2016 Publications

primary support | partial support | shared experimental facilities

Primary Support, 2016

  • Bradley, R.P. and Radhakrishnan, R. Curvature-undulation coupling as a basis for curvature sensing and generation in bilayer membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, E5117-E5124, doi:10.1073/pnas.1605259113 (2016).

  • Brown, Z., Iwanicki, M.J., Gratale, M.D., Ma, X.G., Yodh, A.G. and Habdas, P. Correlated rearrangements of disordered colloidal suspensions in the vicinity of the reentrant glass transition. Europhysics Letters (EPL) 115, 68003, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/115/68003 (2016).*

  • Bryan, J., Lu, E., Davami, K., Cortes, J., Lin, C., Lilley, D.E. and Bargatin, I. Two-layer plate mechanical metamaterials. Technical Digest of Hilton Head 2016: A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head, SC, June 5-9, 2016), 202-205 (2016).

  • Cargnello, M., Doan-Nguyen, V.V.T. and Murray, C.B. Engineering uniform nanocrystals: Mechanism of formation and self-assembly into bimetallic nanocrystal superlattices. AIChE Journal 62, 392-398, doi:10.1002/aic.15063 (2016).

  • Choi, J.-H., Wang, H., Oh, S.J., Paik, T., Sung, P., Sung, J., Ye, X., Zhao, T., Diroll, B.T., Murray, C.B. and Kagan, C.R. Exploiting the colloidal nanocrystal library to construct electronic devices. Science 352, 205-208, doi:10.1126/science.aad0371 (2016).

  • Collings, P.J., van der Asdonk, P., Martinez, A., Tortora, L. and Kouwer, P.H.J. Anchoring strength measurements of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal on rubbed polyimide surfaces. Liquid Crystals 44, 1165-1172, doi:10.1080/02678292.2016.1269372 (2016).*

  • Danielsen, S.P.O., Choi, J. and Composto, R.J. Retardation of shape change of Au nanorods using photo-cross-linkable ligands (Invited). Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Chemistry 54, 301-307, doi:10.1002/polb.23929 (2016).

  • Davami, K., Jiang, Y.J., Cortes, J., Lin, C., Shaygan, M., Turner, K.T. and Bargatin, I. Tuning the mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets through atomic layer deposition. Nanotechnology 27, 155701, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/27/15/155701 (2016).

  • Davami, K., Jiang, Y.J., Lin, C., Cortes, J., Robinson, J.T., Turner, K.T. and Bargatin, I. Modification of mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets via fluorination. RSC Advances 6, 11161-11166, doi:10.1039/c5ra25068d (2016).

  • Ferrier, R.C., Huang, Y., Ohno, K. and Composto, R.J. Dispersion of PMMA-grafted, mesoscopic iron-oxide rods in polymer films. Soft Matter 12, 2550-2556, doi:10.1039/c5sm02460a (2016).

  • Ferrier, R.C., Koski, J., Riggleman, R.A. and Composto, R.J. Engineering the assembly of gold nanorods in polymer matrices. Macromolecules 49, 1002-1015, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02317 (2016).

  • Glor, E.C. and Fakhraai, Z. Cooling rate dependent ellipsometry measurements to determine the dynamics of thin glassy films. JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments 107, e53499, doi:10.3791/53499 (2016).

  • Gratale, M.D., Ma, X.G., Davidson, Z.S., Still, T., Habdas, P. and Yodh, A.G. Vibrational properties of quasi-two-dimensional colloidal glasses with varying interparticle attraction. Physical Review E 94, 042606, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042606 (2016).*

  • Gratale, M.D., Still, T., Matyas, C., Davidson, Z.S., Lobel, S., Collings, P.J. and Yodh, A.G. Tunable depletion potentials driven by shape variation of surfactant micelles. Physical Review E 93, 050601, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.050601 (2016).*

  • Griffin, P.J., Salmon, G.B., Ford, J. and Winey, K.I. Predicting the solution morphology of a sulfonated pentablock copolymer in binary solvent mixtures. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Chemistry 54, 254-262, doi:10.1002/polb.23914 (2016).

