Harvard MRSEC Shared Experimental and Computational Facilities, 2020–2026 (DMR-2011754)

This is a publication list resulting from work that utilized the shared experimental or computational facilities at our MRSEC from September, 2020 to May, 2026.

1. Ardoña, H.A.M., J.F. Zimmerman, K. Shani, S.-H. Kim, F. Eweje, D. Bitounis, D. Parviz, E. Casalino, M. Strano, P. Demokritou, and K.K. Parker, "Differential modulation of endothelial cytoplasmic protrusions after exposure to graphene-family nanomaterials," NanoImpact 26, 100401-9 (2022)
2. Belding, L., S.E. Root, Y. Li, J. Park, M. Baghbanzadeh, E. Rojas, P.F. Pieters, H.J. Yoon, and G.M. Whitesides, "Conformation, and charge tunneling through molecules in SAMs," Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (9), 3481-3493 (2021)
3. Bryde, P. and L. Mahadevan, "Localization in musical steelpans," Proceedings of the Royal Society A 479 (2273), 20220869 (2023)
4. Chen, A., X.D. Zhang, A.D. Đelmaš, D.A. Weitz, and K. Milcic, "Systems and methods for continuous evolution of enzymes," Chemistry-A European Journal 30 (43), e202400880-16 (2024)
5. Chen, A., W. Xu, X.D. Zhang, J. Lao, X. Zhao, K. Milcic, and D.A. Weitz, "Ultrahigh-throughput multiplexed screening of purified protein from cell-free expression using droplet microfluidics," Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (32), 28758-28772 (2025)
6. Deveney, B., J.A. Heyman, R.G. Rosenthal, D.A. Weitz, and J.G. Werner, "A biocompatible surfactant film for stable microfluidic droplets," Lab on a Chip 25 (20), 5141-5149 (2025)
7. Fenley, A.L., C.X. Du, P.L. McEuen, I. Cohen, M.P. Brenner, and J. Dshemuchadse, "Hierarchical self-assembly of magnetic handshake materials," ACS Nano 19 (15), 14770-14779 (2025)
8. Frost, I.M., A.M. Mendoza, T.T. Chiou, P. Kim, J. Aizenberg, D.B. Kohn, S.N. De Oliveira, P.S. Weiss, and S.J. Jonas, "Fluorinated silane-modified filtroporation devices enable gene knockout in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (35), 41299-41309 (2023)
9. Gao, R., M.S. Kodaimati, K.M. Handy, S.E. Root, and G.M. Whitesides, "Generating oscillatory behavior by applying a magnetic field during electrocatalytic oxidation of glycerol," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126 (42), 18159-18169 (2022)
10. Kendre, S.V., L. Whiteside, T.Y. Fan, J.A. Tracz, G.T. Teran, T.C. Underwood, M.E. Sayed, H.J. Jiang, A.A. Stokes, D.J. Preston, and G.M. Whitesides, "The soft compiler: A web-based tool for the design of modular pneumatic circuits for soft robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (3), 6060-6066 (2022)
11. Kim, C., K. Jung, J.W. Yu, S. Park, S.-H. Kim, W.B. Lee, H. Hwang, V.N. Manoharan, and J.H. Moon, "Controlled assembly of icosahedral colloidal clusters for structural coloration," Chemistry of Materials 32 (22), 9704-9712 (2020)
12. Lee, M., M. Sotzing, J. Wang, and A. Chortos, "Hybrid 3D printing of bio-inspired artificial slowly adapting type II afferents," Nature Communications 16 (8513), (2025)
13. Li, Y., S.E. Root, L. Belding, J. Park, J. Rawson, H.J. Yoon, M. Baghbanzadeh, P. Rothemund, and G.M. Whitesides, "Characterizing chelation at surfaces by charge tunneling," Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (15), 5967-5977 (2021)
14. Lin, J., and A. Amir, "Disentangling intrinsic and extrinsic gene expression noise in growing cells," Physical Review Letters 126 (7), 078101-6 (2021)
15. Manandhar, A., F.E. Rockwell, N. Watson, A. Graham, and N.M. Holbrook, "Visualizing physical interactions between guard and epidermal cells during light-induced stomatal opening in 2 angiosperms," Plant Physiology 200 (1), kiaf644 (2026)
16. Menge, J., C. Yang, D.A. Weitz, and K. Jahnke, "Engineering the biophysical properties of lipid nanostructures for drug delivery," Communications Materials 7, 25 (2026)
17. Morse, D.B., A.M. Michalowski, M. Ceribelli, J.D. Jonghe, M. Vias, D. Riley, T. Davies-Hill, T. Voss, S. Pittaluga, C. Muus, J. Liu, S. Boyle, D.A. Weitz, J.D. Brenton, J.D. Buenrostro, T.P.J. Knowles, and C.J. Thomas, "Positional influence on cellular transcriptional identity revealed through spatially segmented single-cell transcriptomics," Cell Systems 14, 464-481 (2023)
18. Pan, Y., Y. Zhou, Z. Suo, and T. Lu, "Inelastic zone around crack tip in polyacrylamide hydrogel identified using digital image correlation," Engineering Fracture Mechanics 289, 109435 (2023)
19. Park, J., L. Belding, L. Yuan, M.P.S. Mousavi, S.E. Root, H.J. Yoon, and G.M. Whitesides, "Rectification in molecular tunneling junctions based on alkanethiolates with bipyridine-metal complexes," Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (4), 2156-2163 (2021)
