Publications in 2024

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103.		Deposition of Nanometric Polymer-Surfactant Complexes Formed by Cationic Dextran: A Path to Sustainable Formulations Hammad A. Faizi, Daniel S. Miller, Lyndsay Leal, Junsi Gu, Michaeleen L. Pacholski, Emmet M. Partain III, Caroline Nimako-Boateng, Janet R. McMillan, Chang Qian, Zuochen Wang, and Qian Chen* *Langmuir* (2024) 40, 24360-24372 [LINK][PDF]
102.		Highly Ordered Eutectic Mesostructures via Template-Directed Solidification within Thermally Engineered Templates Sung Bum Kang, Guanglong Huang, Gaurav Singhal, Dajie Xie, Daniel H. Hsieh, Youngmun Lee, Ashish A. Kulkarni, John W. Smith, Qian Chen, Katsuyo Thornton, Sanjiv Sinha, Paul V. Braun* Advanced Materials (2024) 36, 15 [LINK][PDF]
101.		Structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils derived from human Lewy body dementia tissue Dhruva D. Dhavale, Alexander M. Barclay, Collin G. Borcik, Katherine Basore, Deborah A. Berthold, Isabelle R. Gordon, Jialu Liu, Moses H. Milchberg, Jennifer Y. O’Shea, Michael J. Rau, Zachary Smith, Soumyo Sen, Brock Summers, John Smith, Owen A. Warmuth, Richard J. Perrin, Joel S. Perlmutter, Qian Chen, James A. J. Fitzpatrick, Charles D. Schwieters, Emad Tajkhorshid, Chad M. Rienstra, Paul T. Kotzbauer* *Nature Communications* (2024) 15, 2750 [LINK][PDF]
100.		Shape-persistent ladder molecules exhibit nanogap-independent conductance in singel-molecule junctions Xiaolin Liu, Hao Yang, Hassan Harb, Rajarshi Samajdar, Toby J. Woods, Oliver Lin, Qian Chen, Adolfo I. B. Romo, Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Rajeev S. Assary, Jeffrey S. Moore, Charles M. Schroeder* *Nature Chemistry* 16, 1772–1780 (2024) [LINK][PDF]
99.		Towards Correlative Electron Microscopy Imaging for Proteins and Cells Jiahui Li, John W Smith, Kai-Yu Huang, Hua Wang, Aditi Das, Hyunjoon Kong, Qian Chen Microscopy and Microanalysis 30, Supplement_1 (2024): ozae044.807 [LINK][PDF]
98.		Electron Tomographic Reconstruction of Soft Nanomaterials for Morphometry Studies Falon C Kalutantirige, Paul Bogdan, Qian Chen Microscopy and Microanalysis 30, Supplement_1 (2024): ozae044.893 [LINK][PDF]
97.		Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems Carlos L. Bassani, Greg van Anders, Uri Banin, Dmitry Baranov, Qian Chen, et al. Eran Rabani, Michael Engel, Alex Travesset* *ACS Nano* 18, no. 23 (2024): 14791–14840 [LINK][PDF]
96.		Nanoscopic Imaging of Self-Propelled Ultrasmall Catalytic Nanomotors Zhiheng Lyu, Lehan Yao, Zhisheng Wang, Chang Qian, Zuochen Wang, Jiahui Li, Chang Liu, Yufeng Wang, and Qian Chen* *ACS Nano* 18, no. 22 (2024): 14231-14243 [LINK][PDF]
95.		Neuronal innervation regulates the secretion of neurotrophic myokines and exosomes from skeletal muscle Kai-Yu Huang, Gaurav Upadhyay, Yujin Ahn, Masayoshoi Sakakura, Gelson J. Pagan-Diaz, Younghak Cho, Amanda C. Weiss, Chen Huang, Jennifer W. Mitchell, Jiahui Li, Yanqi Tan, Yu-Heng Deng, Austin Ellis-Mohr, Zhi Dou, Xiaotain Zhang, Sehong Kang, Qian Chen, Jonathan V. Sweedler, Sung Gap Im, Rashid Bashir, Hee Jung Chung, Gabriel Popescu, Martha U. Gillette, Mattia Gazzola and Hyunjoon Kong* *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* 121, no. 19 (2024): e2313590121 [LINK][PDF]
94.		Electron videography of a lipid–protein tango John W. Smith, Lauren N. Carnevale, Aditi Das, Qian Chen *Science Advances* 10, no. 16 (2024): eadk0217 [LINK][PDF] - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: "Electron videography captures moving dance between proteins and lipids"
93.		Nanoparticle self‑assemblies with modern complexity Qian Chen* and Xin Zhang *MRS Bulletin* (2024): 1-9 [LINK][PDF] - Introduction article @ MRS Bulletin
92.		Structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils derived from human Lewy body dementia tissue Dhruva D. Dhavale, AlexanderM. Barclay, Collin G. Borcik, Katherine Basore, Deborah A. Berthold, Isabelle R. Gordon, Jialu Liu, Moses H. Milchberg, Jennifer Y. O’Shea, Michael J. Rau, Zachary Smith, Soumyo Sen, Brock Summers, John Smith, Owen A. Warmuth, Richard J. Perrin, Joel S. Perlmutter, Qian Chen, James A. J. Fitzpatrick, Charles D. Schwieters, Emad Tajkhorshid, Chad M. Rienstra & Paul T. Kotzbauer* *Nature Communications* 15, no. 1 (2024): 2750 [LINK][PDF]
91.		Tunable magnetic confinement effect in a magnetic superlattice of graphene Onur Tosun, Preetha Sarkar, Chang Qian, Matthew Gilbert, Qian Chen & Nadya Mason* *npj 2D Materials and Applications* 8, no. 1 (2024): 32 [LINK][PDF]
90.		Beyond nothingness in the formation and functional relevance of voids in polymer films Falon C. Kalutantirige, Jinlong He, Lehan Yao, Stephen Cotty, Shan Zhou, John W. Smith, Emad Tajkhorshid, Charles M. Schroeder, Jeffrey S. Moore, Hyosung An, Xiao Su, Ying Li* and Qian Chen* *Nature Communications* 15, no. 1 (2024): 2852 [LINK][PDF] - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Nothing is everything: How hidden emptiness can define the usefulness of filtration materials'' - Highlighted @ DOE Office of Science [Homepage][Twitter]
89.		4D-STEM Mapping of Nanocrystal Reaction Dynamics and Heterogeneity in a Graphene Liquid Cell Chang Liu, Oliver Lin, Saran Pidaparthy, Haoyang Ni, Zhiheng Lyu, Jian-Min Zuo and Qian Chen* *Nano Letters* 24, no. 13 (2024): 3890-3897 [LINK][PDF]
88.		No ground truth needed: unsupervised sinogram inpainting for nanoparticle electron tomography (UsiNet) to correct missing wedges Lehan Yao, Zhiheng Lyu, Jiahui Li and Qian Chen* *npj Computational Materials* 10, no. 1 (2024): 28 [LINK][PDF]
87.		Highly Ordered Eutectic Mesostructures via Template-Directed Solidification within Thermally Engineered Templates Sung Bum Kang, Guanglong Huang, Gaurav Singhal, Dajie Xie, Daniel H. Hsieh, Youngmun Lee, Ashish A. Kulkarni, John W. Smith, Qian Chen, Katsuyo Thornton, Sanjiv Sinha, Paul V. Braun* *Advanced Materials* (2024): 2308720 [LINK][PDF]

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