Kenneth S. Suslick

Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry;
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering;
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Ken Suslick received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974, his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978, and came to the University of Illinois immediately thereafter.

The Suslick Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is multi-disciplinary: our research projects involve individuals with interests not only in inorganic, but also in organometallic, bio-organic, materials (both inorganic and biomaterials), surface, analytical and physical chemistry.

Our two major research areas are the chemical effects of ultrasound (which includes nano-materials synthesis and sonoluminescence) and chemical sensing (specifically, our optoelectronic nose, i.e., colorimetric sensor array for the detection of VOCs). The latter project in artificial olfaction and molecular recognition is an exciting spinoff of our earlier work on the bioinorganic and materials chemistry of metalloporphyrins. As part of this diversity, we often collaborate with other researchers both at UIUC and at other universities across the world.

 

Selected Awards and Honors

• Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
• Sir George Stokes Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry.
• ACS Senior Cope Scholar Award.
• ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education.
• Materials Research Society Medal.
• Acoustical Society of America Mentorship Award.
• Wolfgang Göpel Award, Intl. Soc. on Olfaction & Electronic Noses.
• NIH Research Career Development Award.
• Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
• Silver Medal of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
• Fellow, AAAS.
• Fellow, American Chemical Society.
• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America.
• Fellow, Materials Research Society.
• Harold S. Johnston Lectureship in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.
• J.T. Donald Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal.
• University of Melbourne Special Public Lectureship.
• W. Heinlen Hall Lectureship, Bowling Green State University.
• Robert A. Welch Foundation Lectureship.
• 3ème Cycle Lectureship, Switzerland.
• Charles William Murtiashaw III Lectureship, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
• Five College Lecturer (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire and U. Mass. Amherst).
• Cherry Emerson Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Selected Recent and Introductory Publications

Some Introductory Reviews:

• Suslick, K. S. "The Chemical Effects of Ultrasound"
  Scientific American, 1989 (2), 260, 80-86.
• Suslick, K. S. "The Chemistry of Ultrasound," in Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future 1994, Britannica: Chicago; 1994; pp. 138-155.
• Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemistry," in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; 4th Ed., J. Wiley & Sons: New York, 1998, vol. 26, 517-541.
• Suslick, K. S.; Didenko, Y.; Fang, M. M.; Hyeon, T.; Kolbeck, K. J.; McNamara, W. B. III; Mdleleni, M. M.; Wong, M. "Acoustic Cavitation and Its Chemical Consequences" Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 1999, 357, 335-353.
• Suslick, K. S.; Price, G. "Applications of Ultrasound to Materials Chemistry" Annu. Rev. Matl. Sci., 1999, 29, 295-326.
• Suslick, K. S. "Shape Selective Oxidation by Metalloporphyrins," in The Porphyrin Handbook, Kadish, K.; Smith, K.; Guilard, R., ed.; Academic Press: New York, 2000; vol. 4, ch. 28, pp. 41-63.
• Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence" in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd ed. Academic Press: San Diego, 2001, vol. 17, pp. 363-376.
• Suslick, K. S. "An Optoelectronic Nose: Colorimetric Sensor Arrays"
  MRS Bulletin, 2004, 29, 720-725.
• Suslick, K. S.; Bhyrappa, P.; Chou, J. H.; Kosal, M. E.; Nakagaki, S.; Smithenry, D. W.; Wilson, S. R. "Microporous Porphyrin Solids" Acc. Chem. Res. 2005, 38, 283 - 291.
• Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S.; Suh, Y. H. "Therapeutic Agents for Alzheimer's Disease,", Curr. Med. Chem. - Cent. Nerv. Sys. Agents 2005, 5, 259-270 (invited review).
• Boppart, S. A.; Suslick, K. S. "Microsphere Contrast Agents for OCT" in Handbook of Optical Coherence Tomography, Regar, E.; van Leeuwen, T. G.; Serruys, P., eds.; Informa Publishers: 2007, ch. 29, 409-427 (invited review).
• Suslick, K. S.; Bailey, D. P.; Ingison, C. K.; Janzen, M.; Kosal, M. A.; McNamara III, W. B.; Rakow, N. A.; Sen, A.; Weaver, J. J.; Wilson, J. B.; Zhang, C.; Nakagaki, S. "Seeing Smells: Development Of An Optoelectronic Nose" Quimica Nova 2007, 30, 677-681.
• Suslick, K. S.; Skrabalak, S. E. "Sonocatalysis" In Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis, vol. 4; Ertl, G.; Knözinger, H.; Schüth, F.; Weitkamp, J., Eds.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2008, pp. 2006-2017.
• Suslick, K. S.; Flannigan, D. J. "Sonoluminescence" Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2008, 59, 659-683.
• Suh, W. H.; Suslick,K. S.; Stucky, G. D.; Suh, Y.-H. "Nanotechnology, Nanotoxicology, and Neuroscience" Prog. Neurobiol. 2009, 87, 133-170 (with cover).
• Musto, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Differential Sensing of Sugars by Colorimetric Arrays" Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. 2010, 14, 758-766.
• Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Applications of Ultrasound to the Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials" Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 1039-1059.

