PRESS CLIPPINGS OF THE SUSLICK RESEARCH GROUP

"Publicity is good.
Good publicity is better."
   — P.T. Barnum

 

An Introduction to Ken Suslick and his Science:

UIUC LAS News Magazine, "Molecules Are His Medium" 25 May 2005.

 

 

Press Clippings Grouped in Box below Original Article:

 

• 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.

WTTW Chicago Tonight, 5/25/2011      To See Video, Click Here R&D Magazine, 4/28/2011 United Press Intl., 4/27/2011 Daily India, 4/28/2011 AICHE Chemical Engineering Progress, 4/28/2011 Infection Control Today, 4/27/2011 Science Daily, 4/28/2011 Science News, 4/28/2011 The Engineer, 4/28/2011 PhysOrg, 4/27/2011

 

• Lin, H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Determination of Triacetone Triperoxide Vapor" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 15519-15521.

U.S. News & World Report, 11/05/2010 Nature, Research Highlights, 10/28/2010 Law Enforcement Technology, 5/2011 Science, ScienceNow News of the Week, 10/29/2010 Chemical & Engineering News, 10/25/2010 Science News, 11/05/2010 Inside Illinois, 10/19/2010 St. Louis Globe, 10/19/2010 United Press Intl., 10/19/2010 Fox News, 11/05/2010 Device Magazine, 10/20/2010 GizMag, 10/20/2010 Smart Planet, 11/2/2010 Science Now, 10/22/2010 PhysOrg, 10/19/2010 R & D Magazine, 10/19/2010 e!Science News, 10/19/2010 Science Daily, 10/19/2010 Dvice, 10/19/2010 Science Blog, 10/19/2010

 

• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Inertially-Confined Plasma in an Imploding Bubble" Nature Physics 2010, 6, 598–601.

MRS Bulletin, 2010, 35, 640 Science Scoop, 08/10/2010 Inside Illinois, 06/28/2010 R&D Magazine, 06/28/2010

 

• Founding of iSense LLC

Stanford Magazine, March/April, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle, 03/01/2008

 

• Xu, H. X.; Glumac, N. G.; Suslick, K. S. “Temperature Inhomogeneity during Multibubble Sonoluminescence”  Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2010, 48, 1079-1082.

• 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.

Science "Editors' Choice", 02/05/2010

 

• 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.

Science Now, 02/17/2010 Das Spiegel, 02/19/2010 UIUC LAS News Magazine, 03/10/2010 Futurity, 03/29/2010 Medill Reports, 04/15/2010

 

• 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.

• 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.

Boston Museum of Science TV spot video clip (39MB) Scientific American, 09/13/2009 National Geographic, 09/01/2009 R & D Magazine, 09/13/2009 Le Figaro, 09/13/2009 Times of India, 09/13/2009 United Press Intl., 09/16/2009 Science News, 09/15/2009 Red Orbit, 09/16/2009 Embedded, 09/16/2009 Science Codex, 09/13/2009 Environmental Protection, 09/16/2009 Wired.com, 09/16/2009 Photonics, 09/14/2009 Chemistry & Industry, 09/14/2009 Phys. Org. Blog, 09/13/2009 Science Blog, 09/13/2009 Science Daily, 09/13/2009 Daily Illini, 04/18/2010

 

• Lim, S. H.; Musto, C. J.; Park, E.; Zhong, W.; Suslick, K. S. “Colorimetric Sensor Array for Detection and Identification of Sugars” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 4405-4408.

• Musto, C. J.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. “Colorimetric Detection and Identification of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners”  Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 6526-6533.

CNN, 08/18/2009 National Geographic, 09/01/2009 Village Voice, 08/19/2009 Chemical & Engineering News, 08/18/2009 Chemistry & Industry, , 09/14/2009 Scientific Blogging, 08/17/2009 Science Daily, 08/17/2009 CNET News, 08/18/2009 NanoWerk, 08/18/2009

 

• 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.
  
  

"Scientists examine Wint-O-Green effect", Earth & Sky on National Public Radio, 10/31/07. Click here for the mp3 of the broadcast. "Sweet Spark May Hold Clue to How Things Break" New York Times, 06/19/2007 "Snap Crackle and Glow" Nature, 2007, 447, 235. "Mechanoluminescence study yields new data" United Press International (UPI), 05/09/07 "Mechanoluminescence event yields novel emissions, reactions" PhysOrg, 05/09/07.

