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Acknowledgement Statement for User Publications

Publications that include results obtained at AIF should acknowledge the facility with this statement:

This work was performed in part at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) at North Carolina State University, which is supported by the State of North Carolina and the National Science Foundation (award number ECCS-2025064). The AIF is a member of the North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a site in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

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2024 Publications
64. Jordan Shanahan, Liang Yan, Yusuf Olanrewaju, Somayeh Kashani, Harald Ade, Franky So, Wei You, “Acid-Triggered Side Chain Cleavage Leads to Doped Conjugated Polymers of High Conductivity.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2024).
63. Dylan Peverall, Trevor McDonald, Temilola Gbadamosi-Adeniyi, Tim Horn, “Probability of detection of porosity defects for electron beam powder bed fusion additive manufacturing using total electron emissions.” Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 131:2294-2309 (2024).
62. Farhan Ishrak, Tej Bahadur Poudel Chhetri, Ravi Sankar Haridas, Aniruddha Malakar, Sourabh Saptarshi, Rajiv Mishra, Mert Efe & Bharat Gwalani, “Crafting Multifunctional Materials with Tailored Mechanical and Magnetic Properties by Solid-State Non-equilibrium Processing.” JOM, 76 (10):6027–6036 (2024).
61. Leo Brody, Bar Mosevitzky Lis, Abigail Pérez Ortiz, Mohammadreza Kosari, Kyle Vogt-Lowell, Sam Portillo, Reinhard Schomäcker, Israel E. Wachs, Fanxing Li, “Synergistic Cooperation of Dual-Phase Redox Catalysts in Chemical Looping Oxidative Coupling of Methane.” ACS Catalysis, 14 (17):13112–13125 (2024).
60. Md Mobarak Hossain Polash, Matthew Stone, Songxue Chi, Daryoosh Vashaee, “Designing Spin-Crossover Systems to Enhance Thermopower and Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in Paramagnetic Materials.” Energy & Environmental Materials, e12822 (2024).
59. B. G. Hagar, E. L. Routh, M. Abdelhamid, P. C. Colter, J. Muth, S. M. Bedair, “GaN-based tunnel junction with negative differential resistance by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.” Applied Physics Letters, 125 (081105) (2024).
58. Sharda Pandit, Pritha Agarwalla, Feifei Song, Anton Jansson, Gianpietro Dotti, Yevgeny Brudno, “Implantable CAR T cell factories enhance solid tumor treatment.” Biomaterials, 308 (122580) (2024).
57. Mohamad J.H. Manesh, Daniel J. Willard, Kaitlyn M. John, Robert M. Kelly, “Chalcopyrite bioleaching efficacy by extremely thermoacidophilic archaea leverages balanced iron and sulfur biooxidation.” Bioresource Technology, 408:131198 (2024).
56. Zachary S. Campbell, C. Roland Ghareeb, Steven Baro, Jacob Mauthe, Gail McColgan, Aram Amassian, Frank Scholle, Reza Ghiladi, Milad Abolhasani, Elizabeth C. Dickey, “Facile Synthesis of Cu-Doped TiO2 Particles for Accelerated Visible Light-Driven Antiviral and Antibacterial Inactivation.” ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2 (5):1411–1423 (2024).
55. Daniel J. Cosgrove, Paul Dupree, Enrique D. Gomez, Candace H. Haigler, James D. Kubicki, Jochen Zimmer, “How Many Glucan Chains Form Plant Cellulose Microfibrils? A Mini Review.” Biomacromolecules, 25 (10):6357–6366 (2024).
54. Angelica M. Lopez Morales, Wei-Ying Chen, Djamel Kaoumi,
“The self-annealing of irradiation induced defects in magnetite Fe3O4: Revealing reversible irradiation-induced disorder transformation through in situ TEM.” Journal of Applied Physics, 136 (075903) (2024).
53. Akhlak U. Mahmood, Melanie M. Ghelardini, Joseph B. Tracy, Yaroslava G. Yingling, “Machine Learning and Small Data-Guided Optimization of Silica Shell Morphology on Gold Nanorods.” Chemistry of Materials, 36 (19):9330–9340 (2024).
