Submissions from 2025
Yizhi Sun: profile of the newest CHBC faculty member., Danna Jaimes-Fajardo, Jeremy J. Smith, and Lutishoor Salisbury
Overexpression and Biophysical and Functional Characterization of a Recombinant FGF21, Phuc Phan, Jason Hoang, and Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar
Release of Growth Factors at Wound Healing Stages, Joshua Sakon, Robert Beitle, Hazim S. Aljewari, Osamu Matsushita, and Stephanie Beitle
Chemistry and Biochemistry Affiliated Publications: Snapshot of the Research Publications 2019-2024., Jeremy J. Smith and Lutishoor Salisbury
Templated Antimicrobial Microgels And Methods Of Making And Using The Same, Susanne Striegler and Babloo Sharma
Submissions from 2024
In Situ and 2D and 3D in Silico Redox Cycling Studies for Design Optimization of Coplanar Arrays of Microband Electrodes in a 70 μm × 100 μm Electroactive Footprint, Miguel Angel Abrego Tello, Mahsa Lotfi Marchoubeh, and Ingrid Fritsch
Modeling Charging Current Dynamics at Microelectrodes and their Interfaces with Electrolyte and Insulators with a Focus on Microfabricated Gold Microband Electrodes on an SU-8 Substrate, Miguel Angel Abrego Tello, Mahsa Lotfi Marchoubeh, and Ingrid Fritsch
Cellulose–Starch Composite Aerogels as Thermal Superinsulating Materials, Safoura Ahmadzadeh, Angelina Sagardui, David Huitink, Jingyi Chen, and Ali Ubeyitogullari
Recombinant Bile Salt Hydrolase Enhances the Inhibition Efficiency Of Taurodeoxycholic Acid Against Clostridium perfringens Virulence, Tahrir Alenezi, Bilal Alrubaye, Ying Fu, Janashrit Shrestha, Samar Algehani, Hong Wang, Rohana Liyanage, and Xiaolun Sun
Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the Influenza Hemagglutinin Conformational Changes in Acidic pH, Shadi A. Badiee, Vivek Govind Kumar, and Mahmoud Moradi
Understanding and Tuning Magnetism in Layered Ising-type Antiferromagnet FePSe3 for Potential 2D Magnet, Rabindra Basnet, Taksh Patel, Jian Wang, Dinesh Upreti, Santosh Karki Chhetri, Gokul Acharya, Md Rafique Un Nabi, Joshua Sakon, and Jin Hu
Decoding FGF/FGFR Signaling: Insights into Biological Functions and Disease Relevance, Oshadi Edirisinghe, Gaetane Ternier, Zeina Alraawi, and Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar
Engineering Central Substitutions in Heptamethine Dyes for Improved Fluorophore Performance, Lei Guo, Meek Yang, Bin Dong, Seth Lewman, Alex Van Horn, and Shang Jia
Advancing CRISPR-Based Solutions for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Roaa Hadi, Abhishek Poddar, Shivakuma Sonnaila, Venkata Suryanarayana Murthy Bhavaraju, and Shilpi Agrawal
Differential Behavior of Conformational Dynamics in Active and Inactive States of Cannabinoid Receptor 1, Ugochi H. Isu, Adithya Polasa, and Mahmoud Moradi
Crystal Archer: profile of the Newest CHBC faculty member, Danna Jaimes-Fajardo, Jeremy J. Smith, and Lutishoor Salisbury
Michael McGraw: profile of the newest CHBC faculty member, Danna Jaimes-Fajardo, Jeremy J. Smith, and Lutishoor Salisbury
Polyphenol-Induced Protein Structural Modifications in Sorghum on Pasting Properties, Annegret Jannasch, Ya-Jane Wang, Sun-Ok Lee, Rohana Liyanage, Zeina Alraawi, Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam, and William L. Rooney
