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Murphy, Catherine J. |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Chemistry |
| Secondary Field
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Applied Physical Sciences |
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Murphy is a pioneer in the application of inorganic nanocrystals to characterize biological systems. She has developed critical synthetic methods for the production of nanoparticles for biological applications. |
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Research Interests
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Catherine J. Murphy's laboratory has pioneered the synthesis and use of inorganic nanocrystals as probes of biological systems, and in doing so, has developed key synthetic methods now used in commercial production of a subset of these materials.
Murphy's early work on the biological application of quantum dots showed that these nanoscale protein-sized particles were capable of selected binding to intrinsically curved DNA structures, which led to a series of studies on the internal dynamics of t |
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