 

• Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanoluminescence: Light from sonication of crystal slurries" Nature, 2006, 444, 163
  
  

"Ultrasonic Sparking: Tiny bubbles can lead to bright flashes" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/18/2006. "Mechanoluminescence induced from sonication of crystal slurries" MRS eMatters November, 2006, 6 (21). "Ultrasound Generates Intense Mechanoluminescence" Science Daily, 11/10/2006 "Sound science behind glowing sugar" Physics Web, Nov. 2006

 

• 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.
  
  

"Smells Like the Real Thing: Sensing systems that mimic noses and taste buds" Science News, 2006, 170, 40-41 (cover article). "Testing and Tasting Beer on Sight" Photonics Spectra September, 2006. "Tasting the Fizz of Soda Pop" Photonics Spectra March, 2007. "Seeing smell: A little strip of high-tech litmus paper" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/31/07.

 

• 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.
  
  

"Image In Focus," MRS eMatters, 2006, 6 "Drug Smuggling Safety Tests" Spectroscopy Now; July 1, 2006.

 

• 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.

"Getting to the Core of Anti-Tumor Activity" SciScoop, 6/15/06

 

• 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.
  
  

S. Hilgenfeld, "Sound Basis for Light Emission" Nature Physics, 2006, 2, 435-436.

 

• Zhang, C; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Organics in Water", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 11548-11549.

Chemical & Engineering News, "Array Takes A Drink: Sensor array uses simple components to generate fingerprints for organics in complex beverages" 23 August 2005. Nature, "Organic chemistry: Dotty solutions" 11 August 2005.

 

• Didenko, Y.T.; Suslick, K.S. "Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanoparticles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12196-12197.

Nature, "Nanoparticles cooked up in aerosol spray" Philip Ball, 15 September 2005 Royal Soc. Chem. Lab On A Chip, Highlights, 2005, 5, 1001.

 

• Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous MoS2 Synthesized by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9990-9991.

Chemical Engineering, "Ultrasound-based process makes another promising HDS catalyst" 01 August 2005. Science Daily "Illinois Chemists Spray Their Way to Better Catalysts" 18 July 2005

 

• Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Magnetic and Porous Nanospheres From Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12007-12010.

"New Technique Uses Household Humidifier to Create Nanocomposite Materials" Innovations Report, 29.03.2004 "Technique Uses Humidifier to Create nanocomposite Materials" Inside Illinois, 05/06/04

 

• Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Formation and Temperature Measurement during Single-Bubble Cavitation" Nature, 2005, 434, 52-55.

National Public Radio, "Morning Edition" 03 March 2005. MSNBC, "Tiny Bubbles Get Hotter Than the Sun" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7082639/ The New York Times, "Tiny Bubbles Implode with the Heat of a Star" 15 March 2005. Chemical & Engineering News, "Bubble Inferno" 2005, 83, 10. Nature, "Collapsing Bubbles Have Hot Plasma Core" 2 March 2005. Lohse, D. "Cavitation Hots Up" Nature 2005, 434, 33 - 34. Weiss, P. "Brutal Bubbles" Science News 2005, 167, 147. Science, "Hotter Than the Sun" Mullins, J. "Blazing Core Closes Gap on Bubble Fusion" New Scientist 2005, 185, 17. Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, "Science Heats Up" 14 March 2005. Dagens Nyheter (Sweden's largest daily paper) "Skinande bubbla ger ren energi" 03 Mars 2005 Barbara Goss Levi Physics Today "Evidence for a Plasma Inside a Sonoluminescing Bubble" May 2005, pp. 21-23

 

• 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.

Chemical & Engineering News, Mar. 3, 2003. "The Right Snuff," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (Front Page!) Feb. 25, 2003. Champaign News Gazette, p. 2, Mar. 2, 2003. "Heavy Metals Play Crucial Role in the Ability to Smell" Orlando Sentinel, Mar. 2, 2003. "Metals Attract Strong, Bad Odors" Baltimore Sun, Mar. 3, 2003. "Raising A Stink" San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 12, 2003. "Metals Ions May Play Big Role In How We Sense Smells" Science Daily, Mar. 3, 2003. "The Nose of the Matter" Food Navigator, Mar. 2, 2003. "The Right Snuff," STL Today Feb. 24, 2003. "Dead Nose," Die Zeit WissenMar. 1, 2003.

 

• "Chemistry Hightlights of 2002," Chemical & Engineering News

Chemical & Engineering News,"Chemistry Hightlights of 2002: Physical Chemistry" Dec. 16, 2002. Chemical & Engineering News,"Chemistry Hightlights of 2002: Supramolecular Chemistry" Dec. 16, 2002.

