2013 Publications

primary support / partial support / shared experimental facilities

Primary Support, 2013

  • Gharbi, M.A., Cavallaro, M., Wu, G., Beller, D.A., Kamien, R.D., Yang, S. and Stebe, K.J. Microbullet assembly: interactions of oriented dipoles in confined nematic liquid crystal. Liquid Crystals, 1-9, doi:10.1080/02678292.2012.755223 (2013).
  • Honglawan, A., Beller, D.A., Cavallaro, M., Kamien, R.D., Stebe, K.J. and Yang, S. Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 34-39, doi:10.1073/pnas.1214708109 (2013).
  • Koser, A.E., Pan, L.C., Keim, N.C. and Arratia, P.E. Measuring material relaxation and creep recovery in a microfluidic device. Lab Chip 13, 1850-1853, doi:10.1039/c3lc41379a (2013).
  • Magagnosc, D.J., Ehrbar, R., Kumar, G., He, M.R., Schroers, J. and Gianola, D.S. Tunable tensile ductility in metallic glasses. Sci. Rep. 3, 1096, doi:10.1038/srep01096 (2013).
  • Senyuk, B., Liu, Q.K., He, S.L., Kamien, R.D., Kusner, R.B., Lubensky, T.C. and Smalyukh, I.I. Topological colloids. Nature 493, 200-205, doi:10.1038/nature11710 (2013).
  • Shavit, A., Douglas, J.F. and Riggleman, R.A. Evolution of collective motion in a model glass-forming liquid during physical aging. J.Chem. Phys. 138, 12A528-526, doi:10.1063/1.4775781 (2013).
  • Spinler, K., Tian, A., Christian, D.A., Pantano, D.A., Baumgart, T. and Discher, D.E. Dynamic domains in polymersomes: Mixtures of polyanionic and neutral diblocks respond more rapidly to changes in calcium than to pH (Invited). Langmuir 29, 7499-7508, doi:10.1021/la304602e (2013).
  • Ye, X.C., Chen, J., Diroll, B.T. and Murray, C.B. Tunable plasmonic coupling in self-assembled binary nanocrystal super lattices studied by correlated optical microspectrophotometry and electron microscopy. Nano Lett. 13, 1291-1297, doi:10.1021/nl400052w (2013).
  • Yunker, P.J., Zhang, Z., Gratale, M., Chen, K. and Yodh, A.G. Relationship between neighbor number and vibrational spectra in disordered colloidal clusters with attractive interactions. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 12A525-525, doi:10.1063/1.4774076 (2013).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Partial Support, 2013

  • Chen, J., Ye, X.C., Oh, S.J., Kikkawa, J.M., Kagan, C.R. and Murray, C.B. Bistable magnetoresistance switching in exchange-coupled CoFe2O4-Fe3O4 binary nanocrystal superlattices by self-assembly and thermal annealing. ACS Nano 7, 1478-1486, doi:10.1021/nn3052617 (2013).
  • Fafarman, A.T., Hong, S.H., Caglayan, H., Ye, X.C., Diroll, B.T., Paik, T., Engheta, N., Murray, C.B. and Kagan, C.R. Chemically tailored dielectric-to-metal transition for the design of metamaterials from nanoimprinted colloidal nanocrystals. Nano Lett. 13, 350-357, doi:10.1021/nl303161d (2013).*
  • Ferrer, M.C.C., Ferrier, R.C., Eckmann, D.M. and Composto, R.J. A facile route to synthesize nanogels doped with silver nanoparticles. J. Nanopart. Res. 15, 1323, doi:10.1007/s11051-012-1323-5 (2013).
  • Frischknecht, A.L., Hore, M.J.A., Ford, J. and Composto, R.J. Dispersion of polymer-grafted nanorods in homopolymer films: Theory and experiment. Macromolecules 46, 2856-2869, doi:10.1021/ma302461h (2013).
  • Gratale, M.D., Yunker, P.J., Chen, K., Still, T., Aptowicz, K.B. and Yodh, A.G. Phonons in two-dimensional colloidal crystals with bond-strength disorder. Phys. Rev. E 87, 052301, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.052301 (2013).
