Paul Bohn

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Biography

Education
B.S. Chemistry, University of Notre Dame (1977)
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin (1981)

Professional Experience
Member of Technical Staff, Special Materials Groups, Bell Laboratories (1981-1983)
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-1989)
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989-1992)
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1992-2006)
Professor, University of Notre Dame (2006-present)

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Research Interests

Understanding and control of molecular transport on the nanometer length scale; molecular basis of electrokinetic phenomena; molecular assemblies in active chemical separations.

Spatially anisotropic surfaces and control of motion of molecular and supermolecular objects.

Development of new optical spectroscopic measurement strategies for surface and interfacial structure-function studies especially directed toward understanding of the solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces.

Optoelectronic materials and devices; surface modification of electronic properties; inelastic light scattering for characterization of complex heterostructures; semiconductor interfaces.

Molecular nanoelectronics; nanoscale analogs of macroscopic electronic and photonic devices.

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Recent Papers

Kim, B.; Yang, J.; Gong, M.; Flachsbart, B.R.; Shannon, M.A.; Bohn, P.W.; Sweedler, J.V., “Multidimensional Separation of Chiral Amino Acid Mixtures an a Multilayered Three Dimensional Hybrid Microfluidic/Nanofluidic Device,” Analyt. Chem. 2009, 81, 2715-2722.
Wang, Z.; King, T.L.; Branagan, S.P.; Bohn, P.W., “Enzymatic activity of surface-immobilized horseradish peroxidase confined to micrometer-nanometer-scale structures in nanocapillary array membranes,” Analyst 2009, 134, 851-859.
Shi, P.; Bohn, P. “Stable Atom-Scale Junctions on Silicon Fabricated by Kinetically-Controlled Electrochemical Deposition and Dissolution,” ACS Nano, 2008, 2, 1581-1588.
Shannon, M.A.; Bohn, P.W.; Elimelech, M.; Georgiadis, J.G.; Mariñas, B. Mayes, A.M. "New Science and Technology for Water Purification in the Coming Decades," Nature, 2008, 452, 301-310.
Piruska, A.; Branagan, S.; Cropek, D.M.; Sweedler, J.V.; Bohn, P.W. “Electrokinetically Driven Fluidic Transport in Integrated Three-Dimensional Microfluidic Devices Incorporating Gold-Coated Nanocapillary Array Membranes,” Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1625-1631.
Kim, B.-Y.; Swearingen, C.B.; Ho, J.A.; Romanova, E.V.; Bohn, P.W.; Sweedler, J.V. “Direct Immobilization of Fab’ in Nanocapillaries for Manipulating Mass Limited Samples,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7620-7626.

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Lab Personnel

  • Barrett Duan
  • Rachel N. Masyuko
  • Justine Debelius
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Rachel Letteri
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Matt Perron
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Jing Zhao
    Graduate Research Assistant
  • Kevin Sallah
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Jingying Zhang
    Graduate Research Assistant
  • Lindsay Elliott
    Graduate Research Assistant
  • Aigars Piruska
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Ping Shi
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Sean Branagan
    Graduate Research Assistant
  • Hsin-Yu Lin
    International Visiting Scholar
  • Liqiang Chu
    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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