THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM, N.Y.
CHEMISTRY
Research with
Students
List of Research Projects
Learning through research
Raman Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab
Chemical and Biological Applications of Raman Spectroscopy (pdf, 7 MB)
Quartz Crystal Nanobalance Lab
Studies
Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance (EQCN) technique utilizes quartz vibrations and piezoelectric effect to measure mass changes as small as a fraction of a monolayer of atoms
Back to
Professor Maria Hepel
hepelmr@potsdam.edu
Research with Students
Stowell Hall
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam , NY 13676, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1.315.267.2267
Fax: +1.315.267.3170
| Postdocs and PhD students |
Dr. Hoda Ilkhani Dr. Katarzyna Kurzatkowska Dr. Magdalena Stobiecka Dr. Agata Chalupa Dr. Anna Nowicka Dr. Karel Lacina Ondrej Kubesa Agata Kowalczyk Daniel Betancourt David Sustr |
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| Current undergraduate research students |
Kathleen Morrisey Samantha Matthews Stefanie Guidice Daniel Coelho Mitchell Mayville Steven Tores Dustin Blake Christopher Li Kiara Peralta Anthony Arena Taylor Hughes |
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| Recent students |
Megan Malone Amanda Prance Janet Peachey Robert Wallace Sara Cutler Jeffrey Deeb Jessica Slaper Haley Redmond Julia Dallas Kenneth Moot Matthew Fayette Erica Sharpe Sean Tuohy Indee Dela Earl Tewksbury Kana Ito Richard Catalano Magdalena Stobiecka Sandra Hazelton Ticia Savage Jan Pribyl Stephen Williams Shaun Hafner Jan Halamek Richard Stephenson Andy Denny Brian Kusak Andrew Graney Christine Mahoney Ming Chen Tania Tannahill Efrossini Cateforis Daniel Pascual Paul Cutter Cynthia Rice Zhang Xingmin Sara Ward Susan Perkins Edith Seymour |
Michel Robinson Henrique Schembry Cortney Poiner Kaitlin Coopersmith Zachary Reed Nicholas Trombley Justine Barcomb Veronica Landau Laura Dentrone Farah Mahdavi Lindsay Facteau Joseph Gagnon Florence Shu Patricia Cookenham Mark Mack Kim Shyer Norine Hull Asani Phillips Jeremiah Yartym Judith Slote Robin Lyndaker Matt Skeels Evon Powell Mary Herzog John Nink Jessica Semanscin Adam Tripp Christopher Baxter Jocelyn Coryea Melanie Filiatrault Jason Kirka Caroline Metzger Laura Adams Gabrielle Stephenson Stephen Ward Scott Spinner Michael Salamy Frederick Boeheim
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Recent Presentations on Scientific Conferences and Symposia:
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International Society of Electrochemistry Meeting, Niagara Falls, Canada, April 27-30, 2014
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ACS Northern New York Local Section Symposium, Plattsburgh, NY April 26, 2014
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SUNY Network of Excellence (NOE) Conference, Syracuse, NY, March 27, 2014
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ACS National Meeting,, NSF Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 19-23, 2012
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North-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Postdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
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PITTCON-2010 Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL, February 28 - March 5, 2010
- 11th International Fischer Symposium on "Microscopy in Electrochemistry", Center for Environment and Culture, Benediktbeuern, Germany, July 26-31, 2009.
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ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, March 22-26, 2009
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19th Annual Great Lakes Consortium Conference, Syracuse, NY, March 13-14, 2009.
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ACS Northern New York Section, Graduate/Undergraduate Symposium, Potsdam, NY, April 4, 2009.
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National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, August 18-22, 2008.
International Conference on Solid State Chemistry, sponsored by IUPAC, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, July 6-11, 2008.
International Conference on Electroanalysis ESEAC-2008, Prague, Czech Republic, June 16-19, 2008
NERM-2008 Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Burlington, VT, June 29- July 2, 2008.
