Suchol Savagatrup

Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor of the BIO5 Institute
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Suchol Savagatrup

Harshbarger 132

520.626.1266
suchol@arizona.edu

Suchol received his undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2016, both in chemical engineering. Suchol was a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He then joined the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona in 2019 as a faculty member. 

Suchol's research focuses on applying the principles of soft material science, device engineering and applied chemistry (molecular engineering) to probe chemical and physical interactions at complex interfaces. His group members are interested in engineering responsive soft materials, both polymers and complex emulsions, with bio-inspired functions for a wide range of applications in biomimicry, chemical and biosensors and environmental monitoring.

Degrees

  • PhD Chemical Engineering
    • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
    • Semiconducting Polymers for Stretchable, Ultra-Flexible, and Mechanically Robust Organic Photovoltaics
  • MS Chemical Engineering
    • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
  • BS Chemical Engineering
    • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

Work Experience

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016 - 2019)

Interests

Teaching

Chemical Reaction Engineering | Polymer and Soft Materials Science | Colloid Science | Surface and Intermolecular Forces
 

Research

Soft Materials Science | Polymers | Complex Emulsions | Organic Electronics | Chemical and Biosensors | Interfacial Interactions | Bio-Inspired Properties

Courses

View the full course list in UA Profiles.

Selected Publications

Chapters

  • Lipomi, D. J., Savagatrup, S., Printz, A. D., Rodriquez, D., Root, S. E., Kleinschmidt, A. T., & Alkhadra, M. A. (2019). Mechanical Properties of Semiconducting Polymers. In Handbook of Semiconducting Polymers, Fourth Edition; Conjugated Polymers: Properties, Processing, and Apllications. CRC Press.

Journals/Publications

  • Barua, B., Durkin, T. J., Beeley, I. M., Gadh, A., & Savagatrup, S. (2023). Multiplexed and continuous microfluidic sensors using dynamic complex droplets. Soft Matter, 19, 1930-1940.
  • Durkin, T. J., Barua, B., & Savagatrup, S. (2023). Modification of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers for Responsive and Biologically Active Surfactants in Complex Droplets. Giant, 13, 100134. doi:10.1016/j.giant.2022.100134
  • Durkin, T. J., Barua, B., Holmstrom, J. J., Karanikola, V., & Savagatrup, S. (2023). Functionalized Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Complex Emulsions for Selective Sensing of Dissolved Metals at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. Langmuir, 39, 12845-12854.
  • Trinh, V., Savagatrup, S., Malloy, C. S., Gadh, A., & Durkin, T. J. (2022). Detection of PFAS and Fluorinated Surfactants Using Differential Behaviors at Interfaces of Complex Droplets.. ACS sensors, 7(5), 1514-1523. doi:10.1021/acssensors.2c00257
  • Durkin, T. J., Barua, B., & Savagatrup, S. (2021). Rapid Detection of Sepsis: Recent Advances in Biomarker Sensing Platforms. ACS omega, 6(47), 31390-31395.
  • Fernandez, A., Zentner, C. A., Shivrayan, M., Samson, E., Savagatrup, S., Zhuang, J., Swager, T. M., & Thayumanavan, S. (2020). Programmable Emulsions via Nucleophile-Induced Covalent Surfactant Modifications. Chemistry of Materials, 32(11), 4663-4671.
  • Koo, W., Kim, Y., Kim, S., Suh, B. L., Savagatrup, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., Swager, T. M., & Kim, I. (2020). Hydrogen Sensors from Composites of Ultra-small Bimetallic Nanoparticles and Porous Ion-Exchange Polymers. Chem, 6(10), 2746 - 2758.
  • Li, J., Savagatrup, S., Nelson, Z., Yoshinaga, K., & Swager, T. M. (2020). Fluorescent Janus emulsions for biosensing of Listeria monocytogenes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(22), 11923-11930.
  • Savagatrup, S., Ma, D., Zhong, H., Harvey, K. S., Kimerling, L. C., Agarwal, A. M., & Swager, T. M. (2020). Dynamic Complex Emulsions as Amplifiers for On-Chip Photonic Cavity-Enhanced Resonators. ACS Sensors, 5(7), 1996-2002. doi:10.1021/acssensors.0c00399
  • Savagatrup, S., Ma, D., Zhong, H., Harvey, K. S., Kimerling, L. C., Agarwal, A. M., & Swager, T. M. (2020). Dynamic Complex Emulsions as Amplifiers for On-Chip Photonic Cavity-Enhanced Resonators. ACS sensors, 5(7), 1996-2002.
  • Choi, S. J., Savagatrup, S., Kim, Y., Lang, J. H., & Swager, T. M. (2019). Precision pH Sensor Based on WO Nanofiber-Polymer Composites and Differential Amplification. ACS sensors, 4(10), 2593-2598.
  • Jeon, I., Peeks, M. D., Savagatrup, S., Zeininger, L., Chang, S., Thomas, G., Wang, W., & Swager, T. M. (2019). Janus Graphene: Scalable Self-Assembly and Solution-Phase Orthogonal Functionalization. ADVANCED MATERIALS, 31(21).
  • Koo, W., Kim, Y., Savagatrup, S., Yoon, B., Jeon, I., Choi, S., Kim, I., & Swager, T. M. (2019). Porous Ion Exchange Polymer Matrix for Ultrasmall Au Nanoparticle-Decorated Carbon Nanotube Chemiresistors. CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 31(15), 5413-5420.
  • Lin, C., Zeininger, L., Savagatrup, S., & Swager, T. M. (2019). Morphology-Dependent Luminescence in Complex Liquid Colloids. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 141(9), 3802-3806.
  • Schroeder, V., Evans, E. D., Wu, Y. M., Voll, C. A., McDonald, B. R., Savagatrup, S., & Swager, T. M. (2019). Chemiresistive Sensor Array and Machine Learning Classification of Food. ACS SENSORS, 4(8), 2101-2108.

Awards

  • Outstanding Faculty at the Student Interface
    • University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Spring 2023
    • University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Spring 2021
    • University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Spring 2020
  • Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (ARO YIP) Award
    • Department of Defense, Spring 2021