Crosslinked Colloidal Cellulose Nanocrystals And Methods Of Preparation And Use Thereof, Jin-Woo Kim, Joseph N. Batta-Mpouma, and Joshua Sakon
Cyclic and Acyclic Acetals as Safe, Nonaqueous Formaldehyde Equivalents for the Synthesis of Pillararenes, Babitha Machireddy and Maggie He
Simulation of Linear and Cyclic Alkanes with Second-Order Møller–Plesset Perturbation Theory through Adaptive Force Matching, Alexei Nikitin and Feng Wang
A Review of Rattlesnake Venoms, Phuc Phan, Anant Deshwal, Tyler Anthony McMahon, Matthew Slikas, Elodie Andrews, Brian Becker, and Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar
Deciphering the Interdomain Coupling in a Gram-Negative Bacterial Membrane Insertase, Adithya Polasa, Shadi A. Badiee, and Mahmoud Moradi
Pseudomonas Protegens And Products Thereof To Control Bacterial Panicle Blight Of Rice, Clemencia M. Rojas, J. Alejandro Rojas, and Jackson Oliver Lay Jr
Developing Catalysts for the Hydrolysis of Glycosidic Bonds in Oligosaccharides Using a Spectrophotometric Screening Assay, Susanna Striegler
Selective Hydrolysis of Heterooligosaccharides by Poly(acrylate) Gel Catalysts, Susanna Striegler
Synthesis of Amorphous and Various Phase-Pure Nanoparticles of Nickel Phosphide with Uniform Sizes via a Trioctylphosphine-Mediated Pathway, David Thompson, Adam S. Hoffman, Zachary R. Mansley, Sarah York, Feng Wang, Yimei Zhu, Simon R. Bare, and Jingyi Chen
Water Potential from Adaptive Force Matching for Ice and Liquid with Revised Dispersion Predicts Supercooled Liquid Anomalies in Good Agreement with Two Independent Experimental Fits, Raymond Weldon and Feng Wang
Efficient Photocatalytic Core–Shell Synthesis of Titanate Nanowire/rGO, Xiaofang Ye, Yang Tian, Mengyao Gao, Fangjun Cheng, Jinshen Lan, Han Chen, Mark Lanoue, Shengli Huang, and Z. Ryan Tian
Submissions from 2023
Flexible and Sewable Electrode Based on Ni-Co@PANI-salphen Composite-Coated on Textiles for Wearable Supercapacitor, Touba Rezaee Adriyani, Ali A. Ensafi, and B. Rezaei
The Alternating Access Mechanism in Mammalian Multidrug Resistance Transporters and Their Bacterial Homologs, Shadi A. Badiee, Ugochi H. Isu, Ehsaneh Khodadadi, and Mahmoud Moradi
cpSRP43 Is Both Highly Flexible and Stable: Structural Insights Using a Combined Experimental and Computational Approach, Mitchell Benton, Mercede Furr, Vivek Govind Kumar, Adithya Polasa, Feng Gao, Colin David Heyes, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar, and Mahmoud Moradi
Metal Oxide Core-shell Nanoparticles And Applications Thereof, Jingyi Chen, Lauren F. Greenlee, Ryan H. Manso, Prashant Acharya, and Cameron C. Crane
Next-Generation Nanopore Sensors Based on Conductive Pulse Sensing for Enhanced Detection of Nanoparticles, Samuel Confederat, Seungheon Lee, Derr Vang, Dimitrios Soulias, Fabio Marcuccio, Timotheus I. Peace, Martin Andrew Edwards, Pietro Strobbia, Devleena Samanta, Christoph Wälti, and Paolo Actis
Facile Synthesis of NiTe2-Co2Te2@rGO Nanocomposite for High-performance Hybrid Supercapacitor, Maziar Farshadnia, Ali A. Ensafi, Kimia Zarean Mousaabadi, Behzad Rezaei, and Muslum Demir
