Submissions from 2023
Fluorometric Characterization of DUB Activity: From Single-Enzyme Reactions to Live Intact Cells, Alireza Rahnama and Adam T. Melvin
Applied Mathematics and Modeling for Chemical Engineers, Richard G. Rice
Submissions from 2022
Elucidating the Roles of Amorphous Alumina Overcoat in Palladium-Catalyzed Selective Hydrogenation, Divakar R. Aireddy, Haoran Yu, David A. Cullen, and Kunlun Ding
Effects of Weathering on Microplastic Dispersibility and Pollutant Uptake Capacity, Ahmed Al Harraq, Philip J. Brahana, Olivia Arcemont, Donghui Zhang, Kalliat T. Valsaraj, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Hydrolysis of Acetamide on Low-Index CeO Surfaces: Ceria as a Deamidation and General De-esterification Catalyst, Suman Bhasker-Ranganath and Ye Xu
Field-Induced Assembly and Propulsion of Colloids, Ahmed Al Harraq, Brishty Deb Choudhury, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
How Cargo Identity Alters the Uptake of Cell-Penetrating Peptide (CPP)/Cargo Complexes: A Study on the Effect of Net Cargo Charge and Length, Hannah C. Hymel, Alireza Rahnama, Olivia M. Sanchez, Dong Liu, Ted J. Gauthier, and Adam Melvin
Generation of 3D Spheroids Using a Thiol-Acrylate Hydrogel Scaffold to Study Endocrine Response in ER Breast Cancer, Anowar H. Khan, Sophia P. Zhou, Margaret Moe, Braulio A. Ortega Quesada, Khashayar R. Bajgiran, Haley R. Lassiter, James A. Dorman, Elizabeth C. Martin, John A. Pojman, and Adam T. Melvin
Resonant Plasmonic–Biomolecular Chiral Interactions in the Far-Ultraviolet: Enantiomeric Discrimination of sub-10 nm Amino Acid Films, Tiago Ramos Leite, Lin Zschiedrich, Orhan Kizilkaya, and Kevin M. McPeak
Emergent properties from CuPd alloy films under near-infrared excitation, Gregory A. Manoukian, Orhan Kizilkaya, Sergi Lendinez, Luis D. Manuel, Tiago R. Leite, Karunya S. Shirali, William A. Shelton, Phillip T. Sprunger, Jason B. Baxter, and Kevin M. McPeak
Adsorption and Catalytic Activity of Gold Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Silica: Effect of Pore Size and Dispersion Salinity, Yingzhen Ma, Gergely Nagy, Miriam Siebenbürger, Ravneet Kaur, Kerry M. Dooley, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
PD-1 and ICOS counter-regulate tissue resident regulatory T cell development and IL-10 production during flu, Michael C. McGee, Tianyi Zhang, Nicholas Magazine, Rezwanul Islam, Mariano Carossino, and Weishan Huang
Topologically Precise and Discrete Bottlebrush Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure-Property Relationships, Nduka D. Ogbonna, Michael Dearman, Cheng-Ta Cho, Bhuvnesh Bharti, Andrew J. Peters, and Jimmy Lawrence
Modular Framework for Simulation-Based Multi-objective Optimization of a Cryogenic Air Separation Unit, Bryan V. Piguave, Santiago D. Salas, Dany De Cecchis, and José A. Romagnoli
Co-culture of Two Different Cell Lines in a Two-Layer Microfluidic Device, Sharif M. Rahman, Elizabeth C. Martin, and Adam T. Melvin
Induction Heating of Magnetically Susceptible Nanoparticles for Enhanced Hydrogenation of Oleic Acid, Cameron L. Roman, Natalia da Silva Moura, Scott Wicker, Kerry M. Dooley, and James A. Dorman
Model-Based Investigation of the Relationship between Regulation Level and Pulse Property of I1-FFL Gene Circuits, Jordan Ryan, Seongho Hong, Mathias Foo, Jongmin Kim, and Xun Tang
Negatively Competitive Incoherent Feedforward Loops Mitigate Winner-Take-All Resource Competition, Austin Stone, Jordan Ryan, Xun Tang, and Xiao-Jun Tian
Divergence in the ABA gene regulatory network underlies differential growth control, Ying Sun, Dong-Ha Oh, Lina Duan, Prashanth Ramachandran, Andrea Ramirez, Anna Bartlett, Kieu-Nga Tran, Guannan Wang, Maheshi Dassanayake, and José R. Dinneny
Microfluidic Applications in Drug Development: Fabrication of Drug Carriers and Drug Toxicity Screening, Pei Zhao, Jianchun Wang, Chengmin Chen, Jianmei Wang, Guangxia Liu, Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, Yan Li, and Liqiu Wang
Submissions from 2021
Simultaneous Droplet Generation with In-Series Droplet T-Junctions Induced by Gravity-Induced Flow, Khashayar R. Bajgiran, Alejandro S. Cordova, Riad Elkhanoufi, James A. Dorman, and Adam Melvin
Fluorescent visualization of oil displacement in a microfluidic device for enhanced oil recovery applications, Khashayar R. Bajgiran, Hannah C. Hymel, Shayan Sombolestani, Nathalie Dante, Nora Safa, James A. Dorman, Dandina Rao, and Adam T. Melvin
Elucidating the Mechanism of Ambient-Temperature Aldol Condensation of Acetaldehyde on Ceria, Suman Bhasker-Ranganath, Md Saeedur Rahman, Chuanlin Zhao, Florencia Calaza, Zili Wu, and Ye Xu
Machine learning for guiding high-temperature PEM fuel cells with greater power density, Luis A. Briceno-Mena, Gokul Venugopalan, José A. Romagnoli, and Christopher G. Arges
Field-Driven Reversible Alignment and Gelation of Magneto-Responsive Soft Anisotropic Microbeads, Natasha I. Castellanos, Bhuvnesh Bharti, and Orlin D. Velev
Foamitizer: High ethanol content foams using fatty acid crystalline particles, Anne-Laure Fameau, Yingzhen Ma, Miriam Siebenbuerger, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Healthy Eating in Low-Income Rural Louisiana Parishes: Formative Research for Future Social Marketing Campaigns, Linda Fergus, Richie Roberts, and Denise Holston
Factors associated with phosphatidylethanol (PEth) sensitivity for detecting unhealthy alcohol use: An individual patient data meta-analysis, Judith A. Hahn, Pamela M. Murnane, Eric Vittinghoff, Winnie R. Muyindike, Nneka I. Emenyonu, Robin Fatch, Gabriel Chamie, Jessica E. Haberer, Joel M. Francis, Saidi Kapiga, et al.
Investigating the impact of in situ soil organic matter degradation through porewater spectroscopic analyses on marsh edge erosion, Michael P. Hayes, Yadav Sapkota, John R. White, and Robert L. Cook
Design and Evaluation of Synthetic RNA-Based Incoherent Feed-Forward Loop Circuits, Seongho Hong, Dohyun Jeong, Jordan Ryan, Mathias Foo, Xun Tang, and Jongmin Kim
Autism Detection in Children by Combined Use of Gaze Preference and the M-CHAT-R in a Resource-Scarce Setting, Kelly Jensen, Sassan Noazin, Leandra Bitterfeld, Andrea Carcelen, Natalia I. Vargas-Cuentas, Daniela Hidalgo, Alejandra Valenzuela, Avid Roman-Gonzalez, Casey Krebs, Vincent Clement, et al.
