Engineering and characterization of peptides and proteins at surfaces and interfaces: a case study in surface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy

B Ding, J Jasensky, Y Li, Z Chen - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Understanding molecular structures of interfacial peptides and proteins impacts
many research fields by guiding the advancement of biocompatible materials, new and …

Ultrasensitive and selective detection of SARS-CoV-2 using thermotropic liquid crystals and image-based machine learning

Y Xu, AM Rather, S Song, JC Fang, RL Dupont… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
Rapid, robust virus-detection techniques with ultrahigh sensitivity and selectivity are
required for the outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by …

A novel, label-free liquid crystal biosensor for Parkinson's disease related alpha-synuclein

X Yang, H Li, X Zhao, W Liao, CX Zhang… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A liquid crystal biosensor based on DNA aptamer for sensitive detection of Parkinson's
Disease (PD) related alpha-synuclein was developed. This LC biosensor is constructed …

A practical guide to the preparation of liquid crystal-templated microparticles

X Wang, E Bukusoglu, NL Abbott - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
We provide a practical guide to methods and protocols that use polymer networks templated
from droplets of liquid crystal (LC) to synthesize micrometer-sized polymeric particles that …

Optical “blinking” triggered by collisions of single supramolecular assemblies of amphiphilic molecules with interfaces of liquid crystals

M Tsuei, M Shivrayan, YK Kim… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report that incubation of aqueous dispersions of supramolecular assemblies formed by
synthetic alkyl triazole-based amphiphiles against interfaces of thermotropic liquid crystals …

Advancements in droplet reactor systems represent new opportunities in chemical reactor engineering: A perspective

M Zhang, AE Vokoun, B Chen, W Deng… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional chemical reactors, such as batch reactors, continuous reactors, and semi‐batch
reactors, have been extensively studied and frequently act as central components of modern …

Differentiating conformationally distinct Alzheimer's amyloid-β oligomers using liquid crystals

I Pani, P Madhu, N Najiya, A Aayush… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Soluble oligomers of amyloidogenic proteins like an amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide are believed to
exhibit toxic effects in neurodegenerative diseases. The structural classification of oligomers …

A New Strategy for Reporting Specific Protein Binding Events at Aqueous–Liquid Crystal Interfaces in the Presence of Non-Specific Proteins

CS Park, K Iwabata, U Sridhar, M Tsuei… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Aqueous–liquid crystal (LC) interfaces offer promise as responsive interfaces at which
biomolecular recognition events can be amplified into macroscopic signals. However, the …

Non-equilibrium ordering of liquid crystalline (LC) films driven by external gradients in surfactant concentration

S Maiti, S Roh, I Cohen, NL Abbott - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Gradients in the concentration of amphiphiles play an important role in many
non-equilibrium processes involving complex fluids. Here we explore if non-equilibrium …

Patterned surface anchoring of nematic droplets at miscible liquid–liquid interfaces

X Wang, Y Zhou, YK Kim, DS Miller, R Zhang… - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the internal configurations of droplets of nematic liquid crystals (LCs; 10–50 μm-
in-diameter; comprised of 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl and 4-(3-acryloyloxypropyloxy) …