Addressing the Embeddability Problem in Transition Rate Estimation, Curtis Goolsby, James Losey, Ashkan Fakharzadeh, Yuchen Xu, Marie-Christine Düker, Mila Getmansky Sherman, David S. Matteson, and Mahmoud Moradi
Cholesterol in Class C GPCRs: Role, Relevance, and Localization, Ugochi H. Isu, Shadi A. Badiee, Ehsaneh Khodadadi, and Mahmoud Moradi
Mechanistic Study of the Conductance and Enhanced Single-Molecule Detection in a Polymer-Electrolyte Nanopore, Fabio Marcuccio, Dimitrios Soulias, Chalmers C.C. Chau, Sheena E. Radford, Eric Hewitt, Paolo Actis, and Martin Andrew Edwards
Dual Ni/Co-hemin Metal-organic Framework-PrGO for High-performance Asymmetric Hybrid Supercapacitor, Kimia Zarean Mousaabadi, Ali A. Ensafi, Erfan Naghsh, Jin-Song Hu, and Behzad Rezaei
Guar-Based Injectable Hydrogel for Drug Delivery and In Vitro Bone Cell Growth, Humandra Poudel, Ambar R. RanguMagar, Pooja Singh, Adeolu Oluremi, Nawab Ali, Fumiya Watanabe, Joseph Batta-Mpouma, Jin-Woo Kim, Ahona Ghosh, and Anindya Ghosh
The Shape Modulation of Laser-Induced Nanowelded Microstructures Using Two Colors, Ariel Rogers, Isabelle Niyonshuti, Jun Ou, Diksha Shrestha, Deborah Okyere, Jingyi Chen, and Yong Wang
The Bactericidal Activity of a Novel Aneurinibacillus aneurinilyticus Isolate Effectively Controls Foodborne Pathogens Campylobacter jejuni and Listeria monocytogenes, Peter M. Rubinelli, Rohana Liyanage, Jackson Lay, and Jennifer C. Acuff
Silver Ions Inhibit Bacterial Movement and Stall Flagellar Motor, Benjamin Russell, Ariel Rogers, Ryan Yoder, Matthew Kurilich, Venkata Rao Krishnamurthi, Jingy Chen, and Yong Wang
Collagen-binding Agent Compositions And Methods Of Using The Same, Joshua Sakon, Jeffrey Roeser, Ryan T. Bauer, Katarzyna Janowska, Keisuke Tanaka, Osamu Matsushita, and Kentaro Uchida
H-CoNiSe2/NC Dodecahedral Hollow Structures for High-performance Supercapacitors, P. Salehan, Ali A. Ensafi, Z. Andikaey, and B. Rezaei
Ins and Outs of Rocker Switch Mechanism in Major Facilitator Superfamily of Transporters, Stephanie Sauve, Joseph Williamson, Adithya Polasa, and Mahmoud Moradi
Chemistry and Biochemistry Affiliated Publications: Snapshot of the Research Publications 2019-2022, Jeremy Smith and Lutishoor Salisbury
University of Arkansas, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Graduate Student Publications, 2018- November 2023. 39p., Jeremy Smith and Lutishoor Salisbury
University of Arkansas, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Research Publications, 2014- November 2023. 107p., Jeremy Smith and Lutishoor Salisbury
Simulating a Flexible Water Model as Rigid: Best Practices and Lessons Learned, Raymond Weldon and Feng Wang
Dipole Cooperativity and Polarization Frustration Determine the Secondary Structure Distribution of Short Alanine Peptides in Water, Ying Yuan and Feng Wang
Submissions from 2022
Development of Biodegradable/Biocompatible Nanoliposome-Encapsulated Antimicrobial Essential Oils for Topical Creams and Gels, Israa Al-Ogaidi, Zoraida P. Aguilar, and Jackson O. Lay Jr.
Studying Acetylation of Aconitase Isozymes by Genetic Code Expansion, Jessica Araujo, Sara Ottinger, Sumana Venkat, Qinglei Gan, and Chenguang Fan
Light-directed electrochemical patterning of copper structures, Robert H. Coridan and James M. Lowe
Modifications of Cellulose-based Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications, Nour Fatema, Ruben Michael Ceballos, and Chenguang Fan
Elucidating the Molecular Basis of Spontaneous Activation in an Engineered Mechanosensitive Channel, Kalyan Immadisetty, Adithya Polasa, Reid Shelton, and Mahmoud Moradi
Editorial: Engineering Nucleic Acids-Based Functional Nanomaterials, Nanodrugs, and Biosensors, Jabrane Jouha, Fengli Li, Wen-Ta Su, Chenguang Fan, Dayong Yang, and Hai Xiong
Engineered FGF1 and FGF2 compositions and methods of use thereof, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar, Shilpi Agarwal, Ravi Kumar Gundampati, Srinivas Jayanthi, Tengjiao Wang, Jake Jones, Olivia Kolenc, Ngoc Thien Lam, Isabelle Ishimwe Niyonshuti, Kartik Balachandran, Kyle Quinn, and Jingyi Chen
Prefusion Spike Protein Conformational Changes are Slower in SARS-CoV-2 than in SARS-CoV-1, Vivek Govind Kumar, Dylan S. Ogden, Ugochi H. Isu, Adithya Polasa, James Losey, and Mahmoud Moradi
Stability of Polyethylene Glycol-Coated Copper Nanoparticles and Their Optical Properties, Deborah Okyere, Ryan H. Manso, Xiao Tong, and Jingyi Chen
An Investigation of the YidC-mediated Membrane Insertion of Pf3 Coat Protein Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Adithya Polasa, Jeevapani Hettige, Kalyan Immadisetty, and Mahmoud Moradi
Developing a Rational Approach to Designing Recombinant Proteins for Peptide-directed Nanoparticle Synthesis, Adithya Polasa, Imann Mosleh, James Losey, Alireza Abbaspourrad, Robert Beitle, and Mahmoud Moradi
Delivery of therapeutic agents by a collagen binding protein, Tulasi Ponnapakkam, Sagaya Theresa Leena Philominathan, Joshua Sakon, Ranjitha Katikaneni, Takaki Koide, Osamu Matsushita, Robert C. Gensure, and Nozomu Nishi
Ambient-Pressure Ozone Treatment Enables Tuning of Oxygen Vacancy Concentration in the La1−xSrxFeO3−δ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Perovskite Oxide, Geletu Qing, David Thompson, Mourad Benamara, Clemes Heske, Lauren Greenlee, and Jingyi Chen
Faculty Promotion Research Profile: Chenguang Fan, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, and Jeremy Smith
Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Dylan Girodat, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, and Jeremy Smith
Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Shang Jia, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, and Jeremy Smith
Single Particle Electrochemical Oxidation of Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Capped Silver Nanospheres, Nanocubes, and Nanoplates in Potassium Nitrate and Potassium Hydroxide Solutions, Jazlynn C. Sikes, Isabelle I. Niyonshuti, Kannasoot Kanokkanchana, Jingyi Chen, Kristina Tschulik, and Ingrid Fritsch
Characterization of Nanoparticles in Diverse Mixtures Using Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance and Nanoparticle Tracking by Dark-Field Microscopy with Redox Magnetohydrodynamics Microfluidics, Jazlynn Sikes, Kevin Wonner, Aaron Nicholson, Paolo Cignoni, Ingrid Fritsch, and Kristina Tschulik
Chiral binuclear metal complexes for stereoselective hydrolysis of saccharides and glycosides, Susanne Striegler
Fragmentation Method for Computing Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics Gradients for Force Matching: Validation with Hydration Free Energy Predictions Using Adaptive Force Matching, Dong Zheng, Ying Yuan, and Feng Wang
Submissions from 2021
Characterization of the Structural Forces Governing the Reversibility of the Thermal Unfolding of the Human Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor, Shilpi Agrawal, Vivek Govind Kumar, Ravi Kumar Gundampati, Mahmoud Moradi, and Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar
Specific Secondary Bile Acids Control Chicken Necrotic Enteritis, Mohit Bansal, Tahrir Jatli Alenezi, Ying Fu, Ayidh Almansour, Hong Wang, Anamika Gupta, Rohana Liyanage, Danielle B. Graham, Billy Hargis, and Xiaolun Sun
Genome-Wide Screening of Oxidizing Agent Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli, Hao Chen, Jessica Wilson, Carson Ercanbrack, Hannah Smith, Qinglei Gan, and Chenguang Fan