52. Hui Li, Benjamin Atkins, Sarah Williams, Hui Yin, Benjamin ReinhartElizabeth Herndon, “Sorption and Oxidative Degradation of Small Organic Molecules on Mn-Oxides─Effects of pH and Mineral Structures.” ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 8 (10):2067–2077 (2024).
51. Hannah R. M. Margavio, Noel Arellano, Ishwar Singh, Rudy Wojtecki, Gregory N. Parsons, “Simultaneous Co-localized TiO2 Etching and W Atomic Layer Deposition Using WF6 as a Dual-Functional Reactant.” Chemistry of Materials, 36 (19):9677–9685 (2024).
50. Mai O. Abdelmigeed, John J. Mahle, Gregory W. Peterson, Gregory N. Parsons, “Highly Mesoporous Zr-Based MOF-Fabric Composites: A Benign Approach for Expeditious Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents and Simulants.” Small, 2405831 (2024).
49. Matthew Phillips, Pouria Zaghari, Jong Eun Ryu, Mohammed Zikry, “Microstructural behavior of CNT-PDMS thin-films for multifunctional systems.” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 187:108473 (2024).
48. Saeed Saeed, Simon Fleischmann, Takeshi Kobayashi, Zenonas Jusys, Eugene Mamontov, Naresh C. Osti, Noah P. Holzapfel, Haohong Song, Tao Wang, Sheng Dai, De-en Jiang, Veronica Augustyn, “Oxide Acidity Modulates Structural Transformations in Hydrogen Titanates during Electrochemical Li-Ion Insertion.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (42):28795–28808 (2024).
47. Munmun Basak, Kazi Md Yasin Arafat, Lucian A. Lucia, Lokendra Pal, “Sustainable Agro-Residue-Derived Cellulose Nanofibril Acetylation and Production of Biobased Barrier-Coated Packaging.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12 (42):15502–15514 (2024).
46. Fu-Yun Tsai, Ryan Schoell, Khalid Hattar, Djamel Kaoumi, “Effect of irradiation on the corrosion of 304 stainless steel in pressurized water reactor (PWR) simulated water chemistry.” Corrosion Science, 240 (112454) (2024).
45. Sachin Kadian, Siba Sundar Sahoo, Pratima Kumari, Shubhangi Shukla & Roger J. Narayan, “Minimally invasive detection of buprenorphine using a carbon-coated 3D-printed microneedle array.” Microchimica Acta, 191 (672) (2024).
44. Yonguk Lee, Cameron Hale, Eric J. Payton & Victoria M. Miller, “On the Formation of Multiply Coherent γ
γ Grains in a Powder Metallurgy Ni Base Superalloy.” Superalloys 2024, 2024:pp 774–782 (2024).
43. Marlee Reed, Brina Montoya, “Influence of the coefficient of uniformity on bio-cemented sands: a microscale investigation.” Proceedings Of The 8th International Symposium On Deformation Characteristics Of Geomaterials, 544 (11010) (2024).
42. Roman Sarder, Nick Starrett, Sachin Agate, Lokendra Pal, “Decarbonizing paper mill sludge waste into micro and nanofibrillated cellulose via enzyme hydrolysis and dual asymmetric centrifugation.” Waste Management, 190:197-207 (2024).
41. Hirandeep Kuchoor, Yugwini Deshmukh, Rashmita Baruah, Jia Li, Christopher Winkler, Lew Reynolds, and Shanthi Iyer, “Study of n–i–p Axial/Core–Shell Hybrid GaAsSb Dense Nanowire-Based Near-Infrared Photodetectors on Graphene.” ACS Applied Nano Materials (2024).
40. Taylor Larison, Eric R. Williams, Mason Wright, Mengxue Zhang, John Tengco, Matthew G. Boebinger, Chuanbing Tang, Morgan Stefik, “One-Pot Self-Assembly of Sequence-Controlled Mesoporous Heterostructures via Structure-Directing Agents.” ACS Nano, 18 (31):20133-20141 (2024).
39. Kelsey J. Oeler, Richard L. Blackmon, Silvia M. Kreda, Taylor Robinson, Melanie Ghelardini, Brian S. Chapman, Joseph Tracy, David B. Hill, Amy L. Oldenburg, “In situ pulmonary mucus hydration assay using rotational and translational diffusion of gold nanorods with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 29 (4):046004 (2024).
