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Faculty & Research

Lane A. Baker

Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
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Lane Baker
Contact Information:
(812) 856-1873
lanbaker@indiana.edu
Simon 102A
Baker Group Website

Lane Baker received a B.S. degree from Missouri State University in 1996. He was awarded his Ph.D. degree at Texas A&M University in 2001 working with Richard M. Crooks. He was then awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship to study scanned probe microscopies with Lloyd J. Whitman at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He studied nanopore membranes and single nanopore platforms as a postdoctoral associate with Charles R. Martin at the University of Florida.

Lane is interested in the electrochemical methods for analysis and imaging. Current work in his group is focused on applications of nanopores for the development of chemical and biochemically selective membranes, sensor development and electrochemical imaging.

Research

Our interests lie in electrochemical analysis. Typical experiments employ scanned probe microscopies such as atomic force microscopy, scanning ion conductance microscopy and scanning electrochemical microscopy. With these tools we can probe spatially and temporally resolved events at small length scales. We also utilize nanopore-based devices for controlling transport of ions and molecules, with long-term efforts directed toward development of sensors based on gated-pores, be it electrical, mechanical or chemical gating. We also are working on biological materials that exhibit unique selectivity, hoping to translate what is learned from proteins into synthetic platforms. More information about our research can be found here.

Publications

PubMed

43. Sa, N.; Baker, L.A. Rectification of nanopores at surfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 10398-10401. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja203883q)

42. Morton, K. C.; Morris, C. A.; Derylo, M. A.; Thakar, R.; Baker, L. A. Carbon electrode fabrication from pyrolyzed parylene c, Anal. Chem., 2011, 83, 5447-5452. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac200885w)

41. Thakar, R.; Wilburn, J.; Baker, L. A. Studies of edge effects with shroud-modified electrodes, Electroanalysis, 2011, 23, 1543-1547. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elan.201100170)

40. Bird, S. P.; Baker, L. A. Biologically modified hydrogels for chemical and biochemical analysis. Analyst, 2011, accepted. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0AN00871K)

39. Powell, M.; Sa, N.; Davenport, M.; Healy, K.; Vlassiouk, I.; Letant, S.; Baker, L. A.; Siwy, Z. Noise Properties of Rectifying Nanopores, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2011, 115, 8775-8783. (http://dx.doi.org 10.1021/jp2016038)

38. Baker, L. A.; Chen, C. Waves in Microscopy. Nature Chem., 2011, 3, 191-192. (invited commentary) (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1038/nchem.983)

37. Chen, C., Baker, L.A. Effects of pipette modulation and imaging distances on ion currents measured with Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM). Analyst, 2011, 1, 90-97. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0AN00604A)

36. Niya, S.; Fu, Y.; Baker, L. A. Reversible cobalt ion binding to imidazole-modified nanopipettes. Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, 9963-9966. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac102619j)

35. Basore, J. R.; Lavrik, N. V.; Baker, L. A. Electromagnetic Micropores: Fabrication and Operation. Langmuir, 2010, 26, 19239-1244. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la103977e)

34. Morris, C.; Friedman, A. K.; Baker, L. A.; Applications of Nanopipettes in the Analytical Sciences, Analyst, 2010, in press. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0an00156b)

33. Thakar, R.; Baker, L. A. Lithography-free Production of Stamps for Microcontact Printing, Anal. Meth., 2010, in press. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0ay00233j)

32. Basore, J. R.; Lavrik, N. V.; Baker, L. A.; Single-Pore membranes Gated by Microelectromagnetic Traps. Adv. Mat., 2010, 2759-2763. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201000566) cover

Awards

  • Young Investigator Award, Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry 2012
  • Cottrell Scholars Award 2009
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2009
  • Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh Starter Grant 2008
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida, 2004-2006
  • National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, Naval Research Laboratory, 2001-2004

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