Publications

2025

Hu, Y., Chan, Y. M., Judge, N. G., Becker, M. L., & Willits, R. K. (2025). Sex-based differences in cell migration on aligned topographies. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 28971. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13450-0 

Instrument: SEM

McDonald, S. M., Bu, Y., Dreger, N. Z., Messmore, B., Fussell, G., Agarwal, A., Tsai, E. H. R., Yager, K. G., & Becker, M. L. (2025). Stereochemical Control of Water Transport Properties in Thiol-yne Polymers. Advanced Materials, e08392. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202508392 

Instruments used: AFM, SAXS, DSC, GON

Kumar, V., Chauhan, A. S., Verma, N., Patel, R. K., & Bhatnagar, M. K. (2025). Archaeometallurgical investigations and computed tomography of excavated ancient copper hoards in Ganaga-Yamuna Valley, archaeological site. Archaeometry

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70012 

Instrument: MicroCT

McWhorter, T. M., Zhang, W., Shen, Y., Blum, V., & Mitzi, D. B. (2025). Out-of-Plane Rashba Spin-Splitting and Structure-Property Relationships in Layered Cu2AMVSe4 Chalcogenides (A = K, Rb, Cs; MV = V, Nb, Ta). Chemistry of Materials. 37, 17, 6603–6618. 

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01116 

Instrument: SEM

Monclús-Gonzalo, O., Alba, D. M., Fabre, A.-C., & Marigó, J. (2025). Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape. Journal of Human Evolution, 206, 103730. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103730 

Instrument: MicroCT

Canning, A. J., Vu, T., Menozzi, L., Klippel, P., Chen, X., Chen, J., Charity, T., Hoang, K., Yang, J. J., Jing, Y., Palmer, G. M., Yao, J., & Vo-Dinh, T. (2025). Advancing precision photothermal therapy by integrating armored gold nanostars with real-time photoacoustic thermometry and imaging. Science Advances, 11(33), eadx6350. 

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.adx6350 

Instrument: DLS, UV-Vis

 

Shringi, A. K., Kumar, R., Chaurasiya, R., Lin, J., Doumon, N. Y., & Yan, F. (2025). Bi2O2Se nanosheets for dual-mode electrochemical/fluorescence turn-off sensing of ferric ions. Nanoscale

https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NR01593F 

Instrument: XRD

Schubul, A. N., Marsh, A. D., & Kligman, B. T. (2025). A diverse assemblage of tanystropheid archosauromorphs from the continental interior of Late Triassic Pangea includes a new taxon Akidostropheus oligos. Palaeodiversity, 18(1), 99–125, 127. 

https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v18.a5

Instrument: MicroCT

Dahal, P., Wang, Y., Hu, J., Park, J., Forker, K., Zhang, Z. L., Sharma, K., Borgnia, M. J., Sun, T. P., & Zhou, P. (2025). Structural insights into proteolysis-dependent and -independent suppression of the master regulator DELLA by the gibberellin receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(32), e2511012122. 

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2511012122 

Instrument: CryoTEM

Toyoda, N. (2025). Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates. Evolution

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf176 

Instrument: MicroCT

Liu, Q., Parsons, R. J., Wiehe, K., Edwards, R. J., Saunders, K. O., Zhang, P., Miao, H., Tilahun, K., Jones, J., Chen, Y., Hora, B., Williams, W. B., Easterhoff, D., Huang, X., Janowska, K., Mansouri, K., Haynes, B. F., Acharya, P., & Lusso, P. (2025). Acquisition of quaternary trimer interaction as a key step in the lineage maturation of a broad and potent HIV-1 neutralizing antibody. Structure, 33(8), 1325–1336.e1325. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2025.04.020 

Instrument: CryoTEM

MI Bardot CW Weyhrich, Z Shi, M Traxler, CL Stern, J Cui, DA Muller, ML Becker, WR Dichtel (2025) Mechanically interlocked two-dimensional polymers. Science387,264-269. DOI:10.1126/science.ads4968

Instruments: SEM

SP Zack, KD Rose and MA O'Leary (2025) New Cranial and Postcranial Remains of the Once Enigmatic Early Eocene Mammal Wyolestes (Mammalia, Ferae, Hyaenodonta) from North America, and Phylogenetic Evidence for its Interordinal Relationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 475: 1-80.

