Kenneth S. Suslick

About

Kenneth S. Suslick is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on the chemical effects of ultrasound, sonoluminescence, mechanochemistry, and the synthesis of nanostructured materials using ultrasound. His work involves the development and application of ultrasonic techniques to generate and study novel materials and chemical processes, including sonochemical synthesis of inorganic and biological materials, and the investigation of cavitation phenomena. Suslick's contributions include advancing the understanding of ultrasound-mediated reactions and their applications in materials science and chemistry.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Geology
• Optoelectronics
• Organic chemistry
• Environmental chemistry
• Paleontology
• Physics
• Chromatography

Selected publications

• The Optoelectronic Nose

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2020 · 152 citations

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  How does one tell the difference between one molecule or mixture of molecules from another? Chemical sensing seeks to probe physical or chemical properties of molecular or ionic species (i.e., analytes) and transform that information into a useful and distinguishable output. The olfactory system of animals is the prototype of chemical sensing. Even for human beings (who are generally more visual than olfactory creatures), the sense of smell is one of our most basic capabilities, and we can discr…

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• Disease-specific protein corona sensor arrays may have disease detection capacity

  Nanoscale Horizons · 2019-01-01 · 111 citations

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  Protein corona sensor array technology identifies diseases through specific proteomics pattern recognition.

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• Shock Wave Energy Absorption in Metal–Organic Framework

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019-01-31 · 97 citations

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  Recent investigations into the mechanical properties and mechanochemical reactions of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have suggested the potential for energy dissipation by multiple mechanisms. Although the possibility of efficient multifunctional shock dissipation by MOFs was suggested by static high pressure studies, there is little known about MOFs under shock compression. Here, we measure the attenuation of shock wave by the MOF denoted zeolitic-imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) in its desolvate…

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• Materials synthesis in a bubble

  MRS Bulletin · 2019-05-01 · 83 citations

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• Quantitative Imaging of Organic Ligand Density on Anisotropic Inorganic Nanocrystals

  Nano Letters · 2019-08-19 · 80 citations

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  A longstanding challenge in nanoparticle characterization is to understand anisotropic distributions of organic ligands at the surface of inorganic nanoparticles. Here, we show that using electron energy loss spectroscopy in an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope we can directly visualize and quantify ligand distributions on gold nanorods (AuNRs). These experiments analyze dozens of particles on graphene substrates, providing insight into how ligand binding densities v…

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Recent grants

• An Optoelectronic Nose for Artwork Monitoring

  NSF · $467k · 2012–2015

• NIH Grant R01HL025934

  NIH · $3.8M · 2004

• SST: Colorimetric MicroArrays for Detection of Toxic Industrial Chemicals

  NSF · $250k · 2005–2008

Frequent coauthors

• William B. McNamara

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  38 shared

• Jon R. Askim

  National Institute of Standards

  29 shared

• Stephen A. Boppart

  University of Illinois System

  28 shared

• Zheng Li

  Hokkaido University

  26 shared

• Yuri T. Didenko

  26 shared

• Dana D. Dlott

  24 shared

• Mark W. Grinstaff

  Boston University

  22 shared

• Morteza Mahmoudi

  Harvard University

  20 shared

Labs

• Suslick Research GroupPI

Awards & honors

• Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
• Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technolo…
• Theophilus Redwood Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
• Sir George Stokes Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry

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