Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry

Chemical & Engineering News
by Britt E. Erickson
January 21, 2013

New Geometries: Researchers Create New Shapes of Artificial Microcompartments

Northwestern University, McCormick News
by Sarah Ostman
December 11, 2012

In nature, biological functions are often carried out in tiny protective shells known as microcompartments, structures that provide home to enzymes that convert carbon dioxide into energy in plant cells and to viruses that replicate once they enter the cell.......more

New Computer Memory Material Goes Easy on the Juice

Science Magazine, News
by Robert F. Service
August 24, 2012

Multitasking has a price: Your computer is sucking up a lot of electricity keeping track of work you haven't yet saved to the hard drive. Americans spend $6 billion a year on electricity to keep that data stored in a computer's memory during operation. But that figure could drop sharply, scientists report this week, thanks to a new type of material than can permanently store such data—without needing a continuous trickle of electricity to do it.......more

Toward Better Ferroelectrics

Chemical & Engineering News,Science & Technology
by Lauren K. Wolf
August 23, 2012

New organic ferroelectric materials that operate at room temperature made their debut at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia this week. Scientists have in the past synthesized ferroelectrics of this type—mixed stacks of electron-donating and electron-accepting small molecules. But the materials had only been able to function at cryogenic temperatures, which are impractical for real-world use.

Ferroelectrics, found in ultrasound imaging equipment and computer memory, are prized for their ability to flip polarization when exposed to an external electric field. Because the materials are currently made of inorganic compounds such as barium titanate, researchers have been seeking alternatives that are cheaper, lighter, and easier to fabricate.......more

“Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in Supramolecular Networks of Charge-Transfer Complexes”

Nature 488(7412), (2012) 485-489.

A. S. Tayi
A. K. Shveyd
C-H. Sue
J. M. Szarko
B. S. Rolczynski
D. Cao
T. J. Kennedy
A. A. Sarjeant
C. L. Stern
W. F. Paxton
W. Wu
S. K. Dey
A. C. Fahrenbach
J. R. Guest
H. Mohseni
L. X. Chen
K. L. Wang
J. F. Stoddart
S. I. Stupp

“Functional Supramolecular Polymers”

Science 335(6070), (2012) 813-817.

T. Aida
E. W. Meijer
S. I. Stupp


“Supramolecular Nanostructures that Mimic VEGF as a strategy for Ischemic Tissue Repair”

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108(33), (2011) 13438-13443.

M. J. Webber
J. Tongers
C. J. Newcomb
K-T. Marquardt
J. Bauersachs
D. W. Losordo
S. I. Stupp

Regular Group Meetings

2/21/15 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Adam Weingarten

2/26/15 Thursday @ 4:00pm - Cook 2058 - Leonel Barreda

3/21/15 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Ronit Fraiman

4/4/15 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058- Job Boekhoven

Weekly Subgroup Meetings

Subgroup 1 - Energy Materials:
Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m., Cook 3024
Contact: Nick Sather
NicholasSather2013@u.northwestern.edu

Subgroup 2 - Self-Assembly:
Thursdays, 10:00 a.m., Cook 3024
Contact: Benjamin Jones
BenjaminJones2018@u.northwestern.edu

Subgroup 3 - Biomaterials:
Mondays, 9:30 a.m., SQI Conference Rm 11-247, Chicago campus, Lurie Bldg. 11th Fl Contact: Charles Rubert
charles.rubert@northwestern.edu

The Stupp Group 2014

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, Simpson Querrey Insitute for BioNanotechnology
Director, Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine

Sharon Jacknow
Research Administrator

Jill Johnson
Program Manager
Chicago Campus

Laura Fields
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Evanston Campus

Maura Walsh
Administrative Assistant
Chicago Campus

“Improving Solar Cell Efficiency through Hydrogen Bonding: A Method for Tuning Active Layer Morphology”
Aytun, T.; Barreda, L.; Ruiz-Carretero, A.; Lehrman, J. A.; Stupp, S. I. Chemistry of Materials DOI: 10.1021/cm503915t (2015) in press

“Shape Dependent Targeting of Injured Blood Vessels by Peptide Amphiphile Supramolecular Nanostructures”
Moyer, T. J.; Kassam, H. A.; Bahnson, E. S. M.; Morgan, C. E.; Tantakitti, F.; Chew, T. L.; Kibbe, M. R.; Stupp, S. I. Small DOI: 10.1002/smll.201403429 (2015) in press. PMC Journal – In Process

“Semiconducting Single Crystals Comprising Segregated Arrays of Complexes of C60“
Stoddart, J. F.; Barnes, J. C.; Dale, E. J.; Prokofjevs, A.; Narayanan, A.; Gibbs-Hall, I. C.; Juricek, M.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Botros, Y. Y.; Stupp, S. I.; J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI: 10.1021/ja512959g015, (2015) In Press.

“Epitope Topography Controls Bioactivity in Supramolecular Nanofibers”
Sur, S.; Tantakitti, F.; Matson, J. B.; Stupp, S. I. Biomaterials Science (2015) In Press. DOI: 10.1039/C4BM00326H

“Alginate-Peptide Amphiphile Core-Shell Microparticles as a Targeted Drug Delivery System”
Boekhoven, J.; Zha, R. H.; Tantakitti, F.; Zhuang, E.; Zandi, R.; Newcomb, C. J.; Stupp, S. I. RSC Advances 5, (2015) 8753-8756. 

"Light-Controlled Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolytes and Supramolecular Polymers”
Matson, J. B.; Navon, Y.; Bitton, R.; Stupp, S. I ACS Macro Letters 4, (2015) 43-47. 

“Bioactive DNA-Peptide Nanotubes Enhance the Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells Into Neurons”
Stephanopoulos, N.; Freeman, R.; North, H. A.; Sur, S.; Jeong, S. J.; Tantakitti, F.; Kessler, J, A.; Stupp, S. I. Nano Letters 15(1), (2015) 603-609.

“Lock-Arm Supramoleculer Ordering: A Molecular Construction Set for Cocrystallizing Organic Charge Transfer Complexes”
Blackburn, A. K.; Sue, A. C-H.; Shveyd, A. K; Cao, D.; Tayi, A.; Narayanan, A.; Rolczynski, B. S.; Szarko, J. M.; Bozdemir, O. A.; Wakabayashi, R.; Lehrman, J. A.; Kahr, B.; Chen, L. X.; Nassar, M. S.; Stupp, S. I.; Stoddart, J. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136(49), (2014) 17224-17235.

“Supramolecular Assembly of Multifunctional Maspin-Mimetic Nanostructures as a Potent Peptide-Based Angiogenesis Inhibitor”
Zha, R. H.; Sur, S.; Boekhoven, J.; Shi, H. Y.; Zhang, M.; Stupp, S. I.
Acta Biomateralia 12, (2015) 1-10.