  • Hao, S.J., Cui, L.S., Jiang, D.Q., Han, X.D., Ren, Y., Jiang, J., Liu, Y.N., Liu, Z.Y., Mao, S.C., Wang, Y.D., Li, Y., Ren, X.B., Ding, X.D., Wang, S., Yu, C., Shi, X.B., Du, M.S., Yang, F., Zheng, Y.J., Zhang, Z., Li, X.D., Brown, D.E. and Li, J. A transforming metal nanocomposite with large elastic strain, low modulus, and high strength. Science 339, 1191-1194, doi:10.1126/science.1228602 (2013).
  • Honglawan, A., Ni, H.P., Weissman, D. and Yang, S. Synthesis of random copolymer based pH-responsive nanoparticles as drug carriers for cancer therapeutics. Polymer Chemistry 4, 3667-3675, doi:10.1039/c3py00390f (2013).
  • Hu, X.Z., Zhao, J.L., DeGrado, W.F. and Binns, A.N. Agrobacterium tumefaciens recognizes its host environment using ChvE to bind diverse plant sugars as virulence signals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, 678-683, doi:10.1073/pnas.1215033110 (2013).
  • Huang, J.Y., Lo, Y.C., Niu, J.J., Kushima, A., Qian, X.F., Zhong, L., Mao, S.X. and Li, J. Nanowire liquid pumps. Nat. Nanotechnol. 8, 277-281, doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.41 (2013).
  • Ishii, A., Li, J. and Ogata, S. “Conjugate Channeling” Effect in dislocation core diffusion: Carbon transport in dislocated BCC iron. PLoS One 8, e60586, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060586 (2013).
  • Jacobs, T.D.B., Ryan, K.E., Keating, P.L., Grierson, D.S., Lefever, J.A., Turner, K.T., Harrison, J.A. and Carpick, R.W. The effect of atomic-scale roughness on the adhesion of nanoscale asperities: A combined simulation and experimental investigation. Tribol. Lett. 50, 81-93, doi:10.1007/s11249-012-0097-3 (2013).*
  • Kang, Y., Li, M., Cai, Y., Cargnello, M., Diaz, R.E., Gordon, T.R., Wieder, N.L., Adzic, R.R., Gorte, R.J., Stach, E.A. and Murray, C.B. Heterogeneous catalysts need not be so “heterogeneous”: Monodisperse Pt nanocrystals by combining shape-controlled synthesis and purification by colloidal recrystallization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 2741-2747, doi:10.1021/ja31168391 (2013).
  • Kang, Y.J., Pyo, J.B., Ye, X.C., Diaz, R.E., Gordon, T.R., Stach, E.A. and Murray, C.B. Shape-controlled synthesis of Pt nanocrystals: The role of metal carbonyls. ACS Nano 7, 645-653, doi:10.1021/nn3048439 (2013).
  • Kang, Y.J., Ye, X.C., Chen, J., Cai, Y., Diaz, R.E., Adzic, R.R., Stach, E.A. and Murray, C.B. Design of Pt-Pd binary superlattices exploiting shape effects and synergistic effects for oxygen reduction reactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 42-45, doi:10.1021/ja3097527 (2013).
  • Kang, Y.J., Ye, X.C., Chen, J., Qi, L., Diaz, R.E., Doan-Nguyen, V., Xing, G.Z., Kagan, C.R., Li, J., Gorte, R.J., Stach, E.A. and Murray, C.B. Engineering catalytic contacts and thermal stability: Gold/Iron oxide binary nanocrystal superlattices for CO oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 1499-1505, doi:10.1021/ja310427u (2013).
  • Kim, S.W., Kang, S.J.L. and Chen, I.W. Electro-sintering of Yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 96, 1398-1406, doi:10.1111/jace.12291 (2013).
  • Kim, S.W., Kang, S.J.L. and Chen, I.W. Ionomigration of pores and gas bubbles in Yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 96, 1090-1098, doi:10.1111/jace.12233 (2013).
