Kenneth S. Suslick
Kenneth S. Suslick is the Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Professor of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the world's leading expert on the chemical and physical effects of ultrasound and has received numerous awards for his work on sonochemistry and sonoluminescence. Professor Suslick has also introduced new technology in chemical sensing, specifically the use of colorimetric sensor arrays as an optoelectronic nose.
Career
Ken Suslick received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974, his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978, and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign immediately thereafter. He was promoted to full professor at the age of 35, held the first William H. & Janet Lycan Professorship in Chemistry, and then in 2004 became the inaugural Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois.Professor Suslick is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Professor Suslick has more than He has published more than His papers have been cited more than 50,500 times and his h-index is 117, His six most cited papers are listed below.
In addition to his academic research, Professor Suslick has had significant entrepreneurial experience. He was the lead consultant for Molecular Biosystems Inc. and part of the team that commercialized the first echo contrast agent for medical sonography, Albunex™, which became Optison™ by GE Healthcare. In addition, he was the founding consultant for VivoRx Pharmaceuticals and helped invent and commercialize Abraxane™, albumin microspheres with a paclitaxel core, which is the predominant current delivery system for taxol chemotherapy for breast cancer; VivoRx became He then co-founded ChemSensing and its successor companies, and in Mountain View, for the commercialization of the Suslick group's optoelectronic nose technology with particular focus on biomedical applications of this unique sensor technology.
Selected awards and honors
- Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, American Chemical Society.
- 76th George Eastman Visiting Professorship, University of Oxford, and Fellow, Balliol College.
- Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Medal, Acoustical Society of America.
- Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists.
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors.
- Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Sir George Stokes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Nobel Laureate Signature Award, American Chemical Society
- Materials Research Society Medal
- Senior Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
- Acoustical Society of America Mentorship Award
- Wolfgang Göpel Award, Intl. Soc. on Olfaction & Electronic Noses
- Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
- NIH Research Career Development Award
- Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
- Silver Medal of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Lectureships
- Harold S. Johnston Lectureship in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Schulich Visiting Professor Lectureship, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
- Crano Memorial Lectureship, Akron ACS Section.
- Charles William Murtiashaw III Lectureship, University of South Carolina, Columbia
- J.T. Donald Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal
- University of Melbourne Special Public Lectureship
- W. Heinlen Hall Lectureship, Bowling Green State University
- Robert A. Welch Foundation Lecturer
- Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne
Research interests
Selected works (http://suslick.scs.illinois.edu/publications.html for a complete list of publications with downloadable pdfs, click here)
Regarding sonochemistry:- Suslick, K. S. "The Chemical Effects of Ultrasound," Scientific American 1989 260, 80-86.
- Prozorov, T.; Prozorov, R.; Suslick, K. S. "High Velocity Inter-Particle Collisions Driven by Ultrasound" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13890–13891.
- Skrabalak, S. E.; Suslick, K. S. "Porous Carbon Powders Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 12642-12643.
- Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized Hollow Hematite" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 2242–2243.
- Bang, J. H.; Suslick, K. S. "Applications of Ultrasound to the Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials" Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 1039–1059.
- Hinman, J. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Nanostructured Materials Synthesis Using Ultrasound" Top. Curr. Chem., 2017, 375, 1-36.
- Barcikowski, S.; Plech, A.; Suslick, K. S.; Vogel, A. "Materials synthesis in a bubble" MRS Bulletin 2019, 44, 382-391.
- Flint, E. B.; Suslick, K. S. "The Temperature of Cavitation" Science 1991, 253, 1397–1399.
- McNamara III, W. B.; Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "Sonoluminescence Temperatures During Multibubble Cavitation" Nature, 1999, 401, 772–775.
- Didenko, Y.; McNamara III, W. B.; Suslick, K. S. "Molecular Emission from Single Bubble Sonoluminescence" Nature, 2000, 406, 877-879.
- Didenko, Y.; Suslick, K. S. "The Energy Efficiency of Formation of Photons, Radicals, and Ions During Single Bubble Cavitation" Nature 2002, 418, 394–397.
- Flannigan, D. J.; Suslick, K. S. "Plasma Formation and Temperature Measurement during Single-Bubble Cavitation" Nature, 2005, 434, 52–55.
