2015 2016 Singh Center Annual Report by Singh Center for Nanotechnology

Singh Center for Nanotechnology Annual Report 2015-2016

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University of Pennsylvania

2015-2016 Singh Center for Nanotechnology

Annual Report

Foreword 6-7 Facilities Updates | Usage 8 Facilities Process Development 16 Singh Center Initiatives 24 Events | News | Graduates 48 Researchers 60 Patents & Statistics 62 Awards & Honors 64 Publications 66

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2015-2016 Annual Report Singh Center for Nanotechnology

A Message From the Director We are proud to present the 2015-16 Annual Report of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania. The leadership and staff of the Singh Center endeavor to foster nanotechnology-enabled innovation, scientific discovery, and intellectual collaboration, assisting internal and external users in addressing their nanoscience and application needs by: • providing a forum for intellectual exchange between academic (both Penn and external) and industry users — in the past year, the Center has served more than 400 researchers, resulting in over 250 publications and conference talks, and multiple patent applications. Papers were published in fields ranging from nano-biogenomics to nanophotonics to microelectromechanical systems to nanomaterials to nanoelectronics, in prestigious journals and conferences that include Nature, multiple IEEE Transactions, Physical Review, and Science; • considering user needs as a basis for new equipment acquisition and invention — over 19 new nanofabrication and analysis tools have been purchased to meet these needs; •

developing new fabrication processes that not only contribute to the users’ end application but also further the fields of nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing; Singh Center staff have presented results at the NNT and EIPBN conferences and published results in important journals such as the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology; and

• Hosting a Nano User Day exhibition, in which nearly 200 researchers and industry representatives had an opportunity to exchange ideas, showcase their latest results, and hear speakers from academia, industry and government on important new topics in nanotechnology. New advances in nanofabrication are disseminated not only in peer-reviewed journals, but also through a process wiki. This dissemination promotes the emergence of new ideas and innovations, and enables widespread process adoption across not only the Singh user base, but also around the world. Over sixty process recipes developed by the Singh Center staff and users have been published to Scholarly Commons, an open website, and others have downloaded these reports 5,800 times worldwide, including researchers from Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia.

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In the Fall of 2015, the Singh Center was chosen to become the Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Hub (MANTH), one of sixteen nodes of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program. This selection of the Singh Center resulted from a competition among most of the leading nanotechnology-oriented universities in the country. The NNCI program is designed to facilitate access to the Singh Center’s nanotechnology infrastructure for academic, industry, and government researchers across the region and nationwide, with the goal of substantially increasing the accessibility of the community to nanotechnology infrastructure, thereby promoting regional and national nanotechnology-enabled innovation and scientific discovery. In addition to research, the Singh Center engages new users (and potential future nanotechnologists) through on-site research reviews, K-12 outreach for local Philadelphia schools, participation in Philadelphia Science Festival, and on-site summer research experiences for undergraduates. Last year, the Singh Center collaboratively hosted the NanoDay@Penn event in which 165 high school students participated from 8 schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding area. This highly rated program introduced students to aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology through tours and demonstrations. More than 150 postdocs, staff, and especially Penn School of Engineering students who gained valuable experience teaching others, ran these activities. Along with direct educational outreach, the Singh Center has made significant strides to integrate itself into Philadelphia and the surrounding area’s technology development community by participating in events such as: the Delaware Valley Manufacturing Summit, Philadelphia Tech Week, the Rain Conference, and hosting our own Entrepreneurial Open House (with accompanying Seed Grant Competition). The Singh Center is also working hand in hand with organizations such as the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Philadelphia Start-up Leaders to foster growth in nanotechnology research and innovation throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. We are very proud of what the Singh Center has accomplished over the last year, and are looking forward to continued contributions to the region’s and nation’s growth and impact in nanotechnology research, development, and implementation. Sincerely,

Mark G. Allen Director, Singh Center for Nanotechnology University of Pennsylvania

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Facilities Updates andUsage

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2015-2016 New Equipment

A Tousimis 931 Autosamdri critical point dryer for release of micromechanical structures as well as generating freestanding beams for applied mechanics and electrical transport studies.

Nanoscribe Photonic Professional GT 3D lithography system that employs two-photon absorption for generating structures down to 600 nm over a volume that spans the millimeter scale (will arrive late summer).

MRL 1014 150 mm furnaces for silicon oxidation, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride and annealing.

Upgrade of Asylum TIRF-AFM optics including new camera hardware and microscope capture / acquisition software. This upgrade improves the frame-rate of the camera for recording and analysis of dynamic processes in cells and tissues.

Ultratech Fiji 200 Gen 2 plasma ALD will arrive in July 2016 that will primarily be used for deposition of metal thin films, metal-insulator-metal structures and thin film Li-ion battery research.

Development of electrochemical AFM (Asylum) technique for characterization of materials in solution. This was done as a part of a research project sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive to determine the distribution of metal ions within biological films.

PECVD, IPE CVD-1000 for large substrate deposition and SiC thin films.

New ambient STM application module for the Bruker Icon AFM, which facilitates scanning tunneling spectroscopy for characterizing electronic states in metals and semi-metals as well as non-contact topographic imaging without the time and hassle of working in a vacuum chamber.

Suss MicroTec conformal imprint lithography system that utilizes soft imprint stamps that literally imprint up and over wafer level defects.

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Facilities Highlights EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION To meet the demands of academia and industry, the Singh Center for Nanotechnology facilities constantly measures our equipment inventory to determine the appropriate acquisitions in our user community. New equipment is being brought online that best serves the user community needs. To support the use of these tools, staff provides training and process development to optimize the tool capability.

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Home Locations of Singh Center for Nanotechnology Users

the Center has served nearly

400

researchers

San Diego, CA

Cherry Hill, NJ

Cornell, NY

North Wales, PA

San Fancisco, CA

Glassboro, NJ

Ithaca, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Wilmington, DE

Moorestown, NJ

New York, NY

Pittsburgh, PA

Davie, FL

Newark, NJ

Charlotte, NC

Swarthmore, PA

Marion, IN

Princeton, NJ

Bala Cynwyd, PA

Villanova, PA

Iowa City, IA

Raritan, NJ

Bethlehem, PA

West Chester, PA

University Park, MD

Woodbridge Township, NJ

Bristol, PA

Billerica, MA

Exton, PA Millersville, PA

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Research Highlights SITE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Provided are multiple examples of research highlights from Penn Internal Users, External Academic Users and Corporate Users of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. This small cross section of user research spans diverse topics from bioengineering to nanophotonics. Our users hail from all over the United States, but come chiefly from the Mid-Atlantic Region.

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2015- 2016 Singh Center for Nanotechnology Users

Affiliation Breakdown of

Disciplinary Breakdown of

Singh Users

July 2015- June 2016 | USAGE BY USER AFFILIATION AND DISCIPLINE

Affiliation Breakdown of

Disciplinary Breakdown of

Singh Users

July 2015- June 2016 | USAGE BY LAB HOURS

Affiliation Breakdown of

Disciplinary Breakdown of

Singh Users

July 2015- June 2016 | USAGE BY USER FEES

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Usage Highlights SITE USAGE HIGHLIGHTS The site metrics in each section are associated with Singh Center for Nanotechnology users, laboratory hours, and revenue collected during the fiscal period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. The graphs in each category (users, laboratory hours, and user fees) are categorized by affiliation and disciplinary breakdown. The total number of lab users during this period were 443, with lab usage totaling 32,659 hours.

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Facilities Process Development

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2015-2016 Process Development

Engaging Medicine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Radiology Example School of Medicine

Etching Conformal Imprint Structures

Among the researchers to whom we have taught basic microfluidics, a handful have required more sophisticated fabrication techniques. One such example is Dr. Steven Kadlicek from the Department of Radiology at Penn. Professor Kadlicekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group is focused on experimental studies of altered metabolism in heart, liver and brain, and of the greatly accelerated metabolic processes in cancer. His team was unable to use soft lithography techniques (PDMS-based) since their HPLC devices were inherently high pressure and had the requirement of being hermetically sealed. Singh staff members partnered with his group to employ laser micromachining of silicon for channel formation and then encapsulated the structure with anodically bonded glass. In order to make fluidic connections, we employed laser micromachining (drilling) again to make multiple ports on the structure.

In collaboration with AMO GmbH, etch processes were developed to demonstrate a SCIL (surface conformal imprint lithography) process for grating waveguide structures in tantalum oxide. This work was presented as a poster at the 14th International Conference on Nanoimprint and Nanoprint Technology in October 2015.

A wafer-based HPLC device for studying metabolic processes

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Electron Beam Lithography Enhancements Two process developments were presented at the EIPBN Meeting in May 2016: “Shape Positional Accuracy Optimization via Writing Order” and “Metal Free Adhesion of Au onto Si Native Oxide”. The conference proceedings will be published in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology Part B. The goal of this work was to develop and share practical, robust, reproducible processes for the diverse nanofabrication lithography community. Hence, we chose a topic such as adhering gold directly to Si without a Cr adhesion layer (important for the plasmonics community).

Polar Insulators and Tunable Dielectrics – Drexel University The Spanier group at Drexel University has been using the Singh Center to carry out photo- and electron-beam lithography, RF sputtering and electron beam evaporation of metal, transparent conducting, and dielectric films to produce electrodes onto insulating oxide film and bulk materials. Students and postdocs in the group and the group’s research have benefitted from expert training, and guidance with and collaboration in process design and development provided by the Center’s staff. The devices and test structures fabricated are enabling the Spanier group to investigate fundamental nature of light-matter interactions in polar insulators, and the properties of tunable dielectrics, with applications in photovoltaic solar energy conversion and frequency-agile filters and antennas.

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Soft Lithography Resist Adhesion Testing Strong adhesion of SU8 resist to the substrate is critical in soft lithography. However, proper substrate preparation protocols lack specifics in published procedures. As a result, researchers find themselves wasting hours of lab time attempting to work out their own protocols. We tested multiple surface preparation protocols for silicon substrates that are commonly used. This article has been published in Scholarly Commons and downloaded over 140 times. Wafer Treatment Result No Treatment Delamination 5um SU-8 Base Layer

Pass

Piranha + SRD + YES

Partial Delamination

Piranha + SRD + Dehydration

Delamination

BOE + SRD + YES

Partial Delamination

BOE + SRD + Dehydration

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BOE + YES

Delamination

BOE + Dehydration

Pass

SRD + YES

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Surpass + IPA

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Acetone + IPA + Dehydration

Delamination

MCC 80/20

Partial Delamination

Delamination resistance properties of SU-8 on Si for various surface treatments

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Staff Support of Local Users â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Neurology Example

Nanophotonics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tornado Spectral Systems

The search for an interfacing device that stimulates and senses neural signals in the brain is an important and active area of research due to ever increasing needs for understanding the brain. Development of an implantable neural prosthetic device (NPD) is crucial for a fundamental understanding of brain function at a specific site. We will employ a Si carrier layer for insertion with the size of 10 - 20Îźm. While the compliance will be controlled geometrically by making multiple holes in the electrode, the thick solid Si remains to provide enough mass for insertion. The metal electrode will be deposited on Parylene and encapsulated with bio-compatible materials such as collagen and Matrigel.

Tornado Spectral Systems is an early stage Ithaca, NY based company that utilizes nanophotonic structures as visible light dispersive spectrometers. At the Singh Center, we have developed silicon-oxynitride films with a repeatable, tightly controlled refractive index that clads their waveguide structures. In fact, we can control refractive index to the 3rd decimal place, which is a rather difficult specification to achieve. Tornado Spectral Systems touts the use of dispersive nanophotonic devices since, in the absence of moving parts, they have inherent speed and sensitivity when compared to standard interferometric and scanning spectrometers.

Directed Self Assembly of Block Copolymers Directed self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is considered as one of the most promising advanced lithography approaches for applications not requiring precise registration. This lithographic approach can make sub-20 nm patterns on a 6-inch diameter substrate in parallel and at low cost, using the selfassembly of BCP and guide patterns created by e-beam or EUV lithography. The goal of this project, as an internal initiative by the Quattrone Nanofabrication staff, is to make this technique available at the Singh Center and the Mid-Atlantic community. The guide patterns for lines (chemo- and grapho-epitaxy) and holes (contact shrink hole) will be developed as next steps.

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Flexible Nanoparticle Electronic Systems

Nanochannel Assembly and Packaging – Bio Nanogenomics

Recent work by Dr. Cherie Kagan and Dr. Christopher Murray opens the door for electrical components to be built into flexible or wearable applications, as the lower-temperature process is compatible with a wide array of materials and can be applied to larger areas. Nanocrystal-based field effect transistors were patterned onto flexible plastic backings using spin coating but could eventually be constructed by additive manufacturing systems, like 3-D printers. The researchers began by taking nanocrystals, or roughly spherical nanoscale particles, with the electrical qualities necessary for a transistor and dispersing these particles in a liquid, making nanocrystal inks. Kagan’s group developed a library of four of these inks: a conductor (silver), an insulator (aluminum oxide), a semiconductor (cadmium selenide) and a conductor combined with a dopant (a mixture of silver and indium). Primarily, the National Science Foundation through its Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Award DMR-1120901 supported the research.

Bio NanoGenomics, Inc., from San Diego, CA has been working at the Singh Center for more than a year, primarily in final assembly of devices. After their nano channel chips have completed fabrication at a wafer foundry, the company requires wafer bonding services. Their chips are designed to unravel, sort, and confine long DNA fragments in a linearized conformation. The nanoscale channels on their chips were designed to allow only a single long-strand DNA molecule to travel through while preventing the molecule from tangling or folding back on itself. The Singh Center was able to customize a wafer bonding chuck and alignment system for their chips, enabling full anodic bonding and high-pressure operation of the device for electrophoretic transport.

Kagan group nanocrystal FETs on flexible plastic backing plates. “Exploiting the Colloidal Nanocrystal Library to Construct Electronic Devices,” Ji-Hyuk Choi, Han Wang, Soong Ju Oh, Taejong Paik, Pil Sung, Jo, Jinwoo Sung, Xingchen Ye, Tianshuo Zhao, Benjamin T. Diroll, Christopher B. Murray, Cherie R. Kagan Science, 352 (6282) 205-208 (2016)

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Bulk Acoustic Wave Devices – Akoustis Technologies Akoustis Technologies, Inc., is an early stage company from Huntersville, NC that designs and fabricates Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) devices through the use of single crystal piezoelectric materials (AlGaN). These devices exhibit 30% improvement in acoustic performance when compared to incumbent thin film technology (e.g., in cell phones). Their BAW filters target the mobile wireless market for enhancement in bandwidth, insertion loss and steep side-wide rejection. Akoustis performed the backside lithography and silicon etching, as well as backside lithography and electrode deposition, at the Singh Center.

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Cell Elasticity With Altered Cytoskeletal Architectures Across Multiple Cell Types Mechanotransduction describes the mechanism by which cells respond to their physical environment by translating mechanical stimuli into biochemical signals. The reverse also occurs; biochemical signals cause a cascade of reactions that alter the way the cell behaves and deforms mechanically. For example, changes in cell elasticity have been implicated in the pathogenesis of many progressive diseases including vascular diseases, kidney disease, malaria, and cancer. Our research lab is interested in evaluating the connection between elasticity and cell health. We demonstrated the structural importance of an intact actin cytoskeleton in the elasticity of five cell lines. We also showed that destabilizing microtubule dynamics resulted in increased cell stiffness for two cancer cell lines. Cell elasticity is a critical component in cancer cell metastasis as the cell must be able to deform significantly to squeeze through endothelial layers to enter the blood stream. We anticipate these findings to contribute to the understanding of the role of elasticity in cancer cell metastasis.

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This complex interplay between biochemistry and mechanics is further influenced by the fact that the cell interior is a very crowded chemical space in which the volume fraction of proteins can reach up to 40%. This large volume fraction limits diffusion of molecules and organelles within the cytoplasm and therefore affects the rates of chemical reactions in the cell. Our team has developed a protocol for injecting quantum dot structures within living cells and tracking their movements. From this information, we can extract diffusion parameters. Together with our elasticity findings, we can explore the interplay between cell mechanics and intracellular diffusion, which will add new insight to the burgeoning field of nanobiomedicine, nanotoxicology, and drug delivery and transport.

