2020

Self-Assembly of Amyloid-Beta and Its Piezoelectric Properties Ivonne Rosales, Laura Salazar, Daniel Luna, Alicia Negrón, Igor Bdikin, Brian J Rodriguez, Alejandro Heredia, American Journal of Molecular Biology 11 (1), 1–14, 2020.

Direct processing of PbZr0.53Ti0.47O3 films on glass and polymeric substrates Yulian Yao, Aaron B Naden, Fengyuan Zhang, David Edwards, Pooran Joshi, Brian J Rodriguez, Amit Kumar, Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Journal of the European Ceramic Society 40 (15), 5369–5375, 2020.

Electric Field-Driven Catalytic Activity Using a Bioinspired Peptide and Titanium Dioxide Semiconductor Composite with Metal Nanoparticles Sawsan Almohammed, Agata Fularz, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124 (49), 26874–26880, 2020.

Replica molding of cicada wings: The role of water at point of synthesis on nanostructure feature size Shauna P Flynn, Stephen Daniels, Brian J Rodriguez, Susan M Kellehe, Biointerphases 15 (6), 2020.

Flexing Piezoelectric Diphenylalanine–Plasmonic Metal Nanocomposites to Increase SERS Signal Strength Sawsan Almohammed, Agata Fularz, Fengyuan Zhang, Diana Alvarez-Ruiz, Frank Bello, David D O’Regan, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (43), 48874–48881, 2020.

Fibril size-dependent control of polar ordering in type I collagen membranes Fengyuan Zhang, Brian J Rodriguez, Steven Sawamura, Michael Paukshto, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION 27 (5), 1662–1667, 2020.

Modulation of Jahn-Teller distortion and electromechanical response in a Mn (3+) spin crossover complex Irina A Kuhne, Andrew Barker, Fengyuan Zhang, Plamen Stamenov, Oisin O'Doherty, Helge Mueller-Bunz, Matthias Stein, Brian J Rodriguez, Grace G Morgan, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 32 (40), 404002, 2020.

Energy harvesting with peptide nanotube–graphene oxide flexible substrates prepared with electric field and wettability assisted self-assembly Sawsan Almohammed, Abi Thampi, Arwa Bazaid, Fengyuan Zhang, Salvador Moreno, Kevin Keogh, Majid Minary-Jolandan, James H Rice, Brian J Rodriguez, Journal of Applied Physics 128 (11), 115101, 2020.

Atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing: a review on atomic layer removal methods using atomic force microscopy Paven Thomas Mathew, Brian J Rodriguez, Fengzhou Fang, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology 3, 167–186, 2020.

Sub-toxic concentrations of ionic liquids enhance cell migration by reducing the elasticity of the cellular lipid membrane Pallavi Kumari, Visakh VS Pillai, Brian J Rodriguez, Maria Prencipe, Antonio Benedetto, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (17), 7327–7333, 2020.

Temporal changes guided by mesenchymal stem cells on a 3D microgel platform enhance angiogenesis in vivo at a low-cell dose Dilip Thomas, Grazia Marsico, Isma Liza Mohd Isa, Arun Thirumaran, Xizhe Chen, Lukasz, Gianluca Fontana, Brian Rodriguez, Martina Marchetti-Deschmann, Timothy O’Brien and Abhay Pandit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(32),19033–19044, 2020.

A Method, System And Device For Three Dimensional Additive Manufacturing In A Liquid Phase Brian Rodriguez, Emmanuel Reynaud, US Patent App. 15/774,376, 2020.

Direct Laser Writing to Generate Molds for Polymer Nanopillar Replication Colm Delaney, Niamh Geoghegan, Hossam Ibrahim, Mark O’Loughlin, Brian J Rodriguez, Larisa Florea, Susan M Kelleher, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2 (8), 3632–3641, 2020.

Polyhydroxyphenylvalerate/polycaprolactone nanofibers improve the life-span and mechanoresponse of human IPSC-derived cortical neuronal cells Federico Cerrone, Tatyana Pozner, Aarif Siddiqui, Paolo Ceppi, Beate Winner, Murugan Rajendiran, Ramesh Babu, Hossam S Ibrahim, Brian J Rodriguez, Jürgen Winkler, Keith J Murphy, Kevin E O'Connor, Materials Science and Engineering: C 111, 110832, 2020.

