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Last update: 23/10/2025
 
Name:
Jeff Surname:  Coffer
Institution: Texas Christian University
Type of Institution: University
ORCID number: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0267-9646
Country: United States
WEB address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Working groups of interest
-WG1 - Advances in Porous Materials and Technologies
-WG2 - Health
-WG3 - Energy
Keywords
- Energy
- Health
- Mesopores
- Nanopores
- Porous Semiconductors
Research field (Free keywords) Drug delivery, porous silicon, silicon nanotubes
Materials/technologies
- Porous Silicon
- Porous Hydrogels
- Mesoporous silicas
Scientific expertise eco-friendly synthesis of porous semiconductors; porous nanotube formation via sacrificial templating; porous silicon / polymer composites
Capabilities silicon nanotube array fabrication; plant-based porous Si fabrication reactors; microstructural characterization (SEM, TEM, XRD); electrospinning
Relevant publications
(6 max.)
Porous silicon nanotube bundles as nanocarriers for small interfering RNA delivery, NT Le, GR Akkaraju, JL Coffer, Nano Select, 2024, e2300111.
Biogenic Nanostructured Porous Silicon as a Carrier for Stabilization and Delivery of Natural Therapeutic Species, Nguyen T Le, Jhansi R. Kalluri, Armando Loni, Leigh T. Canham, and Jeffery L. Coffer, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2017, 14, DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00638
Porous Silicon Nanotube Arrays as Anode Material for Li-Ion Batteries, Alexander T. Tesfaye, Roberto Gonzalez, Jeffery L. Coffer, Thierry Djenizian, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 20495-20498.
Fabrication and Size Dependent Properties of Porous Silicon Nanotube Arrays,"Xuezhen Huang, Roberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Ryan Rich, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Jeffery L Coffer, Chem Comm, 2013, 49, 5760-5762.
Manufacture of Mesoporous Silicon from Living Plants and Agricultural Waste: An Environmentally Friendly and Scalable Process, Luke Batchelor, Armando Loni, Leigh T. Canham, Mirza Hasan, and Jeffery L. Coffer, Silicon, 2012, 4, 259-266.
Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of a Nanostructured Silicon – Perovskite Interface. Roberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Viviana Costa, Geraud Delport, Kyle Frohna, Robert L Z Hoye, Samuel D Stranks, Jeffery L Coffer, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 4498-4505.
Projects
(3 max.)
Drug Delivery / Therapies using Silicon Nanotube Arrays
Eco-friendly Routes to Porous Silicon and Related Semiconductors
Nanotubes as Templates for Fabricating Other Semiconductor Nanostructures
Technology transfer /
Patents (3 max.)
“Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Nanowires”, Jeffery L. Coffer, US Patent 7.,442,575 B2.
“Orthopaedic Scaffolds For Tissue Engineering”, Jeffery L. Coffer, Leigh T. Canham, and Priyabrata Mukherjee, International patent WO/2003/101504, published December 11, 2003
“Method For Fabricating Calcium Phosphate Films on Silicon”, Jeffery L. Coffer, US Patent No. 6,569,292, assigned May 27, 2003.
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