Shannon Receives Army Award

7/3/2012 By Anna Flanagan

Professor Mark ShannonJ. W. Bayne Professor Mark Shannon has received the 2006 Research, Development, or Operational Team Award from the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL). He is a member of the Basic and Applied Research in Microfluidic Heavy Metal Ion Sensors to Support Environmental Long-Term Monitoring Team.

Written by By Anna Flanagan

Professor Mark Shannon
Professor Mark Shannon
Professor Mark Shannon
J. W. Bayne Professor Mark Shannon has received the 2006 Research, Development, or Operational Team Award from the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL). He is a member of the Basic and Applied Research in Microfluidic Heavy Metal Ion Sensors to Support Environmental Long-Term Monitoring Team.

The team's research has been geared toward developing a highly selective and sensitive miniature sensor for lead, building upon two recent advances: catalytic DNA thatis reactive only to lead and that can be tagged to produce fluorescence only in the presence of the metal; and nanoscale fluidic molecular gates that can manipulate fluid flows and perform molecular separations on tiny volumes of material. These advances enabled the creation of a microfluidic chip that transforms environmental lead concentrations into a fluorescent signal that can accurately quantify lead in complex samples.

The other members of the award-winning team are Dr. Donald Cropek of the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center of CERL, Dr. Kris Wang of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Paul Bohn of the University of Notre Dame, and from the University of Illinois, Dr. Yi Lu, Dr. Jonathan Sweedler, Dr. Bruce Flachsbart and Mr. Daryl Wernette.


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This story was published July 3, 2012.