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Biopharmaceuticals

Proteins at interfaces

  • Caitlin V. Wood, Vladimir I. Razinkov, Wei Qi, Christopher J. Roberts, Jan Vermant, and Eric M. Furst, “Antibodies adsorbed to the air-water interface form soft glasses," Langmuir, 39, 22, 7775–7782 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/ acs.langmuir.3c00616
  • Caitlin V. Wood, Sean McEvoy, Vladimir I. Razinkov, Wei Qi, Eric M. Furst, and Christopher J. Roberts, “Kinetics and competing mechanisms of antibody aggregation via bulk and surface-mediated pathways,” J. Pharm. Sci. 109, 1449–1459 (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2020.01.005 – Featured article
  • Caitlin V. Wood, Sean McEvoy, Vladimir I. Razinkov, Wei Qi, Eric M. Furst, and Christopher J. Roberts, "A rapid, small-volume approach to evaluate protein aggregation at air-water interfaces," J. Pharm. Sci., 110, 1083–1092 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2020.11.024

Protein viscosity and protein-protein interactions

  • Brian Paul, Eric M. Furst, Abraham M. Lenhoff, Norman J. Wagner, and Susana C. M. Teixeira, “Combined effects of pressure and ionic strength on protein-protein interactions: an empirical approach,” Biomacromolecules, 25, 338-348 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01001.
  • Mahlet A. Woldeyes, Wei Qi, Vladimir Razinkov, Eric M. Furst, and Christopher J. Roberts, “Temperature- dependence of protein solution viscosity and protein-protein interactions: Insights for the origins of high- viscosity protein solutions,” Mol. Pharmaceutics, 17, 4473–4482 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00552.
  • Mahlet A. Woldeyes, Wei Qi, Vladimir Razinkov, Eric M. Furst, and Christopher J. Roberts, “How well do low- and high-concentration protein interactions predict solution viscosities of monoclonal antibodies?” J. Pharm. Sci., 108, 142–154 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2018.07.007
  • Mahlet A. Woldeyes, Lilian Lam Josephson, Danielle L. Leiske, William J. Galush, Christopher J. Roberts, and Eric M. Furst, “Viscosities and protein interactions of bispecific antibodies and their monospecific mixtures,” Mol. Pharmaceutics, 15, 4745–4755 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00706
  • Mahlet A. Woldeyes, Cesar Calero-Rubio, Eric M. Furst, and Christopher J. Roberts, “Predicting protein interactions of concentrated globular protein solutions using colloidal models,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 121, 4756–4767 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b02183
  • Lilian Lam Josephson, William J. Galush and Eric M. Furst, “Particle tracking microrheology of protein solutions,” J. Rheol., 60, 531–540 (2016). DOI: 10.1122/1.4948427
  • Lilian Lam Josephson, William J. Galush, and Eric M. Furst, “Parallel temperature-dependent microrheological measurements in a microfluidic chip,” Biomicrofluidics, 10, 043503 (2016). DOI: 10.1063/1.4953863

Microrheology

Passive microrheology: methods and applications in biopharmaceuticals, hydrogelators, and biomaterials

