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Sarah C.
Baxter
Associate
Professor,
Mechanical
Engineering
My research interests are in the mechanics of heterogeneous
materials;
composites,
multi-functional
materials
and
micromechanics.
Currently we
have
interests in
two
applications.
Our group
has
developed a
novel local
measurement
technique,
which uses
light
scattered
from gold
nanorods
to create a
pattern
marker for
optical
measurements
(digital
image
correlation)
of
deformation
in
biological
tissue
constructs.
This method
facilitates
small-scale
measurements
by
generating
field data
at finer
scales of
resolution
than
currently
available
and can be
used in more
complex
three-dimensional
biological
materials.
While
polymer
nanocomposites
offer
extraordinary
promise, a
key
challenge
limiting the
realization
of their
full
potential is
the
inability to
spatially
engineer,
design, and
fabricate
‘nano’
microstructures.
Our second
focus
application
investigates
nanomanufacturing
techniques
that use
‘force
handles' –
electric and
magnetic
fields – to
develop long
range
patterning
of
nanoscale
particles.
Micromechanics
models,
adapted to
reflect the
influence of
scale, are
then used to
model
multi-functionality
of the
designed
composites.
Education
-
M.S.
University
of
Minnesota,
1991
-
PhD
University
of
Virginia,
1995
Selected Publications
-
“Tracking
Alignment
of
Plasmonic
Nanostructures
using
Internal
Reflection
Microscopy”,
T.R.
Ray,
S.C.
Baxter,
and
T.M.
Crawford,
MRS
Spring
2010.
-
“Force
Handles
for
Alignment
of
Metallic
Nanoparticles”
T.R.
Ray,
J.S.
Snipes,
C.J.
Murphy,
T.M.
Crawford
and S.
C.
Baxter,
MRS
Fall
2009
-
“Gold
nanoparticles
in
Biology:
Beyond
Toxicity
to
Cellular
Imaging”
(2008)
C.J.
Murphy,
A.N.
Gole,
A.M.
Aalkady,
J.W.
Stone,
P.N.
Sisco,
E.C.
Goldsmith,
and S.C.
Baxter,
Accts in
Chem
Res.
to
appear.
-
“Using
Golds
Nanorods
to Probe
Cell-Induced
Collagen
Deformation
(2007)
J.W.
Stone,
P.N.
Sisco,
E.C.
Goldsmith
S.C.
Baxter
and
C.J.
Murphy,
Nanoletters
Cover
Article
7(1)
116-119
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“Light
Scattering
from
Gold
Nanorods:
Tracking
Material
Deformation”
(2005)
C.J.
Orendorff,
S.C.
Baxter,
E.C.
Goldsmith
and
C.J.
Murphy,
Nanotechnology
16,
2601-2605.
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