2017 Publications | Drexel Engineering

Cameron Abrams

Acharya, K.; Rashad, A.A.; Moraca, F.; Klasse, P.J.; Moore, J.P.; Abrams, C.F.; Chaiken, I. Recognition of HIV-Inactivating Peptide Triazoles by a Recombinant Soluble Trimer, BG505 SOSIP.664. Proteins 2017 85:843-851.

Gardner, J.; Abrams, C.F. Rate of hemifusion diaphragm dissipation and ability to form three-junction bound HD determined by lipid composition. J. Chem. Phys. 2017, 147:134903 (10.1063/1.4994320).

Gordon, R.; Stober, S.; Abrams, C.F. Effects of Optical Purity and Finite System Size on Self-Assembly of 12-Hydroxystearic Acid in Hexane: Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J. Phys. Chem B 2017, 121:9223-9233 (10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05246).

Herschhorn, A.; Gu, C.; Moraca, F.; Ma, X.; Farrell, M.; Smith III, A.B.; Pancera, M.; Kwong, P.D.; Schön, A.; Freire, E.; Abrams, C.F.; Blanchard, S.C.; Mothes, W.; Sodroski, J.G. The b20- b21 of gp120 is a regulatory switch for HIV-1 Env. Nature Comm. 2017, 8:1049 (10.1038/s41467-017-01119-w).

Paz, S.A.; Vanden-Eijnden, E.; Abrams, C.F. Polymorphism at 129 Dictates Metastable Conformations of the Human Prion Protein N-terminal b-sheet. Chem. Sci. 2017 8:1225-1232.

Srikanth, A.; Vergara, J.; Palmese, G.R.; Abrams, C.F.; The Effect of Alkyl Chain Length on Material Properties of Fatty-Acid-Functionalized Amidoamine-Epoxy Systems. Eur. Polymer J. 2017, 89:1-12.

Yang, J.; Srikant, A.; Jang, C.; Abrams, C.F. Relationships Between Molecular Structure and Thermomechanical Properties of Bio-Based Thermosetting Polymers. J. Polym. Sci. B Pol. Phys. 2017, 55:285-292.

Nicolas Alvarez

Hatzell, K.B.; Eller, J.; Morelly S.L.; Tang, M.H.; Alvarez, N.J.; Gogotsi, Y. Direct observation of active material interactions in flowable electrodes using x-ray tomography. Faraday Trans. 2017, 199, 511-524.

Hatzell, K.B.; Eller, J.; Morelly, S.L.; Tang, M.H.; Alvarez, N.J.; Gogotsi, Y. Direct observation of active material interactions in flowable electrodes using X-ray tomography. Faraday Discuss. 2017, Advance Article.

Morelly, S.L.; Tang, M.H.; Alvarez, N.J. The Impotence of Non-Brownian Particles on the Gel Transition of Colloidal Suspensions. Polymers 2017, 9 (9), 461.

Jason Baxter

Dastidar, S.; Li, S.; Smolin, S.Y.; Baxter, J.B.; Fafarman, A.T. Slow Electron-Hole Recombination in Lead Iodide Perovskites Does Not Require a Molecular Dipole. ACS Energy Lett. 2017, 2, 2239–2244.

Smolin, S.Y.; Choquette, A.K.; Wilks, R.G.; Gauquelin, N.; Félix, R.; Gerlach, D.; Ueda, S.; Krick, A.L.; Verbeeck, J.; Bär, M.; Baxter, J.B.; May, S.J. Energy Level Alignment and Cation Charge States at the LaFeO3/LaMnO3 (001) Heterointerface. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 1700183.

Wu, Y.; Li, S.; Gogotsi, N.; Zhao, T.; Kagan, C.R.; Murray C.B.; Baxter, J.B. Directional Carrier Transfer in Strongly Coupled Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice Films Formed by Assembly and in Situ Ligand Exchange at a Liquid-Air Interface. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 4146.

Nily Dan

Dan, N. Bilayer degradation in reactive environments. AIMS Biophysics 2017, 4, 33-42.

