Meet our Advisory Board members who work in biomedical coatings, adhesives and devices
In February, we introduced our inaugural Advisory Board for RSC Applied Interfaces. Each month, we will be shining a spotlight on some of our new Advisory Board members and highlighting their current research interests.
This week we are delighted to introduce Teri W. Odom and Fiorenzo Vetrone as members of our inaugural Advisory Board.
Teri W. Odom is a Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University. She is an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials that exhibit extraordinary size and shape-dependent optical and physical properties. Odom has pioneered a suite of multi-scale nanofabrication tools that have resulted in plasmon-based nanoscale lasers that exhibit tunable colour, flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale, and hierarchical substrates that show controlled wetting and super-hydrophobicity. She has also invented a class of biological nanoconstructs that are facilitating unique insight into nanoparticle-cell interactions and that show superior imaging and therapeutic properties because of their gold nanostar shape.
Fiorenzo Vetrone is a Professor at Université du Québec, Canada. Professor Vetrone’s research interests focus on luminescent nanoparticles and their integration into multifunctional nanoplatforms used by biological systems and nanomedicine. His research team focuses its work on nanoparticles doped with rare earths (lanthanides) and the exploitation of their optical properties (upconversion and near-infrared emission) for the simultaneous detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer. More particularly, he is studying the possibility of exploiting the luminescent properties of nanoparticles to trigger other modalities through photosensitivity, with applications in thermal capture and nanothermometry, upscaling and multiphoton and near-infrared bioimaging, controlled release of drugs, photodynamic therapy, photothermal therapy, biosensing.
Please join us in welcoming our new Advisory Board members to the journal community!