Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2015
Managing Short-Lived Climate Forcers in Curbing Climate Change: An Atmospheric Chemistry Synopsis, Song Gao
Luminescent Lanthanide Coordination Polymers Synthesized via In-Situ Hydrolysis of Dimethyl-3,4-furandicarboxylate, Natalie E. Greig, Jeffrey D. Einkauf, Jessica M. Clark, Eric J. Corcoran, Joseph P. Karram, Charles A. Kent, Vadine E. Eugene, Benny C. Chan, and Daniel T. de Lill
Distance Measurement on an Endogenous Membrane Transporter in E. coli Cells and Native Membranes Using EPR Spectroscopy, Benesh Joseph, Arthur Sikora, Enrica Bordignon, Gunnar Jeschke, David S. Cafiso, and Thomas F. Prisner
Equatorial F region neutral winds and shears near sunset measured with chemical release techniques, Andrew Kiene, M F. Larsen, and E Kudeki
Paper-Based Electrochemical Cell Coupled to Mass Spectrometry, Yao-Min Liu and Richard H. Perry
African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) Can Detect TNT Using Olfaction: Implications for Biosensor Application, Ashadee K. Miller, Michael C. Hensman, Sean Hensman, Kip Schulz, Paul Reid, Mike Shore, Jessica S. Brown, Kenneth G. Furton, and Stephen Lee
Does the Stellar Disc Flattening Depend on the Galaxy Type, A. V. Mosenkov, N. Ya. Sotnikova, V. P. Reshetnikov, D. V. Bizyaev, and Stefan Kautsch
Imprisoned Lightning: Charge Transport in Trehalose-Derived Sugar Glasses, Louis R. Nemzer, Mahantesh S. Navati, and Joel M. Friedman
Multistage Reactive Transmission-Mode Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Kevin C. Peters, Troy J. Comi, and Richard H. Perry
Photochemistry of Free and Bound Zn-Chlorophyll Analogues to Synthetic Peptides Depend on the Quinone and pH, Reza Razeghifard
Origin of the Hadži ABC Structure: An Ab Initio Study, Brian L. Van Hoozen Jr. and Poul B. Petersen
Infrared Nonlinear Optical Properties of Lithium-Containing Diamond-like Semiconductors Li2ZnGeSe4 and Li2ZnSnSe4, Jian-Han Zhang, Daniel J. Clark, Jacilynn A. Brant, Charles W. Sinagra III, Yong Soo Kim, Joon I. Jang, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Submissions from 2014
NMR-Based Molecular Ruler for Determining the Depth of Intercalants Within the Lipid Bilayer: Part III: Studies on Keto Esters and Acids, Michal Afri, Carmit Alexenberg, Pinchas Aped, Efrat Bodner, Sarit Cohen, Michal Ejgenburg, Shlomi Eliyahu, Pessia Gilinsky-Sharon, Yifat Harel, Miriam E. Naqqash, Hani Porat, Ayala Ranz, and Aryeh A. Frimer
NMR-Based Molecular Ruler for Determining the Depth of Intercalants Within the Lipid Bilayer. Part IV: Studies on Ketophospholipids, Michal Afri, Carmit Alexenberg, Pinchas Aped, Efrat Bodner, Sarit Cohen, Michal Ejgenburg, Shlomi Eliyahu, Pessia Gilinsky-Sharon, Yifat Harel, Miriam E. Naqqash, Hani Porat, Ayala Ranz, and Aryeh A. Frimer
NMR-Based Molecular Ruler for Determining the Depth of Intercalants Within the Lipid Bilayer. Part V: A Comparison of Liposomes, Bioliposomes and Erythrocyte Ghosts, Michal Afri, Carmit Alexenberg, Efrat Bodner, Aryeh A. Frimer, Abraham I. Jacob, and Miriam E. Naqqash
The Catalog of Edge-On Disk Galaxies from SDSS. I. The Catalog and the Structural Parameters of Stellar Disks, D. V. Bizyaev, Stefan Kautsch, A. V. Mosenkov, V. P. Reshetnikov, N. Ya. Sotnikova, and N. V. Yablokova
Li2CdGeS4, A Diamond-Like Semiconductor with Strong Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity in the Infrared and Exceptional Laser Damage Threshold, Jacilynn A. Brant, Daniel W. Clark, Yong Soo Kim, Joon I. Jang, Jian-Han Zhang, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Field-Induced Spin-Flop in Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors with Commensurate and Incommensurate Magnetic Structures: Li2FeGeS4 (LIGS) and Li2FeSnS4 (LITS), Jacilynn A. Brant, Clarina dela Cruz, Jinlei Yao, Alexios P. Douvalis, Thomas Bakas, Monica Sorescu, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Preparation, Crystal Structure and Thermal Analysis of Cu2GeTe4 and Cu2SnTe4 Alloys, P. Grima-Gallardo, Ricardo Pena, Luis Nieves, Gustavo Marcano, Miguel Quintero, Ekadink Moreno, Jacilynn A. Brant, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Highly Efficient Infrared Optical Nonlinearity of a Wide-Bandgap Chalcogenide Li2CdGeS4, Joon I. Jang, Daniel J. Clark, Jacilynn A. Brant, Jennifer A. Aitken, and Yong Soo Kim
