Recent articles from the UC San Diego Department of Nanoengineering:

Chen, I. H., Kiang, J. H., Correa, V., Lopez, M. I., Chen, P. Y., McKittrick, J. and Meyers, M. A. (2011) ‘Armadillo armor: Mechanical testing and micro-structural evaluation‘, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 4(5), 713-722.

Fomina, N., McFearin, C. L., Sermsakdi, M., Morachis, J. M. and Almutairi, A. (2011) ‘Low Power, Biologically Benign NIR Light Triggers Polymer Disassembly‘, Macromolecules, 44(21), 8590-8597.

Fozdar, D. Y., Soman, P., Lee, J. W., Han, L. H. and Chen, S. C. (2011) ‘Three-Dimensional Polymer Constructs Exhibiting a Tunable Negative Poisson’s Ratio‘, Advanced Functional Materials, 21(14), 2712-2720.

Gao, W., Manesh, K. M., Hua, J., Sattayasamitsathit, S. and Wang, J. (2011a) ‘Hybrid Nanomotor: A Catalytically/Magnetically Powered Adaptive Nanowire Swimmer‘, Small, 7(14), 2047-2051.

Hu, C. M. J., Zhang, L., Aryal, S., Cheung, C., Fang, R. H. and Zhang, L. F. (2011) ‘Erythrocyte membrane-camouflaged polymeric nanoparticles as a biomimetic delivery platform‘, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(27), 10980-10985.

Hsu, S. W., On, K., Gao, B. and Tao, A. R. (2011) ‘Polyelectrolyte-Templated Synthesis of Bimetallic Nanoparticles‘, Langmuir, 27(13), 8494-8499.

Hung, A. M., Konopliv, N. A. and Cha, J. N. (2011) ‘Solvent-Based Assembly of CdSe Nanorods in Solution‘, Langmuir, 27(20), 12322-12328.

Khalifa, H. E. and Vecchio, K. S. (2011) ‘Thermal stability and crystallization phenomena of low cost Ti-based bulk metallic glass‘, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357(19-20), 3393-3398.

Orozco, J., Campuzano, S., Kagan, D., Zhou, M., Gao, W. and Wang, J. (2011) ‘Dynamic Isolation and Unloading of Target Proteins by Aptamer-Modified Microtransporters‘, Analytical Chemistry, 83(20), 7962-7969.

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President Barack Obama has named UC San Diego Bioengineering professor Shu Chien one of the 7 eminent researchers to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers. Chien is the only engineer among the 7 medalists.

Shu Chien, a university professor of bioengineering and medicine and director of the UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine, is a world leader in the study of how blood flow and pressure affect blood vessels. He is one of only 11 renowned scholars who are members of all 3 U.S. national institutes — the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. MORE

Recent articles from the UCSD Department of Physics faculty. Links go to abstracts; UCSD affiliates must use VPN, proxy or campus protected wifi to access the articles.

CHAPLER, B. C., MYERS, R. C., MACK, S., FRENZEL, A., PURSLEY, B. C., BURCH, K. S., SINGLEY, E. J., DATTELBAUM, A. M., SAMARTH, N., AWSCHALOM, D. D. & BASOV, D. N. 2011. Infrared probe of the insulator-to-metal transition in Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As and Ga(1-x)Be(x)As. Physical Review B, 84.

GOLDFLAM, M. D., DRISCOLL, T., CHAPLER, B., KHATIB, O., JOKERST, N. M., PALIT, S., SMITH, D. R., KIM, B. J., SEO, G., KIM, H. T., DI VENTRA, M. & BASOV, D. N. 2011. Reconfigurable gradient index using VO(2) memory metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters, 99.

JIANG, Z., LEE, D. R., NARAYANAN, S., WANG, J. & SINHA, S. K. 2011. Waveguide-enhanced grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering of buried nanostructures in thin films. Physical Review B, 84.

