2011 Publications

Cameron Abrams

Emileh, A.; Abrams, C.F. A mechanism by which binding of the broadly neutralizing antibody b12 unfolds the inner domain α1 helix in an engineered HIV-1 gp120. Proteins 2011, 79:537-546.


Jason Baxter

Baxter, J.B.; Guglietta, G.W. Terahertz Spectroscopy. Anal. Chem. 2011, 83(12), 4342-4368.

Majidi, H.; Baxter, J.B. Electrodeposition of CdSe coatings on ZnO nanowire arrays for extremely thin absorber solar cells. Electrochim. Acta 2011, 56 (6), 2703-2711.

McPeak, K.M.; Le, T.P.; Britton, N.G.; Nickolov, Z.S.; Elabd, Y.A.; Baxter, J.B. Chemical Bath Deposition of ZnO Nanowires at Near-Neutral pH Conditions without Hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA): Understanding the Role of HMTA in ZnO Nanowire Growth. Langmuir 2011, 27(7), 3672-3677.

Wolden, C.A.; Kurtin, J.; Baxter, J.B.; et al. Photovoltaic manufacturing: Present status, future prospects, and research needs. J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A 2011, 29(3), 030801.


Richard Cairncross

Davis, E.M.; Theryo, G.; Hillmyer, M.A.; Cairncross, R.A.; Elabd, Y.A. Liquid Water Transport in Polylactide Homo and Graft Copolymers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2011, 3 (10), 3997-4006.

Du, A.; Koo, D.; Theryo, G.; Hillmyer, M.A.; Cairncross, R.A. Water Transport and Clustering Behavior in Homopolymer and Graft Copolymer Polylactide. J. Membr. Sci. 2011, doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2011.12.030

Du, A.; Koo, D.; Ziegler, M.; Cairncross, R.A. The effect of heat treatment on water sorption in polylactide and polylactide composites via changes in glass-transition temperature and crystallization kinetics. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2011, 49(12), 873–881.

Koo, D.; Du, A.; Palmese, G. R.; Cairncross, R. A. Synthesis and Water Sorption of Standard and End-capped Polylactides: the Effect of Morphology. Polymer Chemistry, 2011. DOI:10.1039/C2PY00549B

Singh, V.M.; Koo, D.; Palmese, G.R.; Cairncross, R. A. Synthesis of polylactide with varying molecular weight and aliphatic content: Effect on moisture sorption. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2011, 120(5), 2543-2549.


Nily Dan

Rosenberg, R.T.; Dan, N.R. Designing Nano-Particle Colloidal Shells for Selective Transport. accepted to Soft Mater. 2011.

Rosenberg, R.T.; Dan, N.R. Diffusion through colloidosome shells. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2011, 354(2), 478-482.

Rosenberg, R.T.; Dan, N.R. Effect of Colloidal Particle Size on Adsorbed Monodisperse and Bi-Disperse Monolayers. accepted to Langmuir 2011.

Rosenberg, R.T.; Dan, N.R. Self-Assembly of Colloidosome Shells on Drug-Containing Hydrogels. J. Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology 2011, 2(1), 1-7.


Yossef Elabd

Davis, E.M.; Benetatos, N.M.; Regnault, W.F.; Winey, K.I.; Elabd, Y.A. The Influence of Thermal History on the Structure and Water Transport in Parylene C Coatings. Polymer 2011, 52 (23), 5378-5386.

Davis, E.M.; Theryo, G.; Hillmyer, M.A.; Cairncross, R.A.; Elabd, Y.A. Liquid Water Transport in Polylactide Homo and Graft Copolymers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2011, 3 (10), 3997-4006.

Elabd, Y.A.; Hickner, M.A. Block Copolymers for Fuel Cells. Macromolecules 2011, 44, 1-11.

Green, M.D.; Salas-de la Cruz, D.; Ye, Y.; Layman, J.M.; Elabd, Y.A.; Winey, K.I.; Long, T.E. Alkyl-Substituted N-Vinylimidazolium Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Thermal Properties and Ionic Conductivities. Macromol. Chem. Phys., 212(23), 2522-2528.

McPeak, K.M.; Le, T.P.; Britton, N.G.; Nickolov, Z.S.; Elabd Y.A.; Baxter J.B. Chemical Bath Deposition of ZnO Nanowires at Near-Neutral pH Conditions without Hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA): Understanding the Role of HMTA in ZnO Nanowire Growth. Langmuir 2011, 27, 3672-3677.

