Bio

Dr. McCord is currently a professor with appointments in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry, and Science at North Carolina State University, the Joint UNC/NCSU Department of Biomedical Engineering, and is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, as well as a Master of Science in Bioengineering and a Ph.D. in Textiles and Polymer Science both from Clemson University. She joined the faculty of the College of Textiles at NC State in 1994 and leads NC State’s Global Health Initiative.

Publications

• Mosquito Blood Feeding Prevention Using an Extra-Low DC Voltage Charged Cloth , Insects (2023)
• Novel 3-D Spacer Textiles to Protect Crops from Insect Infestation and That Enhance Plant Growth , Agriculture (2022)
• Mosquito-Textile Physics: A Mathematical Roadmap to Insecticide-Free, Bite-Proof Clothing for Everyday Life , Insects (2021)
• Highly tunable bioadhesion and optics of 3D printable PNIPAm/cellulose nanofibrils hydrogels , Carbohydrate Polymers (2020)
• New Mosquitocide Derived From Volcanic Rock , Journal of Medical Entomology (2020)
• Sustainable atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment of cellulose triacetate (CTA) films for electronics , Journal of Applied Physics (2020)
• Transparent and high barrier plasma functionalized acrylic coated cellulose triacetate films , Progress in Organic Coatings (2020)
• Auxetic deformation of the weft-knitted Miura-ori fold , Textile Research Journal (2019)
• Fabric infused with a botanical repellent for protection against mosquitoes , The Journal of The Textile Institute (2019)
• Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Grafting of a Vinyl-Quaternary Compound to Nonwoven Polypropylene and Cotton , Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics (2018)