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Nanopore Research for DNA Detection and Sequencing The Drndić lab at Penn researches nanopores for the application of DNA detection and sequencing. Nanopores are nanometer-sized holes in thin, insulating membranes. These thin membranes (e.g. 10 nm-thick silicon nitride) are used to separate two chambers of salt solution with DNA molecules floating on one side. When a bias is applied across the membrane, the only path for ionic current to flow is through a single nanopore in the membrane. As negatively-charged DNA molecules translocate through the nanopore, the DNA molecule blocks a portion of the ionic current and is easily detected as spikes in the resistance of the nanopore. A main objective of the research in the Drndić lab is to push this technique down to single-base resolution, so that the sequence of a DNA molecule can simply be read as it translocates through a nanopore. The Drndić lab uses the transmission-electron microscopes (TEMs) in the NCF to drill nanopores for DNA detection experiments. In the JEOL 2010F microscope, the high-energy electron beam (200 keV) can both knock out atoms from a material as well as be focused to a probe size less than one nanometer in diameter. This combination allows a user to sculpt and modify a material on the nanometer scale as well as drill nanopores that are comparable in diameter to DNA molecules (1.3 nm for single-stranded DNA). The Drndić lab has used the TEMs in the NCF to sculpt nanopores in graphene, silicon nitride, amorphous silicon and black phosphorus.

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Nanopore devices fabricated in the NCF have been able to differentiate between short (30 base pair) ssDNA homopolymers of polyA, polyC, and polyT. A focused TEM electron beam was used to thin down a silicon nitride membrane in order to create nanopores 1 nm in length and 1.3 nm in diameter. Nanopores can be tuned to any size, and were also used to investigate microRNAs, RNA/Antibiotic complexes, gold nanorods, and proteins11. In addition to nanopores, the Drndić lab uses the TEMs in the NCF for structural, vibrational, and electronic characterization of materials. In one experiment, an in situ electrical TEM holder with built-in electrical feedthroughs was used to monitor the transport properties of graphene nanoribbons while simultaneously the TEM beam was used to cut the nanoribbons from widths of 100 nm down to a few nanometers. In another, broad illumination of monolayer of MoS2 selectively removed sulfur atoms from the lattice, due to the high atomic number of molybdenum, allowing investigation of the dependence of the vibrational properties of monolayer MoS2 on concentration of sulfur vacancies. In another, the black phosphorus was sculpted into nanoribbons and nanopores.

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2015-2016 Initiatives

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2015-2016 Initiatives

Mid-Atlantic Cleanroom Managers Meeting In April 2016, the Singh Center hosted the first meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Cleanroom Managers. More than (20) universities and government laboratories and (45) staff members attended this event. The purpose of the meeting was to establish regional network contacts and understand each site’s strengths. This is an important exercise since the Mid-Atlantic region (from southern NY to DC) possesses the Nation’s highest density of nanotech facilities. Networking at the regional level and leveraging one another’s capabilities will strengthen the Singh Center’s presence in this technically rich area. Each site provided an overview of its capabilities, numbers of staff and equipment strengths. We agreed to meet every six months, rotating from site-to-site, exchanging best practices. A future meeting was planned for mid-October, 2016 at the Singh Center, where we will focus on deposition and etching equipment/processes and establishing a “sister schools” program within the region, allowing schools with similar size facilities, operating budgets, etc., to share information relevant to their programs.

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universities and government laboratories were in attendance

University of Pennsylvania

Below is a list of attending institutions:

Pennsylvania State University

University of Maryland

Rutgers University

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University

Army Research Laboratory

Princeton University

Columbia University

National Institutes of Standards & Technology

University of Pennsylvania

City University of New York

Drexel University

New Jersey Institute of Technology

University of Delaware

Stevens Institute of Technology

Johns Hopkins University Howard University

Lehigh University

George Washington University Georgetown University

University of Pennsylvania

Naval Research Laboratory

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2015-2016 Initiatives

Nanotechnology Technician Training Program With the Community College of Philadelphia, the Singh Center is developing a workforce development program to provide nanotechnology training for technicians. We have started the needs-analysis stage of this project, during which we are interviewing researchers and hiring managers in different nanotechnology sectors (Materials, Energy, Defense, Pharma, Biotech/Medical/ Personal Products, Nano Equipment maintenance/ repair). Once industry needs are assessed, the program will be structured to best meet these needs.

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Wednesday Open Process Sessions Each Wednesday, Singh Center staff members hold an open forum for users in the Penn fabrication community. The primary purpose of the event is assembling Singh Center staff with researchers to offer solutions to their fabrication problems, ranging from simple devices to complex multi-level process integration issues. It also allows researchers with limited background in fabrication to learn how staff and their community peers design devices and work through the challenges of device fabrication. This has proven to be a lively session each week that attracts 5-10 researchers and 3-4 staff members. An interesting observation among staff is how nearly all participants remain in the room for the multi-hour session, contributing to and learning from others in the Penn fabrication community.

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Cleanroom Summer School In June 2016, the Singh Center staff began a Cleanroom Summer School, open to all, consisting of a series of lectures, device design sessions, advanced processing applications and handson fabrication techniques. Topics include lithography (optical, imprint, direct write), reactive ion etching, thin film deposition (thermal, electron beam, metrology, statistical process control, advanced modeling of electron beam exposure processes, hierarchical design of basic circuits and devices, etc. As of this time, there are 103 course seats filled for the Cleanroom Summer School Sessions. Based on registration data, the attendees are 33% from Penn Engineering, 28% from Penn Arts & Sciences, 17% from the Penn School of Medicine and 17% external to Penn (corporate and external academic).

Date

Class Description

6/20 7/19 8/9 –

QNF INTRO Part 1: Introduction to Deposition Part 1: Learn the basics of Plasma Enhance Chemical Vapor Deposition and some of the key metrology techniques for monitoring the thin film deposition process.

10am – 1pm

QNF INTRO Part 2: Lithography Part 2: Learn the basics of resist application and contact lithography and some key metrology techniques. QNF INTRO Part 3: Reactive Ion Etching Part 3: Learn the basics of reactive ion etching and the key metrology techniques used in monitoring the etch process .

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8/14 9/25 11am – 5pm

Introduction to Soft Lithography Workshop Attendees will fabricate a master using standard lithography techniques, and then make a working PDMS device.

7/20 8/16 1pm – 4pm

Two-Level Fluidic Fabrication Workshop Fabricate a working two level mixing channel master using standard lithography techniques with alignment.

6/17 7/28 8/18 9am – noon

Elionix BEAMER Training Learn how to effectively convert your patterns to the Elionix ELS-7500EX format using field control operations, proximity effect correction and special data preparation techniques.

6/24 9am – noon

Heidelberg BEAMER Training The training is hands-on to learn about the Heidelberg and how to intelligently convert your patterns using BEAMER.

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Innovation Seed Grant Competition The 2016 Innovation Seed Grant Competition was designed to encourage individuals and companies from all around the Mid-Atlantic Region to design or prototype a wide range of technologies from many different disciplines, but all utilizing nanotechnology related tools and equipment. The contest was open to everyone in the community and included awards ranging from $5-$10K worth of equipment/lab time at the Singh Center, along with the ability of the winning teams to present their inventions to a panel of venture capitalists during the upcoming 2016 Nanoweek Conference that will be held in October. The winners included five teams of students and research faculty that were new to the Singh user base, along with outside organizations. The winners of the competition, along with their submitted summaries are detailed on the facing page.

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Innovation Seed Grant Competition Winners 1. Fermento by Shashwata Narain, Siddharth Shah, and Alexander David

3. NanoSense â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Graphene Based Water Contamination Testing by Matt Serota

Fermento employs microfluidic technology to revolutionize the beer industry. Our innovative technology can speed up fermentation by 3-times, drastically reducing beer production costs for brewers. Fermento won the 2016 Y-Prize and Cornell Women in Technology award. The Seed Grant Competition will allow us critical lab space to test out our prototype.

NanoSense is a concept for a novel graphene biosensor for drinking water contamination testing. This idea could become a commercially available product to detect water contamination with high selectivity and specificity all over the world. The resources of the Innovation Seed Grant would be utilized to fabricate and characterize prototypes of a graphene based field effect transistor for a proof of concept device.

2. Low-Cost Microfluidic Flow Cytometer for Portable Automated Biolab by Dr. Orkan Telhan , Dr. Karen Hogan and Mr. Mike Hogan Mutagenic methods are fundamental to genomic research. Recent advances have streamlined and systematized these methods but, manual manipulations limit productivity gains. We propose building and integrating an automated microfluidic flow cytometer chip into a networked desktop biolab capable of automated liquid transfer, miniaturized process control, computer vision, and multivariate analytics.

4. Amsterdam Fluidics by Enrique Lin Shiao, Alex Yu, Niyathi Chakrapani, and Ronald AngSiy We encapsulate drugs at a 95% faster rate with a 95% decreased cost for pharmaceutical companies by taking a bottom-up rather than top-down approach to fundamentally improve production efficiency.

5. Sweatsmart (Graphwear) by Rajatesh Gudibande, Antoine Galand, and Saurabh Radhakrishnan GraphWear is developing a non-invasive sensor that can measure glucose, dehydration and lactate levels in real-time, all from your sweat. Our patch form factor is convenient, with integrated electronics that allow for instantaneous communication with your smartphone.

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2015-2016 Initiatives Research Outreach

Microfluidics Workshops Staff members from the Singh Center continue to host monthly Microfluidic Workshops as a form of outreach to local university medical schools (Penn, Drexel, Temple, Jefferson and Cooper). Outreach efforts are less targeted at MD programs (clinically driven), but more targeted at MD/PhD (research driven) programs where students and researchers are more likely to deploy lab-on-chip devices. Eric Johnston, who has been a staff member at Penn for twenty years, manages these engagements. Microfluidic workshops take place in the Singh Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soft Lithography cleanroom. The Soft Lithography cleanroom is a class 10,000 space that adjoins the main class 100 cleanroom. Gowning requirements are less stringent in the Soft Lithography cleanroom, recognizing the reduced (but nonzero) need for particulate control in soft lithography, as well as in an attempt to make this facility more accessible to nontraditional users than the standard fabrication facility. It has been our observation that life science researchers are more likely to use our facilities when minimal gowning is required. Each month, approximately 8 researchers enroll in a six-hour session that consists of lectures and hands-on device fabrication. Typically, each researcher brings a device design with them, from which staff fabricate prototype mold inserts in advance. For researchers who do not have a design at hand, they select one from the laboratoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internal library consisting of dozens of devices. The workshop participants then utilize the mold inserts to produce microfluidic devices based on their original designs. To date 95 people have gone through this program, with approximately 20% of the workshop participants going on to be users of the Singh Center.

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Industrial Outreach Given the high density of regional bio-pharma companies, Singh Center staff began a roadshow to educate the regional community on diverse applications of microfluidics. A kick-off event was held at Dow Corporation and hosted by Dr. Alan Nakatani. The Singh Center’s fabrication capabilities were showcased in a local auditorium and simultaneously webcast to the entire corporation. Following the presentation, held at Dow’s Northeast Technology Center in Collegeville, PA, we participated in all-day meetings with staff from across the Dow Corporation as well as a site tour. During the day, Singh Staff members proposed hosting a customized microfluidics workshop for Dow’s senior researchers, which was held in April 2016.

In the process of working with Dow and other institutions, we have found that follow-up discussions/ consultations are required. Since we educate groups of people who are typically unfamiliar with designing lab-on-chip devices, our staff must engage them for months following a workshop. Our aim is to increase the likelihood that they will put microfluidics to practice in their laboratories. Interactions we have found to be fruitful in this regard include lively email exchanges, joint literature reviews, sketching devices with researchers and assisting with basic CAD and photomasks for microfabrication.

Since a key interest area of Dow is liquid materials, we customized an agenda around rheology techniques and their applications in microfluidics. During this event, we met 8 staff members from Burns, MN, Midland, MI and Collegeville, PA. The company has since returned to use the facility for fabrication and development of microfluidic devices for both low-pressure and highpressure applications. Similar engagements are being planned with a local Johnson & Johnson facility (Spring House, PA), as well as with Merck & Co (West Point, PA).

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Internal Staff Development The Singh Center staff have deep expertise in micro- and nanofabrication, and will often work on the development of new processes that can then be placed at the service of users. This not only advances the state of the art of nanofabrication technology, but also provides continued opportunities for growth of the technical staff. Examples of staff-driven nanofabrication advances during the reporting period, have been published in Scholarly Commons.

Dissemination of Process Best Practices Through Scholarly Commons The Singh Center has published approximately 60 documents in the Penn Library System through Scholarly Commons http://repository.upenn.edu/ qnf/. As of June 2016, there have been nearly 5,800 downloads of these documents, covering topics from reactive ion etching, soft lithography, direct write lithography, equipment base lining and basic process knowledge. Downloads are worldwide (from every inhabited continent!), as indicated in the figure below, which shows this past week’s download map:

MEMS Devices for Teaching The objective of this project is to develop MEMS devices as course materials, publish on Scholarly Commons and share with other universities. Students will learn techniques to fabricate these devices such as photolithography, reactive ion etching, etc., their integration and device testing. Devices to be fabricated and tested include: Cantilever array with varying cantilever CDs (1μm-10μm), Comb drives with varying size (5μm gap, 10μm gap), Lateral beam resonators and Resistors & capacitors.

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Scholarly Commons download map as of June 2016

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Singh Center for Nanotechnology Education and Outreach Programs REU

2016 NNCI REU Cohort

The Singh Center hosted six REU students for a 10-week summer research program. Students are hosted in faculty labs and work on projects that use the Singh Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facilities. Students participate in weekly lecture series and complete assignments leading to a final oral presentation and written paper based on their summer research. The 2016 program ran from May 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; August 5.

The names and institutions of the students that comprise the 2016 NNCI cohort are listed below. Three were rising seniors and three were rising juniors (one of these matriculated in August 2015, but will have the academic standing of a junior in Fall 2016). The average GPA for the cohort is 3.93 on a 4.0 scale. The academic majors represented in the cohort are: Physics (2), Chemical Engineering (with a double-major in French), Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry.

Programing for the Singh REU students included four French visiting summer students (3 master-level students and 1 undergraduate) who are at Penn to work in NSF PIRE-funded labs. Combining these two groups of students created a larger cohort for the final presentations and other programming. It also allowed both groups of students to benefit from sustained interactions with peers from another country.

2016 NNCI REU Cohort Daniel Anderson Georgia Institute of Technology Rebecca Melkerson Washington and Lee University Katherine Miller Stockton University Michael Mudgett Johns Hopkins University Brendan Murphy Arizona State University Meghan Pinezich University of Virginia

Singh Center REU students and French PIRE students

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2016 Projects and Host Labs To host an REU student, faculty proposed summer projects that involved using the Singh Center Facilities. Students were matched to projects based on their project preferences and the preferences for specific backgrounds and skills requested by the hosting labs.

Name

Project Title

Last - PI

Department

Daniel Anderson

Revealing mechanisms of growth and wear protection of anti-wear additive tribofilms through in-situ Atomic Force Microscopy

R. Carpick

Mechanical Engineering

Rebecca Melkerson

Design and fabrication of integrated quantum photonic devices in diamond

L. Bassett

Electrical & Systems Eng

Katherine Miller

Growth of Monolayer MoS2 Flakes by Chemical Vapor Deposition

M. Drndic

Physics

Michael Mudgett

Flexible silicon-based force sensors

K. Turner

Mechanical Engineering

Brendan Murphy

A tunable, controllable microarray for mapping neural activity at high-resolution

B. Litt

Bioengineering/Neurology

M. Liu

Bioengineering/Orthopeadic Surgery

Meghan Pinezich The Role of Osteocytes in Modulation Local Bone Tissue Mineral and Matrix Properties

Singh REU Students Back: R. Melkerson, M. Mudgett, D. Anderson; Front: B. Murphy, M. Pinezich, K. Miller

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Singh Center for Nanotechnology High School Outreach High School Outreach This event is part of a nano-focused week of activities in the Fall. For 2016, it is scheduled for October 26, 2016. Eight high schools come to Penn for tours and demos in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. High school student winners of the Delaware Valley Science Fair (and their parents) are invited to Penn to present their award-winning projects and to participate in tours and activities. For Nanoday@Penn 2015 approximately 165 10th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12th graders from five Philadelphia schools (Furness, Frankford, Tacony, Abraham Lincoln, Central) and three regional schools (Bensalem, PA, Hammonton, NJ, Morristown, NJ) signed-up to attend a day of tours, demos and activities run by more than 150 Penn School of Engineering students, postdocs and staff.

