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Journal articles
2020, 'Geometrically Structured Microtumors: Geometrically Structured Microtumors in 3D Hydrogel Matrices (Adv. Biosys. 5/2020)', Advanced Biology, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202070053
,2019, 'Counting growth factors in single cells with infrared quantum dots to measure discrete stimulation distributions', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08754-5
,2019, 'Effects of substrate patterning on cellular spheroid growth and dynamics measured by gradient light interference microscopy (GLIM)', Journal of Biophotonics, 12, pp. e201900178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201900178
,2019, 'Quantitative phase imaging reveals matrix stiffness-dependent growth and migration of cancer cells', Scientific Reports, 9, pp. 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36551-5
,2019, 'Micro-Engineered Models of Development Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells', Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 7, pp. 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00357
,2019, 'Porous Chitosan Films Support Stem Cells and Facilitate Sutureless Tissue Repair', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 32613 - 32622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b09123
,2019, 'The structural fate of lipid nanoparticles in the extracellular matrix', Materials Horizons, 00, pp. 125 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9mh00835g
,2019, 'Simultaneous cell traction and growth measurements using light', Journal of Biophotonics, 12, pp. e201800182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201800182
,2018, 'Vertical Integration of Cell-Laden Hydrogels with Bioinspired Photonic Crystal Membranes', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201801233
,2018, 'Surveillance of Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity Using an Isoform-Selective Fluorescent Probe for Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1A1', ACS Central Science, 4, pp. 1045 - 1055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.8b00313
,2018, 'Porous Silicon: Vertical Integration of Cell‐Laden Hydrogels with Bioinspired Photonic Crystal Membranes (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 23/2018)', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201870115
,2017, 'Synthetic Biomaterials to Rival Nature's Complexity—a Path Forward with Combinatorics, High-Throughput Discovery, and High-Content Analysis', Advanced Healthcare Materials, 6, pp. 1700535, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201700535
,2017, 'Matrix Mechanics Influence Fibroblast–Myofibroblast Transition by Directing the Localization of Histone Deacetylase 4', Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 10, pp. 405 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12195-017-0493-8
,2017, 'Anti-inflammatory ω-3 endocannabinoid epoxides', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, pp. E6034 - E6043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610325114
,2017, 'Combinatorial Discovery of Defined Substrates That Promote a Stem Cell State in Malignant Melanoma', ACS Central Science, 3, pp. 381 - 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00329
,2017, 'Cytoskeletal Priming of Mesenchymal Stem Cells to a Medicinal Phenotype', Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine, 3, pp. 5 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40883-016-0021-8
,2017, 'Melanoma topology reveals a stem-like phenotype that promotes angiogenesis', Science Advances, 3, pp. e1701350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701350
,2017, 'Multimodal assessment of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for diabetic vascular complications', Theranostics, 7, pp. 3876 - 3888, http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/thno.19547
,2016, 'Epidermal mechano-acoustic sensing electronics for cardiovascular diagnostics and human-machine interfaces', Science Advances, 2, pp. e1601185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601185
,2016, 'Temporal Modulation of Stem Cell Activity Using Magnetoactive Hydrogels', Advanced Healthcare Materials, 5, pp. 2536 - 2544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201600349
,2016, 'Matrix directed adipogenesis and neurogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adipose tissue and bone marrow', Acta Biomaterialia, 42, pp. 46 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.06.037
,2016, 'Mechanochemical functionalization of disulfide linked hydrogels', Materials Horizons, 3, pp. 447 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6mh00091f
,2016, 'Interfacial geometry dictates cancer cell tumorigenicity', Nature Materials, 15, pp. 856 - 862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4610
,2016, 'Patterned porous silicon photonic crystals with modular surface chemistry for spatial control of neural stem cell differentiation', Nanoscale, 8, pp. 10891 - 10895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5nr08327c
,2016, 'Capturing extracellular matrix properties in vitro: Microengineering materials to decipher cell and tissue level processes', Experimental Biology and Medicine, 241, pp. 930 - 938, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1535370216644532
