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Antimicrobial and Antifouling Strategies for Polymeric Medical Devices by Zander, Zachary K, Becker, Matthew L

“…Hospital-acquired infections arising from implanted polymeric medical devices continue to pose a significant challenge for medical professionals and patients…”
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Post-fabrication QAC-functionalized thermoplastic polyurethane for contact-killing catheter applications by Zander, Zachary K., Chen, Peiru, Hsu, Yen-Hao, Dreger, Nathan Z., Savariau, Laura, McRoy, Willie C., Cerchiari, Alec E., Chambers, Sean D., Barton, Hazel A., Becker, Matthew L.

“…The use of catheters is ubiquitous in medicine and the incidence of infection remains unacceptably high despite numerous advances in functional surfaces and…”
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Control of Mesh Size and Modulus by Kinetically Dependent Cross-Linking in Hydrogels by Zander, Zachary K., Hua, Geng, Wiener, Clinton G., Vogt, Bryan D., Becker, Matthew L.

“…Kinetically controlled cross‐linking processes produce mechanically distinguishable hydrogels using identical precursor chemistry. The oxime ligation…”
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Charge Dynamics in TiO2/MXene Composites by Debow, Shaun, Zhang, Tong, Liu, Xusheng, Song, Fuzhan, Qian, Yuqin, Han, Jian, Maleski, Kathleen, Zander, Zachary B, Creasy, William R, Kuhn, Danielle L, Gogotsi, Yury, DeLacy, Brendan G, Rao, Yi

“…Metal–semiconductor heterostructures are believed to improve hot-electron injection efficiency and influence the photocatalytic performance. Understanding the…”
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Coherent Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Silver Platelet-J-aggregate Nanocomposites by DeLacy, Brendan G, Miller, Owen D, Hsu, Chia Wei, Zander, Zachary, Lacey, Steven, Yagloski, Raymond, Fountain, Augustus W, Valdes, Erica, Anquillare, Emma, Soljačić, Marin, Johnson, Steven G, Joannopoulos, John D

“…Hybrid nanostructures that couple plasmon and exciton resonances generate hybridized energy states, called plexcitons, which may result in unusual light-matter…”
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Ionomers for Tunable Softening of Thermoplastic Polyurethane by Zander, Zachary K, Wang, Fei, Becker, Matthew L, Weiss, R. A

“…Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) sulfonate ionomers with quaternary ammonium cations were synthesized to achieve soft TPUs without using conventional low…”
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Amino acid-based Poly(ester urea) copolymer films for hernia-repair applications by Dreger, Nathan Z., Fan, Zhaobo, Zander, Zachary K., Tantisuwanno, Chinnapatch, Haines, Molly C., Waggoner, Morgan, Parsell, Trenton, Søndergaard, Claus S., Hiles, Michael, Premanandan, Christopher, Becker, Matthew L.

“…The use of degradable materials is required to address current performance and functionality shortcomings from biologically-derived tissues and non-resorbable…”
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Zwitterionic amino acid-based Poly(ester urea)s suppress adhesion formation in a rat intra-abdominal cecal abrasion model by Dreger, Nathan Z., Zander, Zachary K., Hsu, Yen-Hao, Luong, Derek, Chen, Peiru, Le, Nancy, Parsell, Trenton, Søndergaard, Clause, Dunbar, Misha L., Koewler, Nathan J., Suckow, Mark A., Becker, Matthew L.

“…Hernia repair outcomes have improved with more robust material options for surgeons and optimized surgical techniques. However, ventral hernia repairs remain…”
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Continuous Fabrication of Antimicrobial Nanofiber Mats Using Post-Electrospinning Functionalization for Roll-to-Roll Scale-Up by Chen, Keke, Nikam, Shantanu P, Zander, Zachary K, Hsu, Yen-Hao, Dreger, Nathan Z, Cakmak, Mukerrem, Becker, Matthew L

“…The facile fabrication of antimicrobial fiber mats with surface-attached quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) as the contact-killing antimicrobials was…”
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Mechanically tunable, human mesenchymal stem cell viable poly(ethylene glycol)–oxime hydrogels with invariant precursor composition, concentration, and stoichiometry by Dilla, R.A., Motta, C.M.M., Xu, Y., Zander, Z.K., Bernard, N., Wiener, C.G., Vogt, B.D., Becker, M.L.

