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Upcoming Presentations by Group Members
“Drug-Induced Tissue Regeneration: Stem Cell Therapy Without the Stem Cells”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Sea Cliff Seminar Series, Organogenesis and Tissue Replacement Lab, San Francisco, CA, April 21, 2026.
“Dynamic Covalent and Supramolecular Polymers for Fetal Membrane Repair: Physical and Pharmacologic Approaches”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Soft Matter Workshop, Barbados, May 2-8, 2026.
“Versatile and Sustainable Polymers Derived from a-Lipoic Acid”, to be presented at the International School of Materials for Sustainable Development and Energy”, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, 6–11 August 2026.
“Polymers of alpha-lipoic acid: fine-tuning properties through monomer composition and graphene incorporation”, to be presented at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Chicago IL, Aug 22-26, 2026.
Recent Publications
Pal, E. Salzman, D. Ramirez, H. Chen, C.A. Perez, K. Dale, S. K. Ghosh, L. Lin, P.B. Messersmith, “Versatile solid-state medical superglue precursors of a-lipoic acid”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 13377−13384. [Link]
Z Wu, Q Shi, J Wang, C Tao, S Zhang, PB Messersmith, J Shi, “Rapidly Roughening Polydopamine Nanocoating Through Polyphenol Chemistry”, Advanced Functional Materials 2025, e11171. [Link]
Cheung, P.B.Messersmith, and K.H. Lau, “Specific and non-specific interactions of fibronectin with zwitterionic peptoid brushes studied by molecular dynamics simulation”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2025, 27, 25116-25126. [Link]
K. Ghosh, S. Pal, K. Roy, W. Yue, Y. Gao, F. Xia, P. He, S. Sarkar, M. Teng, J. Park, P. Tsao, X. Li, S. Tofail, P.B. Messersmith, L. Lin, “Highly Responsive Self‐Healing and Degradable Piezoelectric Soft Machines”, Advanced Materials 2025, 37 (39), 2507859. [Link]
Oreja, D. Zaytseva-Zotova, A. Rogala, A. Barrantes, P.B. Messersmith, H. Tiainen, “Multifunctional Tannic Acid and Polyamino Acid Layer-by-Layer Coatings for Tailored Implant Surfaces”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2025, 11 (9), 5376-5388. [Link]
Nivedina A Sarma, Alexandra Grigoropoulos, Mustafa Arslan, Erika E Salzman, Panagiotis Christakopoulos, Honghai Zhang, Kelsey G DeFrates, Joakim Engström, Peter V Bonnesen, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Ting Xu, Phillip B Messersmith, Ahmad K Omar, “Tunable Nanostructures from Inverse Surfactants”, arXiv:2511.12407, 2025. [Link]