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NINT Principal Investigator, Nano Life Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT
Dr. Larry Unsworth's research interests include controlling and understanding protein-surface interactions for various applications, including non-fouling surfaces and oriented protein adsorption for nanodevice technologies.
Currently, Dr. Unsworth is posted with Dr. Shuguang Zhang's Laboratory for Molecular Self-Assembly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a 2-year term. His research project at MIT includes the employment of phycobilisomes (light absorbing protein complexes) as bio-derived antennae for increasing efficiencies of dye sensitized solar cells.
One of Dr. Unsworth's goals is to use inexpensive and self-assembling biological components, to adapt natural energy-producing systems to human needs. Guided by biomimicry, Dr. Unsworth and his fellow researchers employ sensitized zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires as a high surface area substrate for the extraction of useful electrical current from (both wet and solid-state) biophotovoltaic nanodevices. These devices could one day provide mobile power sources for transportation, computing and telecommunications.
Employment
- Associate Research Officer, NINT, National Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta. 2005-Present.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2005-Present.
Education
- PhD, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 2005.
- B.Sc. (First Class Standing), Chemical Engineering Co-op, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999.
Highlights
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-graduate scholarship, awarded due to academic standing.
- R.E. Jervis Award, Canadian Nuclear Society, awarded to the best Canadian nuclear science research at the PhD level.
Contact Information
Phone: 617-253-1000
Fax: 780-641-1601
E-mail: unsworld@mit.edu
