2016 LCI Publications

1. Feng Zou, Yu-Ming Chen, Kewei Liu, Zitian Yu, Wenfeng Liang, Sarang M. Bhaway, Min Gao, and Yu Zhu, "Metal Organic Frameworks Derived Hierarchical Hollow NiO/Ni/Graphene Composites for Lithium and Sodium Storage", ACS Nano, Article ASAP, 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05041

2. S. N. Oliaee, C. L. Zhang, S. Y. Hwang, H. M. Cheung, and Z. M. Peng, Synthesis and property of a Helvingia-structured nickel nitride/nickel hydroxide nanocatalyst in hydrazine decomposition, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, pp. 39494-38498, DOI: 10.1039/C6RA03795J

3. S. N. Oliaee, C. L. Zhang, S. Y. Hwang, H. M. Cheung, and Z. M. Peng, Hydrogen Production via Hydrazine Decomposition on Model Platinum-Nickel Nanocatalyst with Single (111) Facet, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120, pp. 9764-9772, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00815

4. C. L. Zhang, S. N. Oliaee, S. Y. Hwang, X. K. Kong, and Z. M. Peng, A generic wet impregnation method for preparing substrate-supported platinum group metal and alloy nanoparticles with controlled particle morphology, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, pp. 164-169, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04518

5. X. K. Kong, K. Xu, C. L. Zhang, J. Dai, S. N. Oliaee, L. Y. Li, X. C. Zeng, C. Z. Wu, and Z. M. Peng, Free-Standing Two-Dimensional Ru Nanosheets with High Activity toward Water Splitting, ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, pp. 1487-1492, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b02730

6. Chamila Gunathilake, Rohan Dassanayake, Noureddine Abidi, and Mietek Jaroniec, Amidoxime-Functionalized Microcrystalline Cellulose-Mesoporous Silica Composites for Carbon Dioxide Sorption at Elevated Temperatures, J. Mater. Chem. A 4 (2016), pp.4808 - 4819; doi: 10.1039/C6TA00261G

7. Chamila Gunathilake, Mahinda E. Gangoda, and Mietek Jaroniec, Mesoporous alumina with amidoxime groups for CO2 sorption at ambient and elevated temperatures, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 55(19) (2016), pp. 5598-5607; doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b00674

8. A. Sharma, D. Hofmann, and T. Hegmann, Patterned alignment of nematic liquid crystals generated by ink-jet printing of gold nanoparticles and emissive carbon dots on both flexible polymer and rigid glass substrates, Liq. Cryst. 2016, 43, pp. 828-838, DOI:10.1080/02678292.2016.1145268.

9. R. K. Shukla, A. Sharma, T. Mori, T. Hegmann, and W. Haase, Effect of two different size chiral ligand-capped gold nanoparticle dopants on the electrooptic and dielectric dynamics of a ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture, Liq. Cryst. 2016, 43, pp. 695-703, DOI:10.1080/02678292.2016.1140239

10. T. Mori, A. Sharma, and T. Hegmann, Significant enhancement of the chiral correlation lengths in nematic liquid crystals by gold nanoparticle surfaces featuring axially chiral binaphthyl ligands, ACS Nano 2016, 10, pp. 1552-1564, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07164

11. Sahil Sandesh Gandhi, and Liang-Chy Chien, P-197L: Late-News Poster: Brightness Enhancement Films Based on Quantum Dot Doped Nanoscale Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals, SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, 2016, 47, 1, pp. 1662�1665, DOI: 10.1002/sdtp.11015

12. Sahil Sandesh Gandhi, and Liang-Chy Chien, High transmittance optical films based on quantum dot doped nanoscale polymer dispersed liquid crystals, Optical Materials, 54, 2016, pp. 300-305, DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2016.03.001

13. Mohammad A. Rahman, Jennifer F. Barger, Francesca Lovat, Min Gao, Gregory A. Otterson, and , Patrick Nana-Sinkam, Lung cancer exosomes as drivers of epithelial mesenchymal transition, Oncotarget, 2016, 5, DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10243

