News & Highlights(Selected)

2008

• Scientific American on May 2, 2008 in the news, “A Silver Coating in the Fight against Microbes” Silver nanoparticles could be the next step forward in antibacterial products. By Monica Heger. Our research on vegetable oil-based antimicrobial coating has been highlighted.

• The New York Times on April 9, 2008 in Technology Innovation, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods” Our research on green surfactants, amphiphiles and chemicals from biobased resources are highlighted.

• Prof. John featured in ‘Mathrubhumi’, National Newspaper, India on March 09, 2008

• ‘Nanoparticles help paint resist germs’ Materials Today, Feb 20, 2008 by Mark E. Greene.

• ‘Silver nanoparticles: Protective paints’ news@Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 25 January 2008 | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.27

• ‘Drying paint delivers a silver bullet’ C&EN, Jan. 28, 2008, Volume 86 (4), 57

• ‘Silver-nanoparticle-embedded antimicrobial paints based on vegetable oil’, MRS web news, Jan 23. 2008.

• Front page news feature of CCNY and Rice University ‘low-cost, 'green' way to make antimicrobial paints’ January 22, 2008.

• ‘Antimicrobial vegetable oil-based paints’ AOCS web news.

• ‘Nano-based antimicrobial paint is created’ United Press International (UPI), Jan. 24, 2008.

• Biopact.com/2008/01 The bioeconomy at work: researchers develop low-cost, bio-based technique to make antimicrobial paint.

2007

• Newsweek Magazine “Smart Gel-O” Feb, 2007. Our research on BIOBASED Materials synthesis has been highlighted.

• ‘Design and development of soft nanomaterials from biobased amphiphiles’ Soft Matter 2006, 2, 909: Highlighted in Nature 2007, 445, 5.

• Special feature, Decade of Science-CUNY MATTERS, March 2007(center-spread article).

2006

• Chemical & Engineering News, 2006, 27, 48 (by Linda Wang)

• Liquid crystal mediated nanoparticle work has been highlighted in MRS, ‘Materials 360’ as IMAGE IN FOCUS, Highlighted in NANOWERK.COM, and World Gold Council web page.

• RSC Journal Soft Matter cover page has been selected as the BEST COVER PAGE of the year 2006.

• TOP TEN ARTICLES, Soft Matter (most downloaded article, No: 1) December 2006, Oct. and November 2006.

• Cover page feature of Soft Matter, RSC journal.

• CHEMICAL SCIENCE, Royal Society of Chemistry 16 October 2006 (Making the most of apricot and cashew nut leftovers, Ruth Needham).

• CHEMISTRY WORLD, Royal Society of Chemistry 16 October 2006.

• Biomass Initiative Newsletter, August 2006; NYSTAR news (Scientist in the news)

• TOP TEN articles in Chemical Communications, May 2006.
  Article featured in the cover page of Chemical Communications, RSC.

• Highlighted in Green Chemistry Network, UK (Research on developing gelators from renewable resource, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 8932).

• Article in American Chemical Society, HEART CUT August 7, 2006 (Use a food crop by-product and enzymatic reactions to produce a hydrophobic drug J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 8932)

• GREEN CHEMISTRY (Royal Society of Chemistry), 2006, 8, 675 (Markus Holscher reviews some of the recent literature in green chemistry).

• NANOWERK.com, October 31, 2006. Nanomaterials from apricots and cashew nut could replace petrochemicals).

•  In situ synthesis of nanoparticles in gels:  Chem. Commun. 2006, 2218 was highlighted in NYSTAR nanotech briefing paper, Vol. IV, issue 24, October 30, 2006.

• Materials Today Vol. 9, Sept. 2006, (Protein helps sugar get its gel on, M. E. Greene).

• National Science Foundation (Web news, July 7, 2006, New organic gel nanomaterials)

• FOOD USA productiondaily.com featured the nanogel preparation from sugars for food (Stephen Daniels).
  In-Pharma technologist.com (sugar-olive oil break free from the kitchen, Kirsty Barnes)

• Cover page feature of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006, 45, 4772.

• Media including CUNY, Research Foundation and the City College Newsletter (many times) and many other media portals. Department of Chemistry Home page highlights.