AWARDS, NEWS, AND PRESS CLIPPINGS OF THE SUSLICK RESEARCH GROUP
"Publicity is good.
Good publicity is better."
— P.T. Barnum
Ken's Most Recent Prizes and Awards:
Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology, 2023. "The Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor the Institute bestows upon a graduate, and is given in recognition of "a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment. Selections are made by the President of Caltech based on recommendations from a committee comprising faculty, staff, and alumni; the President's recommendations are confirmed by the Board of Trustees. Since the award's inception in 1966, Caltech has recognized a total of 270 alumni as standouts in science, engineering, business and the arts."
Theophilus Redwood Award, Division of Analytical Sciences, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021. "The Theophilus Redwood Award is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences in the area of analytical chemistry. The Award for 2021 goes to Professor Suslick who has invented, developed and commercialised the 'optoelectronic nose', a simple but highly effective technology for the detection of toxic gases, identification of complex odorants, and the rapid diagnosis of disease based on smell. Olfaction is exceptionally important and often the dominant sense for most animals, but is woefully underappreciated by us humans. Developing a technology that can provide quantitative olfactory-like information is therefore especially important. Suslick's solution is a clever digital, multidimensional extension of litmus paper. Disposable arrays of printed spots of different dyes change colours depending on the odour to which they are exposed. The pattern of the colour change is a unique fingerprint that can identify dangerous gases, recognise bacterial infections, or even tell one single-malt scotch from another. This 'smell-seeing' has proven itself for personal dosimetry of toxic gas exposure (a 'radiation badge' for the chemical workplace), for rapid identification of cultured bacteria and fungi (for diagnosis of blood sepsis), and for disease diagnosis through breath analysis (with clinical trials for both lung cancer diagnosis and pulmonary infections). Beyond his scientific discoveries and fundamental research, Professor Suslick also co-founded iSense Systems LLC and Specific Diagnostics Inc (located in Silicon Valley) for the commercialisation of this novel technology."
Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry, 2021. Each year the Eastern Analytical Symposium honors analytical chemists who have distinguished career achievements. The Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry is the premier EAS award, presented in recognition of significant individual contributions in multiple disciplines of Analytical Chemistry.
Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, 2019, American Chemical Society. The Hildebrand Award recognizes distinguished contributions to the understanding of the chemistry and physics of liquids. It is supported by Exxon-Mobil Research & Engineering Co. "The Hildebrand Award for 2020 is awarded to Professor Kenneth S. Suslick. Through his exploration of sonoluminescence and its use as a spectroscopic probe of acoustic cavitation in liquids and the chemical effects thereof."
George Eastman Professor, University of Oxford, 2018-2019. For the past 90 years, the Eastman Professorship has been one of the world's most prestigious visiting positions, open to all areas of learning. Among its recipients have been twelve Nobel Laureates; previous chemists have included Linus Pauling, Harold Urey, Melvin Calvin, Charles Tanford, Clyde Hutchison, Harry Gray and Martin Karplus). Ken is the first Eastman Professor from the University of Illinois.
Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 2018. The Helmholtz-Rayleigh Medal has been awarded since 1983 only upon nomination from two or more Technical Committees within the ASA. Ken received this award "for contributions to the acoustics of sonochemistry" from Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Acoustics. He is the only chemist to have been so honored.
Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists, 2018. The Chemical Pioneer Award recognizes chemists, chemical engineers, or their associates who have made outstanding contributions which have had a major impact on advances in chemical science and industry and/or the chemical profession. This award was first given in 1966.
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2016.
"The National Academy of Inventors was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society. The NAI has 757 Fellows worldwide representing more than 225 universities and governmental and non-profit research institutions. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 21,000 issued U.S. patents. With the induction of the 2016 class, there are now more than 94 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 376 members of the three branches of the National Academy of Sciences, 28 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 45 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science, 28 Nobel Laureates, 14 Lemelson-MIT prize recipients, 216 AAAS Fellows, and 126 IEEE Fellows, among many other awards and distinctions."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-academy-of-inventors-announces-2016-fellows-300377099.html?tc=eml_cleartime
Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016.
