Joel F. Destino, PhD
Associate Professor
Contact
College of Arts and Sciences
Chemistry
Biochemistry
Chemistry Faculty
RGSB - Rigge Science Building - 214
Joel F. Destino, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus
- Spectroscopic Imaging and Analysis
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Luminescence-Based Chemical Sensors
- Sol-Gel Materials
- Luminescent Materials
- Optical Materials
- 3D Printable Materials
Department
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- ACS Symposium Series
Destino Joel F., Gray Sarah E., Gross Erin M., Riley Kathryn R., Analytical Chemistry in Context [Book Chapter] 2022
Articles
- Destino Joel F., Gross Erin M., Niemeyer Emily D., Petrovic Steven C., Hands-on experiences for remotely taught analytical chemistry laboratories 2021
Publications
- Analytical chemistry (Washington)
Grinias James P, Garcia Benjamin A, Phinney Karen W, Destino Joel F, The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards Program: Honoring Our Recent Awardees 2025 - JU open plus
Malhotra Claire S., Vinayak Sankalp, Wieland Clare M., Thomsen Emma A., Palencia Peter S., Destino Joel F., Feloney Michael P., Optimal Filling Solution for the Double-Balloon Urinary Catheter: A Laboratory Analysis
3:6 2025 - AAPS PharmSciTech
Paul Sagar Kumar, Kumari Dunesh, Destino Joel, Chauhan Harsh, 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, Destino Joel F., Correction to: Sol-gel technologies for additive manufacturing glass materials 2025 - Applied spectroscopy practica
Nguyen Tim, Tobin Nick, Bournef Henry, Gross Erin M., Destino Joel F., A Portable, Spectroscope-Inspired Three-Dimensionally Printed Smartphone Spectrophotometer
3:1 2025 - MRS bulletin
Banerjee Sarbajit, Warner Jamie H., Graham-Brady Lori, Maruyama Benji, Rajan Krishna, Taheri Mitra L., Kalinin Sergei V., Reeja-Jayan B., Brown Craig M., Meng Y. Shirley, Schwarz Udo D., Simon Sindee L., Zaluzec Nestor J., Minor Andrew M., Zhang Minghao, Chan Maria K.Y., Seidler Gerald, McComb David W., Agar Joshua, Guiton Beth S., Mukherjee Partha P., Melot Brent, Chapman Karena, Klie Robert F., McCue Ian D., Voyles Paul M., Destino Joel F., Robertson Ian, Li Ling, Chi Miaofang, Devaraj Arun, Marquis Emmanuelle A., Segre Carlo U., Misra Amit, Liu Huinan H., Yang Judith C., Momeni Kasra, Abdolrahim Niaz, Medvedeva Julia E., Cai Wenjun, Mehta Apurva, Sehirlioglu Alp, Dizbay-Onat Melike, Correction: Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials 2025 - MRS bulletin
Banerjee Sarbajit, Zhang Minghao, Meng Y. Shirley, Minor Andrew M., Zaluzec Nestor J., Chan Maria K.Y., Seidler Gerald, McComb David W., Chapman Karena, Agar Joshua, Mukherjee Partha P., Melot Brent, Guiton Beth S., Klie Robert F., McCue Ian D., Voyles Paul M., Destino Joel F., Robertson Ian, Li Ling, Chi Miaofang, Devaraj Arun, Marquis Emmanuelle A., Segre Carlo U., Liu Huinan H., Abdolrahim Niaz, Yang Judith C., Momeni Kasra, Misra Amit, Medvedeva Julia E., Cai Wenjun, Sehirlioglu Alp, Dizbay-Onat Melike, Rajan Krishna, Mehta Apurva, Graham-Brady Lori, Maruyama Benji, Warner Jamie H., Taheri Mitra L., Kalinin Sergei V., Reeja-Jayan B., Schwarz Udo D., Simon Sindee L., Brown Craig M., Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials 2025 - Journal of sol-gel science and technology
Murthi Monisha, Destino Joel F., Sol-gel technologies for additive manufacturing glass materials 2025 - Journal of chemical education
Gross Erin M., Draney Adrian W., Destino Joel F., Grissom Jenny, Holdren Jacqueline S., Lewison Jackson P., Ohland Grace K., Glowing Gelatin Dessert: An In-Class Spectroscopy Activity 2024 - Journal of chemical education
Destino Joel F., Gross Erin M., Students' Attitudes on Remote-Flexible Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Experiments during COVID-19 2022 - ACS Omega
Chinn Alexandra C., Marsh Eric L., Nguyen Tim, Alhejaj Zackarea B., Butler Matthew J., Nguyen Bachtri T., Sasan Koroush, Dylla-Spears Rebecca J., Destino Joel F., Silica-Encapsulated Germania Colloids as 3D-Printable Glass Precursors 2022 - Journal of chemical education
Destino Joel F., Cunningham Katie, At-Home Colorimetric and Absorbance-Based Analyses
97:9, p. 2960 - 2966 2020 - Applied Optics
Suratwala T., Shen N., Laurence T., Aracne-Ruddle C., Miller P., Feit M., Ray N., Carr W., Rivers C., Greene W., Peters V., Jeppson S., Malone D., Wong L., Steele R., Destino J., Norton M., Sapphire advanced mitigation process
