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, 106 and 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

 

Nanostructured Polymer Films
 Dynamics of Biomolecules
Publications
Recent Talks and News

 

   Academic

 

Research Facilities
Research Group

Prospective Students
Group Meetings

 

   Activities

 

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

 


  Selected Publications & Recent Talks

News Items

Video on Nanostructured Polymers and Applications, 2009

Invited Talks

American Chemical Society (ACS) 238th meeting, Colloids&Surface Chemistry, August 16-20, Washington D.C., 2009

International Conference on Advanced Materials and Design, May 11-14, Anchorage, Alaska 2009

SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, April 13-17, Orlando, Florida, 2009

Massachussett Institute of Technology (MIT), Polymer Science Seminar, March 3-4, Boston, MA, 2009

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Selected Publications

Kao, P., Malvadkar N., Wang, H., Allara, D.L., Demirel, M.C., “Surface Enhanced Raman Detection of Bacteria on Metalized Nanostructured Poly(p-xylylene) Films” Vol. 20, pg. 3562-3565, Advanced Materials, 2008 (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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Nanostructured Polymer Films

Hand-held Medical Diagnostic

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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