Publications – Nanoscience Initiative

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A.M. Wong, D.J. Valles, C. Carbonell, C.L. Chambers, A.Y. Rozenfeld, R.W. Aldasooky, and A.B. Braunschweig, Controlled-Height Brush Polymer Patterns via Surface-Initiated Thiol-Methacrylate Photopolymerizations, ACS Macro Lett., 2019, 8, 1474.

D.J. Valles, Y. Naeem, A.Y. Rozenfeld, R.W. Aldasooky, A.M. Wong, C. Carbonell, D.R. Mootoo, and A.B. Braunschweig, Multivalent binding of concanavalin A on variable-density mannoside microarrays, Faraday Discuss., 2019.

A. Levine, S. Biswas, and A.B. Braunschweig, Photoactive Organic Material Discovery with Combinatorial Supramolecular Assembly, Nanoscale Adv., 2019.

X. Liu, M, Kumar, A. Calò, E. Albisetti, X. Zheng, K. Manning, E. Elacqua, M. Weck, R.V. Ulijn, and E. Riedo, Sub-10 nm Resolution Patterning of Pockets for Enzymes Immobilization with Independent Density and Quasi-3D Topography Control, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, in press.

R.V. Ulijn, and A. Lampel, Order/Disorder in Protein and Peptide-Based Biomaterials, Isr. J. Chem., 2019, in press.

Publications Archives

2020

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2019

Zheng, A. Calò, E. Albisetti, X. Liu, A.S.M. Alharbi, G. Arefe, X.i Liu, M. Spieser, W.J. Yoo, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. Aruta, A. Ciarrocchi, A. Kis, B.S. Lee, M. Lipson, J. Hone, D. Shahrjerdi, and E. Riedo, Patterning metal contacts on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers using thermal nanolithography, Nature Electronics, 2019, 2, 17–25.

K. Palanichamy, A. Joshi, T. Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz, M. F. Bravo, M. Shlain, F. Schiro, Y. Naeem, H. Garg, and A.B. Braunschweig, Anti-Zika Activity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00142.

J. Son, D. Kalafatovic, M. Kumar, B. Yoo, M.A. Cornejo, M. Contel, and R.V. Ulijn, Customizing Morphology, Size, and Response Kinetics of Matrix Metalloproteinase-Responsive Nanostructures by Systematic Peptide Design, ACS Nano., 2019, 13, 1555-1562.

X. Liu, M. Kumar, A. Calo, E. Albisetti, X. Zheng, K.B. Manning, E. Elacqua, M. Weck, R.V. Ulijn and E. Riedo, High-throughput Enzyme Nanopatterning, Faraday Discuss., 2019, in press.

A. Levine, C. Schierl, B. Basel, M. Ahmed, B. Carmago, D. Guldi, A.B. Braunschweig, Singlet Fission in Combinatorial DiketopyrrolopyrroleRylene Supramolecular Films, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2019, 123, 1587.

S. Debnath, S. Roy, Y.M. Abul-Haija, P. Frederix, S. Ramalhete, A. Hirst, N. Javid, N. Hunt. S. Kelly, J. Angulo, Y. Khimyak, and R.V. Ulijn, Tunable Supramolecular Gels by Varying Thermal History, Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 7881-7887.

D. Kroiss, J.M. Aramini, S.A. McPhee, T. Tuttle, and R.V. Ulijn, Unbiased Discovery of Dynamic Peptide-ATP Complexes, ChemSysChem, 2019, in press.

D.J. Valles, Y. Naeem, C. Carbonell, A.M. Wong, D.R. Mootoo, and A.B. Braunschweig, Maskless Photochemical Printing of Multiplexed Glycan Microarrays for High-Throughput Binding Studies, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2019, 5, 3131

N.K. Wijerathne, M. Kumar, and R.V. Ulijn, Fmoc-dipeptide/Porphyrin Molar Ratio Dictates Energy Transfer Efficiency in Nanostructures Produced by Biocatalytic Coassembly, Chem. Eur. J., 2019, in press.

