Daniel Roxbury<\/a>, Devleena Chowdhury, Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island<\/em><\/p>\n University of Rhode Island – Kingston<\/p>\n Our lab has recently developed smart sensing textiles with encapsulated near-infrared nanosensors. In initial work, the textiles were designed to specifically detect hydrogen peroxide. It is hypothesized that the textiles can be redesigned to detect heavy metal contaminants, including arsenic and cadmium using a previously demonstrated nanosensor with selectivity towards these ionic species. The heavy metal detecting nanosensors will be encapsulated into a textile via an electrospinning process. The textiles will then be characterized, using various imaging and spectroscopic analyses, and examined for sensitivity towards target ions.<\/p>\n This project involves lab work<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n General wet lab skills (weighing and pipetting chemicals, mixing solutions, general safety, etc.); UV-Vis spectrophotometry; microscopy<\/p>\n Will the project require transportation to field sites?<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Is this project open to Surf Flex?<\/strong> No<\/p>\n In which core facilities might student conduct research?<\/strong> RI Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology<\/a><\/p>\nReturn to 2024 SURF Projects<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mentor(s) Daniel Roxbury, Devleena Chowdhury, Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island Project Location University of Rhode Island – Kingston Project Description Our lab has recently developed smart sensing textiles with encapsulated near-infrared nanosensors. In initial work, the textiles were designed to specifically detect hydrogen peroxide. It is hypothesized that the textiles can be redesigned to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-surf-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42501,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415\/revisions\/42501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Project Location<\/h3>\n
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