38. Runxia Cai, Kunran Yang, Xijun Wang, Mahe Rukh, Azin Saberi Bosari, Eric Giavedoni, Alexandra Pierce, Leo Brody, Wentao Tang, Phillip R. Westmoreland, and Fanxing Li, “High-throughput design of complex oxides as isothermal, redox-activated CO2 sorbents for green hydrogen generation.” Energy & Environmental Science, 17 (17):6279-6290 (2024).
37. Jacob Smith, Gennaro Liccardo, Melissa C. Cendejas, Michael Stone, Shyama Mandal, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Matteo Cargnello, Miaofang Chi, “Sintering Mechanism of Pt/Al2O3 in Complex Emission Gases Elucidated via In Situ Environmental STEM.” ACS Materials Letters, 6 (8):3301-3311 (2024).
36. Melanie M. Ghelardini, Martin Geisler, Niclas Weigel, Jameson P. Hankwitz, Nicolas Hauck, Jonas Schubert, Andreas Fery, Joseph B. Tracy, Julian Thiele, “3D-Printed Hydrogels as Photothermal Actuators.” Polymers, 16 (14):2032 (2024).
35. Bharat Gwalani, Andrew Martin, Elizabeth Kautz, Boyu Guo, S. V. Lambeets, Matthew Olszta, Anil Krishna Battu, Aniruddha Malakar, Feipeng Yang, Jinghua Guo, Suntharampillai Thevuthasan, Ruipeng Li, Aram Amassian, Martin Thuo & Arun Devaraj, “Mechanistic understanding of speciated oxide growth in high entropy alloys.” Nature Communications, 15:5026 (2024).
34. Landon A. Anderson, “Nanoscopic imaging of ancient protein and vasculature offers insight into soft tissue and biomolecule fossilization.” iScience, 27 (9):110538 (2024).
33. Mohammad Shamsi, Kacie M. Wells, Jiaqi Yan, Michael D. Dickey, Richard J. Spontak, “Thermoplastic Elastomers and Their Physical Gels Electrospun into Tunable Microfibrous Nonwoven Mats: Structure Formation and Property Enhancement.” Advanced Functional Materials, 34 (42):2314013 (2024).
32. Ruijuan Xu, Iris Crassee, Hans A. Bechtel, Yixi Zhou, Adrien Bercher, Lukas Korosec, Carl Willem Rischau, Jérémie Teyssier, Kevin J. Crust, Yonghun Lee, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Jiarui Li, Jennifer A. Dionne, Harold Y. Hwang, Alexey B. Kuzmenko & Yin Liu, “Highly confined epsilon-near-zero and surface phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes.” Nature Communications, 15 (1):4743 (2024).
31. Shaikat Chandra Dey, Lillian Lower, Trevor Vook, Md. Nazrul Islam, William Joe Sagues, Sang-Don Han, Mark R. Nimlos, Stephen S. Kelley and Sunkyu Park, “Catalytic graphitization of pyrolysis oil for anode application in lithium-ion batteries.” Green Chemistry, 26 (15):8840-8853 (2024).
30. Liron Shvilberg, Chuanzhen Zhou, Megan K. Lenox, Benjamin L. Aronson, Nicolas K. Lam, Samantha T. Jaszewski, Elizabeth J. Opila, Jon F. Ihlefeld, “Oxygen diffusion coefficients in ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide thin films.” Applied Physics Letters, 124 (25):252905 (2024).
29. Abraham Martinez, Kanan Shikhaliyev, Xuemin Li, Jinyi Han, Kaustav Chaudhuri, Son-Jong Hwang, Jagoda M. Urban-Klaehn, Alexander Kuperman, Anne Gaffney, Jochen Lauterbach, Alexander Katz, “A multiscale investigation of polypropylene glycol polymer upcycling to propionaldehyde via catalytic cracking on acid sites of mesoporous Y zeolites.” Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 9 (9):2469-2482 (2024).
28. Md Milon Hossain, Patrapee Kungsadalpipob, Nanfei He, Wei Gao, Philip Bradford, “Multilayer Core-Shell Fiber Device for Improved Strain Sensing and Supercapacitor Applications.” Small, 20 (38):2401031 (2024).
