Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and colleagues have been acknowledged for their paper, "Detection and Spatial Mapping of Mercury Contamination in Water Samples Using a Smart-Phone." It was recognized as an American Chemical Society (ACS) Editors' Choice.

Ozcan is also the associate director of the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute. He holds 22 issued patents (all of which are licensed) and more than 15 pending patent applications for his inventions in nanoscopy, wide-field imaging, lensless imaging, nonlinear optics, fiber optics and optical coherence tomography. He gave more than 200 invited talks and is also the author of a book and the co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and for conferences. In addition, he is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Holomic LLC.

The findings have also been featured in Nature and Chemical and Engineering News this week. The paper is available here.