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Research Nuggets - Papers

Web silk is a trampoline of soggy molecular helixes (2003)
Helen Hansma, et al, 2003
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Biotechnology Provides a New Route to Semiconductors (2003)
Sumerel, Kisailus, Weaver and Morse, 2003
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Base Pair Stacking in Aligned Films of DNA-lipid complex (2003)
C.Y. Yang, D. Moses and A.J. Heeger
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Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles
Andrew P. Nowak, Victor Breeveld, Lisa Pakstis, Bulent Ozbas, David J. Pine, Darrin Pochan & Timothy J. Deming
Nature 417, 424–428 (23 May 2002)

Breaching the Membrane (2002):
A better understanding of the structure and function of the cell membrane and its components is providing drug developers with new avenues for breaching the cell’s outer defenses to deliver drugs or DNA
Science Vol 296 3 May 2002
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Nano-Scale Visualization of Liquid Interfaces During Coalescence and Rapture (2002)
Jacob Israelachvili and Gary Leal
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Novel Method of Biocompatible Colloidal Stabilization (2002)
Nano-compartments Enclosing Vesicles, Colloids and Macromolecules via Interdigitated Lipid Bilayers, Langmuir, in press.
Kisak, E. T., Coldren, B. and Zasadzinski, J. A.
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Microrheology - 2001
"One- and two-particle microrheology", A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky,PRL 85, 1774 (2000).
"The response function of spheres in a viscoelastic medium", Alex J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, PRE 63, 041510-1 (2001).
"Two-point microrheology and the electrostatic analogy", A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, PRE accepted for publication, cond-mat/0140132.
"Dynamics of viscoelastic membranes", Alex J. Levine and F.C. MacKintosh, Submitted to PRE and cond-mat/0108552.
"Microrheology in active gels: the breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem", F.C. MacKintosh and Alex J. Levine, in preparation.
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Hierarchical Self-Assembly of F-Actin and Cationic Lipid Complexes: Stacked Three-Layer Tubule Networks (2000)
G.C.L. Wong, J.X. Tang, A. Lin, Y. Li, P.A. Janmey, and C.R. Safinya,
Science 288, 2035 (2000).
Featured as Top Story in Chemical & Engineering News - 2000, 78, 11 (2000).
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