  • Qi Li, Kimberley A. Dennis, and Eric M. Furst, “Two-point microrheology and diffusing wave spectroscopy,” Journal of Rheology, 67, 1107–1118 (2023). DOI: 10.10.1122/8.0000664 — AIP Scilight: “Non-invasive rheological testing overcomes a critical setback,” October 10, 2023. DOI: 10.1063/10.0021516
  • Kimberley A. Dennis, Qi Li, Nicholas Sbalbi, and Eric M. Furst, “Diffusing wave spectroscopy measurements of colloidal suspension dynamics,” submitted.
  • Nicholas Sbalbi, Qi Li, and Eric M. Furst, “Effect of scatterer interactions on photon transport in diffusing wave spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. E, 106, 064609 (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.064609 – Editors’ suggestion
  • Kimberly A. Dennis, Yan Gao, Alhad Phatak, Philip F. Sullivan, and Eric M. Furst, “Design, operation, and validation of a microrheology instrument for high-pressure linear viscoelasticity measurements,” J. Rheol. 64, 205–212 (2020); DOI: 10.1122/1.5126682
  • Lilian Lam Josephson, James W. Swan, and Eric M. Furst, “In situ measurement of localization error in particle tracking microrheology,” Rheol. Acta, 57, 793–800 (2018). DOI: 10.1007/s00397-018-1117-5
  • Katelyn Nagy-Smith, Peter J. Beltramo, Eric Moore, Robert Tycko, Eric M. Furst, and Joel P. Schneider, “Molecular, local, and network-level basis for the enhanced stiffness of hydrogel networks formed from coassembled racemic peptides: Predictions from Pauling and Corey,” ACS Central Science, 3, 586–597 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00115
  • T. H. Larsen, M. Branco, J. P. Schneider and E. M. Furst, “Sequence-dependent gelation kinetics of β-hairpin peptide hydrogels,” Macromolecules 42, 8443–8450 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/ma901423n.
  • K. M. Schultz and E. M. Furst, “Microrheology of biomaterial hydrogelators,” Soft Matter 8, 6198 - 6205 (2012). DOI:10.1039/C2SM25187F.
  • K. M. Schultz, A. D. Baldwin, K. L. Kiick and E. M. Furst, “Measuring the modulus and reverse percolation transition of a degrading hydrogel,” ACS Macro Lett. 1, 706–708 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/mz300106y
  • K. M. Schultz and E. M. Furst, “High-throughput rheology in a microfluidic device,” Lab Chip, 11 3802-3809 (2011). DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20376B
  • K. M. Schultz, A. V. Bayles, A. D. Baldwin, K. L. Kiick E. M. Furst, “Rapid, high resolution screen- ing of biomaterial hydrogelators by μ2rheology,” Biomacromolecules 12, 4178-4182 (2011). DOI: 10.1021/bm201214r
  • K. M. Schultz, A. Baldwin, K. L. Kiick and E. M. Furst, “Rapid rheological screening to identify conditions of biomaterial hydrogelation,” Soft Matter 5, 740–742, (2009). DOI: 10.1039/b818178k
  • K. M. Schultz, A. Baldwin, K. L. Kiick and E. M. Furst, “Gelation of covalently cross-linked PEG-heparin hydrogels,” Macromolecules 42 (14), 5310–5316 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/ma900766u
  • T. H. Larsen and E. M. Furst, “Microrheology of the liquid-solid transition during gelation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 146001 (2008). DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.146001.
  • T. H. Larsen, K. M. Schultz and E. M. Furst, “Hydrogel microrheology near the liquid-solid transition,” Korea-Aust. Rheol. J. 20, 165-173 (2008).
  • J. Y. Huh and E. M. Furst, “Colloid dynamics in semiflexible polymer solutions,” Phys. Rev. E, 74, 031802 (2006). DOI
  • C. Veerman, K. Rajagopal, C. S. Palla, D. J. Pochan, J. P. Schneider and E. M. Furst, “Gelation kinetics of beta-hairpin peptide hydrogels,” Macromolecules, 39, 6608-6614 (2006). DOI
  • B. S. Chae and E. M. Furst, “Probe surface chemistry dependence and local polymer network structure in F-actin microrheology,” Langmuir 21, 3084 (2005). DOI
  • Loïc Le Goff, François Amblard and Eric M. Furst, “Motor-driven dynamics in actin-myosin networks,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018101 (2002).