  • Ho, M.S., Partridge, B.E., Sun, H.J., Sahoo, D., Leowanawat, P., Peterca, M., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Zeng, X.B., Ungar, G., Heiney, P.A., Hsu, C.S. and Percec, V. Screening libraries of semifluorinated arylene bisimides to discover and predict thermodynamically controlled helical crystallization. ACS Combinatorial Science 18, 723-739, doi:10.1021/acscombsci.6b00143 (2016).

  • Kunin, V., Yang, S., Cho, Y., Deymier, P. and Srolovitz, D.J. Static and dynamic elastic properties of fractal-cut materials. Extreme Mechanics Letters 6, 103-114, doi:10.1016/j.eml.2015.12.003 (2016).

  • Lee, E., Xia, Y., Ferrier, R.C., Kim, H.-N., Gharbi, M.A., Stebe, K.J., Kamien, R.D., Composto, R.J. and Yang, S. Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals. Advanced Materials 28, 2731-2736, doi:10.1002/adma.201506084 (2016).

  • Lefever, J.A., Jacobs, T.D.B., Tam, Q., Hor, J.L., Huang, Y.R., Lee, D. and Carpick, R.W. Heterogeneity in the small-scale deformation behavior of disordered nanoparticle packings. Nano Letters 16, 2455-2462, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05319 (2016).

  • Li, N., Sharifi-Mood, N., Tu, F., Lee, D., Radhakrishnan, R., Baumgart, T. and Stebe, K.J. Curvature-driven migration of colloids on tense lipid bilayers (100% MRSEC Support). Langmuir 33, 600-610, doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03406 (2016).*

  • Liarte, D.B., Stenull, O., Mao, X.M. and Lubensky, T.C. Elasticity of randomly diluted honeycomb and diamond lattices with bending forces. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 28, 165402, doi:10.1088/0953-8984/28/16/165402 (2016).

  • Liu, Q.K., Ackerman, P.J., Lubensky, T.C. and Smalyukh, II. Biaxial ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, 10479-10484, doi:10.1073/pnas.1601235113 (2016).

  • Luo, Q.J., Shi, Z., Zhang, Y.T., Chen, X.J., Han, S.Y., Baumgart, T., Chenoweth, D.M. and Park, S.J. DNA island formation on binary block copolymer vesicles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 10157-10162, doi:10.1021/jacs.6b04076 (2016).

  • Luo, Y.M., Serra, F., Beller, D.A., Gharbi, M.A., Li, N.W., Yang, S., Kamien, R.D. and Stebe, K.J. Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells. Physical Review E 93, 032705, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032705 (2016).

  • Luo, Y.M., Serra, F. and Stebe, K.J. Experimental realization of the “lock-and-key” mechanism in liquid crystals (COVER). Soft Matter 12, 6027-6032, doi:10.1039/c6sm00401f (2016).

  • Magagnosc, D.J., Chen, W., Kumar, G., Schroers, J. and Gianola, D.S. Thermomechanical behavior of molded metallic glass nanowires. Scientific Reports 6, 19530, doi:10.1038/srep19530 (2016).

  • Magagnosc, D.J., Feng, G., Yu, L., Cheng, X.M. and Gianola, D.S. Isochemical control over structural state and mechanical properties in Pd-based metallic glass by sputter deposition at elevated temperatures. APL Materials 4, 086104, doi:10.1063/1.4960388 (2016).

  • Malassis, L., Dreyfus, R., Murphy, R.J., Hough, L.A., Donnio, B. and Murray, C.B. One-step green synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles with ascorbic acid and their versatile surface post-functionalization. RSC Advances 6, 33092-33100, doi:10.1039/c6ra00194g (2016).

  • Malassis, L., Jishkariani, D., Murray, C.B. and Donnio, B. Dendronization-induced phase-transfer, stabilization and self-assembly of large colloidal Au nanoparticles. Nanoscale 8, 13192-13198, doi:10.1039/c6nr03404g (2016).

