Achievements

Jinseok Heo, chair and associate professor of chemistry, recently published a new research article on gold nanoparticles in Langmuir, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society. This work builds on his 2025 Langmuir publication and reflects sustained research activity in nanomaterials chemistry, highlighting Buffalo State’s strength in faculty-led, student-engaged research. The paper is available online at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c05636.

Two Buffalo State chemistry students, Carleigh Cimmerer and Daniel Weglarski, are listed as co–first authors of the paper. The research originated from Cimmerer’s undergraduate summer research project, supported by Buffalo State’s Undergraduate Research Office, and was further developed through graduate-level research. Sujit Suwal, associate professor of chemistry, made significant contributions to the project and is listed as a co-corresponding author alongside Dr. Heo.