Research Interests for Stefan Zauscher

Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning probe lithography; Colloidal probe and atomic force microscopy; Single molecule force spectroscopy applied to ligand-receptor binding; Biomolecular nano- and micro sensors

Recent Publications

1. Young, MN; Sindoni, MJ; Lewis, AH; Zauscher, S; Grandl, J, The energetics of rapid cellular mechanotransduction., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 120 no. 8 (February, 2023), pp. e2215747120 [doi] [abs]
2. Simon, M; Prause, A; Zauscher, S; Gradzielski, M, Self-Assembled Single-Stranded DNA Nano-Networks in Solution and at Surfaces., Biomacromolecules, vol. 23 no. 3 (March, 2022), pp. 1242-1250 [doi] [abs]
3. Gilpin, A; Zeng, Y; Hoque, J; Ryu, JH; Yang, Y; Zauscher, S; Eward, W; Varghese, S, Self-Healing of Hyaluronic Acid to Improve In Vivo Retention and Function., Adv Healthc Mater, vol. 10 no. 23 (December, 2021), pp. e2100777 [doi] [abs]
4. Yang, Y; Lu, Q; Huang, C-M; Qian, H; Zhang, Y; Deshpande, S; Arya, G; Ke, Y; Zauscher, S, Programmable Site-Specific Functionalization of DNA Origami with Polynucleotide Brushes., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 60 no. 43 (October, 2021), pp. 23241-23247, WILEY [doi] [abs]
5. Navarro, LA; Ryan, JJ; Dzuricky, M; Gradzielski, M; Chilkoti, A; Zauscher, S, Microphase Separation of Resilin-like and Elastin-like Diblock Copolypeptides in Concentrated Solutions., Biomacromolecules, vol. 22 no. 9 (September, 2021), pp. 3827-3838 [doi] [abs]