Eric Gomez

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. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).