Kenneth S. Suslick

Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of Chemistry

Ken Suslick received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974, his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978, and came to the University of Illinois immediately thereafter. He and his research group have published more than 500 scientific publications, edited four books, and holds 71 patents and patent applications.

The Suslick Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is multi-disciplinary: our research projects involve individuals with interests not only in inorganic, but also in organometallic, bio-organic, materials (both inorganic and biomaterials), surface, analytical and physical chemistry.

Our three major research areas are the chemical effects of ultrasound (which includes nano-materials synthesis and sonoluminescence), the mechanochemistry of inorganic solids (including shock wave energy dissipation by MOFs, i.e., metal-organic framework solids) and chemical sensing (specifically, our optoelectronic nose, i.e., colorimetric sensor arrays for the detection of VOCs). The latter project in artificial olfaction and molecular recognition is an exciting spinoff of our earlier work on the bioinorganic and materials chemistry of metalloporphyrins.

In addition to his academic research, Professor Suslick has had significant entrepreneurial experience. He was the lead consultant for Molecular Biosystems Inc. and part of the team that commercialized the first echo contrast agent for medical sonography, Albunex™, which became Optison™ by GE Healthcare. In addition, he was the founding consultant for VivoRx Pharmaceuticals and co-inventor of one of the first FDA-approved nanopharmacueticals, Abraxane™ (serum albumin microspheres with a paclitaxel core), which is the predominant current delivery system for taxol chemotherapy for breast cancer; VivoRx became Abraxis Bioscience, which was acquired by Celgene for $2.9 billion. Most recently, Suslick invented, developed, and commercialized the "optoelectronic nose", a simple but highly effective technology for the identification and quantification of gas analytes. This has found important applications in the detection of toxic gases and explosives, the discrimination among complex odorants, and rapid diagnosis of disease based on their smell. This unique sensor technology is licensed to companies that Suslick co-founded: iSense Systems and its spinoff, Specific Diagnostics (both in Silicon Valley). Specific Diagnostics developed a new method of antibiotic susceptibility testing for very rapid diagnosis of sepsis that is now approved for use in the EU and fast-tracked for approval by the FDA in the US. In June 2022, BioMerieux (the large French biotech firm) purchased Specific Diagnostics for $430 million. In 2023, Suslick founded a new start-up, Iridescent Sensors Inc., to develop toxic gas sensors for first responders.

6 Overviews of Suslick Group Research

Li, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "The Optoelectronic Nose"
Accts. Chem. Res., 2021, 54, 950-960.

Zhou, X; Miao, Y.-R.; Suslick, K. S.; Dlott, D. D. "The Mechanochemistry of MOFs under Pressure and Shock"
Accts. Chem. Res., 2020, 53, 2806-2815.

Suslick, K. S.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Xu, H. "The Chemical History of a Bubble"
Accts. Chem. Res., 2018, 51, 2169-2178.

Xu, H.; Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical synthesis of nanomaterials"
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 2555-2567.

Suslick, K. S.; Bhyrappa, P.; Chou, J. H.; Kosal, M. E.; Nakagaki, S.; Smithenry, D. W.; Wilson, S. R. "Microporous Porphyrin Solids"
Acc. Chem. Res. 2005, 38, 283 - 291.

Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemistry," Science, 1990, 247, 1439-45.

Selected Awards and Honors:

National Academy of Sciences, 2024.

Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology, 2023.

Theophilus Redwood Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021.

Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry, 2021.

Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, American Chemical Society, 2020.

76th George Eastman Professor, University of Oxford, 2018-2019.

Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 2018.

Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists, 2018.

Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016.

Dreyfus Foundation Senior Scientist Mentor Award, 2015.

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2012.

Acoustical Society of America David T. Blackstock Mentor Award, 2009.

Sir George Stokes Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008.

Senior Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society, 2004.

Wolfgang Göpel Award, Intl. Soc. on Olfaction & Electronic Noses, 2001.

Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, American Chemical Society, 1994.

Materials Research Society Medal for Exceptional Recent Achievements in Materials Research, 1994.

NIH Research Career Development Award.

Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.

Silver Medal of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Innovation Transfer Award, Economic Development Corporation.

Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1974-1978.

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Fellow, American Chemical Society.

Fellow, American Physical Society.

Fellow, Materials Research Society.

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors.

National Academy of Sciences.

Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry.

Harold S. Johnston Lectureship in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.

Schulich Visiting Professor Lectureship, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Café Scientifique, Oxford University Natural History Museum, Oxford, UK.

George Eastman Lecture, Engineering Science, Oxford University.

Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne.

Crano Memorial Lectureship, ACS Akron Section.

J.T. Donald Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal.

W. Heinlen Hall Lectureship, Bowling Green State University.

University of Melbourne Special Public Lectureship.

Robert A. Welch Foundation Lectureship.

3ème Cycle Lectureship, Switzerland.

Charles William Murtiashaw III Lectureship, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Five College Lecturer (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire and U. Mass. Amherst).

Cherry Emerson Lectureship, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Publication Summary:

> 500 scientific publications, including, 4 books edited, and 71 patents and patents pending.

H-index = 131 (i.e., 131 publications each with 131 or more citations);   >125 avg. citations/publication.

Total citations:   >67,000.   i10-index = 370 (# papers with >10 citations).    Google Scholar, 01 Sept 2023.

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Selected Publications:

Introductory Reviews
Sonoluminescence and Cavitation
The Sonochemistry of Inorganic Materials
Mechanochemistry and Shockwave Energy Dissipation
The Sonochemistry of Biomaterials
Chemical Sensing, Sensor Arrays, and the Optoelectronic Nose
Metalloporphyrins and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

Introductory Reviews

Reviews of Sonochemistry, Sonoluminescence, Cavitation, and Nanomaterials:

Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemistry,"
Science, 1990, 247, 1439-45.

Suslick, K. S. "The Chemical Effects of Ultrasound"
Scientific American, 1989 (2), 260, 80-86.

Suslick, K. S. "The Chemistry of Ultrasound," in Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future,
Britannica: Chicago; 1994; pp. 138-155.

Suslick, K. S.; Price, G. "Applications of Ultrasound to Materials Chemistry"
Annu. Rev. Matl. Sci., 1999, 29, 295-326.

Suslick, K. S.; Didenko, Y.; Fang, M. M.; Hyeon, T.; Kolbeck, K. J.; McNamara, W. B. III; Mdleleni, M. M.; Wong, M. "Acoustic Cavitation and Its Chemical Consequences" Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 1999, 357, 335-353.

Suslick, K. S.; Skrabalak, S. E. "Sonocatalysis" In Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis, vol. 4; Ertl, G.; Knözinger, H.; Schüth, F.; Weitkamp, J., Eds.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2008, pp. 2006-2017.

Suslick, K. S.; Flannigan, D. J. "Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonoluminescence and the Conditions during Cavitation"
Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2008, 59, 659-683.

Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Applications of Ultrasound to the Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials"
Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 1039-1059.

Xu, H.; Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical synthesis of nanomaterials"
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 2555-2567.

Hinman, J. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Materials Synthesis Using Ultrasound"
Top. Curr. Chem., 2017, 375, 1-36. DOI: 10.1007/s41061-016-0100-9

Suslick, K. S.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Xu, H. "The Chemical History of a Bubble"
Accts. Chem. Res., 2018, 51, 2169-2178.

Barcikowski, S.; Plech, A.; Suslick, K. S.; Vogel, A. "Materials synthesis in a bubble"
MRS Bulletin 2019, 44, 382-391. https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2019.107

Reviews of Mechanochemistry:

Sander, J. R. G.; Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonocrystallization and Sonofragmentation"
Ultrason. Sonochem. 2014, 21, 1908-1915.

Suslick, K. S. "Mechanochemistry and Sonochemistry: Concluding Remarks"
Faraday Discuss. 2014, 170, 411-422.

Friscic, T.; James, S. L.; Boldyreva, E. V.; Bolm, C.; Jones, W.; Mack, J.; Steed, J. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Challenges and opportunities of modern mechanochemistry" Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 6248-6256.

Miao, Y.-R.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanochemical Reactions of MOFs"
Adv. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 71, 403-434.