Active microrheology

  • Matthew M. Shindel and Eric M. Furst, “Frequency modulated microrheology,” Lab on a Chip, 15, 2460–2466 (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00351B Open Access
  • M. M. Shindel, J. W. Swan and E. M. Furst, “An optical tweezer micro-rheometer: Calibration by sequential impulse response,” Rheol. Acta, 52, 455–465 (2013). DOI: 10.1007/s00397-013-0698-2
  • Indira Sriram and Eric M. Furst, “Two spheres translating in tandem through a colloidal suspension,” Phys. Rev. E, 91, 042303 (2015). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042303
  • I. Sriram and E. M. Furst, “Out-of-equilibrium forces between colloids,” Soft Matter 8, 3335-3341 (2012). DOI: 10.1039/C2SM06784F
  • I. Sriram, A. Meyer and E. M. Furst, “Active microrheology of a colloidal suspension in the direct collision limit,” Phys. Fluids 22, 062003 (2010). DOI: 10.1063/1.3450319
  • I. Sriram, R. DePuit, T. M. Squires and E. M. Furst, “Small amplitude active oscillatory microrheology of a colloidal suspension,” J. Rheol. 53, 357–381 (2009). DOI: 10.1122/1.3058438
  • A. Meyer, A. Marshall, B. G. Bush and E. M. Furst, “Laser tweezer microrheology of a colloidal suspension,” J. Rheol., 50, 77-92 (2006). DOI: 10.1122/1.2139098

Directed and dissipative self-assembly

Reviews

  • M. Grzelczak, J. Vermant, E. M. Furst and L. M. Liz-Marzán, “Directed self-assembly of nanoparticles,” ACS Nano 4, 3591-3605 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/nn100869j
  • E. M. Furst, “Directed Self-Assembly,” Soft Matter, 9, 9039–9045 (2013). DOI: 10.1039/c3sm90126b

Microgravity experiments on the ISS

  • Hojin Kim, John L. Bauer, Paula A. Vasquez, and Eric M. Furst, “Structural coarsening of magnetic ellipsoid particle suspensions driven in toggled fields,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 52, 184002 (2019). DOI: 10.1088/1361- 6463/ab062f
  • James W. Swan, Paula A. Vasquez and Eric M. Furst, “Buckling instability of self-assembled colloidal columns,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 138301 (2014). DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.138301
  • J. W. Swan, P. A. Vasquez, P. A. Whitson, E. M. Fincke, K. Wakata, S. H. Magnus, F. De Winne, M. R. Barratt, J. H. Agui, R. D. Green, N. R. Hall, D. Y. Bohman, C. T. Bunnell, A. P. Gast and E. M. Furst, “Multi-scale kinetics of a field-directed colloidal phase transition,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Early Edition (2012). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206915109 Press: IEEE Spectrum, UDaily, R&D Magazine

Toggled interactions and dissipative self-assembly

  • Hojin Kim, Moujhuri Sau, and Eric M. Furst, “An expanded state diagram for the directed self-assembly of colloidal suspensions in toggled fields,” Langmuir, 36, 9926-9934 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01616
  • Jonathan L. Bauer, Martin J. Kurian, Johnathan Stauffer, and Eric M. Furst, “Suppressing the Rayleigh-Plateau instability in field-directed colloidal assembly,” Langmuir, 32, 6618--6623 (2016). ACS Editors’ Choice / Open Access
  • Jonathan L. Bauer, Yifei Liu, Martin Kurian, James W. Swan, and Eric M. Furst, “Coarsening mechanics of a colloidal suspension in toggled fields,” J. Chem. Phys., 143, 074901 (2015). DOI: 10.1063/1.4927563 –Featured article
  • James W. Swan, Jonathan L. Bauer, Yifei Liu and Eric M. Furst, “Directed colloidal self-assembly in toggled magnetic fields,” Soft Matter, 10, 1102–1109 (2014). DOI 10.1039/c3sm52663a – 2014 Soft Matter Hot Article

