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3D-printed polymer foams maintain stiffness and energy dissipation under repeated loading

Younghoon Kwon, Soyoung E. Seo, Jaejun Lee, Szabolcs Berezvai, Javier Read de Alaniz, Claus D. Eisenbach, Robert M. McMeeking, Craig J. Hawker, Megan T. Valentine. Composites Communications. 37:101453 (2023)
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Modular Synthesis and Patterning of High-Stiffness Networks by Postpolymerization Functionalization with Iron–Catechol Complexes

Declan P. Shannon, Joshua D. Moon, Christopher W. Barney, Nairiti J. Sinha, Kai-Chieh Yang, Seamus D. Jones, Ronnie V. Garcia, Matthew E. Helgeson, Rachel A. Segalman, Megan T. Valentine, Craig J. Hawker. Macromolecules (in press).
Testing device

Network structure influences bulk modulus of nearly incompressible filled silicone elastomers

Christopher W. Barney, Matthew E. Helgeson, and Megan T. Valentine. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 52:101616 (2022).
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Role of Material Composition in Photothermal Actuation of DASA-Based Polymers

Miranda M Sroda, Jaejun Lee, Younghoon Kwon, Friedrich Stricker, Minwook Park, Megan T. Valentine, and Javier Read de Alaniz. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 4(1):141-149 (2022).
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Biofilm disruption enhances growth rate and carbohydrate-active enzyme production in anaerobic fungi

Patrick A. Leggieri, Megan T. Valentine, Michelle A. O'Malley. Bioresource Technology. 358:127361 (2022)
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Strength of fluid-filled soft composites across the elastofracture length

Christopher W. Barney, Megan T. Valentine, and Matthew E. Helgeson. Soft Matter, 18:4897 (2022).
Network Schematic

Rational mechanochemical design of Diels–Alder crosslinked biocompatible hydrogels with enhanced properties

Sophia J. Bailey, Christopher W. Barney, Nairiti J. Sinha, Sai Venkatesh Pangali, Craig J. Hawker, Matthew E. Helgeson, Megan T. Valentine and Javier Read de Alaniz. Mater. Horiz. 9:1947-1953 (2022).
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The living interface between synthetic biology and biomaterial design

Allen P. Liu, Eric A. Appel, Paul D. Ashby, Brendon M. Baker, Elisa Franco, Luo Gu, Karmella Haynes, Neel S. Joshi, April M. Kloxin, Paul H. J. Kouwer, Jeetain Mittal, Leonardo Morsut, Vincent Noireaux, Sapun Parekh, Rebecca Schulman, Sindy K. Y. Tang, Megan T. Valentine, Sebastián L. Vega, Wilfried Weber, Nicholas Stephanopoulos & Ovijit Chaudhuri. Nature Materials 21:390–397 (2022).
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A compact rotary magnetic tweezers device for dynamic material analysis

John P. Berezney and Megan T. Valentine. Review of Scientific Instruments 93:093701 (2022).
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High-throughput microscopy to determine morphology, microrheology, and phase boundaries applied to phase separating coacervates

Yimin Luo, Mengyang Gu, Chelsea E. R. Edwards, Megan T. Valentine and Matthew E. Helgeson. Soft Matter, 18, 3063-3075 (2022).
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Tough Multimaterial Interfaces through Wavelength-Selective 3D Printing

Neil D. Dolinski, E. Benjamin Callaway, Caitlin S. Sample, Luke F. Gockowski, Roberto Chavez, Zachariah A. Page, Fabian Eisenreich, Stefan Hecht, Megan T. Valentine, Frank W. Zok, and Craig J. Hawker. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13(18):22065–22072 (2021).
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Three-Dimensional Photochemical Printing of Thermally Activated Polymer Foams

Soyoung E. Seo, Younghoon Kwon, Neil D. Dolinski, Caitlin S. Sample, Jeffrey L. Self, Christopher M. Bates, Megan T. Valentine, and Craig J. Hawker. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 3(10):4984–4991 (2021).
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On-Demand Manufacturing Capabilities of Mussels Enable Robust Adhesion to Geometrically Complex Surfaces

Younghoon Kwon, Justin H. Bernstein, Noy Cohen, and Megan T. Valentine. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 7, 11, 5099–5106 (2021).
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Uncertainty quantification and estimation in differential dynamic microscopy

Mengyang Gu, Yimin Luo, Yue He, Matthew E. Helgeson, and Megan T. Valentine. Phys. Rev. E 104:034610 (2021).
Photoactive Cantilever

Tunable Photothermal Actuation Enabled by Photoswitching of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts

Jaejun Lee, Miranda M. Sroda, Younghoon Kwon, Sara El-Arid, Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Elliot W. Hawkes, Megan T. Valentine, Javier Read de Alaniz. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12:54075–54082 (2020).
Effects of sea water pH on marine mussel plaque maturation

Effects of sea water pH on marine mussel plaque maturation

Justin H. Bernstein, Emmanouela Filippidi, J. Herbert Waite, Megan T. Valentine. Soft Matter 16:9339-9346 (2020).
Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch

Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch

Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Jaejun Lee, Miranda Sroda, Matthew E. Helgeson, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Megan T. Valentine. Nature Communications 11:2599 (2020).
Fracture Event in Polymer Composite

Engineering crack tortuosity in polymer-polymer composites through ordered pores

Luke F. Gockowski, Neil D. Dolinski, Roberto Chavez, Noy Cohen, Fabian Eisenreich, Stefan Hecht, Robert M. McMeeking, Craig J. Hawker, and Megan T. Valentine. Materials Horizons 7: 1854-1860 (2020).
3D reconstruction of a blood vessel

Characterizing the cellular architecture of dynamically remodeling vascular tissue using 3-D image analysis and virtual reconstruction

Roopa Madhu, Delany Rodriguez, Claudia Guzik, Shambhavi Singh, Anthony W De Tomaso, Megan T Valentine, Dinah Loerke. Molecular Biology of the Cell 31(16), 1714-1725 (2020).
Network Fragment

Tailoring the Toughness of Elastomers by Incorporating Ionic Cross-Linking

Thomas R. Cristiani, Emmanouela Filippidi, Rachel L. Behrens, Megan T. Valentine, and Claus D. Eisenbach. Macromolecules 53(10): 4099-4109 (2020).
3D traction map

Rapid analysis of cell-generated forces within a multicellular aggregate using microsphere-based traction force microscopy

Bugra Kaytanli, Aimal H. Khankhel, Noy Cohen, and Megan T. Valentine. Soft Matter 16: 4192-4199 (2020).
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Investigating Cellular Response to Impact With a Microfluidic MEMS Device

Luke Patterson, Jennifer Walker, Evelyn Rodriguez-Mesa, Kevin Shields, John Foster, Megan T. Valentine, Adele Doyle, and Kimberly Foster. Journal of Micrelectromechanical Systems 29 14-24 (2020).
Stress-strain data

Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired catechol-iron complexes

Emmanouela Filippidi, Thomas R. Cristiani, Claus D. Eisenbach, J. Herbert Waite, Jacob N. Israelachvili, B. Kollbe Ahn, and Megan T. Valentine. Science 358 (6362) 502-505 (2017).