Aaron Fafarman

Dastidar, S.; Hawley, C. J.; Dillon, A. D.; Gutierrez-Perez, A. D.; Spanier, J. E.; Fafarman, A. T. Quantitative Phase-Change Thermodynamics and Metastability of Perovskite-Phase Cesium Lead Iodide. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8 (6).

Dastidar, S.; Li, S.; Smolin, S. Y.; Baxter, J. B.; Fafarman, A. T. Slow Electron–Hole Recombination in Lead Iodide Perovskites Does Not Require a Molecular Dipole. ACS Energy Lett. 2017, 2239–2244, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00606.

Ying, G.; Dillon, A. D.; Fafarman, A. T.; Barsoum, M. W. Transparent, Conductive Solution Processed Spincast 2D Ti2CTx (MXene) Films. Materials Research Letters 2017, 5 (6), 391–398, DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2017.1296043.

Collini, P.; Kota, S.; Dillon, A. D.; Barsoum, M. W.; Fafarman, A. T. Electrophoretic Deposition of Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide (MXene) Thick Films. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2017, 164 (9), D573–D580, DOI: 10.1149/2.0211709jes.

Vibha Kalra

Simotwo, S.; Chinnam, PR.; Wunder, S. L.; Kalra, V. Self-Standing Supercapacitor Based on Ionic Liquid-Rich Ionogel and Activated Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 33749

Singhal, R.; Kalra, V. Cobalt nanoparticle-embedded porous carbon nanofibers with inherent N- and F-doping as binder-free bifunctional catalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. Chem Phys Chem 2017, 18, 223.

Kenneth Lau

Hanak, B.W.; Hsieh, C.-Y.; Donaldson, W.; Browd, S.R.; Lau, K.K.S.; Shain, W. Reduced cell attachment to poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-coated ventricular catheters in vitro. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research B 2017, doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.33915.

Johnson, N.M.; Smolin, Y.Y.; Hagaman, D.; Soroush, M.; Lau, K.K.S.; Ji, H-F. Suitability of N-Propanoic Acid Spiropyrans and Spirooxazines for Use as Sensitizing Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. J. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 2981-2989.

Ölçeroğlu, E.; Hsieh, C.-Y.; Lau, K.K.S; McCarthy, M. Thin film condensation supported on ambiphilic microstructures. Journal of Heat Transfer 2017, 139, 020910.

Smolin, Y.Y.; Janakiraman, S.; Soroush, M.; Lau, K.K.S. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Integrated with Crosslinked Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) Polymer Electrolyte Using Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition. Thin Solid Films 2017, 635, 9-16.

Smolin, Y.Y.; Lau, K.K.S.; Soroush, M. Influence of oCVD Polyaniline Film Chemistry in Carbon-Based Supercapacitors. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2017, 56 (21), 6221–6228.

Smolin, Y. Y.; Soroush, M.; Lau, K. K. S. Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition of Polyaniline Thin Films. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1266-1276.

Smolin, Y.Y.; Van Aken, K.L.; Boota, M.; Soroush, M.; Gogotsi, Y.; Lau, K.K.S. Engineering Ultrathin Polyaniline in Micro/Mesoporous Carbon Supercapacitor Electrodes Using Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 4 (8), 1601201.

Giuseppe Palmese

Han, B.; Ma, T.; Vergara, J.H.; Palmese, G.R.; Yin, J.; Lee, D.; Han, L. Non-additive impacts of covalent cross-linking on the viscoelastic nanomechanics of ionic polyelectrolyte complexes. RSC Advances 2017, 7 (84), 53334-53345, in press.

Mauck, J.R.; Yadav, S.K.; Sadler, J.M.; La Scala, J.J.; Palmese, G.R.; Schmalbach, K.M.; Stanzione, J.F. Preparation and Characterization of Highly Bio‐Based Epoxy Amine Thermosets Derived from Lignocellulosics. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2017, 218, 1700013.

McAninch, I.M.; La Scala, J.J.; Palmese, G.R.; Robinette, E.J. Thin film initiation of cracks for fracture toughness measurements in epoxy resins. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017, 134 (1).