27. Gabriel E. Marcus, Timothy W. Carlson, Kadaba Swathi, David Carroll, “Solution-based iron doping of solvothermally grown 2D hexagonal bismuth telluride.” APL Materials, 12:081102 (2024).
26. Carolina Londoño-Zuluaga, Hasan Jameel, Ronalds W. Gonzalez, Guihua Yang, Lucian Lucia, “The Surprising Role of Endogenous Calcium Carbonate in Crab Shell-Mediated Biosorption of Pb (II).” Physchem, 4 (2):167-180 (2024).
25. Urvi Shah, W. C. Rivero, Qingyang Wang, Haotian Zheng, Deepti Salvi, “Exploration of plasma-activated water (PAW) as a cleaning-in-place (CIP) solution for fouling removal and microbial reduction.” Journal of Food Process Engineering, 47 (7):e14669 (2024).
24. Sen Zhang, Jialong Shen, Peiqi Zhang, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Jiahui Chen, Casey Carnevale, Sonja Salmon, Xiaomeng Fang, “3D-Printed Hydrogel Filter for Biocatalytic CO2 Capture.” Advanced Materials Technologies, 2400025 (2024).
23. Xuanyi Zhang, Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Padraic Schafer, Zhan Zhang, Divine P. Kumah, “The Role of Interfacial Interactions and Oxygen Vacancies in Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in LaCrO3/LaMnO3 Heterostructures.” Advanced Materials Interfaces, 11 (25):2400243 (2024).
22. Yazeed Algurainy, Douglas F. Call, “Cathodic precipitation of calcium carbonate and its impact on the electrosorption of sodium in flow-through capacitive deionization.” Desalination, 586:117853 (2024).
21. John M. Migliore, Patrick Hewitt, Theo J. Dingemans, Davide L. Simone, and William Jacob Monzel, “Effect of Water-Soluble Polymers on the Rheology and Microstructure of Polymer-Modified Geopolymer Glass-Ceramics.” Materials, 17(12):2856 (2024).
20. Rabin Gyawali, Hema L. Degala, Ajaya K. Biswal, Cameron A. Bardsley, Ajit K. Mahapatra, “Effects of intense pulsed light on inactivation of Salmonella Typhimurium and quality characteristics of pecan halves.” LWT, 203:116344 (2024).
19. Da Cao, Mohamed Bourham, Ge Yang, “Bi2O3–ZrO2 Polymer Composites: Evaluation of Structural, Chemical, and γ-ray and Charged Particle Shielding Properties.” ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2 (7):1966–1975 (2024).
18. Oluwaseun A. Oyetade, Yingqiao Wang, Shi He, Hannah R. M. Margavio, Samuel R. Bottum, Conor L. Rooney, Hailiang Wang, Carrie L. Donley, Gregory N. Parsons, Tzahi Cohen-Karni, and James F. Cahoon, “Covalent Functionalization of Silicon with Plasma-Grown “Fuzzy” Graphene: Robust Aqueous Photoelectrodes for CO2 Reduction by Molecular Catalysts.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16 (29):37885–37895 (2024).
17. Chloe P. Whitworth, Wen Y. Aw, Elizabeth L. Doherty, Chenchen Handler, Yogeshwari Ambekar, Aanya Sawhney, Giuliano Scarcelli & William J. Polacheck, “P300 Modulates Endothelial Mechanotransduction of Fluid Shear Stress.” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (2024).
16. Hilal Bektas, Runxia Cai, Leo Brody, Fanxing Li, “Structural and Thermodynamic Assessment of Ba and Ba/Mg Substituted SrFeO3−δ for “Low-Temperature” Chemical Looping Air Separation.” Energy & Fuels, 38 (12):11107–11118 (2024).
15. Muhammed Ziauddin Ahmad Ebrahim, Vahid Rahmanian, Mai Abdelmigeed, Tahira Pirzada, Saad A. Khan, “Designing a MOF-functionalized Nanofibrous Aerogel via Vapor-Phase Synthesis.” Small Methods, 2400596 (2024).
