The Landes Research Group at Rice University

The Landes Research Group develops new spectroscopic tools to image chemical dynamics at interfaces at the limit of a single event. Using this super-resolved chemical knowledge, we create new models to understand and predict macroscale processes like protein separation and photocatalysis.

 

Ensemble vs. Single Molecule

A wide range of biological and materials processes rely on nanoscale interfacial dynamics. Single molecule methods allow us to identify the chemical complexity of these interactions by revealing the underlying populations that form the ensemble measurement. In doing so, we can identify and tune the rare chemical populations that play a crucial role in reactivity.

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Towards Predictive Separations

The cost of bringing a new protein based therapeutic to market averages ~$2.6 billion dollars, of which 50% can be dedicated to isolating and purifying the active compound. A primary contributor to the cost is the empirical optimization of chromatographic separation. Our lab seeks to understand separations from the scale of individual analytes, with a goal to create a new predictive model of chromatography to eliminate the need for costly empirical methods.

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Breaking the Abbe-Diffraction Limit

The Abbe diffraction limit sets a lower bound of a few hundred nanometers for the size of objects we can observe with traditional optical microscopy. This limit is defined by light’s wavelength. Our lab develops new mathematical methods to break the Abbe diffraction limit and achieve spatial resolutions of just a few nanometers and time resolutions faster than traditional cameras frame times.

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News from the Landes Research Group

Presentation Award   08/09/2019

Nicholas Moringo

Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo for winning the Army Futures Presentation Award at the 5th Annual SCI Summer Research Symposium!

Lab outstanding   08/06/2019

Landes group

The Super Group returned to Minute Maid Stadium for our yearly Astros Game. Go 'Stros!

In the news...   06/01/2019

Miranda Gallagher

Congratulations to Miranda Gallagher, who was awarded a short talk selected from poster abstracts at the Environmental Nanotechnology GRC in Newry, ME. Her talk featured ongoing research in the Landes Group funded by the Department of Energy using single-particle spectroscopy to understand structure property relationship of nanocatalysts.

Quals Passed   04/11/2019

Anastasiia Misiura

Congratulations to Anastasiia Misiura for passing her Qualifying Exam this week. We look forward to your accomplishments in the coming years.

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Specific Research Areas

Predictive Separations

Predictive Separations
Spectro-electrochemistry

Spectro-electrochemistry
Protein Dynamics at Interfaces

Protein Dynamics at Interfaces
Imaging and Signal Processing

Imaging and Signal Processing
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Recent Publications

Moringo, N.A., Bishop, L.D.C., Shen, H., Misiura, A., Carrejo, N.C., Baiyasi, R., Wang, W., Ye, F., Robinson, J.T., Landes C.F., "A mechanistic examination of salting out in protein-polymer membrane interactions" PNAS 2019

Zhang, Q., Hernandez, T., Smith, K.W., Jebeli, S.A.H., Dai, A.X., Warning, L., Baiyasi, R., McCarthy, L.A., Guo, H., Chen, D-H, Dionne, J.A., Landes C.F., Link, S., "Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes" Science 2019, 365, 6460, 1475-1478

Cai, Y., Collins, S.S.E., Gallagher, M.J., Bhattacharjee, U., Zhang, R., Chow, T.H., Ahmadivand, A., Ostovar, B., Al-Zubeidi, A., Wnag, Jianfang, Nordlander, P., Landes, C.F., Link, S., "Single Particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes" ACS Energy lett. 2019, 4, 10, 2458-2465

Chatterjee, S., Dutta, C., Carrejo, N.C., Landes, C.F., "Mechanistic Understanding of the Phosphorylation-Induced Conformational Rigidity at the AMPA Receptor C-terminal Domain" ACS Omega 2019, 4, 10, 14211-14218

Heiderscheit, T.S., Gallagher, M.J., Baiyasi, R., Collins, S.S.E., Jebeli, S.A.H., Scarabelli, L., Zl-Zubeidi, A., Flatebo, C., Chang, W-S., Landes, C.F., Link, S., "Nanoelectrode-emitter spectral overlap amplifies surface enhanced electrogenerated chemiluminescence" J. Chem. Phys. 151, 144712 (2019)

Flatebo, C., Collins, S.S.E., Hoener, B.S., Cai, Y-Y., Link, S., Landes, C.F., "Electrodissolution Inhibition of Gold Nanorods with Oxoanions" J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019

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Affiliations

Rice University
Chemistry Department
Smalley-Curl Institute
ECE Department
LaNSIR
IBB

Funding

NDSEG
NSF
NIH
Rice
Welch