Srikanth, A.; Vergara, J.H.; Palmese, G.R.; Abrams, C.F.; The effect of alkyl chain length on material properties of fatty-acid-functionalized amidoamine-epoxy systems. European Polymer Journal 2017, 89, 1-12.

Vergara, J.H.; La Scala, J.J.; Henry, C.K.; Sadler, J.M.; Yadav, S.K.; Palmese, G.R. The effect of pendant alkyl chain length on the barrier properties of epoxy/amine crosslinked networks. Polymer 2017, 132, 133-142.

Vergara, J.H.; Tian, Y.; La Scala, J.J.; Sadler, J.M.; Palmese, G.R. Synthesis and characterization of fatty acid modified amines with improved water barrier properties. European Polymer Journal 2017, 97, 112-119.

Yadav, S.K.; Schmalbach, K.M.; Kinaci, E.; Stanzione, J.F.; Palmese G.R. Recent advances in plant-based vinyl ester resins and reactive diluents. European Polymer Journal, 2017, in press.

Joshua Snyder

Intikhab, S.; Snyder, J.D.; Tang, M.H. Adsorbed Hydroxide Does Not Participate in the Volmer Step of Alkaline Hydrogen Electrocatalysis. ACS Catal. 2017, 7 (12), 8314-8319.

Masoud Soroush

Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Seidi, F.; Nozari, M.; Soroush, M. A New Pentiptycene-Based Dianhydride and Its High-Free-Volume Polymer for CO2 Removal. ChemSusChem. Accepted, doi:10.1002/cssc.201701491.

Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Seidi, F.; Salehi, E.; Nozari, M.; Soroush, M. Efficient CO2-Removal Using Novel Mixed-Matrix Membranes with Modified TiO2 Nanoparticles. J. Mater Chem A 2017, in press.

Johnson, N.M.; Smolin, Y.Y.; Hagaman, D.; Soroush, M.; Lau, K.K.S.; Ji, H-F. Suitability of N-Propanoic Acid Spiropyrans and Spirooxazines for Use as Sensitizing Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. J. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 2981-2989.

Mokhtari, S.; Rahimpour, A.; Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Habibzadeh, S.; Soroush, M. Enhancing Performance and Surface Antifouling Properties of Polysulfone Ultrafiltration Membranes with Salicylate-Alumoxane Nanoparticles. Applied Surface Sci. 2017, 393, 93-102.

Riazi, H.; Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Grady, M.; Rappe, A.; Soroush, M. Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Self-Initiation Reaction of Methyl Acrylate in Free-Radical Polymerization. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2017, accepted.

Smolin, Y.Y.; Lau, K.K.S.; Soroush, M. Influence of oCVD Polyaniline Film Chemistry in Carbon-Based Supercapacitors. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2017, 56 (21), 6221–6228.

Smolin, Y. Y.; Soroush, M.; Lau, K. K. S. Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition of Polyaniline Thin Films. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1266-1276.

Zirehpour, A.; Rahimpour, A.; Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Sharifian Gh., M.; Soroush, M. Mitigation of Thin Film Composite Membrane Biofouling via Immobilizing Nano-Sized Biocidal Reservoirs in the Membrane Active Layer. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, accepted for publication.

Maureen Tang

Intikhab, S.; Snyder, J.D.; Tang, M.H. Adsorbed Hydroxide Does Not Participate in the Volmer Step of Alkaline Hydrogen Electrocatalysis. ACS Catal. 2017, 7 (12), 8314-8319.

Morelly, S.L.; Tang, M.H.; Alvarez, N.J. The Impotence of Non-Brownian Particles on the Gel Transition of Colloidal Suspensions. Polymers 2017, 9 (9), 461.

Tang, M.H.; Chakthranont, P.; Jaramillo, T. Top-down fabrication of uorine-doped tin oxide nanopillar substrates for solar water splitting. RSC Adv. 2017, 7 (45), 28350-28357.

Steven Wrenn

Nguyena, A.T.; Sunnya, Y.; Bawieca, C.; Lewina, P.A.; Wrenn, S.P. Investigating the spatial extent of acoustically activated echogenic liposomes. Ultrasonics 2017, 77, 176–182.