D. Kroiss, G. Ashkenasy, A.B. Braunschweig, T. Tuttle, and R. Ulijn, Catalyst: Can Systems Chemistry Unravel the Mysteries of the Chemical Origins of Life?, Chem, 2019, in press.

2018

A Multifunctional Microfluidic Platform for Generation, Trapping and Release of Droplets in a Double Laminar Flow
Maria Pilar Carreras and Sihong Wang
Journal of Biotechnology, 2017, 251, 106-111
Downregulation of HSP70 Impairs Osteogenic and Chondrogenic Differentiation in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Chenghai Li, Kristifor Sunderic, Steven B. Nicoll, Sihong Wang
Scientific Reports, 2018
Lavini, A. Calò, Y. Gao, E. Albisetti, T.-D. Li, T. Cao, G. Li, L. Cao, C. Aruta and E. Riedo, Friction and work function oscillatory behavior for even and odd number of layers in polycrystalline MoS2, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 8304-8312.
M.P. Conte, J.K. Sahoo, Y.M. Abul-Haija, K.H.A. Lau and R.V. Ulijn, Biocatalytic Self-Assembly on Magnetic Nanoparticles, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 3069-3075.
Carbonell, D.J. Valles, A.M. Wong, M.W. Tsui, M. Niang and A.B. Braunschweig, Massively Multiplexed Tip-Based Photochemical Lithography under Continuous Capillary Flow, CHEM., 2018.
Panettieri and R.V. Ulijn, Energy Landscaping in Supramolecular Materials, Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 2018, 51, 9-18.
Narayan, S. Gupta, A. Bhaumik, R. Sachan, F. Cellini and E. Riedo, Q-carbon harder than diamond, MRS Communications, 2018, 1-9.
Cellini, F. Lavini, T. Cao, W. de Heer, C. Berger, A. Bongiorno and Riedo, Epitaxial two-layer graphene under pressure: Diamene stiffer than Diamond, FlatChem, 2018, 10, 8-13.
Bieling, S. Hansen, O. Akin, T.-D. Li, D.A. Fletcher and R.D. Mullins, WH2 and proline-rich domains of WASP-family proteins collaborate to accelerate actin filament elongation, EMBO, 2018, 38, 102-121.
Kumar, N.L. Ing, V. Narang, N. Wijerathne, A.I. Hochbaum and R.V. Ulijn, Amino Acid-Encoded Biocatalytic Self-Assembly Enables the Formation of Transient Conducting Nanostructures, Nat. Chem., 2018, 10, 696-703.
V.A. Zarubin, T.-D. Li, S. Humagain, H. Ji, K.G. Yager, S.G. Greenbaum and L.T. Vuong, Improved Anisotropic Thermoelectric Behavior of PEDOT:PSS via Magnetophoresis, ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 12554-12561
Albisetti, D. Petti, G. Sala, R. Silvani, S. Tacchi, S. Finizio, S. Wintz, A. Calò, X. Zheng, J. Raabe, E. Riedo and R. Bertacco, Nanoscale spin-wave circuits based on engineered reconfigurable spin-textures, Communications Physics Nature Research, 2018, 1(1), 56.
Lampel, R.V. Ulijn and T. Tuttle, Guiding Principles for Peptide Nanotechnology Through Directed Discovery,Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 3737-3758.
Albisetti, A. Calò, M. Spieser, A.W. Knoll, E. Riedo and D. Petti, Stabilization and control of topological magnetic solitons via nanoscale patterning of the exchange bias, Applied Physics Letters, 2018, 113(16), 162401.
Palanichamy, M.F. Bravo, M. Shlain, F. Schiro, Y. Naeem and A.B. Braunschweig, Binding Studies on a Library of InducedFit Carbohydrate Receptors with Mannoside Selectivity, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2018.
S.A. Dragulska, Y. Chen, M.T. Wlodarczyk, M. Poursharifi, P. Dottino∥, R.V. Ulijn, J.A. Martignetti and A.J. Mieszawska, Tripeptide-Stabilized Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsion of an Oleic Acids–Platinum(II) Conjugate as an Anticancer Nanomedicine, Bioconj. Chem., 2018, in press.
Gao, T. Cao, F. Cellini, C. Berger, W.A. de Heer, E. Tosatti, E. Riedo and A. Bongiorno, Ultrahard carbon film from epitaxial two-layer graphene, Nature Nanotechnology, 2018, doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0023-9.

