Demonstrated design of soft, elastic, and highly conductive polymer complexes through electrostatic interactions between an anionic conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) and a cationic bottlebrush polyelectrolyte (BPE) .
Aqueous mixtures of oppositely charged homochiral polypeptides reveal unexpectedly diverse morphologies at high polypeptide concentration and ionic strength.
In a recent visit to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), explored the cutting-edge facilities available on campus.
A computationally guided design, synthesis, and application of a water-soluble molecule that acts as a photoremovable protecting group, or photocage, for radical-free Diels-Alder photopatterning.
Using SAXS to investigate the relationship between molecular design and structure in the linear π-conjugated peptides assembled through a fuel-driven mechanism.
The BioPACIFIC MIP team has completed the construction and installation of a state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope (TEM) and has made the instrument available to users.
Demonstration of a novel strategy for the scalable synthesis of multiple libraries of discrete lipid poly(ethylene glycol) (DMG-PEG) derivatives, with precise control over the structure and molecular weight.
A high-throughput characterization platform to achieve simultaneous, in situ mapping of time-evolving morphology and micro-rheology in phase separating complex fluids over a large compositional space.
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation, recently visited UCLA to meet with students, faculty members, and campus leaders.
A versatile and scalable strategy to separate parent triblock terpolymers into libraries of fractionated samples spanning a wide range of compositions was developed.