2007 Publications

primary support / partial support / shared experimental facilities

Primary Support, 2007

  • Dalhaimer, P., Discher, D. E., and Lubensky, T. C., “Crosslinked actin networks show liquid crystal elastomer behaviour, including soft-mode elasticity” Nature Physics, doi:10.1038/nphy567 (2007).
  • Guiton, B.  and Davies, P. K., “Nanochessboard superlattices formed by spontaneous phase separation in oxides” Nature Materials (to appear July 2007).
  • Guthy, C., Du, F., Brand, S., Winey, K. I., Fischer, J. E., “Thermal conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotube/PMMA nanocomposites” Journal of Heat Transfer, accepted.
  • Haggenmueller, R.,  Guthy, R. C.,  Lukes, J. R., Fischer, J. E., Winey, K. I., “Single wall carbon nanotubes / polyethylene nanocomposites:  thermal and electrical conductivity” Macromolecules 40, 2417-2421 (2007).
  • Janmey, P. A.,  McCormick, M. E., Rammensee, S.,   Leight, J. L., Georges, P. C., and MacKintosh, F. C.,  “Negative normal stress in semiflexible biopolymer gels” Nat Mater 6:48-51 (2007).
  • Moniruzzaman, M., Chattopadhyay, J.,  Billups, W. E., Winey,  K. I., “Tuning the mechanical properties of SWNT/nylon 6,10 composites with flexible spacers at the interface”  Nano Letters, 7, 1178-1185, (2007).
  • Moon, J.-H., Kim, A. J., Crocker, J. C. and  Yang, S., “High-throughput synthesis of anisotropic colloids via holographic lithography” Adv. Mater.( 2007 in press) (microscopy facilities)
  • Snir, Y. and  Kamien , R. D., “Helical tubes in crowded environments” Phys. Rev. E (in press) 2007.
  • Winey, K. I.,  Vaia,  R. A., “Polymer Nanocomposites”  MRS Bulletin, 32, 314-322 (2007).
  • Winey, K. I., Kashiwagi, T., Mu, M., “Improving electrical conductivity and thermal properties of polymers by the addition of carbon nanotubes as fillers” MRS Bulletin, 32, 348-353 (2007).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Partial Support, 2007