"The Centenary Prizes are awarded to outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas to give lectures in the British Isles."
http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CentenaryPrizes/Index.asp
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An Introduction to Ken Suslick and his Science:
Press Clippings Grouped in Boxes below Original Research Articles: (click on links below)
- Li, Z.; Bassett, W. P.; Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Differentiation among peroxide explosives with an optoelectronic nose" Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 15312-15315. DOI: 10.1039/C5CC06221G
- Askim, J. R.; Li, Z.; LaGasse, M. K.; Rankin, J. M.; Suslick, K. S. "An optoelectronic nose for identification of explosives" Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 199-206. DOI: 10.1039/c5sc02632f
"A HighTech Nose Will Protect Mickey Mouse and Simba During Their Visit to China", Smithsonian Magazine, 3/17/2016.
"Can city 'smellfies' stop air pollution?", BBC News, 3/10/2017
"Artificial Nose Sniffs Out Pollution", R & D Magazine, 3/15/2016.
"Lowcost Sensors helped guard Disney artwork on China
trip", Chemistry World, 3/17/2016.
"Protecting Beauty from the Beasts", Analytical Scientist,5/26/2016.
"'Smart' nose sniffs out pollution to
protect Disney art", Business Standard, 3/16/2016.
'Artificial 'nose' sniffs out pollution to protect
Disney art on international tour", Science News, 3/15/2016.
"The Nose Knows", The Grist, 3/16/2016.
"SMART' NOSE SNIFFS OUT POLLUTION TO PROTECT DISNEY ART", Mumbai Mirror, 3/16/2016.
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- Su, Z.; Miao, Y.-R.; Mao, S.-M.; Zhang, G.-H.; Dillon, S.; Miller, J. T.; Suslick, K. S. "Compression-Induced Deformation of Individual MOF Micro-crystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1750-1753. DOI: 10.1021/ja5113436
- Rankin, J. M.; Neelakantan, N. K.; Lundberg, K. E.; Grzincic, E. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Magnetic, Fluorescent and Copolymeric Silicone Microspheres" Advanced Science, 2015, 2, 1500114-1-5. DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500114
"Tiny silicone spheres appear from the mist", R & D Magazine, May 7, 2015.
"Making
tiny silicone microspheres", News Medical, May 7, 2015.
"Imaging Tech Comes out of the Mist", Laboratory Equipment, May 7, 2015.
"Tiny Silicone Microspheres", AZO Nano, May 7, 2015.
"New technique allows for production
of drug-delivering silicone microspheres", GizMag, May 7, 2015.
Silicone microspheres show promise
for medical imaging, targeted drug delivery", Bio Optics World, May 29, 2015.
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"Seeing Sonic Hotspots" Science, May 1, 2015, p. 538.
"Ultrasonic hammer sets off tiny explosions", R & D Magazine, April 6, 2015.
"Ultrasonic hammer sets off tiny explosions", PhysOrg, April 3, 2015.
"Chemists Use Sound to Trigger Explosions", Laboratory Equipment, April 3, 2015.
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- Mazzone, P. J.; Wang, X.-F.; Xu, Y.; Mekhail, T.; Beukemann, M. C.; Na, J.; Kemling, J. W.; Suslick, K. S.; Sasidhar, M. "Exhaled Breath Analysis with a Colorimetric Sensor Array for the Identification and Characterization of Lung Cancer" J. Thoracic Oncology 2012, 7, 137-142.
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Carey, J. R.; Suslick, K. S.; Hulkower, K. I.; Imlay, J. A.; Imlay, K. R. C.; Ingison, C. K.; Ponder, J. B.; Sen, A.; Wittrig, A. E. "Rapid Identification of Bacteria with a Disposable Colorimetric Sensor Array" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7571-7576.
