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Dr. Igor I. Slowing

Associate Scientist
Address
2756 Gilman Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone 515-294-6220
Email islowing@iastate.edu

Research Interests

Synthesis and development of mesoporous nanoparticles for catalysis, energy transduction, and in situ refinery of biocommodities.  Coupling biocatalysis with thermo and photocatalysis.Studies of interactions between nanoparticles and cells.


        Project Affiliations:
        Nanorefinery

(Chronologically most recent on top)Education

  • 2003-2008 Ph.D. Iowa State University
  • 1988-1995 Licenciate in Chemistry, San Carlos University, Guatemala

(Chronologically most recent on top)Professional Appointments

  • 2009-present Staff Scientist, Ames Laboratory
  • 2005-2008 Research assistant, Iowa State University
  • 2000-2003 Lecturer, Del Valle University, Guatemala
  • 1996-2003 Lecturer, San Carlos University, Guatemala

(Chronologically most recent on top)Honors & Awards

  • Inventor Incentive Award, Ames Laboratory, 2009
  • Cotton-Uphaus Award for early achievements in research, Iowa State University, 2006

(Chronologically most recent on top)Publications with the Ames Laboratory

2012
Ruberu T P A; Nelson N C; Slowing I I; Vela J . 2012. Selective Alcohol Dehydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis with Semiconductor-Metal Photocatalysts: Toward Solar-to-Chemical Energy Conversion of Biomass-Relevant Substrates. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 3:2798-2802. abstract
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Kandel K; Althaus S M; Peeraphatdit C; Kobayashi T; Trewyn B G; Pruski M; Slowing I I . 2012. Substrate inhibition in the heterogeneous catalyzed aldol condensation: A mechanistic study of supported organocatalysts. Journal of Catalysis. 291:63-68. abstract
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Fang I J; Slowing I I; Wu K C W; Lin V S Y; Trewyn B G . 2012. Ligand Conformation Dictates Membrane and Endosomal Trafficking of Arginine-Glycine-Aspartate (RGD)-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles. Chemistry-A European Journal. 18:7787-7792. abstract
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Valenstein J S; Kandel K; Melcher F; Slowing I I; Lin V S Y; Trewyn B G . 2012. Functional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Selective Sequestration of Free Fatty Acids from Microalgal Oil. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 4:1003-1009. abstract
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2011
Sun X X; Zhao Y N; Lin V S Y; Slowing I I; Trewyn B G . 2011. Luciferase and Luciferin Co-immobilized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Materials for Intracellular Biocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133:18554-18557. abstract
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Tsai C H; Vivero-Escoto J L; Slowing I I; Fang I J; Trewyn B G; Lin V S Y . 2011. Surfactant-assisted controlled release of hydrophobic drugs using anionic surfactant templated mesoporous silica nanoparticles. Biomaterials. 32:6234-6244. abstract
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Nedd S; Kobayashi T; Tsai C H; Slowing I I; Pruski M; Gordon M S . 2011. Using a Reactive Force Field To Correlate Mobilities Obtained from Solid-State (13)C NMR on Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Systems. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115:16333-16339. abstract
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Liu D J; Wang J; Ackerman D M; Slowing I I; Pruski M; Chen H T; Lin V S Y; Evans J W . 2011. Interplay between Anomalous Transport and Catalytic Reaction Kinetics in Single-File Nanoporous Systems. ACS Catalysis. 1:751-763. abstract
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Slowing I I; Vivero-Escoto J L; Zhao Y; Kandel K; Peeraphatdit C; Trewyn B G; Lin V S Y . 2011. Exocytosis of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles from Mammalian Cells: From Asymmetric Cell-to-Cell Transfer to Protein Harvesting. Small. 7:1526-1532. abstract
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Zhao Y N; Sun X X; Zhang G N; Trewyn B G; Slowing I I; Lin V S Y . 2011. Interaction of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Human Red Blood Cell Membranes: Size and Surface Effects. ACS Nano. 5:1366-1375. abstract
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