  • Lee, S.W. and Lee, D. Integrated study of water sorption/desorption behavior of weak polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer films. Macromolecules 46, 2793-2799, doi:10.1021/ma400076d (2013).
  • Leng, X.F., Nguyen, N.H., van Beusekom, B., Wilson, D.A. and Percec, V. SET-LRP of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate in protic and dipolar aprotic solvents. Polymer Chemistry 4, 2995-3004, doi:10.1039/c3py00048f (2013).
  • Levere, M.E., Nguyen, N.H., Leng, X. and Percec, V. Visualization of the crucial step in SET-LRP. Polymer Chemistry 4, 1635-1647, doi:10.1039/c2py21084c (2013).
  • Levere, M.E., Nguyen, N.H., Sun, H.-J. and Percec, V. Interrupted SET-LRP of methyl acrylate demonstrates Cu(0) colloidal particles as activating species. Polymer Chemistry 4, 686-694, doi:10.1039/c2py20791e (2013).
  • Liao, Z., Hsieh, W.-T., Baumgart, T. and Dmochowski, I.J. Measuring interactions between polydimethylsiloxane and serum proteins at the air–water interface. Langmuir xxx, xxx-xxx, doi:10.1021/la401619s (2013).
  • Liu, Y.T., Agrawal, N.J. and Radhakrishnan, R. A flexible-protein molecular docking study of the binding of ruthenium complex compounds to PIM1, GSK-3b, and CDK2/Cyclin A protein kinases. J. Mol. Model. 19, 371-382, doi:10.1007/s00894-012-1555-4 (2013).
  • Lu, H.D., Soranno, D.E., Rodell, C.B., Kim, I.L. and Burdick, J.A. Secondary photocrosslinking of injectable shear-thinning dock-and-lock hydrogels. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2, 1028-1036, doi:10.1002/adhm.201200343 (2013).
  • Lubensky, T.C. Reflections on graduate education in soft matter. Soft Matter 9, 4948-4950, doi:10.1039/c3sm90027d (2013).
  • Mao, X.M., Stenull, O. and Lubensky, T.C. Effective-medium theory of a filamentous triangular lattice. Phys. Rev. E 87, 042601, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042601 (2013).
  • McPeak, K.M., Opasanont, B., Shibata, T., Ko, D.K., Becker, M.A., Chattopadhyay, S., Bui, H.P., Beebe, T.P., Bunker, B.A., Murray, C.B. and Baxter, J.B. Microreactor chemical bath deposition of laterally graded Cd1-xZnxS thin films: A route to high-throughput optimization for photovoltaic buffer layers. Chem. Mat. 25, 297-306, doi:10.1021/cm3023506 (2013).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Kulis, J., Sun, H.-J., Jia, Z., van Beusekom, B., Levere, M.E., Wilson, D.A., Monteiro, M.J. and Percec, V. A comparative study of the SET-LRP of oligo(ethylene oxide) methyl ether acrylate in DMSO and in H2O. Polymer Chemistry 4, 144-155 (2013).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Leng, X.F. and Percec, V. Synthesis of ultrahigh molar mass poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) by single-electron transfer living radical polymerization. Polymer Chemistry 4, 2760-2766, doi:10.1039/c3py00224a (2013).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Rodriguez-Emmenegger, C., Brynda, E., Sedlakova, Z. and Percec, V. SET-LRP of N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide in H2O. Polymer Chemistry 4, 2424-2427, doi:10.1039/c3py00220a (2013).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Sun, H.J., Levere, M.E., Fleischmann, S. and Percec, V. Where is Cu(0) generated by disproportionation during SET-LRP? Polymer Chemistry 4, 1328-1332, doi:10.1039/c3py21133a (2013).
  • Oh, S.J., Berry, N.E., Choi, J.-H., Gaulding, E.A., Paik, T., Hong, S.-H., Murray, C.B. and Kagan, C.R. Stoichiometric control of lead chalcogenide nanocrystal solids to enhance their electronic and optoelectronic device performance. ACS Nano, doi:10.1021/nn3057356 (2013).*
  • Park, B.J., Choi, C.H., Kang, S.M., Tettey, K.E., Lee, C.S. and Lee, D. Double hydrophilic Janus cylinders at an air-water interface. Langmuir 29, 1841-1849, doi:10.1021/la304829s (2013).