 

• National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation Summary of 2004 Budget Request to Congress (see p. 4) National Science Foundation: Highlights from 2002

 

• Rosenblatt, M.M.; Huffman, D.L.; Wang, X. Remmer, H.A.; Suslick, K. S. "Cyclic and Hairpin Peptide Complexes of Heme" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 12412394.

"Chemists Create Synthetic Cytochrome" Science Daily, 08 Oct. 2002.

 

• 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.
  
  

"Molecular Separations: New artificial sieve traps molecules" Science News, 05 Oct 2002 "Ein Sieb zum Wasserfangen" Wissenschaft 25 Sept 2002.

 

• Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "The Energy Efficiency of Formation of Photons, Radicals, and Ions During Single Bubble Cavitation" Nature 2002, 418, 394-397.
  
  

News & Views Commentary,"Inside a Microreactor",Nature 2002, 418, 382-383. "Sonoluminescence: Bubble Power" Nature 2002, 418. "Single Bubble Microreactors" Chemical & Engineering News, July 29, 2002. "Chemistry Casts Doubt on Bubble Reactions" Science, News of the Week; July 29, 2002. "Fusion Experiment Disappoints" BBC News, 25 July 2002. "Bubble bursts for bench-top nuclear fusion" New Scientist, 24 July 2002. "Researchers Probe Chemistry of Bubbles" Photonics Technology, Sept. 2002. "UI Report Casts Doubt on Bubble Fusion" Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2002 "Bubble Fusion More Difficult to Produce" UPI, July 24, 2002. "Bubble bursts for ‘sono-fusion’" Physics Web, July 24, 2002. "New Bubble Reaction Findings Make Fusion Claims Unlikely" Scientific American, July 25, 2002. "Violent chemistry saps sonobubble energy" Science News, August 24, 2002. "Scientists measure energy dissipation in a single cavitating bubble" Inside Illinois, August 2002. "Chemistry Casts Doubt on Bubble Fusion" Daily InSCIght, July 24, 2002

 

• 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.

News & Views Commentary, "Much Binding in the Lab", Nature 2002, 418, 375-376. "Building a Better Binding Site" Chemical & Engineering News, July 29, 2002. "Creating a Good Impression," News & Views Commentary, Nature Biotechnology 2002, 20(9), 884-885 "UI researchers sculpt molecules" News Gazette, July 28, 2002. "Mimicking the Best of Nature's Binders" Science News, July 27, 2002. Faculty of 1000 Commentary

 

• Rakow, N. A.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Odour Visualization" Nature, 2000, 406, 710-714.

News & Views Commentary, 17 Aug 00,"Picture the Smell", Nature 2000, 406, 682-683 CBS Evening News (WCIA, Champaign, IL), 8/16/00; 3 min. video clip in RealPlayer format (3.7 MB).     To download the free RealPlayer Basic viewer, click here. MS-NBC, 8/16/00: "What's That Smell? Get a Good Look." ABC News in Science 21/08/00: "Artificial nose sees smell" CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), 8/21/00: "Fake nose actually smells" Chemical & Engineering News, 08/21/00: "NEWS OF THE WEEK - A 'Nose' That Shows Scents In Color" Business Week, 09/04/00: "Developments To Watch" New Scientist, 08/17/00: "Sniffing out fakes" The News-Gazette, 8/17/00, p. 1 (!): "UI scientists say smells are really quite a sight to see." Chicago Tribune, 8/17/00, sect. 1, p. 5: "U. OF I. Researcher Provides Whiff of Brand-New Technology" Reuters/Yahoo News; 8/17/00: "Artificial Nose 'Sees'" Smells Inside Illinois, 8/17/00: "Artificial Nose Knows" NewsDay, 9/19/00: "The Artificial Sniffer" p. C8-C9. The Scientist 14[17]:19, Sep. 4, 2000: "Does The Nose Always Know?" Nature Science Update, 8/17/00: "Seeing scents." Discovery.com, 8/16/00: "Paper Nose Detects Toxics." Chemistry and Industry, 08/21/2000"Artificial nose sniffs out colour of odours." Photonics Spectra, Nov. 2000"Color-Changing Array Identifies Odors" Biophotonics International, Nov. 2000"What the nose knows can also be seen" Environmental Health Perspectives (NIH), March, 2001"Smelling in Color: A Rainbow of Possibilities" Scientific American, March 2001"Plenty to Sniff At"

 

• Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission from Single Bubble Sonoluminescence" Nature, 2000, 406, 877-879.

