Research in our group focuses on the microscopic and spectroscopic analysis of luminescent and plasmonic nanostructures and their integration with microfluidic devices with potential applications for the development of novel biological and environmental sensors. Our research goals are inherently multidisciplinary and draw on skills from analytical, materials, physical and surface chemistries as well as biology and engineering.
We are affiliated with the Biosciences Program, the Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Institute (NNI@UI), and the Optical Science and Technology Center (OSTC).
We reside in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories (IATL) building.
News
November 2009: Kyungtag's paper on using peptide modified gold nanoparticles for the SERS based detection of an anthrax biomarker is accepted in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.
October 2009: The group attends and gives seven presentations at the 2009 Midwest Regional ACS Meeting in Iowa City.
October 2009: Amanda attends and gives three presentations on the group's work at the 2009 FACSS Conference in Louisville.
September 2009: Maryuri, Niraj, and Sudip's paper on centrifugation induced gold nanoparticle cluster formation is accepted in Langmuir!
August 2009: Scott finishes up his last day in the group and starts up his graduate career in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Iowa.
August 2009: Amanda presents at and attends the ACS Conference in DC.
August 2009: Our labs in IATL are balanced and things seem close to pre-flood condition!
July 2009: Lindsay finishes up her summer project with the group by presenting at the 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Festival at the University of Iowa.
July 2009: Maryuri finishes up her post doc group with the group. We wish her and Juan well in Wisconsin!
June 2009: Brandon successfully defends his master's thesis. Congratulations Brandon!
June 2009: Catherine Morita, a local high school student, joins the group and will work with Mike this summer!
May 2009: Undergraduate Lindsay Griffith (John Brown University) joins the group for the summer. Lindsay joins us through NNI@UI's NSF funded REU Program.
May 2009: Scott graduates from the University of Iowa with an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. Congratulations Scott!
April 2009: Scott presents a poster on his research at the 2009 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival at the University of Iowa.
April 2009: Anna helps teach local Girl Scouts about nanoscience and nanotechnology through AXE.
April 2009: The group welcomes Niraj Pandya into the group. Niraj is a first year graduate student in the chemistry department.
April 2009: Amanda gives a talk and Anna, Brandon, Mike, and Varuni give posters on their research at the 2009 OSTC Symposium in Iowa City.
March 2009: Anna, Gayani, and Marie presented posters on their research while Mike gave a talk on his research at the 2009 Jakobsen Conference in Iowa City.
March 2009: Regan Keeney, a summer of 2008 REU student in the group, presented her research at the ACS Conference in Salt Lake City.
March 2009: Amanda, Scott, Varuni, Mike, Maryuri, and Brandon attend and present their research at the 2009 Pittcon Conference in Chicago.
March 2009: Dr. Sudip Nath joins the group as a post doctoral associate. Sudip received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology and recently finished up a post doc at the University of Central Florida. Welcome Sudip!
February 2009: The group attends and Maryuri, Mike, and Scott present posters on their work at the 2009 NNI@UI symposium.
January 2009: Anna is notified that she is a 2009 GAANN Research Fellow. Congratulations Anna!
January 2009: Our first paper on understanding how surface chemistry and stability of gold nanoparticles impact capillary electrophoresis separations of neurotransmitters is accepted in ACS Nano. Excellent work, Mike and Heidi!
December 2008: We welcome Gayani Dedduwa Mudalige, Anna Volkert, and Marie Pierre, three first year graduate students from the chemistry department, to our group!
December 2008: Amanda presents at the 2008 Extreme Biosensors Conference in Maui.
December 2008: Amanda returns to Northwestern University to accept the 2004 Excellence in Graduate Research Award.
December 2008: Maryuri, Mike, and Kyungtag present at the 2008 MRS Conference in Boston.
November 2008: Amanda presents at the 2008 LEOS Conference in Newport Beach, California.
November 2008: We move back to IATL!
October 2008: Mike presents at the 2008 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting.
October 2008: Amanda presents at the 2008 FACSS conference in Reno.
September 2008: Maryuri's paper on membrane encapsulated gold nanoparticles is accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Excellent work, Maryuri!
September 2008: Dr. Varuni Subramaniam joins the group as a post doctoral associate. Varuni received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Arizona.
August 2008: David and Regan finish up their summer research projects with us. We wish them luck as they finish up their degrees at Wartburg College and Loras College, respectively.
August 2008: Amanda is quoted in an article regarding the flooding of IATL which was in the August 4, 2008 issue of C&E News.
August 2008: Amanda presents at the 2008 Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium in Manchester, England.
July 2008: We are notified that the Haes Group will receive funding from the Carver Charitable Trust to pursue research to engineer nanostructures for cancer drug detection!
June 2008: Our first paper is accepted in Nanomedicine. Congratulations Maryuri!
June 2008: IATL floods. We temporarily move to the Chemistry Building.
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