Thundat, Thomas - University of Alberta - Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

个人简介

Prior to becoming the CERC Chair in Oil Sands Molecular Engineering, Dr. Thundat was a University of Tennessee-Batelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL) Corporate Fellow and led the Nanoscale Science and Devices Group at ORNL. He holds professorships at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the University of Burgundy in France and an honorary professorship at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He received his PhD in Physics in 1987 from the State University of New York – Albany.Dr. Thundat has authored over 285 publications in refereed journals, 48 book chapters and 30 patents. He has received a number of awards, most recently the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Sensor Division of the Electrochemical Society. As well, Dr. Thundat has received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pioneer Award, the Batelle Distinguished Inventor Award and many ORNL awards for research and development. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research is focused on novel physical, chemical and biological detection of using micro- and nano -mechanical sensors. His expertise lies in the areas of interfaces, biophysics, scanning probes, nanoscale phenomena and quantum confined atoms.

研究领域

Nano Interfaces and Molecular Engineering The goal of our research program is to understand the fundamental process of nanoscale interfaces and use that information to develop novel instrumentation and tools which will enhance our quality of life and protect the environment. Our focus areas are nanoscale interface and molecular engineering with an emphasis on oilsands, nanobiology, and energy harvesting. Our expertise lies in instrumentation that includes nanomechanical physical, chemical, and biological sensors, scanning probe microscopy, design of molecularly engineered surfaces, novel instrumentation, and standoff mid-infrared spectroscopy. Another area we are involved in is the synthesis of engineered nanomaterials and functionalization of their surfaces for applications in sensing and nanobiology. Our group is focused on applying interfacial tools and techniques to scenarios in the oilsands, material sciences, biomedical sciences, environmental monitoring and remediation, and energy research.