2017

Lampel, Scott A. McPhee, H.-A. Park, G.G. Scott, S. Humagain, D.R. Hekstra, B. Yoo, P.W.J.M. Frederix, T.-D. Li, R.R. Abzalimov, S.G. Greenbaum, T. Tuttle, C. Hu, C.J. Bettinger and R.V. Ulijn, Polymeric Peptide Pigments with Sequence-encoded Properties, Science, 2017, 356, 1064.
C. Zhang, R. Shafi, A. Lampel, D. MacPherson, C. Pappas, V. Narang, T. Wang, C. Maldarelli and R.V. Ulijn, Switchable Hydrolase Based on Reversible Formation of Supramolecular Catalytic Site Using a Self-Assembling Peptide, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56(46), 14511-14515.
M.P. Conte, K.H.A. Lau and R.V. Ulijn, Biocatalytic Self-assembly Using Reversible and Irreversible Enzyme Immobilization, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 3266.
J.K. Sahoo, C.G. Pappas, I.R. Sasselli, Y.M. Abul-Haija and R.V. Ulijn, Biocatalytic Self-Assembly Cascades, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 6828.
I.P. Moreira, T.K. Piskorz, J.H. van Esch, T. Tuttle and R.V. Ulijn, Biocatalytic Self-Assembly of Tripeptide Gels and Emulsions, Langmuir, 2017, 33, 4986.
Wang, L. Cui, S. Debnath, Q. Dong, X. Yan, X. Zhang, R.V. Ulijn and S. Bai, Tuning Supramolecular Structure and Functions of Peptide bola-Amphiphile by Solvent Evaporation-Dissolution, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 21390.
Albisetti, D. Petti, M. Madami, S. Tacchi, P. Vavassori, E. Riedo and R. Bertacco, Nanopatterning spin-textures: A route to reconfigurable magnonics, AIP Advances, 2017, 7 (5), 055601.
Hussain, A.T.S. Semeano, S.I.C.J. Palma, A.S. Pina, J. Almeida, B.F. Medrado, A.C.C.S. Pádua, A.L. Carvalho, M. Dionísio; R.W.C. Li, H. Gamboa, R.V. Ulijn, J. Gruber and A.C.A. Roque, Tunable Gas Sensing Gels by Cooperative Assembly, Adv. Func. Mater., 2017, 27, 1700803.
L. Lambert, G. Goebrecht, S. De Leo, R. O’Connor, S. Nunez-Cruz, T.-D. Li, J. Yuan, M. Milone and L. Kam, Improving T Cell Expansion with a Soft Touch, Nano Letters, 2017, 17 (2), 821-826.
I.R. Sasselli, I.P. Moreira, R.V. Ulijn and T. Tuttle, Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal Disruptive Self-assembly in Dynamic Peptide Libraries, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 6541-6547.
E.V. Alakpa, J. Jayawarna, K.E.V. Burgess, C.C. West, B. Péault, R.V. Ulijn and M.J. Dalby, Improving Cartilage Phenotype from Differentiated Pericytes in Tunable Peptide Hydrogels, Sci. Rep., 2017, 7, 6895.
E.S. Burgie, A.N. Bussell, S.H. Lye, T. Wang, W. Hu, K.E. McLoughlin, E.L. Weber, H. Li and R.D. Vierstra, Photosensing and Thermosensing by Phytochrome B Require Both Proximal and Distal Allosteric Features within the Dimeric Photoreceptor, Sci. Rep., 2017, 7(1), 13648.
J.K. Sahoo, S. Roy, N. Javid, K.L. Duncan, L.A. Aitken and R.V. Ulijn, Pathway-dependent Gold Nanoparticle Formation by Biocatalytic Self-assembly, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 12330
A.H. Cavusoglu, X. Chen, P. Gentine and O. Sahin, Potential for natural evaporation as a reliable renewable energy resource, Nature Communications, 2017, 8, 617.
Y.M. Abul-Haija, G. Scott, J.K. Sahoo, T. Tuttle and R.V. Ulijn, Cooperative, Ion-sensitive Co-assembly of Tripeptide Hydrogels, Chem. Comm., 2017, 53, 9562.
C. Carbonell and A.B. Braunschweig, Toward 4DNanoprinting with Tip-Induced Organic surface Reactions, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017, 50, 190
Schoonen, K.S. van Esterik, Chunqiu Zhang, R.V. Ulijn, R.J.M. Nolte and J.C.M. van Hest, Alternative Application of an Affinity Purification Tag: Hexahistidines in Ester Hydrolysis, Sci. Rep., 2017, 7, 14772.