Instruments: MICROCT

N Vijgen, KM Poulsen, G Sosa Macias, CK Payne (2025) Predicting the Protein Corona on Nanoparticles Using Random Forest Models with Nanoparticle, Protein, and Experimental Features Nanoscale Adv., 2025, Advance Article 

https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NA00425J

Instrument: TEM2

Keelson, O. G., Kumar, R., Shringi, A. K., Ouma, H. A., Walimbe, P. D., & Yan, F. (2025). Engineering Synergistic 2D/1D ReS2-LaFeO3 Nanohybrids for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic PerformanceCatalysts15(3), 224. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal15030224

Instruments: XRD

RF Kay, EC Kirk, SF Vizcaino, MS Bargo, KL Allen, S Olson, and PE Morse (2025). The Fossil Record of Anthropoid Brain Evolution. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 187:e70081. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70081

Instrument: MICROCT1

Q Liu, R Parsons, K Wiehe, B. Haynes, P Acharya, P Lusso et.al.(2025) Acquisition of quaternary trimer interaction as a key step in the lineage maturation of a broad and potent HIV-1 neutralizing antibody. Structure 33, 1-12

Instruments: Cryo-EM

 F Anees, DA Montoya, DS Pisetsky, T Khan, A Kalpattu, CK Payne (2025) DNA coronas resist nuclease degradation. Biophysical Journal 124(14): 2253-2262.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2025.05.028

Instrument: TEM2

 

Y Rollot, MK AbdelGawad,  MA Hamdan, AN El-Barkooky, SM Hassan and WG Joyce (2025) Trionychian turtles from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Moghra Formation, Egypt, including a new species of Carettochelyidae. Swiss J Palaeontol 144, 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00358-5

Instruments: MICROCT

G Pollara, A Heimbrook, L Fratini, and K Gall (2025) Effect of build and unit cell orientation on the tensile, compressive, and torsional behavior of Ti-6Al-4V gyroid sheet-based structures. Adv. Manuf. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40436-025-00566-9

Instrument: MICROCT1

Thakur, B., Katte, R.H., Xu, W. et al. Conformational trajectory of the HIV-1 fusion peptide during CD4-induced envelope openingNat Commun 16, 4595 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59721-2

Instruments: Cryo-EM

JJ Milligan, RL Strader, A Chakrabarty, M Ney, P Sirohi, JC Su, AK Varanko, Y Shmidov, K Tsolova, C Mendes Fontes, A Finkelstein, R Mattikalli, Y Wang, L Fan, X Li, SK Nair, A Chilkoti (2025) Controlling Release Kinetics of an Adjuvant from a Depot Improves the Efficacy of Local Immunotherapy in Metastatic Cancer. Adv. Sci. 2025, e03591.

https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202503591

Instrument: SPR1

RE Thompson, MI Segal, S Sipics, NG Judge, A Bensoussan, B Keshavarz and ML Becker (2025) Injectable, Solvent Free Strontium Carbonate Poly(Allyl Glycidyl Ether Succinate) Composite Networks for Vertebral Augmentation. Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2501633. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202501633

Instruments: MICROCT

S Atta, Y Zhao, S Sanchez, T Vo-Dinh (2025) Flexible, and cost-effective 3D nano-cauliflower SERS substrate for antibiotics detection on curved surfaces. Microchim Acta 192, 524.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-025-07370-z

Instruments used: UV-Vis and TEM2

Supriya Atta, Yuanhao Zhao, Sabina Yampolsky, Sebastian Sanchez, Tuan Vo-Dinh, A Simple Sensitive Solution-Based “Mix-and-Detect” SERS Platform Utilizing Highly Stable Multibranched Gold Nanostars for Bilirubin Detection in Urine. Analytical Chemistry 2025 97 (26), 13930-13939 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c01765

Instruments: TEM, UV-Vis