  • Naylor, C.H., Parkin, W.M., Ping, J.L., Gao, Z.L., Zhou, Y.R., Kim, Y., Streller, F., Carpick, R.W., Rappe, A.M., Drndic, M., Kikkawa, J.M. and Johnson, A.T.C. Monolayer single-crystal 1T ‘-MoTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition exhibits weak antilocalization effect. Nano Letters 16, 4297-4304, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01342 (2016).

  • Peterca, M., Imam, M.R., Hudson, S.D., Partridge, B.E., Sahoo, D., Heiney, P.A., Klein, M.L. and Percec, V. Complex arrangement of orthogonal nanoscale columns via a supramolecular orientational memory effect. ACS Nano 10, 10480-10488, doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b06419 (2016).

  • Pi, C.H. and Turner, K.T. Design, analysis, and characterization of stress-engineered 3D microstructures comprised of PECVD silicon oxide and nitride. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 26, 065010, doi:10.1088/0960-1317/26/6/065010 (2016).

  • Rieser, J.M., Goodrich, C.P., Liu, A.J. and Durian, D.J. Divergence of Voronoi cell anisotropy vector: A threshold-free characterization of local structure in amorphous materials. Physical Review Letters 116, 088001, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.088001 (2016).

  • Rocklin, D.Z., Chen, B.G.G., Falk, M., Vitelli, V. and Lubensky, T.C. Mechanical Weyl modes in topological Maxwell lattices. Physical Review Letters 116, 135503, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.135503 (2016).

  • Sahoo, D., Peterca, M., Aqad, E., Partridge, B.E., Heiney, P.A., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Zeng, X. and Percec, V. Tetrahedral arrangements of perylene bisimide columns via supramolecular orientational memory. ACS Nano 11, 983-991, doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b07599 (2016).

  • Sahoo, D., Peterca, M., Aqad, E., Partridge, B.E., Heiney, P.A., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Zeng, X.B. and Percec, V. Hierarchical self-organization of perylene bisimides into supramolecular spheres and periodic arrays thereof. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 14798-14807, doi:10.1021/jacs.6b09986 (2016).

  • Stenull, O., Kane, C.L. and Lubensky, T.C. Topological phonons and Weyl lines in three dimensions. Physical Review Letters 117, 068001, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.068001 (2016).

  • Sussman, D.M., Stenull, O. and Lubensky, T.C. Topological boundary modes in jammed matter. Soft Matter 12, 6079-6087, doi:10.1039/c6sm00875e (2016).

  • Tran, L., Lavrentovich, M.O., Beller, D.A., Li, N., Stebe, K.J. and Kamien, R.D. Lassoing saddle splay and the geometrical control of topological defects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, 7106-7111, doi:10.1073/pnas.1602703113 (2016).

  • Wei, W.S., Gharbi, M.A., Lohr, M.A., Still, T., Gratale, M.D., Lubensky, T.C., Stebe, K.J. and Yodh, A.G. Dynamics of ordered colloidal particle monolayers at nematic liquid crystal interfaces (Cover Article). Soft Matter 12, 4715-4724, doi:10.1039/c6sm00295a (2016).*

  • Wieder, B.J., Kim, Y., Rappe, A.M. and Kane, C.L. Double Dirac semimetals in three dimensions (Editor’s Suggestion). Physical Review Letters 116, 186402, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.186402 (2016).

  • Xia, Y., Lee, E., Hu, H., Gharbi, M.A., Beller, D.A., Fleischmann, E.K., Kamien, R.D., Zentel, R. and Yang, S. Better actuation through chemistry: Using surface coatings to create uniform director fields in nematic liquid crystal elastomers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 12466-12472, doi:10.1021/acsami.6b02789 (2016).

  • Xiao, Q., Rubien, J.D., Wang, Z.C., Reed, E.H., Hammer, D.A., Sahoo, D., Heiney, P.A., Yadavalli, S.S., Goulian, M., Wilner, S.E., Baumgart, T., Vinogradov, S.A., Klein, M.L. and Percec, V. Self-sorting and coassembly of fluorinated, hydrogenated, and hybrid Janus dendrimers into dendrimersomes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 12655-12663, doi:10.1021/jacs.6b08069 (2016).

