Imaging nanoparticles using an EasyScan2 scanning tunneling microscope

CHED 281

Yori Zandria Snyder, yzs1@pitt.edu, Garrett William Britton, gwb8@pitt.edu, Thiezue James, Ashley Clement, Anthony Talerico, Katie Schreffler, Sarah Wurzbacher, and Ping Furlan, furlan@pitt.edu. Chemistry Department, University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, 504 E. Main Street, Titusville, PA 16354
The affordability of the NanoSurf EasyScan2 Scanning Tunneling Mircoscope (STM) has made it an increasingly popular tool for nanoscience education and undergraduate research. In this study, we prepare quantum dots, gold nanoparticles, ferrofluid nanoparticles, and their polymer/protein conjugates and explore the possiblity of using the EasyScan2 STM, funded through an Innovation in Education Award Program of the University of Pittsburgh, for imaging these nanoparticles. Since the polymer/protein conjugates of these nanoparticles can find many applications in biomedical fields, the feasibility of using the EasyScan2 STM for their studies will open up meaningful research possibilities for undergraduates, especially those at small colleges with limited funding sources, and motivate and prepare these students to be further engaged in this modern field of nanoscience.
 

Undergraduate Research Poster Session
2:30 PM-4:30 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster

Division of Chemical Education

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007