Our review on 'Nanobiotechnology enabled approaches for wastewater based epidemiology' is now published in TrAC- Trends in Analytical Chemistry. Thanks to everyone involved in this work.

Thrilled to be chairing this search committee- Please help spread the word that VT Environmental and Water Resources Program is hiring! AEESP

Come and join Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr, Amy Pruden, Marc Edwards, John Little, William Knocke, Dan Gallagher, Andrea Dietrich, Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Hosein Foroutan, and myself in beautiful Blacksburg, VA!

New paper published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Thanks to sejukang, Wei Wang, Qishen Huang, Inyoung Kim & peter vikesland for their help and guidance. We explored lectin-modified bacterial cellulose nanocrystals as biosensors coupled with SERS and machine learning. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Concerned about contaminants in #water? Interested in #nanotechnology & #machinelearning? Apply now for 2022 Summer Undergrad #DataScience Research in the peter vikesland lab at #VirginiaTech | #REU #NSFfunded #NSF Undergrad Research Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Virginia Tech ICTAS | tinyurl.com/SummerVirginia…

According to the CDC, the flu infects 9 million to 41 million people in the US annually and leads to the hospitalization of up to 26,000 children. Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr is leading a team of researchers to investigate the transmission of flu in child care settings. vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/…

Our newly published LCA study in ACS Sustainable Journals presents comprehensive inventory data on Iron Oxide (Fe3O4/γ-Fe2O3) Nanoparticle Synthesis Routes and a breakdown of process contribution to adverse environmental and health effects.

#VTCEE is one of those! We ranked #7 in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.

Tune in to Engineers for the World podcast where Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr talks about the transformation & fate of pollutants in the atmosphere, transmission of infectious disease by aerosol viruses, & environmental/health impacts of engineered nanoparticles eng.vt.edu/content/global…

Congrats to Qishen Huang on the publication of his paper 'In Situ pH Measurement of Water Droplets Using Flash-Freeze Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy'! Qishen developed a new approach to quantify droplet pH using flash-freezing and #SERS. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

This morning at the Dean's Awards Ceremony, Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz was honored with a Faculty Fellow Award. Join us in congratulating him on this honor!

Great work by Wei Wang, demonstrating an application using the AuNPs+lectin+bacterial cellulose-based SERS substrate that we previously reported in ACS Applied Nano Materials. (doi.org/10.1021/acsanm…)

Confused about how monkeypox spreads? 🤔 Airborne disease expert Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr helps break down what’s known 🔬 nytimes.com/2022/06/10/hea… w/ Virginia Tech Engineering Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering

Check out our latest review on recent advances in the application of Cellulose nanocomposites in environmental sensing, pollutant removal, catalysis, energy & resource recovery, and sustainable commercial products. tandfonline.com/eprint/AF4ZJKP…

Recent HOT article in #ESNANO: 'One-step biosynthesis of a bilayered graphene oxide embedded bacterial nanocellulose hydrogel for versatile photothermal membrane applications' by Govindaraj Divyapriya et al. (corres.: Peter J. Vikesland) ➡ bit.ly/39pY7dK

My PhD paper finally came back from reviewers!

We are delighted to share with you Environmental Science Journals of the RSC's very own Editor in Chief, peter vikesland et al. has recently published their article in RSC Advances 🎇 Read more on gold supraparticles as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates 👇 ow.ly/lqie50LNFqc

Congratulations to Wei Wang and sejukang on publication of their Environmental Science Journals of the RSC Review 'Environmental routes of virus transmission and the application of nanomaterial-based sensors for virus detection'! Two+ years of work now successfully published. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Very happy to share our new paper 'Investigation of the Influence of Stress on Label-Free Bacterial Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectra'. Congrats to Wei Wang, sejukang, and Asifur Rahman on completing this work!! #SERS VTSuN HEARD CIP-CAR NRT pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out our new publication here. In this paper, we investigated the bacterial SERS spectra variations in different conditions which should be noticed during measurement. Thanks for everyone who contributed! peter vikesland ,sejukang and Asifur Rahman