Prof. Robert M. Corn
Chemistry Research Group Website
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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23 June 2022 Recently published note on Linked In: On July 1, after 37 years as a Chemistry Professor (18 years at UC Irvine and 19 years at the University of Wisconsin before that), I will retire and become an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my co-workers over the last 38 years – undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, researchers, and colleagues. It has been an absolute pleasure and honor to be able to create world class scientific research with you all, and I obviously would not have been able to publish what we did (160+ papers!) without your help and collaboration. But of course, being a Professor is first and foremost about teaching and passing your knowledge on to others; thus, I view my students and former collaborators as my greatest legacy and accomplishment. I hope that the impact of the science that we produced in the areas of interfacial infrared vibrational spectroscopy, monolayer surface chemistry, surface-sensitive optical second harmonic generation, single crystal surface electrochemistry, liquid-liquid electrochemical interfaces, nanostructured interfaces, DNA computing, surface plasmon resonance imaging, microarray bioaffinity sensing, surface enzyme chemistries for ultrasensitive biosensing and microarray fabrication and most recently the characterization of single nanoparticles via surface plasmon resonance imaging diffraction will be of continued value to the scientific community. I will forever be a Scientist and will continue to follow the ongoing research in my areas of expertise with pleasure. Hopefully I have encouraged or impacted in some small way all of the fine younger researchers that I have had the honor to interact with over the years. To my dear Scientific Friends around the world, please continue to send me your latest news and results! And most recently, thanks to the world-wide COVID pandemic, many of my friends and family now know much more about the biosensing of proteins and nucleic acids at minute concentrations in a way that I never imagined. I hope that in the future, our work on ultrasensitive biosensing will in some small part help the world tackle the pandemics that lie ahead. Finally, to my colleagues at UC Irvine, I am very happy to have had a small part in making our Chemistry Department and University the world-class research institution that it is today. I both hope and expect that UCI’s success in Scientific Research will only continue to grow by leaps and bounds in the future. -- Rob Corn (rcorn@uci.edu) “Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.” – Max Planck ***************************** 17 February 2022 Happy Lunar New Year! Our recent paper in JPC Letters is now open access! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00268 Complex Resonant Scattering Behavior in the Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Microscopy of Single Gold Nanorods Yunshan Fan, Yara Aceta, Esther Hessong, Athena Bengston, Laris A. Biageyian, Quan P. Huynh, and Robert M. Corn* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 7, 2004–2010 10 December 2021 It took a while, but it looks like Pacifichem will actually happy in a couple of days! I am organizing (along with six colleagues from around the world) a Symposium on Biosensing at Nanostructured Interfaces on December 18th (three sessions throughout the entire day). Please click here to see a PDF of my talk. https://www.chem.uci.edu/~unicorn/reprints/Pacfichem/ 01 November 2021 Well, it's getting towards the end of 2021 - quite a year for us all! We are all vaccinated and back in lab; currently we are focusing on the microfabrication of unique microfluidic patterns for nanoparticle control and separations. 21 June 2021 It's summer now and time to do research! Congratulations to Athena Bengston on her B.S. degree - AND we are happy to welcome Athena as a staff member in our group! 18 February 2021 Check out our latest paper in J. Phys. Chem. Letters! Complex Resonant Scattering Behavior in the Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Microscopy of Single Gold Nanorods Yunshan Fan, Yara Aceta, Esther Hessong, Athena Bengston, Laris A. Biageyian, Quan P. Huynh, and Robert M. Corn* https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00268 Congratulations to Yunshan and everyone else in the group! 02 September 2020 We've been back in lab for almost two months now, slowly chipping away at the science. We are now cleared to have our undergraduates back in lab -- Athena, Alex and Laris are excited to be with real chemicals and instruments again instead of just working at home on data analysis! Welcome back! 15 June 2020 After staying home for over a month, our labs are now back up and running!! We got a lot of data analysis done in May, and the good part of a nice FTIR paper. But now it's time to get back in lab and take new data - which is already happening! 22 November 2019 Congratulations to Kellen (now Dr. Kartub!) for a successful Ph. D. defense! 09 August 2019 Congratulations to Hiroshi and Brandon on their paper just published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics on "MicroRNA detection on microsensor arrays by SPR imaging measurements with enzymatic signal enhancement"! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2019.111565 15 July 2019 Dr. Yunshan Fan (yunshanf@uci.edu) joins our research group as a Postodoctoral Scientist! Yunshan received her Ph. D. from the University of Washington in the labs of Prof. Bo Zhang. 08 July 2019 We run a 2019 AAUW Tech Trek Camp session in our labs on Nanoparticle Chemistry! 17 June 2019 Thao and Nguyen graduate from UCI with B. S. Chemistry degrees. Congratulations Thao and Nguyen!! 31 May 2019 Brandon successfully defends and earns his Ph. D. Congratulations, Brandon! 04 April 2019 Millie completes her Ph. D. work and is off to Seattle. Farewell, Millie! 22 February 2019 Congratulations to Brandon Matthews, Adam Maley and Kellen Kartub on their paper just accepted to J. Phys. Chem. C! "Characterizing the Incorporation of DNA into Single NIPAm Hydrogel Nanoparticles with Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Measurements," Brandon M. Matthews, Adam M. Maley, Kellen M. Kartub, and Robert M. Corn, J. Phys. Chem. C., 123 6090-6096 (2019). ACS link> 17 January 2019 Congratulations to Millie Fung, Kellen Kartub and Seulgi So on their paper that is now officially published in J. Phys. Chem. C! H. W. M. Fung, S. So, K. Kartub and R. M. Corn, "Quantitative Characterization of Optical Coupling in Nanoporous ZnO-WO3 and ZnO-PEDOT Composite Electrodeposited Gratings using Electrodiffraction Measurements" J. Phys. Chem. C., 123 762-769 (2019). ACS link> |
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My longtime friend Prof. Hubert Girault from EPFL is retiring this year (2021). Here are some random photos of Hubert (and me) at various locations. I also have a short video of my 2021 Jejudo ISE meeting talk on our time together (15 min). Click here for the video (.mp4 format). https://www.chem.uci.edu/~unicorn/reprints/JejudoISE/ Congratulations, mon vieux! 
We now have two Matlab codes that can identify and quantify the diffraction peaks in our single nanoparticle SPRI data
2019 AAUW Tech Trek Camp Chemistry Session in our Labs on Nanoparticle Chemistry.
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