Zhou, X; Miao, Y.-R.; Suslick, K. S.; Dlott, D. D. "The Mechanochemistry of MOFs under Pressure and Shock"
Accts. Chem. Res., 2020, 53, 2806-2815. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00396

Reviews of Chemical Sensing and Bioinorganic Chemistry:

Suslick, K. S. "Shape Selective Oxidation by Metalloporphyrins," in The Porphyrin Handbook, Kadish, K.; Smith, K.; Guilard, R., ed.; Academic Press: New York, 2000; vol. 4, ch. 28, pp. 41-63.

Suslick, K. S.; Bhyrappa, P.; Chou, J. H.; Kosal, M. E.; Nakagaki, S.; Smithenry, D. W.; Wilson, S. R. "Microporous Porphyrin Solids" Acc. Chem. Res. 2005, 38, 283 - 291.

Suh, W. H.; Suslick,K. S.; Stucky, G. D.; Suh, Y.-H. "Nanotechnology, Nanotoxicology, and Neuroscience"
Prog. Neurobiol. 2009, 87, 133-170.

Musto, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Differential Sensing of Sugars by Colorimetric Arrays"
Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. 2010, 14, 758-766.

Kemling, J. W.; Qavi, A. J.; Bailey, R. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Substrates for Optical Sensing"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2, 2934-2944.

Suslick, K. S. "Synesthesia in Science and Technology: More than Making the Unseen Visible"
Current Opin. Chem. Bio. 2012, 16, 557-563.

Askim, J. R.; Mahmoudi, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Optical sensor arrays for chemical sensing: the optoelectronic nose"
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 8649 - 8682.

Zheng, L.; Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. "The Optoelectronic Nose: Colorimetric and Fluorometric Sensor Arrays"
Chem. Rev., 2019, 119, 231-292.

Sonoluminescence and Cavitation:

Suslick, K. S.; Flint, E. B. "Sonoluminescence of Non-Aqueous Liquids," Nature 1987, 330, 553-555.

Flint, E. B.; Suslick, K. S. "The Temperature of Cavitation" Science 1991, 253, 1397-1399.

McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Nature, 1999, 401, 772-775.

Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "The Temperature of Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence in Water," J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, , 103, 10783-10788.

McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Effect of Noble Gases on Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Phys. Rev. Lett., 2000, 84, 777-780.

Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission from Single Bubble Sonoluminescence" Nature, 2000, 406, 877-879.

Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "The Energy Efficiency of Formation of Photons, Radicals, and Ions During Single Bubble Cavitation" Nature 2002, 418, 394-397.

Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Formation and Temperature Measurement during Single-Bubble Cavitation" Nature, 2005, 434, 52-55.

Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Line Emission During Single-Bubble Cavitation" Phys. Rev. Lett., 2005, 95, 044301-1 - 044301-4.

Hopkins, S. D.; Putterman, S. J.; Kappus, B. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Camara, C. G. "Dynamics Of A Sonoluminescing Bubble In Sulfuric Acid" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005, 95, 254301-1 - 254301-4.

Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Camara, C. G.; Putterman, S. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Measurement of Pressure and Density Inside a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 96, 204301-1 - 204301-4.

Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Quenching by Air during Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2006 110, 9315-9318.

Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanoluminescence: Light from sonication of crystal slurries" Nature, 2006, 444, 163.

Camara, C. G.; Hopkins, S. D.; Suslick, K. S.; Putterman, S. J. "Upper Bound for Neutron Emission from Sonoluminescing Bubbles in Deuterated Acetone" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 064301-1-4.

Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Evidence For A Plasma Core During Multibubble Sonoluminescence In Sulfuric Acid" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3838-3829.

Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Intense Mechanoluminescence and Gas Phase Reactions from the Sonication of an Organic Slurry" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6718-6719.

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.

Xu, H. X.; Glumac, N. G.; Suslick, K. S. "Temperature Inhomogeneity during Multibubble Sonoluminescence" Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2010, 48, 1079-1082.

Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission and Temperature Measurements from Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 244301-1-4.
Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Inertially-Confined Plasma in an Imploding Bubble" Nature Physics 2010, 6, 598-601.
Suslick, K. S.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Xu, H. "Extreme conditions during multibubble cavitation: Sonoluminescence as a spectroscopic probe" Ultrasonics Sonochem. 2011, 18, 842-846.

Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Temperature Nonequilibration during Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 2401-2404.

Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S., "Non-Boltzmann Population Distributions during Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence."J. Phys. Chem. B 2013, 117, 15886-15893.

Radziuk, D.; Moehwald, H.; Suslick, K. "Single Bubble Perturbation in Cavitation Proximity of Solid Glass: Hot Spot versus Distance" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 3534-3541.

The Sonochemistry of Inorganic Materials:

Suslick, K. S.; Schubert, P. F.; Goodale, J. W. "Sonochemistry and Sonocatalysis of Iron Carbonyls," J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 1981, 103, 7342-7344.

Suslick, K. S.; Choe, S. B.; Cichowlas, A. A.; Grinstaff, M. W. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Amorphous Iron," Nature 1991, 353, 414-416.

Suslick, K. S.; Fang, M.; Hyeon, T. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Iron Colloids" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 11960-11961.

Prozorov, T.; Prozorov, R.; Snezhko, A.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Modification of the Superconducting Properties of MgB2" Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003, 83, 2019-2021.

Prozorov, T.; Prozorov, R.; Suslick, K. S. "High Velocity Inter-Particle Collisions Driven by Ultrasound" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13890-13891.

Dhas, N. Arul; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Preparation of Hollow Nanospheres and Hollow Nanocrystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2368-2369.

Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous MoS2 Synthesized by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9990-9991.

Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Magnetic and Porous Nanospheres From Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12007-12010.

Didenko, Y.T.; Suslick, K.S. "Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanoparticles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12196-12197.

Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Powders Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 12642-12643.

Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized Hollow Hematite" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 2242-2243.

Bang, J. H.; Han, K.; Skrabalak, S. E.; Kim, H.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Supports Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Electrodes" J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 10959-10964.

Bang, J. H.; Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured ZnS:Ni²⁺ Photocatalysts Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Advanced Materials 2008, 20, 2599-2603.

Bang, J. H.; Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Quantum Dots from Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis: Preparation, Characterization, and Cellular Imaging" Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 4033-4038.

Bang, J. H.; Lim, S. H.; Park, E.; Suslick, K. S. "Dual Templating Synthesis of Mesoporous Titanium Nitride Microspheres" Advanced Materials 2009, 21, 1-5.

Dunkle, S. S.; Suslick, K. S. "Photodegradation of BiNbO₄ Powder during Photocatalytic Reactions" J. Phys. Chem., C, 2009, 113, 10341-10345.

Dunkle, S. S.; Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "BiVO₄ as a Visible-Light Photocatalyst Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Phys. Chem..,C, 2009, 113, 11980-11983.

Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K.S. "Water-Soluble Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters" Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 1078-1082.

Fortunato, M. E.; Rostam-Abadi, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Carbons Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Chem. Matl. 2010, 22, 1610-1612.

Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K.S. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Ag Nanoclusters" ACS Nano 2010, 4, 3209-3214.

Helmich, R. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis of Hollow Metallic Aluminum Particles" Chem. Mat. 2010, 22, 4835-4837.

Atkinson, J. D.; Fortunato, M. E.; Dastgheib, S. A.; Rostam-Abadi, M.; Rood, M. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthesis and Charac-terization of Iron-Impregnated Porous Carbon Spheres Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Carbon, 2011, 49, 587-598.

Cabanas-Polo, S.; Suslick, K. S.; Sanchez-Herencia, A. J. "Effect of reaction conditions on size and morphology of ultrasonically prepared Ni(OH)₂ powders" Ultrasonics Sonochem., 2011, 18, 901-906.

Suh, W. H.; Kang, J. K.; Suh, Y.-H.; Tirrell, M.; Suslick, K. S.; Stucky, G. D. "Porous Carbon Produced in Air: Physicochemical: Properties and Stem Cell Engineering" Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 2332-2338.

Xu, H. X.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Preparation of Functionalized Graphenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9148-9151.

