Joshua Edel's Biography

Joshua Edel, Professor, Imperial College London

Professor Joshua Edel received his PhD on the development of single molecule detection within microfluidic systems at Imperial College London in 2003. He then performed postdoctoral research in nanobiotechnology at Cornell University within the School of Applied and Engineering Physics. In 2005 he was awarded a research fellowship in single molecule biophysics at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. In July 2006 he joined Imperial College London within the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Engineering as a lecturer (assistant professor). Dr Edel is currently Professor and in 2011 he was awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on “Nanoporous Membranes for High Throughput Rare Event Bioanalysis.”

Molecular Isolation on the Nanoscale

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 10:00

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The detection of toxins and pathogens has been an increasingly vital concern to society. Their detection is often hampered by the minute quantities that need to be detected for early prevention and treatment to be effective. This work is aiming to utilize Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) to demonstrate single molecule sensitivity of these, from an array of gold nanoparticles (NPs) at a liquid-liquid interface. This work will be combined with reversible adsorption of these particles to such interfaces to allow the full potential of such systems to be realized: in the bulk, the NPs will have the intrinsic high surface area of nano-structures; while the localized particles will have the single molecule sensitivity of aggregates; coupled with the ability of the liquid-liquid interface to detect hydrophobic, hydrophilic and amphiphilic targets.

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