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Dongkyu Lee, Seonghwan Kim, Inseok Chae, Sangmin Jeon, and Thomas Thundat, “Nanowell-patterned TiO2 microcantilevers for calorimetric chemical sensing” accepted in Applied physics letter G. Thakur, S. Kim, K. Prashanthi and T. Thundat, “Investigation of pH-Assisted Human Serum Albumin (HSA)-Cobalt (Co) Binding Using Nanomechanical Deflection and Circular Dichroism,”Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology (in press), 2014. doi: 10.4172/2157-7439.S5-008 Mahsa Mehranfar, Ravi Gaikwad, Siddhartha Das, Sushanta K. Mitra, and Thomas Thundat, “Effect of Temperature on Morphologies of Evaporation-Triggered Asphaltene Nanoaggregates Langmuir” 2014, 30 (3), 800–804 Xunchen Liu, Charles W Van Neste, Manisha Gupta, Ying Y Tsui, Seonghwan Kim, Thomas Thundat, “Standoff reflection–absorption spectra of surface adsorbed explosives measured with pulsed quantum cascade lasers” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014, 191, 450-456 Garima Thakur, Keren Jiang, Dongkyu Lee, Kovur Prashanthi, Seonghwan Kim, and Thomas Thundat, “Investigation of pH-induced protein conformation changes by nanomechanical deflection,”accepted in Langmuir Dongkyu Lee, Seonghwan Kim, C. W. Van Neste, Moonchan Lee, Sangmin Jeon, and Thomas Thundat “Photoacoustic spectroscopy of surface adsorbed molecules using a nanostructured coupled resonator array,” Nanotechnology, 2014, 25, 035501 Mehrdad Bagheri, Inseok Chae, Dongkyu Lee, Seonghwan Kim, and Thomas Thundat “Selective detection of physisorbed hydrocarbons using photothermal cantilever deflection spectroscopy”, Sens. Actuators B: Chemical, 2014, 191, 765-769 M. Faheem Khan, Seonghwan Kim, Dongkyu Lee, Silvan Schmid, Anja Boisen & Thomas Thundat “Nanomechanical identification of liquid reagents in a microfluidic channel” Lab Chip (2014). K. Prashanthi, R. Gaikwad, T. Thundat, “Surface dominant photoresponse of multiferroic BiFeO3 nanowires under sub-bandgap illumination,” Nanotechnology 24, 505710 (2013). K. Prashanthi and T. Thundat, “Local probing of magnetoelectric properties of multiferroic BiFeO3 nanowires,” in press, Scanning, (2013). DOI: 10.1002/sca.21092. K. Prashanthi, N. Miriyala, R.K. Gaikwad, W. Moussa, V. R. Rao and T. Thundat, “Vibrational energy harvesting using photo-plastic piezoelectric nanocomposite cantilevers,” Nano Energy 2, 923 (2013). N. Miriyala, K. Prashanthi, T. Thundat, “Oxygen vacancy dominant strong visible photoluminescence from BiFeO3 nanotubes,” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, 668 (2013). P.M. Shaibani, k. Prashanthi, A. Sohrabi and T. Thundat, “Photocatalytic BiFeO3 Nanofibrous Mats for Effective Water Treatment”, Journal of Nanotechnology, vol. 2013, 1-6 (2013). S. Das, T. Thundat, and S. K. Mitra, “Analytical model for zeta potential of asphaltene”, Fuel, 108, 543-549 (2013). G. Thakur, K. Prashanthi, and T. Thundat, “Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns”, Sci. Rep., 3, 1923 (2013). A. L. Lereu, R. H. Farahi, L. Tetard, S. Enoch, T. Thundat, and A. Passian, “Plasmon assisted thermal modulation in nanoparticles”, Opt. Express, 21, 12145-12158 (2013). A. Sohrabi, P. M. Shaibani, H. Etayash, K. Kaur, and T. Thundat, “Sustained drug release and antibacterial activity of ampicillin incorporated poly(methyl methacrylate)-nylon6 core/shell nanofibers”, Polymer, 54, 2699-2705 (2013). A. Sohrabi, P. M. Shaibani, and T. Thundat, “The effect of applied electric field on the diameter and size distribution of electrospun nylon6 nanofibers”, Scanning, 35, 183-188 (2013). H. Etayash, L. Norman, T. Thundat, and K. Kaur, “Peptide-Bacteria Interactions using Engineered Surface-Immobilized Peptides from Class IIa Bacteriocins”, Langmuir, 29, 4048-4056 (2013). K. Prashanthi, M. Gupta, Y. Y. Tsui, and T. Thundat, “Effect of annealing atmosphere on microstructural and photoluminescence characteristics of multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique”, Appl. Phys. A, 110, 903-907 (2013). S. Kim, D. Lee, X. Liu, C. Van Neste, S. Jeon, and T. Thundat, “Molecular recognition using receptor-free nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy based on a quantum cascade laser”, Sci. Rep., 3, 1111 (2013). S. Kim, D. Lee, M. Yun, N. Jung, S. Jeon, and T. Thundat, “Multi-modal characterization of nanogram amounts of a photosensitive polymer”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 024103 (2013). A. Valiei, A. Kumar, P. P. Mukherjee, Y. Liu, T. Thundat, “A web of streamers: biofilm formation in a porous microfluidic device”, Lab-on-a-chip, 12, 5115 (2012). (featured as HOT Article) S. Das, R. P. Misra, T. Thundat, S. Chakraborty, and S. K. Mitra, “Modeling of asphaltene transport and separation in the presence of finite aggregation effects in pressure-driven microchannel flow”, ENERGY & FUELS, 26, 5851-5857 (2012). K. Prashanthi, G. Thakur, and T. Thundat, “Surface enhanced strong visible photoluminescence from one-dimensional multiferroic BiFeO3 nanostructures”, SURFACE SCIENCE, 606, L83-L86 (2012). C. Yim, M. Yun, S. Kim, N. Jung, S.-H. Lim, M. Lee, S.-W. Rhee, T. Thundat, and S. Jeon, “Nanomechanical thermal analysis of indium films using silicon microcantilevers”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51, 08KB07 (2012).