Kim, H.; Fortunato, M. E.; Xu, H.; Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Carbon Microspheres as Supercapacitors" J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115, 20481-20486. DOI: 10.1021/jp207135g

Guo, J.; Suslick, K. S. "Gold Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Porous Carbon" Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 11094-11096.

Xu, H.; Guo, J.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Spheres from Energetic Carbon Precursors using Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 6028-6033. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201915

Sayyah, M.; Lu, Y.; Masel, R. I.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanical Activation of Calcium Oxide-Based Adsorbents for CO₂ Capture" ChemSusChem 2013, 6, 193-198.

Naldoni, A.; Bianci, C. L.; Pirola, C.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous TiO2 Microspheres with Tunable Properties for Photocatalytic Air Purification" Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 2013, 20, 445-451.

Overcash, J. W.; Suslick, K. S. "High Surface Area Iron Oxide Microspheres via Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis of Ferritin Core Analogues" Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 3564-3567. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00766

Weisensee, P. B.; Neelakantan, N. K.; Suslick, K. S.; Jacobi, A. M.; King, W. P. "Impact of Air and Water Vapor Environments on the Hydrophobicity of Surfaces" J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 2015, 453, 177-185. DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2015.04.060

Neelakantan, N. K.; Weisensee, P. B.; Overcash, J. W.; Torrealba, E. J.; King, W. P.; Suslick, K. S. "Spray-on Omniphobic Coatings" RSC Advances 2015, 5, 69243-69250. DOI: 10:1039/c5ra11178a
Sayyah, M.; Abbasi, E.; Lu, Y.; Abbasian, J.; Suslick, K. S. "Composite CaO-Based CO2 Sorbents Synthesized by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis: Experimental Results and Modeling" Energy & Fuels 2015, 29, 4447-4452. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b00397

Zhang, Y.; Huff, L. A.; Gewirth, A. A.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthesis of Manganese Oxide Microspheres by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis and their Application as Supercapacitors" Particles Part. Syst. Charact. 2015, 32, 899-906. DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201500061

Overcash, J. W.; Suslick, K. S. "High Surface Area Iron Oxide Microspheres via Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis of Ferritin Core Analogues" Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 3564-3567. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00766

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

Kim, H. N.; Sander, J. R. G.; Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Spray Sonocrystallization" Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 1564-1567. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00072

Hinman, J. G.; Hinman, J. J.; Janicek, B. E.; Huang, P. Y.; Suslick, K. S.; Murphy, C. J. "Ultrasonic Nebulization for TEM Sample Preparation on Single-Layer Graphene Grids" Nano Letters 2019, 19, 1938-1943. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b05117

Janicek, B. E.; Hinman, J. G.; Hinman, J. J.; Bae, S. H.; Wu, M.; Turner, J. G.; Chang, H.-H.; Park, E.; Lawless, R.; Suslick, K. S.; Murphy, C. J.; Huang, P. Y. "Quantitative Imaging of Organic Ligand Density on Anisotropic Inorganic Nanocrystals" Nano Letters 2019, 19, 6308-6314. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02434

Mechanochemistry and Shockwave Energy Dissipation:

Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonofragmentation of Molecular Crystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14530-14533.

Chen, M.-W.; You, S.; Suslick, K. S.; Dlott, D. D. "Hot Spot Generation In Energetic Materials Created by Long-Wavelength Infrared Radiation" Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 104, 061907-1-4.

You, S.; Chen, M.-W.; Dlott, D. D.; Suslick, K. S. "Ultrasonic hammer produces hot spots in solids" Nature Commun. 2015, 6, 6581-1-7. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7581

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

Ren, Y.; Banishev, A. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Moore, J. S.; Dlott, D. D. "Ultrafast Proton Transfer in Polymer Blends Triggered by Shock Waves" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 3974-3977. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00876

Kim, H. N.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonofragmentation of Ionic Crystals" Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 2778-2782.

Su, Z.; Shaw, W. L.; Miao, Y.-R.; You, S.; Dlott, D. D.; Suslick, K. S. "Shock Wave Chemistry in a Metal-Organic Framework" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 4619-4622.