Applications and functional nanomaterials

  • Hojin Kim, Abdellatif Gueddida, Zuyuan Wang, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, George Fytas, and Eric M. Furst "Tunable hypersonic bandgap formation in anisotropic crystals of dumbbell nanoparticles," ACS Nano, 17, 19224–19231 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c05750
  • Zuyuan Wang, Hojin Kim, Maria Secchi, Maurizio Montagna, Eric M. Furst, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, and George Fytas, “Quantization of acoustic modes in dumbbell nanoparticles,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 048003 (2022) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.048003
  • Peter J. Beltramo, Dirk Schneider, George Fytas and Eric M. Furst, “Anisotropic hypersonic phonon propagation in films of aligned ellipsoids,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 205503 (2014). DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.205503
  • D. Schneider, P. J. Beltramo, M. Mattarelli, P. Pfleiderer, J. Vermant, D. Crespy, M. Montagna, E. M. Furst, and G. Fytas, “Elongated polystyrene spheres as resonant building blocks in anisotropic colloidal crystals,” Soft Matter, 9 9219-9136 (2013). DOI: 10.1039/C3SM50959A
  • J. D. Forster, J.-G. Park, M. Mittal, H. Noh, C. F. Schreck, C. S. O'Hern, H. Cao, E. M. Furst, and E. R. Dufresne, ``Assembly of optical scale dumbbells into dense photonic crystals,'' ACS Nano 5, 6695-6700 (2011). DOI:10.1021/nn202227f
  • P. E. Hopkins, M. Mittal, L. M. Phinney, A. M. Grillet and E. M. Furst, “Tunable, ultra-low thermal conductivity nanoparticle films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 133106 (2011).
  • M. Mittal and E. M. Furst, “Electric field-directed convective assembly of ellipsoidal colloidal particles to create optically and mechanically anisotropic thin films,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 3271-3278 (2009). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200900908

Directed assembly with ac electric fields

  • M. M. Panczyk, J.-G. Park, N. J. Wagner and E. M. Furst, “Two-dimensional directed assembly of dicolloids,” Langmuir, 29, 75-81 (2013) DOI: 10.1021/la303678f
  • M. Mittal, R. F. Lobo and E. M. Furst, “Externally directed assembly of disk-shaped zeolite particles by an electric field,” J. Mater. Res. 26, 215-222 (2011). DOI:10.1557/jmr.2010.22
  • J. P. Singh, P. P. Lele, F. Nettesheim, N. J. Wagner and E. M. Furst, “One- and two-dimensional assembly of colloidal ellipsoids in ac electric fields,” Phys. Rev. E 79, 050401(R), (2009). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.050401
  • P. P. Lele and E. M. Furst, “Assemble-and-stretch approach for creating two- and three-dimensional structures of anisotropic particles,” Langmuir 25, 8875-8878 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/la901743q
  • P. J. Beltramo and E. M. Furst, “Predicting the disorder-order transition of dielectrophoretic colloidal assembly with dielectric spectroscopy,” Electrophoresis, 34, 1000--1007 (2013). DOI: 10.1002/elps.201200419

Convective assembly and microfluidics

  • M. Mittal, R. K. Niles and E. M. Furst, “Flow-directed assembly of nanostructured thin films from suspensions of anisotropic titania particles,” Nanoscale 2, 2237-2243 (2010). DOI: 0.1039/C0NR00275E
  • Eric M. Furst, Chiemi Suzuki, Marc Fermigier, and Alice P. Gast, ”Permanently-linked monodisperse super- paramagnetic chains,” Langmuir 14, 7334 (1998).

Colloidal gels and colloidal contact interactions

Contact forces and nano mechanics

  • Francesco Bonacci, Xavier Chateau, Eric M. Furst, Julie Goyon, and Anäel Lemaître, “Yield stress aging in attractive colloidal suspensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 018003 (2022). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.018003.
  • Francesco Bonacci, Xavier Chateau, Eric M. Furst, Jennifer Fusier, Julie Goyon, and Anäel Lemaître, “Contact and macroscopic aging in dense colloidal suspensions,” Nat. Mater., 19, 775–780 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41563- 020-0624-9
  • J. P. Pantina and E. M. Furst, "Micromechanics and contact forces of colloidal aggregates in the presence of surfactants," Langmuir 24, 1141 (2008). DOI 10.1021/la7023617.
  • E. M. Furst and J. P. Pantina, “Yielding in colloidal gels due to non-linear microstructure bending mechanics,” Phys. Rev. E 75, 050402(R) (2007). DOI 10.1021/ja0680358
  • J. P. Pantina and E. M. Furst, “Colloidal aggregate micromechanics in the presence of divalent ions,” Langmuir, 22, 5282-5288 (2006). DOI
  • J. P. Pantina and E. M. Furst, “Elasticity and critical bending moment of model colloidal aggregates,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 138301 (2005). DOI

