Meli, Vicki - Mount Allison University - Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

个人简介

2005-2007 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999-2005 Ph.D. Chemistry, McGill University 1995-1999 B.Sc. Chemistry, McGill University

研究领域

Research in the Meli lab centres on the fabrication and characterisation of nanostructured films formed at interfaces. Primarily, we are interested in understanding and influencing the self-assembly of nanoparticles into monolayer films at air-water and oil-water interfaces. Achieving control over nanoparticle spacing and organization within films would have exciting consequences in many applications, including sensors, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, nano-photonics and electronics. Generally, projects in the Meli fall within two broad themes: 1) Nanoparticle self-assembly at the air/water interface: these projects aim to manipulate the self-assembly by making systematic changes to the nanoparticle-nanoparticle interactions (via core size, ligand functionality and phase state, the addition of additional components, and temperature). 2) Nanoparticle self-assembly at oil/water interfaces: these projects aim to manipulate the self-assembly by making systematic changes to the interfacial properties (via use of different oils, including anisotropic oils such as liquid crystals).

近期论文

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Brandon P. Gagnon, M. -Vicki Meli. Effects on the Self-Assembly of n?Alkane/Gold Nanoparticle Mixtures Spread at the Air?Water Interface. Langmuir 2014, 30(1), 179?185. Katelynn D. Comeau, M. -Vicki Meli. Effect of Alkanethiol Chain Length on Gold Nanoparticle Monolayers at the Air!Water Interface. Langmuir (2012) 28 (1), 377-381. Michael I. Kinsinger, Maren E. Buck, Maria-Victoria Meli, Nicholas L. Abbott, David M. Lynn. Langmuir films of flexible polymers transferred to aqueous/liquid crystal interfaces induce uniform azimuthal alignment of the liquid crystal. Journal of Colloid & Interface Science (2010) 341, 124-135. I-Hsin Lin, Maria-Victoria Meli, Nicholas L. Abbott. Ordering Transitions in Micrometer-Thick Films of Nematic Liquid Crystals Driven by Self-Assembly of Ganglioside GM1. Journal of Colloid & Interface Science (2009) 336, 90-99. Jugal K. Gupta, Maria-Victoria Meli, Sarah Teren, and Nicholas L. Abbott. Elastic Energy-Driven Phase Separation of Phospholipid Monolayers at the Nematic Liquid-Crystal- Aqueous Interface. Physical Review Letters (2008) 100, 048301-2. Maria-Victoria Meli, I-Hsin Lin, Nicholas L. Abbott. Preparation of Microscopic and Planar Oil?Water Interfaces That Are Decorated with Prescribed Densities of Insoluble Amphiphiles. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2008) 130(13), 4326-4333. Nathan A. Lockwood, Aditya Surjosantoso, Evelina B. Kim, Maria-Victoria Meli, Juan J. de Pablo, Nicholas L. Abbott. Characterization of the interactions between synthetic nematic LCs and model cell membranes. Liquid Crystals (2007) 34(12), 1387-1396. Gary M. Koenig Jr., Maria-Victoria Meli, Juan J. de Pablo, Nicholas L. Abbott. Coupling of the Plasmon Resonance of Chemically Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles to Local Order in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals. Chemistry of Materials (2007) 19, 1053-1061. Maria-Victoria Meli, R. Bruce Lennox. Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au Nanoparticle Arrays Partially Embedded into Quartz. J. Phys. Chem. C. (2007) 111(9), 3658-3664. Maria-Victoria Meli, R. Bruce Lennox. The Wetting of Gold and Silicon Nanoscale Arrays. Langmuir (2007) 23(4), 1619-1622. Maria-Victoria Meli, R. Bruce Lennox. Preparation of Nanoscale Au Islands in Patterned Arrays. Langmuir (2003) 19(22), 9097-9100. Maria-Victoria Meli, Antonella Badia, Peter Grütter, and R. Bruce Lennox. Self-Assembled Masks for the Transfer of Nanometer-Scale Patterns into Surfaces:? Characterization by AFM and LFM. Nano Letters (2002) 2(2), 131-135.