Raj Mutharasan

Frank A. Fletcher Professor

Office	CAT 281
Phone	215-895-2236
Fax	215-895-5837
Email	mutharasan@drexel.edu
Website	Mutharasan Lab Website
Curriculum Vitae	Mutharasan CV
Google Scholar Citations	http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QlcfDqwAAAAJ&view_op =list_works&pagesize=100

Degrees

PhD, Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, 1973
MS, Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, 1971
BS, Chemical Engineering, IIT (Madras, India), 1969


Research Interests

• Biosensor based on optical, electromechanical (cantilevers, shear wave), and magnetoelastic phenomena. Applications include food, environment, biowarfare, and medical.
• Detection of cancer signatures, DNA hybridization, self assembled monolayer characterization
• Behavior of protein interfaces; antigen-antibody reaction in non-aqueous environment
• Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena

Recent Publications

Ding, Y.; Mutharasan, R. Highly Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Microcystin-LR in Source and Finished Water Samples Using Cantilever Sensors. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, doi: 10.1021/es1020795.

Gupta, C.; Chauhan, A.; Mutharasan, R.; Srinivas, S. P. Measurement and Modeling of Diffusion Kinetics of a Lipophilic Molecule Across Rabbit Cornea. Pharm. Res. 2010, 27(4), 699-711.

Johnson, B.N.; Mutharasan, R. Nature of high-order resonant modes in piezoelectric excited millimeter sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2010, 81(12), 125108-125106.

Lakshmanan, R. S.; Xu, S.; Mutharasan, R. Impedance change as an alternate measure of resonant frequency shift of piezoelectric-excited millimeter-sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors. Sensor Actuat B-Chem 2010, 145(1), 601-604.

Maraldo, D.; Mutharasan, R. Mass-change sensitivity of high-order mode of piezoelectric-excited millimeter-sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors: Theory and experiments. Sensor Actuat B-Chem 2010 143(2), 731-739.

Sharma, H.; Lakshmanan, R. S.; Johnson, B. N.; Mutharasan, R. Piezoelectric cantilever sensors with asymmetric anchor exhibit picogram sensitivity in liquids. Sens. Actuators, B 2010. doi:10.1016/j.snb.2010.10.006

Xu, S.; Mutharasan, R. Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Giardia lamblia Using a Piezoelectric Cantilever Biosensor in Finished and Source Waters. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44(5), 1736-1741.

Xu, S.; Sharma, H.; Mutharasan, R. Sensitive and Selective Detection of Mycoplasma in Cell Culture Samples Using Cantilever Sensors. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2010, 105(6), 1069-1077.

Xu, S.; Mutharasan, R. Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum in buffer and in complex matrix using PEMC sensors at 5 oocysts/mL. Anal. Chim. Acta 2010, 669(1-2), 81-86.