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List of works by Anna C. Balazs

"Zero-dimensional" single-walled carbon nanotubes.

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Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials: Coupling self-oscillating gels and piezoelectric films.

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Active Ciliated Surfaces Expel Model Swimmers

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

An aptamer-functionalized chemomechanically modulated biomolecule catch-and-release system

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Binary hard sphere mixtures in block copolymer melts

scientific article published on 17 September 2002

Chemical oscillators in structured media

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Coassembly of nanorods and photosensitive binary blends: "combing" with light to create periodically ordered nanocomposites.

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Computational design of active, self-reinforcing gels.

scientific article published in May 2010

Computational modeling of oscillating fins that "catch and release" targeted nanoparticles in bilayer flows.

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Computer simulation for structure formation from self-assembling polymers

scientific article published on 01 February 1990

Controlling chemical oscillations in heterogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels via mechanical strain

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Controlling the Spatiotemporal Transport of Particles in Fluid-Filled Microchambers

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Convection-driven pattern formation in phase-separating binary fluids

scientific article published on 24 March 2005

Convective Self-Sustained Motion in Mixtures of Chemically Active and Passive Particles

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Convective flow reversal in self-powered enzyme micropumps

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Cooperative, reversible self-assembly of covalently pre-linked proteins into giant fibrous structures

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Designing Bioinspired Artificial Cilia to Regulate Particle-Surface Interactions.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Designing Composite Coatings That Provide a Dual Defense against Fouling

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Designing Dual-functionalized Gels for Self-reconfiguration and Autonomous Motion.

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Designing Synthetic Microcapsules That Undergo Biomimetic Communication and Autonomous Motion.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Designing a gel-fiber composite to extract nanoparticles from solution

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Designing a simple ratcheting system to sort microcapsules by mechanical properties

scientific article published in August 2006

Designing communicating colonies of biomimetic microcapsules

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Designing compliant substrates to regulate the motion of vesicles

scientific article published on 13 April 2006

Designing mechanomutable composites: reconfiguring the structure of nanoparticle networks through mechanical deformation

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Designing microcapsule arrays that propagate chemical signals

scientific article published on 06 August 2010

Designing oscillating cilia that capture or release microscopic particles

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Designing patterned substrates to regulate the movement of capsules in microchannels

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Designing self-powered materials systems that perform pattern recognition.

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Designing self-propelled, chemically active sheets: Wrappers, flappers, and creepers

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Designing synthetic vesicles that engulf nanoscopic particles

scientific article published in August 2007

Designing synthetic, pumping cilia that switch the flow direction in microchannels

scientific article published on 11 October 2008

Diffusive intertwining of two fluid phases in chemically patterned microchannels

scientific article published on 25 November 2003

Dynamics of ternary mixtures with photosensitive chemical reactions: creating three-dimensionally ordered blends

scientific article published on 11 July 2006

Effect of hydrodynamic interactions on the evolution of chemically reactive ternary mixtures.

scientific article published in September 2004

Embedding flexible fibers into responsive gels to create composites with controllable dexterity.

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Entropically driven formation of hierarchically ordered nanocomposites

scientific article published on 23 September 2002

Exploiting photoinduced reactions in polymer blends to create hierarchically ordered, defect-free materials

scientific article published in March 2006

Fibers on the surface of thermo-responsive gels induce 3D shape changes.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Fibers with integrated mechanochemical switches: minimalistic design principles derived from fibronectin

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Flow-driven Assembly of Microcapsules into Three-dimensional Towers

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Fluid-driven motion of passive cilia enables the layer to expel sticky particles.

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Force-induced globule-coil transition in single polystyrene chains in water

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Fork in the road: patterned surfaces direct microcapsules to make a decision

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Forming supramolecular networks from nanoscale rods in binary, phase-separating mixtures

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Forming transmembrane channels using end-functionalized nanotubes

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Gradient sensing in reactive, ternary membranes.

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Harnessing Cooperative Interactions between Thermoresponsive Aptamers and Gels To Trap and Release Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Harnessing Labile Bonds between Nanogel Particles to Create Self-Healing Materials

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Harnessing biomimetic cryptic bonds to form self-reinforcing gels

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Harnessing catalytic pumps for directional delivery of microparticles in microchambers

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Harnessing fluid-driven vesicles to pick up and drop off Janus particles.

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Harnessing interfacially-active nanorods to regenerate severed polymer gels.

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Harnessing janus nanoparticles to create controllable pores in membranes

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Harnessing light to create defect-free, hierarchically structured polymeric materials

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Harnessing surface-bound enzymatic reactions to organize microcapsules in solution

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Intelligent Nano/Micromotors: Using Free Energy To Fabricate Organized Systems Driven Far from Equilibrium

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Interdiffusion in a polydisperse polymer blend

scientific article published in August 2004

Kinetic model for the interaction of myosin subfragment 1 with regulated actin

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Kinetic model of phase separation in binary mixtures with hard mobile impurities.

scientific article published in October 1999

Kinetically Trapped Co-continuous Polymer Morphologies through Intraphase Gelation of Nanoparticles

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Kinetics of irreversible dissociation for proteins bound cooperatively to DNA.

scientific article published in July 1984

Light-Induced Convective Segregation of Different Sized Microparticles

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Living Additive Manufacturing: Transformation of Parent Gels into Diversely Functionalized Daughter Gels Made Possible by Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Local control of periodic pattern formation in binary fluids within microchannels

scientific article published on 8 December 2005

Mechanisms for fragment formation in brittle solids

scientific article published on 9 May 2007

Mechano-chemical oscillations and waves in reactive gels.