  • Park, B.J., Choi, C.H., Kang, S.M., Tettey, K.E., Lee, C.S. and Lee, D. Geometrically and chemically anisotropic particles at an oil-water interface. Soft Matter 9, 3383-3388, doi:10.1039/c3sm27635j (2013).
  • Park, J.T., Prosser, J.H., Ahn, S.H., Kim, S.J., Kim, J.H. and Lee, D. Enhancing the performance of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells using a mesoporous interfacial titania layer with a Bragg Stack. Adv. Funct. Mater. 23, 2193-2200, doi:10.1002/adfm.201202345 (2013).
  • Park, J.T., Prosser, J.H., Kim, D.J., Kim, J.H. and Lee, D. Bragg stack-functionalized counter electrode for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. ChemSusChem 6, 856-864, doi:10.1002/cssc.201300117 (2013).
  • Percec, V., Sun, H.J., Leowanawat, P., Peterca, M., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Zeng, X.B., Ungar, G. and Heiney, P.A. Transformation from kinetically into thermodynamically controlled self-organization of complex helical columns with 3D periodicity assembled from dendronized perylene bisimides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 4129-4148, doi:10.1021/ja400639q (2013).
  • Roche, C. and Percec, V. Complex adaptable systems based on self-assembling dendrimers and dendrons: Toward dynamic materials. Israel J. Chem. 53, 30-44, doi:10.1002/ijch.201200099 (2013).
  • Rodriguez, P.L., Harada, T., Christian, D.A., Pantano, D.A., Tsai, R.K. and Discher, D.E. Minimal ‘Self’ peptides that inhibit phagocytic clearance and enhance delivery of nanoparticles. Science 339, 971-975, doi:10.1126/science.1229568 (2013).
  • Saari, J.I., Dias, E.A., Reifsnyder, D., Krause, M.M., Walsh, B.R., Murray, C.B. and Kambhampati, P. Ultrafast electron trapping at the surface of semiconductor nanocrystals: Excitonic and biexcitonic processes. J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 4412-4421, doi:10.1021/jp307668g (2013).
  • Sahoo, H., Park, J.-W., Cardona, R.d.A. and Santiago-Avilés, J.J. Electrochemical characterization of poly-(3,4 propylenedioxythiophene) pseudo-capacitor. J.Physics: Conference Series 421, 012007 (2012).
  • Sahoo, H.K., Jones, T.S., Smith, M. and Avilés, J.J.S.-. Low temperature co-fired ceramic for self-packaged EDL super capacitors applications. Proc. IBERSENSOR 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico IB12-93 (2012).
  • Samanta, S.R., Levere, M.E. and Percec, V. SET-LRP of hydrophobic and hydrophilic acrylates in trifluoroethanol. Polymer Chemistry 4, 3212-3224, doi:10.1039/c3py00289f (2013).
  • Tung, W.S., Clarke, N., Composto, R.J. and Winey, K.I. Temperature dependence of polymer diffusion in MWCNT/PS nanocomposites. Macromolecules 46, 2317-2322, doi:10.1021/ma302517x (2013).
  • Venta, K., Shemer, G., Puster, M., Rodriguez-Manzo, J.A., Balan, A., Rosenstein, J.K., Shepard, K. and Drndic, M. Differentiation of short, single-stranded DNA homopolymers in solid-state nanopores. ACS Nano 7, 4629-4636, doi:10.1021/nn4014388 (2013).*
  • Venta, K., Wanunu, M. and Drndic, M. Electrically controlled nanoparticle synthesis inside nanopores. Nano Lett. 13, 423-429, doi:10.1021/nl303576q (2013).*
  • Wei, Y. and Durian, D.J. Effect of hydrogel particle additives on water-accessible pore structure of sandy soils: A custom pressure plate apparatus and capillary bundle model. Phys. Rev. E 87, 053013, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.053013 (2013).