59:6, p. 1602 - 1610 2020 - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Sasan Koroush, Sawvel April M., Dudukovic Nikola, Nguyen Du T., Johnson Michael A., Herrera Oscar D., Yoo Jae Hyuck, Ellis Megan Elizabeth, Suratwala Tayyab, Mah Christopher M., Ryerson Rick, Wong Lana L., Destino Joel F., Dylla-Spears Rebecca, Yee Timothy D., Lange Andrew, Additive Manufacturing of Optical Quality Germania-Silica Glasses
12:5, p. 6736 - 6741 2020 - Optical Engineering
Suratwala Tayyab I., Steele William A., Wong Lana A., Tham Gary C., Destino Joel F., Miller Philip E., Ray Nathan J., Menapace Joseph A., Feigenbaum Eyal, Shen Nan, Feit Michael D., Subsurface mechanical damage correlations after grinding of various optical materials
58:9 2019 - Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Suratwala Tayyab, Steele Rusty, Miller Philip E., Wong Lana, Shen Nan, Feit Michael, Feigenbaum Eyal, Destino Joel F., Influence of partial charge on the material removal rate during chemical polishing
102:4, p. 1566 - 1578 2019 - Destino J, Vahle A, , Preparation of sol-gel GeO2 and GeO2-SiO2 nanoparticles for use in 3D printed optics 2019
- ACS Applied Nano Materials
Dudukovic Nikola A., Wong Lana L., Nguyen Du T., Destino Joel F., Yee Timothy D., Ryerson Frederick J., Suratwala Tayyab, Duoss Eric B., Dylla-Spears Rebecca, Predicting Nanoparticle Suspension Viscoelasticity for Multimaterial 3D Printing of Silica-Titania Glass
1:8, p. 4038 - 4044 2018 - Advanced Materials Technologies
Destino Joel F., Johnson Michael A., Dudukovic Nikola A., Nguyen Du T., Yee Timothy D., Egan Garth C., Sawvel April M., Suratwala Tayyab, Steele William A., Baumann Theodore F., Duoss Eric B., Dylla-Spears Rebecca, 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., Yee Timothy D., Dudukovic Nikola A., Johnson Michael A., Nguyen Du T., Baumann Theodore F., Egan Garth C., Sawvel April M., Steele William A., Duoss Eric B., Suratwala Tayyab, Dylla-Spears Rebecca, 3D Printed Optical Quality Silica and Silica–Titania Glasses from Sol–Gel Feedstocks
3:6 2018 - Biointerphases
Gatley-Montross Caitlyn M., Destino Joel F., Finlay John A., Aldred Nick, Cassady Harrison, Orihuela Beatriz, Hickner Michael A., Clare Anthony S., Rittschof Daniel, Holm Eric R., Detty Michael R., Multivariate analysis of attachment of biofouling organisms in response to material surface characteristics
12:5 2017 - Advanced materials (Weinheim)
Nguyen Du T., Duoss Eric B., Baumann Theodore F., Suratwala Tayyab, Zhu Cheng, Smay James E., Dylla-Spears Rebecca, Meyers Cameron, Yee Timothy D., Dudukovic Nikola A., Destino Joel F., 3D Printing: 3D‐Printed Transparent Glass (Adv. Mater. 26/2017)
29:26, p. - n/a 2017 - Advanced Materials
Nguyen Du T., Destino Joel F., Meyers Cameron, Yee Timothy D., Dudukovic Nikola A., Suratwala Tayyab, Zhu Cheng, Duoss Eric B., Baumann Theodore F., Smay James E., Dylla-Spears Rebecca, 3D-Printed Transparent Glass
29:26 2017 - Langmuir
Destino Joel F., Craft Andrew K., Bright Frank V., Three-Dimensional pH Mapping within Model Hybrid Xerogel Thin Films
33:17, p. 4119 - 4128 2017 - Materials Letters
Destino Joel F., Bright Frank V., Kraut Nadine D., Hargrave Lara E., Robust pH-responsive group IV metal oxide functionalized porous silicon platforms
181, p. 47 - 51 2016 - Langmuir
Destino Joel F., Zhang Yi, Jones Zachary R., Gatley Caitlyn M., Craft Andrew K., Detty Michael R., Bright Frank V., Hybrid Sol-Gel-Derived Films That Spontaneously Form Complex Surface Topographies
32:39, p. 10113 - 10119 2016 - Materials Research Express
Taheri Payam, Xing Hui, Destino Joel F., Arik Mumtaz Murat, Zhao Chuan, Kang Kaifei, Blizzard Brett, Zhang Lijie, Bright Frank V., Wang Jieqiong, Zhao Puqin, Huang Shaoming, Yang Sen, Cerne John, Zeng Hao, 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., Schultz Brian J., Destino Joel F., Alivio Theodore E.G., Steet Joseph R., Banerjee Sarbajit, Wood Troy D., Two-Dimensional Graphene as a Matrix for MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
26:11, p. 1963 - 1966 2015 - Applied Spectroscopy
Vinci John C., Destino Joel F., Ferrer Ivonne M., Guterry Nathan W., Colón Verónica M., Bright Frank V., Colón Luis A., 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., Gatley Caitlyn M., Craft Andrew K., Detty Michael R., Bright Frank V., 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