Tedrick Lew

Education

• PhD (Chemical Engineering): MIT, 2020
• M.S. (Chemical Engineering): MIT, 2018
• M.Eng. (Chemical Engineering): Imperial College London, 2014

Companies

• Adjunct Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2021)
• Scientist Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) (2020)
• Research Engineer Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (2014 — 2015)
• DAAD-RISE Research Intern Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / University of Karlsruhe (TH) (2013 — 2013)
• Summer Research Intern Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre (2012 — 2012)
• Summer Research Intern Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (2011 — 2011)

Research Interests

• Plant Nanotechnology
• Gene and Biomolecule Delivery
• Biosensing
• Programmable Nanomaterials

Selected Publications

T.T.S. Lew, K.M.M. Aung, S.Y. Ow, S.N. Amrun, L. Sutarlie, L.F.P. Ng, X. Su. Epitope-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Rapid and Selective Detection of SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibodies. ACS Nano (2021) DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c04091

T.T.S. Lew, M. Park, J. Cui, M.S. Strano. Plant nanobionic sensors for arsenic detection. Advanced Materials (2021) 33, 2005683

T.T.S. Lew, M.S. Strano, et al. Species-independent analytical tools for next-generation agriculture. Nature Plants (2020) 6, 1408-1417

T.T.S. Lew, M.S. Strano, et al. Real-time detection of wound-induced H2O2 wave in plants using optical nanosensors. Nature Plants (2020) 6, 404-415

S.Y. Kwak*, T.T.S. Lew*, M.S. Strano, et al. Chloroplast-selective gene delivery and expression in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers. Nature Nanotechnology (2019) 14, 447-455