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National Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC, October 2007
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National Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Chicago, IL, May 2007
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National Meeting of te Electrochemical Society, Denver, CO, May, 2006
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Annual ACS North-East Regional Meeting, Binghamton, NY, October 2006
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Recent research projects with students:
DNA Damage Caused by Alkylating Agents Studied by Measuring Onset of
Melting Temperature with Fluorescences Probes - Fall 2011
- Megan Malone,
chemistry major
Preparation of Nanostructured Semiconductors for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Fall 2011
- Henrique Schembry, chemistry major
Role of Glutathione in Preventing DNA Damage - Fall 2011
- Janet Peachey, chemistry major
Development of Sensors for the Detection of Nitrotyrosine Biomarker for
Diabetes - Fall 2011
- Michelle Robinson, chemistry major
DNA Damage Induced by Pesticides - Fall 2011
- Michelle Mayville, chemistry major
Role of Antioxidants in Preventing DNA Damage - Fall 2011
- Amanda Prance, chemistry major
Oxidative Damage in DNA
Caused by Alkylating Agents and Prevention of DNA Damage by Antioxidants -
Spring 2011
- Robert Wallace,
chemistry major
Studies of DNA Damage by
Paraquat - Spring 2011
- Kaitlin Coopersmith,
chemistry major
Studies of DNA Damage
caused by Atrazine Herbicide - Spring 2011
- Amanda Prance,
chemistry major
Interactions of Catechol
with DNA in the Presence of Metal Cations - Spring 2011
- Janet Peachey,
chemistry major
Interactions of Quercetin
with DNA - Spring 2011
- Sara Cutler,
chemistry major
Studies of Binding of
Glutathione and Homocysteine
with Different Fluorescent Thiol Reactive Reagents - Spring 2011
- Cortney Poiner,
chemistry major
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Spring 2011
- Henrique Schembry,
chemistry major
Interaction of Curcumin
with DNA in the Presence of Metal Ions - Spring 2011
- Zachary Reed,
chemistry major
Electrochemical Detection
of DNA Damage Caused by Toxicants - Fall 2010
- Amanda Prance,
chemistry major
Interactions Between the
Phenol Red Dye and Bovine Serum Albumin using AFM, Fluorescence & Raman
Spectroscopy - Fall 2010
- Robert Wallace,
chemistry major
Testing Antioxidants in
Preventing DNA damage - Fall 2010
- Cortney Poiner,
chemistry major
Quercetin as an Antioxidant
& Prooxidant - Fall 2010
- Sara Cutler,
chemistry major
Fluorescences Resonance
Energy Transfer Between Functionalized Coumarin Dyes and Gold Nanoparticles
- Fall 2010
- Kaitlin Coopersmith,
chemistry major
Binding of Metal Ions to
Glutathione studied with EQCN Sensors and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
(ITC) - Fall 2010
- Janet Peachey,
chemistry major
Interactions of Dyes with DNA Films - Spring 2010
- Kaitlin Coopersmith, chemistry major
presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, June 2009
Development of Biosensors for Homocysteine Detection - Spring 2010
- Jeffrey Deeb, chemistry major
presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, June 2009;
coauthor of paper in Biophysical Chemistry 146 (2010) 98-107,
coauthor of paper in Electrochemical Society Transactions 19 [28] (2009) 15-32..
Resonance Elastic Light Scatteringand Plasmonic Phenomena in Glutathione-Mediated Gold Nanoparticles Assembly- Spring 2010
- Zachary Reed, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Oxidative DNA Damage in the Presence of Quercetin and Cu(II) - Spring 2010
- Sara Cutler, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Development of DNA Biosensors for the Detection of Toxicants - Spring 2010
- Amanda Prance, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Oxidative DNA Damage Induced by Metal Ions and Homocysteine - Spring 2010
- Jessica Slaper, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Competitive Adsorption of Glutathione and Homocysteine - Spring 2010
- Nicholas Trombley, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Interactions between Cu(II) Ions - Glutathione - DNA - Spring 2010
- Robert Wallace, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Preparation and Characterization of Thiol Modified Metal Nanoparticles - Spring 2010
- Justine Barcomb, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Preparation and Characterization of Thiol Modified Metal Nanoparticles - Fall 2009
- Jeffrey Deeb, chemistry major
to present at the Nort-East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society NERM-2010 in Potsdam, NY, June 2-5, 2010
Preparation and characterization of silver nanoparticles using dynamic light scattering, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) - Fall 2008
- Veronica Landau, chemistry major
Forensic applications of sound spectrography - Fall 2008
- Justine Barcomb, chemistry major
Interactions and reactivity of Hg(II) on glutathione modified gold nanoparticle electrodes - Spring 2008
- Julia Dallas, chemistry major
presented at the NERM-2008 Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Burlington, VT, June 2008;
coauthor of paper in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 622 (2008)173-183.