Structure and rheology of depletion gels

  • Kathryn A. Whitaker, Lilian Hsiao, Zsigmond Varga, Michael J. Solomon, James W. Swan, and Eric M. Furst, “Colloidal gel elasticity arises from the packing of locally glassy clusters,” Nat. Comm., 10, 2237 (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10039-w
  • Kathryn A. Whitaker and Eric M. Furst, “Bond rupture between colloidal particles with a depletion interaction,” J. Rheol., 60, 517–529 (2016). DOI: 10.1122/1.4948427 — Featured article
  • Kathryn A. Whitaker, Lilian Hsiao, Michael J. Solomon and Eric M. Furst, “A model colloidal gel for coordinated measurements of force, structure, and rheology,” J. Rheol., 58, 1485-1504 (2014).
  • J. W. Swan, M. M. Shindel and E. M. Furst, “Measuring thermal rupture force distributions from an ensemble of trajectories,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 198302 (2012). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.198302
  • M. H. Lee and E. M. Furst, “Response of a colloidal gel to a microscopic oscillatory strain,” Phys. Rev. E 77, 041408 (2008). DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.041408.

Stability and sedimentation

  • J. Y. Huh, M. L. Lynch and E. M. Furst, “Poroelastic consolidation in the phase separation of vesicle- polymer suspensions,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 50, 78-84 (2011). DOI: 10.1021/ie1004543
  • J. Y. Huh, M. L. Lynch and E. M. Furst, “Microscopic structure and collapse of depletion-induced gels in vesicle-polymer mixtures,” Phys. Rev. E 76, 051409 (2007).
  • M. H. Lee and E. M. Furst, “Formation and evolution of sediment layers in an aggregating colloidal suspension,” Phys. Rev. E, 74, 031401 (2006). DOI

Colloid interactions at fluid interfaces

  • Bum Jun Park, Mina Lee, Bomsock Lee and Eric M. Furst, “Lateral capillary interactions between colloids beneath an oil-water interface that are driven by out-of-plane electrostatic double-layer interactions,” Soft Matter, 11, 8701–8706 (2015). DOI: 10.1039/C5SM02001H Open Access
  • Christopher L. Wirth, Eric M. Furst and Jan Vermant, “Weak electrolyte dependence in the repulsion of colloids at an oil-water interface,” Langmuir 30, 2670–2675 (2014). DOI: 10.1021/la404538s
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst, ``Attractive interactions between colloids at the oil-water interface,'' Soft Matter 7, 7676-7682 (2011). DOI:10.1039/C1SM00005E
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst, ``Micromechanics of colloidal aggregates at the oil-water interface,'' Soft Matter 7, 7683-7688 (2011). DOI:10.1039/C1SM05254C
  • E. M. Furst, “Directing colloidal assembly at fluid interfaces,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20853- 20854 (2011).
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst, “Fluid interface templating of two-dimensional colloidal crystals,” Soft Matter 6, 485–488 (2010). DOI: 10.1039/b919629c
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst, “Fabrication of unusual asymmetric colloids at an oil-water interface,” Langmuir 26, 10406-10410 (2010). DOI:10.1021/la101030h
  • K. Masschaele, B. J. Park, E. M. Furst, J. Fransaer and J. Vermant, “Finite ion-size effects dominate the interaction between charged colloidal particles at an oil-water interface,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 048303 (2010). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.048303
  • B. J. Park, J. Vermant and E. M. Furst, “Heterogeneity of the electrostatic repulsion between colloids at the oil-water interface,” Soft Matter 6, 5327-5333 (2010). DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00485e
  • B. J. Park, J. P. Pantina, E. M. Furst, M. Oettel, S. Reynaert, and J. Vermant, "Direct measurements of the effects of salt and surfactant on interaction forces between colloidal particles at water-oil interfaces," Langmuir, 24, 1686 (2008). DOI 10.1021/la7008804.