14. Daniel A. Paterson, Jie Xiang, Gautam Singh, Rebecca Walker, Dena M. Agra-Kooijman,Alfonso Martınez-Felipe, ́Min Gao, John M. D. Storey, Satyendra Kumar, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Corrie T. Imrie, Reversible Isothermal Twist−Bend Nematic−Nematic Phase Transition Driven by the Photoisomerization of an AzobenzeneBased Nonsymmetric Liquid Crystal Dimer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (16), pp. 5283-5289, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13331

15. Lucia E. Rosas, Ola A. Elgamal, Xiaokui Mo, Mitch A. Phelps, Thomas D. Schmittgen, and Tracey L. Papenfuss, "In vitro immunotoxicity assessment of culture-derived extracellular vesicles in human monocytes", Journal of Immunotoxicology, 2016, 13, pp. 652-665, DOI: 10.3109/1547691X.2016.1148089

16. Joseph J. Scavuzzo, Xuesong Yan, Yihong Zhao, Jacob D. Scherger, Junyi Chen, Shuo Zhang, Hao Liu, Min Gao, Tao Li, Xiuying Zhao, Gary R. Hamed, Mark D. Foster, and Li Jia, "Supramolecular Elastomers. Particulate β-Sheet Nanocrystal-Reinforced Synthetic Elastic Networks", Macromolecules, 2016, 49 (7), pp. 2688-2697, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00003

17. Ming Xiao, Yiwen Li, Jiuzhou Zhao, Zhao Wang, Min Gao, Nathan C. Gianneschi, Ali Dhinojwala, and Matthew D. Shawkey, "Stimuli-Responsive Structurally Colored Films from Bioinspired Synthetic Melanin Nanoparticles", Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28 (15), pp. 5516-5521, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02127

18. Daniel A Paterson, Min Gao, Young-Ki Kim, Afsoon Jamali, Kirsten L. Finley, Beatriz Robles-Hernandez, Sergio Diez-Berart, Josep Salud, M. Rosario de la Fuente, Bakhir A. Timimi, Herbert Zimmermann, Cristina Greco, Alberta Ferrarini, John M. D. Storey, David Orencio Lopez, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, and Corrie T. Imrie, "Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl) hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB", Soft Matter, 2016, 12, pp. 6827-6840, DOI: 10.1039/C6SM00537C

19. Sahil Sandesh Gandhi, Min Su Kim, Jeoung-Yeon Hwang, and Liang-Chy Chien, "Electro-optical Memory of a Nanoengineered Amorphous Blue-Phase-III Polymer Scaffold", Advanced Materials, 2016, 28 (40), pp. 8998-9005, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603226

20. Rui Liu and Reid Coffman, "Lightweight Aggregate Made from Dredged Material in Green Roof Construction for Stormwater Management", Materials, 2016, 9(8), p.611, DOI: 10.3390/ma9080611

21. L. Li, M. Salamonczyk, A. Jakli, and T. Hegmann, "A dual modulated homochiral helical nanofilament phase with local columnar ordering formed by bent core liquid crystals: Effects of molecular chirality", Small, 2016, 12(29), pp 3944-3955, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201600882

22. Akram Al-shadeedi, Shiyi Liu, Chang-Min Keum, Daniel Kasemann, Christoph Hobbach, Johann Bartha, Scott D. Bunge, and Bjorn Lussem, "Minority Currents in n-Doped Organic Transistors", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8(47), pp 32432-32439, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11149

23. Chang-Min Keum, Shiyi Liu, Akram Al-Shadeedi, Vikash Kaphle, Scott D. Bunge, and Bjorn Lussem, "Charge trapping in doped organic Zener diodes", Organic Electronics, 2016, 39, pp 77-84

24. Vikash Kaphle, Shiyi Liu, Akram Al-Shadeedi, Chang-Min Keum, and Bjorn Lussem, "Contact Resistance Effects in Highly Doped Organic Electrochemical Transistors", Adv. Mater., 2016, 28(39), pp 8766-8770, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602125

25. Junren Wang, Antal Jakli, and John L. West, "Morphology Tuning of Electrospun Liquid Crystal/Polymer Fibers", CHEMPHYSCHEM, 2016, 17(19), pp 3080-3085, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600430

