Uli’s research group in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Cornell University focuses on the control of materials assembly at very small length scales using bottom-up approaches. He works at the interface between polymer science and solid state chemistry/physics with the goal of generating novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrid materials. The Wiesner group creates materials tailored to applications including catalysis, separation, fuel cells and nano-biotechnology.
Uli studied Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and Irvine, California. He gained his Ph.D. in 1991 with work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Mainz, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the E.S.P.C.I. in Paris, France until 1993. He joined the Cornell MS&E faculty in 1999 following his Habilitation and became a Full Professor in 2005. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society.
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Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc. (HST) develops nanostructured silica materials with an emphasis on fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles. These advanced materials have great potential in bio-imaging, diagnostics, sensors, development tools for drug discovery and related areas in life sciences. Other applications have also emerged in a broad range of industries including consumer, energy and electronics.
C•spec™ particles synthesized here are being investigated in joint research programs at Cornell’s campus in Ithaca, New York and at Cornell’s Weill Medical College in Manhattan as well as at other high-profile research institutions including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center and the National Institute of Health. Hybrid materials are being developed in collaboration with government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Army as well as with commercial partners worldwide.
HST provides customized C•spec™ particles to supply reagents to collaborators at these institutions and companies. HST does not sell uncoated particles as a standalone product but does sell coated, functionalized and conjugated C•spec™ particles for specific applications.
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