  • Xiao, Q., Wang, Z., Williams, D., Leowanawat, P., Peterca, M., Sherman, S.E., Zhang, S., Hammer, D.A., Heiney, P.A., King, S.R., Markovitz, D.M., André, S., Gabius, H.-J., Klein, M.L. and Percec, V. Why do membranes of some unhealthy cells adopt a cubic architecture? ACS Central Science 2, 943-953, doi:10.1021/acscentsci.6b00284 (2016).

  • Xiao, Q., Yadavalli, S.S., Zhang, S.D., Sherman, S.E., Fiorin, E., da Silva, L., Wilson, D.A., Hammer, D.A., Andre, S., Gabius, H.J., Klein, M.L., Goulian, M. and Percec, V. Bioactive cell-like hybrids coassembled from (glyco)dendrimersomes with bacterial membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, E1134-E1141, doi:10.1073/pnas.1525589113 (2016).

  • Xiao, Q., Zhang, S., Wang, Z., Sherman, S.E., Moussodia, R.-O., Peterca, M., Muncan, A., Williams, D.R., Hammer, D.A., Vértesy, S., André, S., Gabius, H.-J., Klein, M.L. and Percec, V. Onion-like glycodendrimersomes from sequence-defined Janus glycodendrimers and influence of architecture on reactivity to a lectin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, 1162-1167, doi:10.1073/pnas.1524976113 (2016).

  • Zhang, Y., Glor, E.C., Li, M., Liu, T.Y., Wahid, K., Zhang, W., Riggleman, R.A. and Fakhraai, Z. Long-range correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films. Journal of Chemical Physics 145, 114502, doi:10.1063/1.4962734 (2016).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Partial Support, 2016

  • Bucki, R. and Janmey, P.A. Extracellular aggregation of polyelectrolytes escaped from the cell interior: Mechanisms and physiological consequences. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 26, 84-89, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2016.08.006 (2016).

  • Diroll, B.T., Jishkariani, D., Cargnello, M., Murray, C.B. and Donnio, B. Polycatenar ligand control of the synthesis and self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 10508-10515, doi:10.1021/jacs.6b04979 (2016).

  • Dong, L., Kim, Y., Er, D., Rappe, A.M. and Shenoy, V.B. Two-dimensional p-conjugated covalent-organic frameworks as quantum anomalous hall topological insulators. Physical Review Letters 116, 096601, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.096601 (2016).

  • Enayati, M., Jezorek, R.L., Monteiro, M.J. and Percec, V. Ultrafast SET-LRP of hydrophobic acrylates in multiphase alcohol-water mixtures*. Polymer Chemistry 7, 3608-3621, doi:10.1039/c6py00353b (2016).

  • Enayati, M., Jezorek, R.L. and Percec, V. A multiple-stage activation of the catalytically inhomogeneous Cu(0) wire used in SET-LRP*. Polymer Chemistry 7, 4549-4558, doi:10.1039/c6py00888g (2016).

  • Enayati, M., Jezorek, R.L., Smail, R.B., Monteiro, M.J. and Percec, V. Ultrafast SET-LRP in biphasic mixtures of the non-disproportionating solvent acetonitrile with water*. Polymer Chemistry 7, 5930-5942, doi:10.1039/c6py01307d (2016).

  • Enayati, M., Smail, R.B., Grama, S., Jezorek, R.L., Monteiro, M.J. and Percec, V. The synergistic effect during biphasic SET-LRP in ethanol-nonpolar solvent-water mixtures*. Polymer Chemistry 7, 7230-7241, doi:10.1039/C6PY01815G (2016).

  • Haase, M.F., Sharifi-Mood, N., Lee, D. and Stebe, K.J. In Situ mechanical testing of nanostructured bijel fibers. ACS Nano 10, 6338-6344, doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b02660 (2016).

  • Hann, S.D., Niepa, T.H.R., Stebe, K.J. and Lee, D. One-step generation of cell-encapsulating compartments via polyelectrolyte complexation in an aqueous two phase system. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 25603-25611, doi:10.1021/acsami.6b07939 (2016).

  • He, K., Zhang, S., Li, J., Yu, X., Meng, Q., Zhu, Y., Hu, E., Sun, K., Yun, H., Yang, X.Q., Zhu, Y., Gan, H., Mo, Y., Stach, E.A., Murray, C.B. and Su, D. Visualizing non-equilibrium lithiation of spinel oxide via in situ transmission electron microscopy. Nature Communications 7, 11441, doi:10.1038/ncomms11441 (2016).

  • Highley, C.B., Kim, M., Lee, D. and Burdick, J.A. Near-infrared light triggered release of molecules from supramolecular hydrogel-nanorod composites. Nanomedicine 11, 1579-1590, doi:10.2217/nnm-2016-0070 (2016).

  • Houssais, M., Ortiz, C.P., Durian, D.J. and Jerolmack, D.J. Rheology of sediment transported by a laminar flow. Physical Review E 94, 062609, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062609 (2016).

  • Irianto, J., Pfeifer, C.R., Xia, Y.T. and Discher, D.E. Snap shot: Mechanosensing matrix. Cell 165, 1820-1820.e1821, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.002 (2016).

  • Jang, M.H., Agarwal, R., Nukala, P., Choi, D., Johnson, A.T.C., Chen, I.W. and Agarwal, R. Observing oxygen vacancy driven electroforming in Pt-TiO2-Pt device via strong metal support interaction*. Nano Letters 16, 2139-2144, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02951 (2016).

  • Jang, Y., Jang, W.S., Gao, C., Shim, T.S., Crocker, J.C., Hammer, D.A. and Lee, D. Tuning the mechanical properties of recombinant protein-stabilized gas bubbles using triblock copolymers. ACS Macro Letters 5, 371-376, doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00057 (2016).

  • Kim, K.H., Ko, D.K., Kim, Y.T., Kim, N.H., Paul, J., Zhang, S.Q., Murray, C.B., Acharya, R., DeGrado, W.F., Kim, Y.H. and Grigoryan, G. Protein-directed self-assembly of a fullerene crystal. Nature Communications 7, 11429, doi:10.1038/ncomms11429 (2016).

  • Kim, M., Doh, J. and Lee, D. pH-induced softening of polyelectrolyte microcapsules without apparent swelling. ACS Macro Letters 5, 487-492, doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00124 (2016).

  • Li, D.C., Yun, H., Diroll, B.T., Doan-Nguyen, V.V.T., Kikkawa, J.M. and Murray, C.B. Synthesis and size-selective precipitation of monodisperse nonstoichiometric MxFe3-xO4 (M = Mn, Co) nanocrystals and their DC and AC magnetic properties. Chemistry of Materials 28, 480-489, doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03280 (2016).

  • Li, S.Z., Li, Q.Y., Carpick, R.W., Gumbsch, P., Liu, X.Z., Ding, X.D., Sun, J. and Li, J. The evolving quality of frictional contact with graphene. Nature 539, 541-545, doi:10.1038/nature20135 (2016).

  • Lin, C.-C., Parrish, E. and Composto, R.J. Macromolecule and particle dynamics in confined media. Macromolecules 49, 5755-5772, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00471 (2016).

  • Liu, S., Kim, Y., Tan, L.Z. and Rappe, A.M. Strain-induced ferroelectric topological insulator. Nano Letters 16, 1663-1668, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04545 (2016).

  • Liu, W., Lee, B., Naylor, C.H., Ee, H.-S., Park, J., Johnson, A.T.C. and Agarwal, R. Strong exciton–plasmon coupling in MoS2 coupled with plasmonic lattice. Nano Letters 16, 1262-1269, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04588 (2016).

  • Malineni, J., Jezorek, R.L., Zhang, N. and Percec, V. An indefinitely air-stable sigma-Ni-II precatalyst for quantitative cross-coupling of unreactive aryl halides and mesylates with aryl neopentylglycolboronates*. Synthesis-Stuttgart 48, 2795-2807, doi:10.1055/s-0035-1562342 (2016).