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

Modeling Biofilm Formation on Dynamically Reconfigurable Composite Surfaces

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Modeling chemoresponsive polymer gels.

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Modeling copolymer adsorption on laterally heterogeneous surfaces

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

Modeling microcapsules that communicate through nanoparticles to undergo self-propelled motion

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Modeling multicomponent reactive membranes

scientific article published on 9 May 2007

Modeling polymer grafted nanoparticle networks reinforced by high-strength chains

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Modeling self-assembly and phase behavior in complex mixtures

scientific article published in January 2007

Modeling the entrainment of self-oscillating gels to periodic mechanical deformation

scientific article published in June 2015

Modeling the flow of fluid/particle mixtures in microchannels: encapsulating nanoparticles within monodisperse droplets

scientific article published in December 2005

Modeling the interactions between compliant microcapsules and pillars in microchannels

scientific article published in July 2007

Modeling the morphology and mechanical properties of sheared ternary mixtures

scientific article published in May 2005

Modeling the nanoscratching of self-healing materials

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Modeling the release of nanoparticles from mobile microcapsules

scientific article published in December 2006

Modeling the self-assembly of copolymer-nanoparticle mixtures confined between solid surfaces

scientific article published on 24 September 2003

Modeling the self-assembly of lipids and nanotubes in solution: forming vesicles and bicelles with transmembrane nanotube channels

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Modeling the transport of nanoparticle-filled binary fluids through micropores

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Nanocomposites: economy at the nanoscale

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Newtonian fluid meets an elastic solid: coupling lattice Boltzmann and lattice-spring models.

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Optimizing Micromixer Surfaces to Deter Biofouling

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Pattern formation and shape changes in self-oscillating polymer gels

scientific article published in November 2006

Pattern formation arising from condensation of a homogeneous gas into a binary, phase-separating liquid

scientific article published on 16 August 2005

Pattern formation in binary fluids confined between rough, chemically heterogeneous surfaces

scientific article published on 26 October 2004

Pattern recognition with "materials that compute"

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Patterned surfaces segregate compliant microcapsules

scientific article published in January 2007

Periodic droplet formation in chemically patterned microchannels

scientific article published on 5 September 2003

Phase separation of a binary fluid in the presence of immobile particles: A lattice Boltzmann approach

article published in 2002

Photo-regeneration of severed gel with iniferter-mediated photo-growth.

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Polymer chemistry: Wasted loops quantified.

scientific article published in January 2013

Predicting the mesophases of copolymer-nanoparticle composites

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Probing and repairing damaged surfaces with nanoparticle-containing microcapsules

scientific article published on January 10, 2012

Producing swimmers by coupling reaction-diffusion equations to a chemically responsive material

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

Propulsion and trapping of microparticles by active cilia arrays

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Random copolymers as effective compatibilizing agents

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Reconfigurable assemblies of active, autochemotactic gels

scientific article published on December 27, 2012

Reconfigurable soft matter.

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Role of Parallel Reformable Bonds in the Self-Healing of Cross-Linked Nanogel Particles

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Self-Organization of Fluids in a Multienzymatic Pump System

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Self-Propelled Nanomotors Autonomously Seek and Repair Cracks

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Self-assembly of microcapsules regulated via the repressilator signaling network

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Self-directed self-assembly of nanoparticle/copolymer mixtures

scientific article published in March 2005

Self-healing vesicles deposit lipid-coated Janus particles into nanoscopic trenches.

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Self-sustained motion of a train of haptotactic microcapsules.

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Shear and extensional deformation of droplets containing polymers and nanoparticles

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Simulating the dynamic behavior of immiscible binary fluids in three-dimensional chemically patterned microchannels

scientific article published on 11 July 2003

Simulating the morphology and mechanical properties of filled diblock copolymers

scientific article published on 14 March 2003

Simulation of Fracturing Reinforced Polymer Blends

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Solutal and thermal buoyancy effects in self-powered phosphatase micropumps.

scientific article published in April 2017

Spatial confinement controls self-oscillations in polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

scientific article published on 23 November 2009

Synthetic homeostatic materials with chemo-mechano-chemical self-regulation

scientific article published in Nature

Synthetic quorum sensing in model microcapsule colonies

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Tailoring the trajectory of cell rolling with cytotactic surfaces.

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

The aggregation of reverse micelles. A computer simulation

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The role of polymer matrix structure and interparticle interactions in diffusion-limited drug release

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Theoretical and computational modeling of self-oscillating polymer gels.

scientific article published on March 2007

Theoretical model of interfacial polymerization

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Three-dimensional model for chemoresponsive polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Twist again: Dynamically and reversibly controllable chirality in liquid crystalline elastomer microposts

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Using Chemical Pumps and Motors To Design Flows for Directed Particle Assembly

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Using Mesoscopic Models to Design Strong and Tough Biomimetic Polymer Networks

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Using Torsion for Controllable Reconfiguration of Binary Nanoparticle Networks.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Using a single mask to create multiple patterns in three-component, photoreactive blends.

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

Using light to guide the self-sustained motion of active gels

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Using nanoparticle-filled microcapsules for site-specific healing of damaged Substrates: creating a "repair-and-go" system

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Using nanoparticles to create self-healing composites

scientific article published in September 2004

Using patterned substrates to promote mixing in microchannels

scientific article published on 12 February 2002