- Suslick, K. S.; Flannigan, D. J. "Sonoluminescence" Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2008, 59, 659–683.
- Suslick, K. S.; Eddingsaas, N. C.; Flannigan, D. J.; Hopkins, S. D.; Xu, H. "The Chemical History of a Bubble" Accts. Chem. Res., 2018, 51, 2169-2178.
- Rakow, N. A.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Odour Visualization" Nature, 2000, 406, 710–714.
- Zimmerman, S. C.; Wendland, M. S.; Rakow, N. A.; Zharov, I.; Suslick, K. S. "Synthetic Hosts by Monomolecular Imprinting Inside Dendrimers" Nature 2002, 418, 399–403.
- Wang, J.; Luthey-Schulten, Z.; Suslick, K. S. "Is the Olfactory Receptor A Metalloprotein?" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2003, 100, 3035-3039.
- Suslick, K. S. "An Optoelectronic Nose: Colorimetric Sensor Arrays" MRS Bulletin, 2004, 29, 720-725.
- Lim, S. H.; Feng, L.; Kemling, J. W.; Musto, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. "An Optoelectronic Nose for Detection of Toxic Gases" Nature Chemistry, 2009, 1, 562-567.
- Suslick, B. A.; Feng,L.; Suslick, K. S. "Discrimination of Complex Mixtures by a Colorimetric Sensor Array: Coffee Aromas" Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 2067–2073.
- Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Kemling, J. W.; Lim, S.H.; Suslick, K. S. "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for Identification of Toxic Gases below Permissible Exposure Limits" Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 2037–2039.
- Feng, L.; Musto, C.J.; Suslick, K. S. "A Simple and Highly Sensitive Colorimetric Detection Method for Gaseous Formaldehyde" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 4046–4047.
- Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. "Hand-Held Reader for Colorimetric Sensor Arrays" Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 7810-7816.
- LaGasse, M. K.; McCormick, K.; Li, Z.; Khanjian, H.; Schilling, M.; Suslick, K. S. “Colorimetric Sensor Arrays: Development and Application to Art Conservation” J. Amer. Inst. Conservation 2018, 57, 127-140.
- Zheng, L.; Askim, J. R.; Suslick, K. S. “The Optoelectronic Nose: Colorimetric and Fluorometric Sensor Arrays” Chem. Rev., 2019, 119, 231-292.
- Eddingsaas, N. C.; Suslick, K. S. "Mechanoluminescence: Light from sonication of crystal slurries" Nature, 2006, 444, 163.
- Zeiger, B. W.; Suslick, K. S. “Sonofragmentation of Molecular Crystals” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14530-14533.
- Suslick, K. S. “Mechanochemistry and Sonochemistry: Concluding Remarks” Faraday Discuss. 2014, 170, 411-422.
- Su, Z.; Miao, Y.-R.; Mao, S.-M.; Zhang, G.-H.; Dillon, S.; Miller, J. T.; Suslick, K. S. “Compression-Induced Deformation of Individual MOF Micro-crystals” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1750-1753.
- Su, Z.; Shaw, W. L.; Miao, Y.-R.; You, S.; Dlott, D. D.; Suslick, K. S. “Shock Wave Chemistry in a Metal–Organic Framework” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4619–4622.
- Ren, Y.; Banishev, A. A.; Suslick, K. S.; Moore, J. S.; Dlott, D. D. “Ultrafast Proton Transfer in Polymer Blends Triggered by Shock Waves” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 3974–3977.
- Miao, Y.-R.; Su, Z.; Suslick, K. S. “Energy Storage during Compression of Metal–Organic Frameworks” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4667–4670.
- Kim, H. N.; Suslick, K. S. “Sonofragmentation of Ionic Crystals” Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 2778-2782.
- Miao, Y.-R.; Suslick, K. S. “Mechanochemical Reactions of MOFs” Adv. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 71, 403-434.
- Zhou, X; Miao, Y.-R.; Shaw, W. L.; Suslick, K. S.; Dlott; D. D. “Shock Wave Energy Absorption in Metal–Organic Framework” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2220-2223.