Our research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. We have developed massively parallel, multi-scale patterning tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials with applications in imaging, sensing, wetting, and cancer therapeutics.
Nanoparticle Anisotropy Increases Targeting Interactions on Live-Cell Membranes
Nanoparticle (NP) shape plays a key role in protein corona formation and targeted drug delivery. Although NP branch length can influence the composition of proteins that adsorb to NP, how branch length affects binding efficacy between grafted ligands and cell-membrane...
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- April 2024: Teri is named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow for Chemistry
- January 2024: Teri is awarded the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award.
- November 2023: Nathan Sinai and Tiffany Zheng are awarded HMCP Fellowships at Northwestern University.
- August 2023: Teri is recognized as a SPIE Senior Member.
- June 2023: Sang-Min Park is named a Ryan Fellow at Northwestern University.
- May 2023: Teri is elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
- March 2023: Dongjoon’s paper, “Area-Specific, Hierarchical Nanowrinkling of Two-Dimensional Materials” is published in ACS Nano.
- February 2023: Jun’s paper, “Far-field coupling between moiré photonic lattices” is published in Nature Nanotechnology.