A Model of Band-Pass Phenotypic Resistance in a Modified Beverton-Holt Framework, Louis R. Nemzer
Enzyme Entrapment in Polyaniline FIlms Observed via Fluorescence Anisotropy and Antiquenching, Louis R. Nemzer, Marisa McCaffrey, and Arthur J. Epstein
Locus of Control and Obesity, Florence Neymotin and Louis R. Nemzer
Selectivity and Isotope Effects in Hydronation of a Naked Aryl Anion, Charles L. Perrin and Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez
A P450 Metabolism Experiment for Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratories, Reza Razeghifard, Catherine Chiafair, and Dimitri Giarikos
Optical Nonlinearity in Cu2CdSnS4 and α/β-Cu2ZnSiS4: Diamond-like Semiconductors with High Laser-Damage Thresholds, Kimberly A. Rosmus, Jacilynn A. Brant, Stephen D. Wisneski, Daniel J. Clark, Yong Soo Kim, Joon I. Jang, Carl D. Brunetta, Jian-Han Zhang, Matthew N. Srnec, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Glycosylation Modulates Melanoma Cell α2β1 and α3β1 Integrin Interactions with Type IV Collagen, Maciej J. Stawikowski, Beatrix Aukszi, Roma Stawikowska, Mare Cudic, and Gregg B. Fields
Characterization of Aerosol Optical Properties, Chemical Composition and Mixing States in the Winter Season in Shanghai, China, Yong Tang, Yuanlong Huang, Ling Li, Hong Chen, Jianmin Chen, Xin Yang, Song Gao, and Deborah S. Gross
Submissions from 2013
Electrooxidation of Alcohols Catalyzed by Amino Alcohol Ligated Ruthenium Complexes, Kristen R. Brownell, Charles C. L. McCrory, Christopher E. D. Chidsey, Richard H. Perry, Richard N. Zare, and Robert M. Waymouth
Applicability of Emanating Volatile Organic Compounds from Various Forensic Specimens for Individual Differentiation, Jessica S. Brown, Paola A. Prada, Allison M. Curran, and Kenneth G. Furton
The Impact of Three New Quaternary Sulfides on the Current Predictive Tools for Structure and Composition of Diamond-Like Materials, Carl D. Brunetta, Jacilynn A. Brant, Kimberly A. Rosmus, Kylie M. Henline, Emma Karey, Joseph H. MacNeil, and Jennifer A. Aitken
Basic Neuron Model Electrical Equivalent Circuit: An Undergraduate Laboratory Exercise, Katie Dabrowski, Diego Castano, and Jaime L. Tartar
Structure and Luminescence of a One-Dimensional Uranium Coordination Polymer Assembled Through Benzophenone-4,4′-dicarboxylate, Daniel T. de Lill and Benny C. Chan
Shared Mycobacterium avium Genotypes Observed among Unlinked Clinical and Environmental Isolates, M. Ashworth Dirac, Kris M. Weigel, MItchell A. Yakrus, Annie L. Becker, Hui-Ling Chen, Gina Fridley, Arthur Sikora, Cate Speake, Elizabeth D. Hilborn, Stacy Pfaller, and Gerard A. Cangelosi
Qualitative Analysis of Sequence Specific Binding of Flavones to DNA Using Restriction Endonuclease Activity Assays, Elizabeth Duran, Victoria P. Ramsauer, Maria Ballester, Ruben D. Torrenegra, Oscar E. Rodriguez, and Stephen A. Winkle
Monomeric TonB and the Ton Box Are Required for the Formation of a High-Affinity Transporter–TonB Complex, Daniel M. Freed, Stephen M. Lukasik, Arthur Sikora, and Audrey Mokdad
Incorporation of Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry into the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum, Dimitri Giarikos, Sagir Patel, Andrew Lister, and Reza Razeghifard
Ethanol Shock and Lysozyme Aggregation, Louis R. Nemzer, Bret N. Flanders, Jeremy D. Schmit, Amitabha Chakrabarti, and Christopher M. Sorensen
Reactivity of Nucleophiles Toward a p‐Benzyne Derived from an Enediyne, Charles L. Perrin and Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez
Characterization of MYC-Induced Tumorigenesis by in Situ Lipid Profiling, Richard H. Perry, David I. Bellovin, Emelyn H. Shroff, Ali I. Ismail, Tahera Zubuawala, Dean W. Felsher, and Richard N. Zare
Algal Biofuels, Reza Razeghifard
Fabrication of Core–Shell Nanoparticles via Controlled Aggregation of Semiflexible Conjugated Polymer and Hyaluronic Acid, Megan Twomey, Yoonmi Na, Zadok Hakim, Eladio Mendez, Namuna Panday, Jin He, and Joong Ho Moon
Submissions from 2012
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D together stimulate human bone marrow-derived stem cells toward the osteogenic phenotype by HGF-induced up-regulation of VDR, Ketian Chen, Kristina Aenlle, Kevin M. Curtis, Bernard A. Roos, and Guy A. Howard
A Review on the Importance of Metals and Metalloids in Atmospheric Dust and Aerosol from Mining Operations, Janae Csavina, Jason Field, Mark P. Taylor, Song Gao, Andrea Landazuri, Eric A. Betterton, and A. Eduardo Saez
Uranyl Sensitization of Samarium(III) Luminescence in a Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer, Karah E. Knope, Daniel T. de Lill, Clare E. Rowland, Paula M. Cantos, Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, and Christopher L. Cahill
Flexural Rigidity Measurements of Biopolymers Using Gliding Assays, Douglas S. Martin, Lu Yu, and Brian L. Van Hoozen Jr.
Transient Ru-Methyl Formate Intermediates Generated with Bifunctional Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts, Richard H. Perry, Kristen R. Brownell, Konstantin Chingin, Thomas J. Cahill III, Robert M. Waymouth, and Richard N. Zare
Capturing Fleeting Intermediates in a Catalytic C-H Amination Reaction Cycle, Richard H. Perry, Thomas J. Cahill III, Jennifer L. Roizen, Justin Du Bois, and Richard N. Zare
Lysine-Specific Histone Demethylase 1 Inhibitors Control Breast Cancer Proliferation in ERα-Dependent and -Independent Manners, Julie A. Pollock, Michelle D. Larrea, Jeff S. Jasper, Donald P. McDonnell, and Dewey G. McCafferty
Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-4,8-dione, Amanda L. Ramirez, Benny C. Chan, and Daniel T. de Lill
Anti-Neoplastic Activity of Two Flavone Isomers Derived from Gnaphalium elegans and Achyrocline bogotensis, Christan M. Thomas, Robert C. Wood III, Jarrett E. Wyatt, Morgan H. Pendleton, Ruben D. Torrenegra, Oscar E. Rodriguez, Sam Harirforoosh, Maria Ballester, Janet Lightner, Koyamangalath Krishnan, and Victoria P. Ramsauer
Evolution of the Mixing State of Fine Aerosols During Haze Events in Shanghai, Fan Yang, Hong Chen, Jianfei Du, Xin Yang, Song Gao, Jianmin Chen, and Fuhai Geng
Submissions from 2011
Interfacing Capillary-Based Separations to Mass Spectrometry Using Desorption Electrospray Ionization, Griffin K. Barbula, Samir Safi, Konstantin Chingin, Richard H. Perry, and Richard N. Zare
Can a Road-Driven Car Outrace a Free-Falling Car?, Diego Castano
Conicoid Mirrors, Diego Castano and Lawrence Carl Hawkins
Human bone marrow-derived stem cell proliferation is inhibited by hepatocyte growth factor via increasing the cell cycle inhibitors p53, p21 and p27, Ketian Chen, Carlos Perez-Stable, Gianluca D'Ippolito, Paul C. Schiller, Bernard A. Roos, and Guy A. Howard
Generation of Melamine Polymer Condensates upon Hypergolic Ignition of Dicyanamide Ionic Liquids, Konstantin Chingin, Richard H. Perry, Steven D. Chambreau, Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani, and Richard N. Zare
Speciation of Water‐Soluble Inorganic, Organic, and Total Nitrogen in a Background Marine Environment: Cloud Water, Rainwater, and Aerosol Particles, Adriana Gioda, Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez, Gilmarie Santos-Figueroa, Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Stefano Decesari, Maria da Conceição K. V. Ramos, Heleno J. C. Bezerra Netto, Francisco R. de Aquino Neto, and Olga L. Mayol-Bracero
A Search for Young Stars in the S0 Galaxies of a Super-Group at z=0.37, Dennis W. Just, Dennis Zaritsky, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Stefan Kautsch, and John Moustakas
Exciton Peak Redshifting and Broadening in Polyaniline Chains During Ion-Induced Hydrophobic Collapse and Aggregation, Louis R. Nemzer and Arthur J. Epstein