  • Xu, L.B., Farrell, J., Karunakaran, R.G., Honglawan, A. and Yang, S. Synthesis of dual-functional copolymer with orthogonally photosensitive groups. J. Polym. Sci. Pol. Chem. 51, 1215-1222, doi:10.1002/pola.26490 (2013).*
  • Yang, X., Chen, A.B.K., Choi, B.J. and Chen, I.W. Demonstration and modeling of multi-bit resistance random access memory. Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 043502, doi:10.1063/1.4790158 (2013).
  • Yang, X., Choi, B.J., Chen, A.B.K. and Chen, I.W. Cause and prevention of moisture-induced degradation of resistance random access memory nanodevices. ACS Nano 7, 2302-2311, doi:10.1021/nn3054544 (2013).
  • Yao, L., Botto, L., Cavallaro, M., Bleier, B.J., Garbin, V. and Stebe, K.J. Near field capillary repulsion. Soft Matter 9, 779-786, doi:10.1039/c2sm27020j (2013).
  • Ye, X.C., Chen, J., Engel, M., Millan, J.A., Li, W.B., Qi, L., Xing, G.Z., Collins, J.E., Kagan, C.R., Li, J., Glotzer, S.C. and Murray, C.B. Competition of shape and interaction patchiness for self-assembling nanoplates. Nat. Chem. 5, 466-473, doi:10.1038/nchem.1651 (2013).
  • Ye, X.C., Zheng, C., Chen, J., Gao, Y.Z. and Murray, C.B. Using binary surfactant mixtures to simultaneously improve the dimensional tunability and monodispersity in the seeded growth of gold nanorods. Nano Lett. 13, 765-771, doi:10.1021/nl304478h (2013).
  • Young, S.M., Zheng, F. and Rappe, A.M. Prediction of a linear spin bulk photovoltaic effect in antiferromagnets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 057201, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.057201 (2013).
  • Yunker, P.J., Lohr, M.A., Still, T., Borodin, A., Durian, D.J. and Yodh, A.G. Effects of particle shape on growth dynamics at edges of evaporating drops of colloidal suspensions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.035501 (2013).
  • Zaheer, S., Young, S.M., Cellucci, D., Teo, J.C.Y., Kane, C.L., Mele, E.J. and Rappe, A.M. Spin texture on the Fermi surface of tensile-strained HgTe. Phys. Rev. B 87, 045202, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.045202 (2013).
  • Zhao, P.Y., Li, J. and Wang, Y.Z. Heterogeneously randomized STZ model of metallic glasses: Softening and extreme value statistics during deformation. Int. J. Plast. 40, 1-22, doi:10.1016/j.ijplas.2012.06.007 (2013).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Shared Experimental Facilities, 2013

  • Allen, M.H., Wang, S., Hemp, S.T., Chen, Y., Madsen, L.A., Winey, K.I. and Long, T.E. Hydroxyalkyl-containing imidazolium homopolymers: Correlation of structure with conductivity. Macromolecules 46, 3037-3045, doi:10.1021/ma302537f (2013).
  • Choi, J.H., Willis, C.L. and Winey, K.I. Effects of neutralization with Et3Al on structure and properties in sulfonated styrenic pentablock copolymers. J. Membr. Sci. 428, 516-522, doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2012.10.051 (2013).
  • Jacobs, T.D.B. and Carpick, R.W. Nanoscale wear as a stress-assisted chemical reaction. Nature Nanotech 8, 108-112, doi:10.1021/nn305901n (2013).
  • Park, J. and Chen, I.W. In situ thermometry measuring temperature flashes exceeding 1,700oC in 8 mol% Y2O3-stablized Zirconia under constant-voltage heating. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 96, 697-700, doi:10.1111/jace.12176 (2013).
  • Sanchez-Gaytan, B.L., Qian, Z.X., Hastings, S.P., Reca, M.L., Fakhraai, Z. and Park, S.J. Controlling the topography and surface plasmon resonance of gold nanoshells by a templated surfactant-assisted seed growth method. J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 8916-8923, doi:10.1021/jp401189k (2013).