Miao, Y.-R.; Zu, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Energy Storage during Compression of Metal-Organic Frameworks" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 4667-4670.

Men, Z. W.; Suslick, K. S.; Dlott, D. D. "Thermal Explosions of Polymer-Bonded Explosives with High Time and Space Resolution" J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 14289-14295. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b02422

Su, Z.; Miao, Y.-R.; Zhang, G.; Miller, J. T.; Suslick, K. S. "Bond breakage under pressure in a metal organic framework" Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 8004-8011. DOI: 10.1039/c7sc03786d

Zhou, X; Miao, Y.-R.; Shaw, W. L.; Suslick,* K. S.; Dlott,* D. D. "Shock Wave Energy Absorption in Metal-Organic Framework" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2220-2223. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b12905

The Sonochemistry of Biomaterials:

Suslick, K. S.; Grinstaff, M. W. "Protein Microencapsulation of Nonaqueous Liquids" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 7807-7809.

Suslick, K. S.; Grinstaff, M. W. "Proteinaceous Microbubbles: Synthesis of an Echo Contrast Agent," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1991, 88, 7708-7710.

Liu, K. J.; Grinstaff, M. W.; Jiang, J.; Suslick, K. S.; Swartz, H. M.; Wang, W. "In Vivo Measurement of Oxygen Concentration Using Sonochemically Synthesized Microspheres," Biophys. J. 1994, 67, 896-901.

Webb, A. G.; Wong, M.; Kolbeck, K. J.; Magin, R. L.; Wilmes, L. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemically Produced Fluorocarbon Microspheres: A New Class of MRI Contrast Agents," J. Mag. Res. Imaging, 1996, 6, 675-683.

Desai, N. P.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Sandford, P. A.; Grinstaff, M. W.;Suslick, K. S. "Methods for In Vivo Delivery of Substantially Water Insoluble Pharmacologically Active Agents and Compositions Useful Therefor," U. S. Patent 5,439,686; Aug. 8, 1995.

Grinstaff, M. W.; Desai, N. P.; Suslick, K. S.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Sandford, P. A.; Merideth, N. R. "Non-Fluorinated Polymeric Shells for Medical Imaging," U. S. Patent 5,508,021; Apr. 16, 1996.

Grinstaff, M. W.; Desai, N. P.; Suslick, K. S.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Sandford, P. A.; Merideth, N. R. "Polymeric Shells for Medical Imaging Prepared from Synthetic Polymers, and Methods for the Use Thereof" U. S. Patent 5,512,268; Apr. 30, 1996.

Desai, N. P.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Sandford, P. A.; Grinstaff, M. W.;Suslick, K. S.; "Methods for In Vivo Delivery of Substantially Water Insoluble Pharmacologically Active Agents and Compositions for the Use Thereof"U. S. Patent 5,560,933; Oct. 1, 1996.

Grinstaff, M. W.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Wong, M.; Sandford, P. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Desai, N. P.
"Methods for the Preparation of Blood Substitutes for In Vivo Delivery," U. S. Patent 5,635,207; June 3, 1997.

Grinstaff, M. W.; Soon-Shiong, P.; Wong, M.; Sandford, P. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Desai, N. P. "Methods for the Preparation of Pharmaceutically Active Agents for In Vivo Delivery," U. S. Patent 5,665,382; Sept. 9, 1997.

Toublan, F. J.-J.; Boppart, S.; Suslick, K. S. "Tumor Targeting by Surface Modified Protein Microspheres" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3472-3473.

Dibbern, E. M.; Toublan, F. J.-J.; Suslick, K. S. "Formation and Characterization of Polyglutamate Core-Shell Microspheres" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 6540-6541.

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.

Boppart, S. A.; Suslick, K. S. "Microsphere Contrast Agents for OCT" in Handbook of Optical Coherence Tomography, Regar, E.; van Leeuwen, T. G.; Serruys, P., eds.; Informa Publishers: 2007, ch. 29, 409-427 (invited review).