  • Malineni, J., Jezorek, R.L., Zhang, N. and Percec, V. (NiCl)-Cl-II(1-Naphthyl)(PCy3)(2), an air-stable sigma-Ni-II precatalyst for quantitative cross-coupling of Aryl C-O electrophiles with Aryl Neopentylglycolboronates*. Synthesis-Stuttgart 48, 2808-2815, doi:10.1055/s-0035-1562343 (2016).

  • Mustata, G.M., Kim, Y.H., Zhang, J., DeGrado, W.F., Grigoryan, G. and Wanunu, M. Graphene symmetry amplified by designed peptide self-assembly. Biophysical Journal 110, 2507-2516, doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2016.04.037 (2016).

  • Niepa, T.H.R., Hou, L.K., Jiang, H.Y., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K.J. and Lee, D. Microbial nanoculture as an artificial microniche. Scientific Reports 6, 30578, doi:10.1038/srep30578 (2016).

  • Nukala, P., Lin, C.C., Composto, R. and Agarwal, R. Ultralow-power switching via defect engineering in germanium telluride phase-change memory devices. Nature Communications 7, 10482, doi:10.1038/ncomms10482 (2016).

  • Ouyang, L., Highley, C.B., Sun, W. and Burdick, J.A. A generalizable strategy for the 3D bioprinting of hydrogels from nonviscous photo-crosslinkable inks. Advanced Materials 29, 1604983, doi:10.1002/adma.201604983 (2016).

  • Ouyang, L.L., Highley, C.B., Rodell, C.B., Sun, W. and Burdick, J.A. 3D printing of shear-thinning hyaluronic acid hydrogels with secondary cross-linking. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2, 1743-1751, doi:10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00158 (2016).

  • Percec, V. Introduction to frontiers in macromolecular and supramolecular science: part 1. Chemical Reviews 116, 769-770, doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev6b00058 (2016).

  • Percec, V. Introduction to frontiers in macromolecular and supramolecular science: part 2. Chemical Reviews 116, 1671-1672, doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00069 (2016).

  • Perepelyuk, M., Chin, L.K., Cao, X., van Oosten, A., Shenoy, V.B., Janmey, P.A. and Wells, R.G. Normal and fibrotic rat livers demonstrate shear strain softening and compression stiffening: A model for soft tissue mechanics. PLoS One 11, e0146588, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146588 (2016).

  • Prakash, S., Xi, E. and Patel, A.J. Spontaneous recovery of superhydrophobicity on nanotextured surfaces*. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, 5508-5513, doi:10.1073/pnas.1521753113 (2016).

  • Ramakrishnan, N., Tourdot, R.W., Eckmann, D.M., Ayyaswamy, P.S., Muzykantov, V.R. and Radhakrishnan, R. Biophysically inspired model for functionalized nanocarrier adhesion to cell surface: roles of protein expression and mechanical factors. Royal Society Open Science 3, 160260, doi:10.1098/rsos.160260 (2016).

  • Ramakrishnan, N., Tourdot, R.W. and Radhakrishnan, R. Thermodynamic free energy methods to investigate shape transitions in bilayer membranes. International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics 8, 88-100, doi:10.1007/s12572-015-0159-5 (2016).

  • Roche, C., Sun, H.J., Leowanawat, P., Araoka, F., Partridge, B.E., Peterca, M., Wilson, D.A., Prendergast, M.E., Heiney, P.A., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Zeng, X.B., Ungar, G. and Percec, V. A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality. Nature Chemistry 8, 80-89, doi:10.1038/nchem.2397 (2016).

  • Schmidt, N.W., Grigoryan, G. and DeGrado, W.F. The accommodation index measures the perturbation associated with insertions and deletions in coiled-coils. Application to understand signaling in histidine kinases. Protein Science 26, 414-435, doi:10.1002/pro.3095 (2016).

  • Ting, C.L., Composto, R.J. and Frischknecht, A.L. Orientational control of polymer grafted nanorods. Macromolecules 49, 1111-1119, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02434 (2016).