Rheology

  • Yimin Luo, Yu-Fan Lee, Kimberly A. Dennis, Carlos Velez, Scott C. Brown, Eric M. Furst and Norman J. Wagner, “One-step, in situ jamming point measurements by immobilization cell rheometry,” Rheol. Acta, 59, 209–225 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s00397-020-01187-8
  • James W. Swan, Eric M. Furst, and Norman J. Wagner “The medium amplitude oscillatory shear of semi- dilute colloidal dispersions, part 1: Linear response and normal stress differences,” J. Rheol., 58, 307–338 (2014). DOI: 10.1122/1.4861071

Structured droplets and microfluidics

  • Tamás Prileszky and Eric M. Furst, “Magnetite nanoparticles program the assembly, response, and reconfiguration of structured emulsions,” Soft Matter, 15, 1529–1538 (2019). DOI: 10.1039/C8SM01931B
  • Alexandra V. Bayles, Tamás Prileszky, Patrick J. Spicer and Eric M. Furst, “A model of structured emulsion droplet stability and reconfigurability,” Langmuir, 34, 4116–4121 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00469
  • Tamás Prileszky, Babatunde Ogunnaike, and Eric M. Furst, “Statistics of droplet sizes generated by a microfluidic device,” AIChE J., 62, 2923–2928 (2016). DOI: 10.1002/aic.15246
  • Tamás Prileszky and Eric M. Furst, “Crystallization kinetics of partially crystalline emulsion droplets in a microfluidic device,” Langmuir, 32, 5141–5146 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00420
  • Tamás Prileszky and Eric M. Furst, “Fluid networks assembled from endoskeletal droplets,” Chem. Mater., 28, 3734–3740 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00497
  • Marco Caggioni, Jessica Lenis, Alexandra V. Bayles, Eric M. Furst, and Patrick T. Spicer, “Temperature- induced collapse, and arrested collapse, of anisotropic endoskeleton droplets,” Langmuir, 31, 8558–8565 (2015). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00321
  • Haejin Han, Eric M. Furst and Chongyoup Kim, “Lagrangian analysis of consecutive images: Quantification of mixing processes in drops moving in a microchannel,” Rheologica Acta 53, 489–499 (2014). DOI 10.1007/s00397-014-0769-z
  • Marco Caggioni, Alexandra V. Bayles, Jessica Lenis, Eric M. Furst, and Patrick T. Spicer “Interfacial stability and shape change of anisotropic endoskeleton droplets,” Soft Matter, 10, 7647 (2014). DOI 10.1039/C4SM01482K