Hierarchically nanostructured films and applications thereof, Robert H. Coridan, Mya A. Norman, and Walker Perez
A Meta-Analysis of the Protein Components in Rattlesnake Venom, Anant Deshwal, Phuc Phan, Jyotishka Datta, Ragupathy Kannan, and Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
Sodium Butyrate Modulates Chicken Macrophage Proteins Essential for Salmonella Enteritidis Invasion, Anamika Gupta, Mohit Bansal, Rohana Liyanage, Abhinav Upadhyay, Narayan Rath, Annie Donoghue, and Xiaolun Sun
Probe Metal Binding Mode of Imine Covalent Organic Frameworks: Cycloiridation for (Photo)catalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Formate, Jiyun Hu, Hamed Mehrabi, Yin-Shan Meng, Maddison Taylor, Jin-Hui Zhan, Qigeng Yan, Mourad Benamara, Robert H. Coridan, and Hudson Beyzavi
Photothermal Response Induced by Nanocage-Coated Artificial Extracellular Matrix Promotes Neural Stem Cell Differentiation, Seunghyun Jung, Nathaniel Harris, Isabelle I. Niyonshuti, Samir V. Jenkins, Abdallah M. Hayar, Fumiya Watanabe, Azemat Jamshidi-Parsian, Jingyi Chen, Michael J. Borrelli, and Robert J. Griffin
A New Analysis Method for Evaluating Bacterial Growth with Microplate Readers, Venkata Rao Krishnamurthi, Isabelle I. Niyonshuti, Jingyi Chen, and Yong Wang
Understanding Diffusion and Electrochemical Reduction of Li+ Ions in Liquid Lithium Metal Batteries, Witness Martin, Yang Tian, and Jie Xiao
Lipid-dependent Titration of Glutamic Acid at a Bilayer Membrane Interface, Matthew J. McKay, Kelsey A. Marr, Jake R. Price, Denise V. Greathouse, and Roger E. Koeppe II
The Saga of Endocrine FGFs, Phuc Phan, Bibhuti Ballav Saikia, Shivakumar Sonnaila, Shilpi Agrawal, Zeina Ismael Ibrahem Alraawi, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar, and Shilpa Iyer
Delivery of therapeutic agents by a collagen binding protein, Tulasi Ponnapakkam, Sagaya Theresa Leena Philominathan, Joshua Sakon, Ranjitha Katikaneni, Takaki Koide, Osamu Matsushita, Robert C. Gensure, and Nozomu Nishi
Illuminating Disorder Induced by Glu in a Stable Arg-anchored Transmembrane Helix, Jake R. Price, Fahmida Afrose, Denise V. Greathouse, and Roger E. Koeppe II
Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Vincent F. Chevrier, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith, and Yang Tian
Faculty Research Profile: Bin Dong, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, and Jeremy Smith
Faculty Research Profile: Colin Heyes, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, and Jeremy Smith
Faculty Research Profile: Nan Zheng, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, and Jeremy Smith
Faculty Research Profile: Paul Adams, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, and Jeremy Smith
New Faculty Research Profile: Martin A. Edwards: Bibliometric Analysis of his Research, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, and Jeremy Smith
Composite membranes and applications thereof, Z. Ryan Tian and Hulusi Turgut
Electrocatalytic Redox Neutral [3+2] Annulation of N-cyclopropylanilines and Alkenes, Qi Wang, Qile Wang, Yuexiang Zhang, Yasmine M. Mohamed, Carlos Pacheco, Nan Zheng, Richard N. Zare, and Hao Chen
Development and Validation of a DFT-Based Force Field for a Hydrated Homoalanine Polypeptide, Ying Yuan, Zhonghua Ma, and Feng Wang
Performing Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Computing Hydration Free Energies on the B3LYP-D3(BJ) Potential Energy Surface with Adaptive Force Matching: A Benchmark Study with Seven Alcohols and One Amine, Dong Zheng and Feng Wang
Submissions from 2020
Thymosin β4 Dynamics During Chicken Enteroid Development, Mohan Acharya, Rohana Liyanage, Anamika Gupta, Komala Arsi, Ann M. Donoghue, Jackson O. Lay Jr., and Narayan Rath
DNA Aptamer‑based Rolling Circle Amplification Product as a Novel Immunological Adjuvant, Adil Sabr Al-Ogaili, Rohana Liyanage, Jack O. Lay Jr., Tieshan Jiang, Christine N. Vuong, Shilpi Agrawal, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar, Luc R. Berghman, Billy M. Hargis, and Young Min Kwon
Light-directed electrochemical patterning of copper structures, Robert H. Coridan and James M. Lowe
Hierarchically nanostructured films and applications thereof, Robert H. Coridan, Mya A. Norman, and Walker Perez
Magnetohydrodynamic microfluidic systems including modified electrodes and methods of using the same, Ingrid Fritsch, David Parette, and Md Foysal Zahid Khan
