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List of works by Cyrus R Safinya

"Chevron" local layer structure in surface-stabilized ferroelectric smectic-C cells

scientific article published on 01 December 1987

3D Columnar Phase of Stacked Short DNA Organized by Coherent Membrane Undulations

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

A Multifunctional Lipid Incorporating Active Targeting and Dual-Control Release Capabilities for Precision Drug Delivery

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

A columnar phase of dendritic lipid-based cationic liposome-DNA complexes for gene delivery: hexagonally ordered cylindrical micelles embedded in a DNA honeycomb lattice.

scientific article published on March 2006

Antiferromagnetism in La2CuO

scientific article published on 01 June 1987

Block Liposome and Nanotube Formation is a General Phenomenon of Two-Component Membranes Containing Multivalent Lipids

scientific article

Block liposomes from curvature-stabilizing lipids: connected nanotubes, -rods, or -spheres.

scientific article published on March 2009

Cationic liposome-DNA complexes: from liquid crystal science to gene delivery applications

scientific article

Cationic liposome-microtubule complexes: pathways to the formation of two-state lipid-protein nanotubes with open or closed ends.

scientific article

Cationic liposome-nucleic acid complexes for gene delivery and gene silencing.

scientific article

Cationic liposome-nucleic acid nanoparticle assemblies with applications in gene delivery and gene silencing

scientific article published on July 2016

Cationic liposome–nucleic acid complexes: liquid crystal phases with applications in gene therapy

scientific article published on November 22, 2011

Cationic membranes complexed with oppositely charged microtubules: hierarchical self-assembly leading to bio-nanotubes

scientific article published on 28 June 2006

DNA condensation in two dimensions.

scientific article published in December 2000

Dendritic cationic lipids with highly charged headgroups for efficient gene delivery

scientific article

Direct Observation of Shear-Induced Orientational Phase Coexistence in a Lyotropic System Using a Modified X-Ray Surface Forces Apparatus

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Direct force measurements reveal that protein Tau confers short-range attractions and isoform-dependent steric stabilization to microtubules.

scientific article

Efficient synthesis and cell-transfection properties of a new multivalent cationic lipid for nonviral gene delivery.

scientific article published on November 2002

Endosomal escape and transfection efficiency of PEGylated cationic liposome-DNA complexes prepared with an acid-labile PEG-lipid.

scientific article published in April 2012

Fluorescence microscopy colocalization of lipid-nucleic acid nanoparticles with wildtype and mutant Rab5-GFP: A platform for investigating early endosomal events

scientific article

Forced Crowding of Colloids by Thermophoresis and Convection in a Custom Liquid Clusius-Dickel Microdevice

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Gel-expanded to gel-condensed transition in neurofilament networks revealed by direct force measurements

scientific article published on 15 November 2009

Hierarchical self-assembly of actin bundle networks: gels with surface protein skin layers.

scientific article published in September 2005

Hierarchical superstructure of alkylamine-coated ZnS nanoparticle assemblies

scientific article published on 14 February 2011

Higher-order assembly of microtubules by counterions: from hexagonal bundles to living necklaces.

scholarly article

Highly efficient gene silencing activity of siRNA embedded in a nanostructured gyroid cubic lipid matrix.

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Human microtubule-associated-protein tau regulates the number of protofilaments in microtubules: a synchrotron x-ray scattering study.

scientific article published on July 2009

Interplay between liquid crystalline and isotropic gels in self-assembled neurofilament networks

scientific article published on July 2008

Ion specific effects in bundling and depolymerization of taxol-stabilized microtubules.

scientific article published on January 2013

Lamellar phase of stacked two-dimensional rafts of actin filaments

scientific article published on 2 July 2003

Lipoplex structures and their distinct cellular pathways.

scientific article

Liposomes derived from molecular vases

scientific article published in Nature

Liquid crystalline phases of dendritic lipid-DNA self-assemblies: lamellar, hexagonal, and DNA bundles

scientific article

Materials science. Bundling with x-rays

scientific article published in January 2010

Microchannel systems in titanium and silicon for structural and mechanical studies of aligned protein self-assemblies

scientific article published in April 2005

Minireview - Microtubules and Tubulin Oligomers: Shape Transitions and Assembly by Intrinsically Disordered Protein Tau and Cationic Biomolecules

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Molecular scale imaging of F-actin assemblies immobilized on a photopolymer surface.

