M.C.DEMIREL LAB.

The interface between biology and materials science

 


Contact Info
Phone: 814-863-2270 (Prof. Demirel)
           814-863-9967 (Lab-EES 107)
           814-863-9967 (Lab-EES 114A)
           814-865-7302 (Student offices- EES 412)
Fax:    814-865-9974

Address: 212 Earth and Engineering Science Bldg,
             Pennsylvania State University
             University Park, PA, 16802, USA

   Research

 

Structured Polymers
 Dynamics of Biomolecules
Publications

 

   Academic

 

Research Facilities
Research Group

Prospective Students
Group Meetings

 

   Activities

 

Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials Workshop
Biological Nanostructures and Applications
Quantitative Bioscience Talks
1st Annual Systems Biology Workshop

 

Recent Publications (Click for the complete list)


Cetinkaya, M., Malvadkar, N., Demirel, M.C., “Power-Law Scaling of Structured Poly(P-Xylylene) Films Deposited by Oblique Angle”, Journal of Polymer Science-B , Vol. 46, pg 640-648, 2008.PDF (PDF)

Boduroglu, S., Cetinkaya, M., Dressick, W.J., Singh, A., Demirel, M.C., “Controlling the Wettability and Adhesion of Nanostructured Poly-(p-xylylene) Films”, Langmuir, Vol.23,pg. 11391-11395, 2007 (PDF)

Demirel, M.C., Cetinkaya, M., Singh, A., Dressick, W , "Non-Covalent Deposition of Nanoporous Ni Membranes on Spatially Organized Poly(p-xylylene) Film Templates", Advanced Materials , Vol. 19, pg. 4495-4499, 2007 (PDF)

Cetinkaya, M.., Zeytun, A., Sofo, J., Demirel, M.C., “How do insertions affect Green Fluorescent Protein”, Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 419, pg. 48-54, 2006 (PDF)

Demirel, M.C., Lesk A. “Molecular Forces in Antibody Maturation”, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 2005, article no. 208106  (PDF)

Demirel, M.C., Kuprat, A.P, George, D.C., and Rollett, A.D., "Bridging Experiments and Simulations in Microstructural Evolution," Vol. 90, Issue 1, Physical Review Letters, 2003, article no 16106. (PDF)

Bahar, I., Atilgan, A.R., Demirel, M. C. and Erman, B., "Vibrational Dynamics of Folded Proteins" Physical Review Letters, Vol. 80, No. 12, 1998, pp. 2733 -- 2736 (PDF)

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Nanoengineered Polymer Films

Fluorescent Protein based Nanoprobes

Our research is supported by:

http://www.psu.edu    http://www.onr.navy.mil    http://icam.ucop.edu/  http://www.bd.com
http://www.avh.de    http://www.jnj.com

 

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