Development of sensitive biosensors for the detection of trace level concentrations of Cd(II) ions - Spring 2008
- Matthew Fayette, chemistry major
Effect of dopants on the switching time of electrochromic nanoporous WO3 films - Spring 2008
- Haley Redmond, chemistry major
presentation at the Int. Conference on Solid State Chemistry, Bratyslava, Slovakia, July 2008, sponsored by IUPAC,
coauthor of paper published in Central European Journal of Chemistry 7 (2008) 234-245.
Preparation and characterization of Pt-Fe nanoparticle catalysts for ethanol oxidation - Spring 2008
- Sean Tuohy, chemistry major
Thiol modified electrodes as sensors for the detection of mercury (II) ions at low concentrations - Fall 2007
- Julia Dallas, chemistry major
presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, August 2008;
coauthor of paper published in Sensor and Transducers 8 (2008) 7224-7240.
Effect of intercalated cations on the stability of WO3 films studied using EQCN technique - Fall 2007
- Haley Redmond, chemistry major
Electrochemical oxidation of ethanol on nanoparticulate films - Fall 2007
- Matthew Fayette, chemistry major
Oxidation of formic acid on faceted Pt electrodes - Fall 2007
- Sean Tuohy, chemistry major
Development an testing of biosensors for the detection of mercury (II) ions - Spring 2007
- Julia Dallas, chemistry major
Competitive cation intercalation in optically switchable WO3 films - Spring 2007
- Haley Redmond, chemistry major
Importance of surface diffusion of intermediaes on the performance of different catalysts for the methanol oxidation - Spring 2007
- Kenneth Moot, chemistry major
Electrocatalysis of methanol oxidation on different single crystal Pt faces - Spring 2007
- Matthew Fayette, chemistry major
Ion gating films of tripeptide glutathione - Spring 2007
- Erica Sharpe, chemistry minor
Ion intercalation in electrochromic WO3 films - Fall 2006
- Haley Redmond, chemistry major
Electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol for fuel cells - Fall 2006
- Kenneth Moot - chemistry major
Ion gating films of tripeptide glutathione - Fall 2006
- Erica Sharpe - chemistry minor
Studies of protein films - Fall 2006
- Florence Shu - chemistry major
Lattice stress measurements in electrochromic films - Summer Research 2006
- Haley Redmond, chemistry major: poster presentation at the NERM Conference of the American Chemical Society, Binghamton, NY, October 4-6, 2006;
coauthor of paper published in Electrochimica Acta 52 (2006) 3541-3549.
Electrocatalytic methanol oxidation in novel fuel cells using bimetal catalysts
deposited on nanoporous TiO2 films - Summer Research 2006
- Indee Dela, chemistry major, presentation at the International Symp. on Surfaces / Imaging / Spectroscopy in Krakow, July 7-10, 2006; papers published on-line:
coauthor of paper: Electrochem. Commun. 8/9 (2006) 1439-1444,
coauthor of paper: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32 (2007) 2693-2702,
coauthor of papers: Electrochim Acta 52 (2007) 3541-3549
coauthor of papers: Electrochim Acta 52 (2007) 5529-5547,
Indee is now a graduate student at the University of Rochester.
Interactions of cations with proteins - Summer and Fall 2005
- Florence Shu - chemistry major.
Conformational transitions of BSA in the presence of Cd-u.p.d. and nitrate ions
studied using Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance
- Magdalena Stobiecka, visiting student from Warminsko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn, Poland, Fall 2004; presentations at International Society of Electrochemistry Meetings in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004 and in Busan, Korea, 2005;
coauthor of paper published in: Electrochimica Acta, 50 (2005) 4873-4887,
coauthor of paper published in: Bioelectrochemistry, 70 (2007) 155-164.
Dr. Stobiecka is now a Research Associate in Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland.
Interactions of adsorbed albumin with metal ions and surface active agents
- Indeewari Dela, chemistry major, presentation at the International Symp. on Bioelectrochemistry in Coimbra, Portugal, May 2005;
coauthor of paper published in Bioelectrochemistry, 70 (2007) 155-164.
Nanoporous TiO2
for solar energy conversion and direct methanol fuel cells
Degradation of dye pollutants
Electron density surface
with map of highest Occupied Molecular Orbitals (HOMO) for dye pollutant Remazol Blue Black. Decomposition of pollutants studied by photo-electrocatalytic method using TiO2, WO3, and MoO3 semiconductor electrodes
Quantum Conductance Monatomic Nanobridge Devices
studied using conductanc spectroscopy and AFM/STM
The AFM/STM instrumentation has been funded by the NSF CCLI program, Award No. 0126402.
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