Investigation of AFM-based machining of ferroelectric thin films at the nanoscale Fengyuan Zhang, David Edwards, Xiong Deng, Yadong Wang, Jason I Kilpatrick, Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Amit Kumar, Deyang Chen, Xingsen Gao, Brian J Rodriguez, Journal of Applied Physics 127 (3), 034103, 2020.

Bioelectronics on Mammalian Collagen Salvador Moreno, Javad Keshtkar, Rodolfo Antonio Rodriguez‐Davila, Arwa Bazaid, Hossam Ibrahim, Brian J Rodriguez, Manuel Angel Quevedo‐Lopez, Majid Minary‐Jolandan, Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(8), 2000391, 2020.

Biocompatible chitosan-based composites with properties suitable for hyperthermia therapy Ana Barra, Zélia Alves, Nuno M Ferreira, Manuel A Martins, Helena Oliveira, Liliana P Ferreira, M Margarida Cruz, Maria de Deus Carvalho, Sabine M Neumayer, Brian J Rodriguez, Cláudia Nunes, Paula Ferreira, Journal of Materials Chemistry B 8 (6), 1256–1265, 2020.

2019

Additive printing of pure nanocrystalline nickel thin films using room environment electroplating Ali Behroozfar, Md Emran Hossain Bhuiyan, Soheil Daryadel, David Edwards, Brian J Rodriguez, Majid Minary-Jolandan, Nanotechnology 31 (5), 055301, 2019.

Liquid-phase 3D bioprinting of gelatin alginate hydrogels: influence of printing parameters on hydrogel line width and layer height Maha Alruwaili, Jose A Lopez, Kevin McCarthy, Emmanuel G Reynaud, Brian J Rodriguez, Bio-Design and Manufacturing 2, 172-180, 2019.

Bacteria‐Resistant Single Chain Cyclized/Knotted Polymer Coatings Qian Xu, Manon Venet, Yongsheng Gao, Dezhong Zhou, Wei Wang, Ming Zeng, Chiara Rotella, Xiaolin Li, Xi Wang, Jing Lyu, Brian J Rodriguez, Wenxin Wang, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (31), 10616-10620, 2019.

3D-Printed Peptide-Hydrogel Nanoparticle Composites for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensing Sawsan Almohammed, Maha Alruwaili, Emmanuel G Reynaud, Gareth Redmond, James H Rice, Brian J Rodriguez, ACS Applied Nano Materials 2 (8), 5029-5034, 2019.

Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids in Protein Amyloidogenesis: a Combined Neutron Scattering, Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Tweezer Study VV Pillai, KM Tych, M Rubini, B Rodriguez, A Benedetto, EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS 48, S216-S216, 2019.

Effect of Ionic Liquids on the Mechanoelasticity of Biomembranes: from Model Phospholipid Bilayers to Living Cells P Kumari, BJ Rodriguez, A Benedetto, EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS 48, S215-S215, 2019.

Self-assembled organic molecular micron-sized tubular structures for active and passive waveguiding regimes Nebras Al-Attar, Rusul M Al-Shammari, Mohammed A Minshid, Brian J Rodriguez, John T Sheridan, Aoife Gowen, James H Rice, Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems, and Applications V 11031, 1103111, 2019.

Enhanced photocatalysis and biomolecular sensing with field-activated nanotube-nanoparticle templates, Sawsan Almohammed, Sebastian Barwich, Andrew Mitchell, Brian Rodriguez, and James Rice, Nature Communications, 10 (1), 2496, 2019.

Nucleobase sensing using highly-sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy templates comprising organic semiconductor peptide nanotubes and metal nanoparticles Sawsan Almohammed, Brian J. Rodriguez, and James H. Rice, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 24, 100287, 2019.

Template-assisted synthesis of luminescent carbon nanofibers from beverage related precursors by microwave heating Clara Deeney, Eoin McKiernan, Samir A. Belhout, Brian J. Rodriguez, Gareth Redmond, and Susan J. Quinn, Molecules 24, 1455, 2019.

Electric Field-Induced Chemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Enhancement from Aligned Peptide Nanotube–Graphene Oxide Templates for Universal Trace Detection of Biomolecules Sawsan Almohammed, Fengyuan Zhang, Brian J. Rodriguez, and James H. Rice, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 1878–1887, 2019.

