Isiah Warner
University of Cincinnati, OH·Chemistry
Detecting specific chemicals quickly and selectively, especially biomedically important ones, often requires bulky lab equipment. This work explores organic salts as the basis for new chemical sensors and separation methods.
- Fields
Chemistry
Materials Science
Engineering
- Topics
ionic liquids
nanoGUMBOS
organic salts
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2027
What they work on
- Develop chemical sensors that pair GUMBOS, solid organic salts, with a quartz crystal microbalance so that selective salt–analyte interactions register as measurable signals.
- Formulate GUMBOS as nanomaterials (nanoGUMBOS) as safer alternatives to current nanomaterials for bioanalytical applications.
- Create solvent and solid-phase extraction strategies using ionic liquids and GUMBOS for selective measurement of biomedically important targets.
- Build miniaturized quartz crystal microbalance instruments for portable sensing of volatile analytes.
More about the research
Some of these salts are liquid at room temperature (ionic liquids). Others are solids from a family called GUMBOS, short for Group of Uniform Materials Based on Organic Salts. The team describes these as safer, more environmentally friendly alternatives to many current nanomaterials.
Why it matters
Portable, selective sensors built from tunable organic salts could let important biomedical and volatile chemicals be measured outside a full laboratory. The nanoGUMBOS may also offer safer, greener alternatives to current nanomaterials used in bioanalytical tests.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Cincinnati: 18 labs on PI Pages, $740M a year on research, 275 research doctorates a year.
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