Faculty Research Interests
University of Iowa analytical chemistry faculty and their basic research interests are listed below. Web pages with a more detailed description can be obtained by clicking on an individual faculty members name in the list.
| Mark A. Arnold | Chemical sensing for real-time monitoring, noninvasive chemical sensing, near infrared spectroscopy, noninvasive blood glucose measurements, bioreactor monitoring, real-time monitoring of hemodialysis, chemometrics, optical sensors, fluorescence dynamic quenching, radioluminescents, remote and real-time oxygen sensors, environmental sensors, microprobes for sampling extracellular spaces, and in situ measurements of neurochemical systems. |
| Don Cannon | Bioanalytical chemistry; enhanced sensing via nanoscale phenomena; electrochemistry, electrogenerated chemiluminescence, separations, microfabricated devices; single-cell and subcellular analysis; free-radical monitoring; neurochemical communication between glial and neuronal cell types. |
| Lei Geng |
Cancer diagnosis with optical spectroscopy, protein structure and dynamics, molecular processes in chemical separations, DNA probes, single molecule detection and imaging, two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy, time-resolved spectroscopy, confocal imaging, capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrochromatography. |
| Vicki H. Grassian |
Surface science of environmental interfaces: heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry of the components of mineral dust - carbonates, clays and oxides: mineral dust and its impact on global processes - climate, biogeochemistry and health; applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes - remediation, CWA decontamination, Fe nanoparticles in natural systems, impacts of nanomaterials on human health |
| Amanda J. Haes | Bioanalytical chemistry, capillary electrophoresis, fluorescence, nanoscience, Raman spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance |
| Sarah C. Larsen |
Applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental catalysis, remediation, CWA decontamination, drug delivery; EPR and solid state NMR; synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline zeolites and zeolite structures. |
| Johna Leddy |
Electrochemistry, mass and electron transfer processes, electrochemical interfaces, polymer-modified electrodes, fuel cells, electrocatalysis, relationship between microstructure and mass transport, modeling, computer simulations, and magnetic and density gradient composites. |
| Gary W. Small |
Chemical sensing methods based on infrared spectroscopy, clinical applications of near-infrared spectroscopy, noninvasive spectroscopic sensors for blood glucose, passive infrared remote sensing for real-time monitoring of airborne pollutants, airborne infrared imaging for detection and identification of pollutant sources, biomedical applications of Fourier transform infrared microscopic imaging, signal processing, pattern recognition, numerical optimization, multivariate calibration, and image processing techniques for analysis of spectroscopic data. |
| Alexei V. Tivanski |
Nanoscience, nanoscale studies of mechanical, optical and electrical properties of organic molecules, polymers and biomolecules (single molecules, molecular thin films and interfaces, nanostructures); chemical speciation and enviromental processing of individual submicron atmospheric aerosols and their impact on climate and enviroment; reactive spectromicroscopy of individual submicron aerosols. |
