Self-Assembled Materials Form Mini Stem Cell Lab
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by Megan Fellman
March 27, 2008

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Imagine having one polymer and one small molecule that instantly assemble into a flexible but strong sac in which you can grow human stem cells, creating a sort of miniature laboratory. And that sac, if used for cell therapy, could cloak the stem cells from the human body’s immune system and biodegrade upon arriving at its destination, releasing the stem cells to do their work.

Self-Assembly of Large and Small Molecules into Hierarchically Ordered Sacs and Membranes

Ramille Capito, Helen S. Azevedo, Yuri S. Velichko, Alvaro Mata, Samuel I. Stupp; Science 319(5871), (2008) 1812-1816.

Group Meetings

Wednesday, July 22, 5:00 p.m., Cook Hall 2058 - Short presentations from selected individuals

Friday, July 24, 5:00 p.m., IBNAM Searle Seminar Rm - Liam Palmer and Greg Darnell

Thursday, July 30, 4:00 p.m., Cook Hall 2058 - Ramille Capito and Tyson Moyer

Thursday, Aug 13, 4:00 p.m., Cook Hall 2058 - Undergraduate students

Monday, Aug 31, 4:00 p.m., IBNAM Gray Seminar Rm - Mark McClendon and Carson Bruns

Saturday, Sept 19, 11:00 a.m., Cook Hall 2058 - Josh Goldberger and Megan Greenfield

Saturday, Sept 26, 11:00 a.m., Cook 2058 - Jessica Lehrman and Saahir Khan

The Stupp Group 2008

The Stupp Laboratory
Cook Hall 1127
2220 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3108

(847) 491-3002 phone
(847) 491-3010 facsimile

Samuel I. Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of
Materials Science, Chemistry, & Medicine
Director, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine

Sharon Jacknow
Research Administrator

Jill Wrubleski
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Chicago Campus

Laura Fields
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Evanston Campus

"Assembling P-Type Molecules on Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Photovoltaic Devices"
Klare, J. E.; Murray, I. P.; Goldberger, J.; Stupp, S. I.; Chemical Communications 2009, DOI: 10.1039/b904863d.

"Understanding Factors Affecting Alignment of Self-Assembling Nanofibers Patterned by Sonication-Assisted Solution Embossing"
Hung, A. M.; Stupp, S. I.; Langmuir 25(12), 2009 7084-7089. 

"Self-Assembling Quinquethiophene-Oligopeptide Hydrogelators"
Stone, D. A.; Hsu, L.; Stupp, S. I.; Soft Matter 5, (2009) 1990-1993.

"Extracellular Matrix in Pancreatic Islets: Relevance to Scaffold Design and Transplantation"
Stendahl, J. C.; Kaufman, D. B.; Stupp, S. I.; Cell Transplantation 18(1), (2009) 1-12. NIHMSID: NIHMS124223

"Enzyme Directed Templating of Artificial Bone Mineral"
Spoerke, E. D.; Anthony, S. G.; Stupp, S. I.; Advanced Materials 21(4), (2009) 425-430. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process

"A Synergistic Assembly of Nanoscale Lamellar Photoconductor Hybrids"
Sofos, M.; Goldberger, J.; Stone, D. A.; Allen, J. E.; Ma, Q.; Herman, D. J.; Tsai. W-W.; Lauhon, L. J.; Stupp. S. I.; Nature Materials 8(1), (2009) 68-75.

“Micro-Patterning of Bioactive Self-Assembling Gels”
Mata, A.; Hsu, L.; Capito, R.; Aparicio, C.; Henrikson, K.; Stupp, S. I.; Soft Matter 5(6), (2009) 1228-1236. NIHMSID: NIHMS102661

“Self-Assembly of Giant Peptide Nanobelts”
Cui, H.; Muroaka,T.; Cheetham, A.; Stupp, S. I.; Nanoletters 9(3), (2009) 945-951. PMCID: PMC2669492