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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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2025 Publications

64. Josephine Hartmann, Tamas Varga, Caleb Schenck, Chris McRobie, Fu-Yun Tsai, Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan, Arun Devaraj, David Senor, Bharat Gwalani, Elizabeth Kautz, “Structure evolution and tin redistribution during oxidation of Zircaloy-4 at 500°C.” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 614 (155895) (2025).
63. Shaikat Chandra Dey, Brian J. Worfolk, William Joe Sagues, Ravindra Kumar Bhardwaj, Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers, Steven M. Rowland, Mark R. Nimlos, Sunkyu Park, “Low-Temperature Processing of Pyrolysis Bio-Oil for Sustainable Biographite Production.” Energy & Fuels, 39 (23):11372-11387 (2025).
62. Saikumaran Ayyappan, Djamel Kaoumi, “Irradiation induced martensitic transformation and ordering in AlxFeCrNiMn multi-principal elemental alloys.” Materials Characterization, 225 (115115) (2025).
61. Hilal Bektas, Runxia Cai, Saqlain Raza, Jun Liu, Fanxing Li, “Redox-active oxide-molten salt composites as a new family of high-capacity thermal energy storage materials.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, (2025).
60. Jennifer S. Forrester, Thomas Rowe, Subhendu Jana, Paul A. Maggard & Jacob L. Jones, “On the synthesis of potassium sodium niobate, I: synthesis and crystal structure of KNaCO3.” Journal of Materials Science, 60:9928–9936 (2025).
59. Saikumaran Ayyappan, Jennifer S. Forrester, Farida Selim, Geoffrey Beausoleil, Djamel Kaoumi, “Effect of Al addition to the multi-principal elemental AlxCrFeNiCu alloy system in terms of the resulting microstructure and ion irradiation response.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1031 (180882) (2025).
58. Brent Boland, Neelam Sheoran, Jason R. Bochinski, Laura I. Clarke, “Moving From Micro- to Nanofibers Within Melt Electrospinning.” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, e57366 (2025).
57. Chris J. Verdone, Bronwyn W. Williams, Steven R. Beaty, Victor B. Holland, Scott A. Grubbs, R. Edward DeWalt, “The adults, larvae, and systematics of the Nearctic Oemopteryx Klapálek, 1902 (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae).” Zootaxa, 5595 (1):1-94 (2025).
56. M. H. Schweitzer, W. Zheng, E. Dickinson, J. Scannella, A. Hartstone-Rose, P. Sjövall & J. Lindgren, “Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs.” Scientific Reports, 15 (1):4359 (2025).
55. Shuo Liu, Kristen D. Popowski, Christina M. Eckhardt, Weihang Zhang, Junlang Li, Yujia Jing, Dylan Silkstone, Elizabeth Belcher, Megan Cislo, Shiqi Hu, Halle Lutz, Asma Ghodsi, Mengrui Liu, Phuong-Uyen C. Dinh, Ke Cheng, “Inhalable Hsa-miR-30a-3p Liposomes Attenuate Pulmonary Fibrosis.” Advanced Science, 12 (19):2405434 (2025).
54. Mai O. Abdelmigeed, Dr. John J. Mahle, Dr. Gregory W. Peterson, Prof. Gregory N. Parsons, “Green Highly Porous Bio-Zr-MOF/Fabric Composites for Organophosphonates Detoxification.” Chemical Engineering & Technology, 48 (4):e70001 (2025).
53. Prem Singh, Karthickraja Duraisamy, Constanze Raitmayr, Kongbrailatpam Shitaljit Sharma, Tetiana Korzun, Khushal Singh, Abraham S Moses, Kentaro Yamada, Vladislav Grigoriev, Ananiya A. Demessie, Youngrong Park, Yoon Tae Goo, Babak Mamnoon, Ana Paula Mesquita Souza, Kenkichi Michimoto, Khashayar Farsad, Amit Jaiswal, Olena R Taratula, Oleh Taratula, “Precision-Engineered Cobalt-Doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: From Octahedron Seeds to Cubical Bipyramids for Enhanced Magnetic Hyperthermia.” Advanced Functional Materials, 2414719 (2025).
