Jun29
Posted on Jun 29 by
This week Luz finished performing headspace analysis of volatile liquids, hexane and gasoline, on four sample fabrics. These fabrics are denim, linen, polyester, and nylon. The headspace analysis using the GC-MS instrument has shown– through chromatograms and mass spectra, that this method is most likely not sensitive enough to detect the molecules or that the method needs to be adjusted. This is where Luz will get to add in solid-phase microextraction (SPME) to work on improving...
Jun29
Posted on Jun 29 by
The GRAB Lab is excited to welcome Esther Hines, chemistry instructor from Billerica Memorial High School, to the group! Esther is part of our NSF-funded research that includes recruiting an amazing high school chemistry teacher to the group for several weeks over the summer to learn about our work, re-engage in chemistry research activity, and develop an experiment to take back to her high school class. The group is excited for the opportunity to work with Esther and to hopefully visit her class, lab, and students in the fall...
Jun29
Posted on Jun 29 by
Congratulations to Bobby Tzepos and Easwer Raman on their recent publication in Electroanalysis! A number of students worked on this project at Emmanuel College, including Marianna Barnhart and Katarina Kozicki, in addition to all the hard work that Bobby and Easwer put in. This project originated with Dr. Gerdon, Dr. Lauren Toote, and Dr. David Wright at Vanderbilt University and we had some great help from Dr. David Cliffel and Dr. Evan Gizzie. What a great team project! The electrochemistry is the highlight of this work along with the nanoparticle synthesis and conjugation strategies. Check out the work here: https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elan.202100108 and here:...
Jun25
Posted on Jun 25 by
Julia is so excited to be back in the lab for the summer! It is her first time doing summer research on campus. Julia has started running collagen and mineralization QCM experiments with the two sets of instruments that are in the lab. She is planning on continuing these experiments, and hopefully start incorporating new mineralization solutions. She is also planning on ordering and working with DNA origami in the future! She is excited to learn as much as she can from this...
Jun15
Posted on Jun 15 by
Rylie is very excited to be back in the lab full-time this summer! Rylie has begun working on the calcium carbonate project for GRAB Lab and has been spending her time running affinity experiments. For these experiments, Rylie is becoming best friends with our spectrophotometer as she measures absorbance for each sample. She is happy to be learning how to use many instruments in the lab and analyze all the data she has collected from them. Rylie is excited to see what she and the other student researchers will accomplish this...
Jun08
Posted on Jun 8 by
Amanda is so excited to be back in the lab for summer research! After some lab clean-up and literature research, Amanda was able to start running more affinity experiments with DNA and collagen hydrogels. She has also done some planning for the rest of the summer. She has lots of experiments lined up, which means their will be a lot of data to analyze! So far, Amanda is having a great time working with the other summer researchers and she can’t wait to share the results of the experiments she has...
