MSE Faculty Receive Promotion and Tenure
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Lorraine Leon
Associate Professor
- Office: ENG I, Room 210
- Email: lorraine.leon@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-5378
- Biomolecular Engineering Lab
- Google Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Lorraine Leon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She joined UCF as an Assistant Professor in January 2017.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, City University of New York, 2011
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, 2004
RESEARCH
- Molecular engineering and self assembly
- Biomaterials
- Polyelectrolyte complexation
- Soft materials characterization
- Nanomedicine
- A.B. Marciel, E.J. Chung, B.K. Brettmann, L. Leon, “Bulk and Nanoscale Polypeptide-Based Polyelectrolyte Complexes” Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 2016 DOI:10.1016/j.cis.2016.06.012
- Priftis, L. Leon, Z. Song, S.L. Perry, K.O. Margossian, A. Tropnikova, J.J. Cheng, M. Tirrell, “Self-Assembly of α-Helical Polypeptides Driven by Complex Coacervation” Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127, 11280-11284 DOI:10.1002/anie.201504861
- S.L. Perry*, L. Leon*, K. Hoffmann, M.J. Kade, D. Priftis, D. Wong, K. Black, C. Pierce, K. Margossian, J. Whitmer, J. Qin, J. de Pablo, M.V. Tirrell, “Chirality Selected Phase Transitions in Ionic Polypeptide Complexes” Nature Communications 2015, 6, 6052 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7052
- C-H Kuo*, L. Leon*; E.J. Chung, T.J. Sontag, C.A. Reardon, G.S. Getz, M.V Tirrell, Y. Fang, “Inhibition of Atherosclerosis-Promoting microRNAs via targeted polyelectrolyte complex micelles” Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2014, 2, 8142-8153 DOI: 10.1039/C4TB00977K
- Leon, W. Su, H. Matsui, R.S. Tu, “Interfacial Templating of Inorganic Nanostructures Using a Growth Directing and Reducing Peptide” Soft Matter 2011, 7, 10285-10290 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05906H
- Leon, P. Logrippo, R.S. Tu, “Self-Assembly of Rationally Designed β-Sheets Under 2-D Confinement” Biophysical Journal 2010, 99, 2888-2896 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.061