Joel F. Destino, PhD

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• ACS Symposium Series
  Destino Joel F., etal Analytical Chemistry in Context [Book Chapter] 2022

Articles

• Destino Joel F., etal Hands-on experiences for remotely taught analytical chemistry laboratories 2021

Publications

• Analytical chemistry (Washington)
  Grinias James P, etal The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards Program: Honoring Our Recent Awardees 2025
• JU open plus
  Malhotra Claire S., etal Optimal Filling Solution for the Double-Balloon Urinary Catheter: A Laboratory Analysis
  3:6 2025
• AAPS PharmSciTech
  Paul Sagar Kumar, etal Design, Development, and Characterization of High Drug-Loaded Drug-Drug-Polymer Ternary Amorphous Solid Dispersions
  26:5, p. 125 2025
• Journal of sol-gel science and technology
  Murthi Monisha, etal Correction to: Sol-gel technologies for additive manufacturing glass materials 2025
• Applied spectroscopy practica
  Nguyen Tim, etal A Portable, Spectroscope-Inspired Three-Dimensionally Printed Smartphone Spectrophotometer
  3:1 2025
• MRS bulletin
  Banerjee Sarbajit, etal Correction: Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials 2025
• MRS bulletin
  Banerjee Sarbajit, etal Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials 2025
• Journal of sol-gel science and technology
  Murthi Monisha, etal Sol-gel technologies for additive manufacturing glass materials 2025
• Journal of chemical education
  Gross Erin M., etal Glowing Gelatin Dessert: An In-Class Spectroscopy Activity 2024
• Journal of chemical education
  Destino Joel F., etal Students' Attitudes on Remote-Flexible Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Experiments during COVID-19 2022
• ACS Omega
  Chinn Alexandra C., etal Silica-Encapsulated Germania Colloids as 3D-Printable Glass Precursors 2022
• Journal of chemical education
  Destino Joel F., etal At-Home Colorimetric and Absorbance-Based Analyses
  97:9, p. 2960 - 2966 2020
• Applied Optics
  Suratwala T., etal Sapphire advanced mitigation process
  59:6, p. 1602 - 1610 2020
• ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
  Sasan Koroush, etal Additive Manufacturing of Optical Quality Germania-Silica Glasses
  12:5, p. 6736 - 6741 2020
• Optical Engineering
  Suratwala Tayyab I., etal Subsurface mechanical damage correlations after grinding of various optical materials
  58:9 2019
• Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  Suratwala Tayyab, etal Influence of partial charge on the material removal rate during chemical polishing
  102:4, p. 1566 - 1578 2019
• Destino J, etal Preparation of sol-gel GeO2 and GeO2-SiO2 nanoparticles for use in 3D printed optics 2019
• ACS Applied Nano Materials
  Dudukovic Nikola A., etal Predicting Nanoparticle Suspension Viscoelasticity for Multimaterial 3D Printing of Silica-Titania Glass
  1:8, p. 4038 - 4044 2018
• Advanced Materials Technologies
  Destino Joel F., etal 3D Printed Optical Quality Silica and Silica-Titania Glasses from Sol-Gel Feedstocks
  3:6, p. 1870024 - 1870024 2018
• Advanced Materials Technologies
  Destino Joel F., etal 3D Printed Optical Quality Silica and Silica–Titania Glasses from Sol–Gel Feedstocks
  3:6 2018
• Biointerphases
  Gatley-Montross Caitlyn M., etal Multivariate analysis of attachment of biofouling organisms in response to material surface characteristics
  12:5 2017
• Advanced materials (Weinheim)
  Nguyen Du T., etal 3D Printing: 3D‐Printed Transparent Glass (Adv. Mater. 26/2017)
  29:26, p. - n/a 2017
• Advanced Materials
  Nguyen Du T., etal 3D-Printed Transparent Glass
  29:26 2017
• Langmuir
  Destino Joel F., etal Three-Dimensional pH Mapping within Model Hybrid Xerogel Thin Films
  33:17, p. 4119 - 4128 2017
• Materials Letters
  Destino Joel F., etal Robust pH-responsive group IV metal oxide functionalized porous silicon platforms
  181, p. 47 - 51 2016
• Langmuir
  Destino Joel F., etal Hybrid Sol-Gel-Derived Films That Spontaneously Form Complex Surface Topographies
  32:39, p. 10113 - 10119 2016
• Materials Research Express
  Taheri Payam, etal Growth mechanism of largescale MoS2 monolayer by sulfurization of MoO3 film
  3:7 2016
• Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  Friesen William L., etal Two-Dimensional Graphene as a Matrix for MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
  26:11, p. 1963 - 1966 2015
• Applied Spectroscopy
  Vinci John C., etal Spectroscopic characteristics of carbon dots (C-dots) derived from carbon fibers and conversion to sulfur-bridged C-dots nanosheets
  69:9, p. 1082 - 1090 2015
• Langmuir
  Destino Joel F., etal Probing nanoscale chemical segregation and surface properties of antifouling hybrid xerogel films
  31:11, p. 3510 - 3517 2015

Grants

• Developing Luminescent Chemical Sensors for the Detection of Abiogenic Hydrocarbons/Sponsor: University of Nebraska at Omaha/UNO

• Investigating Particle Growth and the Glass-Forming Properties of Single Composition and Hybrid Oxide Colloids/Sponsor: Research Corporation for Science Advancement

• Through the Looking Glass: Elucidating the Chemistry of Bottom-Up Silica-Germania Glasses and Educational Plans to Connect Two Worlds/Sponsor: University of Nebraska, Lincoln/UNL

• NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship FY21 CU Bursott/Sponsor: University of Nebraska at Omaha/UNO

• Microflex LRF Maldi-TOF System/Sponsor: State of Nebraska - LB692

• CAREER: An Investigation of Sol-gel-derived Hybrid Colloids for New Silica-Germania Glasses/Sponsor: National Science Foundation/NSF

• NASA FY23 Fellowship CU Luna/Sponsor: University of Nebraska at Omaha/UNO

• NASA Felowship (Tobin) FY24 CU - Destino/Sponsor: University of Nebraska at Omaha/UNO

• Chemistry and Application of Novel Glass Nanoparticles/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

Awards

• CAREER Award
  PI
  The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
  National Science Foundation
• Outreach Volunteer of the Year
  To recognize the immeasurable efforts made by ACS local section and international chapter volunteers who conduct outreach and teach the public about chemistry.
  American Chemical Society
• Cottrell Scholar Award
  The Cottrell Scholar Award honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcomes.
  Research Corporation for the Advancement of Science
• IGGY Award
  Creighton University