Publications
2026
Sirohi, P., M. R. Ney, Y. Shmidov, B. E. Silverstein, A. Singh, G. Wadsworth, S. Deshpande, Y. Y. Ma, L. Fan, P. R. Banerjee and A. Chilkoti (2026). Dynamic Arrest and Tunable Gelation of Immunogenically Inert POEGMA Nanoparticles. ACS Polymers Au.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acspolymersau.6c00033.
Instrument used: DLS
Kumari, A., S. A. Vigil, K. G. Mason, S. Sivakumar, A. H. Biby, P. Ninawe, C. B. Musgrave, A. R. Kulkarni, I. A. Moreno-Hernandez and J. M. Velázquez (2026). Local Structural Coherence and Interfacial Charge Transfer in Cu2S/MoS2 Heterostructure. PRX Energy 5(2): 023009.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/84s6-812t.
Instrument used: TEM
Lee, J., L. Xiang, L. Huang and L. Feng (2026). Constructing Polyamine-Rich Zr-Based Metal−Organic Frameworks via Linker-Vacancy Engineering for Carbon Capture. ACS Materials Letters.
May, A. J., M. Lella, J. Lindenberger, A. Berkman, U. Kumar, K. Liu, M. Dutta, M. Barr, R. Parks, X. Lu, M. Berry, A. Powell, A. G. Thompson, S. Sowdamini Nakka, C. T. França, X. Huang, A. Mrigwani, K. Song, V. Ilevbare, S. Sammour, C. S. Park, R. Devkota Adhikari, P. Devkota, K. Janowska, Y. Liu, G. Scapellato, T. N. Spence, K. Mansouri, K. Wiehe, N. J. Sullivan, R. Mason, R. J. Edwards, K. O. Saunders, B. F. Haynes and P. Acharya (2026). Mechanistic and antigenic boundaries of Henipavirus and Parahenipavirus glycoproteins. Nature Communications.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74212-8.
Instrument used: CryoTEM
Bhattacharjee, S., J. A. G. Wostbrock, C. L. Blättler, T. M. Present, M. G. Sliwinski, Y. Guan and D. S. Grewal (2026). Accurate in situ C–Mg–Ca isotope ratio analysis in carbonates using SIMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ja00136j.
Instrument used: Mass Spec
Nguyen, U., F. Alfieri, A. Veneziano, A. Licht and J. A. Nyakatura (2026). Whole-Epiphysis Trabecular Bone in Tamarin Limbs Suggests Effects of Leaping Distance Alongside Non-Biomechanical Factors. Am J Biol Anthropol 190(2): e70293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70293.
Instrument used: MicroCT
Chan, Y. M., Judge, N.G., Willits, R.K. et al. (2026). Enhanced integrin-mediated adhesion and proliferation of Schwann cells using highly aligned, dual-functional fibrous scaffolds. npj Soft Matter 2(14).
Rambo, C. R., J. J. Amsden, R. B. Serpa, T. Aloui, J. Ye, D. Muller, C. B. Parker and J. T. Glass (2026). Graphene edges modulate field-emission performance of graphenated carbon nanotubes. Carbon: 121828.
Gracia, L., R. Hughes Elizabeth, R. Middleton Dustin, D. Mueller Katherine, A. Portillo Jessica, A. Sharma, L. Davey, E. Panzetta Maria, B. Chanin Rachael, S. Bhatt Ami and H. Valdivia Raphael (2026). A phase-variable capsule facilitates Akkermansia muciniphila colonization of the intestinal mucus layer. mBio : e01048–01026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01048-26.
Instrument used: TEM
Ren, Z., A. Chhetri, C. Liu, S. Offner, K. Sharma, M. J. Borgnia, W. Im, K. Yokoyama and S. Y. Lee (2026). Structural basis of fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase inhibition by caspofungin. Nature 654(8118): 547–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10409-7.
Instrument used: CryoTEM
Kahsai, A. W., N. Pakharukova, H. Y. Kwon, K. S. Shah, C. T. del Real, B. N. Shreiber, J. G. Liang-Lin, P. J. Shim, M. A. Lee, V. A. Ngo, A. M. Schwalb, U. Pham, A. Chundi, H. Jiang, E. Flores-Espinoza, S. Liu, P. C. Nibley, D. K. Bassford, H. Hahn, C. A. Kunzle, B. N. Thomas, J. Kim, Y. Zhou, J. Wang, X. Zhang, J. S. Smith, L. A. M. Rein, A. R. B. Thomsen, S. K. Shenoy, S. Rajagopal, L. Shi, S. Ahn, H. A. Rockman, A. Masoudi and R. J. Lefkowitz (2026). Small-molecule modulation of β-arrestins. Nature.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10683-5.
