Project Description
The Magnetic Imaging Group researches micro and milliscale hydrogel composites for use as novel sensors, particularly including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) sensors, including geometrical design of sensors, developing fabrication protocols for sensor construction, exploring novel chemistries to enable new sensing measurands and demonstration of multiplexed sensing of multiple variable simultaneously.
Research Interests
Smart Hydrogels, Smartphone-based sensing, NMR Profiling
Research Citations
Ferris, M., & Zabow, G. (2024). Quantitative, high-sensitivity measurement of liquid analytes using a smartphone compass. Nature Communications, 15(1).
Gruber, D. M., Ferris, M. S., & Zabow, G. (2023). Real-time in-situ measurement of hydrogel swelling by single sided NMR. Polymer, 281(March), 126108.
Ferris, M. S., Chesney, A. P., Ryan, B. J., Ramesh, U., Panthani, M. G., & Cash, K. J. (2021). Silicon nanocrystals as signal transducers in ionophore-based fluorescent nanosensors. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 331(June 2020), 129350.
Ferris, M. S., Elms, M. K., & Cash, K. J. (2019). Enzyme-conjugated nanosensors with tunable detection limits for small biomolecule determination. AIChE Journal, 65(9), 1鈥�9.
Ferris, M. S., Behr, M. R., & Cash, K. J. (2019). An ionophore-based persistent luminescent 鈥淕low Sensor鈥� for sodium detection. RSC Advances, 9(56), 32821鈥�32825.
Ferris, M. S., Katageri, A. G., Gohring, G. M., & Cash, K. J. (2018). A dual-indicator strategy for controlling the response of ionophore-based optical nanosensors. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 256, 674鈥�681.