  • Biancaniello, P. L., Crocker, J. C. , Hammer,  D. A., Milam,  V.T. “DNA-mediated phase behavior of microsphere suspensions” Langmuir, 23, 2688-2693( 2007).
  • Bryning, M. B., Milkie, D. E., Islam, M. F., Hough, L. A., Kikkawa, J.M., and Yodh, A .G., “Carbon nanotube aerogels” Advanced Materials 19, 661-664 (2007). (shared facilities)
  • Bunagan, M. R., Cristian, L., DeGrado, W. F. & Gai, F., “Truncation of a cross-linked GCN4-p1 coiled coil leads to ultrafast folding” Biochemistry 45, 10981-6.
  • Chen, I. W. and  Mamchik, A., “Magnetically and electrically-induced variable resistance materials and method for preparing same” U.S. Patent 7,211,199 (2007).
  • Choi, H. and I-W. Chen, I. W., “Nanometer-sized carrier medium, U.S. Patent 7,189,417 (2007).
  • Chowdhury, P.,  Wang,W.,  Bunagan, M. R.,  Klemke, J. W.,  Tang, J.,  Lavender, S.,  Saven, J. G., Cooperman, B. S.,  Gai,  F.,” Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy study of serpin depolymerization by computationally designed peptides” Journal of Molecular Biology  369:462-473 (2007).
  • Christian, N. A., Milone, M. C., Ranka, ., S. S.,  Li, G., Frail, P. R., Davis, K. P., Bates, F. S., Therien, M. J., Ghoroghchian, P. P., June, C. H.  and Hammer, D. A.  “Tat-functionalized near-infrared polymersomes for dendritic cell labeling”  Bioconjugate Chem. 2007, 18, 31-40.
  • Chvalun, S. N., Shcherbina, M. A., Yakunin, A. N., Blackwell, J., Percec, V.,  “Structure of gyroid mesophase formed by monodendrons with fluorinated alkyl tails” Polym. Sci. Ser. A. 49, 158-167 (2007); Russian version: Vysokomol. Soedin. Ser. A. 49, 266-278(2007) (facilities).
  • Geng, Y., Dalhaimer, P.,Cai, S., Tsai, R., Tewari, M., Minko, T. and Discher, D. E., “Shape effects of filaments versus spherical particles in flow and drug delivery” Nature Nanotechnology 2, 249-255 (2007).
  • Ghoroghchian, P. P. ,. Frail, P. R., Li, G., Zupancich, J. A., Bates, F. S., Hammer, D. A. and  Therien, M. J.,  “ Controlling bulk optical properties of emissive polymersomes through intramembranous polymer-fluorophore interactions” Chem. Mater. 19, 1309-1318 (2007).
  • Grinberg, I., Suchomel, M. R., Dmowski, W., Mason, S. E.,  Wu, H.,  Davies, P. K.and  Rappe, A. M., “Structure and polarization in the high Tc ferroelectric Bi(Zn,Ti)O3-PbTiO3 solid solutions” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107601 1–4 (2007).
  • Guliashvili, T. and Percec, V.,  “A comparative computation study of the homolytic and heterolytic bond dissociation energies of relevance to the activation step during ATRP and SET-LRP of vinyl monomers” J. Polym. Sci.: Part A: Polym. Chem., 45, 1607-1618(2007) (partial).
  • Guo, G., Yang, D., Wang, C., Yang, S. “Fishing” polymer brushes on single-walled carbon nanotubes by in situ free radical polymerization in a poor solvent” Macromolecules 39, 9035-9040 (2006).
  • Kang, S-G. and Saven, J. G., “Computational protein design: structure, function and combinatorial diversity”  To appear in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (2007).
  • Kim, Y.,  Torrens, O. N., Kikkawa, J. M., Abou-Hamad, E.,  Goze-Bac, C. and  Luzzi, D.E., “A high purity diamagnetic single wall carbon nanotube buckypaper” Chemistry of Materials, in press (2007).
  • Kolpak, A. M., Grinberg, I. and  Rappe, A. M., “Polarization effects on the surface chemistry of PbTiO3-supported Pt films” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 166101 1–4 (2007).
  • Li, J., Singh, U. G.,  Bennett, J. W.,  Page, K.,  Weaver,J., Zhang, J.-P., Proffen, T.,  Rappe, A. M., Scott, S. and Seshadri, R., “BaCe1−xPdxO3-d (0≤x≤0.1): Redox controlled ingress and egress of palladium in a perovskite” Chem. Mater. 19, 1418–26 (2007).
  • Monteiro, M. J., Guliashvili, T., Percec, V.,  “Kinetic simulation of SET-LRP of methyl acrylate at 25oC.” J. Polym. Sci.: Part A: Polym. Chem., 45, 1835-1847(2007)(partial).
  • Mukherjee, S., Chowdhury, P., and  Gai. F., “Infrared study of the effect of hydration on the amide I band and aggregation properties of helical peptides”  J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 4596-4602 (2007).
  • Mukherjee, S., Chowdhury, P., and  Gai. F.,  “Tuning the cooperativity of the helix-coil transition by aqueous reverse micelles”   J. Phys. Chem. B 2006 110,11615-11619.
  • Percec, V.,  Aqad, E.,  Peterca, M., Imam, M. R.,  Glodde, M.,  Bera, T. K., Miura, Y., Balagurusamy, V.S.K., Ewbank, P. C.,  Wurthner, F., Heiney, P. A.,  “Self-assembly of semifluorinated minidendrons attached to electron-acceptor groups into pyramidal columns” Chem. Eur. J., 13, 3330-3345(2007) (facilities).
  • Percec, V., Smidrkal, J., Peterca, M., Mitchell, C. M., Nummelin, S., Dulcey, A. E., Sienkowska, M. J., Heiney, P. A.,  “Self-assembly of hybrid dendrons with complex primary structure into functional helical pores” Chem. Eur. J., 13, 3989-4007(2007). DOI: 10.1002/chem.200601582; Published on Line: 16 Feb 2007 (facilities).
  • Percec, V., Dulcey, A. E., Peterca, M., Adelman, P.,  Samant, R., Balagurusamy, V.S.K., Heiney, P. A., “Helical pores self-assembled from homochiral dendritic dipeptides based on l-tyr and nonpolar a-amino acids” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 5992-6002(2007). DOI: 10.1021/ja071088k; Published on Web 04/13/2007(facilities).
  • Rammensee, S., P. A. Janmey, and A. R. Bausch, “Mechanical and structural properties of in vitro neurofilament hydrogels” Eur Biophys J. (2007).
  • Rosen, B. M., and Percec, V.,  “A Reaction to Stress.’ Nature, 446, 381-382(2007).
  • Rudick, J. G., Percec, V.,  “Helical chirality in dendronized polyarylacetylenes” (Invited Perspective) New. J. Chem., DOI: 10.1039/b616449h; First Published on Web: 21 February 2007 (facilities).
  • Sienkowska, M. J.,   Farrar,  J. M., Zhang, F.,  Kusuma, S.,   Heiney, P. A., and  Kaszynski,   P.,  “Liquid crystalline derivatives of tetraaryl derivatives of benzo[c]cinnoline, tetraazapyrene, phenanthrene, and pyrene:  The effect of heteroatom and substitution pattern on phase stability” J. Mater. Chem.,  17, 1399-1411 (2007).
  • Torrens, O. N.,  Milkie, D. E., Ban, H. Y., Zheng, M., Onoa, G.B.,  Gierke, T. D., Kikkawa, J. M., “Measurement of chiral-dependent magnetic anisotropy in carbon nanotubes” Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 252-253 (2007).
  • Ye, F., Mukhopadhyay, R.,  Stenull, O., and Lubensky, T. C., “Semi-soft nematic elastomers and nematics in crossed electric and magnetic fields” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 147801/1-4 (2007).
  • Zou, H., Strzalka, J. Xu, T., Tronin, A. and Blasie, J.K.  “3-D structure and dynamics via molecular dynamics simulation of a de novo designed, amphiphilic heme protein maquette at soft interfaces” Phys. Chem. B 111: 1823-1833 (2007).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Shared Experimental Facilities, 2007

