2009 Publications

primary support / partial support / shared experimental facilities

Primary Support, 2009

  • Arratia, P.E., Cramer, L.A., Gollub, J.P. and Durian, D.J. The effects of polymer molecular weight on filament thinning and drop breakup in microchannels. New J. Phys. 11, 115006, doi:doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/115006 (2009).
  • Han, Y., Alsayed, A., Nobili, M. and Yodh, A.G. Quasi-two-dimensional diffusion of single ellipsoids: Aspect ratio and confinement effects. Phys. Rev. E. 80, 11403, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011403 (2009).
  • Christian, D.A., Tian, A., Ellenbroek, W.G., Levental, I., Rajagopal, K., Janmey, P.A., Liu, A.J., Baumgart, T. and Discher, D.E. Spotted vesicles, striped micelles and Janus assemblies induced by ligand binding. Nature Materials 8, 843-849, doi:10.1038/nmat2512 (2009).
  • Fisher, J.A.N., Susumu, K., Therien, M.J. and Yodh, A.G. One-and two-photon absorption of highly conjugated multiporphyrin systems in the two-photon Soret transition region. J. Chem. Phys. 130, 134506, doi:DOI: 10.1063/1.3089795 (2009).
  • Garra, J., Vohs, J.M. and Bonnell, D.A. The effect of ferroelectric polarization on the interaction of water and methanol with the surface of LiNbO3 (0001). Surface Science 603, 1106-1114, doi:10.1016/j.susc.2009.02.034 (2009).
  • Garra, J., Vohs, J.M. and Bonnell, D.A. Defect-mediated adsorption of methanol and carbon dioxide on BaTiO3(001). Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 27, L13-L17, doi:10.1116/1.3168563 (2009).
  • Gledhill, J.J.M., Walters, B.T. and Wand, A.J. AMORE-HX: a multidimensional optimization of radial enhanced NMR-sampled hydrogen exchange. J. Biomolecular NMR 45, 233-239, doi:DOI 10.1007/s10858-009-9357-4 (2009).
  • Grinberg, I., Shin, Y.H. and Rappe, A.M. Molecular dynamics study of dielectric response in a relaxor ferroelectric. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 197601 (197601-197604), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.197601 (2009).
  • Guo, L., Park, J.H., Lee, T., Chowdhury, P., Lim, M. and Gai, F. Probing the role of hydration in the unfolding transitions of carbonmonoxy myoglobin and apomyoglobin. J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 6158-6163, doi:10.1021/jp900009x (2009).
  • Lee, K.C. and  Liu, A.J. Force-velocity relation for actin-polymerization-driven motility from brownian dynamics simulations. Biophys. J. 97, 1295-1304, doi:0.1016/j.bpj.2009.06.014 (2009).
  • Liu, Y., Mills, E.N. and Composto, R.J. Tuning optical properties of gold nanorods in polymer films through thermal reshaping. J. Materials Chem. 19, 2704-2709, doi:10.1039/b901782h (2009).
  • Lubensky, T.C. in P.G. de Gennes’ Impact on Science – Volume I: Solid State and Liquid Crystals   (ed J. Proust J. Bok, F. Brochard-Wyart) (World Scientific Publishing Co., Hackensak, NJ, 2009).
  • Moniruzzaman, M., Sahin, A. and Winey, K.I. Improved mechanical strength and electrical conductivity of organogels containing carbon nanotubes. Carbon 47, 645-650 (2009).
  • Mu, M., Clarke, N., Composto, R.J. and Winey, K.I. Polymer diffusion exhibits a minimum with increasing single-walled carbon nanotube concentration. Macromolecules 42, 7091-7097, doi:DOI: 10.1021/ma901122s (2009).*
  • Mu, M.F., Composto, R.J., Clarke, N. and Winey, K.I. Minimum in diffusion coefficient with increasing MWCNT concentration requires tracer molecules to be larger than nanotubes. Macromolecules 42, 8365-8369, doi:10.1021/ma9014033 (2009).*
  • Mu, M.F., Osswald, S., Gogotsi, Y. and Winey, K.I. An in situ Raman spectroscopy study of stress transfer between carbon nanotubes and polymer. Nanotechnology 20, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/20/33/335703 (2009).*
  • Percec, V., Imam, M.R., Peterca, M., Cho, W.D. and Heiney, P.A. Self-assembling dendronized dendrimers. Israel J. Chem. 49, 55-70, doi:10.1560/IJC.49.1.55 (2009).