Instrument used: CryoTEM
Malhotra, K., B. N. Smith, S. K. Holmes, J. L. Doherty and A. D. Franklin (2026). Width-Spreading Effect in Printed Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors and Its Impact on Device Performance. ACS Applied Nano Materials 9(19): 8781–8788.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.6c00640.
Instruments used: AFM, Cleanroom, Direct Write, RAMAN, SEM, Hummink
Ney, M., P. Sirohi, Y. Shmidov, A. Singh, G. Wadsworth, X. Li, J. Zheng, E. Peng, L. Fan, T. S. Mahendran, S. Deshpande, N. Tripathi, J. C. Su, J. J. Milligan, Y.-X. Wang, P. R. Banerjee and A. Chilkoti (2026). Intrinsically disordered protein coating for oral delivery of peptide drugs. Cell Biomaterials.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celbio.2026.100460.
Press Release: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/oral-glp-1/
Rahman, M. S., S. Hashemkhani, A. Sarkar, J. Chen, C. Chen, J. M. Redwing, R. Kubendran and T. Roy (2026). Electrically Reconfigurable Floating Gate Optoelectronic Synaptic Pixels for In-sensor Convolutional Image Feature Extraction with Built-in Contrast Enhancement. ACS Nano.
Chen, Z., L. Xiang, P. Zhang, J. Lee, L. Huang and L. Feng (2026). Upcycling Polystyrene into Hydrophobic-Shielded Adsorbents for Efficient Direct Air Capture. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Choi, M., D. D. Cho, R. Sheridan, D. B. Mitzi and L. C. Brinson (2026). Uncertainty-aware dimensionality prediction of low-dimensional hybrid metal halides by integrating Bayesian modeling and experiments. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 14(29): 18589–18598.
Gao, L., A. Turner, N. Bossa, H. Hsu-Kim and M. Wiesner (2026). Evaluation of the Affinity of a Nanocarbon-Based Product for Soils in Agricultural Applications. Environmental Science & Technology.
Holmes, S. K., B. Zhang, V. M. Ravel, J. L. Doherty, B. N. Smith and A. D. Franklin (2026). Influence of Ar ion beam on WSe2 and resulting contact interfaces in 2D field-effect transistors. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 44(3).
Sirohi, P., B. E. Silverstein, Y. Shmidov, S. Deshpande, J. Tong, Y. Y. Ma, C. S. Potnis, S. Saha, X. Li, M. R. Ney, S. Y. Kim, J. J. Milligan, L. Fan, M. L. Becker, D. Reker and A. Chilkoti (2026). All-PEG-Like Block Copolymers Self-Assemble into Stealth Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery. Advanced Science 13(17): e17048.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202517048.
Instrument used: DLS
Palmer, S. M., W. Foster, G. Capshaw, M. Michaud and S. B. Cooke (2026). Vomeronasal organ of the North American river otter (Lontra canadensis): Morphological and evolutionary insights based on iodine-enhanced computed tomography. The Anatomical Record.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70211
Instrument used: MicroCT
Vigil, S. A., R. Thatcher, J. Nicolas, Z. Lin, D. Intriago, M. Fratarcangeli, M. C. Huang, A. I. Kankanamge, A. Vojvodic and I. A. Moreno-Hernandez (2026). Direct Observation of Collective Dissolution Mechanisms in Iridium Oxide Nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society 148(7): 7102–7112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c18363.
Press release: https://trinity.duke.edu/news/watching-critical-green-energy-catalyst-dissolve-atom-atom
Instrument used: TEM
Srivastava, S. and S. J. Nesbitt (2026). A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic. Papers in Palaeontology 12(2): e70069.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70069.
News article: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-battered-skull-exposes-lost-killer.html
Instrument used: MicroCT
Choi, M., N. Rivera, S. P. Harvey, C. Zhou, S. Pathiranage, Y. Zhang, S. Barlow, S. R. Marder and D. B. Mitzi (2025). P-Type Doping of Mixed Tin–Lead Halide Perovskites Using Electron Transfer to Mo(tfd-COCF3)3 and F4TCNQ. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17(51): 69676–69685.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c19800.
Instrument used: SEM
Li, J., J. Jeon, K. Z. Lee and F. Zhang (2026). Biosynthesized Silk-Amyloid-Mussel Proteins as Dissolution Recyclable Materials With Tunable Supercontraction. Advanced Materials: e73200.
Liang, J., C. Sui, J. Tian, G. Higueros, T.-H. Chen, R. Wu, P.-J. Hung, Y. Deng, N. Rozman, W. J. Padilla and P.-C. Hsu (2026). Ionic Liquid-Based Reversible Metal Electrodeposition for Adaptive Radiative Thermoregulation Under Extreme Environments. Advanced Functional Materials 36(6): 2419087.