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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to nanoscale science and technology

Overview

Mark T. Tuominen is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular focus in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, Ocean Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The primary topics they explore include:

  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Antimicrobial agents and applications
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Fecal contamination and water quality

Tuominen has published recent papers that address bacterial behavior and surface interactions, including:

  • Escherichia coli Swimming back Toward Stiffer Polyetheylene Glycol Coatings, Increasing Contact in Flow, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Surface Chemistry Guides the Orientations of Adhering E. coli Cells Captured from Flow, 2021, Langmuir
  • Contact Area and Deformation of Escherichia coli Cells Adhered on a Cationic Surface, 2023, Langmuir

The venues in which Tuominen frequently publishes include Langmuir and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several scholars. Frequent co-authors include Zhou Xu, Maria M. Santore, W. Niu, Molly K. Shave, and Vishnu Raman.

In recognition of their contributions to nanoscale science and technology, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires.

    Gemma Reguera;Kevin D. McCarthy;Teena Mehta;Julie S. Nicoll

  • Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Arrays Grown in Self-Assembled Diblock Copolymer Templates

    T. Thurn-Albrecht;J. Schotter;G. A. Kästle;N. Emley

  • Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Madeline Vargas;Madeline Vargas;Kelly P. Nevin;Ashley E. Franks

  • Nanoscopic Templates from Oriented Block Copolymer Films

    Thomas Thurn-Albrecht;Rachel Steiner;Jason DeRouchey;Christopher M. Stafford

  • Kinetics of Ion Transport in Perovskite Active Layers and Its Implications for Active Layer Stability.

    Monojit Bag;Lawrence A. Renna;Ramesh Y. Adhikari;Supravat Karak

  • Integration of self-assembled diblock copolymers for semiconductor capacitor fabrication

    C. T. Black;K. W. Guarini;K. R. Milkove;S. M. Baker

  • Trap-assisted tunneling in high permittivity gate dielectric stacks

    Michel Houssa;M Tuominen;M Naili;Valeri Afanas'ev

  • Experimental evidence for parity-based 2e periodicity in a superconducting single-electron tunneling transistor.

    M. T. Tuominen;J. M. Hergenrother;T. S. Tighe;M. Tinkham

  • A Simple Route to Metal Nanodots and Nanoporous Metal Films

    Kyusoon Shin;K. Amanda Leach;James T. Goldbach;Dong Ha Kim

  • Biofilm conductivity is a decisive variable for high-current-density Geobacter sulfurreducens microbial fuel cells

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Mark T. Tuominen;Derek R. Lovley

  • Electrical and materials properties of ZrO2 gate dielectrics grown by atomic layer chemical vapor deposition

    Charles M. Perkins;Baylor B. Triplett;Paul C. McIntyre;Krishna C. Saraswat

  • Characterization of ALCVD-Al2O3 and ZrO2 layer using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

    H. Nohira;W. Tsai;W. Besling;E. Young

  • A Route to Nanoscopic SiO2 Posts via Block Copolymer Templates

    Ho Cheol Kim;Xinqiao Jia;Christopher M. Stafford;Dong Ha Kim

  • Supercapacitors Based on c‐Type Cytochromes Using Conductive Nanostructured Networks of Living Bacteria

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Tünde Mester;Tünde Mester;Mark T. Tuominen;Derek R. Lovley

  • Visualization of charge propagation along individual pili proteins using ambient electrostatic force microscopy

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Sibel Ebru Yalcin;Mark T. Tuominen;Derek R. Lovley

  • Direct control of the magnetic interaction between iron oxide nanoparticles through dendrimer-mediated self-assembly.

    Benjamin L. Frankamp;Andrew K. Boal;Mark T. Tuominen;Vincent M. Rotello

  • Conductivity of individual Geobacter pili

    Ramesh Y. Adhikari;Nikhil S. Malvankar;Mark T. Tuominen;Derek R. Lovley

  • Lack of cytochrome involvement in long-range electron transport through conductive biofilms and nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Mark T. Tuominen;Derek R. Lovley

  • Island growth in the atomic layer deposition of zirconium oxide and aluminum oxide on hydrogen-terminated silicon: Growth mode modeling and transmission electron microscopy

    Riikka L. Puurunen;Wilfried Vandervorst;Wim F. A. Besling;Olivier Richard

  • Fabrication and characterization of nanoelectrode arrays formed via block copolymer self-assembly

    Eunhee Jeoung;Trent H. Galow;Joerg Schotter;Mustafa Bal

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Tinkham
Michael Tinkham Harvard University
E. Bryan Coughlin
E. Bryan Coughlin University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sankaran Thayumanavan
Sankaran Thayumanavan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Todd Emrick
Todd Emrick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Charles T. Black
Charles T. Black Brookhaven National Laboratory
David N. Hendrickson
David N. Hendrickson University of California, San Diego
Kelly P. Nevin
Kelly P. Nevin University of Massachusetts Amherst

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