Superfund Research Program
Timothy M. Swager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-4423
Email: tswager@mit.edu
Projects
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Developing In Situ, Real-time Sensors for Toxicants at Superfund Sites, to Protect Public Health and Optimize Cleanup (2017-2022)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Methods for Selective Extraction, Concentration and Detection of N-Nitrosamines (2022-2027)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Spatio-Temporal Pollutant Tracking in the Atmosphere: An Integrated Laboratory, Modeling, and Measurement Study (2017-2022)
Research Briefs
Publications
2023
- Beard JC, Swager TM. 2023. Improved procedures for the synthesis of 9,9-disubstituted 9,10-dihydroacridines. J Org Chem 88(3):1918-1921. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.2c03004 PMID:36661076 PMCID:PMC10265378
- Feng H, Luo S, Croy RG, Essigmann JM, Swager TM. 2023. Interaction of N-nitrosamines with binuclear copper complexes for luminescent detection. Dalton Trans 52(10):3219-3233. doi:10.1039/d2dt03848j PMID:36799554 PMCID:PMC9990372
2022
- Lu R, Yuan W, Feng H, Luo S, Wu YM, Etkind SI, Kumar M, Swager TM. 2022. Porous polymers containing metallocalix 4 arene for the extraction of tobacco-specific nitrosamines. Chemistry of Materials 34(23):10623-10630. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02713
2021
- Beard JC, Swager TM. 2021. An organic chemist's guide to N-Nitrosamines: Their structure, reactivity, and role as contaminants. J Org Chem 86:2037-2057. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.0c02774 PMID:33474939 PMCID:PMC7885798
- Lu R, Yuan W, Croy RG, Essigmann JM, Swager TM. 2021. Metallocalix[4]arene polymers for gravimetric detection of N-nitrosodialkylamines. J Am Chem Soc 143:doi:10.1021/jacs.1c08739 PMID:34793165 PMCID:PMC8811785
- Luo S, Liu R, Lee S, Swager TM. 2021. Electrocatalytic Isoxazoline-Nanocarbon Metal Complexes. J Am Chem Soc 143:10441-10453. doi:10.1021/jacs.1c05439 PMID:34213315
2020
- Luo S, Lin C, Ku K, Yoshinaga K, Swager TM. 2020. Pentiptycene polymer/single-walled carbon nanotube complexes: applications in benzene, toluene, and o-xylene detection. ACS Nano 14:7297-7307. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c02570 PMID:32510203 PMCID:PMC7370303
2019
- He M, Croy RG, Essigmann JM, Swager TM. 2019. Chemiresistive carbon nanotube sensors for n-nitrosodialkylamines. ACS Sens 4(10):2819-2824. doi:10.1021/acssensors.9b01532 PMID:31573183 PMCID:PMC6939299
- Schroeder V, Savagatrup S, He M, Lin S, Swager TM. 2019. Carbon nanotube chemical sensors. Chem Rev 119:599-663. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00340 PMID:30226055 PMCID:PMC6399066
- Swager TM, Mirica KA. 2019. Introduction: Chemical Sensors. Chem Rev 119(1):1-2. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00764 PMID:30829042
2018
- Jeon I, Yoon B, He M, Swager TM. 2018. Hyperstage Graphite: Electrochemical Synthesis and Spontaneous Reactive Exfoliation. Advanced Materials 30(3):doi:10.1002/adma.201704538 PMID:29194799 PMCID:PMC6415547
- Paoletti C, He M, Salvo P, Melai B, Calisi N, Mannini M, Cortigiani B, Bellagambi FG, Swager TM, Di Francesco F, Pucci A. 2018. Room temperature amine sensors enabled by sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes. RSC Adv 8(10):5578-5585. doi:10.1039/C7RA13304A PMID:30820317 PMCID:PMC6390973
- Zeininger L, He M, Hobson ST, Swager TM. 2018. Resistive and capacitive gamma-ray dosimeters based on triggered depolymerization in carbon nanotube composites. ACS Sens 3(5):976-983. doi:10.1021/acssensors.8b00108 PMID:29558118 PMCID:PMC6372115
2017
- Savagatrup S, Schroeder V, He X, Lin S, He M, Yassine O, Salama KN, Zhang X, Swager TM. 2017. Bio-inspired carbon monoxide sensors with voltage-activated sensitivity. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 56:14066-14070. doi:10.1002/anie.201707491 PMID:28952172 PMCID:PMC5658252