Nanoday@Penn 2015 :

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165 students

from 5 Philadelphia schools

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League of United Latin American Citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Educational Service Centers (LULAC) Upward Bound program Fieldtrip site During the academic year, the Singh Center coordinates monthly after-school programming in Penn labs and facilities for LNESC Upward Bound students. The lab visits for the 2015-2016 year were:

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Month (2015-16)

Topic (Host Lab PI)

October

Light, lasers, fluorescence, spectrometers (L. Bassett)

November

Motion of myosin molecules, super-resolution microscopy, polarizing light to see small molecules (Y. Goldman)

December

Physical properties of materials, graphite, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (D. Bonnell)

January

Introduction to Nanofabrication (Singh Center QNF Staff)

February

Role of Nanoparticles in Modern Medicine (D. Cormode)

March*

Sticky materials (K. Turner)

April

Nano-magnets: Modern-day Electronic Memory (C. Murray)

May

Nano Gold Synthesis Experiment (I. Dmochowski)

*Visit was scheduled, but Upward Bound group canceled

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Singh Center for Nanotechnology Community Outreach Community Outreach

Philly Materials Day 2016 (February 6)

The Singh Center participates in various large scale public outreach events, typically partnering with other nano or Penn organizations to provide demos and other activities. These include Philly Materials Science & Engineering Day at Drexel University (February; http:// www.phillymaterials.org/) and The Philadelphia Science Festival (April/May; http://www.philasciencefestival.org/).

The Singh Center for Nanotechnology arranged and organized the participation of three lab groups and one group of graduate and undergraduate students who presented the following demos: (“NanoNoses: Next Generation Sensor Materials,” “Happy and Sad Ball: polymers and balls,” “Quantum Engineering,” and “Gummy Capsules ” – based on a NISENet NanoKit).

2015 -2016

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Singh Center Facility Outreach The Singh Center is an often requested tour stop for Penn visitors. These include faculty from other institutions, delegations from other countries (e.g., the Cuban Ministry of Science), industry (e.g., Lockheed-Martin, IBM, OEM) and a variety of other sectors (e.g., innovationrelated, performance art, architects). It serves a variety of student groups, workshops and academic needs for various audiences (e.g., local K-12, summer student classes, senior design students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science). The Singh Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facility staff members actively and frequently engage in on-site outreach and educational activities. The below table summarizes these types of activities.

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Audience

Events

Participants

Tours

Non-Penn individuals, companies, groups

343

Penn-related departmental, programs Penn-related class, students

9 3

45 34

Outreach

Public/mixed ages K-12 External college/university Community group

2 7 3 2

53 230 56 10

Penn Academic Support

Lab classes, sections of regular Penn Curricula

not tracked

Individual student projects (REU, senior design)

Total Tours

771

Total Academic Support

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Site Curricular Education The Singh Center for Nanotechnology feels that dissemination of societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology is very important, and have accommodated this in a new undergraduate course. The course ENGR 212, “Concepts in Micro- and Nanotechnology”, was developed and taught for the first time in Spring of 2016. This course, open to all undergraduate students at Penn, was offered through Penn’s Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) program, and implemented as a BFS Seminar. As quoted from the BFS Program: “. . . Our goal for the Benjamin Franklin Seminars, the centerpiece of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program, is to make them your most interesting and intellectually stimulating experiences at Penn. They are small classes that have fewer than 20 students, are designed to be intensive, and predicated on the idea that the students and faculty are jointly pursuing deeper discoveries through discussion and investigation. We hope that these courses will allow you to make intellectual and personal connections to both your peers and to faculty with similar interests to your own. The description of the course, as advertised to the students can be found below: Micro- and nanotechnology, applications of the science of the small and the very small, respectively, have quietly but completely transformed our lives. This course will explore some of the key concepts underpinning the fascinating world of micro- and nanotech. Through a combination of lecture and interactive seminar, and based on a minimal (but nonzero) amount of math and physics, students will be introduced to approaches to make and measure structures and devices on the micro and nano scales. The usefulness of these structures will be discussed in the context of nanotech applications ranging from size scales where everyday laws apply (such as the microelectromechanical systems in everyone’s cars and phones) to the size scales where the laws of the quantum world apply (such as quantum dots and nanotube transistors), enabling students to understand and intelligently discuss the scientific underpinnings of nanotechnology applications. Students will also be introduced to current societal impact and ethical issues of the growing use of nanotechnology (What do nanoparticles do to the environment? Can nanotech really help cure cancer? What happens if Moore’s Law for electronic systems, the driver of constant change for decades, comes to an end?), as well as examples of successful approaches and strategies to nanotechnology commercialization (How can I make money in nanotech?).

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During the course, we will touch on the following topics: lithography, microscopy, top-down micro- and nanofabrication, the silicon transistor, microelectromechanical systems, the quantum world (low math version), low-dimensional systems, quantum dots, quantum computing, medical nanotechnology, commercialization of micro- and nanotechnology, and societal and ethical implications of micro- and nanotechnology. Fifteen students, representing three of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four undergraduate schools, registered for the course: four from the School of Arts and Sciences, eight from the School of Engineering, and three from the Wharton School of Business. Within the School of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry, math, and classical studies were represented, while within the School of Engineering, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and computer engineering were represented. In addition to seminars led by the primary instructor, the students were exposed to guest lectures in business and investment as well as hands-on laboratory sessions.

ENGR 212 Enrollment

In addition to the newly-developed course ENGR 212, the Singh Center participated in multiple other University of Pennsylvania curricular courses related to nanotechnology, including:

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Course Number

Course Title

ESE 218

Electronic, Photonic, and Electromechanical Devices

ESE 460/574

Semiconductor Microfabrication

MEAM 536

Viscous Fluid Flow

MEAM 537

Nanomechanics and Nanotribology

MSE 250

Nanoscale Materials Laboratory

MSE 465/565

Fabrication and Characterization of Nanodevices

MSE 500

Experimental Methods in Materials Science

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Singh Computational Activities

Network Information Dissemination

The Singh Center for Nanotechnology offers advanced training in computational lithography for direct write electron beam and laser processes as well as full field illumination optical techniques. With the use of GenISys GmbH software suites (BEAMER, LAB, TRACER) we are able to simulate the aforementioned exposure processes as well as model electron-solid interactions through a full Monte Carlo EM simulation. Penn Staff members would happily volunteer to lead campus-wide efforts in computational lithography.

At the recent NNCI meeting, held in Salt Lake City during the UGIM conference (June 2016), Singh staff spoke with several universities about our Microfluidics Workshop and its recent successes. The team from Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (Carsen Kline and Dr. Tobi Beetz) seemed particularly interested in ways to further engage their medical school and demonstrate the usefulness of lab-on-chip devices. Subsequently, we explained our approach to meeting with the research arm of a medical school (e.g., MD/ PhD programs in neuroscience, immunology and cell biology) and shared our presentation slides, workshop formats as well as poster materials utilized when marketing to local medical schools.

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Singh Center Research Collaboration We recently partnered with both the Cornell Nanoscale Facility (staff member: Vincent Genova) and the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (staff member: Dr. Ling Xie) on a project for etching diamond waveguide structures. This is on behalf of Penn Engineering Professor Dr. Lee Bassett, a 2016 NSF Career Award recipient. When using an in-house ICP/RIE etching system, we experienced limitations in waveguide sidewall angle and are working to leverage our NNCI network resources to achieve near vertical sidewalls. The challenge is the aspect ratio of the waveguides (10:1), at 200 nm in width and 2μ in depth.

Dissemination of IRIS Management Software We have spent time showcasing our lab management application, IRIS, which is built on the Mendix agile development platform to several peer universities. This effort has demonstrated the value of working on a rapid development platform and the universities listed below are following in our footsteps. • Princeton University, who are building their own application based on the Penn model. • N.C. State, who are building applications to support executive education and were inspired by the development of IRIS at Penn. • U.C. San Diego, who previewed the Penn IRIS application and have decided to build a similar model. • Harvard University, who previewed our application and deeply appreciated its merits, but purchased on off-the-shelf product.

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Initiatives on Cost Savings Presently, we purchase high quality materials in bulk to support smaller labs on campus. In time, this could expand to peer facilities, in the areas of chemicals, precious metals and daily-use items. As examples, we purchase gold at 25% below the low-volume rate; our glove pricing has decreased over $100 per case; safety equipment is costing us 50% less than the previous year. Through competitive bidding we have succeeded in dropping the gold price from $61.837 per gram at 5 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purity to $45.21 per gram at 5 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purity. This is based on a 200 g order (our standard) and now Penn is saving $3,325.40 on each order.

safety equipment is costing us 50% less than the previous year. . . . and now Penn is saving $3,325.40 on each order

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Through many conversations with our vendors, they have made their thoughts clear when working with universities: their experience is that academic institutions will never be able to purchase quantities large enough to receive best discounts. We tend to purchase on an as needed basis with little thought applied to buying in bulk. Within the university linkage from lab-to-lab can be optimized in terms of equipment sharing and mapping. By sharing vendorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; costing information with peer laboratories, we believe that we would begin developing meaningful relations. In doing so, we aim to share mundane information with our colleagues to obtain best pricing for consumables and equipment maintenance. As networked laboratories collaborate and leverage our combined purchasing power, 20-30% cost reductions should be realized on many items, not to mention allowing for rapid movement of materials from one lab to another. Why would vendors want to participate in this? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple: they compete regionally with one another and if they have an agreement for selling e.g., gold to all Penn labs, then we all benefit. The vendors in turn, give up some of their margins, but make up the difference in much larger sales volumes.

Combined purchasing power, 20-30% cost reductions should be realized on many items, not to mention allowing for rapid movement of spare parts from one site to another.

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User Research Day 2015

Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Conference

Our first annual research day was held on October 27th 2015 and was attended by approximately 150 participants, including both current users as well as others in the community. Participants came from many universities and companies around the region to hear presentations on various aspects of nanotechnology. Presenters included Dr. Roy Olsson from DARPA, Dr. Kenneth Shephard from Columbia University, Dr. Daniel Solis from Bionano Genomics, and Ryan Mendoza, Sr. Vice President from Graphene Frontiers. In addition to the speaking engagements the day also consisted of a Nanotechnology Expo, Student Poster Presentations, and Facility Tours. This event allowed the current users of our facilities to showcase their work and to network with others, including the student and external business communities.

On June 5-9 2016, the 17th Annual Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference took place at Hilton Head, South Carolina. The workshop provides a highly interactive forum for researchers to present and discuss recent advances in microfabrication technologies for sensing and actuation devices and microsystems for physical, chemical, and biological applications. Approximately 340 attendees in experimental micro- and nanotechnology attended the conference. Dr. Mark Allen, Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology was chair of this 2016 conference, and both the Singh Center as well as the NNCI Coordinating Office had information booths describing the range of services available at the network level.

Part of the success of this event was the ability to engage such a diverse array of participants, including many representatives of the nanotechnology industry as well as local businesses that helped sponsor the event. The addition of a vendor showcase to the student poster session created a very immersive environment that stimulated discussion between individuals at all levels.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Open House Over the past few years there has been a significant push both at the University of Pennsylvania and throughout the Philadelphia region to foster technology innovation and encourage startup companies to both form and remain rooted in this area. As these aspirations align very well with our internal goals at the Singh Center, we have made significant efforts to engage the entrepreneurship community and to encourage them to utilize the resources that we have to offer. In an effort to kickoff this activity, we held an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Open House in February of 2015 that was attended by over (90) individuals ranging from student startup organizations and venture capitalist firms to the leaders of Technical.ly Philadelphia and members of the French Consulate. This event allowed us to directly engage with those involved in not only developing new technological advances, but also those who provide the financial, legal and business resources that allow those technological advances to succeed. We also utilized this event as a launching point for our Innovation Seed Grant Competition.

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Philadelphia Tech Week 2016 Organized by Technical.ly Philly, Philly Tech Week celebrates technology and innovation in the region by bringing together some of the best and brightest tech minds in the city for a variety of events involving technology innovation throughout the city of Philadelphia. The Singh Center worked alongside groups both at the University of Pennsylvania and others in the Philadelphia Entrepreneurship community in a variety of events, including the Lunch & Learn: Workshop Your Business and the Philadelphia Tech Week Signature Event and Expo.

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Maker’s Meetup: NYC meets Philly

Philadelphia Science Festival 2016

The Singh Center participated in two events at the 2016 Philadelphia Science Festival. In June of 2016, the Singh Center came together with other Makerspaces in the Philadelphia and New York City areas to discuss the formation of new technical ventures within the community. Held at the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, claimed as the nation’s largest Urban Incubator Space (and located within walking distance of the Singh Center), over 100 people gathered to hear Keynote discussions by Canary Security Systems, Orange Maker 3D Printing and Bon Bouton by Flextrapower and attend a small makerspace expo detailing some of the resources available throughout both New York City and Philadelphia.

The Singh Center participated in two events. One was the culminating Science Carnival (http://www. philasciencefestival.org/carnival), which featured 175 booths hosted by institutions and companies from throughout the region. In partnership with the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia’s Science Museum (https://www. fi.edu/), and a Materials Science group at Drexel University and at Penn, the Singh Center provided demos and volunteers for a nano-scale science booth (“What’s So Big About Super Small Science”). Students and faculty interacted with the public using NISENet (http://nisenet. org/) kits, including Thin Films, Nano Fabrics, Nano Food, Invisible Sunblock, Exploring Structures, and Electroplating. We also recruited two lab groups to share their demos on surface area of carbon nanomaterials and on quantum engineering. The second Philadelphia Science Festival event to which the Singh Center contributed was in partnership with the Penn School of Arts and Sciences Science Outreach Initiative. “Close up and Far Away” (http://www. philasciencefestival.org/event/175-close-up-and-faraway) provided facility tours and demos that showcased technologies for observing nanoparticles to galaxies. Nano-related demos were set up in the Singh Center lobby and staff provided tours of the Singh Center Facilities.

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Guest Visitors This past year, the Singh Center for Nanotechnology hosted several visits by nanotechnology focused scholars, international dignitaries and a host of other notable guests. Pictured top to bottom: Dr. Larry Gladney, Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, Dr. Mark Allen, Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Dr. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Dr. Steven Fluharty, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Kathleeen Stebe, Deputy Dean of Research, School of Engineering â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Edith Mayeux, Wallonia Trade & Investment, Debbie Buchwald, Director of Corporate Relations, Drexel University, Belgian Ambassador Johan Verbeke, Mark Allen, Director, Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Bart Deelen, Business Development Manager, Embassy of Belgium. Elizabeth Shatner, Noah Clay, William Shatner.

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Penn Press Release List

Michele W. Berger Berger, Michele W. "Penn Researchers Move One Step Closer to Sustainable Hydrogen Production." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 29 Mar. 2016. https://news.upenn.edu/news/pennresearchers-move-one-step-closersustainable-hydrogen-production Michele W. Berger & Evan Lerner Berger, Michele, and Evan Lerner. "Penn’s Engheta and Ghrist Earn National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowships." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 24 Nov. 2015.

Lerner, Evan. "Penn Chemists Put a New Twist on Chirality." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 19 Nov. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-chemistsput-new-twist-chirality Lerner, Evan. "Penn Engineers Design ColorChanging Material That Could Help Diagnose Concussions." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 28 Sept. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-engineersdesign-color-changing-material-could-helpdiagnose-concussions

https://news.upenn.edu/news/nader-enghetarobert-ghrist-earn-department-of-defenseawards

Lerner, Evan. "Penn Engineers Develop First Transistors Made Entirely of Nanocrystal ‘Inks’." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 7 Apr. 2016.