WTTW Chicago Tonight, 5/25/2011
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R&D Magazine, 4/28/2011
United Press Intl., 4/27/2011
Daily India, 4/28/2011
AICHE Chemical Engineering Progress, 4/28/2011
Infection Control Today, 4/27/2011
Science Daily, 4/28/2011
Science News, 4/28/2011
The Engineer, 4/28/2011
PhysOrg, 4/27/2011
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U.S. News & World Report, 11/05/2010
Nature, Research Highlights, 10/28/2010
Law Enforcement Technology, 5/2011
Science, ScienceNow News of the Week, 10/29/2010
Chemical & Engineering News, 10/25/2010
Science News, 11/05/2010
Inside Illinois, 10/19/2010
St. Louis Globe, 10/19/2010
United Press Intl., 10/19/2010
Fox News, 11/05/2010
Device Magazine, 10/20/2010
GizMag, 10/20/2010
Smart Planet, 11/2/2010
Science Now, 10/22/2010
PhysOrg, 10/19/2010
R & D Magazine, 10/19/2010
e!Science News, 10/19/2010
Science Daily, 10/19/2010
Dvice, 10/19/2010
Science Blog, 10/19/2010
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Xu, H. X.; Glumac, N. G.; Suslick, K. S. "Temperature Inhomogeneity during Multibubble Sonoluminescence" Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2010, 48, 1079-1082.
Xu, H.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Spatial Separation of Cavitating Bubble Populations: The Nanodroplet Injection Model" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131,
6060-6061.
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Lim, S. H.; Feng, L.; Kemling, J. W.; Musto, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "An Optoelectronic Nose for Detection of Toxic Gases" Nature Chemistry, 2009, 1, 562-567.
Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Kemling, J. W.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Identification of Toxic Gases below Permissible Exposure Limits" Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 2037-2039.
Boston Museum of Science TV spot video clip (39MB)
Scientific American, 09/13/2009
National Geographic, 09/01/2009
R & D Magazine, 09/13/2009
Le Figaro, 09/13/2009
Times of India, 09/13/2009
United Press Intl., 09/16/2009
Science News, 09/15/2009
Red Orbit, 09/16/2009
Embedded, 09/16/2009
Science Codex, 09/13/2009
Environmental Protection, 09/16/2009
Wired.com, 09/16/2009
Photonics, 09/14/2009
Chemistry & Industry, 09/14/2009
Phys. Org. Blog, 09/13/2009
Science Blog, 09/13/2009
Science Daily, 09/13/2009
Daily Illini, 04/18/2010
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Lim, S. H.; Musto, C. J.; Park, E.; Zhong, W.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Array for Detection and Identification of Sugars" Org. Lett. 2008, 10,
4405-4408.
Musto, C. J.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Detection and Identification of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners" Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 6526-6533.
CNN, 08/18/2009
National Geographic, 09/01/2009
Village Voice, 08/19/2009
Chemical & Engineering News, 08/18/2009
Chemistry & Industry, , 09/14/2009
Scientific Blogging, 08/17/2009
Science Daily, 08/17/2009
CNET News, 08/18/2009
NanoWerk, 08/18/2009
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Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanoluminescence: Light from sonication of crystal slurries" Nature, 2006, 444, 163
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Janzen, M. C.; Ponder, J. B.; Bailey, D. P.; Ingison, C. K.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Volatile Organic Compounds" Anal. Chem. 2006, 78, 3591-3600.
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Zhang, C.; Bailey, D. P.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for the Analysis of Beers: A Feasibility Study" J. Agric. Food Chem., 2006, 54, 4925-4931.
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Zhang, C.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Soft Drink Analysis" J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007, 55, 237-242.
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Suh, W. H.; Jang, A. R.; Suh, Y.-H.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous, Hollow, and Ball-in-Ball Metal Oxide Microspheres: Preparation, Endocytosis, and Cytotoxicity" Advanced Materials 2006, 18, 1832-1837.