Weber, R.L.; Ye, Y.; Banik, S.M.; Elabd, Y.A.; Hickner, M.A.; Mahanthappa, M.K. Thermal and Ion Transport Properties of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Polymerized Styrenic Imidazolium Ionic Liquids. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2011, 49, 1287-1296.

Weber, R.L.; Ye, Y.; Schmitt, A.L.; Banik, S.M.; Elabd, Y.A.; Mahanthappa, M.K. Effect of Nanoscale Morphology on the Conductivity of Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymers. Macromolecules 2011, 44, 5727-5735.

Ye, Y.; Elabd, Y.A. Anion Exchanged Polymerized Ionic Liquids: High Free Volume Single Ion Conductors. Polymer 2011, 52, 1309-1317.

Ye, Y.; Elabd, Y.A. Relative Chemical Stability of Alkaline Exchange Polymerized Ionic Liquids. Macromolecules 2011, 44 (21), 8494-8503.


Kenneth Lau

Bose, R.K.; Lau, K.K.S. Initiated chemical vapor deposition of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels. Thin Solid Films 2011, 519(14), 4415-4417.

Jo, W.; Freedman, K.; Yi, D.K.; Bose, R.K.; Lau, K.K.S.; Solomon, S.D.; Kim, M.J. Photon to thermal response of a single patterned gold nanorod cluster under near-infrared laser irradiation. Biofabrication 2011, 3(1), 015002.

Nejati, S.; Lau, K.K.S. Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Tunable Unsubstituted Polythiophene. Langmuir 2011, 27(24), 15223-15229.

Nejati, S.; Lau, K.K.S. Integration of polymer electrolytes in dye sensitized solar cells by initiated chemical vapor deposition. Thin Solid Films 2011, 519(14), 4551-4554.

Nejati, S.; Lau, K.K.S. Pore filling of nanostructured electrodes in dye sensitized solar cells by initiated chemical vapor deposition. Nano Lett. 2011, 11(2), 419-23.


Anthony Lowman

Brewer, E.; Coleman, J.; Lowman, A. Emerging Technologies of Polymeric Nanoparticles in Cancer Drug Delivery. J. Nanomaterials 2011, 408675.

Conova, L.; Vernengo, J.; Jin, Y.; Himes, T.; Neuhuber, B.; Fischer, I.; Lowman, A. A pilot study of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-g-polyethylene glycol and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-g-methylcellulose branched copolymers as injectable scaffolds for local delivery of neurotrophins and cellular transplants into the injured spinal cord. J Neurosurg: Spine 2011, DOI: 10.3171/2011.7.SPINE11194.

Holloway, J.L.; Spiller, K.L.; Lowman, A.M.; Palmese, G.R. Analysis of the In Vitro Swelling Behavior of PVA Hydrogels in Osmotic Pressure Solution For Soft Tissue Replacement. Acta Biomaterialia 2011, 7(6), 2477-2482.

Spiller, K.L.; Maher, S.A.; Lowman, A.M. Hydrogels for the Repair of Articular Cartilage Defects. Tissue Eng. Part B 2011, 17(4), 281-299.


Raj Mutharasan

Johnson, B.; Mutharasan, R. A novel experimental technique for determining node location in resonant mode cantilevers. J. Micromech. Microeng. 2011, 21, 065027.

Johnson, B.; Mutharasan, R. Persistence of bending and torsional modes in piezoelectric-excited millimeter-sized cantilever sensors in viscous liquids- 1 to 103 centipoise. J. Appl. Phys. 2011, 109, 066105.

Johnson, B.; Mutharasan, R. The origin of low-order and high-order impedance-coupled resonant modes in piezoelectric-excited millimeter-sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors: Experiments and finite element models. Sens. Actuators, B. 2011, 155, 868-877.

Lakshmanan, R.; Mutharasan, R. A method for characterizing mechanical properties of sugar films using a Piezoelectric-Excited Millimeter sized Cantilever (PEMC) sensor. Sens. Actuators, B. 2011, 160(1), 1304-1308.

Lakshmanan, R.; Mutharasan, R. Nature of sensitive high-order resonant modes in piezoelectric excited millimeter sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors. Sens. Actuators, A. 2011, 171(2), 79-86.

