Nanocube technology
Pocket-size spectrophotometer and instrumentation for LSPR.
Nikhil Bhalla Research Group
Making invisible interactions at nano/biointerfaces measurable
Designing advanced nanomaterials and biosensor platforms to better understand living and chemical systems.
About the group
Research that makes interfaces intelligible.
We advance the science of active-solid interfaces for vibrating nanoscale transducers, using Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance and Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation platforms to understand and guide interactions with bio/chemical systems.
By combining precision nanofabrication, surface chemistry, microfluidics, electrochemistry and live-cell assays, our team investigates how cells, proteins and nucleic acids respond to dynamic nanosolids.
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See our research in action.
Lab-grown locusts
Locusts interacting with magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles.
Visual highlights
From nanoscale signals to real-world insight.
Our visual work brings together surface chemistry, nanofabrication, optical sensing and biological systems to reveal how dynamic interfaces behave.
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Recent from the group.
Research update
Combined theoretical-experimental work on measurement of picoNewton biomolecular forces using simple UV-Vis spectrophotometer published in Advanced Physics Research.
Publication
New work on resolving nanoslip, solvation inertia and charge dynamics at vibrating solid-liquid interface published in Small.
Research insight
Recent work uncovered how changes in ionic strength cause the thin layers of water surrounding nanoparticles to shrink.