Kim, J.; Ahmad, A.; Marjanovic, M.; Chaney, E. J.; Li, J.; Rasio, J.; Hubler, Z.; Suslick, K. S.; Boppart, S. A. "Magnetomotive Optical Coherence Tomography for the Assessment of Atherosclerotic Lesions using Integrin Targeted Microspheres" Mol. Imaging Biol., 2014, 16, 36-43. DOI: 10.1007/s11307-013-0671-6

John, R.; Nguyen, F. T.; Kolbeck, K. J.; Chaney, E. J.; Marjanovic, M.; Suslick, K. S.; Boppart, S. A. "Targeted Multifunctional Multimodal Protein-Shell Microspheres as Cancer Imaging Contrast Agents." Mol. Imaging Biol. 2012, 14, 17-24. DOI: 10.1007/s11307-011-0473-7

Mahmoudi, M.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Fathizadeh, A.; Montazeri, A.; Suslick, K. S. "Variation of Protein Corona Composition of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic Heating." Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 6-12.

Li, J.; Dobrucki, L. W.; Marjanovic, M.; Chaney, E. J.; Suslick, K. S.; Boppart, S. A. "Enhancement and wavelength-shifted emission of Cerenkov luminescence using multifunctional microspheres" Phys. Med. Biol. 2015, 60, 727-739. DOI:10.1088/0031-9155/60/2/727

Zhang, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthesis of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Microspheres by Ultrasonic Spray Polymerization (USPo)" Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 7559-7563. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03423

Chemical Sensing, Sensor Arrays, and the Optoelectronic Nose:

Rakow, N. A.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Odour Visualization" Nature, 2000, 406, 710-714.

Wang, J.; Luthey-Schulten, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Is the Olfactory Receptor A Metalloprotein?" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 3035-3039.

Suslick, K. S.; Rakow, N. A.; Sen, A. "Colorimetric sensor arrays for molecular recognition" Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 11133-11138.

Rakow, N. A.; Sen, A., Janzen, M.C.; Ponder, J. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Recognition and Discrimination of Amines with a Colorimetric Array" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4528-4532.

Zhang, C; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Organics in Water", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 11548-11549.

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.

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.

Zhang, C.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Soft Drink Analysis" J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007, 55, 237-242.

Bang, J. H.; Lim, S. H.; Park, E.; Suslick, K. S. "Chemically Responsive Nanoporous Pigments: Colorimetric Sensor Arrays and the Identification of Aliphatic Amines" Langmuir 2008, 24, 13168-13172.

Fang, M.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Four-Coordinate Fe(III) Porphyrin Cation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1134-1135.

Musto, C. J.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Detection and Identification of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners" Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 6526-6533.

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.

Suslick, B. A.; Feng,L.; Suslick, K. S. "Discrimination of Complex Mixtures by a Colorimetric Sensor Array: Coffee Aromas" Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 2067-2073.

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.

Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Suslick, K. S. "A Simple and Highly Sensitive Colorimetric Detection Method for Gaseous Formaldehyde" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 4046-4047.

Lin, H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Determination of Triacetone Triperoxide Vapor" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 15519-15521.

Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Kemling, J. W.; Lim, S.H.; Zhong, W.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Array for Determination and Identification of Toxic Industrial Gases" Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 9433-9440.

Kemling, J. W.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanoscale Porosity in Pigments for Chemical Sensing" Nanoscale 2011, 3, 1971-1973.

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.

Lin, H.; Jang, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Preoxidation for Colorimetric Sensor Array Detection of VOCs" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 16786-16789.

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.

Mahmoudi, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Protein Fibrillation and the Olfactory System: Speculations on Their Linkage" Trends in Biotech. 2012, 30, 609-610.

Zhang, Y.; Askim, J. R.; Zhong, W.; Orlean, P.; Suslick, K. S. "Identification of pathogenic fungi with an optoelectronic nose" Analyst, 2014, 139, 1922-1928. DOI: 10.1039/C3AN02112B

Rankin, J. M.; Suslick, K. S. "The development of a disposable gas chromatography microcolumn" Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 8920-8923. DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09915j

Zhong, X.; Suslick, K. S.; Zhong, W. "Tensor Sufficient Dimension Reduction" WIREs Comput. Stat. 2015, 7, 178-184. DOI: 10.1002/wics.1350.