  • Percec, V., Imam, M.R., Peterca, M., Wilson, D.A., Graf, R., Spiess, H.W., Balagurusamy, V.S. and Heiney, P.A. Self-assembly of dendronized triphenylenes into helical pyramidal columns and chiral spheres. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 7662-7677., doi:10.1021/ja8094944 (2009) (Front Cover of JACS No. 22, June 10, 2009 and JACS Image Challenge).
  • Percec, V., Peterca, M., Tsuda, Y., Rosen, B.M., Uchida, S., Imam, M.R., Ungar, G. and Heiney, P.A. Elucidating the structure of the Pm3n cubic phase of supramolecular dendrimers through the modification of their aliphatic to aromatic volume ratio. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 15, 8994-9004, doi:10.1002/chem.200901324 (2009).
  • Robbins, G.P., Jimbo, M., Swift, J., Therien, M.J., Hammer, D.A. and Dmochowski, I.J. Photoinitiated destruction of composite porphyrin- protein polymersomes. J. Am.  Chem.  Soc. 131, 3872-3874, doi:10.1021/ja808586q (2009).
  • Rosen, B.M., Wilson, D.A., Wilson, C.J., Peterca, M., Won, B.C., Huang, C., Lipski, L.R., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Heiney, P.A. and Percec, V. Predicting the structure of supramolecular dendrimers via the analysis of libraries of AB3 and constitutional isomeric AB2 biphenylpropyl ether self-assembling dendrons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 17500–17521, doi:10.1021/ja907882n (2009).
  • Swift, J., Butts, C.A., Cheung-Lau, J., Yerubandi, V. and Dmochowski, I.J. Efficient self-assembly of archaeoglobus fulgidus ferritin around metallic cores. Langmuir 25, 5219-5225, doi:10.1021/la8040743 (2009).
  • Tang, J., Yin, H., Qiu, J., Tucker, M.J., DeGrado, W.F. and Gai, F. Using two fluorescent probes to dissect the binding, insertion, and dimerization kinetics of a model membrane peptide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 3816-3817, doi:10.1021/ja809007f CCC: (2009).
  • Xu, C., Ohno, K., Ladmiral, V., Milkie, D.E., Kikkawa, J.M. and Composto, R.J. Simultaneous block copolymer and magnetic nanoparticle assembly in nanocomposite films. Macromolecules 42, 1219-1228, doi:10.1021/ma8022266 (2009).
  • Zhang, Z., Xu, N., Chen, D.T.N., Yunker, P., Alsayed, A.M., Aptowicz, K.B., Habdas, P., Liu, A.J., Nagel, S.R. and Yodh, A.G. Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition. Nature 459, 230-233, doi:10.1038/nature07998 (2009).
  • Zhao, M.S.H., Bonnell, D.A. and Vohs, J.M. Ferroelectric polarization dependent interactions at Pd-LiNbO3(0001) interfaces. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 27, 1337-1342, doi:10.1116/1.3248268 (2009).

*acknowledges use of Shared Experimental Facilities

Partial Support, 2009

  • Bell, C.B., Calhoun, J.R., Bobyr, E., Wei, P.P., Hedman, B., Hodgson, K.O., DeGrado, W.F. and Solomon, E.I. Spectroscopic definition of the biferrous and biferric sites in de novo designed four-helix bundle DFsc peptides: Implications for O (2) reactivity of binuclear non-heme iron enzymes (dagger). Biochemistry (2009).
  • Bissonnette, M.L.Z., Donald, J.E., DeGrado, W.F., Jardetzky, T.S. and Lamb, R.A. Functional analysis of the transmembrane domain in paramyxovirus F protein-mediated membrane fusion. J. Molecular Biol. 386, 14-36, doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.029 (2009).
  • Bonnell, D.A., Kalinin, S.V., Kholkin, A.L. and Gruverman, A. Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: A Window into Electromechanical Behavior at the Nanoscale. MRS Bull. 34, 648-657 (2009).
  • Brown, A.E.X. and  Discher, D.E. Conformational changes and signaling in cell and matrix physics. Current Biology 19, 781-789, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.054 (2009).
  • Butts, C.A., Xi, J., Brannigan, G., Saad, A.A., Venkatachalan, S.P., Pearce, R.A., Klein, M.L., Eckenhoff, R.G. and Dmochowski, I.J. Identification of a fluorescent general anesthetic, 1-aminoanthracene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 6501, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810590106 (2009).