The Sonochemistry of Materials:

• Suslick, K. S.; Fang, M.; Hyeon, T. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Iron Colloids" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 11960-11961.
• Prozorov, T.; Prozorov, R.; Snezhko, A.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Modification of the Superconducting Properties of MgB2" Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003, 83, 2019-2021.
• Prozorov, T.; Prozorov, R.; Suslick, K. S. "High Velocity Inter-Particle Collisions Driven by Ultrasound" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13890-13891.
• Dhas, N. Arul; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Preparation of Hollow Nanospheres and Hollow Nanocrystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2368-2369.
• Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous MoS2 Synthesized by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9990-9991.
• Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Magnetic and Porous Nanospheres From Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12007-12010.
• Didenko, Y.T.; Suslick, K.S. "Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanoparticles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12196-12197.
• Toublan, F. J.-J.; Boppart, S.; Suslick, K. S. "Tumor Targeting by Surface Modified Protein Microspheres" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3472-3473.
• Dibbern, E. M.; Toublan, F. J.-J.; Suslick, K. S. "Formation and Characterization of Polyglutamate Core-Shell Microspheres" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 6540-6541.
• Suh, W. H.; Jang, A. R.; Suh, Y.-H.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous, Hollow, and Ball-in-Ball Metal Oxide Microspheres: Preparation, Endocytosis, and Cytotoxicity" Advanced Materials 2006, 18, 1832-1837.
• Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Powders Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 12642-12643.
• Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized Hollow Hematite" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 2242-2243.
• Bang, J. H.; Han, K.; Skrabalak, S. E.; Kim, H.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Supports Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Electrodes" J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 10959-10964.
• Bang, J. H.; Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured ZnS:Ni2+ Photocatalysts Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Advanced Materials 2008, 20, 2599-2603.
• Bang, J. H.; Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Quantum Dots from Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis: Preparation, Characterization, and Cellular Imaging" Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 4033-4038.
• Bang, J. H.; Lim, S. H.; Park, E.; Suslick, K. S. "Dual Templating Synthesis of Mesoporous Titanium Nitride Microspheres" Advanced Materials 2009, 21, 1-5.
• Dunkle, S. S.; Suslick, K. S. "Photodegradation of BiNbO₄ Powder during Photocatalytic Reactions" J. Phys. Chem., C, 2009, 113, 10341-10345.
• Dunkle, S. S.; Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "BiVO₄ as a Visible-Light Photocatalyst Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Phys. Chem..,C, 2009, 113, 11980-11983.
• Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K.S. "Water-Soluble Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters" Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 1078-1082.
• Fortunato, M. E.; Rostam-Abadi, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Carbons Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Chem. Matl. 2010, 22, 1610-1612.
• Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K.S. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Ag Nanoclusters" ACS Nano 2010, 4, 3209-3214.
• Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis of Hollow Metallic Aluminum Particles" Chem. Mat. 2010, 22, 4835-4837.
• Atkinson, J. D.; Fortunato, M. E.; Dastgheib, S. A.; Rostam-Abadi, M.; Rood, M. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthesis and Charac-terization of Iron-Impregnated Porous Carbon Spheres Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Carbon, 2011, 49, 587-598.
• Cabanas-Polo, S.; Suslick, K. S.; Sanchez-Herencia, A. J. "Effect of reaction conditions on size and morphology of ultrasonically prepared Ni(OH)2 powders" Ultrasonics Sonochem., 2011, 18, 901-906.
• Suh, W. H.; Kang, J. K.; Suh, Y.-H.; Tirrell, M.; Suslick, K. S.; Stucky, G. D. "Porous Carbon Produced in Air: Physicochemical: Properties and Stem Cell Engineering" Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 2332-2338.
• Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Preparation of Functionalized Graphenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9148-9151.
• Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonofragmentation of Molecular Crystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14530-14533.