52. Mai O. Abdelmigeed, Muhammed Ziauddin Ahmad Ebrahim, Vahid Rahmanian, John J. Mahle, Gregory W. Peterson, Saad A. Khan, Gregory N. Parsons, “Mechanically Robust Mesoporous UiO-66-NH2/Nanofibrous Aerogel for Organophosphonates Detoxification.” Advanced Science, 12 (18):2416540 (2025).
51. Hwan Oh, Hyuenwoo Yang, Nicholas M. Carroll, Yujin Jang, Gregory N. Parsons, “SiO2 atomic-layer fluorination-passivation for dual-material molybdenum/polypyrrole area-selective deposition and strategies for surface reactivation.” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 43 (032401) (2025).
50. Evyn L. Routh, Mostafa Abdelhamid & Salah M. Bedair, “Device-Quality InGaN Templates With In Content Greater Than 10%: A Potential Solution for Red LED Problems.” Journal of Electronic Materials, 54 (5):3397-3404 (2025).
49. Kazi Md Yasin Arafat, Khandoker Samaher Salem, Sharmita Bera, Hasan Jameel, Lucian Lucia, Lokendra Pal, “Surfactant-modified microfibrillated cellulose reinforcement of high-barrier sustainable packaging films.” Carbohydrate Polymers, 357 (123471) (2025).
48. Shi He, Samuel R. Bottum, John C. Dickenson, Hannah R. M. Margavio, Niklas D. Keller, Oluwaseun A. Oyetade, Ryan J. Gentile, Taylor S. Teitsworth, Samuel J. Shin, Jillian L. Dempsey, Alexander J. M. Miller, Renato N. Sampaio, Stephen J. Tereniak, Carrie L. Donley, Matthew R. Lockett, Gregory N. Parsons, Gerald J. Meyer, James F. Cahoon, “Electron Inversion and Tunneling at Silicon Thermal Oxide Interfaces for Solar-Driven Molecular Catalysis to Syngas.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147 (13):11145-11151 (2025).
47. Haeleen Hong, Rachel S. Bang, Lucille Verster, Orlin D. Velev, “Designing of Self-Dispersing Soft Dendritic Microcleaners for Microplastics Capture and Recovery.” Advanced Functional Materials, 2423494 (2025).
46. Melanie M. Ghelardini, Chuanzhen Zhou, Birgit Urban, Martin Müller, Joseph B. Tracy, “Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry for Functionalizing Silica-Overcoated Gold Nanorods.” Chemistry of Materials, 37 (7):2427-2438 (2025).
45. Julio E. Terán, Lokendra Pal, Richard J. Spontak, Lucian Lucia, “Chemical analyses of glycol-modified copolyester surface abrasion: Beyond the scratches from a mechanochemistry perspective.” Applied Surface Science, 697 (162898) (2025).
44. Vahid Rahmanian, Seyedamin Razavi, Mai O. Abdelmigeed, Muhammed Ziauddin Ahmad Ebrahim, Gregory N. Parsons, Fanxing Li, Tahira Pirzada, Saad A. Khan, “Metal Organic Framework Impregnated Nanofibrous Aerogels: A 3D Structured Matrix for CO2 Capture.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 17 (17):25623-25633 (2025).
43. Jack S. Turicek, Vikita Kamala, Kalyana B. Nakshatrala, Ghadir Haikal, Jason F. Patrick, “Tailoring interlaminar shear and mode-I fracture behavior in fiber-composites via soft self-healing thermoplastic inclusions.” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 194 (108803) (2025).
42. Aakash Upadhyay, Lucian Lucia, Lokendra Pal, “Functional barrier and recyclable packaging materials through microfibrillated cellulose bilayer composite coatings.” Carbohydrate Polymers, 359 (123592) (2025).
41. Nina A. Moiseiwitsch, Sanika Pandit, Nicole Zwennes, Kimberly Nellenbach, Ana Sheridan, Jessica LeGrand, Eunice Chee, Sarah Ozawa, Brigid Troan, Wen Yih Aw, William Polacheck, Mansoor A. Haider & Ashley C. Brown, “Colloidal-fibrillar composite gels demonstrate structural reinforcement, secondary fibrillar alignment, and improved vascular healing outcomes.” Communications Engineering, 4 (1):67 (2025).
40. Shiyao Hong, Ashley Bean, Yuan Fang, Nathalie Lavoine and Lucian Lucia, “Tuning the phase separation of cellulose nanocrystals with hydrolysis times: influence of effective dimensions.” Nanoscale Advances, 7 (11):3476-3484 (2025).