  • Byfield, F.J., Wen, Q., Levental, I., Nordstrom, K., Arratia, P.E., Miller, R.T. and Janmey, P.A. Absence of filamin A prevents cells from responding to stiffness gradients on gels coated with collagen but not fibronectin. Biophys. J. 96, 5095-5102, doi:doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.046 | How to Cite or Link Using DOI (2009).
  • Chandra, D. and  Yang, S. Capillary-force-Induced clustering of micropillar arrays: Is it caused by isolated capillary bridges or by the lateral capillary meniscus interaction force? Langmuir 25, 10430-10434, doi:10.1021/la901722g (2009).
  • Chandra, D., Yang, S., Soshinsky, A.A. and Gambogi, R.J. Biomimetic ultrathin whitening by capillary-force-induced random clustering of hydrogel micropillar arrays. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 1, 1698-1704, doi:10.1021/am900253z (2009).
  • Chen, B.G., Alexander, G.P. and Kamien, R.D. Symmetry breaking in smectics and surface models of their singularities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 15577, doi:10.1073_pnas.0905242106 (2009).
  • Choi, S., Isaacs, A., Clements, D., Liu, D., Kim, H., Scott, R.W., Winkler, J.D. and DeGrado, W.F. De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 6968, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811818106 (2009).
  • Christian, D.A., Cai, S., Garbuzenko, O.B., Harada, T., Zajac, A.L., Minko, T. and Discher, D.E. Flexible filaments for in vivo imaging and delivery: Persistent circulation of filomicellopens the dosage window for sustained tumor shrinkage. ACS – Molecular Pharmaceutics 6, 1343–1352 (e-online) doi:10.1021/mp900022m (2009).
  • Christian, D.A., Garbuzenko, O.B., Minko, T. and Discher, D.E. Polymer vesicles with a red cell-like surface charge: Microvascular imaging and in vivo tracking with near-infrared fluorescence. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 31, 135-141, doi:10.1002/marc.200900589 (2009).
  • Chung, H.S., Jung, Y., Kim, S.C., Kim, D.H., Oh, K.H. and Agarwal, R. Epitaxial growth and ordering of GeTe nanowires on microcrystals determined by surface energy minimization. Nano Letters 9, 2395-2401, doi:10.1021/nl9009765 (2009).
  • Coelho, J.F.J., Gois, J., Fonseca, A.C., Carvalho, R.A., Popov, A.V., Percec, V. and Gil, M.H. Synthesis of poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate) by single electron transfer-degenerative transfer living radical polymerization catalyzed by Na2S2O4 in water. J. Polym. Sci. Pol. Chem. Part a-Polym. Chem. 47, 4454-4463, doi:10.1002/pola.23548 (2009).
  • Desai, R.A., Gao, L., Raghavan, S., Liu, W.F. and Chen, C.S. Cell polarity triggered by cell-cell adhesion via E-cadherin. Journal of Cell Science 122, 905 (2009).
  • Discher, D.E., Mooney, D.J. and Zandstra, P.W. Growth factors, matrices, and forces combine and control stem cells. Science 324, 1673, doi:10.1126/science.1171643 (2009).
  • Duncan, T.V. and  Park, S.-J. A new family of color-tunable light-emitting polymers with high quantum yields via the controlled oxidation of MEH−PPV. J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 13216-13221, doi:10.1021/jp907720a (2009).
  • Faiella, M., Andreozzi, C., de Rosales, R.T.M., Pavone, V., Maglio, O., Nastri, F., DeGrado, W.F. and Lombardi, A. An artificial di-iron oxo-protein with phenol oxidase activity. Nature Chemical Biology 5, 882-884, doi:10.1038/nchembio.257 (2009).
  • Goldberg, S.D., Derr, P., DeGrado, W.F. and Goulian, M. Engineered single-and multi-cell chemotaxis pathways in E. coli. Mol. Systs. Biol. 5, 283, doi:10.1038/msb.2009.41 (2009).
  • Guvendiren, M., Heiney, P.A. and Yang, S. Precipitated calcium carbonate hybrid hydrogels: structural and mechanical properties. Macromolecules 42, 6606–6613, doi:10.1021/ma9012576 (2009).
  • Guvendiren, M., Yang, S. and Burdick, J.A. Swelling-induced surface patterns in hydrogels with gradient crosslinking density. Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 3038-3045, doi:10.1002/adfm.200900622 (2009).