Sonoluminescence:

• Suslick, K. S.; Flint, E. B. "Sonoluminescence of Non-Aqueous Liquids," Nature 1987, 330, 553-555.
• Flint, E. B.; Suslick, K. S. "The Temperature of Cavitation" Science 1991, 253, 1397-1399.
• McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Nature, 1999, 401, 772-775.
• Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "The Temperature of Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence in Water," J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, , 103, 10783-10788.
• McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Effect of Noble Gases on Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Phys. Rev. Lett., 2000, 84, 777-780.
• Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission from Single Bubble Sonoluminescence" Nature, 2000, 406, 877-879.
• Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "The Energy Efficiency of Formation of Photons, Radicals, and Ions During Single Bubble Cavitation" Nature 2002, 418, 394-397.
• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Formation and Temperature Measurement during Single-Bubble Cavitation" Nature, 2005, 434, 52-55.
• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Line Emission During Single-Bubble Cavitation" Phys. Rev. Lett., 2005, 95, 044301-1 - 044301-4.
• Hopkins, S. D.; Putterman, S. J.; Kappus, B. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Camara, C. G. "Dynamics Of A Sonoluminescing Bubble In Sulfuric Acid" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005, 95, 254301-1 - 254301-4.
• Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Camara, C. G.; Putterman, S. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Measurement of Pressure and Density Inside a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 96, 204301-1 - 204301-4.
• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Quenching by Air during Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2006 110, 9315-9318.
• Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanoluminescence: Light from sonication of crystal slurries" Nature, 2006, 444, 163.
• Camara, C. G.; Hopkins, S. D.; Suslick, K. S.; Putterman, S. J. "Upper Bound for Neutron Emission from Sonoluminescing Bubbles in Deuterated Acetone" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 064301-1-4.
• Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Evidence For A Plasma Core During Multibubble Sonoluminescence In Sulfuric Acid" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3838-3829.
• Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Intense Mechanoluminescence and Gas Phase Reactions from the Sonication of an Organic Slurry" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6718-6719.
• Xu, H.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Spatial Separation of Cavitating Bubble Populations: The Nanodroplet Injection Model" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6060-6061.
• Xu, H. X.; Glumac, N. G.; Suslick, K. S. "Temperature Inhomogeneity during Multibubble Sonoluminescence" Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2010, 48, 1079-1082.
• Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission and Temperature Measurements from Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 244301-1-4.
• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Inertially-Confined Plasma in an Imploding Bubble" Nature Physics 2010, 6, 598-601.