  • Ulas, G., Lemmin, T., Wu, Y.B., Gassner, G.T. and DeGrado, W.F. Designed metalloprotein stabilizes a semiquinone radical. Nature Chemistry 8, 354-359, doi:10.1038/nchem.2453 (2016).

  • Vahabi, M., Sharma, A., Licup, A.J., van Oosten, A.S.G., Galie, P.A., Janmey, P.A. and MacKintosh, F.C. Elasticity of fibrous networks under uniaxial prestress. Soft Matter 12, 5050-5060, doi:10.1039/c6sm00606j (2016).

  • van Oosten, A.S.G., Vahabi, M., Licup, A.J., Sharma, A., Galie, P.A., MacKintosh, F.C. and Janmey, P.A. Uncoupling shear and uniaxial elastic moduli of semiflexible biopolymer networks: compression-softening and stretch-stiffening. Scientific Reports 6, 19270, doi:10.1038/srep19270 (2016).

  • Vorobii, M., Pop-Georgievski, O., Pereira, A.D., Kostina, N.Y., Jezorek, R., Sedlkova, Z., Percec, V. and Rodriguez-Emmenegger, C. Grafting of functional methacrylate polymer brushes by photoinduced SET-LRP*. Polymer Chemistry 7, 6934-6945, doi:10.1039/c6py01730d (2016).

  • Wang, H.G., Li, B.H., Yodh, A.G. and Zhang, Z.X. Stimuli-responsive shape switching of polymer colloids by temperature-sensitive absorption of solvent. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 55, 9952-9955, doi:10.1002/anie.201604294 (2016).

  • Xi, E. and Patel, A.J. The hydrophobic effect, and fluctuations: The long and the short of it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113, 4549-4551, doi:10.1073/pnas.1603014113 (2016).

  • Xi, E., Remsing, R.C. and Patel, A.J. Sparse sampling of water density fluctuations in interfacial environments. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12, 706-713, doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01037 (2016).

  • Yadavalli, S.S., Carey, J.N., Leibman, R.S., Chen, A.I., Stern, A.M., Roggiani, M., Lippa, A.M. and Goulian, M. Antimicrobial peptides trigger a division block in Escherichia coli through stimulation of a signalling system*. Nature Communications 7, 12340, doi:10.1038/ncomms12340 (2016).

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  • Yi, F., Ren, M., Reed, J.C., Zhu, H., Hou, J., Naylor, C.H., Johnson, A.T.C., Agarwal, R. and Cubukcu, E. Optomechanical enhancement of doubly resonant 2D optical nonlinearity. Nano Letters 16, 1631-1636, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04448 (2016).

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*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Shared Experimental Facilities, 2016

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  • Dong, Y.H. and Chen, I.W. Thermal runaway in mold-assisted flash sintering. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 99, 2889-2894, doi:10.1111/jace.14413 (2016).

  • Gaines, T.W., Trigg, E.B., Winey, K.I. and Wagener, K.B. High melting precision sulfone polyethylenes synthesized by ADMET chemistry. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 217, 2351-2359, doi:10.1002/macp.201600118 (2016).

  • Gavrilov, M., Zerk, T.J., Bernhardt, P.V., Percec, V. and Monteiro, M.J. SET-LRP of NIPAM in water via in situ reduction of Cu(ii) to Cu(0) with NaBH4. Polymer Chemistry 7, 933-939, doi:10.1039/C5PY01855B (2016).

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  • Jiang, Y. and Turner, K.T. Measurement of the strength and range of adhesion using atomic force microscopy. Extreme Mechanics Letters 9, Part 1, 119-126, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2016.05.013 (2016).

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  • Kim, G., Chai, X.Z., Yu, L., Cheng, X.M. and Gianola, D.S. Interplay between grain boundary segregation and electrical resistivity in dilute nanocrystalline Cu alloys. Scripta Materialia 123, 113-117, doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.06.008 (2016).

  • Ling, X., Huang, S.X., Hasdeo, E.H., Liang, L.B., Parkin, W.M., Tatsumi, Y., Nugraha, A.R.T., Puretzky, A.A., Das, P.M., Sumpter, B.G., Geohegan, D.B., Kong, J., Saito, R., Drndic, M., Meunier, V. and Dresselhaus, M.S. Anisotropic electron-photon and electron-phonon interactions in black phosphorus. Nano Letters 16, 2260-2267, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04540 (2016).

  • Lu, Y., Lee, J.H., Yang, X. and Chen, I.W. Distinguishing uniform switching from filamentary switching in resistance memory using a fracture test. Nanoscale 8, 18113-18120, doi:10.1039/c6nr06427b (2016).

  • Middleton, L.R., Tarver, J.D., Cordaro, J., Tyagi, M., Soles, C.L., Frischknecht, A.L. and Winey, K.I. Heterogeneous chain dynamics and aggregate lifetimes in precise acid-containing polyethylenes: Experiments and simulations. Macromolecules 49, 9176-9185, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01918 (2016).

  • Middleton, L.R., Trigg, E.B., Schwartz, E., Opper, K.L., Baughman, T.W., Wagener, K.B. and Winey, K.I. Role of periodicity and acid chemistry on the morphological evolution and strength in precise polyethylenes. Macromolecules 49, 8209-8218, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00937 (2016).

  • Nykaza, J.R., Ye, Y., Nelson, R.L., Jackson, A.C., Beyer, F.L., Davis, E.M., Page, K., Sharick, S., Winey, K.I. and Elabd, Y.A. Polymerized ionic liquid diblock copolymers: Impact of water/ion clustering on ion conductivity. Soft Matter 12, 1133-1144, doi:10.1039/c5sm02053k (2016).

  • Parkin, W.M., Balan, A., Liang, L.B., Das, P.M., Lamparski, M., Naylor, C.H., Rodriguez-Manzo, J.A., Johnson, A.T.C., Meunier, V. and Drndic, M. Raman shifts in electron-irradiated monolayer MoS2. ACS Nano 10, 4134-4142, doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b07388 (2016).

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  • Rodriguez-Manzo, J.A., Qi, Z.J., Crook, A., Ahn, J.H., Johnson, A.T.C. and Drndic, M. In Situ transmission electron microscopy modulation of transport in graphene nanoribbons. ACS Nano 10, 4004-4010, doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b01419 (2016).

  • Sharick, S., Koski, J., Riggleman, R.A. and Winey, K.I. Isolating the effect of molecular weight on ion transport of non ionic diblock copolymer/lonic liquid mixtures. Macromolecules 49, 2245-2256, doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02445 (2016).

  • Shekar, S., Niedzwiecki, D.J., Chien, C.C., Ong, P., Fleischer, D.A., Lin, J.X., Rosenstein, J.K., Drndic, M. and Shepard, K.L. Measurement of DNA translocation dynamics in a solid-state nanopore at 100 ns temporal resolution. Nano Letters 16, 4483-4489, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01661 (2016).

  • Vitoshkin, H., Yu, H.-Y., Eckmann, D.M., Ayyaswamy, P.S. and Radhakrishnan, R. Nanoparticle stochastic motion in the inertial regime and hydrodynamic interactions close to a cylindrical wall*. Physical  Review Fluids 1, 054104, doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.054104 (2016).

  • Yang, X., Lu, Y., Lee, J. and Chen, I.W. Tuning resistance states by thickness control in an electroforming-free nanometallic complementary resistance random access memory. Applied Physics Letters 108, 013506, doi:10.1063/1.4939443 (2016).

  • Yang, X.M., Ge, D.T., Wu, G.X., Liao, Z.W. and Yang, S. Production of structural colors with high contrast and wide viewing angles from assemblies of polypyrrole black coated polystyrene nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 16289-16295, doi:10.1021/acsami.6b03739 (2016).

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  • Zanjani, M.B., Jenkins, I.C., Crocker, J.C. and Sinno, T. Colloidal cluster assembly into ordered superstructures via engineered directional binding. ACS Nano 10, 11280-11289, doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b06415 (2016).