Mao is a former doctoral student, originally from Southern China. He loves to combine different analytical techniques to better understand extraction processes. An important method in his work is that of spin coated thin membranes that can be interrogated by exhaustive ion transfer voltammetry. After his Ph.D. defence in 2022 he has been offered a postdoctoral position at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to join the group of Grzegorz Lisak.

canwei.mao@unige.ch

Publications:

(1)   Mass Transfer from Ion Sensing Component-Loaded Nanoemulsions into Ion-Selective Membranes: An Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Thin Film Coulometry Study, Mao, C.; Soda, Y.; Robinson, K. J.; Forrest, T.; Bakker, E. ACS Measurement Science Au, in press. DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00053 (open access).

(2)   Ion–Ionophore Interactions in Polymeric Membranes Studied by Thin Layer Voltammetry, Mao, C.; Robinson, K. J.; Yuan, D.; Bakker, E. Sens. Actuators, B, 2022, 358, 131428. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2022.131428 (open access).

(3)   Surfactants for Optode Emulsion Stabilization Without Sacrificing Selectivity or Binding Constants, Robinson, K. J.; Mao, C.; Bakker, E. Anal. Chem., 2021, 93, 15941–15948. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03232.

(5)   Separating Boundary Potential Changes of Thin Solid Contact Ion-Selective Membrane Electrodes by a Molecular Redox Probe, Mao, C.; Yuan, D.; Wang, L.; Bakker, E. J. Electroanal. Chem., 2021, 880, 114800. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114800 (open access).