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Publication! Students publish in analytical chemistry journal

Publication! Students publish in analytical chemistry journal

Posted by on Mar 21, 2020 in Posts

Congratulations to undergraduate students and chemistry alumni on their recent article published in Analytica Chimica Acta titled “Selected DNA aptamers as hydroxyapatite affinity reagents“. This work has been a long time in the making beginning with the origins of our SELEX work by Hillary Butts and Samantha Watson. This particular selection...

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Gabby Zabala ’21 – QCM Questions

Gabby Zabala ’21 – QCM Questions

Posted by on Mar 5, 2020 in Posts

Gabby has made her way into the lab this semester! She became involved in Dr. Gerdon’s research team last semester and has finally started working on some QCM analysis. So far Gabby has measured the change in frequency compared to the change in resistance for several QCM crystals in a non-mass loading system. Once this initial experiment is done, Gabby...

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Rylie Bolarinho ’22 – New Nanoparticles!

Rylie Bolarinho ’22 – New Nanoparticles!

Posted by on Mar 5, 2020 in Posts

Rylie is very excited to start working in the lab this semester! In the fall, Rylie joined Dr. Gerdon’s research group after reading several literature papers and coming to group meetings. Now, she is working on gold nanoparticle synthesis using a new molecule, 3-mercaptobenzoic acid, as the organic group. Using the Azubel method, she hopes to be able to...

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