Polymers and hydrogels

  • Yu-Jiun Lin, Jeffrey Horner, Brandon Illie, Matthew L. Lynch, Eric M. Furst, Norman J. Wagner, “Molecular engineering of thixotropic, sprayable fluids with yield stress using associating polysaccharides,” J. Colloid Interface Sci. 580, 264–274 (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.06.107
  • Hojin Kim, Yu Cang, Eunsoo Kang, Bartlomiej Graczykowski, Maria Secchi, Maurizio Montagna, Rodney D. Priestley, Eric M. Furst, and George Fytas, “Direct observation of polymer surface mobility via nanoparticle vibrations,” Nat. Comm., 9, 2918 (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04854-w
  • Eunsoo Kang, Hojin Kim, Laura A. G. Gray, Dane Christie, Ulrich Jonas, Bartolomiej Graczykowski, Eric M. Furst, Rodney D. Priestley, George Fytas, “Ultrathin shell layers dramatically influence polymer nanoparticle surface mobility,” Macromolecules, 51, 8522–8529 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01804
  • Jillian A. Emerson, Nikolay Garabedian, David L. Burris, Eric M. Furst, and Thomas H. Epps, III, “Exploiting feedstock diversity to tune the chemical and tribological properties of lignin-inspired polymer coatings,” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 6, 6856–6866 (2018).
  • Jillian A. Emerson, Nikolay Garabedian, Axel C. Moore, David L. Burris, Eric M. Furst, and Thomas H. Epps, III, “Unexpected tribological synergy in polymer blend coatings: Leveraging phase separation to isolate domain size effects and reduce friction,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 9, 34480–34488 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b10170
  • K. M. Schultz, L. Campo-Deaño, A. D. Baldwin, K. L. Kiick, C. Clasen and E. M. Furst, “Electrospinning covalently cross-linking biocompatible hydrogelators,” Polymer, 54, 363-371 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2012.09.060.
  • J. A. Emerson, D. T. W. Toolan, J. R. Howse, E. M. Furst, and T. H. Epps, III “Determination of solvent-polymer and polymer-polymer Flory-Huggins interaction parameters for poly(3-hexylthiophene) via solvent vapor swelling,” Macromolecules, 46, 6533–6540 (2013). DOI: 10.1021/ma400597j
  • F. S. Spinelli, K. L. Kiick and E. M. Furst, “The role of the self-association of heparin in the gelation of heparin-functionalized polymers,” Biomaterials 29, 1299-1306 (2008). DOI 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.11.045
  • N. Yamaguchi, L. Zhang, B. S. Chae, E. M. Furst and K. L. Kiick, “Growth factor-crosslinked polymeric matrices for controlled assembly and receptor-targeted erosion,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 3040-3041 (2007). DOI 10.1021/ja0680358
  • L. Zhang, E. M. Furst and K. L. Kiick, “Manipulation of hydrogel assembly and growth factor delivery via the use of peptide-polysaccharide interactions,” J. Control. Release, 114, 130 (2006). DOI
  • N. Yamaguchi, B. S. Chae, L. Zhang, K. L. Kiick and E. M. Furst, “Rheological characterization of polysaccharide-poly(ethylene glycol) star copolymer hydrogels,” Biomacromolecules, 6, 1931 (2005). DOI

Colloid synthesis and interfacial phenomena

  • Hojin Kim and Eric M. Furst, “Magnetic properties, responsiveness, and stability of paramagnetic dumbbell and ellipsoid colloids,” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 566, 419–426 (2020). DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2020.01.061
  • Whirang Cho, Xiaomeng Liu, James Forrest, Jeffrey D. Fowler, and Eric M. Furst, “Controlling the morphology of organic crystals with filamentous bacteriophages,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 7, 15707–15715 (2015). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05548
  • Kathryn A. Whitaker and Eric M. Furst, “Layer-by-layer synthesis of mechanically robust solvent-permeable silica nano-shells,” Langmuir, 30, 584–591 (2014). DOI: 10.1021/la402737f
  • Whirang Cho, Jefferey D. Fowler and Eric M. Furst, “Targeted binding of M13 bacteriophage to thiamethoxam organic crystals,” Langmuir, 28, 6013–6020 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/la300522g
  • M. H. Lee, F. L. Beyer and E. M. Furst, “Modified Stöber synthesis of core-shell particles for direct visualization using confocal microscopy,” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 288, 114 (2005). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2005.02.073
  • Eric M. Furst, Edward S. Pagac, and Robert D. Tilton ”Coadsorption of polylysine and the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide on silica,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35, 1566 (1996).