2016

G.G. Scott, P.J. McKnight, T. Tuttle and R.V. Ulijn. Tripeptide Emulsifiers. Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 1381-1386.
I. Ramos Sasselli, R.V. Ulijn and T. Tuttle. CHARMM Force Field Parameterization Protocol for Self-assembling Peptide Amphiphiles: The Fmoc Moiety. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 4659-4667.
X. Liu, C. Carbonell and A.B. Braunschweig. 4D Nanolithography Will Require Synergistic Advances in Surface Chemistry, Nanolithography, and Characterization. RSC Chemical Society Reviews, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00349d.
I. Pimentel Moreira, I. Ramos Sasselli, D. Cannon, M. Hughes, D.A. Lamprou, T. Tuttle and R.V. Ulijn. Enzymatically Activated Emulsions Stabilised by Interfacial Nanofibre Networks. Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 2623-2631.
I. Ramos Sasselli, P.J. Halling, R.V. Ulijn and T. Tuttle. Supramolecular Fibers in Gels Can be at Thermodynamic Equilibrium: A Simple Packing Model Reveals Preferential Fibril Formation Versus Crystallization. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 2661-2668.
E. Albisetti, K.M. Carroll, X. Lu, J.E. Curtis, D. Petti, R. Bertacco and E. Riedo. Thermochemical scanning probe lithography of protein gradients at the nanoscale. Nanotechnology, 2016, 27 (31), 315302.
J.K. Sahoo, N.M.S. Sirimuthu, A. Canning, M. Zelzer, D. Graham and R.V. Ulijn. Analysis of Enzyme-responsive Peptide Surfaces by Raman Spectroscopy. Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 4698-4701.
L.M. Smieska, Z. Li, D. Ley, A.B. Braunschweig and J.A. Marohn. Trap-clearing Spectroscopy in Perylene Diimide Derivatives. Chemistry of Materials, 2016.
D. Kalafatovic, M. Nobis, J. Son, K.I. Anderson and R.V. Ulijn. MMP-9 Triggered Self-assembly of Doxorubicin Nanofiber Depots Halts Tumor Growth. Biomaterials, 2016, 98, 192-202.
X. Liu, Y. Zheng, E. Khothari, S.R. Peurifoy, Y. Ji and A.B. Braunschweig. 4D Polymer Patterning Within a Massively Parallel Flow-Through Photochemical Reactor. Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 3229 – 3235
H.J. Anderson, J.K. Sahoo, R.V. Ulijn and M.J. Dalby. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate: Applying Biomaterials for Control of Stem Cell Behavior. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2016, 4, a38.
E. Albisetti, D. Petti, M. Pancaldi, M. Madami, S. Tacchi, J. Curtis, W.P. King, A. Papp, G. Csaba, W. Porod, P. Vavassori, E. Riedo and R. Bertacco. Nanopatterning reconfigurable magnetic landscapes via thermally assisted scanning probe lithography. Nature Nanotechnology, 2016, 11, 545-551.
J.N. Roberts, J.K. Sahoo, L.E. McNamara, K.V. Burgess, J. Yang, E.V. Alakpa, H.J. Anderson, J. Hay, L.-A. Turner, S.J. Yarwood, M. Zelzer, R.O.C. Oreffo, R.V. Ulijn and M.J. Dalby. Dynamic Surfaces for the Study of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Growth through Adhesion Regulation. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 6667-6679.