Physics Web, October 18, 2000

 

• "Sonochemistry" Chemistry, Summer 2000, pp. 3, 17-22.
  
  

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• McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Nature, 1999, 401, 772-775.

"Taking a Collapsing Bubble's Temperature" C & E News, 25 Oct 99 "Bubbling to Extreme Temperatures" Science News, 25 Oct 99 "Bubbling Hot!" Nature, 21 Oct 99 "Bubbling to Extremes" Science News 29 Oct 99 "Chemists Shed Light on Bubbly Furnaces" Chemistry, Spring 2000

 

• Bhyrappa, P.; Vaijayanthimala, G.; Suslick, K. S. "Shape-Selective Ligation to Dendrimer-Metalloporphyrins," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 262-263.

"On the scent" New Scientist, 16 Jan 99

 

• Collman, J. P.; Brauman, J. I.; Halbert, T. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Nature of Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide Binding to Metalloporphyrins and Heme Proteins," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 1976, 73, 3333-3337.

"A Mechanism Essential to Life: Scientists pursue consensus and closure on mechanism of binding of CO and O2 to myoglobin and hemoglobin."  Chemical & Engineering News, December 6, 1999, p. 31-33

 

• Suslick, K. S.; Mdleleni, M. M.; Ries, J. T. "Chemistry Induced by Hydrodynamic Cavitation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 9303-9304.

"Scientists have a blast learning how to break chemical bonds" Dallas Morning News, 13 Oct 97

 

• Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence, Camera, Action!" Engineering & Science (California Institute of Technology) 1997 40 (#2), 4-5.

Suslick, K. S. "Set for a 'Chain Reaction'" Hollywood, Suslick Research Group Chemistry University of Illinois Inside Illinois 1997, 16 (#17), 5. "Illinois chemist snagged briefly by movie industry" C&E News, 7 Apr 97 "Sonoluminescence, camera, action!" Engineering & Science, Apr 97

 

• Suslick, K. S.; Fang, M.; Hyeon, T. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Iron Colloids" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 11960-11961.

"Sonochemistry" Aviation Weekly & Space Technology, 17 Mar 97 "Bubbly synthesis yields iron nanocolloids" C&E News, 13 Jan 97

 

• Hyeon, T.; Fang, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Molybdenum Carbide: Sonochemical Synthesis and Catalytic Properties," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 5492-5493.

"Mysterious blue light of minute bubbles finding practical uses" New York Times, 31 Dec 96 "Shattering sounds" Economist, 29 May 96

 

• Girolami, G. S.; Hein, C. L.; Suslick, K. S. "Bis(porphyrin) Sandwich Complex with an Appended Quinone," Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 1996, 35, 1223-1225.

"Plants point the way to renewable energy" New Scientist, 8 Jun 96

Some Older Press Clippings:

"Ultrasonic cleaning cuts waste, energy use" C&E News, 3 Jul 95 "Waves of excitement" London Financial Times, 27 May 95 "Bubbles hotter than the sun" New Scientist, 29 Apr 95 "Nanostructured catalysts prepared" C&E News, 24 Apr 95 "Booster bubbles for artificial blood" Business Week, 23 Jan 95 "Small sphere lead to big ideas"Science, 20 Jan 95, vol. 267, p. 327, "Microspheres play role in medical, sensor, energy, space technologies" C&E News, 19 Dec 1994, p. 33 "New shot at fusion by pumping sound waves into tiny bubbles" New York Times, 20 Dec 94 "A shot in the arm for synthetic blood" New Scientist, 17 Dec 94 "Flashes of insight" Dallas Morning News, 21 Nov 94 "Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry" C&E News, 11 Oct 1993 "Ultrasound proves to be a versatile tool for chemists." C&E News, 7 Oct 1991, p. 18-21 "Light Comes from Ultrasound" Physics Today, Oct. 1991, p. 17-18 "Chemistry: Putting good vibrations to work" Washington Post, 7 Oct 91 "Sonic Boom" Economist, 5 Oct 91 "Ultrasonic boom" Dallas Morning News, 4 Jun 90 "Sound is shaped into dazzling tool with many uses" New York Times, 9 Feb 88 "Sonoluminescence seen in nonaqueous liquids" C&E News, 25 Jan 1988 "Snap, crackle, pop" Economist, 19 May 84