  • Benetatos, N. M., Chan, C. D., Winey, K. I., “Quantitative morphology study of Cu-neutralized poly(styrene-ran-methacrylic acid) ionomers:  STEM imaging, X-ray scattering, and real space structural modeling”   Macromolecules 40, 1081-1088 (2007).
  • Benetatos, N. M., Winey, K. I. “Nanoscale morphology of poly(styrene-ran-methacrylic acid ionomers:  The role of preparation methods and thermal treatment” Macromolecules 40, 3223-3228 (2007).
  • Budhian, A., Siegel, S. J., Winey, K. I., “Haloperidol-loaded PLGA nanoparticles:  Systematic study of particle size and drug content” International Journal of Pharmaceutics  336, 367-375 (2007).
  • Bucki, R., Byfield, F. J. and Janmey, P. A.,  “Release of the antimicrobial peptide LL-37 from DNA/F-actin bundles in cystic fibrosis sputum”  Eur Respir J 29:624-632 (2007).   
  • Lipski, A. M.,  Jaquiery, C., Choi, H., Eberli, D., Stevens, M., Martin, I., Chen, I.-W., Shastri, V. P., “,Nano-scale engineering of biomaterial surfaces” Adv. Mater. 19, [4] 553-557 (2007).
  • Lu, Y. E.,  Janmey, P. A., McCormick, M. E.,  Sawyer, E. S., and Flanagan, L. A.,   “Enhanced neurite growth from mammalian neurons in three-dimensional salmon fibrin gels”  Biomaterials 28:2097-2108 (2007).
  • Tandon, R.,  Levental, I., Huang, C.,  Byfield, F. J.,  Ziembicki, J., Schelling, J. R., Bruggeman, L. A.,  Sedor, J. R., Janmey, P. A., and Miller, R. R.,  “HIV infection changes glomerular podocyte cytoskeletal composition and results in distinct cellular mechanical properties”  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol  292:F701-710 (2007).