“…Hydrogels are used widely for exploratory tissue engineering studies. However, currently, no hydrogel systems have been reported which exhibit a wide range of…”
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Microbial susceptibility of various polymers and evaluation of thermoplastic elastomers with antimicrobial additives by Zander, Zachary, Newton, Deirdre, Scaglione, Heather, Reiber, Averie, Agarwal, Parminder

“…The incursion of microbial growth on polymeric products can deteriorate their performance and lead to the development of undesirable staining and odors. A…”
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Relaxation of Photoexcited Electrons through Transition Dipole Coupling in the Hybrid Nanocomposite Porphyrin/Ag/TiO2 by Fang, Hui, Wilhelm, Michael J., Kuhn, Danielle L., Zander, Zachary, Dai, Hai-Lung

“…For photosensitized semiconducting nanocomposites, multiple photosensitizers (e.g., metal plasmons and organic dyes) have been explored as a means of enhancing…”
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Relaxation of Photoexcited Electrons through Transition Dipole Coupling in the Hybrid Nanocomposite Porphyrin/Ag/TiO 2 by Fang, Hui, Wilhelm, Michael J., Kuhn, Danielle L., Zander, Zachary, Dai, Hai-Lung

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Quantitative Modeling of Electron Dynamics and the Effect of Diffusion in Photosensitized Semiconductor Nanocomposites by Fang, Hui, Wilhelm, Michael J., Ma, Jianqiang, Kuhn, Danielle L., Zander, Zachary, Dai, Hai-Lung

“…Conspectus Photosensitized semiconducting nanomaterials have received considerable attention because of their applications in photocatalytic and…”
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Reactivity passivation of red phosphorus with thin plasma-deposited carbon coating by Kinsley, Paige C., Zeng, Aiping, Hedlund Orbeck, Jenny K., Debow, Shaun, Zander, Zachary B., Heaney, Patrick J., Hamers, Robert J.

“…[Display omitted] •Plasma-deposited carbon coating provides thin, non-reactive surface on red phosphorus.•Carbon coating suppresses toxic byproducts from red…”
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Two-Dimensional MXene Flakes with Large Second Harmonic Generation and Unique Surface Responses by Debow, Shaun M., Fisher, Haley, Brown, Jesse B., Liebes, Mallory, Wang, Hui, Phan, T. T. Trinh, Mac, T. Kien, Trinh, M. Tuan, Su, Yanqing, Zander, Zachary, Mirotznik, Mark S., Opila, Robert L., Rao, Yi

“…MXenes are a family of two-dimensional (2D) materials with broad and varied applications in biology, materials science, photonics, and environmental…”
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Interface Catalysts of Ni3Fe1 Layered Double Hydroxide and Titanium Carbide for High-Performance Water Oxidation in Alkaline and Natural Conditions by Song, Fuzhan, Debow, Shaun, Zhang, Tong, Qian, Yuqin, Huang-Fu, Zhi-Chao, Munns, Kaylee, Schmidt, Sydney, Fisher, Haley, Brown, Jesse B., Su, Yanqing, Zander, Zachary, DeLacy, Brendan G., Mirotznik, Mark S., Opila, Robert L., Rao, Yi

“…The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is important for many renewable energy technologies. Developing cost-effective electrocatalysts with high…”
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Tuning Optical Properties of Plasmonic Aerosols through Ligand–Solvent Interactions by Dziatko, Rachel A., Chintapalli, Sreyas M., Song, Yuqi, Daskopoulou, Eleni, Kachman, Dana E., Zander, Zachary, Kuhn, Danielle L., Thon, Susanna M., Bragg, Arthur E.

“…Plasmonic nanoparticles are highly tunable light-harvesting materials with a wide array of applications in photonics and catalysis. More recently, there has…”
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Silica-coating-assisted nitridation of TiO2 nanoparticles and their photothermal property by Wei, Qilin, Kuhn, Danielle L., Zander, Zachary, DeLacy, Brendan G., Dai, Hai-Lung, Sun, Yugang

“…Nanoparticles of refractory compounds represent a class of stable materials showing a great promise to support localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in…”
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Carboxylic Anchoring Dye p -Ethyl Red Does Not Adsorb Directly onto TiO 2 Particles in Protic Solvents by Fang, Hui, Ma, Jianqiang, Wilhelm, Michael J., Rao, Yi, Kuhn, Danielle L., Zander, Zachary, DeLacy, Brendan G., Dai, Hai-Lung

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