  • He, F., Nair, G.R., Soto, C.S., Chang, Y., Hsu, L., Ronzone, E., DeGrado, W.F. and Binns, A.N. Molecular basis of ChvE function in sugar binding, sugar utilization, and virulence in agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriology 191, 5802, doi:10.1128/JB.00451-09 (2009).
  • Hegmann, T., Qi, H., Kinkead, B., Marx, V.M., Girgis, H., Heiney, P.A., Varin, R.A., Czujko, T., Wronski, Z.S. and Zaranski, Z. Functionalized metal and semiconductor nanoparticle doped liquid crystals-modifying optical and electro-optical properties. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 48 (2009).
  • Imam, M.R., Peterca, M., Edlund, U., Balagurusamy, V.S.K. and Percec, V. Dendronized supramolecular polymers self-assembled from dendritic ionic liquids. Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry 47, 4165-4193, doi:10.1002/pola.23523 (2009).
  • Janmey, P.A., Winer, J.P. and Weisel, J.W. Fibrin gels and their clinical and bioengineering applications. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6, 1-10, doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0327 (2009).
  • Jennings, A.T., Jung, Y., Engel, J. and Agarwal, R. Diameter-controlled synthesis of phase-change germanium telluride nanowires via the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism. J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 6898-6901, doi:10.1021/jp901845c (2009).
  • Jiang, X., Fleischmann, S., Nguyen, N.H., Rosen, B.M. and Percec, V. Cooperative and synergistic solvent effects in SET-LRP of MA. J. Polymer Sci. Part a-Polymer Chemistry 47, 5591-5605, doi:10.1002/pola.23689 (2009).
  • Jiang, X., Rosen, B.M. and Percec, V. Mimicking “nascent” Cu (0) mediated SET-LRP of methyl acrylate in DMSO leads to complete conversion in several minutes. J. Polymer Sci. Part A: Polymer Chemistry 48, 403-409, doi:10.1002/pola.23797 (2009).
  • Johnson, R.R., Rego, B.J., Johnson, A.T.C. and Klein, M.L. Computational study of a nanobiosensor: A single-walled carbon nanotube functionalized with the coxsackie-adenovirus receptor. J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 11589-11593, doi:10.1021/jp901999a (2009).
  • Jung, Y., Yang, C.Y., Lee, S.H. and Agarwal, R. Phase-change Ge-Sb nanowires: Synthesis, memory switching, and phase-instability. Nano Lett. 9, 2103-2108, doi:10.1021/nl900620n (2009).
  • Kamien, R.D., Nelson, D.R., Santangelo, C.D. and Vitelli, V. Extrinsic curvature, geometric optics, and lamellar order on curved substrates. Phy. Rev. E. 80, 051703 (2009).
  • Kang, H., Wen, Q., Janmey, P.A., Tang, J.X., Conti, E. and MacKintosh, F.C. Nonlinear elasticity of stiff filament networks: Strain stiffening, negative normal stress, and filament alignment in fibrin gels†. J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 3799-3805 (2009).
  • Katz, J.S., Levine, D.H., Davis, K.P., Bates, F.S., Hammer, D.A. and Burdick, J.A. Membrane stabilization of biodegradable polymersomes. Langmuir 25, 4429-4434, doi:10.1021/la803769q (2009).
  • Khare, K., Zhou, J. and Yang, S. Tunable open-channel microfluidics on soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) substrates with sinusoidal grooves. Langmuir 25, 12794-12799, doi:10.1021/la901736n (2009).
  • Khurana, E., Peraro, M.D., DeVane, R., Vemparala, S., DeGrado, W.F. and Klein, M.L. Molecular dynamics calculations suggest a conduction mechanism for the M2 proton channel from influenza A virus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 1069-1074 (2009).
  • Kim, A.J., Kaucher, M.S., Davis, K.P., Peterca, M., Imam, M.R., Christian, N.A., Levine, D.H., Bates, F.S., Percec, V. and Hammer, D.A. Proton Transport from Dendritic Helical-Pore-Incorporated Polymersomes. Advanced Functional Materials 19, 2930-2936, doi:10.1002/adfm.200900076 (2009).
  • Kim, Y., Tewari, M., Pajerowski, J.D., Cai, S., Sen, S., Williams, J., Sirsi, S., Lutz, G. and Discher, D.E. Polymersome delivery of siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides. J. Controlled Release 134, 132-140, doi:doi:10.1016/j.jconrel.2008.10.020 (2009).
