Directory

Erick S. Vasquez

Associate Professor

Full-Time Faculty

School of Engineering: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit this Google Scholar link.

• Vasquez, E. S., DeWitt, M., West, Z., & Elsass, M. E. (2020). Impact of team formation approach on teamwork effectiveness and performance in an upper-level undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory course. Special Issue: Teamwork Assessment in Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1B), 491-501.
• Vasquez, E. S., Phren, E. M., & Walters, K. B. (2019). Assessing magnetic iron oxide nanoparticle properties under different thermal treatments. J. of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. doi:10.1007/s10973-019-09195-4.
• Karim, F., Vasquez, E. S., Sun, Y., & Zhao, C. (2019). Optothermal microbubble assisted manufacturing of nanogap-rich structures for active chemical sensing. Nanoscale, 11, 20589-20597.
• Busch, R. T., Karim, F., Weis, J., Sun, Y., Zhao, C., & Vasquez, E. S. (2019). Optimization and structural stability of gold nanoparticle-antibody bioconjugates. ACS Omega, 4(12), 15269-15279.
• Roy, J. K., Vasquez, E. S., Pinto, H. P., Kumari, S., Walters, K. B., & Leszczynski, J. (2019). Computational and experimental approach to understanding the structural interplay of self-assembled end-terminated alkanethiolates on gold surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, 23320-23328. [Note: Inside cover of the journal and highlighted as 2019 PCCP hot articles]
• Al-Ajrash, S. M. N., Lafdi, K., Vasquez, E. S., Chinesta, F., & Le Coustumer, P. (2018). Experimental and numerical investigation of the silicon particle distribution in electrospun nanofibers. Langmuir, 34(24), 7147-7152. [IF = 3.789 / 6/ N/A]
• Karim, F., Vasquez, E. S., & Zhao, C. (2018). Fabricated nanogap-rich plasmonic nanostructures through an optothermal surface bubble in a droplet. Opt. Lett., 43(2), 334-336.
• Vasquez, E. S., Feugang, J. M., Willard, S. T., Ryan, P. L., & Walters, K. B. (2016). Bioluminescent magnetic nanoparticles as potential imaging agents for mammalian spermatozoa. J. of Nanobiotechnology, 14(1), 1-9. [Note: This paper was featured in the journal’s website and was cited as one of the influential articles in 2016.]
• Zakaria, A. B. M., Vasquez, E. S., Walters, K. B., & Leszczynska, D. (2015). Functional holey graphene oxide: A new electrochemically transformed substrate material for dopamine sensing. RSC Advances, 9, 107123-107135. doi: 10.1039/C5RA19991C