Sensors, Metalloporphyrins, & Bio-Inorganic Chemistry:

• Huffman, D. L.; Rosenblatt, M. M.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthetic Heme-Peptide Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 6183-6184.
• Patel, B. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Discotic Liquid Crystals from a Bis-Pocketed Porphyrin" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 11802-11803.
• Bhyrappa, P.; Vaijayanthimala, G.; Suslick, K. S. "Shape-Selective Ligation to Dendrimer-Metalloporphyrins," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 262-263.
• Sen, A; Suslick, K. S. "Shape-Selective Discrimination of Small Organic Molecules" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 11565-11566.
• Rakow, N. A.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Odour Visualization" Nature, 2000, 406, 710-714.
• Zimmerman, S. C.; Wendland, M. S.; Rakow, N. A.; Zharov, I.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthetic Hosts by Monomolecular Imprinting Inside Dendrimers" Nature 2002, 418, 399-403.
• Kosal, M. E.; Chou, J.-H.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Functional Zeolite Analogue Assembled From Metalloporphyrins" Nature Materials, 2002, 1, 118-121.
• Wang, J.; Luthey-Schulten, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Is the Olfactory Receptor A Metalloprotein?" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 3035-3039.
• Zimmerman, S. C.; Zharov, I.; Wendland, M. S.; Rakow,N. A.; Suslick, K.S. "Molecular Imprinting Inside Dendrimers" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 13504 - 13518.
• Rosenblatt, M.M.; Wang, J.; Suslick, K. S. "De Novo Designed Cyclic-Peptide Heme Complexes" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 13140-13145.
• Suslick, K. S.; Rakow, N. A.; Sen, A. "Colorimetric sensor arrays for molecular recognition" Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 11133-11138.
• Rakow, N. A.; Sen, A., Janzen, M.C.; Ponder, J. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Recognition and Discrimination of Amines with a Colorimetric Array" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4528-4532.
• Zhang, C; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Organics in Water", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 11548-11549.
• Janzen, M. C.; Ponder, J. B.; Bailey, D. P.; Ingison, C. K.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Volatile Organic Compounds" Anal. Chem. 2006, 78, 3591-3600.
• Zhang, C.; Bailey, D. P.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for the Analysis of Beers: A Feasibility Study" J. Agric. Food Chem., 2006, 54, 4925-4931.
• Zhang, C.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Soft Drink Analysis" J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007, 55, 237-242.
• Bang, J. H.; Lim, S. H.; Park, E.; Suslick, K. S. "Chemically Responsive Nanoporous Pigments: Colorimetric Sensor Arrays and the Identification of Aliphatic Amines" Langmuir 2008, 24, 13168-13172.
• Fang, M.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Four-Coordinate Fe(III) Porphyrin Cation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1134-1135.
• Musto, C. J.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Detection and Identification of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners" Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 6526-6533.
• Lim, S. H.; Feng, L.; Kemling, J. W.; Musto, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "An Optoelectronic Nose for Detection of Toxic Gases" Nature Chemistry, 2009, 1, 562-567.
• Suslick, B. A.; Feng,L.; Suslick, K. S. "Discrimination of Complex Mixtures by a Colorimetric Sensor Array: Coffee Aromas" Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 2067-2073.
• Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Kemling, J. W.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Identification of Toxic Gases below Permissible Exposure Limits" Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 2037-2039.
• Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Suslick, K. S. "A Simple and Highly Sensitive Colorimetric Detection Method for Gaseous Formaldehyde" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 4046-4047.
• Lin, H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Determination of Triacetone Triperoxide Vapor" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 15519-15521.
• Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Kemling, J. W.; Lim, S.H.; Zhong, W.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Array for Determination and Identification of Toxic Industrial Gases" Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 9433-9440.
• Kemling, J. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanoscale Porosity in Pigments for Chemical Sensing" Nanoscale 2011, 3, 1971-1973.
• Carey, J. R.; Suslick, K. S.; Hulkower, K. I.; Imlay, J. A.; Imlay, K. R. C.; Ingison, C. K.; Ponder, J. B.; Sen, A.; Wittrig, A. E. "Rapid Identification of Bacteria with a Disposable Colorimetric Sensor Array" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7571-7576.
• Lin, H.; Jang, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Preoxidation for Colorimetric Sensor Array Detection of VOCs" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 16786-16789.