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Welcome to the Kisley Lab

Materials at the ultimate concentration limit

We are a team of physicists, chemists, and engineers driven by curiosity to understand the world at the limit of a single molecule.

We study materials using nanoscale microscopy. We have the goal to inspire materials design through the following aims:

1) Approach medical & industrial material problems with a molecular, quantitative perspective using single molecule spectroscopy. Single molecule spectroscopy accesses heterogeneity hidden in traditional ensemble measurements.

2) Advance the single molecule materials field towards more complex, realistic conditions. We have a long-term vision of connecting the molecular results to the macroscale material performance.

3) Develop new microscopies that achieve a full physicochemical picture of molecular behavior. This includes how molecules adsorb, diffuse, and fold over space, time, and temperature.

 

Please check out our website for more details!

Research & Discoveries

The Kisley Lab images molecules interacting with bio/soft/metal materials using microscopy.
We track how molecules stick, move, react, or change conformation over space, time, and temperature.

Image by Josie Weiss

Protein Dynamics in the Extracellular Matrix

How do proteins behave outside the cell?

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Diffusion and Adsorption of Analytes in Separation Materials

Designing the most challenging separations from the bottom-up

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Imaging Corrosion, One Redox Reaction at a Time

Detecting & understanding rust right when it starts

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New High-Resolution Microscopy Methods

Reaching new scales even with noisy or low signal data

Learn more about our research:

Notable News

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9/10/2024

The DOE grant will provide $875,000 in support to extend our single-molecule separation science research to rare earth elements (REEs). A new UV-excitation microscope will determine where & how individual REE ions are separated by bio-based ligands of varying size immobilized on solid supports under pressure. Learn more in CWRU's story in The Daily.

10/11/2024

Our new review paper "Quantitative Advantages of Corrosion Sensing Using Fluorescence, Microscopy, and Single-Molecule Detection" is out in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Congratulations Zechariah, Mark, and Lian. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c07800

Group attends APS March Meeting

3/3- 3/8/2024

The Kisley Lab took over the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis! The group had seven talks & one poster over the course of the meeting in DBIO, DSOFT, DCP, DPOLY, DFD, and GIMS.

Contact Us

Rockefeller Bldg.
2076 Adelbert Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7079

216-368-2118

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