribonucleic acid strands functionalized to silvery bring been shown to bring fluorescent properties, similar to a fluoroflore,” said Freeman. “This is due to the accuse transfer effect; unloose energy is given off equally lite when the electrons motion betwixt the orbitals of the atoms of the nucleic acids in addition to those of silver. We desire to sympathise why this works. It began equally trying to sympathise nucleic acid-silver composites, exactly turned into, ‘Can nosotros utilization this equally a means to figure out how molecules bind to a surface?’”
Freeman, from South Carolina, knew she wanted to live on an engineer. As a child, she loved to laid computers, in addition to pursued estimator engineering equally a result. However, she shifted away from it when she realized she actually liked chemistry.
“My passion is inwards bio-detection,” said Freeman. “I similar the fusion betwixt electrical in addition to chemic engineering – the interdisciplinary consequence of looking at biosensors. There are 2 components: sensors are easily understood past times science, exactly biological scientific discipline is difficult. I discovery this champaign to live on challenging.”
Freeman says she chose UC San Diego because the schoolhouse is dedicated to both engineering in addition to medicine, in addition to San Diego is a well-known hub for biotech. “I looked at the facilities offered, the collaboration opportunities.”
Freeman plans to consummate a postdoc at UC San Diego earlier pursuing other chore opportunities inwards the area.
Regarding Research Expo, Freeman says, “My finish is to larn amend communicating science. In add-on to networking amongst manufacture professionals, I also beloved interacting amongst other students. We set out all this smashing research, in addition to this is the 1 fourth dimension nosotros larn to consider all of our swain graduate students inwards 1 place.”
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92. SIMULATED RAMAN CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY FOR NUCLEIC ACID-SILVER COMPOSITES BINDING ANALYSIS
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Institute Affiliation: Graduate Program inwards Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor(s): Y. Shaya Fainman
Research Institute Affiliation: Graduate Program inwards Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor(s): Y. Shaya Fainman
Abstract
Plasmonic devices are of smashing involvement due to their mightiness to bound lite to the nanoscale score in addition to dramatically growth the intensity of the electromagnetic field, performance equally high performance platforms for Raman betoken enhancement. While Raman spectroscopy has been proposed equally a tool to position the preferential binding sites in addition to adsorption configurations of molecules to nanoparticles, the results bring been express past times the supposition that a unmarried binding site is responsible for molecular adsorption. Here, nosotros prepare the simulated Raman correlation spectroscopy (SRCS) procedure to produce upwards one's heed which binding sites of a molecule preferentially bind to a plasmonic cloth in addition to inwards what capacity. We apply the method to the representative of nucleic acids binding to silver, discovering that multiple atoms are responsible for adsorption kinetics. This method tin dismiss live on applied to futurity systems, such equally to written report the molecular orientation of adsorbates to films or poly peptide conformation upon adsorption.
Plasmonic devices are of smashing involvement due to their mightiness to bound lite to the nanoscale score in addition to dramatically growth the intensity of the electromagnetic field, performance equally high performance platforms for Raman betoken enhancement. While Raman spectroscopy has been proposed equally a tool to position the preferential binding sites in addition to adsorption configurations of molecules to nanoparticles, the results bring been express past times the supposition that a unmarried binding site is responsible for molecular adsorption. Here, nosotros prepare the simulated Raman correlation spectroscopy (SRCS) procedure to produce upwards one's heed which binding sites of a molecule preferentially bind to a plasmonic cloth in addition to inwards what capacity. We apply the method to the representative of nucleic acids binding to silver, discovering that multiple atoms are responsible for adsorption kinetics. This method tin dismiss live on applied to futurity systems, such equally to written report the molecular orientation of adsorbates to films or poly peptide conformation upon adsorption.
Industry Application Area(s)
Electronics/Photonics | Materials | Biosensing
Electronics/Photonics | Materials | Biosensing