Jill DiSanto DiSanto, Jill. "Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology Visited by Cuban Delegation." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 28 Mar. 2016.

https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-engineersdevelop-first-transistors-made-entirelynanocrystal-inks

https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-s-singhcenter-nanotechnology-visited-cubandelegation Greg Johnson Johnson, Greg. "Student Spotlight with Sona Dadhania." PennCurrent. University of Pennsylvania, 9 June 2016. https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/interviews/ student-spotlight-with-sona-dadhania Evan Lerner Lerner, Evan, and Lee-Ann Donegan. "Penn Researchers Use Network Science to Help Pinpoint Source of Seizures." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 17 Dec. 2015. Lerner, Evan. "Nano/Bio Interface Center Recognizes Student Achievements at Penn’s NanoDay 2015." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 6 Nov. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/nanobiointerface-center-recognizes-studentachievements-penn-s-nanoday-2015

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Lerner, Evan. "Penn Leads International Collaboration to Re-engineer Disaster Tents." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 27 Oct. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-leadsinternational-collaboration-re-engineerdisaster-tents Lerner, Evan. "Penn Researchers Discover Why E. Coli Move Faster in Syrup-like Fluids Than in Water." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 25 Nov. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/pennresearchers-discover-why-e-coli-move-fastersyrup-fluids-water Lerner, Evan. "Penn Researchers Make Thinnest Plates That Can Be Picked Up by Hand." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 3 Dec. 2015.

Lerner, Evan. "Penn Team Devises Easier Way to Make ‘Bijels,’ a Complex New Form of Liquid Matter." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 26 Jan. 2016. NewsWise, Physics.org, Science Daily, AZO Materials. https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-teamdevises-easier-way-make-bijels-complex-newform-liquid-matter Lerner, Evan. "Singh Center Open House Introduces Seed Grant Program." PennCurrent. University of Pennsylvania, 17 Mar. 2016. https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/2016-03-17/ latest-news/singh-center-open-houseintroduces-seed-grant-program Lerner, Evan. "Two Penn Projects Will Look at Biological Applications of New 2-D Materials." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 23 Sept. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/beyondgraphene-two-penn-projects-will-lookbiological-applications-new-2-d-materials Lerner, Evan. "University of Puerto Rico and Penn Receive $3M NSF Grant for Research Partnership." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 4 Sept. 2015. https://news.upenn.edu/news/university-puertorico-and-penn-receive-3m-nsf-grant-researchpartnership Jacquie Posey Posey, Jacquie. "Three University of Pennsylvania Students Win Goldwater Scholarships." PennNews. University of Pennsylvania, 15 Apr. 2016. https://news.upenn.edu/news/three-universitypennsylvania-students-win-goldwaterscholarships

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In the News

Nanotechnology Now Lerner, Evan. "Penn Engineers Develop First Transistors Made Entirely of Nanocrystal 'inks." Nanotechnology Now. University of Pennsylvania, 11 Apr. 2016.

Philly.com Takiff, Jonathan. "Ex-AOL Boss Steve Case Bets on Philly Entrepreneurs." Philly.com. Philadelphia Media Network (Digital) LLC., 1 Oct. 2015.

Macdonald, Cheyenne. "The Flexible Sheet THOUSANDS of times Thinner than Paper: Ultralight Material Could Revolutionize Gadgets and Even Planes." Dailymail.com. Associated Newspapers Ltd, 7 Dec. 2015.

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_ id=53301

http://articles.philly.com/2015-10-01/ business/67015500_1_steve-case-universitycity-rj-metrics

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Tantillo, Ariana, and Peter Genzer. "Visualizing the Lithiation of a Nanosized Iron-Oxide Material in Real Time: Electron Microscopy Technique Reveals the Reaction Pathways That Emerge as Lithium Ions Are Added to Magnetite Nanoparticles." Nanotechnology Now. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 9 May 2016. http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_ id=53432 Philly Voice Tanenbaum, Michael. "Penn Researchers Create World's Thinnest Nanoscale Plates for Structural Engineering." Philly Voice. WWB Holdings, LLC., 5 Dec. 2015. http://www.phillyvoice.com/penn-researcherscreate-worlds-thinnest-nanoscale-platesstructural-engineering/ NanoWerk "Doping Crystals of Nanocrystals." Nanowerk News. Nanowerk, 24 Sept. 2015. http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnologynews/newsid=41421.php NBC News TV News Desk. "NBC LEARN Debuts 6-Part Video Series 'Nanotechnology: Super Small Science'" Broadway World. Wisdom Digital Media, 25 Jan. 2016. http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/ article/NBC-LEARN-Debuts-6-Part-VideoSeries-Nanotechnology-Super-SmallScience-20160125

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PhD Degree Graduates

Name

Dissertation Title

Advisor

Department

Rahul Agarwal

Engineering Novel Nanostructures via Chemical and Morphological Transformations

Ritesh Agarwal

MSE

Jacob Berger

II-VI Semiconductor Nano-Structures for On-Chip Integrated Photonics

Ritesh Agarwal

MSE

Chen Chen

Catalytic and Thermodynamic Studies of Supported Core-Shell Catalysts

Raymond J. Gorte

CBE

Robert Ferrier

Surface Chemistry Mediated Assembly of Polymer-Grafted Nanorods in Solution and Polymer Matrices

Russell J. Composto

CBE

Elizabeth Gaulding

Electronic and Structural Investigation of Nanocrystal Thin Films Tuned via Surface Chemistry

Christopher B. Murray

MSE

Jiechang Hou

Electronic and Plasmonic Properties of Nano-Sized Gold/Strontium Titanate Interface

Dawn A. Bonnell

MSE

Elaine Lee

Fabrication and Actuation of HierarchicallyPatterned Polymer Substrates for Dynamic Surface and Optical Properties

Shu Yang

MSE

Chia-Chun Lin

Dynamics in Polymer Nanocomposites Containing Fixed and Mobile Nanoparticles

Russell J. Composto

MSE

Daniel J. Magagnosc

Elucidating the Mechanical Response of Metallic Glasses Prepared in Different Structual States at Sub-Micron Length Scales

Daniel S. Gianola

MSE

James McGinley

Engineering a Library of Anisotropic Building Blocks for DNA-Programmed Colloidal Self-Assembly

John C. Crocker

CBE

Michael Norton

Dynamics and Statics of Liquid-Liquid and Gas-Liquid Interfaces on Non-Uniform Substrates at the Micron and Sub-Micron Scales Haim H. Bau

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PhD Degree Graduates

Name

Dissertation Title

Advisor

Department

Joohee Park

Manipulation of Light-Matter Interaction in Two-Dimensional Systems via Localized Surface Plasmons

Ritesh Agarwal

MSE

Jacob Prosser

Solvent Effects by Ionic Liquid-Water Mixtures on the Heterogeneous Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass with Solid Catalysts

Daeyeon Lee

CBE

Feini Qu

Biomaterial-Mediated Reprogramming of the Wound Interface to Enhance Meniscal Repair

Robert L. Mauck

Jason Reed

Nanophotonics of 2-Dimensional Materials

Cubukcu, Ertugrul

MSE

Nicholas Schneider

Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy with the Nanoaquarium: Radiation and Electrochemistry

Haim H. Bau

MEAM

Shahin Shahrampour

Online and Statistical Learning in Networks

Ali Jadbabaie

ESE

Sharon Sharick Tsen-Shan

Structure-Property Relationships of Imidazolium-Containing Polymer Systems: Homopolymers, Block Copolymers, and Block Copolymer/Ionic Liquid Mixtures

Karen I. Winey

MSE

Ryan Wade

Engineering Extracellular Matrix Signals into Fibrous Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels

Jason A. Burdick

MSE

Yu Xia

Liquid Crystal Anchoring Control and its Applications in Responsive Materials

Shu Yang

MSE

Hai Zhu

Optomechanical Devices and Sensors Based on Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorbers

Ertugrul Cubukcu

MSE

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Master's Degree Graduates

Name

Program

Andrew Michael Boodhoo NANO Jonathan Linden Bryan NANO Yinong Cao NANO Yung-Chien Chou MSE Meiyang Cui NANO Yanhao Dong MEAM Laird Nicholas Egan NANO Mordechai Fried

Antoine Galand NANO Allison Faye Glugla MSE Ziyi Han NANO Euiyeon Jung MSE Hsin-Yu Lee NANO Seung Yeob Lee NANO Kristopher Jiguang Li MEAM Shuoyang Li MEAM Chen Lin MEAM Yichen Lu MSE Jiaqi Luo

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Name

Program

Zachary Banks Milne

MEAM

Helen K. Minsky

MEAM

Lei Pei

NANO

Kumidini Chandrika Pulaparthi

NANO

Saurabh Radhakrishnan

NANO

Shubham Sethi

NANO

Jungho Shin

MSE

Naixin Song

MSE

Alexander Costa Stange

NANO

Jothi Priyanka Thiruraman

NANO

Lahari Uppuluri

NANO

Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn

MSE

Mengguang Wang

NANO

Justin Wen

Jared David Wilson

Jason Ho Yin Woo

MSE

Yao Yu

MSE

Hongjie Zhu

ESE

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2015-2016 Researchers

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Research Achievements SITE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS The essential need for nano-science research continues to accelerate with technological advances and a growing world population. Our research achievements continue to play a vital role in contributing and shaping the world of nano-science development of technologies in the fields of electronics, magnetics, optics, information technology, materials development and biomedicine. Through our shared vision and collaborative culture, the following pages demonstrate the success and contributions our researchers have provided in the field in academics and industry.

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Honors and Awards

Mark Allen

Nader Engheta

Mark Allen, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been awarded the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies â&#x20AC;&#x153;For contributions to research and development, clinical translation, and commercialization of biomedical microsystems.â&#x20AC;?

Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded an honorary degree from Aalto University School of Technology, Finland.

Robert Carpick Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, was elected Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE).

Brian Chow Brian Chow, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, has been awarded the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award, which is presented annually by the undergraduate student body and the Engineering Alumni Society in recognition of outstanding service in stimulating and guiding the intellectual and professional development of undergraduate students.

Dennis E. Discher

Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the 2015 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) in recognition of his transformative and groundbreaking contributions to optical engineering of metamaterials and nanoscale plasmonics, metamaterial-based optical nano circuits, and biologically-inspired optical imaging. Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, was named a 2015 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. This program engages the next generation of outstanding scientists and engineers in the most challenging technical issues facing the Department of Defense.

Dennis E. Discher, the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), "for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the effects of matrix and cytoskeletal physical properties and forces on cell physiology and stem cell development."

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Raymond Gorte

Karen Winey

Raymond Gorte, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a secondary appointment in Materials Science and Engineering, will be elected a 2015 Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) at the 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona October 2015.

Karen Winey, TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named fellow of the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of polymer nanocomposites and ion-containing polymers through quantitative scattering and microscopy studies."

David Issadore David Issadore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering with a secondary appointment in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for "Microchip Diagnostic for the Rapid Isolation and Identification of Human Plasma-Derived Exosomes." David Issadore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, has each been selected to receive one of several 2016 NSF CAREER Awards.

Shu Yang Shu Yang, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with a secondary appointment in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2015-16 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for "pioneering the synthesis and fabrication of responsive nano- and micro-structured soft materials."

David Issadore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering with a secondary appointment in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the IEEE Philadelphia Section Young Engineer of the Year Award.

Susan Marguiles Susan Marguiles, George H. Stephenson Term Professor in Bioengineering, received the Trustees Council of Penn Women 2016 Provostâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award for her contributions to advancing the role of women in higher education and research at Penn.

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2015-2016 Publications

Selected Publications from Singh Center for Nanotechnology Researchers

Ritesh Agarwal

Mark Allen

Igor Bargatin

S. Kumar, S. Dhara, R. Agarwal, R. Singh, “Study of photoconduction propertIes of CVD grown ß-Ga 2 O 3 nanowires,” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, v 683, p 143-148, 2016.

J. Kim, M. Kim, J.-K. Kim, F. Herrault, M.G. Allen, “Anisotropic nanolaminated CoNiFe cores integrated into microinductors for highfrequency dc–dc power conversion”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Phyics, v 48, p 462001, 2015.

K. Davami, L. Zhao, E. Lu, J. Cortes, C. Lin, D.E. Lilley, P.K. Purohit, I. Bargatin, “Ultralight shape-recovering plate mechanical metamaterials”, Nature communications, v 6, 2015.

R. Agarwal, M.-L. Ren, R. Agarwal, P. Nukala, W. Liu, “Nanotwin Detection and Domain Polarity Determination via optical second harmonic generation polarimetry”, Nano Letters, 13 July 2016. F. Yi, M. Ren, H. Zhu, W. Liu, R. Agarwal, E. Cubukcu, “Electromechanically reconfigurable CdS nanoplate based nonlinear optical device”, Optics Express, v 24, p 13459-13466, 2016. H.-S. Ee, R. Agarwal, “Tunable metasurface and flat optical zoom lens on a stretchable substrate”, Nano letters, v 16, p 2818-2823, 2016. M.H. Jang, R. Agarwal, P. Nukala, D. Choi, A.T. Charlie Johnson, I.-W. Chen, R. Agarwal, “Observing Oxygen Vacancy Driven Electroforming in Pt–TiO2–Pt Device via Strong Metal Support Interaction”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 2139-2144, 2016. F. Yi, M. Ren, J.C. Reed, H. Zhu, J. Hou, C.H. Naylor, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R. Agarwal, E. Cubukcu, “Optomechanical enhancement of doubly resonant 2D optical nonlinearity”, Nano letters, v 16, p 1631-1636, 2016. W. Liu, B. Lee, C.H. Naylor, H.-S. Ee, J. Park, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R. Agarwal, “Strong Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in MoS2 Coupled with Plasmonic Lattice”, Nano letters, v 16, p 1262-1269, 2016. P. Nukala, C.-C. Lin, R. Composto, R. Agarwal, “Ultralow-power switching via defect engineering in germanium telluride phase-change memory devices”, Nature communications, v 7, 2016.

M. Tsang, A. Armutlulu, A.W. Martinez, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, M.G. Allen, “Biodegradable magnesium/iron batteries with polycaprolactone encapsulation: A microfabricated power source for transient implantable devices”, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, v 1, p 15024, 2015. J. Kim, M. Kim, F. Herrault, J.Y. Park, M.G. Allen, “Electrodeposited Nanolaminated CoNiFe Cores for Ultracompact DC–DC Power Conversion”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, v 30, p 5078-5087, 2015. Y. Li, J. Kim, M. Kim, A. Armutlulu, M.G. Allen, “Thick Multilayered Micromachined Permanent Magnets With Preserved Magnetic Properties”, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 25, p 498-507, 2016. H. Yun, J. Kim, T. Paik, L. Meng, P.S. Jo, J.M. Kikkawa, C.R. Kagan, M.G. Allen, C.B. Murray, “Alternate current magnetic property characterization of nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanocrystals for inductor fabrication via a solution based process”, Journal of Applied Physics, v 119, p 113901, 2016. J. Kim, Y.-K. Yoon, M.G. Allen, “Computer numerical control (CNC) lithography: lightmotion synchronized UV-LED lithography for 3D microfabrication”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 26, p 035003, 2016.

K. Davami, Y. Jiang, J. Cortes, C. Lin, M. Shaygan, K.T. Turner, I. Bargatin, “Tuning the mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets through atomic layer deposition”, Nanotechnology, v 27, p 155701, 2016. K. Davami, J. Cortes, N. Hong, I. Bargatin, “Vertical graphene sheets as a lightweight light absorber”, Materials Research Bulletin, v 74, p 226-233, 2016. K. Davami, Y. Jiang, C. Lin, J. Cortes, J.T. Robinson, K.T. Turner, I. Bargatin, “Modification of mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets via fluorination”, RSC Advances, v 6, p 11161-11166, 2016. Haim Bau C. Liu, S.-C. Liao, J. Song, M.G. Mauk, X. Li, G. Wu, D. Ge, R.M. Greenberg, S. Yang, H.H. Bau, “A high-efficiency superhydrophobic plasma separator”, Lab on a Chip, v 16, p 553-560, 2016. Tobias Baumgart Q. Luo, Z. Shi, Y. Zhang, X.-J. Chen, S.-Y. Han, T. Baumgart, D.M. Chenoweth, S.-J. Park, “DNA Island Formation on Binary Block Copolymer Vesicles”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 19 July 2016. N. Li, N. Sharifi-Mood, F. Tu, D. Lee, R. Radhakrishnan, T. Baumgart, K.J. Stebe, “Curvature-driven migration of colloids on lipid bilayers”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. v 374, 2016.

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Dawn Bonnell J.A. Jackman, D.-J. Cho, J. Lee, J.M. Chen, F. Besenbacher, D.A. Bonnell, M.C. Hersam, P.S. Weiss, N.-J. Cho, “Nanotechnology Education for the Global World: Training the Leaders of Tomorrow”, ACS Nano, v 10 (6), p 5595-5599, 2016. S.J. Hong, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, K.H. Kim, M. Parka, S.J. Baek, D.I. Kholin, M. Lee, E.S. Choi, D.H. Jeong, D.A. Bonnell, E.J. Mele, M. Drndić, A.T. Charlie Johnson, Y.W. Park, “Magnetoresistance (MR) of twisted bilayer graphene on electron transparent substrate”, Synthetic Metals, v 216, p 65-71, 2016. J.M.P. Martirez, S. Kim, E.H. Morales, B.T. Diroll, M. Cargnello, T.R. Gordon, C.B. Murray, D.A. Bonnell, A.M. Rappe, “Synergistic Oxygen Evolving Activity of a TiO2-Rich Reconstructed SrTiO3 (001) Surface”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137 , p 2939-2947, 2015. Jason Burdick J.E. Mealy, C.B. Rodell, J.A. Burdick, “Sustained small molecule delivery from injectable hyaluronic acid hydrogels through host-guest mediated retention”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, v 3, p 8010-8019, 2015. C.B. Rodell, R.J. Wade, B.P. Purcell, N.N. Dusaj, J.A. Burdick, “Selective Proteolytic Degradation of Guest-Host Assembled, Injectable Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels” ACS Biomaterial Science and Engineering, v 1, p 277-286, 2015.

J.A. Burdick, R.L. Mauck, S. Gerecht, “To Serve and Protect: Hydrogels to Improve Stem CellBased Therapies”, Cell Stem Cell, v 18, p 13-15, 2016. S.R. Caliari, M. Perepelyuk, B.D. Cosgrove, S.J. Tsai, G.Y. Lee, R.L. Mauck, R.G. Wells, J.A. Burdick, “Stiffening hydrogels for investigating the dynamics of hepatic stellate cell mechanotransduction during myofibroblast activation”, Scientific reports, v 6, 2016. C.B. Highley, M. Kim, D. Lee, J.A. Burdick, “Near-infrared light triggered release of molecules from supramolecular hydrogelnanorod composites”, Future Medicine Ltd London, UK, 13 May 2016. M. Kim, S.J. Yeo, C.B. Highley, J.A. Burdick, P.J. Yoo, J. Doh, D. Lee,” One-Step Generation of Multifunctional Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules via Nanoscale Interfacial Complexation in Emulsion (NICE)”, ACS Nano, v 9, p 8269-8278, 2015.

I-Wei Chen M.H. Jang, R. Agarwal, P. Nukala, D. Choi, A.T. Charlie Johnson, I.-W. Chen, “Observing Oxygen Vacancy Driven Electroforming in Pt–TiO2–Pt Device via Strong Metal Support Interaction”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 2139-2144, 2016.

T.D.B Jacobs, J.A. Lefever, R.W. Carpick, “A Technique for the Experimental Determination of the Length and Strength of Adhesive Interactions Between Effectively Rigid Materials”, Tribology Letters, v 59 , p 1-11, 2015. Z. Ye, P. Egberts, G.H. Han, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R.W. Carpick, A. Martini, “LoadDependent Friction Hysteresis on Graphene”, ACS nano, v 10 , p 5161-5168, 2016. J.A. Lefever, T.D.B. Jacobs, Q. Tam, J.L. Hor, Y.R. Huang, D. Lee, R.W. Carpick, “Heterogeneity in the small-scale deformation behavior of disordered nanoparticle packings”, Nano letters, v 16, p 2455-2462, 2016.

S.L. Vega, M. Kwon, R.L. Mauck, J.A. Burdick, “Single Cell Imaging to Probe Mesenchymal Stem Cell N-Cadherin Mediated Signaling within Hydrogels”, Annals of biomedical engineering, v 44, p 1921-1930, 2016.

M.-D. Krass, N.N. Gosvami, R.W. Carpick, M.H. Müser, R. Bennewitz, “Dynamic shear force microscopy of viscosity in nanometerconfined hexadecane layers”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, v 28, p 134004, 2016.

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T.D.B. Jacobs, G.E. Wabiszewski, A.J. Goodman, R.W. Carpick, “Characterizing nanoscale scanning probes using electron microscopy: A novel fixture and a practical guide”, Review of Scientific Instruments, v 87, p 013703, 2016.

Robert Carpick

C.B. Rodell, J.E. Mealy, J.A. Burdick, “Supramolecular Guest–Host Interactions for the Preparation of Biomedical Materials”, Bioconjugate Chemistry, v 26, p 2279-2289, 2015.

L. Ouyang, C.B. Highley, C.B. Rodell, W. Sun, J.A. Burdick, “3D Printing of shear-thinning hyaluronic acid hydrogels with secondary crosslinking”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 26 May 2016.

F. Mangolini, J.B. McClimon, R.W. Carpick, “Quantitative Evaluation of the Carbon Hybridization State by Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy”, Analytical chemistry, v 88, p 2817-2824, 2016.

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Russell Composto E.C. Glor, R.J. Composto, Z. Fakhraai, “Glass Transition Dynamics and Fragility of Ultrathin Miscible Polymer Blend Films”, Macromolecules, v 48, p 6682-6689, 2015. R.C. Ferrier Jr, G. Gines, D. Gasparutto, B. Pépin-Donat, P. Rannou, R.J. Composto, “ Tuning Optical Properties of Functionalized Gold Nanorods through Controlled Interactions with Organic Semiconductors”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v 119, p 17899-17909, 2015. M.A. Caporizzo, C.M. Roco, M.C.C. Ferrer, M.E. Grady, E. Parrish, D.M. Eckmann, R. Composto,” Strain-rate Dependence of Elastic Modulus Reveals Silver Nanoparticle Induced Cytotoxicity”, InTech, 3, 2015. W.-S. Tung, R.J. Composto, N. Clarke, K.I. Winey, “Anisotropic Polymer Conformations in Aligned SWCNT/PS Nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, v 4 , p 916-920, 2015. W.-S. Tung, P.J. Griffin, J.S. Meth, N. Clarke, R.J. Composto, K.I. Winey, “TemperatureDependent Suppression of Polymer Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, v 5, p 735-739, 2016. M.A. Caporizzo, P. Robison, A. Bogush, B.L. Prosser, D.M. Eckmann, R.J. Composto, “Understanding Viscoelasticity Changes in Single Cells using Variable Indentation-Rate Viscoelastic Analysis”, Biophysical Journal, v 110, p 366a, 2016. P. Nukala, C.-C. Lin, R. Composto, R. Agarwal, “Ultralow-power switching via defect engineering in germanium telluride phase-change memory devices”, Nature communications, v 7, 2016. R.C. Ferrier Jr, J. Koski, R.A. Riggleman, R.J. Composto, “Engineering the Assembly of Gold Nanorods in Polymer Matrices”, Macromolecules, v 49, p 1002-1015, 2016. A. Karatrantos, N. Clarke, R.J. Composto, K.I. Winey, “Entanglements in polymer nanocomposites containing spherical nanoparticles”, Soft matter, v 12, p 2567-2574, 2016. R.C. Ferrier, Y. Huang, K. Ohno, R.J. Composto, “Dispersion of PMMA-grafted, mesoscopic iron-oxide rods in polymer films”, Soft matter, v 12, p 2550-2556, 2016.

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B. Rasin, H. Chao, G. Jiang, D. Wang, R.A. Riggleman, R.J. Composto, “Dispersion and alignment of nanorods in cylindrical block copolymer thin films”, Soft matter, v 12, p 2177-2185, 2016. E. Lee, Y. Xia, R.C. Ferrier, H.-N. Kim, M.A. Gharbi, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, R.J. Composto, S. Yang, “Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals”, Advanced Materials, v 28, 27312736, 2016. Scott Diamond S. Zhu, B.A. Herbig, R. Li, T.V. Colace, R.W. Muthard, K.B Neeves, S.L. Diamond, “In microfluidico: Recreating in vivo hemodynamics using miniaturized devices”, Biorheology, 1-16, 2015. S. Zhu, R. Travers, J. Morrissey, S. Diamond, “Role of FXIIa, FXIa, and platelet-derived polyphosphate in thrombin generation using human whole blood perfused over a collagen/ tissue factor surface”, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, v 13, p 230-230, 2015. S.L. Diamond, “Flow and delta-P dictate where thrombin, fibrin, and von Willebrand Factor will be found”, Thrombosis Research, v 141 p s22-s24, 2016. S. Zhu, J.D. Welsh, L.F. Brass, S.L. Diamond, “Platelet-targeting thiol reduction sensor detects thiol isomerase activity on activated platelets in mouse and human blood under flow”, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, v 14, p 1070-1081, 2016. S. Zhu, B.A. Herbig, R. Li, T.V. Colace, R.W. Muthard, K.B. Neeves, S.L. Diamond, “In microfluidico: Recreating in vivo hemodynamics using miniaturized devices”, Biorheology, v 52, p 303-318, 2016. S. Zhu, M. Tomaiuolo, S.L. Diamond, “Minimum wound size for clotting: flowing blood coagulates on a single collagen fiber presenting tissue factor and von Willebrand factor”, Integrative Biology, v 8, p 813-820, 2016.

Marija Drndic M.B. Zanjani, R.E. Engelke, J.R. Lukes, V. Meunier, M. Drndić, “Up and down translocation events and electric doublelayer formation inside solid-state nanopores”, Physical Review E, v 92, p 022715, 2015. A. Balan, C.-C. Chien, R. Engelke, M. Drndić, “Suspended Solid-state Membranes on Glass Chips with Sub 1-pF Capacitance for Biomolecule Sensing Applications”, Scientific reports, v 5, 2015. J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Z.J. Qi, M. Puster, A. Balan, A.T. Charlie Johnson, M. Drndic, “Fabrication and Simultaneous Electrical Measurement of Graphene Nanoribbon Devices Inside a S/TEM”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, v 21, p 1155-1156, 2015. S.J. Hong, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, K.H. Kim, M. Parka, S.J. Baek, D.I. Kholin, M. Lee, E.S. Choi, D.H. Jeong, D.A. Bonnell, E.J. Mele, M. Drndić, A.T. Charlie Johnson, Y.W. Park, “Magnetoresistance (MR) of twisted bilayer graphene on electron transparent substrate”, Synthetic Metals, v 216, p 65-71, 2016. P.M. Das, G. Danda, A. Cupo, W.M. Parkin, L. Liang, N. Kharche, X. Ling, S.Huang, M.S. Dresselhaus, V. Meunier, M. Drndic, “Controlled Sculpture of Black Phosphorus Nanoribbons”, ACS nano, v 10, p 5687-5695, 2016. J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Z.J. Qi, A. Crook, J.-H. Ahn, A.T. Charlie Johnson, M. Drndić, “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Modulation of Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons”, ACS nano, v 10, p 4004-4010, 2016. W.M. Parkin, A. Balan, L. Liang, P.M. Das, M. Lamparski, C.H. Naylor, J.A. RodríguezManzo, A.T. Charlie Johnson, V. Meunier, M. Drndic, “Raman shifts in electron-irradiated monolayer MoS2”, ACS nano, v 10, p 41344142, 2016. X. Ling, S. Huang, E.H. Hasdeo, L. Liang, W.M. Parkin, Y. Tatsumi, A.R.T. Nugraha, A.A. Puretzky, P.M. Das, B.G. Sumpter, D.B. Geohegan, J. Kong, R. Saito, M. Drndic, V. Meunier, M.S. Dresselhaus, “Anisotropic Electron-Photon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Black Phosphorus”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 2260-2267, 2016.

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David Eckmann J. Kandel, P. Chou, D.M. Eckmann, “Automated detection of whole-cell mitochondrial motility and its dependence on cytoarchitectural integrity”, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, v 112, p 1395-1405, 2015. J.W. Myerson, A.C. Anselmo, Y. Liu, S. Mitragotri, D.M. Eckmann, V.R. Muzykantov, “Non-affinity factors modulating vascular targeting of nano- and microcarriers”, Science Direct, v 99, p 97-112, 2016. M.A. Caporizzo, P. Robison, A. Bogush, B.L. Prosser, D.M. Eckmann, R.J. Composto, “Understanding Viscoelasticity Changes in Single Cells using Variable Indentation-Rate Viscoelastic Analysis”, Biophysical Journal, v 110, p 366a, 2016. Nader Engheta N. Engheta, “150 years of Maxwell’s equations”, Science, v 349, p 136-137, 2015. A.M. Urbas, Z. Jacob, L.D. Negro, N. Engheta, A.D. Boardman, P. Egan, A.B. Khanikaev, V. Menon, M. Ferrera, N. Kinsey, C. DeVault, J. Kim, V. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, J. Valentine, P. Carl, A. Grbic, E. Narimanov, L. Zhu, S. Fan, A. Alù, E. Poutrina, N.M Litchinitser, M.A. Noginov, K.F. MacDonald, E. Plum, X. Liu, P.F. Nealey, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, D.A. Pawlak, I.I. Smolyaninov, V.N. Smolyaninova, D. Chanda, “Roadmap on optical metamaterials”, Journal of Optics, p 1-69, 2016. Zahra Fakhraai E.C. Glor, R.J. Composto, Z. Fakhraai, “Glass Transition Dynamics and Fragility of Ultrathin Miscible Polymer Blend Films”, Macromolecules, v 48, p 6682-6689, 2015. T. Liu, K. Cheng, E. Salami-Ranjbaran, F. Gao, E.C. Glor, M. Li, P.J. Walsh, Z. Fakhraai, “Synthesis and high-throughput characterization of structural analogues of molecular glassformers: 1, 3, 5-trisarylbenzenes”, Soft matter, v 11, p 75587566, 2015. Z. Qian, C. Li, Z. Fakhraai, S.-J. Park, “Unusual Weak Interparticle Distance Dependence in Raman Enhancement from Nanoparticle Dimers”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v 120, p 1824-1830, 2015.

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Y. Zhang, E. Glor, M. Li, T. Liu, W. Zhang, R. Riggleman, Z. Fakhraai, “Length Scale of Correlated Dynamics in Ultra-thin Molecular Glasses”, arXiv, 24 March 2016.

L. Arroyo-Ramírez, C. Chen, M. Cargnello, C.B. Murray, R.J. Gorte, “A comparison of hierarchical Pt@ CeO 2/Si–Al 2 O 3 and Pd@ CeO 2/Si–Al 2 O 3”, Catalysis Today, v 253, p 137-141, 2015.

Dan Gianola

A.S. Yu, T.-S. Oh, R. Zhu, A. Gallegos, R.J. Gorte, J.M. Vohs, “Surface modification of La0. 8Sr0. 2CrO3−d–YSZ dual-phase membranes for syngas production”, Faraday Discuss, v 182, p 213-225, 2015.

D.S. Gianola, J. Shin, “Nanomechanics: Full recovery takes time”, Nature nanotechnology, v 10, p 659-660, 2015. Yale Goldman L.G. Lippert, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, E.L.F. Holzbaur, S.L. Reck-Peterson, Y.E. Goldman, “Combined Poltirf and Sub-Pixel Particle Tracking of Cytoplasmic Dynein Supports a Winch-Like Stepping Mechanism”, Biophysical Journal, v 110, p 457a-458a, 2016. L.G. Lippert, J.T. Hallock, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, Y.E. Goldman, NeutrAvidin Functionalization of CdSe/CdS Quantum Nanorods and Quantification of Biotin Binding Sites using Biotin-4-Fluorescein Fluorescence Quenching”, Bioconjugate chemistry, v 27, p 562-568, 2016. L.G. Lippert, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, J.T. Hallock, C.B. Murray, E.L.F. Holzbaur, S.L. Reck-Peterson, Y.E. Goldman, “Cytoplasmic Dynein Ring Tilting Detected by Combined polTIRF and Sub-Pixel Particle Tracking of Semiconductor Quantum Rods”, Biophysical Journal, v 108, p 22a, 2015. Raymond Gorte M. Cargnello, C. Chen, B.T. Diroll, V.V.T. DoanNguyen, R. J. Gorte, C. B. Murray, “Efficient removal of organic ligands from supported nanocrystals by fast thermal annealing enables catalytic studies on well-defined active phases”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 6906-6911, 2015. M. Cargnello, D. Sala, C. Chen, M. D'Arienzo, R.J. Gorte, C.B. Murray, “Structure, morphology and catalytic properties of pure and alloyed Au–ZnO hierarchical nanostructures”, RSC Advances, v 5 , p 4192041922, 2015.

T.M. Onn, L. Arroyo-Ramirez, M. Monai, T.-S. Oh, M. Talati, P. Fornasiero, ”Modification of Pd/CeO 2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of ZrO 2”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2015. R.J. Gorte, “Cooling down ceramic fuel cells”, Science, v 349, p 1290-1290, 2015. T.-S. Oh, E.K. Rahani, D. Neagu, J.T.S. Irvine, V.B. Shenoy, R.J. Gorte, J.M. Vohs, “Evidence and Model for Strain-Driven Release of Metal Nanocatalysts from Perovskites during Exsolution”, The journal of physical chemistry letters, v 6, p 5106-5110, 2015. J. Luo, L. Arroyo-Ramírez, J. Wei, H. Yun, C.B. Murray, R.J. Gorte, “Comparison of HMF hydrodeoxygenation over different metal catalysts in a continuous flow reactor”, Applied Catalysis A: General, v 508 ,p 86-93, 4, 2015. J. Luo, J.D. Lee, H. Yun, C. Wang, M. Monai, C.B. Murray, P. Fornasiero, R.J. Gorte,” Base metal-Pt alloys: A general route to high selectivity and stability in the production of biofuels from HMF”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, v 199, p 439-446, 2016. J. Luo, H. Yun, A.V. Mironenko, K.A. Goulas, J.D. Lee, M. Monai, C. Wang, V. Vorotnikov, C.B. Murray, D.G. Vlachos, P. Fornasiero, R.J. Gorte, “Mechanisms for High Selectivity in Hydrodeoxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural over PtCo Nanocrystals”, ACS Catalysis, v 6, p 40954104, 2016. J. Luo, M. Monai, H. Yun, L. Arroyo-Ramírez, C. Wang, C.B. Murray, P. Fornasiero, R.J. Gorte, “The H2 Pressure Dependence of Hydrodeoxygenation Selectivities for Furfural Over Pt/C Catalysts”, Catalysis Letters, v 146, p 711-717, 2016.

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2015-2016 Publications

Selected Publications from Singh Center for Nanotechnology Researchers

Y. Zhao, T.-S. Oh, Y. Li, J.M. Vohs, R.J. Gorte, “Fabrication of MnCo2O4-YSZ Composite Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Electrodeposition”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, v 163, p F863-F866, 2016. Y. Cheng, A.S. Yu, X. Li, T.-S. Oh, J.M. Vohs, R.J. Gorte, “Preparation of SOFC Cathodes by Infiltration into LSF-YSZ Composite Scaffolds”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, v 163, p F54-F58, 2016. Daniel Hammer S. Zhang, Q. Xiao, S.E. Sherman, A. Muncan, A.D.M. Ramos Vicente, Z. Wang, D.A. Hammer, D. Williams, Y. Chen, D.J. Pochan, S. Vértesy, S. André, M.L. Klein, H.-J. Gabius, V. Percec, “Glycodendrimersomes from SequenceDefined Janus Glycodendrimers Reveal High Activity and Sensor Capacity for the Agglutination by Natural Variants of Human Lectins”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137 , p 13334-13344, 2015. W.-S. Jang, S.C. Park, M. Kim, J. Doh, D. Lee, D.A. Hammer, “The Effect of Stabilizer on the Mechanical Response of Double-EmulsionTemplated Polymersomes”, Macromolecular rapid communications, v 36, p 378-384, 2015. Q. Xiao, S.S. Yadavalli, S. Zhang, S.E. Sherman, E. Fiorin, L. da Silva, D.A. Wilson, D.A. Hammer, S. André, H.J. Gabius, M.L. Klein, M. Goulian, V. Percec, “Bioactive cell-like hybrids coassembled from (glyco) dendrimersomes with bacterial membranes”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 113, p E1134-E1141, 2016. Q. Xiao, S. Zhang, Z. Wang, S.E. Sherman, R.-O. Moussodia, M. Peterca, A. Muncan, D.R. Williams, D.A. Hammer, S. Vértesy, S. André, H.-J. Gabius, M.L. Klein, V. Percec, “Onionlike glycodendrimersomes from sequencedefined Janus glycodendrimers and influence of architecture on reactivity to a lectin”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 113, p 1162-1167, 2016. W.-S. Jang, S.C. Park, E.H. Reed, K.P. Dooley, S.F. Wheeler, D. Lee, D.A. Hammer, “Enzymatically triggered rupture of polymersomes”, Soft matter, v 12, p 10141020, 2016.

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Y. Jang, W.-S. Jang, C. Gao, T.S. Shim, J.C. Crocker, D.A. Hammer, D. Lee, “Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Recombinant Protein-Stabilized Gas Bubbles Using Triblock Copolymers”, ACS Macro Letters, v 5, p 371376, 2016. David Issadore J.A. Ko, N. Bhagwat, S.S. Yee, E. Carpenter, B. Stanger, D. Issadore, “Rapid in situ RNA analysis of circulating tumor cells using magnetic micropore-based sorting and Turbo FISH”, Cancer Research, v 75, p 386-386, 2015. H.-H. Jeong, V.R. Yelleswarapu, S. Yadavali, D. Issadore, D. Lee, Kilo-scale droplet generation in three-dimensional monolithic elastomer device (3D MED), Lab on a Chip – Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Biology, v 15, p 4387-4392, 2015. J. Ko, V. Yelleswarapu, A. Singh, N. Shah, D. Issadore, “Magnetic Nickel iron Electroformed Trap (MagNET): a master/replica fabrication strategy for ultra-high throughput (> 100 mL h− 1) immunomagnetic sorting”, Lab on a Chip, v 16, p 3049-3057, 2016. H.-H. Jeong, D. Issadore, D. Lee, “Recent developments in scale-up of microfluidic emulsion generation via parallelization”, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, v 33, p 1757-1766, 2016. J. Ko, E. Carpenter, D. Issadore, “Detection and isolation of circulating exosomes and microvesicles for cancer monitoring anddiagnostics using micro-/nano-based devi ces”, Analyst, v 141, p 450-460, 2016. J. Ko, M. A. Hemphill, D. Gabrieli, L. Wu, R. Yelleswarapu, G. Lawrence, W. Pennycooke, A. Singh, D. Meaney, D. Issadore, Smartphoneenabled optofluidic exosome diagnostic for concussion recovery, Scientific Reports, 6, 31215, 2016.

A.T. Charlie Johnson Z.J. Qi, S.J. Hong, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, N.J. Kybert, R. Gudibande, M. Drndić, Y.W. Park, A.T. Charlie Johnson, “Electronic transport in heterostructures of chemical vapor deposited graphene and hexagonal boron nitride”, Small, v 11, p 1402-1408, 2015. G.H. Han, N.J. Kybert, C.H. Naylor, B.S. Lee, J. Ping, J.H. Park, J. Kang, S.Y. Lee, Y.H. Lee, R. Agarwal, A.T. Charlie Johnson, “Seeded growth of highly crystalline molybdenum disulphide monolayers at controlled locations”, Nature communications, v 6, 2015. J. Ping, J. Xi, J.G. Saven, R. Liu, A.T. Charlie Johnson, “Quantifying the effect of ionic screening with protein-decorated graphene transistors”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015. J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Z.J. Qi, M. Puster, A. Balan, A.T. Charlie Johnson, M. Drndic, “Fabrication and Simultaneous Electrical Measurement of Graphene Nanoribbon Devices Inside a S/TEM”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, v 21, p 1155-1156, 2015. S. Choi, J. Park, J. Kang, A.T. Charlie Johnson, Y.C. Kang, “Surface characterization of PZT thin films obtained at various O 2 gas ratios”, Vacuum, v 128, p 234-239, 2016. D. Pierucci, H. Henck, J. Avila, A. Balan, C.H. Naylor, G. Patriarche, Y.J. Dappe, M.G. Silly, F. Sirotti, A.T. Charlie Johnson, M.C. Asensio, A. Ouerghi, “Band alignment and minigaps in monolayer MoS2-graphene van der Waals heterostructures”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 40544061, 2016. D. Pierucci, H. Henck, C. H. Naylor, H.Sediri, E. Lhuillier, A. Balan, J. E Rault, Y. J. Dappe, F. Bertran, P. L. Fèvre, AT Charlie Johnson, A. Ouerghi, “Large area molybdenum disulphideepitaxial graphene vertical Van der Waals heterostructures”, Scientific reports, v 6, p 26656, 2016. C.H. Naylor, N.J. Kybert, C. Schneier, J. Xi, G. Romero, J.G. Saven, R. Liu, A.T. Charlie Johnson, “Scalable Production of Molybdenum Disulfide-Based Biosensors”, ACS nano, v 10, p 6173-6179, 2016.

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M.H. Jang, R. Agarwal, P. Nukala, D. Choi, A.T. Charlie Johnson, I.-W. Chen, “Observing Oxygen Vacancy Driven Electroforming in Pt–TiO2–Pt Device via Strong Metal Support Interaction”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 2139-2144, 2016. J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Z.J. Qi, A. Crook, J.-H. Ahn, A.T. Charlie Johnson, M. Drndić, “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Modulation of Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons”, ACS nano, v 10, p 4004-4010, 2016. W. Liu, B. Lee, C.H. Naylor, H.-S. Ee, J. Park, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R. Agarwal, “Strong Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in MoS2 Coupled with Plasmonic Lattice”, Nano letters, v 16, p 1262-1269, 2016. Z. Ye, P. Egberts, G.H. Han, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R.W. Carpick, A. Martini, “LoadDependent Friction Hysteresis on Graphene”, ACS nano, v 10, p 5161-5168, 2016. F. Yi, M. Ren, J.C. Reed, H. Zhu, J. Hou, C.H. Naylor, A.T. Charlie Johnson, R. Agarwal, E. Cubukcu, “Optomechanical enhancement of doubly resonant 2D optical nonlinearity”, Nano letters, v 16, p 1631-1636, 2016. S.J. Hong, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, K.H. Kim, M. Parka, S.J. Baek, D.I. Kholin, M. Lee, E.S. Choi, D.H. Jeong, D.A. Bonnell, E.J. Mele, M. Drndić, A.T. Charlie Johnson, Y.W. Park, “Magnetoresistance (MR) of twisted bilayer graphene on electron transparent substrate”, Synthetic Metals, v 216, p 65-71, 2016. M.H. Jang, R. Agarwal, P. Nukala, D. Choi, A.T. Charlie Johnson, I.-W. Chen, R. Agarwal, “Observing Oxygen Vacancy Driven Electroforming in Pt–TiO2–Pt Device via Strong Metal Support Interaction”, Nano Letters, v 16, p 2139-2144, 2016. W.M. Parkin, A. Balan, L. Liang, P.M. Das, M. Lamparski, C.H. Naylor, J.A. RodríguezManzo, A.T. Charlie Johnson, V. Meunier, M. Drndic, “Raman shifts in electron-irradiated monolayer MoS2”, ACS nano, v 10, p 41344142, 2016.

Cherie Kagan D.B. Straus, E.D. Goodwin, E.A. Gaulding, S. Muramoto, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Increased Carrier Mobility and Lifetime in CdSe Quantum Dot Thin Films through Surface Trap Passivation and Doping”, American Chemical Society, v 6, p 4605-4609, 2015. W. Chen, M. Tymchenko, P. Gopalan, X. Ye, Y. Wu, M. Zhang, C.B. Murray, A. Alu, C.R. Kagan, “Large-Area Nanoimprinted Colloidal Au Nanocrystal-Based Nanoantennas for Ultrathin Polarizing Plasmonic Metasurfaces”, Nano Letters, v 15, p 5254-5260. M. Cargnello, A.C. Johnston-Peck, B.T. Diroll, E. Wong, B. Datta, D. Damodhar, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, A.A. Herzing, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Substitutional doping in nanocrystal superlattices”, Nature, v 524, p 450-453 2015. M.E. Turk, P.M. Vora, A.T. Fafarman, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Electron Trapping in LigandExchanged Quantum Dot Assemblies”, ACS nano, p 1440-1447, 2015. F.S. Stinner, Y. Lai, D.B. Straus, B.T. Diroll, D.K. Kim, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Flexible, HighSpeed CdSe Nanocrystal Integrated Circuits”, Nano Letters, v 15 p 7155-7160, 2015. E.D. Goodwin, D.B. Straus, E.A. Gaulding, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “The effects of inorganic surface treatments on photogenerated carrier mobility and lifetime in PbSe quantum dot thin films”, Chemical Physics, v 471, p 81-88, 2015. B.T. Diroll, N.J. Greybush, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Smectic nanorod superlattices assembled on liquid subphases: Structure, orientation, defects, and optical polarization”, Chemistry of Materials, v 27, p 2998-3008, 2015. S.J. Oh, C. Uswachoke, T. Zhao, J.-H. Choi, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Selective p-and n-Doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires To Construct Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices, ACS nano, v 9, p 7536-7544, 2015. M.V. Kovalenko, L. Manna, A. Cabot, Z. Hens, D.V. Talapin, C.R. Kagan, V.I. Klimov, A.L. Rogach, P. Reiss, D.J. Milliron, P. GuyotSionnnest, G. Konstantatos, W.J. Parak, T. Hyeon, B.A. Korgel, C.B. Murray, W. Heiss, “Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals, ACS nano, v 9, p 1012-1057, 2015.

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E. A. Gaulding, B. T. Diroll, ED Goodwin, Z. J. Vrtis, C. R. Kagan, C. B. Murray, “Deposition of Wafer-Scale Single-Component and Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice Thin Films Via Dip-Coating”, Advanced Materials, v 27, p 2846-2851, 2015. D.B. Straus, E.D. Goodwin, E.A. Gaulding, S. Muramoto, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Increased Carrier Mobility and Lifetime in CdSe Quantum Dot Thin Films through Surface Trap Passivation and Doping”, The journal of physical chemistry letters, v 6, p 4605-4609, 2015. C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids”, Nature nanotechnology, v 10, 2015. T. Paik, B.T. Diroll, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Binary and Ternary Superlattices SelfAssembled from Colloidal Nanodisks and Nanorods”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 6662-6669, 2015. B.T. Diroll, E.A. Gaulding, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Spectrally-Resolved Dielectric Functions of Solution-Cast Quantum Dot Thin Films,” Chemistry of Materials, 27 (18) 64636469 2015. C.R. Kagan, “At the Nexus of Food Security and Safety: Opportunities for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, ACS Nano, v 10, p 2985-2986, 2016. A.M. Urbas, Z. Jacob, L.D. Negro, N. Engheta, A.D. Boardman, P. Egan, A.B. Khanikaev, V. Menon, M. Ferrera, N. Kinsey, C. DeVault, J. Kim, V. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, J. Valentine, P. Carl, A. Grbic, E. Narimanov, L. Zhu, S. Fan, A. Alù, E. Poutrina, N.M Litchinitser, M.A. Noginov, K.F. MacDonald, E. Plum, X. Liu, P.F. Nealey, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, D.A. Pawlak, I.I. Smolyaninov, V.N. Smolyaninova, D. Chanda, “Roadmap on optical metamaterials”, Journal of Optics, p 1-69, 2016. H. Yun, J. Kim, T. Paik, L. Meng, P.S. Jo, J.M. Kikkawa, C.R. Kagan, M.G. Allen, C.B. Murray, “Alternate current magnetic property characterization of nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanocrystals for inductor fabrication via a solution based process”, Journal of Applied Physics, v 119, p 113901, 2016. J.H. Choi, H. Wang, S.J. Oh, T. Paik, P. Sung, J. Sung, X. Ye, T. Zhao, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Exploiting the colloidal nanocrystal library to construct electronic devices”, Science, v 352, p 205-208, 2016.

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Selected Publications from Singh Center for Nanotechnology Researchers

Randall Kamien

Jay Kikkawa

Daeyeon Lee

M.A. Gharbi, I.B. Liu, Y. Luo, F. Serra, N.D. Bade, H.-N. Kim, Y. Xia, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K.J. Stebe, “Smectic Gardening on Curved Landscapes”, Langmuir, v 31, p 11135–11142, 2015.

D. Li, H. Yun, B.T. Diroll, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, J.M. Kikkawa, C.B. Murray, “Synthesis and Size Selective Precipitation of Monodisperse Nonstoichiometric MxFe3-xO4 (M= Mn, Co) Nanocrystals and Their DC and AC Magnetic Properties.” Chemistry of Materials, v 28, p 480-489, 2015.

W.-S. Jang, S.C. Park, M. Kim, J. Doh, D. Lee, D.A. Hammer, “The Effect of Stabilizer on the Mechanical Response of Double-EmulsionTemplated Polymersomes”, Macromolecular rapid communications, v 36, p 378-384, 2015.

F. Serra, M.A. Gharbi, Y. Luo, I.B. Liu, N.D. Bade, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K.J. Stebe, “CurvatureDriven, One-Step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal “Compound Eye” Lenses”, Advanced Optical Materials, p 1287–1292, 2015. Y. Xia, E. Lee, H. Hu, M.A. Gharbi, D.A. Beller, E.-K. Fleischmann, R.D. Kamien, R. Zentel, S. Yang, “Better Actuation Through Chemistry: Using Surface Coatings to Create Uniform Director Fields in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, v 8, p 12466–12472, 2016.

B.T. Diroll, M.E. Turk, N. Gogotsi, C.B. Murray, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Photoluminescence from the Core and the Shell in CdSe/CdS Dotin-Rod Heterostructures”, ChemPhysChem, v 17, p 759-765, 2015. M.E. Turk, P.M. Vora, A.T. Fafarman, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Electron Trapping in LigandExchanged Quantum Dot Assemblies”, ACS nano, p 1440-1447, 2015.

M.O. Lavrentovich, E.M. Horsley, A. Radja, A.M. Sweeney, R.D. Kamien, “First-order patterning transitions on a sphere as a route to cell morphology“, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 113, p 5189–5194, 2016.

H. Yun, J. Kim, T. Paik, L. Meng, P.S. Jo, J.M. Kikkawa, C.R. Kagan, M.G. Allen, C.B. Murray, “Alternate current magnetic property characterization of nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanocrystals for inductor fabrication via a solution based process”, Journal of Applied Physics, v 119, p 113901, 2016.

Y. Luo, F. Serra, D.A. Beller, M.A. Gharbi, N. Li, S. Yang, R.D. Kamien, K.J. Stebe, “Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells”, Physical Review E, v 93, March 2016.

S. Yang, I.-S. Choi, R.D. Kamien, “Design of super-conformable, foldable materials via fractal cuts and lattice kirigami”, MRS Bulletin, v 41, p 130-138, 2016.

L. Tran, M.O. Lavrentovich, D.A. Beller, N. Li, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, “Lassoing SaddleSplay: Topological Control of Topological Defects”, arXiv, 25, May 2016. E. Lee, Y. Xia, R.C. Ferrier, H.-N. Kim, M.A. Gharbi, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, R.J. Composto, S. Yang, “Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals”, Advanced Materials, v 28, 27312736, 2016.

D. Zhang, L. Zhang, D. Lee, X. Cheng, G. Feng, “Suppressing unstable deformation of nanocolloidal crystals with atomic layer deposition”, Materials Science and Engineering: A, v 639, p 514-518, 2015. A. Kumar, S. Li, C.-M. Cheng, D. Lee, “Recent Developments in Phase Inversion Emulsification”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v 54, p 8375-8396, 2015. D. Zhang, Y. Xu, G. Feng, Y.-R. Huang, D. Lee, “Comparing sintering and atomic layer deposition as methods to mechanically reinforce nanocolloidal crystals”, Journal of Materials Research, v 30, p 3717-3727, 2015. H.-H. Jeong, V.R. Yelleswarapu, S. Yadavali, D. Issadore, D. Lee, Kilo-scale droplet generation in three-dimensional monolithic elastomer device (3D MED), Lab on a Chip Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Biology, v 15, p 4387-4392, 2015. M. Kim, S.J. Yeo, C.B. Highley, J.A. Burdick, P.J. Yoo, J. Doh, D. Lee,” One-Step Generation of Multifunctional Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules via Nanoscale Interfacial Complexation in Emulsion (NICE)”, ACS Nano, v 9, p 8269-8278, 2015. M.F. Haase, N. Sharifi-Mood, D. Lee, K.J. Stebe, “In Situ Mechanical Testing of Nanostructured Bijel Fibers”, ACS Nano, v 10, p 6338–6344, 2016. L. Hou, H. Jiang, D. Lee, “Bubble-filled silica microfibers from multiphasic flows for lightweight composite fabrication”, Chemical Engineering Journal, v 288, p 539-545, 2016. B. Han, D.R. Chery, J. Yin, X.L. Lu, D. Lee, L. Han, “Nanomechanics of layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte complexes: a manifestation of ionic cross-links and fixed charges”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 1158-1169, 2016. N. Li, N. Sharifi-Mood, F. Tu, D. Lee, R. Radhakrishnan, T. Baumgart, K.J. Stebe, “Curvature-driven migration of colloids on lipid bilayers”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc., v 374, 2016.

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J.A. Lefever, T.D.B. Jacobs, Q. Tam, J.L. Hor, Y.R. Huang, D. Lee, R.W. Carpick, “Heterogeneity in the small-scale deformation behavior of disordered nanoparticle packings”, Nano letters, v 16, p 2455-2462, 2016. Y. Jang, W.-S. Jang, C. Gao, T.S. Shim, J.C. Crocker, D.A. Hammer, D. Lee, “Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Recombinant Protein-Stabilized Gas Bubbles Using Triblock Copolymers”, ACS Macro Letters, v 5, p 371376, 2016. W.-S. Jang, S.C. Park, E.H. Reed, K.P. Dooley, S.F. Wheeler, D. Lee, D.A. Hammer, “Enzymatically triggered rupture of polymersomes”, Soft matter, v 12, p 10141020, 2016. H.-H. Jeong, D. Issadore, D. Lee, “Recent developments in scale-up of microfluidic emulsion generation via parallelization”, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, v 33, p 1757-1766, 2016. C.B. Highley, M. Kim, D. Lee, J.A. Burdick, “Near-infrared light triggered release of molecules from supramolecular hydrogelnanorod composites”, Future Medicine Ltd London, UK, 13 May 2016. Thomas Lubensky G. Wu, Y. Cho, I.S. Choi, D. Ge, J. Li, H.N. Han, T.C. Lubensky, S. Yang, “Directing the deformation paths of soft metamaterials with prescribed asymmetric units”, Advanced Materials, v 27, p 2747-2752, 2015. Z.S. Davidson, L. Kang, J. Jeong, T. Still, P.J. Collings, T.C. Lubensky, A.G. Yodh, “Chiral structures and defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals induced by saddle-splay elasticity”, Physical Review E, v 91, p 050501, 2015. J. Jeong, L. Kang, Z.S. Davidson, P.J. Collings, T.C. Lubensky, A.G. Yodh, “Chiral structures from achiral liquid crystals in cylindrical capillaries”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 112, p E1837-E1844, 2015. W.-S. Wei, M.A. Gharbi, M.A. Lohr, T. Still, M.D. Gratale, T.C. Lubensky, K.J. Stebe, A.G. Yodh, “Dynamics of ordered colloidal particle monolayers at nematic liquid crystal interfaces”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 4715-4724, 2016.

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Jennifer Lukes M.B. Zanjani, A.R. Davoyan, N. Engheta, J.R. Lukes, “NEMS With Broken T Symmetry: Graphene Based Unidirectional Acoustic Transmission Lines”, Scientific reports, v 5, 2015. M.B. Zanjani, R.E. Engelke, J.R. Lukes, V. Meunier, M. Drndić, “Up and down translocation events and electric doublelayer formation inside solid-state nanopores”, Physical Review E, v 92, p 022715, 2015. Eugene Mele S.J. Hong, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, K.H. Kim, M. Parka, S.J. Baek, D.I. Kholin, M. Lee, E.S. Choi, D.H. Jeong, D.A. Bonnell, E.J. Mele, M. Drndić, A.T. Charlie Johnson, Y.W. Park, “Magnetoresistance (MR) of twisted bilayer graphene on electron transparent substrate”, Synthetic Metals, v 216, p 65-71, 2016. Christopher Murray B.T. Diroll, M.E. Turk, N. Gogotsi, C.B. Murray, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Photoluminescence from the Core and the Shell in CdSe/CdS Dotin-Rod Heterostructures”, ChemPhysChem, v 17, p 759-765, 2015. D. Li, H. Yun, B.T. Diroll, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, J.M. Kikkawa, C.B. Murray, “Synthesis and Size Selective Precipitation of Monodisperse Nonstoichiometric MxFe3-xO4 (M= Mn, Co) Nanocrystals and Their DC and AC Magnetic Properties.” Chemistry of Materials, v 28, p 480-489, 2015. G.W. Guglietta, B.T. Diroll, E.A. Gaulding, J.L. Fordham, S. Li, C.B. Murray, B. Baxter, “Lifetime, mobility, and diffusion of photoexcited carriers in ligand-exchanged lead selenide nanocrystal films measured by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy”, ACS nano, v 9, p 1820-1828, 2015. B.T. Diroll, K.M. Weigandt, D. Jishkariani, M. Cargnello, R.J. Murphy, L.A. Hough, C.B. Murray, B. Donnio, “Quantifying “Softness” of Organic Coatings on Gold Nanoparticles Using Correlated Small-Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering”, Nano Letters, v 15, p 8008-8012, 2015.

M. Cargnello, A.C. Johnston-Peck, B.T. Diroll, E. Wong, B. Datta, D. Damodhar, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, A.A. Herzing, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Substitutional doping in nanocrystal superlattices”, Nature, v 524 p 450-453 2015. B.T. Diroll, E.A. Gaulding, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Spectrally-Resolved Dielectric Functions of Solution-Cast Quantum Dot Thin Films,” Chemistry of Materials, 27 (18) 64636469 2015. M. Cargnello, D. Sala, C. Chen, M. D'Arienzo, R.J. Gorte, C.B. Murray, “Structure, morphology and catalytic properties of pure and alloyed Au–ZnO hierarchical nanostructures”, RSC Advances, v 5, p 4192041922, 2015. W. Chen, M. Tymchenko, P. Gopalan, X. Ye, Y. Wu, M. Zhang, C.B. Murray, A. Alu, C.R. Kagan, “Large-Area Nanoimprinted Colloidal Au Nanocrystal-Based Nanoantennas for Ultrathin Polarizing Plasmonic Metasurfaces”, Nano Letters, v 15, p 5254-5260. J.M.P. Martirez, S. Kim, E.H. Morales, B.T. Diroll, M. Cargnello, T.R. Gordon, C.B. Murray, D.A. Bonnell, A.M. Rappe, “Synergistic Oxygen Evolving Activity of a TiO2-Rich Reconstructed SrTiO3 (001) Surface”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 2939-2947, 2015. D.B. Straus, E.D. Goodwin, E.A. Gaulding, S. Muramoto, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Increased Carrier Mobility and Lifetime in CdSe Quantum Dot Thin Films through Surface Trap Passivation and Doping”, American Chemical Society, v 6, p 4605-4609, 2015. M. Cargnello, C. Chen, B.T. Diroll, V.V.T. DoanNguyen, R. J. Gorte, C. B. Murray, “Efficient removal of organic ligands from supported nanocrystals by fast thermal annealing enables catalytic studies on well-defined active phases”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 6906-6911, 2015. D. Jishkariani, B.T. Diroll, M. Cargnello, D.R. Klein, L.A. Hough, C.B. Murray, B. Donnio, “Dendron-Mediated Engineering of Interparticle Separation and Self-Assembly in Dendronized Gold Nanoparticles Superlattices”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 10728-10734, 2015.

F.S. Stinner, Y. Lai, D.B. Straus, B.T. Diroll, D.K. Kim, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Flexible, HighSpeed CdSe Nanocrystal Integrated Circuits”, Nano Letters, v 15 p 7155-7160, 2015.

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Selected Publications from Singh Center for Nanotechnology Researchers

L. Arroyo-Ramírez, C. Chen, M. Cargnello, C.B. Murray, R.J. Gorte, “A comparison of hierarchical Pt@ CeO 2/Si–Al 2 O 3 and Pd@ CeO 2/Si–Al 2 O 3”, Catalysis Today, v 253, p 137-141, 2015.

S.J. Oh, C. Uswachoke, T. Zhao, J.-H. Choi, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Selective p-and n-Doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires To Construct Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices, ACS nano, v 9, p 7536-7544, 2015.

A. Darafsheh, S. Najmr, T. Paik, M.E. Tenuto, C.B. Murray, J.C. Finlay, J.S. Friedberg, “Characterization of rare-earth-doped nanophosphors for photodynamic therapy excited by clinical ionizing radiation beams”, SPIE BiOS, p 930812-930812-6, 2015.

M.V. Kovalenko, L. Manna, A. Cabot, Z. Hens, D.V. Talapin, C.R. Kagan, V.I. Klimov, A.L. Rogach, P. Reiss, D.J. Milliron, P. GuyotSionnnest, G. Konstantatos, W.J. Parak, T. Hyeon, B.A. Korgel, C.B. Murray, W. Heiss, “Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals, ACS nano, v 9, p 1012-1057, 2015.

T.R. Gordon, B.T. Diroll, T. Paik, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, E.A. Gaulding, C.B. Murray, “Characterization of Shape and Monodispersity of Anisotropic Nanocrystals through Atomistic X-ray Scattering Simulation”, Chemistry of Materials, v 27, p 2502-2506, 2015. C.L. Poyser, T. Czerniuk, A. Akimov, B.T. Diroll, E.A. Gaulding, A.S. Salasyuk, A.J. Kent, D.R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, C.B. Murray, “Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superlattices”, ACS Nano, v 10, p 1163-1169, 2015. L.G. Lippert, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, J.T. Hallock, C.B. Murray, E.L.F. Holzbaur, S.L. Reck-Peterson, Y.E. Goldman, “Cytoplasmic Dynein Ring Tilting Detected by Combined polTIRF and Sub-Pixel Particle Tracking of Semiconductor Quantum Rods”, Biophysical Journal, v 108, p 22a, 2015. M.E. Turk, P.M. Vora, A.T. Fafarman, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Electron Trapping in LigandExchanged Quantum Dot Assemblies”, ACS nano, p 1440-1447, 2015. E.D. Goodwin, D.B. Straus, E.A. Gaulding, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “The effects of inorganic surface treatments on photogenerated carrier mobility and lifetime in PbSe quantum dot thin films”, Chemical Physics, v 471, p 81-88, 2015. B.T. Diroll, N.J. Greybush, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Smectic nanorod superlattices assembled on liquid subphases: Structure, orientation, defects, and optical polarization”, Chemistry of Materials, v 27, p 2998-3008, 2015.

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D.B. Straus, E.D. Goodwin, E.A. Gaulding, S. Muramoto, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Increased Carrier Mobility and Lifetime in CdSe Quantum Dot Thin Films through Surface Trap Passivation and Doping”, The journal of physical chemistry letters, v 6, p 4605-4609, 2015. E.A. Gaulding, B.T. Diroll, E.D. Goodwin, Z.J. Vrtis, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Deposition of Wafer-Scale Single-Component and Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice Thin Films Via DipCoating”, Advanced Materials, v 27, p 2846-2851, 2015. C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids”, Nature nanotechnology, v 10, 2015. T. Paik, B.T. Diroll, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, “Binary and Ternary Superlattices SelfAssembled from Colloidal Nanodisks and Nanorods”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v 137, p 6662-6669, 2015. J. Luo, L. Arroyo-Ramírez, J. Wei, H. Yun, C.B. Murray, R.J. Gorte, “Comparison of HMF hydrodeoxygenation over different metal catalysts in a continuous flow reactor”, Applied Catalysis A: General, v 508, p 86-93, 4, 2015. J. Luo, J.D. Lee, H. Yun, C. Wang, M. Monai, C.B. Murray, P. Fornasiero, R.J. Gorte,” Base metal-Pt alloys: A general route to high selectivity and stability in the production of biofuels from HMF”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, v 199, p 439-446, 2016. K. He, S. Zhang, J. Li, X. Yu, Q. Meng, Y. Zhu, E. Hu, K. Sun, H. Yun, X.-Q. Yang, Y. Zhu, H. Gan, Y. Mo, E.A. Stach, C.B. Murray, D. Su, “Visualizing non-equilibrium lithiation of spinel oxide via in situ transmission electron microscopy”, Nature Communications, v 7, 2016.

