Mark Ferris

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • MAGNETIC IMAGING GROUP

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). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47073-2

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2023.126108

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.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), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.16698

Ferris, M. S., Behr, M. R., & Cash, K. J. (2019). An ionophore-based persistent luminescent “Glow Sensor” for sodium detection. RSC Advances, 9(56), 32821–32825. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra05313a

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, 674–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2017.09.203

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