14. Joanna A. Bis, Briana N. Graves, Frank J. Tarczynski, Lukasz Wojtas, “Discovery, Characterization, and Solid-State Quantification of the Racemic Compound of Guaifenesin.” Crystal Growth & Design, 24 (12):5097–5107 (2024).
13. Alexander D. Snyder, Jack S. Turicek, Charles E. Diesendruck, Russell J. Varley, Jason F. Patrick, “Unraveling chemical and rheological mechanisms of self-healing with EMAA thermoplastics in fiber-reinforced epoxy composites.” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 185:108271 (2024).
12. Eric A. Gabilondo, Shaun O’Donnell, Subhendu Jana, Rachel Broughton, Mingli Liang, Aylin Koldemir, Jack Reichling, Carson Campbell, P. Shiv Halasyamani, Rainer Pöttgen, Jacob L. Jones, Paul A. Maggard, “Unveiling Stability Factors in Sn(II)-Containing Oxides: Discovery of a Polar Tin Titanate and Photocatalytic Activity for Overall Water Splitting.” Chemistry of Materials, 36 (11):5753–5763 (2024).
11. Clinton A. Page, Sheron Simpson, Ilenys M. Pérez-Díaz, Adam R. Rivers, “Annotated whole-genome sequences of fermentative and spoilage associated Bacilli and proteobacteria autochthonous to commercial cucumber fermentation.” Microbiology Resource Announcements (2024).
10. Ty D. Naquin1, Aidan J. Canning, Yuyang Gu, Jianing Chen, Chloe M. Naquin, Jianping Xia, Brandon Lu, Shujie Yang, Aleksandra Koroza, Katherine Lin, Hsin-Neng Wang, William R. Jeck, Luke P. Lee,, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Tony Jun Huang, “Acoustic separation and concentration of exosomes for nucleotide detection: ASCENDx.” Science Advances 10:10 (2024).
9. Corrado Wesley, Leah Bellcase, Jennifer S. Forrester, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Ian M. Reaney, Jacob L. Jones, “Solid state synthesis of BiFeO3 occurs through the intermediate Bi25FeO39 compound.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2024).
8. Khandoker Samaher Salem, Mrittika Debnath, Sachin Agate, Kazi Md.Yasin Arafat, Hasan Jameel, Lucian Lucia, Lokendra Pal, “Development of multifunctional sustainable packaging from acetylated cellulose micro-nanofibrils (CMNF).” Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, 7:100421 (2024).
7. Pallav K. Jani, Barbara V. Farias, Rakshit Kumar Jain, Katelyn R. Houston, Orlin D. Velev, Erik E. Santiso, Lilian C. Hsiao, and Saad A. Khan, “Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Reveals Entropy-Driven Bisphenol A Epoxy Resin Adhesion to Metal Oxide Surfaces.” Macromolecules (2024).
6. Chenyu Jiang, Frank Scholle, Fangyu Jin, Qufu Wei, Qingqing Wang & Reza A. Ghiladi, “Chlorophyllin as a photosensitizer in photodynamic antimicrobial materials.” Cellulose (2024).
5. Febby Krisnadi, Seoyeon Kim, Sooik Im, Dennis Chacko, Man Hou Vong, Konrad Rykaczewski, Sungjune Park, Michael D. Dickey, “Printable Liquid Metal Foams That Grow When Watered.” Advanced Materials, (2024).
4. Sachin Kadian, Siba Sundar Sahoo, Pratima Kumari, Roger J. Narayan, “Machine learning enabled onsite electrochemical detection of lidocaine using a microneedle array integrated screen printed electrode.” Electrochimica Acta, 475:143664 (2024).
3. Devon P. Leimkuhl, Carrie L. Donley, and Megan N. Jackson, “Controlling Nucleation Sites for Metal Oxide Film Growth on Glassy Carbon via Electrochemical Preoxidation.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16 (2):2868-2876 (2024).
2. Rachel A. Nye, Nicholas M. Carroll, Sarah E. Morgan, Gregory N. Parsons, “Vapor-phase zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 growth on fibrous polymer substrates.” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 42:013205 (2024).
1. George Varghese P.J., Keren Zhao, Peng Chen, Jingjie Hu, “Chitosan-nanoclay embolic material for catheter-directed arterial embolization.” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A (2024).