KRITSUK, A. G., NORDLUND, A., COLLINS, D., PADOAN, P., NORMAN, M. L., ABEL, T., BANERJEE, R., FEDERRATH, C., FLOCK, M., LEE, D., LI, P. S., MULLER, W. C., TEYSSIER, R., USTYUGOV, S. D., VOGEL, C. & XU, H. 2011. Comparing numerical methods for isothermal magnetized supersonic turbulence. Astrophysical Journal, 737.

MENDEZ, A. J., COIL, A. L., LOTZ, J., SALIM, S., MOUSTAKAS, J. & SIMARD, L. 2011. AEGIS: The morphologies of green galaxies at 0.4 < z < 1.2. Astrophysical Journal, 736.

SCHAFGANS, A. A., PURSLEY, B. C., LAFORGE, A. D., SEFAT, A. S., MANDRUS, D. & BASOV, D. N. 2011. Phonon splitting and anomalous enhancement of infrared-active modes in BaFe(2)As(2). Physical Review B, 84.

STEWART, M. K., LIU, J., SMITH, R. K., CHAPLER, B. C., YEE, C. H., MEYERS, D., BAUMBACH, R. E., MAPLE, M. B., HAULE, K., CHAKHALIAN, J. & BASOV, D. N. 2011. Optical probe of strong correlations in LaNiO(3) thin films. Journal of Applied Physics, 110.

TORIGOE, S. E., URWIN, D. L., ISHII, H., SMITH, D. E. & KADONAGA, J. T. 2011. Identification of a Rapidly Formed Nonnucleosomal Histone-DNA Intermediate that Is Converted into Chromatin by ACF. Molecular Cell, 43, 638-648.

TRIPATHI, A., MOHANTY, J., DIETZE, S. H., SHPYRKO, O. G., SHIPTON, E., FULLERTON, E. E., KIM, S. S. & MCNULTY, I. 2011. Dichroic coherent diffractive imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 13393-13398.

WANG, S. S. & WOLYNES, P. G. 2011b. On the spontaneous collective motion of active matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 15184-15189.

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Five UC San Diego bioengineering Ph.D. students whose research is aimed at improving human health are among the 2012 recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards. Selected for their outstanding academic performance and leadership, each student receives a $35,000 fellowship during the final year of their studies.

The five new Siebel Scholars from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are part of the Department of Bioengineering, which ranks 1st in the nation for biomedical engineering, according to the 2010 National Research Council (NRC) rankings.

UC San Diego Siebel Scholars: Class of 2012

• Jessica DeQuach
• Che-Ming Jack Hu
• Dan Kagan
• Lauren Hruby Jepson
• Nathan Lewis

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Recent publications from faculty in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering:

Akkerman, I., Bazilevs, Y., Kees, C. E., and Farthing, M. W. (2011). “Isogeometric analysis of free-surface flow.” Journal of Computational Physics, 230(11), 4137-4152.

Huson, P., Asaro, R. J., Stewart, L., and Hegemier, G. A. (2011). “Non-explosive methods for simulating blast loading of structures with complex geometries.” International Journal of Impact Engineering, 38(7), 546-557.

Lu, W., Kim, T., Han, A., Chen, X., and Qiao, Y. (2011). “Effects of electric field on confined electrolyte in a hexagonal mesoporous silica.” Journal of Chemical Physics, 134(20).

Luco, J. E., Ozcelik, O., Conte, J. P., and Mendoza, L. H. (2011). “Experimental study of the dynamic interaction between the foundation of the NEES/UCSD Shake Table and the surrounding soil: Reaction block response.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 31(7), 954-973.

Okail, H. O., Shing, P. B., McGinley, W. M., Klingner, R. E., Jo, S., and McLean, D. I. (2011). “Shaking-table tests of a full-scale single-story masonry veneer wood-frame structure.” Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 40(5), 509-530.

Raychowdhury, P., and Hutchinson, T. C. (2011). “Performance of seismically loaded shearwalls on nonlinear shallow foundations.” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 35(7), 846-858.