Sharma, H.; Lakshmanan, R. S.; Johnson, B. N.; Mutharasan, R. Piezoelectric cantilever sensors with asymmetric anchor exhibit picogram sensitivity in liquids. Sens. Actuators, B 2011, 153(1), 64.

Sharma, H.; Mutharasan, R. Adhesion determines resonance response of piezoelectric cantilever sensors. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2011, 98, 114101.

Xu, S.; Mutharasan, R. Cell Viability Measurement Using 2 ',7 '-Bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-5-(and-6)-carboxyfluorescein Acetoxymethyl Ester and a Cantilever Sensor. Anal. Chem. 2011, 83 (4), 1480-1483.


Giuseppe Palmese

Holloway, J.L.; Spiller, K.L.; Lowman, A.M.; Palmese, G.R. Analysis of the In Vitro Swelling Behavior of PVA Hydrogels in Osmotic Pressure Solution For Soft Tissue Replacement. Acta Biomaterialia 2011, 7(6), 2477-2482.

Koo, D.; Du, A.; Palmese, G. R.; Cairncross, R. A. Synthesis and Water Sorption of Standard and End-capped Polylactides: the Effect of Morphology. Polymer Chemistry, 2011. DOI:10.1039/C2PY00549B

Liang Y.; Jensen R.E.; Pappas D.D.; Palmese G.R. Toughening vinyl ester networks with polypropylene meso-fibers: Interface modification and composite properties. Polymer 2011, 52, 510-518.

Neitzel, I.; Mochalin, V.; Knoke, I.; Palmese, G.R.; Gogotsi, Y. Mechanical properties of epoxy composites with high contents of nanodiamond. Compos Sci Technol 2011, 71(5), 710-716.

Peterson, A.M.; Jensen, R.E.; Palmese, G.R. Thermoreversible and remendable glass–polymer interface for fiber-reinforced composites. Compos Sci Technol 2011, 71(5), 586-592.

Singh, V.M.; Koo, D.; Palmese, G.R.; Cairncross, R. A. Synthesis of polylactide with varying molecular weight and aliphatic content: Effect on moisture sorption. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2011, 120 (5), 2543-2549.


Masoud Soroush

Bavarian, M.; Soroush, M. Steady-state multiplicity in a solid oxide fuel cell: practical considerations. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2011, 67(1,SI), 2-14.

Hajimolana, S.A.; Hussain, M.A.; Daud, W.M.A.W.; Soroush, M.; Shamiri, A. Mathematical modeling of solid oxide fuel cells: A review. Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev. 2011, 15(4), 1893-1917.

Pariyani, A.; Seider, W.D.; Oktem, U.G.; Soroush, M. Dynamic risk analysis using alarm databases to improve process safety and product quality: Part I—Data compaction. AIChE J. Article first published online: 16 May 2011.

Pariyani, A.; Seider, W.D.; Oktem, U.G.; Soroush, M. Dynamic risk analysis using alarm databases to improve process safety and product quality: Part I—Bayesian analysis. AIChE J. Article first published online: 16 May 2011.

Srinivasan, S.; Lee, M.W.; Grady, M.C.; Soroush, M.; Rappe, A.M. Computational Evidence for Self-Initiation in Spontaneous High-Temperature Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate. J. Phys. Chem. A 2011, 115(6), 1125-1132.


Steven Wrenn

Dicker, S.; Mleczko, M.; Hensel, K.; Schmitz, G.; Bartolomeo, A.; Wrenn. S.P. Coencapsulation of lipid microbubbles within polymer microcapsules for contrast applications. Bubble Science Technology & Engineering 2011, 3, 12-19.

Small, E.F.; Willy, M.C.; Lewin, P.A.; Wrenn, S.P. Ultrasound-induced transport across lipid bilayers: Influence of phase behavior. Colloid Surface A 2011, 390(1-3), 40-47.

Walters, M. J.; Wrenn, S. P. Mechanistic roles of lipoprotein lipase and sphingomyelinase in low density lipoprotein aggregation. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2011, 363 (1), 268-274.

Wrenn, S.P.; Dicker, S.; Small, E.F.; Maghnouj, M.; Hahn, S.A.; Mleczko, M.; Hensel, K.; Schmitz, G. MICROCAPSULES: Reverse Sonoporation and Long-lasting, Safe Contrast. AI31 Proceedings, 2011.