Giant negative electrostriction and dielectric tunability in a van der Waals layered ferroelectric Sabine M Neumayer, Eugene A Eliseev, Michael A Susner, Alexander Tselev, Brian J Rodriguez, John A Brehm, Sokrates T Pantelides, Ganesh Panchapakesan, Stephen Jesse, Sergei V Kalinin, Michael A McGuire, Anna N Morozovska, Petro Maksymovych, Nina Balke, Physical Review Materials 3, 024401, 2019

Eco-friendly preparation of electrically conductive chitosan-reduced graphene oxide flexible bionanocomposites for food packaging and biological applications Ana Barra, Nuno M Ferreira, Manuel A Martins, Oana Lazar, Aida Pantazi, Alin Alexandru Jderu, Sabine M Neumayer, Brian J Rodriguez, Marius Enăchescu, Paula Ferreira, Cláudia Nunes, Composites Science and Technology 173, 53-60, 2019.

2018

Quantitative comparison of closed-loop and dual harmonic Kelvin probe force microscopy techniques Jason I. Kilpatrick, Liam Collins, Stefan A. L. Weber, and Brian J. Rodriguez, Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 123708, 2018.

Decoupling mesoscale functional response in PLZT across the ferroelectric–relaxor phase transition with contact Kelvin probe force microscopy and machine learning Sabine Neumayer, Liam Collins, Rama Vasudevan, Christopher Smith, Suhas Somnath, Vladimir Ya Shur, Stephen Jesse, Andrei Leonidovitch Kholkin, Sergei V Kalinin, Brian J Rodriguez, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 42674-42680, 2018.

Revealing the Interplay of Structural Phase Transitions and Ferroelectric Switching in Mixed Phase BiFeO3 Aaron B Naden, David Edwards, Sabine M Neumayer, Joseph GM Guy, Brian J Rodriguez, Nazanin Bassiri‐Gharb, Amit Kumar, Advanced Materials Interfaces 5, 1801019, 2018.

Conformational analysis of replica exchange MD: Temperature-dependent Markov networks for FF amyloid peptides B Narayan, C Herbert, Y Yuan, BJ Rodriguez, BR Brooks, NV Buchete, The Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 072323, 2018.

Photoinduced Enhanced Raman from Lithium Niobate on Insulator Template , 2018.

Surface chemistry controls anomalous ferroelectric behavior in lithium niobate, 2018.

Locally Controlled Cu-Ion Transport in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 Nina Balke, Sabine M Neumayer, John A Brehm, Michael A Susner, Brian J Rodriguez, Stephen Jesse, Sergei V Kalinin, Sokrates T Pantelides, Michael A McGuire, Petro Maksymovych, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 27188-27194, 2018.

Towards nanoscale electrical measurements in liquid by advanced KPFM techniques: a review L Collins, JI Kilpatrick, SV Kalinin, BJ Rodriguez, Reports on Progress in Physics 81, 086101, 2018.

Controlling the mechanoelasticity of model biomembranes with room-temperature ionic liquids  Chiara Rotella, Pallavi Kumari, Brian J Rodriguez, Suzanne P Jarvis, Antonio Benedetto,  Biophysical reviews, 10, 3, 751-756, 2018.

Culturing substrates influence the morphological, mechanical and biochemical features of lung adenocarcinoma cells cultured in 2D or 3D  Adriele Prina-Mello, Namrata Jain, Baiyun Liu, Jason I Kilpatrick, Melissa A Tutty, Alan P Bell, Suzanne P Jarvis, Yuri Volkov, Dania Movia, Tissue and Cell, 50, 15-30, 2018.

Increased Substrate Stiffness Elicits a Myofibroblastic Phenotype in Human Lamina Cribrosa Cells  Baiyun Liu, Jason I Kilpatrick, Bartlomiej Lukasz, Suzanne P Jarvis, Fiona McDonnell, Deborah M Wallace, Abbot F Clark, Colm J O'Brien, Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 59, 2, 803-814, 2018.

Aging and ocular tissue stiffness in glaucoma  Baiyun Liu, Sara McNally, Jason I Kilpatrick, Suzanne P Jarvis, Colm J O'Brien, Survey of ophthalmology, 63, 1 56-74, 2018.

Electromechanical-mnemonic effects in BiFeO 3 for electric field history-dependent crystallographic phase patterning SM Neumayer, N Browne, AB Naden, D Edwards, D Mazumdar, N Bassiri-Gharb, A Kumar, BJ Rodriguez, Journal of Materials Science, 53, 14, 10231-10239, 2018.