Shoele, K., Prowell, I., Zhu, Q., and Elgamal, A. (2011). “Dynamic and Structural Modeling of a Floating Wind Turbine.” International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 21(2), 155-160.

Xu, B., Qiao, Y., Li, Y., Zhou, Q., and Chen, X. (2011). “An electroactuation system based on nanofluids.” Applied Physics Letters, 98(22).

Zhu, Q. (2011). “Optimal frequency for flow energy harvesting of a flapping foil.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 675, 495-517.

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Recent articles from faculty from the UC San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, from Web of Science:

Canzi, G.; Mrse, A. A.; Kubiak, C. P., Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy as a Reliable Alternative to TEM for Determining the Size of Gold Nanoparticles in Organic Solutions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2011, 115 (16), 7972-7978.

Dibrov, S. M.; McLean, J.; Parsons, J.; Hermann, T., Self-assembling RNA square. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011, 108 (16), 6405-6408.

Dominguez, G.; Wilkins, G.; Thiemens, M. H., The Soret effect and isotopic fractionation in high-temperature silicate melts. Nature 2011, 473 (7345), 70-U134.

Emerich, B. M.; Moore, C. E.; Fox, B. J.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S., Protecting-Group-Free Access to a Three-Coordinate Nickel(0) Tris-isocyanide. Organometallics 2011, 30 (9), 2598-2608.

Ling, T. T.; Xu, J.; Smith, R.; Ali, A.; Cantrell, C. L.; Theodorakis, E. A., Synthesis of (-)-callicarpenal, a potent arthropod repellent. Tetrahedron 2011, 67 (17), 3023-3029.

Masterson, L. R.; Shi, L.; Metcalfe, E.; Gao, J. L.; Taylor, S. S.; Veglia, G., Dynamically committed, uncommitted, and quenched states encoded in protein kinase A revealed by NMR spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011, 108 (17), 6969-6974.

Nicolaou, K. C.; Simmons, N. L.; Chen, J. S.; Haste, N. M.; Nizet, V., Total synthesis and biological evaluation of marinopyrrole A and analogs. Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52 (17), 2041-2043.

Radford, R. J.; Brodin, J. D.; Salgado, E. N.; Tezcan, F. A., Expanding the utility of proteins as platforms for coordination chemistry. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2011, 255 (7-8), 790-803.

Sanchez, K. M.; Kang, G. P.; Wu, B. J.; Kim, J. E., Tryptophan-Lipid Interactions in Membrane Protein Folding Probed by Ultraviolet Resonance Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal 2011, 100 (9), 2121-2130.

Shu, X. K.; Lev-Ram, V.; Deerinck, T. J.; Qi, Y. C.; Ramko, E. B.; Davidson, M. W.; Jin, Y. S.; Ellisman, M. H.; Tsien, R. Y., A Genetically Encoded Tag for Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy of Intact Cells, Tissues, and Organisms. PLoS Biology 2011, 9 (4).

Stevenson, J. D.; Wolynes, P. G., The Ultimate Fate of Supercooled Liquids. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2011, 115 (16), 3713-3719.

Wu, E. C.; Andrew, J. S.; Buyanin, A.; Kinsella, J. M.; Sailor, M. J., Suitability of porous silicon microparticles for the long-term delivery of redox-active therapeutics. Chemical Communications 2011, 47 (20), 5699-5701.

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The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors from the University of California, San Diego to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.

Herbert Levine, J. Andrew McCammon and David T. Sandwell were among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the academy today “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
They join 89 current members of the UC San Diego faculty who previously had been named to membership in the academy, which was established by Congress in 1863 to serve as an official adviser to the federal government on matters of science and technology.
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Recent publications from faculty in the UCSD Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering:

Aragues R, Cortes J, Sagues C. 2011. Distributed consensus algorithms for merging feature-based maps with limited communication. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 59(3-4):163-180.

