Superfund Research Program

Jay James

Picoyune
950 Gilman St. STE 105
Berkeley, California 94710
Phone: 510-915-0152
Email: jayjames@picoyune.com

Projects

• Picoyune: Gold Nanoparticle-Based Mercury Analyzer for On-Site Measurement of Soil and Sediment (Phase I: May 2014 February 2015)
• Picoyune: Gold Nanoparticle-Based Mercury Analyzer for On-Site Measurement of Soil and Sediment (Phase II: August 2015 - September 2018)
• Picoyune: Plasmonic Mercury Sensor and Wearable Gas Detector (Phase I: September 2020 - February 2021)
• Picoyune: Plasmonic Sensor and Field Monitor for Mercury (Phase II: September 2022 - August 2024)

Patents

• Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Mercury Detection System and Methods

Publications

2014

• Crosby JS, James J, Lucas D, Koshland CP. 2014. Determination of total mercury concentration in aqueous samples with gold nanoparticles. Analytical Methods 6:1254-1260. doi:10.1039/c3ay42202j

2013

• James J, Lucas D, Koshland CP. 2013. Elemental mercury vapor interaction with individual gold nanorods. Analyst 138(8):2323-2328. doi:10.1039/C3AN36841F PMID:23446550

2012

• James J, Lucas D, Koshland CP. 2012. Gold nanoparticle films as sensitive and reusable elemental mercury sensors. Environ Sci Technol 46(17):9557-9562. doi:10.1021/es3005656 PMID:22871115 PMCID:PMC3446241

2008

• James J, Lucas D, Koshland CP. 2008. Nanopartlcle-Based Detection of Metals. In: Annual Meeting, December 7-9. Pacific Grove, CA.