The Future of Manmade Materials

Northwestern University, News Center
by Erin White
February 16, 2012

EVANSTON, Ill. --- There’s nothing ordinary about the materials being designed in the Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University. Many of the futuristic fibers, films, gels, coatings and putty-like substances have led to important advances in areas of research such as regenerative medicine and energy technologies.

These advances are part of an emerging field focused on using functional supramolecular polymers to unlock previously unknown functions of materials. A review article published in the Feb. 16 issue of the journal Science details this field and highlights some of the key developments made in the past decade......more

Aida, T.; Meijer, E. W.; Stupp, S. I. “Functional Supramolecular Polymers” Science 335(6070), (2012) 813-817.

NU scientists create tiny blood-vessel builders

Chicago Tribune/News: Chicagoland
by Kelly April
August 17th, 2011

Imagine splitting a human hair 100,000 times. Each split is a single nanometer in diameter, the size of a nanostructure.

These tiny items are being used by scientists and doctors at Northwestern University to do something big: build new blood vessels......more

Materials science: Noodly appendages

Nature/Research Highlights
by E. H.
June 16, 2010

Chemists have cooked up bundles of nanometre-scale fibres that not only stretch and bend, but can be packed alongside cells......more

“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

“A Self-Assembly Pathway to Aligned Monodomain Gels”

Nature Materials 9(7), (2010)
594-601.

S. Zhang
M. A. Greenfield
A. Mata
L. C. Palmer
R. Bitton
J. R. Mantei
M. Olvera de la Cruz
S. I. Stupp

Group Meetings

5/18/12 Friday @ 3:00pm - Tech L324 - Special Seminar

5/24/12 Thursday @ 5:00pm - Cook 2058 - Leonel Barreda and Selected Individuals

The Stupp Group 2012

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 Johnson
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Chicago Campus

Laura Fields
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Evanston Campus

“The Role of Nanoscale Architecture in Supramolecular Templating of Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite Mineralization”
Newcomb, C. J.; Bitton, R.; Velichko, Y. S.; Snead, M. L.;
Stupp, S. I. Small (2012), In press. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201102150

“Survival, Migration and Differentiation of Mouse Tau-GFP Embryonic Stem Cells Transplanted into the Rat Auditory Nerve”
Palmgren, B.; Jiao. Y.; Novozhilova, E.; Stupp, S. I.; Olivius, P. Experimental Neurology 235(2), (2012) 599-609.

“Mineralization of Peptide Amphiphiles Nanofibers and its Effect on Differentiation of Human Messenchymal Stem Cells”
Sargeant, T. D.; Aparicio, C.; Goldberger, J. E.; Cui, H.; Stupp, S. I. Acta Biomaterialia (2012), In Press. doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2012.03.026

“Grooved Nanowires from Self-Assembling Hairpin Molecules for Solar Cells”
Tevis, I. D.; Tsai, W-W.; Palmer, L. C.; Aytun, T.; Stupp, S. I. ACS Nano 6(3), (2012) 2032-2040.

“Functional Supramolecular Polymers”
Aida, T.; Meijer, E. W.; Stupp, S. I. Science 335(6070), (2012) 813-817.

“Self-Assembling Glucagon-Like Peptide 1-Mimetic Peptide Amphiphiles for Enhanced Activity and Proliferation of Insulin-Secreting Cells”
Khan, S.; Sur.; S.; Newcomb, C. J.; Appelt, E. A.; Stupp, S. I. Acta Biomaterialia 8(5), (2012) 1685-1692.

“Nanostructure-Templated Control of Drug Release from Peptide Amphiphile Nanofiber Gels”
Matson, J. B.; Newcomb, C. J.; Bitton, R.; Stupp, S. I. Soft Matter 8(13), (2012) 3586-3595.