  • Klein, E.A., Yin, L., Kothapalli, D., Castagnino, P., Byfield, F.J., Xu, T., Levental, I., Hawthorne, E., Janmey, P.A. and Assoian, R.K. Cell-cycle control by physiological matrix elasticity and in vivo tissue stiffening. Current Biology 19, 1511-1518, doi:DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.069 (2009).
  • Koder, R.L., Anderson, J.L.R., Solomon, L.A., Reddy, K.S., Moser, C.C. and Dutton, P.L. Design and engineering of an O2 transport protein. Nature 458, 305-309, doi:10.1038/nature07841 (2009).
  • Kota, A. and  Winey, K.I. Polymer nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2009 (McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY) 297-301 (2009).
  • Kuroda, K., Caputo, G.A. and DeGrado, W.F. The Role of hydrophobicity in the antimicrobial and hemolytic activities of polymethacrylate derivatives. Chemistry-a European Journal 15, 1123-1133, doi:10.1002/chem.200801523 (2009).
  • Latka, A., Han, Y., Alsayed, A.M., Schofield, A.B., Yodh, A.G. and Habdas, P. Particle dynamics in colloidal suspensions above and below the glass-liquid re-entrance transition. Europhys. Lett. 86, 58001, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/86/58001 (2009).
  • Lau, A.W.C. and  Lubensky, T.C. Fluctuating hydrodynamics and microrheology of a dilute suspension of swimming bacteria. Phys. Rev. E 80, 011917, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011917 (2009).
  • Legant, W.R., Pathak, A., Yang, M.T., Deshpande, V.S., McMeeking, R.M. and Chen, C.S. Microfabricated tissue gauges to measure and manipulate forces from 3D microtissues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, 10097-10102, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900174106 (2009).
  • Lemmon, C.A., Chen, C.S. and Romer, L.H. Cell traction forces direct fibronectin matrix assembly. Biophys. J. 96, 729-738 (2009).
  • Levental, I., Byfield, F.J., Chowdhury, P., Gai, F., Baumgart, T. and Janmey, P.A. Cholesterol-dependent phase separation in cell-derived giant plasma-membrane vesicles. Biochem. J. 424, 163-167, doi:10.1042/bj20091283 (2009).
  • Lichtenstein, B.R., Cerda, J.F., Koder, R.L. and Dutton, P.L. Reversible proton coupled electron transfer in a peptide-incorporated naphthoquinone amino acid. Chem. Comm. 2009, 168-170, doi:10.1039/b815915g (2009).
  • Liu, F., Dumont, C., Zhu, Y., DeGrado, W.F., Gai, F. and Gruebele, M.    A one-dimensional free energy surface does not account for two-probe folding kinetics of protein D. J.Chem. Phys. 130, 061101 (2009).
  • Liu, M.L., Huang, F.Q., Chen, L.D. and Chen, I.W. A wide-band-gap p-type thermoelectric material based on quaternary chalcogenides of CuZnSnQ (Q= S, Se). Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 202103, doi:10.1063/1.3130718 (2009).
  • Liu, M.-L., Chen, I.-W., Huang, F.-Q. and Chen, L.-D. Improved Thermoelectric Properties of Cu-Doped Quaternary Chalcogenides of Cu2CdSnSe4. Adv. Mater. 21, 1-5, doi 3808-3812 (2009).
  • Liu, M.-L., Huang, F.-Q., Chen, L.-D. and Chen, I.-W. A wide-band-gap p-type thermoelectric material based on quaternary chalcogenides of Cu2ZnSnQ4 (Q = S,Se). Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 (20), 202103-202106, doi:doi:10.1063/1.3130718 (2009).
  • Liu, T.Y., Hu, S.H., Liu, D.M., Chen, S.Y. and Chen, I.W. Biomedical nanoparticle carriers with combined thermal and magnetic responses. Nano Today 4, 52-65, doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2008.10.011 | (2009).
  • Liu, T.-Y., Liu, K.-H., Liu, D.-M., Chen, S.-Y. and Chen, I.-W. Temperature-sensitive nanoparticles for controlled drug release caused by magnetically triggered structure disruption. Adv. Func. Mater. 19, 1-8 (2009).
  • Liu, Y., Mills, E.N. and Composto, R.J. Tuning optical properties of gold nanorods in polymer films through thermal reshaping. J. Materials Chem. 19, 2704-2709, doi:10.1039/b901782h (2009).
  • Luo, Z., Vora, P.M., Mele, E.J., Johnson, A.T.C. and Kikkawa, J.M. Photoluminescence and band gap modulation in graphene oxide. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 111909, doi:10.1063/1.3098358 (2009).