Detecting Reaction Intermediates in Liquids on the Millisecond Time Scale Using Desorption Electrospray Ionization, Richard H. Perry, Maurizio Splendore, Allis Chien, Nick K. Davis, and Richard N. Zare
Submissions from 2010
Water-Soluble SOA from Alkene Ozonolysis: Composition and Droplet Activation Kinetics Inferences from Analysis of CCN Activity, A. Asa-Awuku, A. Nenes, Song Gao, R. C. Flagan, and John H. Seinfeld
Co(II) Halide Complexes with 2-amino-3-methylpyridinium and 2-amino-5-methylpyridinium: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Magnetic Properties, David J. Carnevale, Christopher P. Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, Mon Winn, and Fan Xiao
Para-Derivatized Pybox Ligands As Sensitizers in Highly Luminescent Ln(III) Complexes, Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, Patrick S. Barber, Subha Viswanathan, Daniel T. de Lill, Alexandra Rollett, George Ling, and Sultan Altun
4-Bromo-N 2,N 2,N 6,N 6-tetraethylpyridine-2,6-dicarboxamide, Daniel T. de Lill and Ana de Bettencourt-Dias
Exploring Lanthanide Luminescence in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Structure, and Guest-Sensitized Luminescence of a Mixed Europium/Terbium-Adipate Framework and a Terbium-Adipate Framework, Daniel T. de Lill, Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, and Christopher L. Cahill
A Polyaniline-Based Optical Biosensing Platform Using an Entrapped Oxidoreductase Enzyme, Louis R. Nemzer and Arthur J. Epstein
Enzyme Entrapment in Reprecipitated Polyaniline Nano- and Microparticles, Louis R. Nemzer, Austin Schwartz, and Arthur J. Epstein
Hand-Held Mass Spectrometer for Environmentally Relevant Analytes Using a Variety of Sampling and Ionization Methods, Nathaniel L. Sanders, Ewa Sokol, Richard H. Perry, Guangming Huang, Robert J. Noll, Jason S. Duncan, and R. Graham Cooks
Trace Detection of Non-Uniformly Distributed Analytes on Surfaces Using Mass Transfer and Large-Area Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) Mass Spectrometry, Santosh Soparawalla, Gary A. Salazar, Ewa Sokol, and Richard H. Perry
Origin of the 900 cm−1 Broad Double-Hump OH Vibrational Feature of Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Carboxylic Acids, Brian L. Van Hoozen Jr. and Poul B. Petersen
Submissions from 2009
Zeolite-like Metal−Organic Frameworks (ZMOFs) Based on the Directed Assembly of Finite Metal−Organic Cubes (MOCs), Mohamed H. Alkordi, Jacilynn A. Brant, Lukasz Wojtas, Victor Ch. Kravtsov, Amy J. Cairns, and Mohamed Eddaoudi
Synthesis, Structure, and Luminescence of a Two-Dimensional Lanthanide(Iii)-Suberate Coordination Polymer Resulting from Dimeric Secondary Building Units, Daniel T. de Lill, Andrew M. Tareila, and Christopher L. Cahill
Direct Analysis of Stevia Leaves for Diterpene Glycosides by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Ayanna U. Jackson, Alessandra Tata, Chunping Wu, Richard H. Perry, George Haas, Leslie West, and R. Graham Cooks
Edge-On Disk Galaxies in the SDSS DR6: Fractions of Bulgeless and Other Disk Galaxies, Stefan Kautsch
Flat Galaxies in the SDSS DR6, Stefan Kautsch
The Edge-On Perspective of Bulgeless, Simple Disk Galaxies, Stefan Kautsch
The Edge-On Perspective of Bulgeless, Simple Disk Galaxies, Stefan Kautsch
Disk Galaxies and Their Environment, Stefan Kautsch, J. S. Gallagher, and E. K. Grebel
RSK1 Drives p27Kip1 Phosphorylation at T198 to Promote RhoA Inhibition and Increase Cell Motility, Michelle D. Larrea, Feng Hong, Seth A. Wander, Thiago G. da Silva, David Helfman, Deborah Lannigan, Jeffrey A. Smith, and Joyce M. Slingerland
p27 as Jekyll and Hyde: Regulation of Cell Cycle and Cell Motility, Michelle D. Larrea, Seth A. Wander, and Joyce M. Slingerland
Rephasing Ion Packets in the Orbitrap Mass Analyzer to Improve Resolution and Peak Shape, Richard H. Perry, Qizhi Hu, Gary A. Salazar, R. Graham Cooks, and Robert J. Noll
Organic Carbon, Total Nitrogen, and Water-Soluble Ions in Clouds from a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest in Puerto Rico, Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez, Adriana Gioda, Olga L. Mayol-Bracero, and Jeffrey L. Collett Jr.