39. Ryan J. Smith, Srivatsan Ramesh, Eduardo Barbieri, Juliana N. O’Brien, Veenasri Vallem, Michael D. Dickey, Saad A. Khan, Jan Genzer, Christopher B. Gorman, Stefano Menegatti, “DendriPep Nanocoats: Substrate-Agnostic, Self-Assembling Constructs with Shear-Controlled Thickness and Permeability.” Langmuir, 41 (18):11314-11326 (2025).
38. Nelson Barrios, María Gonzalez, Richard Venditti & Lokendra Pal, “Synergistic cell-free enzyme cocktails for enhanced fiber matrix development: improving dewatering, strength, and decarbonization in the paper industry.” Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, 18 (1):48 (2025).
37. Sina Sadeghi, Karl Mattsson, Joshua Glasheen, Victoria Lee, Christine Stark, Pragyan Jha, Nikolai Mukhin, Junbin Li,  Arup Ghorai, Negin Orouji, Christopher H. J. Moran, Alireza Velayati,  Jeffrey A. Bennett, Richard B. Canty,  Kristofer G. Reyes, Milad Abolhasani, “A self-driving fluidic lab for data-driven synthesis of lead-free perovskite nanocrystals.” Digital Discovery, (2025).
36. Yong Kyu Choi, Kristina Holsgrove, Andrea Watson, Benjamin L. Aronson, Megan K. Lenox,,Liron Shvilberg, Chuanzhen Zhou, Shelby S. Fields, Shihao Wang, Stephen J. McDonnell, Amit Kumar, Jon F. Ihlefeld, “Effect of Precursor Purge Time on Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition-Prepared Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Phase and Performance.” ACS Omega, 10 (20):20524–20535 (2025).
35. Febby Krisnadi, Tushar Sakorikar, Man Hou Vong, Michael D. Dickey, “Improved Direct Ink Writing of Liquid Metal Foams via Liquid Additives.” Advanced Electronic Materials, 2500009 (2025).
34. Shalini Rajpoot, Kaushik Nonavinakere Vinod, Tiegang Fang, Chengying Xu, “Synthesis of hafnium carbide (HfC) via one-step selective laser reaction pyrolysis from liquid polymer precursor.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, e20650 (2025).
33. Matthew deJong, Sourabh Saptarshi, Iver Anderson, Jordan Tiarks, Chad Parish, Megan Carter, David Armstrong, Christopher Rock, Timothy Horn, Djamel Kaoumi, “Chemistry effects on ODS steel consolidated via laser powder bed fusion from GARS powder.” Materials Characterization, 225 (115141) (2025).
32. Micah Mallory, Emma Grace Johnson, Soumen Saha, Sanika Pandit, Joshua T. McCune, Mengnan Dennis, Jessica M. Gluck, Craig L. Duvall, Ashley C. Brown, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Yevgeny Brudno, “From saccharides to synthetics: exploring biomaterial scaffolds as cell transduction enhancers.” Biomaterials Science, (2025).
31. Samuel B. Portillo, Mohammadreza Kosari, Kunran Yang, Andrew Pedersen, Elizabeth Nguyen, Abhijit Talpade, Fanxing Li, “Exsoluted Ni from Hexaaluminates for COx Free Hydrogen and Carbon Nanotubes via the Catalytic Decomposition of Methane.” ACS Catalysis, 15 (11):9220-9235 (2025).
30. Fernando Urdaneta, Luz Meza, Ronald Márquez, Jorge Franco, Ramon E. Vera, Isabel Urdaneta, Chandler Parrish, Daniel Saloni, Joel J. Pawlak, Hasan Jameel & Ronalds W. Gonzalez, “Comparing the impacts of wood and APMP non-wood fibers on the properties of hygiene tissue paper.” Cellulose, 32 (8):5021-5034 (2025).
29. Venkata Bhuvaneswari Vukkum, Ahmed A. Darwish, Amit Choudhari, Zhenyun Yang, Steven M. Storck, Tushar Borkar & Rajeev K. Gupta, “Effect of Nitride Addition on Microstructure, Hardness, and Wear Resistance of Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel.” Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (2025).