National Public Radio, "Morning Edition" 03 March 2005.
MSNBC, "Tiny Bubbles Get Hotter Than the Sun" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7082639/
The New York Times, "Tiny Bubbles Implode with the Heat of a Star" 15 March 2005.
Chemical & Engineering News, "Bubble Inferno" 2005, 83, 10.
Nature, "Collapsing Bubbles Have Hot Plasma Core" 2 March 2005.
Lohse, D. "Cavitation Hots Up" Nature 2005, 434, 33 - 34.
Weiss, P. "Brutal Bubbles" Science News 2005, 167, 147.
Science, "Hotter Than the Sun"
Mullins, J. "Blazing Core Closes Gap on Bubble Fusion" New Scientist 2005, 185, 17.
Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, "Science Heats Up" 14 March 2005.
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden's largest daily paper) "Skinande bubbla ger ren energi" 03 Mars 2005
Barbara Goss Levi Physics Today "Evidence for a Plasma Inside a Sonoluminescing Bubble" May 2005, pp. 21-23
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"Metals' Role In Odor Sensing
Neuroscience: Some olfaction receptors need the help of copper" Chemical & Engineering News Feb. 8, 2012
Chemical & Engineering News, Mar. 3, 2003.
"The Right Snuff," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (Front Page!) Feb. 25, 2003.
Champaign News Gazette, p. 2, Mar. 2, 2003.
"Heavy Metals Play Crucial Role in the Ability to Smell" Orlando Sentinel, Mar. 2, 2003.
"Metals Attract Strong, Bad Odors" Baltimore Sun, Mar. 3, 2003.
"Raising A Stink" San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 12, 2003.
"Metals Ions May Play Big Role In How We Sense Smells" Science Daily, Mar. 3, 2003.
"The Nose of the Matter" Food Navigator, Mar. 2, 2003.
"The Right Snuff," STL Today Feb. 24, 2003.
"Dead Nose," Die Zeit WissenMar. 1, 2003. |
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Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "The Energy Efficiency of Formation of Photons, Radicals, and Ions During Single Bubble Cavitation" Nature 2002, 418, 394-397.
News & Views Commentary,"Inside a Microreactor",Nature 2002, 418, 382-383.
"Sonoluminescence: Bubble Power" Nature 2002, 418.
"Single Bubble Microreactors" Chemical & Engineering News, July 29, 2002.
"Chemistry Casts Doubt on Bubble Reactions" Science, News of the Week; July 29, 2002.
"Fusion Experiment Disappoints" BBC News, 25 July 2002.
"Bubble bursts for bench-top nuclear fusion" New Scientist, 24 July 2002.
"Researchers Probe Chemistry of Bubbles" Photonics Technology, Sept. 2002.
"UI Report Casts Doubt on Bubble Fusion" Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2002
"Bubble Fusion More Difficult to Produce" UPI, July 24, 2002.
"Bubble bursts for ‘sono-fusion’" Physics Web, July 24, 2002.
"New Bubble Reaction Findings Make Fusion Claims Unlikely" Scientific American, July 25, 2002.
"Violent chemistry saps sonobubble energy" Science News, August 24, 2002.
"Scientists measure energy dissipation in a single cavitating bubble" Inside Illinois, August 2002.
"Chemistry Casts Doubt on Bubble Fusion" Daily InSCIght, July 24, 2002 |
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Zimmerman, S. C.; Wendland, M. S.; Rakow, N. A.; Zharov, I.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthetic Hosts by Monomolecular Imprinting Inside Dendrimers" Nature 2002, 418, 399-403.
News & Views Commentary, "Much Binding in the Lab", Nature 2002, 418, 375-376.
"Building a Better Binding Site" Chemical & Engineering News, July 29, 2002.
"Creating a Good Impression," News & Views Commentary, Nature Biotechnology 2002, 20(9), 884-885
"UI researchers sculpt molecules" News Gazette, July 28, 2002.