Cheong S, Bitmead RR. 2011. Instability detection of ARMA systems based on AR system identification. Systems & Control Letters 60(3):185-191.

Childress S, Spagnolie SE, Tokieda T. 2011. A bug on a raft: recoil locomotion in a viscous fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 669:527-556.

Krstic M. 2011. Dead-Time Compensation for Wave/String PDEs. Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control-Transactions of the Asme 133(3).

Lahiri I, Lahiri D, Jin SH, Agarwal A, Choi W. 2011. Carbon Nanotubes: How Strong Is Their Bond with the Substrate? ACS Nano 5(2):780-787.

Lal R, Ramachandran S, Arnsdorf MF. 2010. Multidimensional Atomic Force Microscopy: A Versatile Novel Technology for Nanopharmacology Research. AAPS Journal 12(4):716-728.

Lauga E. 2011. Life around the scallop theorem. Soft Matter 7(7):3060-3065.

Lave M, Kleissl J. 2011. Optimum fixed orientations and benefits of tracking for capturing solar radiation in the continental United States. Renewable Energy 36(3):1145-1152.

Nemat-Nasser S, Willis JR, Srivastava A, Amirkhizi AV. 2011. Homogenization of periodic elastic composites and locally resonant sonic materials. Physical Review B 83(10).

Urzay J, Nayagam V, Williams FA. 2011. Theory of the propagation dynamics of spiral edges of diffusion flames in von Karman swirling flows. Combustion and Flame 158(2):255-272.

Wang P, Tartakovsky DM. 2011. Reduced complexity models for probabilistic forecasting of infiltration rates. Advances in Water Resources 34(3):375-382.

Zhu MH, Martinez S. 2011. On the Convergence Time of Asynchronous Distributed Quantized Averaging Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 56(2):386-390.

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Recent articles by faculty and graduate students in the UCSD Department of Mathematics:

BALOGH, J. & BUTTERFIELD, J. 2010. Online Ramsey games for triangles in random graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 310, 3653-3657.

BALOGH, J., CSABA, B. & SAMOTIJ, W. 2011. Local Resilience of Almost Spanning Trees in Random Graphs. Random Structures & Algorithms, 38, 121-139.

BUSS, S. R. & JOHNSON, A. S. 2010. The quantifier complexity of polynomial-size iterated definitions in first-order logic. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 56, 573-590.

CHENG, L. T. & HU, K. 2011. On Solutions to Euler-Lagrange Equations Governing Isotropic, Homogeneous, Naturally Curved Kirchhoff’s Elastic Rods. Journal of Elasticity, 102, 1-14.

CHENG, Y. H., YU, Z. Y., HOSHIJIMA, M., HOLST, M. J., MCCULLOCH, A. D., MCCAMMON, J. A. & MICHAILOVA, A. P. 2010b. Numerical Analysis of Ca2+ Signaling in Rat Ventricular Myocytes with Realistic Transverse-Axial Tubular Geometry and Inhibited Sarcoplasmic Reticulum. PlOS Computational Biology, 6.

GOUR, G. & WALLACH, N. R. 2010. All maximally entangled four-qubit states. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 51, 112201.

GURALNICK, R. M., SMALL, L. W. & ZELMANOV, E. 2010. Nil subrings of endomorphism rings of finitely generated modules over affine PI-rings. Journal of Algebra, 324, 3044-3047.

KLALES, A., CIANCI, D., NEEDELL, Z., MEYER, D. A. & LOVE, P. J. 2010. Lattice gas simulations of dynamical geometry in two dimensions. Physical Review E, 82, 046705.

MONTANER, F., STOLIN, A. & ZELMANOV, E. 2010. Classification of Lie bialgebras over current algebras. Selecta Mathematica-New Series, 16, 935-962.

ROGALSKI, D. 2011. Blowup subalgebras of the Sklyanin algebra. Advances in Mathematics, 226, 1433-1473.

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