Graduate student in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)

M.S. in Chemistry, Rice University (2021-2023)

B.S. in Biochemistry, University of New Mexico (2021)

Research Interests

My current research interests include understanding the emission of carbon nanomaterials, such as carbon quantum dots and graphene carbon dots, through the utilization of single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.

Publications

1. E. Gomez, Z. Bian, T. Chatterjee, S. Adhikari, S. Nie, M. Gruebele. S. Link, Single-Particle Emission Microscopy of Green-Emitting Carbon Dots Made from Top-Down and Bottom-Up Precursors, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 17, 1, 222–229 (2026).
2. H. Oh, S. Chatterjee, Z. Jia, E. Gomez, S. A. Lee, J. Lin, O. Verma, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Plasmonic pathway to hybrid nanomaterials through energy transfer, Sci. Adv. 11, eady7016 (2025).
3. Z. Bian, E. Gomez, J. Ren, T. Chatterjee, H. Yang, C. M. Schroeder, S. Nie, S. Link, M. Gruebele, Ultrathin Atomically Flat Gold Film for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Langmuir, 41, 25, 16000–16008 (2025).
4. E. Gomez, A. Mehmood, Z. Bian, S. A. Lee, L. J. Tauzin, S. Adhikari, M. Gruebele, B. G. Levine, S. Link, Single-Particle Correlated Imaging Reveals Multiple Chromophores in Carbon Dot Fluorescence, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 21, 17784–17794 (2025).
5. Z. Bian, E. Gomez, M. Gruebele, B. G. Levine, S. Link, A. Mehmood, S. Nie, Bottom-up Carbon Dots: Purification, Single-Particle Dynamics, and Electronic Structure. Chem. Sci., 10.1039.D4SC05843G (2025).
6. Z. Bian, A. Wallum, A. Mehmood, E. Gomez, Z. Wang, S. Pandit, S. Nie, S. Link, B. G. Levine, and M. Gruebele, Properties of Carbon Dots versus Small Molecules from “Bottom-up” Synthesis, ACS Nano, 17, 22, 22788–22799 (2023).
7. E. K. Searles, E. Gomez, S. A. Lee, B. Ostovar, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Single-Particle Photoluminescence and Dark-Field Scattering during Charge Density Tuning, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 2, 318–325 (2023).