"Mimicking the Best of Nature's Binders" Science News, July 27, 2002.
Faculty of 1000 Commentary |
News & Views Commentary, 17 Aug 00,"Picture the Smell", Nature 2000, 406, 682-683
CBS Evening News (WCIA, Champaign, IL), 8/16/00;
3 min. video clip in RealPlayer format (3.7 MB).
To download the free RealPlayer Basic viewer, click here.
MS-NBC, 8/16/00: "What's That Smell? Get a Good Look."
ABC News in Science 21/08/00: "Artificial nose sees smell"
CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), 8/21/00: "Fake nose actually smells"
Chemical & Engineering News, 08/21/00: "NEWS OF THE WEEK - A 'Nose' That Shows Scents In Color"
Business Week, 09/04/00: "Developments To Watch"
New Scientist, 08/17/00: "Sniffing out fakes"
The News-Gazette, 8/17/00, p. 1 (!): "UI scientists say smells are really quite a sight to see."
Chicago Tribune, 8/17/00, sect. 1, p. 5: "U. OF I. Researcher Provides Whiff of Brand-New Technology"
Reuters/Yahoo News; 8/17/00: "Artificial Nose 'Sees'" Smells
Inside Illinois, 8/17/00: "Artificial Nose Knows"
NewsDay, 9/19/00: "The Artificial Sniffer" p. C8-C9.
The Scientist 14[17]:19, Sep. 4, 2000: "Does The Nose Always Know?"
Nature Science Update, 8/17/00: "Seeing scents."
Discovery.com, 8/16/00: "Paper Nose Detects Toxics."
Chemistry and Industry, 08/21/2000"Artificial nose sniffs out colour of odours."
Photonics Spectra, Nov. 2000"Color-Changing Array Identifies Odors"
Biophotonics International, Nov. 2000"What the nose knows can also be seen"
Environmental Health Perspectives (NIH), March, 2001"Smelling in Color: A Rainbow of Possibilities"
Scientific American, March 2001"Plenty to Sniff At" |
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McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Nature, 1999, 401, 772-775.
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Collman, J. P.; Brauman, J. I.; Halbert, T. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Nature of Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide Binding to Metalloporphyrins and Heme Proteins," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 1976, 73, 3333-3337.
Some Older Press Clippings:
"Ultrasonic cleaning cuts waste, energy use"
C&E News, 3 Jul 95
"Waves of excitement"
London Financial Times, 27 May 95
"Bubbles hotter than the sun"
New Scientist, 29 Apr 95
"Nanostructured catalysts prepared"
C&E News, 24 Apr 95
"Booster bubbles for artificial blood"
Business Week, 23 Jan 95
"Small sphere lead to big ideas"Science, 20 Jan 95, vol. 267, p. 327,
"Microspheres play role in medical, sensor, energy, space technologies" C&E News, 19 Dec 1994, p. 33
"New shot at fusion by pumping sound waves into tiny bubbles"
New York Times, 20 Dec 94
"A shot in the arm for synthetic blood"
New Scientist, 17 Dec 94
"Flashes of insight"
Dallas Morning News, 21 Nov 94
"Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry" C&E News, 11 Oct 1993
"Ultrasound proves to be a versatile tool for chemists."
C&E News, 7 Oct 1991, p. 18-21
"Light Comes from Ultrasound"
Physics Today, Oct. 1991, p. 17-18
"Chemistry: Putting good vibrations to work"
Washington Post, 7 Oct 91
"Sonic Boom"
Economist, 5 Oct 91
"Ultrasonic boom"
Dallas Morning News, 4 Jun 90
"Sound is shaped into dazzling tool with many uses"
New York Times, 9 Feb 88
"Sonoluminescence seen in nonaqueous liquids"
C&E News, 25 Jan 1988
"Snap, crackle, pop"
Economist, 19 May 84 |
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