Faculty

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Honors & Awards

Director's Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1999)
NSF International Research Fellowship for study at the Max Planck Institute (2001)

Courses

ChE 454: Interfacial Engineering

Recent Publications

Luta, E.P.; Watterson, B.; Yates, M.Z.; Miller, B., "New polymer sorbents for waveguide-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (WERS) and refractive index-based photonic sensing," SPIE Digital Library, 2022, 121160E. DOI: 10.1117/12.2619383.

Emmons, E.D.; Wilcox, P.G.; Roese, E.S.; Tripathi, A.; Guicheteau, J.A.; Hung, K.C.; Miller, B.L.; ) Luta, E.P.; Yates, M.Z.; Tyndall, N.F.; Stievater, T.H., "Waveguide-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Field Detection of Threat Materials," SPIE Digital Library, 2022, DOI: 10.1117/12.2610654

Ghosh, R.; Liu, X.Y.; Yates, M.Z., "Flexible Copper Metal Circuits via Desktop Laser Printed Masks," Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022, 2200400.  DOI: 10.1..2/admt.202200400.

Beard, J.W.; Murty, S.; Caulkins, C.; Strenk, A.R.; Luta, E.P.; Hunt, S.L.; Yates, M.Z.; Miller, B.L., "Leveraging Arylboronic Acid-Cellulose Binding as a Versatile and Scalable Approach to Hydrophobic Patterning," Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021, 2101280, DOI: 10.1002/admt.202101280 

Irving, P.; Cecil, R.; Yates, M.Z., "MYSTAT: A compact potentiostat/galvanostat for general electrochemistry measurements," HardwareX, 2021, 9, e00163. Publication

Tyndall, N.F.; Stievater, T.H.; Kozak, D.A.; Pruessner, M.W.; Roxworthy, B.J.; Rabinovich, W.S.; Roberts, C.A.; McGill, R.A.; Miller, B.L.; Luta, E.; Yates, M.Z., "Figure-of-Merit Characterization of Hydrogen-Bond Acidic Sorbents for Waveguide-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy," ACS Sensors, 2020, 5, 3, 831-836. Publication

Chen, Q.; Wu, L.; Zeng, Y.; Jia, C.; Lin, J.; Yates, M.Z.; Guan, B., "Formation of Spherical Calcium Sulfate Mesocrystals: Orientation Controlled by Subunit Growth," Cryst. Eng. Comm., 2019, 39. Publication

Ghosh, R.; Swart, O.; Westgate, S.; Miller. B.L.; Yates, M.Z., "Antibacterial Copper-Hydroxyapatite Composite Coatings via Electrochemical Synthesis," Langmuir, 2019, 35, 17, 5957-5966. Publication

Zhang,X.F.; Yates, M.Z, "Controllable Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite-supported Palladium Nanoparticles with Enhanced Catalytic Activity," Surface & Coating Technology, 2018, 351, 60-67. Publication

Zhang, X.F.; Zhange, Y.; Yates, M.Z., "Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystal Deposited Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes Loaded with Antibiotics for Combining Biocompatibility and Antibacterial Properties," MRS Advances, 2018, 3, 30, 1703-1709. Publication

Zhang, X.F.; Yates, M.Z., "Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanoparticles Supported on Electrically Polarized Hydroxyapatite," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10, 20, 17323-17239. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b03838

Chen, Q.S.; Jia, C.Y.; Li, Y.; Xu, J.; Guan, B.H.; Yates, M.Z., "alpha-Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate Nanorods Synthesis: A Method for Nanoparticle Preparation by Mesocrystallization," Langmuir, 2017, 33, 9-2362-2369. Publication

Zhang, X.; Chaimayo, W.; Yang, C.; Yao, J.; Miller, B.L.; Yates, M. Z., “Silver-hydroxyapatite composite coatings with enhanced antimicrobial activities through heat treatment,” Surface & Coatings Technology, 2017, 325, 39–45. Publication

Fu, C.; Zhang, F.; Savino, K.; Gabrys, P,; Gao, Y.; Chaimayo, W.; Miller, B.L.; Yates, M.Z., "Antimicrobial Silver-Hydroxyapatite Composite Coatings Through Two-Stage Electrochemical Synthesis," Surface & Coatings Technology,2016, 301, 13-19. Publication