Deputy Editor Profile
- Catherine J. Murphy
- Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- A512 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Box 59-6
- 600 S. Mathews Ave.
- Urbana, IL 61801
- Phone: (217) 333-7680
- Fax: (202) 513-8768
- Email: murphy-office@jpc.acs.org
Honors and Accolades
- NSF CAREER Award 1995-1998
- Cottrell Scholar Award, 1996
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1997
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1998
- Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 Award (Innovator Category), 2008
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008
Current Research
Synthesis, properties, chemical sensing, biological applications and environmental implications of colloidal inorganic nanomaterials; optical probes of DNA nanoscale structure and dynamics
Biography
Catherine J. Murphy is the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned two B.S. degrees from UIUC in 1986, one in chemistry and one in biochemistry, while conducting undergraduate research with T. B. Rauchfuss. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under the direction of A. B. Ellis. From 1990-1993 she was an NSF and then an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of J. K. Barton at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Murphy started her independent career at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1993, and rose through the ranks there, ultimately becoming the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry in 2003. In 2009 she returned to UIUC. Her research interests include the synthesis, surface chemistry, optical properties, biological applications and environmental implications of colloidal metal nanocrystals, especially gold. She is the winner of the 2011 Inorganic Nanoscience Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Inorganic Chemistry, was named a 2011 Fellow of the American Chemical Society, a 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a 2017 Fellow of the Materials Research Society. She won the Carol Tyler Award from the International Precious Metals Institute in 2013, and the Transformational Research and Excellence in Education (TREE) Award from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement in 2015. In 2015 she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Selected Publications
The Many Faces of Gold Nanorods
Murphy, C. J.; Thompson, L. B.; Alkilany, A. M.; Sisco, P. N.; Boulos, S. P.; Sivapalan, S.; Yang, J. A.; Chernak, D. J.; Huang, J.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1 pp 2867-2875.
Cation Exchange on the Surface of Gold Nanorods with a Polymerizable Surfactant: Polymerization, Stability, and Toxicity Evaluation
Alkilany, A. M.; Nagaria, P. K.; Wyatt, M. D.; Murphy, C. J.
Langmuir 2010, 26 pp 9328-9333.
Transfer of Gold Nanoparticles from the Water Column to the Estuarine Food Web
Ferry, J. L.; Craig, P; Hexel, C.; Sisco, P. N.; Frey, R.; Pennington, P; Fulton, M.; Scott, G.; Decho, A.; Kashiwada, S.; Murphy, C. J.; Shaw, T. J.
Nature Nanotechnology 2009, 4 pp 441-444.
Surface Coverage Dependence of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Gold Nanocubes on Self-Assembled Monolayers of Analyte
Sisco, P. N.; Murphy, C. J.
J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113 pp 3973-3978.
Gold Nanoparticles in Biology: Beyond Toxicity to Cellular Imaging
Murphy, C. J.; Gole, A. M.; Stone, J. W.; Sisco, P. N.; Alkilany, A. M.; Goldsmith, E. C.; Baxter, S. C.
Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41 pp 1721-1730.
Chemical Sensing and Imaging with Metallic Nanorods
Murphy, C. J.; Gole, A. M.; Hunyadi, S. E.; Stone, J. W.; Sisco, P.; Alkilany, A.; Hankins, P. L.; Kinard, B.
Chem. Comm. 2008, pp 544-557.
Quantitation of Metal Content in the Silver-Assisted Growth of Gold Nanorods
Orendorff, C. J.; Murphy, C. J.
J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110 pp 3990-3994.
Anisotropic Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Assembly, and Optical Applications
Murphy, C. J.; Sau, T. K.; Gole, A.; Orendorff, C. J.; Gao, J.; Gou, L.; Hunyadi, S. Li, T.
J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109 pp 13857-13870.