Li, Z.; Jang, M.; Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Identification of accelerants, fuels and post-combustion residues using a colorimetric sensor array" Analyst 2015, 140, 5929-5935. DOI: 10.1039/c5an00806a

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.; Suslick, K. S. "Hand-Held Reader for Colorimetric Sensor Arrays" Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 7810-7816. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01499

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

Mahmoudi, M.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Identification of Nanoparticles with a Colorimetric Sensor Array" ACS Sensors, 2016, 1(1), 17-21. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00014

Li, Z.; Li, H.; LaGasse, M. K.; Suslick, K. S. "Rapid Quantification of Trimethylamine" Anal. Chem., 2016, 88, 5615-5620. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01170

Li, Z.; Fang, M.; LaGasse, M. K.; Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Recognition of Aldehydes andKetones' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56 9860-9863. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705264
LaGasse, M. K.; McCormick, K.; Li, Z.; Khanjian, H.; Schilling, M.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays: Development and Application to Art Conservation" J. Amer. Inst. Conservation 2018, 57, 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2018.1495480

Li, Z.; Suslick, K. S. 'A Hand-Held Optoelectronic Nose for the Identification of Liquors" ACS Sensors, 2018, 3, 121-127. DOI:10.1021/acssensors.7b00709
Li, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Colorimetric Sensor Array for Monitoring CO and Ethylene" Anal. Chem., 2019, 91, 797-802. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04321

Caracciolo, G.; Safavi-Sohi, R.; Malekzadeh, R.; Poustchi, H.; Vasighi, M.; Chiozzi, R. Z.; Capriotti, A. L.; Laganà, A.; Hajipour, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Di Carlo, A.; Caputo, D.; Aghaverdi, H.; Papi, M.; Palmieri, V.; Santoni, A.; Palchetti, S.; Digiacomo, L.; Pozzi, D.; Suslick, K. S.; Mahmoudi, M. "Disease-specific protein corona sensor arrays may have disease detection capacity" Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, 4, 1063-1076. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NH00097F

Li, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Chemically-induced Sintering of Nanoparticles" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 14331-14334. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201908600

Metalloporphyrins and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

Suslick, K. S.; Fox, M. M. "A Bis-Pocket Porphyrin," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1983, 105, 3507-3510.

Huffman, D. L.; Rosenblatt, M. M.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthetic Heme-Peptide Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 6183-6184.

Patel, B. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Discotic Liquid Crystals from a Bis-Pocketed Porphyrin" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 11802-11803.

Bhyrappa, P.; Vaijayanthimala, G.; Suslick, K. S. "Shape-Selective Ligation to Dendrimer-Metalloporphyrins," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 262-263.

Sen, A; Suslick, K. S. "Shape-Selective Discrimination of Small Organic Molecules" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 11565-11566.

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.

Kosal, M. E.; Chou, J.-H.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Functional Zeolite Analogue Assembled From Metalloporphyrins" Nature Materials, 2002, 1, 118-121.

Zimmerman, S. C.; Zharov, I.; Wendland, M. S.; Rakow,N. A.; Suslick, K.S. "Molecular Imprinting Inside Dendrimers" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 13504 - 13518.

Rosenblatt, M.M.; Wang, J.; Suslick, K. S. "De Novo Designed Cyclic-Peptide Heme Complexes" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 13140-13145.

Wang, J.; Luthey-Schulten, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Is the Olfactory Receptor A Metalloprotein?" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 3035-3039.

Fang, M.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Four-Coordinate Fe(III) Porphyrin Cation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1134-1135.

Smithenry, D. W.; Wilson, S. R.; Nakagaki, S.; Suslick, K. S. "Sorption and Catalysis by Robust Microporous Metalloporphyrin Framework Solids" J. Porph. Phthal. 2017, 21, 857-869. (Invited paper for 20th Anniversary Special Issue)

Fang, M.; Wilson, S. R.; Suslick, K. S. "A Siloxyl Bis-Pocket Thiolate-Tailed Fe(III) Porphyrin Complex" J. Porph. Phthal. 2017, 21, 790-795. (Invited paper for 20th Anniversary Special Issue)

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