H.J. Yun, T. Paik, B.T. Diroll, M.E. Edley, J.B. Baxter, C.B. Murray, “Nanocrystal SizeDependent Efficiency of Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells in the Strongly-Coupled CdSe Nanocrystals/TiO2 System”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, v 8, p 14692–14700, 2016. B.T. Diroll, N. Gogotsi, C.B. Murray, “A Statistical Description of CdSe/CdS Dotin-Rod Heterostructures Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy”, Chemistry in Materials, v 471, p 81-88, 2016. J.-H. Choi, H. Wang, S.J. Oh, T. Paik, P. Sung, J. Sung, X. Ye, T. Zhao, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, C.R. Kagan, “Exploiting the colloidal nanocrystal library to construct electronic devices”, Science, v 352, p 205-208, 2016. B.T. Diroll, M.E. Turk, N. Gogotsi, C.B. Murray, J.M. Kikkawa, “Ultrafast Photoluminescence from the Core and the Shell in CdSe/CdS Dotin-Rod Heterostructures”, ChemPhysChem, v 17, p 759-765, 2016. L.G. Lippert, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, E.L.F. Holzbaur, S.L. Reck-Peterson, Y.E. Goldman, “Combined Poltirf and Sub-Pixel Particle Tracking of Cytoplasmic Dynein Supports a Winch-Like Stepping Mechanism”, Biophysical Journal, v 110, p 457a-458a, 2016. L.G. Lippert, J.T. Hallock, T. Dadosh, B.T. Diroll, C.B. Murray, Y.E. Goldman, NeutrAvidin Functionalization of CdSe/CdS Quantum Nanorods and Quantification of Biotin Binding Sites using Biotin-4-Fluorescein Fluorescence Quenching”, Bioconjugate chemistry, v 27, p 562-568, 2016. H. Yun, J. Kim, T. Paik, L. Meng, P.S. Jo, J.M. Kikkawa, C.R. Kagan, M.G. Allen, C.B. Murray, “Alternate current magnetic property characterization of nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanocrystals for inductor fabrication via a solution based process”, Journal of Applied Physics, v 119, p 113901, 2016. J. Luo, M. Monai, H. Yun, L. Arroyo-Ramírez, C. Wang, C.B. Murray, P. Fornasiero, R. J. Gorte, “The H2 Pressure Dependence of Hydrodeoxygenation Selectivities for Furfural Over Pt/C Catalysts”, Catalysis Letters, v 146, p 711-717, 2016.

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A.M. Urbas, Z. Jacob, L.D. Negro, N. Engheta, A.D. Boardman, P. Egan, A.B. Khanikaev, V. Menon, M. Ferrera, N. Kinsey, C. DeVault, J. Kim, V. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, J. Valentine, P. Carl, A. Grbic, E. Narimanov, L. Zhu, S. Fan, A. Alù, E. Poutrina, N.M Litchinitser, M.A. Noginov, K.F. MacDonald, E. Plum, X. Liu, P.F. Nealey, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, D.A. Pawlak, I.I. Smolyaninov, V.N. Smolyaninova, D. Chanda, “Roadmap on optical metamaterials”, Journal of Optics, p 1-69, 2016. J. Luo, H. Yun, A.V. Mironenko, K.A. Goulas, J.D. Lee, M. Monai, C. Wang, V. Vorotnikov, C.B. Murray, D.G. Vlachos, P. Fornasiero, R.J. Gorte, “Mechanisms for High Selectivity in Hydrodeoxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural over PtCo Nanocrystals”, ACS Catalysis, v 6, p 40954104, 2016. D. Li, H. Yun, B.T. Diroll, V.V.T. Doan-Nguyen, J.M. Kikkawa, C.B. Murray, “Synthesis and Size-Selective Precipitation of Monodisperse Nonstoichiometric M x Fe3–x O4 (M= Mn, Co) Nanocrystals and Their DC and AC Magnetic Properties”, Chemistry of Materials, v 28, p 480-489, 2016. C.L. Poyser, T. Czerniuk, A. Akimov, B.T. Diroll, E.A. Gaulding, A.S. Salasyuk, A.J. Kent, D.R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, C.B. Murray, “Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superlattices”, ACS Nano, v 10, p 1163-1169, 2016. L. Malassis, R. Dreyfus, R.J. Murphy, L.A. Hough, B. Donnio, C.B. Murray, “Onestep green synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles with ascorbic acid and their versatile surface post-functionalization”, RSC Advances, v 6, p 33092-33100, 2016.

Virgil Percec Q. Xiao, S.S. Yadavalli, S. Zhang, S.E. Sherman, E. Fiorin, L. da Silva, D.A. Wilson, D.A. Hammer, S. André, H.-J. Gabius, M.L. Klein, M. Goulian, V. Percec, “Bioactive cell-like rids coassembled from (glyco) dendrimersomes with bacterial membranes”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 113, p E1134-E1141, 2016. Q. Xiao, S. Zhang, Z. Wang, S.E. Sherman, R.-O. Moussodia, M. Peterca, A. Muncan, D.R. Williams, D.A. Hammer, S. Vértesy, S. André, H.-J. Gabius, M.L. Klein, V. Percec, “Onionlike glycodendrimersomes from sequencedefined Janus glycodendrimers and influence of architecture on reactivity to a lectin”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 113, p 1162-1167, 2016. Kathleen Stebe Y.-R. Huang, Y. Jiang, J.L. Hor, R. Gupta, L. Zhang, K.J. Stebe, G. Feng, K.T. Turner, D. Lee, “Polymer nanocomposite films with extremely high nanoparticle loadings via capillary rise infiltration (CaRI)”, Nanoscale, v 7, p 798-805, 2015. M.A. Gharbi, I.B. Liu, Y. Luo, F. Serra, N.D. Bade, H.-N. Kim, Y. Xia, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K.J. Stebe, “Smectic Gardening on Curved Landscapes”, Langmuir, v 31, p 11135–11142, 2015. I.B. Liu, M.A. Gharbi, V.L. Ngo, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K.J. Stebe, “Elastocapillary interactions on nematic films”, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2015.

Y. Luo, F. Serra, K.J. Stebe, “Experimental realization of the “lock-and-key” mechanism in liquid crystals”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 60276032, 2016. N. Sharifi-Mood, I.B. Liu, K.J. Stebe, “Reply to the Comments on “Curvature capillary migration of microspheres” by P. Galatola and A. Würger”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 333-336, 2016. N. Li, N. Sharifi-Mood, F. Tu, D. Lee, R. Radhakrishnan, T. Baumgart, K.J. Stebe, “Curvature-driven migration of colloids on lipid bilayers”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc., V 374, 2016. E. Lee, Y. Xia, R.C. Ferrier, H.-N. Kim, M.A. Gharbi, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, R.J. Composto, S. Yang, “Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals”, Advanced Materials, v 28, 27312736, 2016. Y. Luo, F. Serra, D.A. Beller, M.A. Gharbi, N. Li, S. Yang, R.D. Kamien, K.J. Stebe, “Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells”, Physical Review E, v 93, March 2016. L. Tran, M.O. Lavrentovich, D.A. Beller, N. Li, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, “Lassoing SaddleSplay: Topological Control of Topological Defects”, arXiv, 25 May 2016. M.F. Haase, N. Sharifi-Mood, D. Lee, K.J. Stebe, “In Situ Mechanical Testing of Nanostructured Bijel Fibers”, ACS Nano, v 10, p 6338–6344, 2016.

F. Serra, M.A. Gharbi, Y. Luo, I.B. Liu, N.D. Bade, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K. J. Stebe, “CurvatureDriven, One-Step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal “Compound Eye” Lenses”, Advanced Optical Materials, p 1287–1292, 2015. I.B. Liu, N. Sharifi-Mood, K.J. Stebe, “Curvature-driven assembly in soft matter”, Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A, v 374, p 20150133, 2016. W.-S. Wei, M.A. Gharbi, M.A. Lohr, T. Still, M.D. Gratale, T.C. Lubensky, K.J. Stebe, A.G. Yodh, “Dynamics of ordered colloidal particle monolayers at nematic liquid crystal interfaces”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 4715-4724, 2016.

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Kevin Turner

John Vohs

Shu Yang

H.K. Minsky, K.T. Turner, “Achieving enhanced and tunable adhesion via composite posts", Applied Physics Letters, v 106, p 201604, 2015.

S. Yang, “Supramolecular lattices from tetrahedral nanobuilding blocks”, Science, v 348, p 396-397, 2015.

Y.-R. Huang, Y. Jiang, J.L. Hor, R. Gupta, L. Zhang, K.J. Stebe, G. Feng, K.T. Turner, D. Lee, “Polymer nanocomposite films with extremely high nanoparticle loadings via capillary rise infiltration (CaRI)”, Nanoscale, v 7, p 798-805, 2015. Y. Jiang, K.T. Turner, “Measurement of the strength and range of adhesion using atomic force microscopy”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 13 May 2016. K. Davami, Y. Jiang, J. Cortes, C. Lin, M. Shaygan, K.T. Turner, I. Bargatin, “Tuning the mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets through atomic layer deposition”, Nanotechnology, v 27, p 155701, 2016. K. Davami, Y. Jiang, C. Lin, J. Cortes, J.T. Robinson, K.T. Turner, I. Bargatin, “Modification of mechanical properties of vertical graphene sheets via fluorination”, RSC Advances, v 6, p 11161-11166, 2016. C.-H. Pi and K.T. Turner, “Design, analysis, and characterization of stress-engineered 3D microstructures comprised of PECVD silicon oxide and nitride,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 26, 65010, 2016. H.K. Minsky and K.T. Turner, “Achieving Enhanced and Tunable Adhesion via Composite Posts,” Applied Physics Letters, 106, 201604 2015. Y. Cho, G. Kim, Y. Cho, S.Y. Lee, H. Minsky, K.T. Turner, D.S. Gianola, and S. Yang, “Orthogonal control of stability and tunable dry adhesion by tailoring shapes of tapered nanopillar arrays,” Advanced Materials, 27, 7788-7793 2015.

Y. Zhao, T.-S. Oh, Y. Li, J.M. Vohs, R.J. Gorte, “ Fabrication of MnCo2O4-YSZ Composite Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Electrodeposition”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, v 163, p F863-F866, 2016. T.-S. Oh, E.K. Rahani, D. Neagu, J.T.S. Irvine, V.B. Shenoy, R.J. Gorte, J.M. Vohs, “Evidence and Model for Strain-Driven Release of Metal Nanocatalysts from Perovskites during Exsolution”, The journal of physical chemistry letters, v 6, p 5106-5110, 2015. Karen Winey J. Choi, M. Cargnello, C.B. Murray, N. Clarke, K.I. Winey, and R.J. Composto,“Fast Nanorod Diffusion through Entangled Polymer Melts” ACS Macro Letters, 4 (9), pp 952–956, 2015. W.-S. Tung, R.J. Composto, N. Clarke, K.I. Winey, “Anisotropic Polymer Conformations in Aligned SWCNT/PS Nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, v 4, p 916-920, 2015. W.-S. Tung, P.J. Griffin, J.S. Meth, N. Clarke, R.J. Composto, K.I. Winey, “TemperatureDependent Suppression of Polymer Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, v 5, p 735-739, 2016. A. Karatrantos, N. Clarke, R.J. Composto, K.I. Winey, “Entanglements in polymer nanocomposites containing spherical nanoparticles”, Soft matter, v 12, p 2567-2574, 2016.

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X. Yang, D. Ge, G. Wu, Z. Liao, S. Yang, “Production of Structural Colors with High Contrast and Wide Viewing Angles from Assemblies of Polypyrrole Black Coated Polystyrene Nanoparticles”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, v 8, p 16289–16295, 2016.

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B. Cao, G. Wu, Y. Xia, S. Yang, “Buckling into single-handed chiral structures from pHsensitive hydrogel membranes”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, v 7, p 49-54, 2016.

D.M. Sussman, S.S. Schoenholz, Y. Xu, T. Still, A.G. Yodh, A.J. Liu, “Strain fluctuations and elastic moduli in disordered solids”, Physical Review E, v 92, p 022307, 2015.

A. Darafsheh, G. Wu, S. Yang, J.C. Finlay, “Super-resolution optical microscopy by using dielectric microwires”, SPIE BiOS, p 97130U-97130U-5, 2016.

T. Still, P.J. Yunker, K. Hanson, Z.S. Davidson, M.A. Lohr, K.B. Aptowicz, A.G. Yodh, “Temperature-Sensitive Hydrogel-Particle Films from Evaporating Drops”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, v 2, 2015.

Y. Cho, T.S. Shim, S. Yang, “Spatially Selective Nucleation and Growth of Water Droplets on Hierarchically Patterned Polymer Surfaces”, Advanced Materials, v 7, p 1433-1439, 2016. F. Serra, S. Yang, “Liquid crystals: Material defect lines”, Nature Materials, v 15, p 10-11, 2016. C. Liu, S.-C. Liao, J. Song, M.G. Mauk, X. Li, G. Wu, D. Ge, R.M. Greenberg, S. Yang, H.H. Bau, “A high-efficiency superhydrophobic plasma separator”, Lab on a Chip, v 16, p 553-560, 2016. E. Lee, Y. Xia, R.C. Ferrier, H.-N. Kim, M.A. Gharbi, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, R.J. Composto, S. Yang, “Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals”, Advanced Materials, v 28, 27312736, 2016. Xia, E. Lee, H. Hu, M.A. Gharbi, D.A. Beller, E.-K. Fleischmann, R.D. Kamien, R. Zentel, S. Yang, “Better Actuation Through Chemistry: Using Surface Coatings to Create Uniform Director Fields in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, ACS Applied Material Interfaces, v 8, p 12466–12472, 2016. Y. Luo, F. Serra, D.A. Beller, M.A. Gharbi, N. Li, S. Yang, R.D. Kamien, K.J. Stebe, “Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells”, Physical Review E, v 93, March 2016. S. Yang, I.-S. Choi, R.D. Kamien, “Design of super-conformable, foldable materials via fractal cuts and lattice kirigami”, MRS Bulletin, v 41, p 130-138, 2016.

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M. Gratale, Y. Xu, A.G. Yodh,“Transitions from hard-sphere colloidal crystals to colloidal crystals with strong attractive interactions”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, v 60, 2015. Z.S. Davidson, L. Kang, J. Jeong, T. Still, P.J. Collings, T.C. Lubensky, A.G. Yodh, “Chiral structures and defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals induced by saddle-splay elasticity”, Physical Review E, v 91, p 050501, 2015. J. Jeong, L. Kang, Z.S. Davidson, P.J. Collings, T.C. Lubensky, A.G. Yodh, “Chiral structures from achiral liquid crystals in cylindrical capillaries”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 112, p E1837-E1844, 2015. J.M. Rieser, P.E. Arratia, A.G. Yodh, J.P. Gollub, D.J. Durian, “Tunable capillary-induced attraction between vertical cylinders”, Langmuir, v 31, p 2421-2429, 2015. M.D. Gratale, T. Still, C. Matyas, Z.S. Davidson, S. Lobel, P.J. Collings, A.G. Yodh, “Tunable depletion potentials driven by shape variation of surfactant micelles”, Physics Review E, v 93, p 050601, 2016. W.-S. Wei, M.A. Gharbi, M.A. Lohr, T. Still, M.D. Gratale, T.C. Lubensky, K.J. Stebe, A.G. Yodh, “Dynamics of ordered colloidal particle monolayers at nematic liquid crystal interfaces”, Soft Matter, v 12, p 4715-4724, 2016.

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The Singh Center Key Personnel Mark G. Allen Scientific Director Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology Noah Clay Director, Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology nclay@seas.upenn.edu Matthew Brukman Director, Scanning and Local Probe Facility Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology mbrukman@seas.upenn.edu Douglas M. Yates Director, Nanoscale Characterization Facility Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology dmyates@seas.upenn.edu

John Russell Program Coordinator Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology jrussell@seas.upenn.edu Pat Watson Program User Manager Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology gewatson@seas.upenn.edu Shannon Migdal Marketing Director Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology smigdal@seas.upenn.edu Christopher Montowski Building Administrator Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology montowsk@seas.upenn.edu Kristin L. Field Director of Programs Nano/Bio Interface Center Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology kfield@seas.upenn.edu

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Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology University of Pennsylvania 3205 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Website: www.nano.upenn.edu Email: info@nano.upenn.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singhcenternano/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/UPennSinghNano