Nitrogen reactive ion etch processes for the selective removal of poly-(4-vinylpyridine) in block copolymer films  Shauna P Flynn, Justin Bogan, Ross Lundy, Khalafalla Khalafalla, Matthew Shaw, Brian J Rodriguez, Paul Swift, Stephen Daniels, Robert Oconnor, Greg Hughes, Susan M Kelleher, Nanotechnology, 2018.

Wide-Field Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Ferroelectrically Defined Au Nanoparticle Microarrays for Optical Sensing  Nebras Al-attar, Rusul M Al-Shammari, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest, paper AF2M.5, 2018.

Giant negative electrostriction and dielectric tunability in a van der Waals layered ferroelectric  Sabine M Neumayer, Eugene A Eliseev, Michael A Susner, Alexander Tselev, Brian J Rodriguez, Stephen Jesse, Sergei V Kalinin, Michael A McGuire, Anna N Morozovska, Petro Maksymovych, Nina Balke, arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08142, 2018.

Single-Molecule Nonresonant Wide-Field Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Ferroelectrically Defined Au Nanoparticle Microarrays  Rusul M Al-Shammari, Nebras Al-attar, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, ACS Omega, 3, 3, 3165-3172, 2018.

Photo-induced surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy from a diphenylalanine peptide nanotube-metal nanoparticle template  Sawsan Almohammed, Fengyuan Zhang, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, Scientific Reports, 8, 1, 3880, 2018.

Templated microwave synthesis of luminescent carbon nanofibers  Clara Deeney, Suxiao Wang, Samir A Belhout, Aoife Gowen, Brian J Rodriguez, Gareth Redmond, Susan J Quinn, RSC Advances, 8, 23, 12907-12917, 2018.

Applications of KPFM-Based Approaches for Surface Potential and Electrochemical Measurements in Liquid  Liam Collins, Stefan AL Weber, Brian J Rodriguez, Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy, Springer, Cham, 391-433, 2018.

2017

Piezoelectric Tensor of Collagen Fibrils Determined at the Nanoscale  Denise Denning, Jason I Kilpatrick, Eiichi Fukada, Nan Zhang, Stefan Habelitz, Andrzej Fertala, Michael D Gilchrist, Yuqi Zhang, Syed AM Tofail, Brian J Rodriguez, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 6, 3,  929-935, 2017.

Nanoscale electrical measurements in liquids using AFM-progress and outlook Liam Collins, Jason Kilpatrick, Sergei V Kalinin, Brian J Rodriguez, arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06633, 2017.

Aligned diphenylalanine nanotube–silver nanoparticle templates for high‐sensitivity surface‐enhanced Raman scattering  Sawsan Almohammed, Stefano Fedele, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 48, 12, 1799-1807, 2017.

Label-free cell membrane detection by Raman spectroscopy using biocompatible gold nanostructure microscale arrays on a ferroelectric template  Rusul M Al-Shammari, Nebras Alattar, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, Brian Rodriguez, James Rice, Frontiers in Optics, JTu2A. 89, 2017.

Non-destructive determination of collagen fibril width in extruded collagen fibres by piezoresponse force microscopy  Arwa Bazaid, Sabine M Neumayer, Anna Sorushanova, Jill Guyonnet, Dimitrios Zeugolis, Brian J Rodriguez, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 3, 5,  055004, 2017.

Protein assemblies on ferroelectrically patterned microarrays of Ag nanoparticles  Signe Damm, N Craig Carville, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, James H Rice, Ferroelectrics, 515, 1, 143-150, 2017.

Ionic liquids vs biomembranes: a neutron scattering, atomic force microscopy and computational study  P Kumari, C Rotella, B Rodriguez, A Benedetto, European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters, 46, S363-S363, 2017.

Functional and Structural Effects of Layer Periodicity in Chemical Solution‐Deposited Pb (Zr, Ti) O3 Thin Films  Steven J Brewer, Samuel C Williams, Carmen Z Deng, Aaron B Naden, Sabine M Neumayer, Brian J Rodriguez, Amit Kumar, Nazanin Bassiri‐Gharb, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2017.

Tunable Wettability of Ferroelectric Lithium Niobate Surfaces: The Role of Engineered Microstructure and Tailored Metallic Nanostructures  Rusul M Al-Shammari, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, James H Rice, Brian J Rodriguez, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, 12, 6643-6649, 2017.

Charge and topography patterned lithium niobate provides physical cues to fluidically isolated cortical axons  D Kilinc, A Blasiak, MA Baghban, NC Carville, A Al-Adli, RM Al-Shammari, JH Rice, GU Lee, K Gallo, BJ Rodriguez, Applied Physics Letters, 110, 5, 053702.

