McCormick School of Engineering, News & Events
by Emily Ayshford
Oct 4, 2018
Highly dynamic synthetic superstructures self-assemble, change stiffness of soft materials. then revert, while providing new clues on brain, spinal cord injuries and neurological disease
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Northwestern University, News Center
by Kristin Samuelson
July 10, 2017
DNA strands in materials act like traffic signals to start, stop cell activity or regenerate tissue
EVANSTON, Ill. -- A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially help patients requiring stem cell therapies for spinal cord injuries, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritic joints or any other condition requiring tissue regeneration, according to a new study.
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Northwestern University, News Center
by Megan Fellman
June 19, 2017
Method offers pathway for improving patient outcomes after spinal fusion surgery
EVANSTON - There hasn’t been a gold standard for how orthopaedic spine surgeons promote new bone growth in patients, but now Northwestern University scientists have designed a bioactive nanomaterial that is so good at stimulating bone regeneration it could become the method surgeons prefer.
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Northwestern University, News Center
by Megan Fellman
May 9, 2016
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Samuel I. Stupp, the director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology at Northwestern University, has received the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry -- the largest organization in Europe dedicated to advancing the chemical sciences. The award is given by the Faraday Division of the Royal Society, which provides a forum for physical and biophysical chemistry, molecular and chemical physics, and theoretical chemistry.
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Northwestern University, News Center
by Megan Fellman
January 28, 2016
Hybrid polymers could lead to new concepts in self-repairing materials, drug delivery and artificial muscles
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can lift weights, contracting and expanding the way muscles do......more
Hybrid Polymer Blends Covalent And Supramolecular Components
Chemical & Engineering News
by Bethany Halford
February 1, 2016
Polymers: Supramolecular component can be removed and reconstituted on demand to yield soft materials with novel delivery or repair functions
By combining monomers that form a covalently linked polymer with a monomer that assembles noncovalently into a supramolecular polymer, researchers have created a novel soft material that’s distinct from the forms these monomers take on their own. The new hybrid structure, created by Samuel I. Stupp and colleagues at Northwestern University, can be partially disassembled and reassembled on demand, creating a material that could have applications in drug delivery and self-healing materials......more
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“Oriented Multiwalled Organic-Co(OH)2 Nanotubes for Energy Storage”

Advanced Functional Materials 28(3), (2018) e1702320.
Lau et al.
"Supramolecular Assembly of Peptide Amphiphiles"

Accounts of Chemical Research 50(10), (2017) 2440-2448.
Hendricks et al.
“Sulfated Glycopeptide Nanostructures for Multipotent Protein Activation”

Nature Nanotechnology 12, (2017) 821-829.
Lee et al.
"Simultaneous Covalent and Non-Covalent Hybrid Polymerizations"

Science 351(6272), (2016) 497-502.
Yu et al.
“Energy Landscapes and Function of Supramolecular Systems”

Nature Materials 15(4), (2016) 469-476.
Tantakitti et al.
“Supramolecular Packing Controls H2 Photocatalysis in Chromophore Amphiphile Hydrogels”
ACS EDITORS’ CHOICE ARTICLE

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137(48), (2015) 15241- 15246.
Weingarten et al.
“Bioactive DNA-Peptide Nanotubes Enhance the Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells Into Neurons”

Nano Letters 15(1), (2015) 603-609.
Stephanopoulos et al
“Internal Dynamics of a Supramolecular Nanofiber”

Nature Materials 13, (2014) 812-816.
Ortony et al.
“Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in Supramolecular Networks of Charge-Transfer Complexes”

Nature 488(7412), (2012) 485-489.
Tayi et al.
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Group Meetings
Monday, 2/18/19 @ 5:00pm in Ryan 4003 - Garrett Lau
Tuesday, 2/19/19 @ 5pm in Cook 2058 - Hiroaki Sai and Jacob Lewis
Monday, 2/25/19 @ 5pm in Searle (SQI) - Zaida Alvarez
Thursday, 2/28/19 @ 5pm in Cook 2058 - Jacob Kupferberg and Kristen Wek
Tuesday, 3/5/19 @ 5pm in Cook 2058 - Selected Individuals (speakers TBD)
Weekly Subgroup Meetings
Subgroup - Biomaterials:
Thursdays, 9:30 a.m., SQI Conference Rm 11-247, Chicago campus (Lurie) 11th Fl
Contact: Alexandra Edelbrock
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Wednesdays, 3:00 p.m., Cook 3024
Contact: Eric Bruckner
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or
Contact: James Passarelli
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The Stupp Group 2018

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