2025 Group Photo
Two-Channel Pneumatically-Assisted Microfluidic Probe for nano-DESI Imaging
Instrument development of Ion Soft-Landing Systems
Nano-DESI imaging of isomeric lipids via online photochemical derivatization of C=C Bonds
Journal article in Angewandte Chemie
Staying Warm in our Parafilm Blankets
Farewell for Daisy and Hang
Ion Soft-Landing Instrument
May 2025
Julia gave two lectures at the University of North Dakota as the 2025 Abbott Chemistry Lecture Series speaker.
April 2025
Congratulations to Nazifa on receiving the Women in Science Program (WISP) travel award!
Congratulations to Xilai on receiving the Han Fellowship Award!
Congratulations to Alyssa on receiving the Hass Memorial Fellowship Award!
March 2025
Congratulations to Alyssa and Tom for giving a presentation the CBM Spring 2025 IAB meeting here at Purdue University and to Alyssa for also presenting a 3-minute lightning poster session!
Congratulations to our alumna Dr. Daisy Unsihuay Vila for receiving the the 2025 Darlene Solomon Award from Agilent Technologies Inc!
Overview
Our research at the interface of physical and analytical chemistry is focused on the advanced development of preparative and analytical mass spectrometry for applications in materials synthesis, imaging and chemical analysis of biological systems at a subcellular level, and environmental sciences.
Contact Us:
We are located on the 5th floor of the Brown Building
BRWN 5131A (Julia's office)
BRWN 5129/5133 (student/postdoc offices)
BRWN 5125/5135 (Labs)
Shipping/Mailing Address:
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
560 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2084
Phone: (765) 494-5464
Email: jlaskin@purdue.edu
Recent Publications
Discovery of a Ferromagnetic Nickel Chalcogenide Nanocluster Ni3S3H(PEt3)5
Li, X., Wu, X., Dilley, N., Gholipour-Ranjbar, H., Lee, S., Zemlyanov, D., Fang, H., Jena, P., Laskin, J. Small. (2025).
http://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202500070
Universal Photosensitizer for Isomer-Selective Lipid Imaging with High Molecular Coverage
Amer, S., Unsihuay, D., Yang, M., Laskin, J. Anal. Chem. 97, 7071-7078 (2025).
http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c05538
Pneumatically Assisted Microfluidic Probe for Enhanced Mass Spectrometry Imaging Performance
Jiang, L.-X., Laskin, J. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 36, 4, 883-887 (2025).
http://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.5c00011
A Low-Cost, High-Resolution Thermoplastic Microfluidic Probe for Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Biological Tissue Samples
Li, X., Hu, H., Yang, M., Laskin, J. Anal.Chem. 97, 3207–3212 (2025).
http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c06087
Structural Evolution of Mixed-Addenda Keggin Polyoxometalate Anions with Atom-by-Atom Substitution
Prabhakaran, V., Clotet, A., Gunaratne, K. D. D., Lang, Z., Johnson, G. E., Poblet, J. M., Laskin, J. J. Phys. Chem. C (Vicki Grassian Festschrift) 129, 4, 2142–2151 (2025).