Ohio University Expert Wins Grant to Study Adsorption Behavior of Surfactant Molecules on Metallic Nanoparticles

Sumit Sharma, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in Ohio University's Russ College of Engineering and Technology, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) five-year, $511,902 grant to study the adsorption behavior of surfactant, or soap-like, molecules on metallic nanoparticles.