scientific article published on 3 January 2007

Nanogyroids Incorporating Multivalent Lipids: Enhanced Membrane Charge Density and Pore Forming Ability for Gene Silencing

scientific article published on May 25, 2011

Nematic director reorientation at solid and liquid interfaces under flow: SAXS studies in a microfluidic device

scientific article

Nematic to smectic-A phase transition under shear flow: A nonequilibrium synchrotron x-ray study

scientific article published on 01 April 1991

Neurofilament networks: Salt-responsive hydrogels with sidearm-dependent phase behavior

scientific article

Neurofilament sidearms modulate parallel and crossed-filament orientations inducing nematic to isotropic and re-entrant birefringent hydrogels.

scientific article published in January 2013

New multivalent cationic lipids reveal bell curve for transfection efficiency versus membrane charge density: lipid-DNA complexes for gene delivery.

scientific article published on June 2005

Optimizing cationic and neutral lipids for efficient gene delivery at high serum content

scientific article

PEGylated cationic liposome-DNA complexation in brine is pathway-dependent

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

PEGylation of Paclitaxel-Loaded Cationic Liposomes Drives Steric Stabilization of Bicelles and Vesicles thereby Enhancing Delivery and Cytotoxicity to Human Cancer Cells

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Patterned Threadlike Micelles and DNA-Tethered Nanoparticles: A Structural Study of PEGylated Cationic Liposome-DNA Assemblies.

scientific article

Phase diagram, stability, and overcharging of lamellar cationic lipid-DNA self-assembled complexes.

scientific article

Radial compression of microtubules and the mechanism of action of taxol and associated proteins.

scientific article

Reaction of alkylamine surfactants with carbon dioxide: relevance to nanocrystal synthesis

scientific article published in May 2009

Skin layer at the actin-gel surface: quenched protein membranes form flat, crumpled, and tubular morphologies

scientific article published on 28 June 2004

Stacking of Short DNA Induces the Gyroid Cubic-to-Inverted Hexagonal Phase Transition in Lipid-DNA Complexes

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Steric interactions in a model multimembrane system: A synchrotron x-ray study

scientific article published on 01 November 1986

Structural evolution of environmentally responsive cationic liposome-DNA complexes with a reducible lipid linker

scientific article

Structural polymorphism of DNA-dendrimer complexes.

scientific article published on 11 August 2003

Structure in a confined smectic liquid crystal with competing surface and sample elasticities

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Structure of actin cross-linked with alpha-actinin: a network of bundles

scientific article published on 30 September 2003

Structure of aggregated gold colloids

scientific article published on 01 August 1986

Structure of the L beta phases in a hydrated phosphatidylcholine multimembrane

scientific article published on 01 February 1988

Structures and interactions in 'bottlebrush' neurofilaments: the role of charged disordered proteins in forming hydrogel networks

scientific article published on October 2012

Surface functionalized cationic lipid-DNA complexes for gene delivery: PEGylated lamellar complexes exhibit distinct DNA-DNA interaction regimes

scientific article

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of microtubules buckling and bundling under osmotic stress: a probe of interprotofilament interactions.

scientific article published on 4 November 2004

Synthesis and characterization of degradable multivalent cationic lipids with disulfide-bond spacers for gene delivery

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

Synthesis of linear and cyclic peptide-PEG-lipids for stabilization and targeting of cationic liposome-DNA complexes

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

The Influence of Polymer Molecular Weight in Lamellar Gels Based on PEG-Lipids

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

The Temperature-Dependent Structure of Alkylamines and Their Corresponding Alkylammonium-Alkylcarbamates

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

The effect of multivalent cations and Tau on paclitaxel-stabilized microtubule assembly, disassembly, and structure.

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

The effect of salt and pH on block liposomes studied by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lipid Gene-Carriers: Membrane Charge Density Controls Universal Transfection Behavior in Lamellar Cationic Liposome-DNA Complexes

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Transformation of taxol-stabilized microtubules into inverted tubulin tubules triggered by a tubulin conformation switch

scientific article published on 19 January 2014

Transitions between distinct compaction regimes in complexes of multivalent cationic lipids and DNA.

scientific article published on 4 April 2008

Two-Dimensional Packing of Short DNA with Nonpairing Overhangs in Cationic Liposome–DNA Complexes: From Onsager Nematics to Columnar Nematics with Finite-Length Columns

scientific article published on April 26, 2011

Unconventional salt trend from soft to stiff in single neurofilament biopolymers.

scientific article published on 17 November 2010

Universality in interacting membranes: The effect of cosurfactants on the interfacial rigidity

scientific article published on 01 March 1989

Uptake and transfection efficiency of PEGylated cationic liposome-DNA complexes with and without RGD-tagging

scientific article

X-ray study of the nematic phase and smectic-A1-to-smectic-Ã phase transition in heptylphenyl nitrobenzoloxybenzoate (DB7NO2)

scientific article published on 01 July 1986