Peter Vikesland, PhD

Faculty Profile

Professor

Virginia Tech

Contact Information

Office Address:

415 Durham Hall

(540) 231-3568

Research Interests

Nanomaterials in the environment, Improved sensors for drinking water treatment.

CEINT Publications

H. Wei, Rodriguez, K. , Renneckar, S. , and Vikesland, P. J. , “Environmental science and engineering applications of nanocellulose-based nanocomposites”, Environ. Sci.: Nano, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 302 - 316, 2014.

P. Pati, McGinnis, S. , and Vikesland, P. J. , “Life Cycle Assessment of “Green” Nanoparticle Synthesis Methods”, Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 410 - 420, 2014.

R. Halvorson Lahr and Vikesland, P. J. , “Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Cellular Imaging of Intracellulary Biosynthesized Gold Nanoparticles”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1599 - 1608, 2014.

H. Wei and Vikesland, P. J. , “pH-Triggered Molecular Alignment for Reproducible SERS Detection via an AuNP/Nanocellulose Platform”, Scientific Reports, vol. 5, p. 18131, 2015.

H. Wei, Rodriguez, K. , Renneckar, S. , Leng, W. , and Vikesland, P. J. , “Preparation and evaluation of nanocellulose–gold nanoparticle nanocomposites for SERS applications”, The Analyst, vol. 140, no. 16, pp. 5640 - 5649, 2015.

H. Wei, Abtahi, S. M. Hossein, and Vikesland, P. J. , “Plasmonic colorimetric and SERS sensors for environmental analysis”, Environ. Sci.: Nano, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 120 - 135, 2015.

B. Kim, Miller, J. H. , Monsegue, N. , Levard, ément, Hong, Y. , Hull, M. S. , Murayama, M. , Brown, Jr, G. E. , Vikesland, P. J. , Knocke, W. R. , Pruden, A. , and Hochella, M. F. , “Silver Sulfidation in Thermophilic Anaerobic Digesters and Effects on Antibiotic Resistance Genes”, Environmental Engineering Science, 2015.

R. D. Kent and Vikesland, P. J. , “Dissolution and Persistence of Copper-Based Nanomaterials in Undersaturated Solutions with Respect to Cupric Solid Phases”, Environmental Science & Technology, 2015.

Y. Ma, Metch, J. W. , Vejerano, E. P. , Miller, I. J. , Leon, E. C. , Marr, L. C. , Vikesland, P. J. , and Pruden, A. , “Microbial community response of nitrifying sequencing batch reactors to silver, zero-valent iron, titanium dioxide and cerium dioxide nanomaterials”, Water Research, vol. 68, pp. 87 - 97, 2015.

X. Chang and Vikesland, P. J. , “Effects of dilution on the properties of nC60”, Environmental Pollution, vol. 181, pp. 51 - 59, 2013.

X. Chang and Vikesland, P. J. , “Uncontrolled Variability in the Extinction Spectra of C ₆₀ Nanoparticle Suspensions”, Langmuir, vol. 29, no. 31, pp. 9685 - 9693, 2013.

R. D. Kent, Oser, J. G. , and Vikesland, P. J. , “Controlled Evaluation of Silver Nanoparticle Sulfidation in a Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 48, no. 15, pp. 8564 - 8572, 2014.

M. S. Hull, Vikesland, P. J. , and Schultz, I. R. , “Uptake and retention of metallic nanoparticles in the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)”, Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 140-141, pp. 89 - 97, 2013.

M. Hull, Kennedy, A. J. , Detzel, C. , Vikesland, P. J. , and Chappell, M. A. , “Moving beyond Mass: The Unmet Need to Consider Dose Metrics in Environmental Nanotoxicology Studies”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 46, no. 20, pp. 10881 - 10882, 2012.

R. D. Kent and Vikesland, P. J. , “Controlled Evaluation of Silver Nanoparticle Dissolution Using Atomic Force Microscopy”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 46, no. 13, pp. 6977-6984, 2012.

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