Electrochemical force microscopy SV Kalinin, S Jesse, LF Collins, BJ Rodriguez - US Patent 9,541,576, 2017

Thermal and aqueous stability improvement of graphene oxide enhanced diphenylalanine nanocomposites  Kate Ryan, Sabine M Neumayer, Harsha Vardhan R Maraka, Nicolae-Viorel Buchete, Andrei L Kholkin, James H Rice, Brian J Rodriguez, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 18, 1, 172-179, 2107.

2016

Material-and feature-dependent effects on cell adhesion to micro injection moulded medical polymers  Seong Ying Choi, Olivier Habimana, Peter Flood, Emmanuel G Reynaud, Brian J Rodriguez, Nan Zhang, Eoin Casey, Michael D Gilchrist, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 145, 46-54, 2016.

Applications of piezoresponse force microscopy in materials research: from inorganic ferroelectrics to biopiezoelectrics and beyond Denise Denning, Jill Guyonnet, Brian J Rodriguez, International Materials Reviews 61, 46-70, 2016.

Influence of annealing on the photodeposition of silver on periodically poled lithium niobate N Craig Carville, Sabine M Neumayer, Michele Manzo, Mohammad-Amin Baghban, Ilia N Ivanov, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, Journal of Applied Physics 119, 54102, 2016.

Multifrequency spectrum analysis using fully digital G Mode-Kelvin probe force microscopy Liam Collins, Alex Belianinov, Suhas Somnath, Brian J Rodriguez, Nina Balke, Sergei V Kalinin, Stephen Jesse, Nanotechnology 27, 105706, 2016.

Ferroelastic Fingerprints in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Ilka M Hermes, Simon A Bretschneider, Victor W Bergmann, Dan Li, Alexander Klasen, Julian Mars, Wolfgang Tremel, Frédéric Laquai, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Markus Mezger, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 5724-5731, 2016.

Interface modulated currents in periodically proton exchanged Mg doped lithium niobate Sabine M Neumayer, Michele Manzo, Andrei L Kholkin, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, Journal of Applied Physics 119, 114103, 2016.

Thin‐Film Porous Ferroic Nanostructures: Strategies and Characterization Alichandra Castro, Paula Ferreira, Stella Skiadopoulou, Liliana P Ferreira, Margarida Godinho, Brian J Rodriguez, Paula M Vilarinho, Nanoscale Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics: Key Processing and Characterization Issues, and Nanoscale Effects, Volume I & II, 147-162, 2016.

Electrostatic and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy for Domain Imaging of Ferroic Systems Brian J Rodriguez, Nanoscale Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics: Key Processing and Characterization Issues, and Nanoscale Effects, Volume I & II, 435-460, 2016.

Wettability gradient-induced alignment of peptide nanotubes as templates for biosensing applications, 2016.

The transition from linear to highly branched poly (β-amino ester) s: Branching matters for gene delivery Dezhong Zhou, Lara Cutlar, Yongsheng Gao, Wei Wang, Jonathan O’Keeffe-Ahern, Sean McMahon, Blanca Duarte, Fernando Larcher, Brian J Rodriguez, Udo Greiser, Science Advances 2, e1600102, 2016.

Biocompatible gold nanoparticle arrays photodeposited on periodically proton exchanged lithium niobate N Craig Carville, Sabine M Neumayer, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, Brian J Rodriguez, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2, 1351-1356, 2016.

Ferroelectricity in Synthetic Biomaterials: Hydroxyapatite and Polypeptides Maxim Ivanov, Svitlana Kopyl, Syed AM Tofail, Kate Ryan, Brian J Rodriguez, Vladimir Ya Shur, Andrei L Kholkin, Electrically Active Materials for Medical Devices 149-166, 2016.

Piezoresponse Force Microscopy for Bioelectromechanics Kate Ryan, Sabine M Neumayer, Denise Denning, Jill Guyonnet, Ensieh Hosseini, Arwa Bazaid, Andrei L Kholkin, Brian J Rodriguez, Electrically Active Materials for Medical Devices 435-450, 2016.

Material-and feature-dependent effects on cell adhesion to micro injection moulded medical polymers Seong Ying Choi, Olivier Habimana, Peter Flood, Emmanuel G Reynaud, Brian J Rodriguez, Nan Zhang, Eoin Casey, Michael D Gilchrist, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 145, 46-54, 2016.