20. Park, J., M.S. Kodaimati, L. Belding, S.E. Root, G.C. Schatz, and G.M. Whitesides, "Controlled hysteresis of conductance in molecular tunneling junctions," ACS nano 16 (3), 4206-4216 (2022)
21. Rockwell, F.E., "Thermodiffusion in leaf boundary layers appears large only when the effect of the boundary layer on total transpiration is small," New Phytologist 247 (4), 1584-1588 (2025)
22. Root, S.E., R. Gao, C.K. Abrahamsson, M.S. Kodaimati, S. Ge, and G.M. Whitesides, "Estimating the density of thin polymeric films using magnetic levitation," ACS Nano 15 (10), 15676-15686 (2021)
23. Schafer, B.C., J.-H. Kim, F. Sharipov, G.-S. Hwang, and J.J. Vlassak, "Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions," Nature 644 (8076), 362-369 (2025)
24. Shankar, S., P. Bryde, and L. Mahadevan, "Geometric control of topological dynamics in a singing saw," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (17), e2117241119-7 (2022)
25. Tanjeem, N., C. Chomette, N.B. Schade, S. Ravaine, E. Duguet, M. Tréguer-Delapierre, and V.N. Manoharan, "Polyhedral plasmonic nanoclusters through multi-step colloidal chemistry," Materials Horizons 8, 565-570 (2021)
26. Tracz, J.A., L. Wille, D. Pathiraja, S.V. Kendre, R. Pfisterer, E. Turett, C.K. Abrahamsson, S.E. Root, W.K. Lee, D.J. Preston, H.J. Jiang, G.M. Whitesides, and M.P. Nemitz, "Tube-balloon logic for the exploration of fluidic control elements," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (2), 5483-5488 (2022)
27. Vaicekauskaite, J., C. Yang, C. Dam-Hansen, L. Yu, Z. Suo, and A.L. Skov, "Use of field concentration for electroluminescent devices," Advanced Materials Technologies 9 (1), 2301283 (2024)
28. Wang, K., A. Maraj, and A. Seigal, "Contrastive independent component analysis for salient patterns and dimensionality reduction," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (50), e2425119122 (2025)
29. Wang, Y., J. Liu, M.M. Peters, R. Ishii, D. Wang, S. Chowdhury, K.K. Parker, and E.I. Shakhnovich, "Entropy-driven denaturation enables sustainable protein regeneration through rapid gel-solid transition," Nature Communications 16 (1), 6907 (2025)
30. Wu, Q., M. Pan, S. Zhang, D. Sun, Y. Yang, D. Chen, D.A. Weitz, and X. Gao, "Research progress in high-throughput screening of CO₂  reduction catalysts," Energies 15 (18), 6666-18 (2022)
31. Wu, Z., J.G. Werner, and D.A. Weitz, "Dynamic poly(amine) capsules with reversible pH-triggered responsiveness," ACS Applied Polymer Materials 7 (12), 7893-7898 (2025)
32. Wu, Z., B.T. Deveney, J.G. Werner, S. Aime, and D.A. Weitz, "Fluorophilic boronic acid copolymer surfactant for stabilization of complex emulsion droplets with fluorinated oil," Lab on a Chip 25, 2315 (2025)
33. Xia, J., Z.-Y. Liu, Z.-Y. Han, Y. Yuan, Y. Shao, X.-Q. Feng, and D.A. Weitz, "Regulation of cell attachment, spreading, and migration by hydrogel substrates with independently tunable mesh size," Acta Biomaterialia 141, 178-189 (2022)
34. Xie, Y., Z. Yang, H. Shen, J. Chen, D.A. Weitz, D. Chen, J. Sheng, and T. Liang, "Interfacial engineering of biocompatible nanocapsules for near‐infrared‐triggered drug release and photothermal therapy," Advanced Science 12 (2), 2410844-10 (2024)
35. Xiao, Y., C. Yang, X. Zhai, L. Zhao, P. Zhao, J. Ruan, D. Chen, D.A. Weitz, and K. Liu, "Bioinspired tough and strong fibers with hierarchical core-shell structure," Advanced Materials Interfaces 10, 2201962 (2023)
36. Yang, C., J. Menge, N. Zhvania, M. Yu, H. Yang, D. Chen, Z. Zheng, D.A. Weitz, and Kevin Jahnke, "Engineering asymmetric nanoscale vesicles for mRNA and protein delivery to cells," Advanced Functional Materials 35 (35), 2505738 (2025)
37. Yang, C., Y. Xiao, L. Hu, J. Chen, C.X. Zhao, P. Zhao, J. Ruan, Z. Wu, H. Yu, D.A. Weitz, and D. Chen, "Stimuli-triggered multishape, multimode, and multistep deformations designed by microfluidic 3D droplet printing," Small 10 (11), 2207073-7 (2023)
38. Yang, Z., Y. Xie, J. Song, R. Liu, J. Chen, D.A. Weitz, J. Sheng, T. Liang, and D. Chen, "Self-assembly of biocompatible core-shell nanocapsules with tunable surface functionality by microfluidics for enhanced drug delivery," Advanced Functional Materials 12 (2), 2410844 (2024)
39. Zath, G.K., R.A. Sperling, C.W. Hoffman, D.A. Bikos, R. Abbasi, A.R. Abate, D.A. Weitz, and C.B. Chang, "Rapid parallel generation of a fluorescently barcoded drop library from a microtiter plate using the plate-interfacing parallel encapsulation (PIPE) chip," Lab on a Chip 22, 4735-4745 (2022)
40. Zeng, L., F. Liu, Q. Yu, C. Jin, J. Yang, Z. Suo, and J. Tang, "Flaw-insensitive fatigue resistance of chemically fixed collagenous soft tissues," Science Advances 9 (9), eade7375 (2023)