Y. Zhou, C.X. Guzman, L.C. Helguero-Kelley, C. Liu, S. Peurifoy, B. Captain and A.B. Braunschweig. Diketopyrrolopyrrole assembly into J-aggregates. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2016.
E.V. Alakpa, V. Jayawarna, A. Lampel, K.V. Burgess, C.C. West, S.C.J. Bakker, S. Roy, N. Javid, S. Fleming, D.A. Lamprou, J. Yang, A. Miller, A.J. Urquhart, P.W.J.M. Frederix, N.T. Hunt, B.Péault, R.V. Ulijn and M.J. Dalby. Tunable Supramolecular Hydrogels for Selection of Lineage-Guiding Metabolites in Stem Cell Cultures. Chem, 2016, 1, 298-319.
P. Bieling, T.-D. Li, J. Weichsel, R. McGorty, P. Jreij, B. Huang, D. A. Fletcher and R. D. Mullins, Force feedback controls motor activity and mechanical properties of self-assembling branched actin networks, Cell, 2016, 164, 115-127.
X. Liu, Y. Zheng, S.R. Peurifoy, E. Kothari and A.B. Braunschweig. Optimization of 4D Polymer Printing Within a Massively Parallel Flow-Through Photochemical Microreactor. Polymer Chemistry, 2016.
N. Singh, M. Kumar, J.F. Miravet, R.V. Ulijn and B. Escuder. Peptide-Based Molecular Hydrogels as Supramolecular Protein Mimics. Chem. Eur. J., 2016, in press.
F. Hong, S. Jiang, T. Wang, Y. Liu and H. Yan. Framework DNA Origami Nanostructures with Layered-Crossover Motifs. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55(41), 12832-12835.
Y. Zhu, C.J. Munro, M.J. Olszta, D.J. Edwards, A.B. Braunschweig, M.R. Knecht and N.D. Browning. Dose-Rate Controlled Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopic Mapping of the Metallic Components in a Biohybrid Nanosystem. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2016.
I. Ramos Sasselli, C.G. Pappas, E. Matthews, T. Wang, N. Hunt, R.V. Ulijn and T. Tuttle. Using Experimental and Computational Energy Equilibration to Understand Hierarchical Self-assembly of Fmoc-dipeptide Amphiphiles. Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 8307.
H. Shokri Kojori, H. Ji, Y. Paik, A.B. Braunschweig and S.J. Park. Monitoring Interfacial Lectin Binding With Nanomolar Sensitivity Using a Plasmon Field Effect Transistor. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 17357 – 17364
A. Gurarslan, S. Jiao, T.-D. Li, G. Li, Y. Yu, Y. Gao, E. Riedo, Z. Xu and L. Cao. Van der Waals Force Isolation of Monolayer MoS₂. Advanced Materials, 2016, 45, 10055–10060.
M.P. Conte, N. Singh, I.R. Sasselli, B. Escuder and R.V. Ulijn. Metastable Hydrogels from Aromatic Dipeptides. Chem Commun., 2016, 52, 13889.
X. Liu, C. Carbonell and A.B. Braunschweig. Towards Scanning Probe Lithography-Based 4D Nanoprinting by Advancing Surface Chemistry, Nanopatterning Strategies, and Characterization Protocols. Chemical Society Reviews, 2016, 45, 6289.
C.G. Pappas, R. Shafi, I.R. Sasselli, H. Siccardi, T. Wang, V. Narang, R. Abzalimov, N. Wijerathne and R.V. Ulijn. Dynamic Peptide Libraries for the Discovery of Supramolecular Nanomaterials. Nat. Nanotechnol., 2016.
K.M. Carroll, H. Wolf, A.W. Knoll, J.E. Curtis, Y. Zhang, S.R. Marder, E. Riedo and U. Deurig. Understanding How Charged Nanoparticles Electrostatically Assemble and Distribute in 1-D. Langmuir, 2016, 32 (51), 13600-13610.