Lu is a past Ph.D. student of the Bakker group who joined us from Nanjing University in China. She brought valuable synthetic skills with her that were very useful in designing a new family of ionic solvatochromic dyes for the development and understanding of a novel class of optical ion sensors. Besides her very own projects she collaborated closely with many other group members and was a very positive force in the group during her time with us.
She is currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Linkedin.

Thesis title: Ion-selective optodes with lipophilic solvatochromic dyes as transducers (2019). DOI link.

Publications:

(1)   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).

(2)   Tunable detection range of ion-selective nano-optodes by controlling solvatochromic dye transducer lipophilicity, Wang, L.; Bakker, E. Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 12539-12542. DOI: 10.1039/C9CC06729A (open access).

(3)   Renewable magnetic ion-selective colorimetric microsensors based on surface modified polystyrene beads, Apichai, S.; Wang, L.; Grudpan, K.; Bakker, E. Anal. Chim. Acta, 2020, 1094, 136-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.10.011.

(4)   Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence for Chronopotentiometric Sensors, Gao, W.; Jeanneret, S.; Yuan, D.; Cherubini, T.; Wang, L.; Xie, X.; Bakker, E. Anal. Chem., 2019, 91, 4889–4895. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00787 (open access).

(5)   Simplified Fabrication for Ion-Selective Optical Emulsion Sensor with Hydrophobic Solvatochromic Dye Transducer: A Cautionary Tale, Wang, L.; Sadler, S.; Cao, T.; Xie, X.; Bakker, E. Anal. Chem., 2019, 91, 8973-8978. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01145 (open access).

(6)   Ion-Exchange Microemulsions for Eliminating Dilute Interferences in Potentiometric Determinations, Apichai, S.; Wang, L.; Pankratova, N.; Grudpan, K.; Bakker, E. Electroanalysis, 2018, 30, 2462-2466. DOI: 10.1002/elan.201800366.

(7)   Colorimetric Ionophore-Based Coextraction Titrimetry of Potassium Ions, Thajee, K.; Wang, L.; Grudpan, K.; Bakker, E. Anal. Chim. Acta, 2018, 1029, 37-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.05.012.

(8)   Surface modified polystyrene microsensors containing lipophilic solvatochromic dye transducers, Wang, L.; Xie, X.; Cao, T.; Szilagyi, I.; Bakker, E. Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 7921-7925. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201800077.

(9)   Electrochemical ion transfer mediated by a lipophilic Os(II)/Os(III) dinonyl bipyridyl probe incorporated in thin film membranes, Jansod, S.; Wang, L.; Cuartero, M.; Bakker, E. Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 10757-10760. DOI: 10.1039/C7CC05908F.

(10)   Electrochemical Mechanism of Ferrocene-Based Redox Molecules in Thin Film Membrane Electrodes, Cuartero, M.; Acres, R. G.; Bradley, J.; Jarolimova, Z.; Wang, L.; Bakker, E.; Crespo, G. A.; De Marco, R. Electrochim. Acta, 2017, 238, 357–367. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.04.047.

(11)   Reversible pH-independent optical potassium sensor with lipophilic solvatochromic dye transducer on surface modified microporous nylon, Wang, L.; Xie, X.; Zhai, Z.; Bakker, E. Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 14254 - 14257. DOI: 10.1039/C6CC07841A.

(12)   Ion-Selective Optical Nanosensors based on Solvatochromic Dyes with Different Lipophilicity: From Bulk Partitioning to Interfacial Accumulation, Xie, X.; Szilagyi, I.; Zhai, J.; Wang, L.; Bakker, E. ACS Sensors, 2016, 1, 516–520. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00006 (open access).