Rastislav Levicky
Donald F. Othmer Assistant Professor

General Information

Tel: 718.260.3682
Room: RH 816A
Email: rlevicky@duke.poly.edu
Levicky Group Homepage: http://faculty.poly.edu/~rlevicky/

Areas of Interest

• Biopolymers at Interfaces
• Electrochemistry
• Sensors and Biomolecular Diagnostics
• Biomaterials

Selected Recent Publications

• Gang Shen, Napoleon Tercero, Mariafrancis Anand Gaspar, Bindhu Varughese, Kenneth Shepard, Rastislav Levicky, "Charging Behavior of Single-Stranded DNA Polyelectrolyte Brushes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 8427-8433, (2006).
• Barry Friedman, Mariafrancis Anand Gaspar, Sergey Kalachikov, Kiejin Lee, Rastislav Levicky, Gang Shen, Hyunjun Yoo, "Sensitive, label-free DNA diagnostics based on near-field microwave imaging," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 9666-9667, (2005).
• Rastislav Levicky, Adrian Horgan, "Physicochemical perspectives on DNA microarray and biosensor technologies," Trends in Biotechnology, 23, 143-149, (2005).
• Gang Shen, Maria Francis Anand Gaspar, Rastislav Levicky, "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy study of maleimide-activated supports for immobilization of oligodeoxyribonucleotides," Nucleic Acids Research, 32, 5973-5980 (2004).
• Patrick Johnson, Rastislav Levicky, "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and differential capacitance study of thiol-functional polysiloxane films on gold supports," Langmuir, 20, 9621-9627 (2004).
• Patrick Johnson, Maria Francis Anand Gaspar, Rastislav Levicky, " Polymer-anchored DNA gene monolayers," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 9910-9911 (2004).

Education

• BS in Chemical Engineering - Columbia University, New York, NY
• PhD in Chemical Engineering - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Postdoctoral Training - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD