Recent Publications
Below are recent notable publications by Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members and their groups (May 2020 to present).
June 22 | Engineered Hemostatic Biomaterials for Sealing Wounds - Chem. Rev. Hossein Montazerian, Elham Davoodi, Avijit Baidya, Sevana Baghdasarian, Einollah Sarikhani, Claire Elsa Meyer, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Maryam Badv, Nasim Annabi, Ali Khademhosseini, and Paul S. Weiss*.
June 20 | Directed Inter-domain Motions Enable the IsdH Staphylococcus aureus Receptor to Rapidly Extract Heme from Human Hemoglobin - J. Mol. Biol. Joseph Clayton, Kat Ellis-Guardiola, Brendan J. Mahoney, Jess Soule, William Liu, Robert T. Clubb*, Jeff Wereszczynski.
June 9 | Experimental Sabatier plot for predictive design of active and stable Pt-alloy oxygen reduction reaction catalysts - Nat. Catal. Jin Huang, Luca Sementa, Zeyan Liu, Giovanni Barcaro, Miao Feng, Ershuai Liu, Li Jiao, Mingjie Xu, Denis Leshchev, Sung-Joon Lee, Mufan Li, Chengzhang Wan, Enbo Zhu, Yang Liu, Bosi Peng, Xiangfeng Duan*, William A. Goddard III, Alessandro Fortunelli, Qingying Jia & Yu Huang.
June 8 | Axial Higgs mode detected by quantum pathway interference in RTe3 - Nature. Yiping Wang, Ioannis Petrides, Grant McNamara, Md Mofazzel Hosen, Shiming Lei, Yueh-Chun Wu, James L. Hart, Hongyan Lv, Jun Yan, Di Xiao, Judy J. Cha, Prineha Narang*, Leslie M. Schoop & Kenneth S. Burch. Read more about the research here.
June 7 | Bioinspired Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Emeriones A–C - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. Sven Jänner, Daniel Isak, Yuli Li, K. N. Houk*, Aubry Kern Miller.
June 6 | Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst - Nat. Chem. Md. Arifur Rahim, Jianbo Tang, Andrew J. Christofferson, Priyank V. Kumar, Nastaran Meftahi, Franco Centurion, Zhenbang Cao, Junma Tang, Mahroo Baharfar, Mohannad Mayyas, Francois-Marie Allioux, Pramod Koshy, Torben Daeneke, Christopher F. McConville, Richard B. Kaner*, Salvy P. Russo & Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh.
June 6 | Mechanistic Insights into the Reaction of Amidines with 1,2,3-Triazines and 1,2,3,5-Tetrazines - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhi-Chen Wu, K. N. Houk*, Dale L. Boger, and Dennis Svatunek.
June 3 | Molecular Dynamics Study of the Thermodynamics of Integer Charge Transfer vs Charge-Transfer Complex Formation in Doped Conjugated Polymers - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Eric Chih-Kuan Wu, Charlene Z. Salamat, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.
June 3 | Macroporous Graphene Frameworks for Sensing and Supercapacitor Applications - Adv. Funct. Mater. Nahla B. Mohamed, Maher F. El-Kady, Richard B. Kaner*.
June 1 | Reverse osmosis membrane compaction and embossing at ultra-high pressure operation - Desalination. Jishan Wu, Bongyeon Jung, Arezou Anvari, SungJu Im, Mackenzie Anderson, Xiaoyu Zheng, David Jassby, Richard B. Kaner*, Derrick Dlamini, Arian Edalat, Eric M.V. Hoek.
May 27 | Epigenetic fluctuations underlie gene expression timescales and variability - Physiol. Genom. Ryan Lannan, Alok Maity, and Roy Wollman*.
May 25 | Education Surges When Students Learn Together - Inside Higher Ed. Neil Garg* and Kevin D. Dougherty.
May 25 | Spatial decoupling boosts CO2 electro-biofixation - Nat. Catal. Hongyuan Sheng & Chong Liu*.
May 23 | Simulating the non-monotonic strain response of nanoporous multiferroic composites under electric field control - Appl. Phys. Lett. Shu Huang, Christopher T. Karaba, Shreya K. Patel, Amirr Neal, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Jaime Marian.
May 20 | Fluxionality of Subnano Clusters Reshapes the Activity Volcano of Electrocatalysis - ChemCatChem. Zisheng Zhang, Borna Zandkarimi, Julen Munarriz, Claire E. Dickerson, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
May 18 | Benchmarking the dynamic luminescence properties and UV stability of B18H22-based materials - Dalton Trans. Kierstyn P. Anderson, Ash Sueh Hua, John B. Plumley, Austin D. Ready, Arnold L. Rheingold, Thomas L. Peng, Peter I. Djurovich, Christopher Kerestes, Neil A. Snyder, Andrew Andrews, Justin R. Caram* & Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
May 16 | Super-resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Near-Fields: Overcoming Emitter Mislocalizations - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Yuting Miao, Robert C. Boutelle, Anastasia Blake, Vigneshwaran Chandrasekaran, Chris J. Sheehan, Jennifer Hollingsworth, Daniel Neuhauser*, and Shimon Weiss*.
May 13 | Disassembly of fascin bundled actin filaments via their Mical associated oxidation - The FASEB Journal. Sudeepa Rajan, Jimok Yoon, Taehong Yang, Jonathan R. Terman, Emil Reisler*.
May 13 | Mechanism and Evolution of [4+2] Cyclases in Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Biosynthesis - The FASEB Journal. Matthew D. DeMars, Yoko Nakamura, Mohamed O. Kamileen, Jacob N. Sanders, Christian Paetz, K. N. Houk*, Sarah E. O'Connor.
May 12 | Gaming stereochemistry - Nat Rev Chem. Francesca M. Ippoliti, Melinda M. Nguyen, Amber J. Reilly* & Neil K. Garg*.
May 11 - Hydrated Electrons in High-Concentration Electrolytes Interact with Multiple Cations: A Simulation Study - J. Phys. Chem. B. Wilberth A. Narvaez, Sanghyun J. Park, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.
May 11 | Discovery and characterization of a terpene biosynthetic pathway featuring a norbornene-forming Diels-Alderase - Nat. Commun. Zuodong Sun, Cooper S. Jamieson, Masao Ohashi, K. N. Houk* & Yi Tang*.
May 11 | Expanding the use of ethanol as a feedstock for cell-free synthetic biochemistry by implementing acetyl-CoA and ATP generating pathways - Sci. Rep. Hongjiang Liu, Mark A. Arbing & James U. Bowie*.
May 10 | Theoretical Perspective on Operando Spectroscopy of Fluxional Nanocatalysts - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Patricia Poths and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
May 9 | A Convenient Method for the Removal of Tetrabutylammonium Salts from Desilylation Reactions - Org. Synth. Luca McDermott, Dominick C. Witkowski, and Neil K. Garg*.
May 9 | Facile Morphology and Porosity Regulation of Zeolite ZSM-5 Mesocrystals with Synergistically Enhanced Catalytic Activity and Shape Selectivity - Nanomaterials. Lin, Feng, Zhaoqi Ye, Lingtao Kong, Peng Liu, Yahong Zhang, Hongbin Zhang, and Yi Tang*.
May 9 | Strain transfer in porous multiferroic composites of CoFe2O4 and PbZrxTi1−xO3 - Appl. Phys. Lett. Abraham N. Buditama, Kevin Fitzell, Diana Chien, Christopher Ty Karaba, Shreya K. Patel, Hye Yeon Kang, Jane P. Chang, and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
May 9 | In vitro and in vivo NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera - Optica. Jason T. Smith, Alena Rudkouskaya, Shan Gao, Juhi M. Gupta, Arin Ulku, Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Shimon Weiss*, Margarida Barroso, Xavier Intes, and Xavier Michalet.
May 6 - Directed Inter-domain Motions Enable the IsdH Staphylococcus aureus Receptor to Rapidly Extract Heme from Human Hemoglobin - J. Mol. Biol. Joseph Clayton, Kat Ellis-Guardiola, Brendan J. Mahoney, Jess Soule, William Liu, Robert T. Clubb*, Jeff Wereszczynski.
May 6 | Investigating Fungal Biosynthetic Pathways Using Heterologous Gene Expression: Aspergillus nidulans as a Heterologous Host - Methods Mol. Biol. Danielle A. Yee & Yi Tang*.
May 6 | Effective Liquid Metal Seeds for Silver Nanovines - Z. Fur Anorg. Allg. Chem. Cheng-Wei Lin, Dr. Logan A. Stewart, Sichen Zhao, Georgiy Akopov, Reza Mohammadi, Michael T. Yeung, Paul S. Weiss*, Richard B. Kaner*.
May 5 | Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - Nat. Genet. Friedrich Fauser, Josep Vilarrasa-Blasi, Masayuki Onishi, Silvia Ramundo, Weronika Patena, Matthew Millican, Jacqueline Osaki, Charlotte Philp, Matthew Nemeth, Patrice A. Salomé, Xiaobo Li, Setsuko Wakao, Rick G. Kim, Yuval Kaye, Arthur R. Grossman, Krishna K. Niyogi, Sabeeha S. Merchant*, Sean R. Cutler, Peter Walter, José R. Dinneny, Martin C. Jonikas & Robert E. Jinkerson.
May 4 | π-Extension of heterocycles via a Pd-catalyzed heterocyclic aryne annulation: π-extended donors for TADF emitters - Chem. Sci. Katie A. Spence, Jason V. Chari, Mattia Di Niro, Robert B. Susick, Narcisse Ukwitegetse, Peter I. Djurovich, Mark E. Thompson and Neil K. Garg*.
May 3 | Disassembly of fascin bundled actin filaments via their Mical associated oxidation - The FASEB Journal. Sudeepa Rajan, Jimok Yoon, Taehong Yang, Jonathan R. Terman, Emil Reisler*.
May 3 | Mechanism and Evolution of [4+2] Cyclases in Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Biosynthesis - The FASEB Journal. Matthew D. DeMars, Yoko Nakamura, Mohamed O. Kamileen, Jacob N. Sanders, Christian Paetz, K. N. Houk*, Sarah E. O'Connor.
May 2 | Graphene charge-injection photodetectors - Nat. Electron. Wei Liu, Jianhang Lv, Li Peng, Hongwei Guo, Chen Liu, Yilun Liu, Wei Li, Lingfei Li, Lixiang Liu, Peiqi Wang, Srikrishna Chanakya Bodepudi, Khurram Shehzad, Guohua Hu, Kaihui Liu, Zhipei Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Yang Xu, Xiaomu Wang, Chao Gao, Bin Yu & Xiangfeng Duan*.
May 2 | Statistical parametrization of cell cytoskeleton reveals lung cancer cytoskeletal phenotype with partial EMT signature - Commun. Biol. Arkaprabha Basu, Manash K. Paul, Mitchel Alioscha-Perez, Anna Grosberg, Hichem Sahli, Steven M. Dubinett & Shimon Weiss*.
May 2 | Uncovering the Key Role of Distortion in Bioorthogonal Tetrazine Tools That Defy the Reactivity/Stability Trade-Off - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Dennis Svatunek, Martin Wilkovitsch, Lea Hartmann, K. N. Houk*, and Hannes Mikula.
Apr 30 | Intercalation-Driven Defect-Engineering of MoS2 for Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation - Adv. Mater. Interaces. Yanghao Shi, Wenbiao Zhang, Jingwen Tan, Tianlan Yan, Yingshuai Jia, Zhiyuan Wang, Yi Tang, Qingsheng Gao.
Apr 29 | Human Protein-l-isoaspartate O-Methyltransferase Domain-Containing Protein 1 (PCMTD1) Associates with Cullin-RING Ligase Proteins - Biochemistry. Rebeccah A. Warmack, Eric Z. Pang, Esther Peluso, Jonathan D. Lowenson, Joseph Y. Ong, Jorge Z. Torres*, and Steven G. Clarke*.
Apr 26 | Low Temperature Nano Mechano-electrocatalytic CH4 Conversion - ACS Nano. Junma Tang, Priyank V. Kumar, Jason A. Scott, Jianbo Tang, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Maedehsadat Mousavi, Jialuo Han, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Khashayar Khoshmanesh, Torben Daeneke, Anthony P. O’Mullane, Richard B. Kaner*, Md. Arifur Rahim, and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh.
Apr 26 | Seeing flying molecular elephants more clearly - Nat. Chem. Muhammad A. Zenaidee & Joseph A. Loo*.
April 25 | Tuning the Porous Structure in PMMA-Templated Mesoporous MoO2 for Pseudocapacitive Li-Ion Electrodes - J. Electrochem. Soc. Yan Yan, Matthew A. Chin, Daniel D. Robertson, Benjamin K. Lesel and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Apr 21 | Macro- and Nano-Porous 3D-Hierarchical Carbon Lattices for Extraordinarily High Capacitance Supercapacitors - Adv. Funct. Mater. Yuto Katsuyama, Nagihiro Haba, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Iwase, Akira Kudo, Itaru Honma, Richard B. Kaner*.
Apr 19 | Origin of iodine preferential attack at sulfur in phosphorothioate and subsequent P-O or P-S bond dissociation – PNAS. Qiang Huang, Ga Young Lee, Jiayi Li, Chuan Wang, Rosalinda L. Zhao, Zixin Deng, K. N. Houk*, and Yi-Lei Zhao.
Apr 18 | Endoepitaxial growth of monolayer mosaic heterostructures - Nat. Nanotechnol. Zhengwei Zhang, Ziwei Huang, Jia Li, Di Wang, Yue Lin, Xiangdong Yang, Hang Liu, Song Liu, Yiliu Wang, Bo Li, Xiangfeng Duan* & Xidong Duan.
Apr 14 | Mesoporous MoO2 thin films for high rate Li+ storage: Effect of crystallinity and porous structure - Solid State Sci. Yan Yan, Hyung-Seok Kim, John B. Cook, Shauna Robbennolt, Bruce Dunn, Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Apr 13 | Organocatalytic discrimination of non-directing aryl and heteroaryl groups: enantioselective synthesis of bioactive indole-containing triarylmethanes - Chem. Sci. Qiaolin Yan, Meng Duan, Cien Chen, Zhiqing Deng, Mandi Wu, Peiyuan Yu, Ming-Liang He, Guangyu Zhu, K. N. Houk* and Jianwei Sun.
Apr 13 | Structure of active human telomerase with telomere shelterin protein TPP1 - Nature. Baocheng Liu, Yao He, Yaqiang Wang, He Song, Z. Hong Zhou & Juli Feigon*.
Apr 11 | Halogen-bond-assisted radical activation of glycosyl donors enables mild and stereoconvergent 1,2-cis-glycosylation - Nat. Chem. Chen Zhang, Hao Zuo, Ga Young Lee, Yike Zou, Qiu-Di Dang, K. N. Houk* & Dawen Niu.
Apr 5 | Hydrogen Abstraction by Alkoxyl Radicals: Computational Studies of Thermodynamic and Polarity Effects on Reactivities and Selectivities - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Fengjiao Liu, Siqi Ma, Zeying Lu, Anjanay Nangia, Meng Duan, Yanmin Yu, Guochao Xu, Ye Mei, Massimo Bietti, and K. N. Houk*.
Apr 4 | Asymmetric Organocatalysis Enables Rapid Assembly of Portimine Precursor Chains - Org. Lett. Liubo Li, Anton El Khoury, Brennan O’Neil Clement, Carolyn Wu, and Patrick G. Harran*.
Apr 4 | Cryo-EM structure of RNA-induced tau fibrils reveals a small C-terminal core that may nucleate fibril formation - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Romany Abskharon, Michael R. Sawaya, David R. Boyer Qin Cao, Binh A. Nguyen, Duilio Cascio, and David S. Eisenberg*.
Apr 1 | Stochastic Vector Techniques in Ground-State Electronic Structure - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser*, Eran Rabani.
Apr 1 | SP3-Enabled Rapid and High Coverage Chemoproteomic Identification of Cell-State–Dependent Redox-Sensitive Cysteines - Mol. Cell. Proteom. Heta S. Desai, Tianyang Yan, Fengchao Yu, Alexander W. Sun, Miranda Villanueva, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Keriann M. Backus*.
Apr 1 | Packaging contests between viral RNA molecules and kinetic selectivity - PloS Comput. Biol. Inbal Mizrahi, Robijn Bruinsma*, Joseph Rudnick.
Apr 1 | High-temperature phonon-mediated superconductivity in monolayer Mg2B4C2 - Quantum Materials. Sobhit Singh, Aldo H. Romero, José D. Mella, Vitalie Eremeev, Enrique Muñoz, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Karin M. Rabe, David Vanderbilt and Francisco Muñoz.
Mar 31 - Vibronic coherences in light harvesting nanotubes: unravelling the role of dark states - J. Mater. Chem. C. Sandra Doria, Mariangela Di Donato, Raffaele Borrelli, Maxim F. Gelin, Justin Caram*, Marco Pagliai, Paolo Foggi and Andrea Lapini.
Mar 30 | Tuning Exchange Coupling in a New Family of Nanocrystal-Based Granular Multiferroics Using an Applied Electric Field - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Stephen S. Sasaki, Oleg G. Udalov, Jeffrey A. Kurish, Momoko Ishii, Igor S. Beloborodov, and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Feb 17 | Catalysis in Modern Drug Discovery: Insights from a Graduate Student-Taught Undergraduate Course - J. Chem. Educ. Jason V. Chari, Rachel R. Knapp, Timothy B. Boit, and Neil K. Garg*.
Feb 15 | Trilayer Metal–Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Fatemeh Shahbazi Farahani, Mohammad S. Rahmanifar, Abolhassan Noori, Maher F. El-Kady, Nasim Hassani, Mehdi Neek-Amal, Richard B. Kaner*, and Mir F. Mousavi.
Feb 11 | Decoding reactive structures in dilute alloy catalysts - Nat. Commun. Nicholas Marcella, Jin Soo Lim, Anna M. Płonka, George Yan, Cameron J. Owen, Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven, Alexandre C. Foucher, Hio Tong Ngan, Steven B. Torrisi, Nebojsa S. Marinkovic, Eric A. Stach, Jason F. Weaver, Joanna Aizenberg, Philippe Sautet*, Boris Kozinsky & Anatoly I. Frenkel.
Feb 8 | Extended β-Strands Contribute to Reversible Amyloid Formation - ACS Nano. Kevin A. Murray, Declan Evans, Michael P. Hughes, Michael R. Sawaya, Carolyn J. Hu, Kendall N. Houk*, and David Eisenberg*.
Feb 8 | 2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges - Chem. Rev. Phuong V. Pham, Srikrishna Chanakya Bodepudi, Khurram Shehzad, Yuan Liu, Yang Xu, Bin Yu, and Xiangfeng Duan*.
Feb 8 | Neutralizing antibodies induced in immunized macaques recognize the CD4-binding site on an occluded-open HIV-1 envelope trimer - Nat. Commun. Zhi Yang, Kim-Marie A. Dam, Michael D. Bridges, Magnus A. G. Hoffmann, Andrew T. DeLaitsch, Harry B. Gristick, Amelia Escolano, Rajeev Gautam, Malcolm A. Martin, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Wayne L. Hubbell* & Pamela J. Bjorkman.
Feb 8 | How physical forces drive the process of helical membrane protein folding - EMBO Reports. Karolina Corin and James U. Bowie.
Feb 7 | Fgf8 dynamics and critical slowing down may account for the temperature independence of somitogenesis - Commun Biol. Weiting Zhang, Pierluigi Scerbo, Marine Delagrange, Virginie Candat, Vanessa Mayr, Sophie Vriz, Martin Distel, Bertrand Ducos & David Bensimon*.
Feb 7 | Scale-Dependent Photosalience and Topotactic Reaction of Microcrystalline Benzylidenebutyrolactone Determined by Electron Microscopy and Electron Diffraction - Cryst. Growth Des. Vince M. Hipwell, Chih-Te Zee, Jose Rodriguez*, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
Feb 3 | Chlamydomonas ATX1 is essential for Cu distribution to multiple cupro-enzymes and maintenance of biomass in conditions demanding cupro-enzyme-dependent metabolic pathways - Plant Direct. Keegan L. J. Pham, Stefan Schmollinger, Sabeeha S. Merchant*, Daniela Strenkert.
Feb 2 | Comparative Analysis of Sulfonium−π, Ammonium−π, and Sulfur−π Interactions and Relevance to SAM-Dependent Methyltransferases - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Katherine I. Albanese, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Joseph W. Treacy, Rodney Park, K. N. Houk*, Brian Kuhlman, and Marcey L. Waters.
Feb 1 - Multiplexed nanomaterial-assisted laser desorption/ionization for pan-cancer diagnosis and classification - Nat. Commun. Hua Zhang, Lin Zhao, Jingjing Jiang, Jie Zheng, Li Yang, Yanyan Li, Jian Zhou, Tianshu Liu, Jianmin Xu, Wenhui Lou, Weige Yang, Lijie Tan, Weiren Liu, Yiyi Yu, Meiling Ji, Yaolin Xu, Yan Lu, Xiaomu Li, Zhen Liu, Rong Tian, Cheng Hu, Shumang Zhang, Qinsheng Hu, Yangdong Deng, Hao Ying, Sheng Zhong, Xingdong Zhang, Yunbing Wang, Hua Wang, Jingwei Bai, Xiaoying Li & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Feb 1 | Palladium-catalyzed stereospecific C–P coupling toward diverse PN-heterocycles - Chem. Hong Deng, Minyan Wang, Yong Liang, Xiangyang Chen, Tianhang Wang, Jonathan J. Wong, Yue Zhao, Kendall N. Houk*, Zhuangzhi Shi.
Feb 1 | Diastereoselective Addition of Prochiral Nucleophilic Alkenes to α-Chiral N-Sulfonyl Imines - Org. Lett. David A. Gutierrez, James Fettinger, K. N. Houk*, Kaori Ando, and Jared T. Shaw.
Jan 31 | An Exception to the Carothers Equation Caused by the Accelerated Chain Extension in a Pd/Ag Cocatalyzed Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling Polymerization - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Liwen Xing, Ji-Ren Liu, Xin Hong*, Kendall N. Houk*, and Christine K. Luscombe.
Jan 30 | Dispersion and Steric Effects on Enantio-/Diastereoselectivities in Synergistic Dual Transition-Metal Catalysis - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Bo Li, Hui Xu, Yanfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk*.
Jan 28 | Intra- and intermolecular rovibrational states of HCl-H2O and DCl-H2O dimers from full-dimensional and fully coupled quantum calculations - Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. Peter M. Felker*, and Zlatko Bačić.
Jan 27 | Membrane potential sensing: Material design and method development for single particle optical electrophysiology - J. Chem. Phys. Debjit Roy, Zehavit Shapira, and Shimon Weiss*.
Jan 26 | Gold Sunflower Microelectrode Arrays with Dendritic Nanostructures on the Lateral Surfaces for Antireflection and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering - ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Sunil Mehla, Ahmad Kandjani, Victoria Coyle, Christopher J. Harrison, Mei Xian Low, Richard B. Kaner*, Ylias Sabri, and Suresh K. Bhargava.
Jan 26 | Stochastic Vector Techniques in Ground-State Electronic Structure - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser*, Eran Rabani.
Jan 25 | Computational Exploration of Anomalous Regioselectivities in Cycloadditions of Ketenes to Oxazolines - J. Org. Chem. Ledong Zhu, Mark A. Maskeri, Melissa Ramirez, F. Le Bideau, Léon Ghosez, and K. N. Houk.
Jan 25 | Broadcasting of amplitude- and frequency-modulated c-di-GMP signals facilitates cooperative surface commitment in bacterial lineages - PNAS. Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Shanice S. Webster, Jonathan W. Chen, George A. O’Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong*. Read an article about the research here.
Jan 25 - A Silicon Monoxide Lithium-Ion Battery Anode with Ultrahigh Areal Capacity - Nano-Micro Lett. Jiang Zhong, Tao Wang, Lei Wang, Lele Peng, Shubin Fu, Meng Zhang, Jinhui Cao, Xiang Xu, Junfei Liang, Huilong Fei, Xidong Duan, Bingan Lu, Yiliu Wang, Jian Zhu & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Jan 24 | Ultrapermeable nanofiltration membranes with tunable selectivity fabricated with polyaniline nanofibers – J. Material Chem. Chenhao Ji, Cheng-Wei Lin, Shenghao Zhang, Yaoli Guo, Zhe Yang, Weiping Hu, Shuangmei Xue, Q. Jason Niu and Richard B. Kaner*.
Jan 24 | Biosynthesis of Terpenoid–Pyrrolobenzoxazine Hybrid Natural Product CJ-12662 - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Wei Cheng, Mengbin Chen, Masao Ohashi, Yi Tang*.
Jan 22 | Noble Metal Based Electrocatalysts for Alcohol Oxidation Reactions in Alkaline Media - Adv. Funct. Mater. Xiaoyang Fu, Chengzhang Wan, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan*.
Jan 21 | Broadcasting of amplitude- and frequency-modulated c-di-GMP signals facilitates cooperative surface commitment in bacterial lineages – PNAS. Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Shanice S. Webster, Jonathan W. Chen, George A. O’Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong*.
Jan 20 | Interpreting the Operando X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure of Supported Cu and CuPd Clusters in Conditions of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane: Dynamic Changes in Composition and Size – J. Phys. Chem. C. Patricia Poths, Geng Sun, Philippe Sautet*, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Jan 20 | Thin-Film Composite Membranes with a Hybrid Dimensional Titania Interlayer for Ultrapermeable Nanofiltration - Nano Lett. Shuangmei Xue, Cheng-Wei Lin, Chenhao Ji, Yaoli Guo, Liping Liu, Zhe Yang, Shuzhen Zhao, Xingke Cai, Qingshan Jason Niu, and Richard B. Kaner*.
Jan 19 | Thermodynamics-driven interfacial engineering of alloy-type anode materials – Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. Qizhang Yan, Shu-Ting Ko, Andrew Dawson, David Agyeman-Budu, Grace Whang, Yumin Zhao, Mingde Qin, Bruce S. Dunn, Johanna Nelson Weker, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Jian Luo.
Jan 19 | Intermolecular rovibrational states of the H2O-CO2 and D2O-CO2 van der Waals complexes - J. Chem. Phys. (in press). Peter M. Felker* and Zlatko Bačić.
Jan 18 | A Green Chemistry Approach toward the Stereospecific Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Cyclopropanes via the Solid-State Photodenitrogenation of Crystalline 1-Pyrazolines - J. Org. Chem. Trevor Y. Chang, Daniel M. Adrion, Alana Rose Meyer, Steven A. Lopez, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
Jan 17 | Bisulfate as a redox-active ligand in vanadium-based electrocatalysis for CH4 functionalization - Chem. Commun. Danlei Xiang, Sheng-Chih Lin, Jiao Deng, Hao Ming Chen and Chong Liu*.
Jan 14 | Electrochemical Fluorination of Vinyl Boronates through Donor-Stabilized Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Benjamin Wigman, Woojin Lee, Wenjing Wei, Kendall N. Houk*, Hosea M. Nelson.
Jan 11 | Systematic Variation of Both the Aromatic Cage and Dialkyllysine via GCE-SAR Reveal Mechanistic Insights in CBX5 Reader Protein Binding – J. Med. Chem. Kelsey M. Kean, Stefanie A. Baril, Kelsey N. Lamb, Sarah N. Dishman, Joseph W. Treacy, Kendall N. Houk*, Eric M. Brustad, Lindsey I. James, and Marcey L. Waters.
Jan 10 | The tree of life and the table of the elements - Oxford University Press. Eric Scerri* and David Reznick.
Jan 7 | A Diazo-Hooker Reaction, Inspired by the Biosynthesis of Azamerone – Org. Lett. Oussama Yahiaoui, Lauren A. M. Murray, Fengyue Zhao, Bradley S. Moore, Kendall N. Houk*, Fang Liu, and Jonathan H. George.
Jan 6 | Revisiting the link between magnetic properties and chemisorption at graphene nanoribbon zigzag edge - J. Chem. Phys. Ziyang Wei and Philippe Sautet*.
Jan 5 | A generalized kinetic model for compartmentalization of organometallic catalysis† - Chem. Sci. Brandon J. Jolly, Nathalie H. Co, Ashton R. Davis, Paula L. Diaconescu* and Chong Liu*.
Jan 5 | Wearable aptamer-field-effect transistor sensing system for noninvasive cortisol monitoring - Science Advances. Bo Wang, Chuanzhen Zhao, Zhaoqing Wang, Kyung-Ae Yang, Xuanbing Cheng, Wenfei Liu, Wenzhuo Y, Shuyu Lin, Yichao Zhao, Kevin M. Cheung, Haisong Lin, Hannaneh Hojaiji, Paul S. Weiss*, Milan N. Stojanović, A. Janet Tomiyama, Anne M. Andrews*, Sam Emaminejad.
Jan 5 | Using Data Science To Guide Aryl Bromide Substrate Scope Analysis in a Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Acetals as Alcohol-Derived Radical Sources - J. Am. Chem. Stavros K. Kariofillis, Shutian Jiang, Andrzej M. Żurański, Shivaani S. Gandhi, Jesus I. Martinez Alvarado, and Abigail G. Doyle*.
Jan 14 | Lipid bilayer induces contraction of the denatured state ensemble of a helical-bundle membrane protein – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Kristen A. Gaffney, Ruiqiong Guo, Michael D. Bridges, Shaima Muhammednazaar, Daoyang Chen, Miyeon Kim, Zhongyu Yang, Anthony L. Schilmiller, Nabil F. Faruk, Xiangda Peng, A. Daniel Jones, Kelly H. Kim, Liangliang Sun, Wayne L. Hubbell*, Tobin R. Sosnick, Heedeok Hong.
Jan 3 | Predicting Effects of Site-Directed Mutagenesis on Enzyme Kinetics by QM/MM and QM Calculations: A Case of Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II – J. Phys. Chem. B. Daniel Bím, Michal Navrátil, Ondrej Gutten, Jan Konvalinka, Zsófia Kutil, Martin Culka, Václav Navrátil, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Cyril Bařinka, and Lubomír Rulíšek.
2021
Dec 30 | Hardening Effects in Superhard Transition-Metal Borides - Acc. Mater. Res. Lisa E. Pangilinan, Shanlin Hu, Spencer G. Hamilton, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Richard B. Kaner*.
Dec 30 | Towards understanding the formation of internal fragments generated by collisionally activated dissociation for top-down mass spectrometry – Anal. Chim. Acta. Benqian Wei, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Carter Lantz, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Joseph A. Loo.
Dec 30 | Template-Enabled Biofabrication of Thick Three-Dimensional Tissues with Patterned Perfusable Macro-Channels - Adv. Healthcare Mater. Elham Davoodi, Hossein Montazerian, Masoud Zhianmanesh, Reza Abbasgholizadeh, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Avijit Baydia, Homeyra Pourmohammadali, Nasim Annabi, Paul S. Weiss*, Ehsan Toyserkani, Ali Khademhosseini.
Dec 30 | Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies - ChemTexts. Eric Scerri*.
Dec 28 | Oxidation Dynamics of Supported Catalytic Cu Clusters: Coupling to Fluxionality – ACS Catal. Han Guo, Patricia Poths, Philippe Sautet*, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Dec 28 | New Leadership at ACS Nano - ACS Nano. Paul S. Weiss*.
Dec 27 | Nonequilibrium lateral force and torque by thermally excited nonreciprocal surface electromagnetic waves – Phys. Rev. Chinmay Khandekar, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Paul R. Wilkinson, James K. Gimzewski*, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Charles Chase, and Shanhui Fan.
Dec 26 | Atomic view of an amyloid dodecamer exhibiting selective cellular toxic vulnerability in acute brain slices – Protein Sci. Amber L. H. Gray, Michael R. Sawaya, Debalina Acharyya, Jinchao Lou, Emery M. Edington, Michael D. Best, Rebecca A. Prosser, David S. Eisenberg*, Thanh D. Do.
Dec 25 | Extent and Instability of Trimethylation of Histone H3 Lysine Increases With Degree of Malignancy and Methionine Addiction - Cancer Genomics Proteomics. Jun Yamamoto, Yusuke Aoki , Sachiko Inubushi, Qinghong Han, Kazuyuki Hamada, Yoshihiko Tashiro, Kentaro Miyake, Ryusei Matsuyama, Michael Bouvet, Steven G Clarke*, Itaru Endo, Robert M Hoffman.
Dec 24 | How and why RNA genomes are (partially) ordered in viral capsids - Current Opinion in Virology. Charles M. Knobler* and William M. Gelbart*.
Dec 23 | An Enzymatic Platform for Primary Amination of 1-Aryl-2-alkyl Alkynes - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhen Liu, Zi-Yang Qin, Ledong Zhu, Soumitra V. Athavale, Arkajyoti Sengupta, Zhi-Jun Jia, Marc Garcia-Borràs, K. N. Houk*, and Frances H. Arnold.
Dec 23 | Extraction of Hidden Science from Nanoscale Images - J. Phys. Chem. C. Kristopher K. Barr, Naihao Chiang, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Jérôme Gilles, Stanley J. Osher, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Dec 22 | Combined anodic and cathodic hydrogen production from aldehyde oxidation and hydrogen evolution reaction – Nat. Catal. - Tehua Wang, Li Tao, Xiaorong Zhu, Chen Chen, Wei Chen, Shiqian Du, Yangyang Zhou, Bo Zhou, Dongdong Wang, Chao Xie, Peng Long, Wei Li, Yanyong Wang, Ru Chen, Yuqin Zou, Xian-Zhu Fu, Yafei Li, Xiangfeng Duan* & Shuangyin Wang.
Dec 21 | Toward benchmarking theoretical computations of elementary rate constants on catalytic surfaces: formate decomposition on Au and Cu - Chem. Sci. Eri Muramoto, Wei Chen, Xiwen Jia, Cynthia M. Friend, Philippe Sautet* and Robert J. Madix.
Dec 21 | Towards High-Performance Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics: Dual-Functional p-Type Soft Interlayer - ACS Nano. Yepin Zhao, Pei Cheng*, Hangbo Yang, Minhuan Wang, Dong Meng, Yuan Zhu, Ran Zheng, Tengfei Li, Anni Zhang, Shaun Tan, Tianyi Huang, Jiming Bian, Xiaowei Zhan, Paul S. Weiss*, and Yang Yang.
Dec 20 | Molecular damage in aging - Nature Aging. Vadim N. Gladyshev, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Steven G. Clarke*, Ana Maria Cuervo, Oliver Fiehn, João Pedro de Magalhães, Theresa Mau, Michal Maes, Robert L. Moritz, Laura J. Niedernhofer, Emile Van Schaftingen, Gregory J. Tranah, Kenneth Walsh, Yoshimitsu Yura, Bohan Zhang & Steven R. Cummings.
Dec 19 | Establishing design principles for emissive organic SWIR chromophores from energy gap laws - Chem. Hannah C. Friedman, Emily D. Cosco, Timothy L. Atallah, Shang Jia, Ellen M. Sletten*, Justin R. Caram*.
Dec 17 | A pathogenic role for histone H3 copper reductase activity in a yeast model of Friedreich’s ataxia – Sci Adv. Oscar A. Campos, Narsis Attar, Chen Cheng, Maria Vogelauer, Nathan V. Mallipeddi, Stefan Schmollinger, Nedas Matulionis, Heather R. Christofk, Sabeeha S. Merchant*, Siavash K. Kurdistani.
Dec 17 | Ultrasensitive molecular building block for biothiol NMR detection at picomolar concentrations - iScience. Qingbin Zeng, Qianni Guo, Yaping Yuan, Baolong Wanh, Meiju Sui, Xin Lou, Louis- S. Bouchard*.
Dec 16 | Violations. How Nature Circumvents the Woodward–Hoffmann Rules and Promotes the Forbidden Conrotatory 4n + 2 Electron Electrocyclization of Prinzbach’s Vinylogous Sesquifulvalene - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Garrett A. Kukier, Aneta Turlik, Xiao-Song Xue, and K. N. Houk*.
Dec 15 | Catalytic properties of 4,5-bridged proline methano- and ethanologues in the Hajos–Parrish intramolecular aldol reaction - Org. Chem. Front. Sofiane Hocine, Gilles Berger, K. N. Houk*, and Stephen Hanessian.
Dec 15 | Mechanistic and Electronic Insights into a Working NiAu Single-Atom Alloy Ethanol Dehydrogenation Catalyst – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Georgios Giannakakis, Paul Kress, Kaining Duanmu, Hio Tong Ngan, George Yan, Adam S. Hoffman, Zhen Qi, Antonios Trimpalis, Leelavathi Annamalai, Mengyao Ouyang, Jilei Liu, Nathaniel Eagan, Juergen Biener, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Simon R. Bare*, Philippe Sautet*, and E. Charles H. Sykes.
Dec 15 | Epidermis-Inspired Wearable Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors Using Reduced Graphene Oxide Self-Wrapped Copper Nanowire Networks – Small Methods. Yangzhi Zhu, Martin C. Hartel, Ning Yu, Pamela Rosario Garrido, Sanggon Kim, Junmin Lee, Praveen Bandaru, Shenghan Guan, Haisong Lin, Sam Emaminejad, Natan Roberto de Barros, Samad Ahadian, Han-Jun Kim, Wujin Sun, Vadim Jucaud, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Paul S. Weiss*, Ruoxue Yan, Ali Khademhosseini.
Dec 15 | Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology - ACS Nano. Lisa Pokrajac, Ali Abbas, Wojciech Chrzanowski, Goretty M. Dias, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Steven Maguire, Elicia Maine, Timothy Malloy, Jatin Nathwani, Linda Nazar, Adrienne Sips, Jun’ichi Sone, Albert van den Berg, Paul S. Weiss*, and Sushanta Mitra.
Dec 14 | Electron Density Geometry and the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules – J. Phys. Chem. A - Timothy R. Wilson, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, and M. E. Eberhart.
Dec 13 | Tunable heteroaromatic azoline thioethers (HATs) for cysteine profiling - Chem. Sci. Kuei C. Tang, Sean M. Maddox, Keriann M. Backus* and Monika Raj.
Dec 13 | In Search of Small Molecules That Selectively Inhibit MBOAT4 - Molecules. [Special issue in honor of Daniel Comins]. Emily S. Murzinski, Ishika Saha, Hui Ding, David Strugatsky, Ryan A. Hollibaugh, Haixia Liu, Peter Tontonoz and Patrick G. Harran*.
Dec 13 | Three-repeat and four-repeat tau isoforms form different oligomers - Protein|Science. Hedieh Shahpasand-Kroner, Jennifer Portillo, Carter Lantz, Paul M. Seidler, Natalie Sarafian, Joseph A. Loo*, Gal Bitan.
Dec 9 | Finding your voice in a diverse audience: Lessons in writing and advocacy - Chem. Hannah C. Friedman (Ph.D. student, Caram group).
Dec 9 | Enzymatic control of endo- and exo-stereoselective Diels–Alder reactions with broad substrate scope – Nat. Catal. Lei Gao, Yike Zou, Xiaojing Liu, Jun Yang, Xiaoxia Du, Jin Wang, Xinshui Yu, Junping Fan, Mingxuan Jiang, Yuli Li, K. N. Houk* & Xiaoguang Lei.
Dec 9 | Characterization of protein–ligand binding interactions of enoyl-ACP reductase (FabI) by native MS reveals allosteric effects of coenzymes and the inhibitor triclosan – Protein Sci. P. Matthew Joyner, Denise P. Tran, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Joseph A. Loo*.
Dec 8 | Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Conversion of Epoxides into Thiiranes: Mechanism, Stereochemical Model, and New Catalyst Design – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Meng Duan, Christian David Díaz-Oviedo, Yang Zhou, Xiangyang Chen, Peiyuan Yu, Benjamin List, Kendall N. Houk*, Yu Lan.
Dec 8 | Slip/Stick Viscosity Models of Nanoconfined Liquids: Solvent-Dependent Rotation in Metal–Organic Frameworks – J. Org. Chem. Marcus J. Jellen, Xing Jiang, Stefan Benders, Alina Adams, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
Dec 6 | Wide-Gap Perovskite via Synergetic Surface Passivation and Its Application toward Efficient Stacked Tandem Photovoltaics – Small. Tianyi Huang, Rui Wang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Shaun Tan, Jingjing Xue, Yepin Zhao, Quantan Wu, Marc H. Weber, Pei Cheng, Dong Meng, Ilhan Yavuz, K. N. Houk*, Yang Yang.
Dec 6 | Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation - Nat. Catal. Jianxin Kang, Xiaoyi Qiu, Qi Hu, Jun Zhong, Xiang Gao, Rong Huang, Chengzhang Wan, Li-Min Liu, Xiangfeng Duan* & Lin Guo.
Dec 6 | Discovery and characterization of circulating tumor cell clusters in neuroendocrine tumor patients using nanosubstrate-embedded microchips - Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Na Sun, Yingying Yang, Hui Miao, Peter Redublo, Hongtao Liu, Wenfei Liu, Yen-Wen Huang, Pai-Chi Teng, Ceng Zhang, Ryan Y. Zhang, Matthew Smalley, Peng Yang, Shih-Jie Chou, Kevin Huai, Zhicheng Zhang, Yi-Te Lee, Jasmine J. Wang, Jing Wang, Icy Y. Liang, Tiffany X. Zhang, Dongyun Zhang, Li Liang, Paul S. Weiss*, Edwin M. Posadas, Timothy Donahue, J. Randolph Hecht, Martin S. Allen-Auerbach, Emily K. Bergsland, Thomas A. Hope, Renjun Pei, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Anthony P. Heaney.
Dec 6 | Novel Isotope Effect in Coherent Non-adiabatic Dynamics Induced by an Attosecond Pulse [Conference Paper] - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. Ksenia G. Komarova, Françoise Remacle, and Raphael D. Levine*.
Dec 2 | Icosahedral m-Carboranes Containing Exopolyhedral B–Se and B–Te Bonds - Inorg. Chem. Harrison A. Mills, Fadi Alsarhan, Ta-Chung Ong, Milan Gembicky, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
Dec 2 | Insight into the molecular basis of substrate recognition by the wall teichoic acid glycosyltransferase TagA - J. Biol. Chem. Orlando E. Martinez, Brendan J. Mahoney, Andrew K. Goring, Sung-Wook Yi, Denise P. Tran, Duilio Cascio, Martin L. Phillips, Musleh M. Muthana, Xi Chen, Michael E. Jung*, Joseph A. Loo*, Robert T. Clubb*. [Research Article Editors' Pick]
Dec 2 | Integrating the History and Philosophy of Science and restoring the centrality of the Periodic Table into a college general chemistry course - Chimica Nella Scuola. Eric Scerri*.
Nov 30 | Cross-metathesis of Allenes. Mechanistic Analysis and Identification of a Ru-CAAC as the Most Effective Catalyst - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Stella A. Gonsales, Zoé C. Mueller, Fengyue Zhao, Paulo H. S. Paioti, Lydia Karmazin, Jing Wan, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk*, and Amir H. Hoveyda.
Nov 30 | Computational and Further Experimental Explorations of the Competing Cascades Following Claisen Rearrangements of Aryl Propargyl Ethers: Substituent Effects on Reactivity and Regioselectivity - J. Org. Chem. Melissa Ramirez, Vito Vece, Stephen Hanessian, and K. N. Houk*.
Nov 30 | Quantum gates robust to secular amplitude drifts - Phys. Rev. Qile David Su, Robijn Bruinsma*, and Wesley C. Campbell.
Nov 29 | Compacting the density matrix in quantum dynamics: Singular value decomposition of the surprisal and the dominant constraints for anharmonic systems - J. Chem. Phys. K. Komarova, Francoise Remacle, and R. D. Levine*.
Nov 29 | Ex Vivo and In Vivo Evaluation of Dodecaborate-Based Clusters Encapsulated in Ferumoxytol Nanoparticles - Langmuir. Nicholas A. Bernier, James Teh, Derek Reichel, Joanne L. Zahorsky-Reeves, J. Manuel Perez, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
Nov 29 | Deterioration of Kaihua handmade paper: Evolution of molecular, supermolecular and macroscopic structures - Polym. Degrad. Stab. Jingjing Yao, Ruohong Zhang, Chan Luo, Yueer Yan, Ning Bi, Yi Tang*.
Nov 29 | A general strategy for C(sp3)–H functionalization with nucleophiles using methyl radical as a hydrogen atom abstractor - Nature Communications. Isabelle Nathalie-Marie Leibler, Makeda A.Tekle-Smith & Abigail G. Doyle*.
Nov 29 | Approaching the intrinsic exciton physics limit in two-dimensional semiconductor diodes - Nature. Peng Chen, Timothy L. Atallah, Zhaoyang Lin, Peiqi Wang, Sung-Joon Lee, Junqing Xu, Zhihong Huang, Xidong Duan, Yuan Ping, Yu Huang, Justin R. Caram* & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Nov 25 | Stereodivergent Attached-Ring Synthesis via Non-Covalent Interactions: A Short Formal Synthesis of Merrilactone A – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Benjamin J. Huffman, Tiffany Chu, Yusuke Hanaki, Jonathan J. Wong, Shuming Chen, Kendall N. Houk*, Ryan A. Shenvi.
Nov 24 | Tempering stochastic density functional theory - J. Chem. Phys. Minh Nguyen, Wenfei Li, Yangtao Li, Eran Rabani, Roi Baer, and Daniel Neuhauser*.
Nov 24 | Implantable aptamer–field-effect transistor neuroprobes for in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring - Sci. Adv. Chuanzhen Zhao, Kevin M. Cheung, I-Wen Huang, Hongyan Yang, Nako Nakatsuka, Wenfei Liu, Yan Cao, Tianxing Man, Paul S. Weiss*, Harold G. Monbouquette, Anne M. Andrews*. Read about the paper here.
Nov 24 | Pd(II)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzocyclobutenes by β-Methylene-Selective C(sp3)–H Arylation with a Transient Directing Group - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Philip A. Provencher, John F. Hoskin, Jonathan J. Wong, Xiangyang Chen, Jin-Quan Yu, K. N. Houk*, and Erik J. Sorensen*.
Nov 23 | Diffusion Barriers for Carbon Monoxide on the Cu(001) Surface Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory and Various Density Functionals - J. Chem. Theory Comput. Ziyang Wei, Florian Göltl, and Philippe Sautet*.
Nov 22 | How Water–Ion Interactions Control the Formation of Hydrated Electron:Sodium Cation Contact Pairs - J. Phys. Chem. B. Sanghyun J. Park, Wilberth A. Narvaez, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.
Nov 18 | Mesocrystal morphology regulation by “alkali metals ion switch”: Re-examining zeolite nonclassical crystallization in seed-induced process - J. Colloid Interface Sci. Zhaoqi Ye, Yang Zhao, Hongbin Zhang, Zhangping Shi, He Li, Xue Yang, Lei Wang, Lingtao Kong, Chunna Zhang, Zhizheng Sheng, Yahong Zhang, Yi Tang*.
Nov 18 | ABC and ABAB Block Copolymers by Electrochemically Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zachary C. Hern, Stephanie M. Quan, Ruxi Dai, Amy Lai, Yihang Wang, Chong Liu*, and Paula L. Diaconescu*.
Nov 17 | Nanoscale neuromorphic networks and criticality: a perspective [Review] – J. Phys.:Complex. Christopher S Dunham, Sam Lilak, Joel Hochstetter, Alon Loeffler, Ruomin Zhu, Charles Chase, Adam Z Stieg, Zdenka Kuncic and James K Gimzewski*.
Nov 17 | Elastic and plastic mechanical properties of nanoparticle-based silica aerogels and xerogels - Microporous and Mesoporous Mater. Michal Marszewski, Ali Dashti, Patricia E. McNeil, Maggie Fox, Vivian Wall, Danielle M. Butts, Sophia C. King, Glareh N. Kashanchi, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Bruce Dunn, Laurent Pilon.
Nov 16 | π-Facial Stereoselectivity in Acyl Nitroso Cycloadditions to 5,5-Unsymmetrically Substituted Cyclopentadienes: Computational Exploration of Origins of Selectivity and the Role of Substituent Conformations on Selectivity - J. Org. Chem. Fengyue Zhao, Peiyuan Yu, Yu Chen, Fang Liu, and K. N. Houk*.
Oct 7 | SwabExpress: An End-to-End Protocol for Extraction-Free COVID-19 Testing – Clinical Chemistry. Sanjay Srivatsan, Sarah Heidl, Brian Pfau, Beth K. Martin, Peter D. Han, Weizhi Zhong, Katrina van Raay, Evan McDermot, Jordan Opsahl, Luis Gamboa, Nahum Smith, Melissa Truong, Shari Cho, Kaitlyn A. Barrow, Lucille M. Rich, Jeremy Stone, Caitlin R. Wolf, Denise J. McCulloch, Ashley E. Kim, Elisabeth Brandstetter, Sarah L. Sohlberg, Misja Ilcisin, Rachel E. Geyer, Wei Chen, Jase Gehring, Seattle Flu Study Investigators, Sriram Kosuri*, Trevor Bedford, Mark J. Rieder, Deborah A. Nickerson, Helen Y. Chu, Eric Q. Konnick, Jason S. Debley, Jay Shendure, Christina M. Lockwood, Lea M. Starita.
July 27 | Touting the Growing Contributions of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Editorial) - ACS Nano. Paul S. Weiss*.
July 27 | MNIST classification using Neuromorphic Nanowire Networks [conference paper] International Conference Proceeding Series. Ruomin Zhu, Alon Loeffler, Joel Hochstetter, Adrian Diaz-Alvarez, Tomonobu Nakayama, Adam Stieg, James Gimzewski*, Joseph Lizier, Zdenka Kuncic.
July 26 | Prospecting for natural products by genome mining and microcrystal electron diffraction - Nature Chemical Biology. Lee Joon Kim, Masao Ohashi, Zhuan Zhang, Dan Tan, Matthew Asay, Duilio Cascio, José A. Rodriguez*, Yi Tang* & Hosea M. Nelson*. Read article about the research here.
July 23 | Cell-Free Total Biosynthesis of Plant Terpene Natural Products Using an Orthogonal Cofactor Regeneration System - ACS Catal. Undramaa Bat-Erdene, John M. Billingsley, William C. Turner, Benjamin R. Lichman, Francesca M. Ippoliti, Neil K. Garg*, Sarah E. O’Connor, and Yi Tang*.
July 23 | Mechanisms and Dynamics of Synthetic and Biosynthetic Formation of Delitschiapyrones: Solvent Control of Ambimodal Periselectivity – J. Am Chem. Soc. Yike Zou and K. N. Houk*.
July 23 | Whitlockite-Enabled Hydrogel for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Sevda Pouraghaei Sevari, Jin Koo Kim, Chider Chen, Amir Nasajpour, Cun-Yu Wang, Paul H. Krebsbach, Ali Khademhosseini, Sahar Ansari, Paul S. Weiss*, and Alireza Moshaverinia.
July 21 | The Art of Reviewing Manuscripts - J. Phys. Chem. C. Anastassia N. Alexandrova* and Gregory V. Hartland.
July 20 | Cell contact guidance via sensing anisotropy of network mechanical resistance – PNAS. Greeshma Thrivikraman, Alicja Jagiełło, Victor K. Lai, Sandra L. Johnson, Mark Keating, Alexander Nelson, Billianne Schultz, Connie M. Wang, Alex J. Levine*, Elliot L. Botvinick, Robert T. Tranquillo.
July 19 | Engineering P450 TamI as an Iterative Biocatalyst for Selective Late-Stage C–H Functionalization and Epoxidation of Tirandamycin Antibiotics – ACS Catal. Rosa V. Espinoza, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, S. Wald Grossman, Jin Yi Tan, Caylie A. McGlade, Yogan Khatri, Sean A. Newmister, Jennifer J. Schmidt, Marc Garcia-Borràs, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk*, and David H. Sherman.
July 19 - Cleaving arene rings for acyclic alkenylnitrile synthesis – Nature. Xu Qiu, Yueqian Sang, Hao Wu, Xiao-Song Xue, Zixi Yan, Yachong Wang, Zengrui Cheng, Xiaoyang Wang, Hui Tan, Song Song, Guisheng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, K. N. Houk* & Ning Jiao.
July 16 - Advances in optimizing enzyme electrostatic preorganization - Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. Matthew R. Hennefarth and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
July 16 | Heterologous Catalysis of the Final Steps of Tetracycline Biosynthesis by Saccharomyces cerevisiae – ACS Chem. Biol. Ehud Herbst, Arden Lee, Yi Tang*, Scott A. Snyder, and Virginia W. Cornish.
July 16 | Entrepreneurial Talent Building for 21st Century Agricultural Innovation - ACS Nano. Bo Kyeong Yoon, Hyunhyuk Tae, Joshua A. Jackman, Supratik Guha, Cherie R. Kagan, Andrew J. Margenot, Diane L. Rowland, Paul S. Weiss*, and Nam-Joon Cho.
July 15 | DCl-H 2 O, HCl-D 2 O, and DCl-D 2 O Dimers: Inter- and Intramolecular Vibrational States and Frequency Shifts from Fully Coupled Quantum Calculations on a Full-Dimensional Neural Network Potential Energy Surface - J. Phys. Chem. A. Peter M. Felker*, Yang Liu, Jun Li, Zlatko Bačić.
July 15 - Cell contact guidance via sensing anisotropy of network mechanical resistance – PNAS. Greeshma Thrivikraman, Alicja Jagiełło, Victor K. Lai, Sandra L. Johnson, Mark Keating, Alexander Nelson, Billianne Schultz, Connie M. Wang, Alex J. Levine*, Elliot L. Botvinick, Robert T. Tranquillo.
July 9 - The density matrix via few dominant observables: The quantum interference in the isotope effect for atto-pumped N2 – J. Chem. Phys. K. Komarova, F. Remacle, and R. D. Levine.
July 9 | Kinetic sequencing (k-Seq) as a massively parallel assay for ribozyme kinetics: utility and critical parameters - Nucleic Acids Res. Yuning Shen, Abe Pressman, Evan Janzen, Irene A. Chen*.
July 9 | Electronic Structure of Superoxidized Radical Cationic Dodecaborate-Based Clusters - J. Phys. Chem. A. Bo Li, Xinglong Zhang, Julia M. Stauber, Thomas F. Miller III, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
July 8 | Large-Area Periodic Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanopyramid Arrays for High-Performance Photodetector and Image Sensor Applications - ACS Materials Lett. Xiuzhen Xu, Wenfei Liu, Zhenkai Ji, Dandan Hao, Wenyuan Yan, Zilong Ye, Yan Hu, Minghe Fang, Changchun Wang, Liang Ma, Jia Huang, Xiaobin Xu, and Paul S. Weiss*.
July 7 | Editorial: Focus on Protein Footprinting, Honoring Michael Gross, Recipient of the 2020 John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Joseph A. Loo*, David H. Russell, and Yinsheng Wang
July 3 | Regulation of hepatic coenzyme Q biosynthesis by dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids - Redox Biology. Lucía Fernández-del-Río, Sandra Rodríguez-López, Elena Gutiérrez-Casado, José Antonio González-Reyes, Catherine F. Clarke*, María Isabel Burón, José Manuel Villalba.
July 1 | scPNMF: sparse gene encoding of single cells to facilitate gene selection for targeted gene profiling – Bioinformatics. Dongyuan Song, Kexin Li, Zachary Hemminger, Roy Wollman*, Jingyi Jessica Li.
July 1 | Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples – Nat. Biomed. Eng. Joshua S. Bloom, Laila Sathe, Chetan Munugala, Eric M. Jones, Molly Gasperini, Nathan B. Lubock, Fauna Yarza, Erin M. Thompson, Kyle M. Kovary, Jimin Park, Dawn Marquette, Stephania Kay, Mark Lucas, TreQuan Love, A. Sina Booeshaghi, Oliver F. Brandenberg, Longhua Guo, James Boocock, Myles Hochman, Scott W. Simpkins, Isabella Lin, Nathan LaPierre, Duke Hong, Yi Zhang, Gabriel Oland, Bianca Judy Choe, Sukantha Chandrasekaran, Evann E. Hilt, Manish J. Butte, Robert Damoiseaux, Clifford Kravit, Aaron R. Cooper, Yi Yin, Lior Pachter, Omai B. Garner, Jonathan Flint, Eleazar Eskin, Chongyuan Luo, Sriram Kosuri*, Leonid Kruglyak & Valerie A. Arboleda.
July 1 - Braiding Dynamics in Semiflexible Filament Bundles under Oscillatory Forcing – Polymers. Valentin M. Slepukhin and Alex J. Levine*.
June 30 | Suggesting Reviewers to Improve Your Manuscript [Editorial] - J. Phys Chem. C. Anastassia N. Alexandrova* and Gregory V. Hartland.
June 29 | Interaction between the type 4 pili machinery and a diguanylate cyclase fine-tune c-di-GMP levels during early biofilm formation - PNAS. Shanice S. Webster, Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Gerard C. L. Wong*, George A. O’Toole.
June 28 - Amide and Ketimide Metal Complexes [Book Chapter] - Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III, 2021, 1-9, 178-296. Nathalie H. Co, Ashton R. Davis, Chong Deng, Varit Chantranuwathana, Eva R. Himel Rubin, Merzia Subhan, Wenliang Huang, Paula L. Diaconescu*.
June 28 | Perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions create a beneficial O2 microenvironment in N2-fixing biological | inorganic hybrid - Chem. Catalysis. Shengtao Lu, Roselyn M. Rodrigues, Shuyuan Huang, Daniel A. Estabrook, John O. Chapman, Xun Guan, Ellen M. Sletten*, Chong Liu*.
June 25 | Single-Step Dual-Layer Photolithography for Tunable and Scalable Nanopatterning - ACS Nano. Wenfei Liu, Jiabao Wang, Xiuzhen Xu, Chuanzhen Zhao, Xiaobin Xu, and Paul S. Weiss*.
June 24 | Titr-DMD-A Rapid, Coarse-Grained Quasi-All-Atom Constant pH Molecular Dynamics Framework - J. Chem Theory Comput. David J. Reilley, Jian Wang, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
June 23 | Synthetic strategy toward ineleganolide: A cautionary tale – Tetrahedron. Alexander Q.Cusumano, K.N.Houk, Brian M. Stoltza.
June 23 | Leveraging Fleeting Strained Intermediates to Access Complex Scaffolds - JACS Au. Sarah M. Anthony, Laura G. Wonilowicz, Matthew S. McVeigh, and Neil K. Garg*.
June 23 | A Bayesian nonparametric analysis for zero-inflated multivariate count data with application to microbiome study - Royal Statistical Society. Kurtis Shuler, Samuel Verbanic, Irene A. Chen*, Juhee Lee.
June 22 | An ecophysiological explanation for manganese enrichment in rock varnish - PNAS. Usha F. Lingappa, Chris M. Yeager, Ajay Sharma, Nina L. Lanza, Demosthenes P. Morales, Gary Xie, Ashley D. Atencio, Grayson L. Chadwick, Danielle R. Monteverde, John S. Magyar, Samuel M. Webb, Joan Selverstone Valentine*, Brian M. Hoffman, Woodward W. Fischer.
Mar 2 | ClipsMS: An Algorithm for Analyzing Internal Fragments Resulting from Top-Down Mass Spectrometry - J. Proteome Res. Carter Lantz, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Benqian Wei, Zachary Hemminger, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, and Joseph A. Loo*.
Mar 2 | Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene and Cycloheptatriene with Tropones: All Endo-[6+4] Cycloadditions Are Ambimodal - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Cooper S. Jamieson, Arkajyoti Sengupta, & K. N. Houk*.
Mar 2 | Expanding Nanoparticle Multifunctionality: Size-Selected Cargo Release and Multiple Logic Operations - Nanoscale. Wei Chen, Chi-An Cheng, Danlei Xianga and Jeffrey I. Zink*.
Mar 2 | X-Ray-Based Techniques to Study the Nano-Bio Interface - ACS Nano. C. Sanchez-Cano, R. A. Alvarez-Puebla, J. M. Abendroth, T. Beck, R. Blick, Y. Cao, F. Caruso, I. Chakraborty, H. Chapman, C. Chen, B. E. Cohen, A. L. C. Conceição, D. P. Cormode, D. Cui, K. A. Dawson, G. Falkenberg, C. Fan, N. Feliu, M. Gao, E. Gargioni, C.-C. Glüer, F. Grüner, M. Hassan, Y. Hu, Y. Huang, S. Huber, N. Huse, Y. Kang, A. Khademhosseini, T. F. Keller, C. Körnig, N. A. Kotov, D. Koziej, X.-J. Liang, B. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, L. M. Liz-Marzan, X. Ma, A. Machicote, W. Maison, A. P. Mancuso, S. Megahed, B. Nickel, F. Otto, C. P. Ramirez, S. Pascarelli, A. Pearson, O. Peñate-Medina, B. Qi, J. Rädler, J. J. Richardson, A. Rosenhahn, K. Rothkamm, M. Rübhausen, M. K. Sanyal, R. E. Schaak, H.-P. Schlemmer, M. Schmidt, O. Schmutzler, T. Schotten, F. Schulz, A. K. Sood, K. M. Spiers, T. Staufer, D. M. Stemer, A. Stierle, X. Sun, G. Tsakanova, P. S. Weiss*, H. Weller, F. Westermeier, M. Xu, H. Yan, Y. Zao, Y. Zeng, Y. Zhao, D. Zhu, Y. Zhu, & W. J. Parak.
Mar 2 | When Fluxionality Beats Size Selection: Acceleration of Ostwald Ripening of Sub‐Nano Clusters - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Borna Zandkarimi, Patricia Poths, & Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Mar 1 - Van der Waals Epitaxial Growth of Air-stable CrSe2 Nanosheets with Thickness-tunable Magnetic Order - Nature Materials. Bo Li, Zhong Wan, Cong Wang, Peng Chen, Bevin Huang, Xing Cheng, Qi Qian, Jia Li, Zhengwei Zhang, Guangzhuang Sun, Bei Zhao, Huifang Ma, Ruixia Wu, Zhongming Wei, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Yu Ye, Yu Huang, Xiaodong Xu, Xidong Duan, Wei Ji & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Mar 1 | Narratives of Undergraduate Research, Mentorship, and Teaching at UCLA - Pure and Applied Sciences. Simone L. Stevens, Alice C. Phung, Alejandra Gonzalez, Yanwu Shao, Elamar Hakim Moully, Vinh T. Nguyen, Joshua L. Martin, Chantel Mao, Azin Saebi, Daniel Mosallaei, Monica Kirollos, Paul Chong, Alexander Umanzor, Kevin Qian, Gustavo Marin, Omar M. Ebrahim, Ramya S. Pathuri, Morgan Hopp, Roshini Ramachandran, Mary A. Waddington & Alexander M. Spokoyny*. (Read article about research here.)
Mar 1 | Catalytic mechanism and endo-to-exo selectivity reversion of an octalin-forming natural Diels–Alderase - Nature Catalysis. Michio Sato, Shinji Kishimoto, Mamoru Yokoyama, Cooper S. Jamieson, Kazuto Narita, Naoya Maeda, Kodai Hara, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuta Tsunematsu, Kendall N. Houk*, Yi Tang* & Kenji Watanabe.
Feb 28 - The Myosin Regulatory Light Chain Myl5 Localizes to Mitotic Spindle Poles and is Required for Proper Cell Division - Cytoskeleton. Ivan Ramirez, Ankur A. Gholkar, Erick F. Velasquez, Xiao Guo, Bobby Tofig, Robert Damoiseaux, Jorge Z. Torres*.
Feb 24 | Quantifying information accumulation encoded in the dynamics of biochemical signaling – Nature Communications. Ying Tang, Adewunmi Adelaja, Felix X.-F. Ye, Eric Deeds, Roy Wollman* & Alexander Hoffmann.
Feb 18 | A Switchable Dimeric Yttrium Complex and its Three Catalytic States in Ring Opening Polymerization - Inorg. Chem. Front. Shijie Deng & Paula L. Diaconescu*.
Feb 18 | From chemoproteomic‐detected amino acids to genomic coordinates: insights into precise multi‐omic data integration – Mol. Syst. Biol. Maria F Palafox, Heta S Desai, Valerie A Arboleda, Keriann M Backus*.
Feb 18 | Room Temperature Rectification in Tapered-channel Thermal Diodes Through Nanoscale Confinement-induced Liquid–solid Phase Change - J. Appl. Phys. - Matt Jacobs, Xinran Zhou, Edgar Olivera, Ryan Sheil, Shu Huang, Michal Marszewski, Jane Chang, Sarah Tolbert*, Stanley Osher, Laurent Pilon, and Jaime Marian.
Feb 18 | A Novel SOD1 Intermediate Oligomer, Role of Free Thiols and Disulfide Exchange – Front. Neurosci. Bon-Kyung Koo, William Munroe, Edith B. Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine* and Julian P. Whitelegge.
2020
Dec 31 | Encapsulating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Binuclear Transition-Metal Complexes as a New Platform for Molecular Rotation in Crystalline Solid-State - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mingoo Jin, Rempei Ando, Marcus J. Jellen, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*, and Hajime Ito.