Pharmaceutical Cleaning Validation Using Non‐Proximate Large‐Area Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Santosh Soparawalla, Gary A. Salazar, Richard H. Perry, Mark Nicholas, and R. Graham Cooks
A Spectroscopically Confirmed Excess of 24 μm Sources in a Super Galaxy Group at z=0.37: Enhanced Dusty Star Formation Relative to the Cluster and Field Environment, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Amelie Saintonge, John Moustakas, Lei Bai, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Bradford P. Holden, Dennis Zaritsky, and Stefan Kautsch
Thermocatalytic Destruction of Gas-Phase Perchloroethylene Using Propane as a Hydrogen Source, Marty Willinger, Erik Rupp, Brian Barbaris, Song Gao, Robert Arnold, Eric Betterton, and A. Eduardo Saez
Submissions from 2008
Mixed Redox Catalytic Destruction of Chlorinated Solvents in Soils and Groundwater, Song Gao, Erik Rupp, Suzanne Bell, Marty Willinger, Theresa Foley, Brian Barbaris, A. Eduardo Saez, Robert Arnold, and Eric Betterton
Water-Soluble Organic and Nitrogen Levels in Cloud and Rainwater in a Background Marine Environment Under Influence of Different Air Masses, Adriana Gioda, Olga L. Mayol-Bracero, Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodriguez, Gilmarie Santos-Figueroa, and Jeffrey L. Collett Jr.
mTOR-Raptor Binds and Activates SGK1 to Regulate p27 Phosphorylation, Feng Hong, Michelle D. Larrea, Cheryl Doughty, David J. Kwiatkowski, Rachel Squillace, and Joyce M. Slingerland
Forming Early-Type Galaxies in Groups Prior to Cluster Assembly, Stefan Kautsch, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Christian A. Soto, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Dennis Zaritsky, and John Moustakas
Phosphorylation of p27Kip1 Regulates Assembly and Activation of Cyclin D1-Cdk4, Michelle D. Larrea, Jiyong Liang, Thiago G. da Silva, Feng Hong, Shan H. Shao, Kathy Han, D. Dumont, and Joyce M. Slingerland
New Indicators for AGN Power: The Correlation between [O IV] 25.89 μm and Hard X-Ray Luminosity for Nearby Seyfert Galaxies, M. Melendez, S. B. Kraemer, Bryan K. Armentrout, R. P. Deo, D. M. Crenshaw, H. R. Schmitt, R. F. Mushotzky, J. Tueller, C. B. Markwardt, and L. Winter
Catalytic Dechlorination of Gas-Phase Perchloroethylene Under Mixed Redox Conditions, Ozer Orbay, Song Gao, Brian Barbaris, Erik Rupp, A. Eduardo Saez, Robert Arnold, and Eric Betterton
Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry: Instrumentation, Ion Motion and Applications, Richard H. Perry, R. Graham Cooks, and Robert J. Noll
The Late Stellar Assembly of Massive Cluster Galaxies via Major Merging, Kim-Vy H. Tran, John Moustakas, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Lei Bai, Dennis Zaritsky, and Stefan Kautsch
How Do Galaxies Grow? Assembling the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe, Kim-Vy H. Tran, John Moustakas, Antony H. Gonzalez, Stefan Kautsch, Lei Bai, and Dennis Zaritsky
Submissions from 2007
A Photoionization Model for the Soft X-Ray Spectrum of NGC 4151, Bryan Armentrout, S. B. Kraemer, and T. J. Turner
Liquid Chromatography with Dual Parallel Mass Spectrometry and 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Analysis of Sphingomyelin and Dihydrosphingomyelin: II. Bovine Milk Sphingolipids, Wm. Craig Byrdwell and Richard H. Perry
Homo- and Heterometallic Coordination Polymers from the f Elements, Christopher L. Cahill, Daniel T. de Lill, and Mark Frisch
Characterization of the Rossler System in Parameter Space, Victor Castro, Marco Monti, William B. Pardo, Jonathan A. Walkenstein, and Epaminondas Rosa Jr.