Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles
Alexander Yohanna
Honors Project: Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles and their Application in Detection of Lead (II) in Water Samples
Honors Course: Honors General College Chemistry I
Instructor: Zoran Miodragovic
My name is Alexander Yohanna, and I just finished my first year at Oakton as a Biology and Psychology major. I am a pre-medical student interested in practicing surgery following my completion of medical school. I currently intern at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine as a Research Assistant under Dr. David Victorson, PhD, so I am a little familiar with research. I am the Vice President of Fellowship for the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, the President of the Habitat for Humanity club, and will fulfill my honors designation after the Fall 2026 semester. My plan is to transfer to either Notre Dame or Northwestern University following the completion of my associates.
The project Prof. Miodragovic and I worked on was focused on Gold Nanoparticles and how they react with Lead 2+ ions through UV-Vis spectrometry. We prepared the particles and monitored their reactions with different amounts of the solution as well as different sizes of the nanoparticles. We conducted this project in accordance with scholarly articles to compare our results to theirs.