28. Sungin Kim, Valentin Briega-Martos, Shikai Liu, Kwanghwi Je, Chuqiao Shi, Katherine Marusak Stephens, Steven E. Zeltmann, Zhijing Zhang, Rafael Guzman-Soriano, Wenqi Li, Jiahong Jiang, Juhyung Choi, Yafet J. Negash, Franklin S. Walden II, Nelson L. Marthe Jr., Patrick S. Wellborn, Yaofeng Guo, John Damiano, Yimo Han, Erik H. Thiede, “Operando Heating and Cooling Electrochemical 4D-STEM Probing Nanoscale Dynamics at Solid–Liquid Interfaces.” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025).
27. Pragyan Jha, Nikolai Mukhin, Arup Ghorai, Hamed Morshedian, Richard B. Canty, Fernando Delgado-Licona, Emily E. Brown, Austin J. Pyrch, Felix N. Castellano, Milad Abolhasani, “Photo-Induced Bandgap Engineering of Metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots In Flow.” Advanced Materials, 37 (16):2419668 (2025).
26. Alexandria L. Sohn, John G. Witherspoon, Robert C. Smart, David C. Muddiman, “Three-dimensional mass spectrometry imaging (3D MSI): incorporating top-hat IR-MALDESI and automatic z-axis correction.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 417 (8):1649-1661 (2025).
25. S. S. Sahoo, J. Narayan, R. J. Narayan, Xiao-Guang Sun, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, “Enhancement of the electrochemical performance of LiFePO4 cathode material by nanosecond laser annealing.” MRS Communications, 15:255-264 (2025).
24. Ishita Kamboj, Seongbak Moon, Hannah Denhartoga, Veronica Augustyn, “Competition between dissolution and ion exchange during low temperature synthesis of LiCoO2 on porous carbon scaffolds.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13 (14)9715-9728 (2025).
23. Dennis Chacko, Luke M. Neal, Bar Mosevitzky Lis, Junchen Liu, Andrew Pedersen, Israel E. Wachs, Fanxing Li, “Effective COx Suppression by a Na4Mg(WO4)3 Promoter in Chemical Looping Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane.” ACS Catalysis, 15 (5):3992–4006 (2025).
22. Landon J. Keller, Seung Keun Song, Hannah R. M. Margavio, Sarah Atanasov, Jiun-Ruey Chen, Gregory N. Parsons, “HfO2 Area Selective Deposition via Substrate-Dependent Area Selective Atomic Layer Etching.” Chemistry of Materials, 37 (5):1961–1971 (2025).
21. Iris Silva, Bari Agüero, Nelson Barrios, Meraldo Herrera, Lokendra Pal, Juan Pereira, “Interfacial properties of cellulose derivatives from guinea grass (Megathyrsus maximus).” Journal of Surfactants and Detergents (2025).
20. Haotian Xue, Elia Palmese, Ben J. Sekely, Dakota Gray-Boneker, Antonio Gonzalez, Daniel J. Rogers, Brian D. Little, Fred A. Kish, Jr, John F. Muth, Jonathan J. Wierer, Jr, “Optical and structural characteristics of AlInN/GaN superlattices with varying AlInN fractions.” Journal of Crystal Growth, 652:128054 (2025).
19. Mariam Sohail, John Cheadle, Rishum Khan, Hrishikesh Mane, Khandoker Samaher Salem, Katie Ernst, Adriana San Miguel, Charles H. Opperman, Tahira Pirzada, Nathan Crook, Saad A. Khan, “Pickering Emulsion for Enhanced Viability of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria and Combined Delivery of Agrochemicals and Biologics.” Advanced Functional Materials, 2418272 (2025).
18. Daniel J. Willard, Mohammad J. H. Manesh, Kaitlyn M. John, Robert M. Kelly, “pH Threshold Impacts Chalcopyrite Bioleaching Dynamics for the Extreme Thermoacidophile Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 122 (5):1165-1173 (2025).
17. Aziz Amoozegar, Dean Hesterberg, Sarah Doydora, Paul Northrup, Samuel Webb, “Microscale imaging of phosphate mobility under unsaturated flow as affected by a fertilizer enhancing polymer.” Soil Science Society Of America Journal, 89 (1):e70017 (2025).
16. Dhruv Ghevariya, Deepti Salvi, “Assessing plasma-activated water as an acidic and sanitizer solution in clean-in-place (CIP) and comparing efficacy with other traditional CIP chemicals.” Journal of Food Science, 90 (1):e17632 (2025).
15. Subin Kalu, Matthew C. Ricker, Julia Janson, Dennis Nordlund, Hui Li, “Destabilization of Soil Carbon After Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Agricultural Soils.” Environmental Science & Technology, 59 (4):2107–2118 (2025).
14. 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, 126 (3):039901 (2025).
13. Sera Tirkes, Duygu Aydin, Madison Thompson, Clint E. Collins, Haluk Beyenal, Idil Deniz Akin, “Stability of kangaroo rat burrows in the Sonoran Desert: evidence of biocementation.” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 62:1-14 (2025).
12. Mrittika Debnath, Khandoker Samaher Salem, Evan Musten, Lucia Lucian, Martin A. Hubbe, Lokendra Pal, “Renovating Recycled Fibres Using High-Shear Homogenization for Sustainable Packaging and Other Bioproducts.” Packaging Technology and Science, 38 (4):323-332 (2025).
11. Lihan Chen, Chenyu Jiang, Frank Scholle, Alissa E. Meo, Jun Ohata, Christopher B. Gorman, Reza A. Ghiladi, “InP-Based Quantum Dots as Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Antimicrobial Materials.” ACS Applied Bio Materials, 8(2):1138–1147 (2025).
10.Minsung Hong, Matthew deJong, Mehdi Balooch, Djamel Kaoumi, Peter Hosemann, “Effect of thermal oxidation on helium implanted pure iron.” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 603 (155377) (2025).
9. Sachin Kadian, Siba Sundar Sahoo, Shubhangi Shuklaa, Roger J. Narayan, “Development of 3D-printed conducting microneedle-based electrochemical point-of-care device for transdermal sensing of chlorpromazine.” Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6 (13):2114-2123 (2025).
8. Juping Zhang, Wenpei Gao, Kunran Yang, Junchen Liu, Yanping Zheng, Kun Yang, Chao Zhang, Kongzhai Li, Kun Zhao, Hua Wang, Yunfei Gao, Xing Zhu, “Redox-Activated Supersaturation of Ceria Solid Solution as a Dynamic Catalyst Enabling Low-Temperature Ethylbenzene Oxidative Dehydrogenation.” ACS Catalysis, 15 (2):956–966 (2025).
7. Arpit Thomas, Aakash Narayanan, Sriram Madhavan Pillai, Rekha Bhar, Michael Lastovich, Bharat Gwalani, Harpreet Singh Arora, “High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Anion-Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers through Acoustic Cavitation.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 17 (11):16812–16824 (2025).
6. Naveen Narasimhachar Joshi, Pranay Kalakonda, Roger Jagdish Narayan, Jagdish Narayan, “Large-Area Growth of Ferromagnetic Q-Carbon Thin Films.” Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters, 2400398 (2025).
5. Matteo Fratarcangeli, S. Avery Vigil, Ziqing Lin, Conner J. Soderstedt, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, “Direct observation of structural disorder effects on iridium dioxide nanocrystal dissolution.” Matter, 8 (2):101909 (2025).
4. Sachin Kadian, Siba Sundar Sahoo, Shubhangi Shuklaa, Roger J. Narayan, “Development of 3D-printed conducting microneedle-based electrochemical point-of-care device for transdermal sensing of chlorpromazine.” Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6 (2025).
3. Katherine A. Wilson, Harlee B. Winkleman, Ali R. Siamaki, “Bimetallic Nickel–Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions in Continuous Flow.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 64 (3):1427–1438 (2025).
2. Zvikomborero Machikiti, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Mehmet Dasdemir, Jan Genzer, Kirill Efimenko, “Investigation of Adhesion in Extruded PET/PA Bicomponent Polymer Systems.” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 7 (2):578–589 (2025).
1. Duncan A. Peterson, Tyler W. Farnsworth, Adam H. Woomer, Zachary S. Fishman, Sydney H. Shapiro, Rebecca C. Radomsky, Emily A. Barron, Jonathan R. Thompson, Scott C. Warren, “Generalized Assembly of Semiconductor–Molecule Superlattices.” Chemistry of Materials, 37 (1):119–128 (2025).