26. J. L. West, J. R. Wang, and A. Jakli, "Airbrushed Liquid Crystal/Polymer Fibers for Responsive Textiles", Advances in Science and Technology, 2016, 100, pp 43-49, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.100.43

27. Xiangkai Kong, Xiaochen Shen, Changlin Zhang, Shirin Norooz Oliaee, and Zhenmeng Peng, "Engineering active sites of two-dimensional MoS2 nanosheets for improving hydrogen evolution", Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2016, 3, pp 1376-1380, DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00334F

28. Yu-Ming Chen, Wenfeng Liang, Si Li, Feng Zou, Sarang M. Bhaway, Zhe Qiang, Min Gao, Bryan D. Vogt, and Yu Zhu, "A nitrogen doped carbonized metal organic framework for high stability room temperature sodium sulfur batteries", Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4, pp 12471-12478, DOI: 10.1039/C6TA04529D

29. Maria J.F. Costa, Jowita Marszewska, Alexandre A.S. Goncalves, Luiz K.C. de Souza, Antonio S. Araujo, and Mietek Jaroniec, "Microwave-assisted single-surfactant templating synthesis of mesoporous zeolites", RSC Adv., 2016, 6, pp 54956-54963, DOI: 10.1039/C6RA06554F

30. Chamila Gunathilake, and Mietek Jaroniec, "Mesoporous calcium oxide silica and magnesium oxide silica composites for CO2 capture at ambient and elevated temperatures", J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, pp 10914-10924, DOI: 10.1039/C6TA03916B

31. K. G. Gutierrez-Cuevas, L. Wang, Z. Zheng, H. K. Bisoyi, G. Li, L. Tan, R. A. Vaia, and Q. Li, "Frequency-Driven Self-Organized Helical Superstructures Loaded with Mesogen-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, pp 13090-13094, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606895

32. L. Wang, K. G. Gutierrez-Cuevas, A. Urbas, and Q. Li, "Near-Infrared Light-Directed Handedness Inversion in Plasmonic Nanorod-Embedded Helical Superstructure", Advanced Optical Materials, 2016, 4, pp 247-251, DOI: 10.1002/adom.201500533

33. N. Hedayat, and Y. Du, "Using Flixweed Seed as a Pore-former to Prepare Porous Ceramics", J Material Sci Eng, 2016, 5(4), p 1000255, DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022.1000255

34. Long Chen, Liwen Mu, Tuo Ji, and Jiahua Zhu, "Boosting Energy Efficiency of Nickel Cobaltite via Interfacial Engineering in Hierarchical Supercapacitor Electrode", J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120(41), pp 23377-23388, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07475

35. Tuo Ji, Long Chen, Liwen Mu, Ruixia Yuan, Michael Knoblauch, Forrest Sheng Bao, and Jiahua Zhu, "In-situ reduction of Ag nanoparticles on oxygenated mesoporous carbon fabric: exceptional catalyst for nitroaromatics reduction", Appl. Cata. B, 2016, 182, pp 306-315, DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.09.024

36. Long Chen, Tuo Ji, Liwen Mu, Yijun Shi, Logan Brisbin, Zhanhu Guo, Mohammel A. Khan, David P. Young, and Jiahua Zhu, "Facile synthesis of mesoporous carbon nanocomposites from natural biomass for efficient dye adsorption and selective heavy metal removal", RSC Adv., 2016, 6, pp 2259-2269, DOI: 10.1039/C5RA19616G

37. Murthi S. Kandanapitiye, Matthew D. Gott, Andrew Sharits, Silvia S. Jurisson, Patrick M. Woodward, and Songping Huang, "Incorporation of gallium-68 into the crystal structure of Prussian blue to form K68GaxFe1−x[Fe(CN)6] nanoparticles: toward a novel bimodal PET/MRI imaging agent", Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, p9174, DOI: 10.1039/c6dt00962j

38. Vindya S. Perera, Guojun Chen, Qing Cai, and Songping Huang, "Nanoparticles of gadolinium-incorporated Prussian blue with PEG coating as an effective oral MRI contrast agent for gastrointestinal tract imaging", Analyst, 2016, 141, p2016, DOI: 10.1039/c5an01873k