Dr. Vincent Hackley

Research Interests

• Physico-chemical property measurements, standards, and data for nanomaterials under development for biomedical applications such as cancer therapeutics (collaboration with the National Cancer Institute - Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory)

• Standards and reference materials to enable assessment of the potential hazards associated with the manufacture and application of engineered nanomaterials
  
• Application of optical, x-ray, and neutron scattering techniques to characterize the nanoscale-to-microscale structure of materials.
  
• Interfacial and dispersion properties of nanoscale particles in aqueous media

Figure 1(left): Dendron functionalized gold nanoparticle; Figure 2(center): Gold nanoparticle reference materials 8011, 8012 and 8013; Figure 3(right): Extensional flow of gold nanowires during USAXS measurements.

Postdoctoral Research Opportunities

• Study how nanoscale materials interact with biological matrices to determine their transport, biological impact and eventual fate. Develop methods to detect, characterize and quantify nanoparticles within biologically relevant matrices. For more information…
  

• Exploit and manipulate the physical and chemical properties of nanoscale particles to engineer biological responses and to study the influence of material properties on nanoparticle-biological interactions. For more information…
  

• American Institute of Chemists Award, 1983
• Sigma Xi Research Society, University of Wisconsin U.S.
•  Department of Commerce Silver Medal, 2008