  • Ma, C., Polishchuk, A.L., Ohigashi, Y., Stouffer, A.L., Schön, A., Magavern, E., Jing, X., Lear, J.D., Freire, E., Lamb, R.A., DeGrado, W.F. and Pinto, L.H. Identification of the functional core of the influenza A virus A/M2 proton-selective ion channel. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 12283-12238, doi:10.1073/pnas.0905726106 (2009).
  • Matsumoto, E.A. and  Kamien, R.D. Elastic-instability triggered pattern formation. Phys. Rev. E 80, doi:021604 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021604 (2009).
  • McConnell, M.D., Bassani, A.W., Yang, S. and Composto, R.J. Tunable wetting of nanoparticle-decorated polymer films. Langmuir 25, 11014 (2009).
  • McConnell, M.D., Liu, Y., Nowak, A.P., Pilch, S., Masters, J.G. and Composto, R.J. Bacterial plaque retention on oral hard materials: Effect of surface roughness, surface composition, and physisorbed polycarboxylate. J. Biomed. Materials Res. Part A 92A, 1518-1527 (2009).
  • McConnell, M.D., Yang, S. and Composto, R.J. Covalent nanoparticle assembly onto random copolymer cilms. Macromolecules 42, 517-523, doi:10.1021/ma8023156 (2009).
  • McConnell, M.D., Yang, S. and Composto, R.J. Covalent nanoparticle assembly onto random copolymer films, 2009).
  • McGarry, J.P., Fu, J., Yang, M.T., Chen, C.S., McMeeking, R.M., Evans, A.G. and Deshpande, V.S. Simulation of the contractile response of cells on an array of micro-posts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 367, 3477-3497, doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0097 (2009).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Jiang, X., Fleischmann, S., Rosen, B.M. and Percec, V. The effect of ligand on the rate of propagation of Cu(0) wire catalyzed SET-LRP of MA in DMSO at 25 degrees C. .Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry 47, 5629-5638, doi:10.1002/pola.23691 (2009).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Rosen, B.M., Jiang, X., Fleischmann, S. and Percec, V. New efficient reaction media for SET-LRP produced from binary mixtures of organic solvents and H2O. J. Polymer Sci. Part A: Polymer Chem. 47, doi:10.1002/pola.23665 (2009).
  • Nguyen, N.H., Rosen, B.M., Lligadas, G. and Percec, V. Surface-dependent kinetics of Cu (0)-wire-catalyzed single-electron transfer living radical polymerization of methyl acrylate in DMSO at 25°C. Macromolecules 42, 2379-2386, doi:10.1021/ma8028562 CCC: (2009).
  • Ostuni, E., Whitesides, G.M., Ingber, D.E. and Chen, C.S. Using self-assembled monolayers to pattern ECM proteins and cells on substrates. Methods Mol. Biol. 522, 183-194, doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-413-1_12 (2009).
  • Park, S., Xu, Y., Stowell, X.F., Gai, F., Saven, J.G. and Boder, E.T. Limitations of yeast surface display in engineering proteins of high thermostability. Protein Engineering Design and Selection 19, 211-217 (2006).
  • Percec, V., Imam, M.R., Peterca, M., Wilson, D.A. and Heiney, P.A. Self-assembly of dendritic crowns into chiral supramolecular spheres. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 1294-1304, doi:DOI: 10.1021/ja8087778 (2009).
  • Percec, V. and  Sienkowska, M.J. Synthesis of the four-arm star-block copolymer[PVC-b-PBA-CH (CH 3)-CO-O-CH 2] 4 C by SET-DTLRP initiated from a tetrafunctional initiator. J. Polymer Sci., Part A, Polymer Chem. 47, 628-634, doi:10.1002/pola.23188 (2009).
  • Qi, T., Grinberg, I. and Rappe, A.M. First-principles investigation of the highly tetragonal ferroelectric material Bi ( Zn1/2 Ti1/2 ) O3. Phys. Rev. B. 79, 094114, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.79.094114 (2009).
  • Rehfeldt, F., Cai, S. and Discher, D.E. Regulating stem cell differentiation by controlling 2D and 3D matrix elasticity. (2009).
  • Rosen, B.M., Jiang, X., Wilson, C.J., Nguyen, N.H., Monteiro, M.J. and Percec, V. The disproportionation of Cu(I)X mediated by ligand and solvent into Cu(0) and Cu(II)X-2 and its implications for SET-LRP. .Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry 47, 5606-5628, doi:10.1002/pola.23690 (2009).
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