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, April 30, 5:00 p.m., Tech K140- Steve Mui and Ramille Capito

Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 p.m., Cook 2058 - Wei-Wen Tsai and Shuming Zhang

Saturday, May 10, 11:00 a.m., Cook 2058 - David Stone and Lesley Chow

Wednesday, May 21, 5:00 p.m., Nano 2003 - Helen Zha and Ian Murray

Wednesday, June 4, 5:00 p.m., Nano 2003 - Undergraduates

Saturday, June 7, 11:00 a.m., Cook 2058 - Stuart Kaltz and Eric Berns

The Stupp Group 2006

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

Tyler Coates
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Chicago Campus

Laura Fields
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Evanston Campus

"Modulation of Fluorescence through Coassembly of Molecules in Organic Nanostructures”
Behanna, Heather A., Rajangam, Kanya; Stupp, S. I.; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129(2), (2007) 321-327.

"Sorting Carbon Nanotubes by Electronic Structure via Density Differentiation."
Arnold, M.S., Green, A.A., Hulvat, J.F., Stupp, S.I., Hersam, M.C.; Nature Nanotechnology 1, (2006) 60-65.

"Heparin Binding Nanostructures to Promote Growth of Blood Vessels."
Rajangam, K.; Behanna, H. A.; Hui, M. J.; Han, X.; Hulvat, J. F.; Lomasney, J. W.; and Stupp, S. I.; Nano Letters 6(9), (2006) 2086-2090.

"Presentation of RGDS Epitopes on Self-Assembled Nanofibers of Branched Peptide Amphiphiles."
Guler, M.O., Hsu, L.; Soukasene, S.; Harrington, D. A.; Hulvat, J. F.; Stupp, S. I.; Biomacromolecules 7(6), (2006) 1855-1863.

“Intermolecular forces in the self-assembly of peptide amphiphile nanofibers.”
Stendahl, J. C., Rao, M. S.; Guler, M. O.; and Stupp, S. I.; Adv. Funct. Mater. 16(4), (2006) 499-508.

"Nanostructured Oligo(p-phenylene Vinylene)/Silicate Hybrid Film: One-Step Fabrication and Energy Transfer Studies."
Tajima, K.; Li, L-S.; Stupp, S. I.; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128(16), (2006) 5488-5495.

Presentation and Recognition of Biotin on Nanofibers Formed by Branched Peptide Amphiphiles
Guler, M. O.; Soukasene, S.; Hulvat, J. F.; Stupp, S. I.
Nano Lett. 2005 , 5, 249-252.