The Messersmith Lab has been recognized as winners of a 2018 Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award for the Physical Sciences category! Lab safety coordinators Jing Cheng, Sally Winkler, and Katerina Malollari were recognized for their leadership, and the entire group for their demonstrated commitment to safe practices and promotion of a positive lab safety culture. …
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Congratulations to Helen Zha and Peyman Delparastan on the publication of their paper in Biomaterials Science!
The paper describes the formation of nanothin silk coatings by leveraging the biomimetic self-assembly of eADF4(C16), an amphiphilic recombinant protein based on the Araneus diadematus dragline spidroin ADF4. DOI: 10.1039/C8BM01186A (Paper) Biomater. Sci., 2019, 7, 683-695
Congratulations to Peyman Delparastan and Katerina Malollari on the publication of their paper in Angewandte Chemie!
“Direct Evidence for the Polymeric Nature of Polydopamine”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition. This paper demonstrates the use of single molecule force spectroscopy to show that polydopamine is a polymer, shedding new light on the structure of this interesting material. Angewandte Chemie vol 58, Issue 4, Pages 1077-1082 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201811763
Congratulations to former visiting scientist Suhair Sunoqrot on the publication of her paper in Biomaterials Science!
Suhair’s paper on “Facile synthesis and surface modification of bioinspired nanoparticles from quercetin for drug delivery”, Biomaterials Science, 2018, 6, 2656 -2666. The paper describes synthesis of nanoparticles from the polyphenol quercetin, which can be conveniently functionalized with ligands and drug molecules by simple mixing under ambient conditions. doi: 10.1039/c8bm00587g
Sally Winkler featured in Berkeley Engineer Magazine for her STEM outreach podcast, Double Shelix!
Berkeley Engineer magazine recently featured our PhD student Sally Winkler and her work creating Double Shelix podcast with Kayla Wolf from the Sanjay Kumar lab. Find the article in print or here. Congratulations Sally and Kayla!! Listen to Double Shelix at DoubleShelix.com, on Podomatic, or on iTunes. Episodes feature interviews and discussions about inclusive science, women …
Congratulations to Former Visiting PhD Student Farid Behboodi-Sadabad on his paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
Farid’s paper entitled “Surface Functionalization and Patterning by Multifunctional Resorcinarenes” just published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. In this study, inspired by a strong binding ability of natural polyphenols found in plants, we used three different macrocyclic polyphenols, known as resorcin[4]arenes, to modify the surface of different substrates by simple dip-coating into the dilute …
Congratulations to Former Visiting Scientist Jiafu Shi on his Polydopamine-MOF paper published in Applied Materials Today!
Zhang, J. Shi, Yishan Zhang, Y. Wu, Y. Chen, P.B. Messersmith, Z. Jiang, “Polymer@MOFs Capsules Prepared through Controlled Interfacial Mineralization for Switching on/off Enzymatic Reactions”, Applied Materials Today, 13, 320-328 (2018). The paper describes a method to prepare polymer@MOFs capsules with defect-free MOFs layer through controlled interfacial mineralization, for entrapping and controlling enzyme reactions.
Congratulations to Devang, Cody, Angie and Alyse on new paper published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
Congratulations to Devang, Cody, Angie and Alyse on their new paper published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! The paper describes the synthesis of core-shell particles of resveratrol and polydopamine. Untemplated Resveratrol-Mediated Polydopamine Nanocapsule Formation DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b14128
Postdoc Brylee Tiu is featured in a C&E News Story on Industry Funded Research
The story describes CARA, BASF’s alliance with California Universities. Our lab has been a part of CARA since January 2017. Read more here: https://cen.acs.org/business/investment/new-model-industry-sponsored-research/96/i34
The lab welcomes new graduate student Arianna Avellan
We are pleased to welcome our newest group member Arianna Avellan, a first year PhD student in MSE. Arianna graduated from University of Maryland with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering.