Bimetallic Nanostructures as Artificial Peroxidases for Sensing and Diagnostics
Dr. Xiaohu Xia
Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, USA
时间：2017年1月13日（星期五）上午10:00
地点：卢嘉锡楼202报告厅
厦门大学谱学分析与仪器教育部重点实验室
厦门大学化学化工学院
2017年1月9日
报告摘要：
Bimetallic Nanostructures as Artificial Peroxidases for Sensing and Diagnostics
Dr. Xiaohu Xia
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, United States
Email: xiaxh@mtu.edu; Xia group website: chem.sites.mtu.edu/xia
As alternatives to natural peroxidases, artificial peroxidases made of inorganic nanomaterials have received great interest for sensing and diagnostic applications. While a variety of artificial peroxidases have been actively developed over the past decade, their relatively low catalytic efficiency together with poor uniformity and difficulty of surface functionalization have not been fully addressed in the area. In this talk, I will introduce our recent work on engineering noble-metal nanostructures as highly efficient and uniform artificial peroxidases. Rational design on nanocrystal engineering, structural characterizations at the atomic level with high-performance electron microscope, and mechanistic understanding with computational modeling will be specified. Applications of the noble-metal artificial peroxidases in chemical sensing and diagnostics of cancer biomarkers will be highlighted. The data and insights provided in this talk may serve as a foundation to inspire future work in the field.
报告人简历：
Dr. Xiaohu Xia has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University since August 2014. He is the recipient of 2017 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Xiamen University in 2011, and thereafter had been conducting postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology (with Prof. Younan Xia) during 2012-2014. His research interests include design, synthesis of novel nanostructures and exploration of their applications in biomedicine and catalysis. In his independent research, his work has been highlighted by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Chemical & Engineering (C&EN) News. He has published more than 40 papers in prestigious journals such as PNAS, JACS, Angew Chem, Advanced Materials, and Nano Letters. His publications have been cited >2,700 times, with an h-index of 26.