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LEONARD F PEASE

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Contact Information

LEONARD F PEASE

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Utah

e-mail: pease@eng.utah.edu
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Biographical Information

Appointments:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 01/01/2009 to present.
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, 09/06/2010 to present.
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, 04/21/2009 to present.
  • Member of the Nano Institute of Utah, Department of , University of Utah, 02/2009 to present.

Regions of Interest

  • Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Northern Europe, Oceania.

 

Research

Research Summary:

1. Bionanomaterials synthesis and nanostructured materials characterization using electrospray differential mobility analysis. 2. Advanced medical technologies development (imaging, tissue engineering, drug delivery). 3. Analytical modeling of electrohydrodynamics, mass transfer, and kinetically aggregating systems. 4. Exploring nano/microtechnology for energy applications (algeal biofuels, nanophotonics, cellulosic substrate degradation, and polymeric nanopatterning). 5. Entrepreneurship.

Research Keywords:

  • Nanotechnology and nanomedicine
  • Nanostructured Materials
  • Nanophotonics
  • Nanoparticle Separations
  • Medical or Diagnostic Imaging
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Macromolecular assembly (virus ultra structure, amyloid fibrillation, etc.)
  • Eosinophilic esophagitis
  • Energy Engineering
  • Computer Simulation or Modeling
  • Biomass Fuels

Research Equipment:

  • Differential Mobility Analysis--Characterizes nanoparticles by generating full particle size distributions with subnanometer resolution. It provides the multimodal resolution of TEM with the speed of light scattering. Useful for determining the aggregation state of nanoclusters and aggregates, the length distribution of fibers and nanotubes, the stoichiometry of virus antibody binding, soft coating on nanoparticles (DNA, polymers, self assembled monolayers, etc.), etc. We have also used this system to generate polymeric nanoparticles with a standard deviation of less than 1.5 nm..

 

Selected Publications

 

Selected Presentations

 

Service & Outreach

Professional service

  • Session Chair, AIChE 2011 Annual Meeting, Conference Program Chair for 08E00 Nanostructured Materials for Electronic and Photonic Applications II and Co-Chair for 08E00 Nanostructured Materials for Electronic and Photonic Applications I, American Institute of Chemical Engineering, 11/2010 to 12/2011.
  • Session Chair, Session Chair for 5 Sessions on Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery I-V, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 03/2010 to 12/2010.
  • Virus Filtration Taskforce, Parenteral Drug Association

Internal service

  • Committee Member, Member University of Utah Physical, Life & Applied Sciences Area Committee, June 2010 to June 2013, 06/2010 to 06/2013.
  • Committee Member, Member of Chemical Engineering Department Undergraduate Committee, March 2010 to present, 03/2010 to 06/2015.

 

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