Colloid dynamics and hydrodyanamics

  • Mark M. Panczyk, Norman J. Wagner and Eric M. Furst, “Short-time diffusivity of dicolloids,” Phys. Rev. E 89, 062311 (2014). DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.062311
  • J. W. Swan and E. M. Furst, “Non-equilibrium distributions and hydrodynamic coupling distort the measurement of nano-scale forces near interfaces,” Biophys. J., 104, 863-872 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.12.014
  • P. P. Lele, J. W. Swan, J. F. Brady, N. J. Wagner and E. M. Furst, ``Colloidal diffusion and hydrodynamic screening near boundaries,'' Soft Matter 7, 6844-6852 (2011). DOI:10.1039/c0sm01466d

Dielectric spectroscopy and electrokinetics

  • P. J. Beltramo, R. Roa, F. Carrique, E. M. Furst, “Dielectric spectroscopy of concentrated colloidal suspensions,” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 408, 54–58 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.07.042
  • P. J. Beltramo and E.M.Furst,“Dielectric spectroscopy of bidisperse colloidal suspensions,”J.Colloid Interface Sci., 380, 34–41 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.04.070
  • P. J. Beltramo and E. M. Furst, “Transition from dilute to concentrated electrokinetic behavior in the dielectric spectra of a colloidal suspension,” Langmuir, 28, 10703–10712 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/la301876w
  • P. J. Beltramo and E. M. Furst, “A simple, single measurement methodology to account for electrode polarization in the dielectric spectra of colloidal dispersions,” Chem. Lett. (Japan), 41, 1116--1118 (2012). DOI: 10.1246/cl.2012.1116
  • J. W. Swan and E. M. Furst, “A simpler expression for Henry’s function describing the electrophoretic mobility of spherical colloids,” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 388, 92--94 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.08.026
  • M. Mittal, P. P. Lele, E. W. Kaler and E. M. Furst, “Polarization and interactions of colloidal particles in ac electric fields,” J. Chem. Phys. 129, 064513 (2008). DOI 10.1063/1.2969103
  • P. P. Lele, M. Mittal and E. M. Furst, “Anomalous particle rotation and resulting microstructure of colloids in AC electric fields,” Langmuir 24, 12842–12848 (2008). DOI: 10.1021/la802225u

Optical trapping

  • Bum Jun Park and Eric M. Furst, “Effects of coating on the optical trapping efficiency of microspheres using the geometrical optics approximation,” Langmuir, 30, 11055–11061 (2014). DOI 10.1021/la502632h
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst,“Optical trapping forces depending on size of dielectric polystyrene microspheres,” Macromol. Res., 21, 1167–1170 (2013). DOI: 10.1007/s13233-013-1165-8
  • Y.-C. Tsai, Y.-C, R. Fardel, M. M. Panczyk, E. M. Furst, and C. B. Arnold, “Non-spherical particles for optical trap assisted nanopatterning,” Nanotechnology, 24, 375303 (2013).
  • B. J. Park and E. M. Furst, “Optical trapping forces for colloids at the oil-water interface,” Langmuir 24, 13383–13392 (2008). DOI: 10.1021/la802575k
  • J. P. Pantina and E. M. Furst, “Directed assembly of colloidal aggregates to probe near-contact interactions,” Langmuir 20, 3940 (2004). DOI
  • E. M. Furst, “Interactions, structure and microscopic response: complex fluid rheology using laser tweezers,” Soft Materials 1, 185 (2003). Invited review article.
  • E. M. Furst, “Applications of laser tweezers in complex fluid rheology,” Curr. Opin. Coll. Surf. Sci., 10, 79-86 (2005). Invited review article. DOI

Magnetorheological fluids

  • Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast, ”Particle dynamics in magnetorheological suspensions using diffusing wave spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. E 58, 3372 (1998).
  • Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast, ”Micromechanics of dipolar chains using optical trapping,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4130 (1999).
  • Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast, ”Micromechanics in magnetorheological suspensions,” Phys. Rev. E 61, 6732 (2000).
  • Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast, ”Dynamics and lateral interactions of dipolar chains,” Phys. Rev. E, 62, 6916 (2000).

Other Editorials and Reviews

  • Eric M. Furst, “Colloidal self-assembly: Reversible actuation,” Nature Mater., 14, 19–20 (2015).