,2016, 'Cell shape and the presentation of adhesion ligands guide smooth muscle myogenesis', Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, 104, pp. 1212 - 1220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbm.a.35661
,2016, 'High throughput strategies for the design, discovery, and analysis of biomaterials', Acta Biomaterialia, 34, pp. v - vi, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.03.019
,2015, 'Bridging the Gap: From 2D Cell Culture to 3D Microengineered Extracellular Matrices', Advanced Healthcare Materials, 4, pp. 2780 - 2796, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201500427
,2015, 'Influence of Biophysical Parameters on Maintaining the Mesenchymal Stem Cell Phenotype', ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 1, pp. 218 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ab500003s
,2015, 'Geometric guidance of integrin mediated traction stress during stem cell differentiation', Biomaterials, 69, pp. 174 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.08.005
,2015, 'Rapid 3D Extrusion of Synthetic Tumor Microenvironments', Advanced Materials, 27, pp. 5512 - 5517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201501729
,2015, 'Spatially defined stem cell-laden hydrogel islands for directing endothelial tubulogenesis', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3, pp. 7896 - 7898, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5tb01294e
,2015, 'Tumor Microenvironments: Rapid 3D Extrusion of Synthetic Tumor Microenvironments (Adv. Mater. 37/2015)', Advanced Materials, 27, pp. 5445 - 5445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201570242
,2014, 'Peptide microarrays for the discovery of bioactive surfaces that guide cellular processes: A single step azide-alkyne "click" chemistry approach', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2, pp. 4280 - 4288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4tb00375f
,2014, 'Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment', Scientific Reports, 4, pp. 5188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05188
,2014, 'Controlling cell geometry on substrates of variable stiffness can tune the degree of osteogenesis in human mesenchymal stem cells', Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 38, pp. 209 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.01.009
,2014, 'Matrix composition and mechanics direct proangiogenic signaling from mesenchymal stem cells', Tissue Engineering - Part A, 20, pp. 2737 - 2745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2013.0661
,2013, 'Directing stem cell fate on hydrogel substrates by controlling cell geometry, matrix mechanics and adhesion ligand composition', Biomaterials, 34, pp. 8140 - 8148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.07.074
,2013, 'The effect of mesenchymal stem cell shape on the maintenance of multipotency', Biomaterials, 34, pp. 3962 - 3969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.02.029
,2012, 'Directing stem cell fate by controlling the affinity and density of ligand-receptor interactions at the biomaterials interface', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 51, pp. 4891 - 4895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201108746
,2012, 'Directing Stem Cell Fate by Controlling the Affinity and Density of Ligand–Receptor Interactions at the Biomaterials Interface', Angewandte Chemie, 124, pp. 4975 - 4979, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.201108746
,2012, 'Biofunctionalization of free-standing porous silicon films for self-assembly of photonic devices', Soft Matter, 8, pp. 360 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1sm06651j
,2011, 'Mesoporous silicon photonic crystal microparticles: Towards single-cell optical biosensors', Faraday Discussions, 149, pp. 301 - 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c005340f
,2010, 'Peptide arrays identify isoform-selective substrates for profiling endogenous lysine deacetylase activity', ACS Chemical Biology, 5, pp. 863 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cb100088g
,2010, 'Geometric cues for directing the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, pp. 4872 - 4877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903269107
,2010, 'Substrate independent assembly of optical structures guided by biomolecular interactions', ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2, pp. 3270 - 3275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am1007084
,2009, 'Smart tissue culture: in Situ monitoring of the activity of protease enzymes secreted from live cells using nanostructured photonic crystals', Nano Letters, 9, pp. 2021 - 2025
,2009, 'The importance of surface chemistry in mesoporous materials: Lessons from porous silicon biosensors', Chemical Communications, pp. 630 - 640
,2008, 'Introducing Distinctly Different Chemical Functionalities onto the Internal and External Surfaces of Mesoporous Materials', Angewandte Chemie, 120, pp. 2737 - 2739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.200704784
,2008, 'Click chemistry in mesoporous materials: Functionalization of porous silicon rugate filters', Langmuir, 24, pp. 5888 - 5892
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