Development of a Flow-free Gradient Generator Using a Self-Adhesive Thiol-acrylate Microfluidic Resin/Hydrogel (TAMR/H) Hybrid System, Anowar H. Khan, Noah Mulherin Smith, Michael P. Tullier, B Seth Roberts, Derek Englert, John A. Pojman, and Adam T. Melvin
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition), Daniel J. Klionsky, Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz, Sara Abdelfatah, Mahmoud Abdellatif, Asghar Abdoli, Steffen Abel, Hagai Abeliovich, Marie H. Abildgaard, Yakubu Princely Abudu, Abraham Acevedo-Arozena, et al.
Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Men and Transgender Women, Raphael J. Landovitz, Deborah Donnell, Meredith E. Clement, Brett Hanscom, Leslie Cottle, Lara Coelho, Robinson Cabello, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Eileen F. Dunne, Ian Frank, et al.
Fabrication and Electric Field-Driven Active Propulsion of Patchy Microellipsoids, Jin Gyun Lee, Ahmed Al Harraq, Kyle J. Bishop, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy as an Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Catalyst in an Acidic Solution, Frank McKay, Yuxin Fang, Orhan Kizilkaya, Prashant Singh, Duane D. Johnson, Amitava Roy, David P. Young, Phillip T. Sprunger, John C. Flake, William A. Shelton, et al.
Empowering the caregiver network of farmers with a disability: A case study of the North Carolina AgrAbility project, Kristoff Minus, Janine Woods, Richie Roberts, Chastity English, and Beatriz Rodriguez
Catalytic Enhancement of Inductively Heated Fe O Nanoparticles by Removal of Surface Ligands, Natalia S. Moura, Khashayar R. Bajgiran, Cameron L. Roman, Luke Daemen, Yongqiang Cheng, Jimmy Lawrence, Adam T. Melvin, Kerry M. Dooley, and James A. Dorman
Nitrogen Sources and Iron Availability Affect Pigment Biosynthesis and Nutrient Consumption in sp. UTEX 2576, Daniel A. Norena-Caro, Tara M. Malone, and Michael G. Benton
Modifying Metastable SrBO (B = Nb, Ta, and Mo) Perovskites for Electrode Materials, Tochukwu Ofoegbuna, Benjamin Peterson, Natalia da Silva Moura, Roshan Nepal, Orhan Kizilkaya, Carsyn Smith, Rongying Jin, Craig Plaisance, John C. Flake, and James A. Dorman
Printed Electrode for Measuring Phosphate in Environmental Water, Alisha Prasad, Sushant P. Sahu, Sara Karoline Figueiredo Stofela, Ardalan Chaichi, Syed Mohammad Hasan, Wokil Bam, Kanchan Maiti, Kevin M. McPeak, Gang Logan Liu, and Manas Ranjan Gartia
Characterization of PMI-5011 on the Regulation of Deubiquitinating Enzyme Activity in Multiple Myeloma Cell Extracts, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Yongmei Yu, Alireza Rahnama, Jacob H. Pettigrew, Nora Safa, Dong Liu, Ted J. Gauthier, Z Elizabeth Floyd, and Adam T. Melvin
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nanostructures Formed by Hydrophobins and Oil in Seawater, Andrés A. Vodopivec, Yuwu Chen, Paul S. Russo, and Francisco R. Hung
Catalytic Depolymerization of Waste Polyolefins by Induction Heating: Selective Alkane/Alkene Production, Bernard Whajah, Natalia da Silva Moura, Justin Blanchard, Scott Wicker, Karleigh Gandar, James A. Dorman, and Kerry M. Dooley
Elucidating the surface compositions of Pd@Pt core-shell nanocrystals through catalytic reactions and spectroscopy probes, Peng Zhai, Yifeng Shi, Qiuxiang Wang, Younan Xia, and Kunlun Ding
Construction of Inverse Metal-Zeolite Interfaces via Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition, Peng Zhai, Laibao Zhang, David A. Cullen, Divakar R. Aireddy, and Kunlun Ding
Nonspecular Reflection of Droplets, Pingan Zhu, Chengmin Chen, Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, and Liqiu Wang
Submissions from 2020
Polymer Stereocomplexation as a Scalable Platform for Nanoparticle Assembly, Allison Abdilla, Neil D. Dolinski, Puck de Roos, Jing Ming Ren, Erika van der Woude, Soyoung E. Seo, Manuel S. Zayas, Jimmy Lawrence, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Craig J. Hawker
Probing the Surface Acidity of Supported Aluminum Bromide Catalysts, Md Ashraful Abedin, Swarom Kanitkar, Nitin Kumar, Zi Wang, Kunlun Ding, Graham Hutchings, and James J. Spivey
Deep Eutectic Solvents Mixed with Fluorinated Refrigerants for Absorption Refrigeration: A Molecular Simulation Study, Rubaiyet Abedin, Yan Shen, John C. Flake, and Francisco R. Hung
A reenvisioned agricultural system in Thailand: The growth in human capital experienced by agriculturalists after adoption of the sufficiency economic philosophy, Alexis C. Agard and Richie Roberts
Increasing aspect ratio of particles suppresses buckling in shells formed by drying suspensions, Ahmed Al Harraq and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Dipole-Modulated Downconversion Nanoparticles as Label-Free Biological Sensors, Khashayar R. Bajgiran, James A. Dorman, and Adam T. Melvin
Cellulose Nanocrystal-Polyelectrolyte Hybrids for Bentonite Water-Based Drilling Fluids, Paul Balding, Mei-Chun Li, Qinglin Wu, Ron Volkovinsky, and Paul Russo
Harnessing a decade of data to inform future decisions: Insights into the ongoing hydrocarbon release at Taylor Energy's Mississippi Canyon Block 20 (MC20) site, Wade L. Bryant, Richard Camilli, G Burch Fisher, Edward B. Overton, Christopher M. Reddy, Danny Reible, Robert F. Swarthout, and David L. Valentine
Lignin-graft-PLGA drug-delivery system improves efficacy of MEK1/2 inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer cell line, C Ethan Byrne, Carlos E. Astete, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Adam T. Melvin, Mahsa Moradipour, Stephen E. Rankin, Barbara L. Knutson, Cristina M. Sabliov, and Elizabeth C. Martin
Structural variation and its potential impact on genome instability: Novel discoveries in the EGFR landscape by long-read sequencing, George W. Cook, Michael G. Benton, Wallace Akerley, George F. Mayhew, Cynthia Moehlenkamp, Denise Raterman, Daniel L. Burgess, William J. Rowell, Christine Lambert, Kevin Eng, et al.
Adsorption of Polarized Molecules for Interfacial Band Engineering of Doped TiO Thin Films, Pragathi Darapaneni, Orhan Kizilkaya, Craig Plaisance, and James A. Dorman
Active Reversible Swimming of Magnetically Assembled "Microscallops" in Non-Newtonian Fluids, Koohee Han, Charles Wyatt Shields, Bhuvnesh Bharti, Paulo E. Arratia, and Orlin D. Velev
Potential fate of wetland soil carbon in a deltaic coastal wetland subjected to high relative sea level rise, Benjamin J. Haywood, Michael P. Hayes, John R. White, and Robert L. Cook
Corrigendum to "An Investigation of Early Season River Flood Pulse: Carbon Cycling in a Subtropical Estuary" [Sci. Total Environ. (2018) 867-877/635], Benjamin J. Haywood, John R. White, and Robert L. Cook
Synthesis and characterization of thiol-acrylate hydrogels using a base-catalyzed Michael addition for 3D cell culture applications, Anowar H. Khan, Jeffery K. Cook, Wayne J. Wortmann, Nathan D. Kersker, Asha Rao, John A. Pojman, and Adam T. Melvin
Adsorption of Myoglobin and Corona Formation on Silica Nanoparticles, Jin Gyun Lee, Kelly Lannigan, William A. Shelton, Jens Meissner, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Microfluidics-Based Systems in Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Biomimetic Modeling, Yan Li, Danni Li, Pei Zhao, Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, Liqiu Wang, and Youqiang Song
Adsorption of Fatty Acid Molecules on Amine-Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles: Surface Organization and Foam Stability, Yingzhen Ma, Yao Wu, Jin Gyun Lee, Lilin He, Gernot Rother, Anne-Laure Fameau, William A. Shelton, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Synthesis of luminescent core/shell α-ZnP/ZnS quantum dots, Ingrid J. Paredes, Clara Beck, Scott Lee, Shuzhen Chen, Mersal Khwaja, Michael R. Scimeca, Shuang Li, Sooyeon Hwang, Zhen Lian, Kevin M. McPeak, et al.
Evaluation of intercellular communication between breast cancer cells and adipose-derived stem cells via passive diffusion in a two-layer microfluidic device, Sharif M. Rahman, Joshua M. Campbell, Rachael N. Coates, Katie M. Render, C Ethan Byrne, Elizabeth C. Martin, and Adam T. Melvin
Exploring students’ cultural competence development during a short-term international experience: A Q-sort study, Shelli Rampold, Bradley Coleman, J. C. Bunch, and Richie Roberts
Air quality improvement during triple-lockdown in the coastal city of Kannur, Kerala to combat Covid-19 transmission, C. T. Resmi, T. Nishanth, M. K. Satheesh Kumar, M. G. Manoj, M. Balachandramohan, and K. T. Valsaraj
Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Team-Based Learning During an Introductory Agricultural Mechanics Course: A Mixed Methods Study, Richie Roberts
A Noble-Transition Alloy Excels at Hot-Carrier Generation in the Near Infrared, Sara K. Stofela, Orhan Kizilkaya, Benjamin T. Diroll, Tiago R. Leite, Mohammad M. Taheri, Daniel E. Willis, Jason B. Baxter, William A. Shelton, Phillip T. Sprunger, and Kevin M. McPeak
Critical Coupling of Visible Light Extends Hot-Electron Lifetimes for HO Synthesis, Daniel E. Willis, Mohammad M. Taheri, Orhan Kizilkaya, Tiago R. Leite, Laibao Zhang, Tochukwu Ofoegbuna, Kunlun Ding, James A. Dorman, Jason B. Baxter, and Kevin M. McPeak
Strain Effect in Palladium Nanostructures as Nanozymes, Zheng Xi, Xun Cheng, Zhuangqiang Gao, Mengjing Wang, Tong Cai, Michelle Muzzio, Edwin Davidson, Ou Chen, Yeonwoong Jung, Shouheng Sun, et al.
Submissions from 2019
Static microdroplet array generated by spraying and analyzed with automated microscopy and image processing, Christian Danielson, Gavin Pappas, Lance Phelps, Adam T. Melvin, and Kidong Park
Directed Printing and Reconfiguration of Thermoresponsive Silica-pNIPAM Nanocomposites, Yusheng Guo, Jorge A. Belgodere, Yingzhen Ma, Jangwook P. Jung, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Directed propulsion of spherical particles along three dimensional helical trajectories, Jin Gyun Lee, Allan M. Brooks, William A. Shelton, Kyle J. Bishop, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Engineering a Bi-Conical Microchip as Vascular Stenosis Model, Yan Li, Jianchun Wang, Wei Wan, Chengmin Chen, Xueying Wang, Pei Zhao, Yanjin Hou, Hanmei Tian, Jianmei Wang, Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, et al.
pH-Induced reorientation of cytochrome c on silica nanoparticles, Jens Meissner, Yao Wu, Jacques Jestin, William A. Shelton, Gerhard H. Findenegg, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Stabilizing the B-site oxidation state in ABO perovskite nanoparticles, Tochukwu Ofoegbuna, Pragathi Darapaneni, Smriti Sahu, Craig Plaisance, and James A. Dorman
CPProtectides: Rapid uptake of well-folded β-hairpin peptides with enhanced resistance to intracellular degradation, Nora Safa, Jeffery C. Anderson, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Jacob H. Pettigrew, Gavin A. Pappas, Dong Liu, Ted J. Gauthier, and Adam T. Melvin
Direct measurement of deubiquitinating enzyme activity in intact cells using a protease-resistant, cell-permeable, peptide-based reporter, Nora Safa, Jacob H. Pettigrew, Ted J. Gauthier, and Adam T. Melvin
Population-based analysis of cell-penetrating peptide uptake using a microfluidic droplet trapping array, Nora Safa, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Shayan Sombolestani, Seleipiri Charles, and Adam T. Melvin
Luminescent nanomaterials for droplet tracking in a microfluidic trapping array, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Khashayar R Bajgiran, Pragathi Darapaneni, Nora Safa, James A. Dorman, and Adam T. Melvin
FluoroCellTrack: An algorithm for automated analysis of high-throughput droplet microfluidic data, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, Nora Safa, and Adam T. Melvin
An identified ensemble within a neocortical circuit encodes essential information for genetically-enhanced visual shape learning, Guo-Rong Zhang, Hua Zhao, Eui M. Choi, Michael Svestka, Xiaodan Wang, Aarti Nagayach, Anshuman Singh, Robert G. Cook, and Alfred I. Geller
Submissions from 2018
Microfluidic and Paper-Based Devices for Disease Detection and Diagnostic Research, Joshua M. Campbell, Joseph B. Balhoff, Grant M. Landwehr, Sharif M. Rahman, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan, and Adam Melvin
A general synthesis approach for supported bimetallic nanoparticles via surface inorganometallic chemistry, Kunlun Ding, David A. Cullen, Laibao Zhang, Zhi Cao, Amitava D. Roy, Ilia N. Ivanov, and Dongmei Cao
Reconsidering the Analysis of Refractive-Index-Matched Polymer/Polymer/Solvent Tracer Diffusion Experiments, Brian F. Hanley
Investigation of an early season river flood pulse: Carbon cycling in a subtropical estuary, Benjamin J. Haywood, John R. White, and Robert L. Cook
Linear Mathematical Models in Chemical Engineering, Martin A. Hjortso
Biophysical analysis of fluid shear stress induced cellular deformation in a microfluidic device, Grant M. Landwehr, Andrew J. Kristof, Sharif M. Rahman, Jacob H. Pettigrew, Rachael Coates, Joseph B. Balhoff, Ursula L. Triantafillu, Yonghyun Kim, and Adam T. Melvin
Binding of Lignin Nanoparticles at Oil-Water Interfaces: An Ecofriendly Alternative to Oil Spill Recovery, Jin Gyun Lee, Luke L. Larive, Kalliat T. Valsaraj, and Bhuvnesh Bharti
Diffusion of Rodlike Polymers: Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR of Poly(γ-stearyl-α,l-glutamate) Solutions and the Importance of Helix Stability, Cornelia Rosu, Ernst von Meerwall, and Paul S. Russo
Principles of Environmental Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Kallait T. Valsarajis and Elizabeth M. Melvins
Elucidating the Impact of Molecular Structure on the F NMR Dynamics and MRI Performance of Fluorinated Oligomers, Cheng Zhang, Dong Sub Kim, Jimmy Lawrence, Craig J. Hawker, and Andrew K. Whittaker
Formation and elasticity of membranes of the class II hydrophobin Cerato-ulmin at oil-water interfaces, Xujun Zhang, Stephanie M. Kirby, Yuwu Chen, Shelley L. Anna, Lynn M. Walker, Francisco R. Hung, and Paul S. Russo
Submissions from 2017
Computational Evaluation of Mixtures of Hydrofluorocarbons and Deep Eutectic Solvents for Absorption Refrigeration Systems, Rubaiyet Abedin, Sharareh Heidarian, John C. Flake, and Francisco R. Hung