Quinn Besford

Microemulsion-Assisted Templating of Metal-Stabilized Poly(ethylene glycol) Nanoparticles.

Gan Lin, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Yi Ju, Quinn A Besford, Timothy M Ryan, Shuaijun Pan, Joseph J Richardson, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biomacromolecules

Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is well known to endow nanoparticles (NPs) with low-fouling and stealth-like properties that can reduc..

Protein Component of Oyster Glycogen Nanoparticles: An Anchor Point for Functionalization

Quinn A Besford, Alessia CG Weiss, Jonas Schubert, Timothy M Ryan, Manfred F Maitz, Pietro Pacchin Tomanin, Marco Savioli, Carsten Werner, Andreas Fery, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2020  |  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Biosourced nanoparticles have a range of desirable properties for therapeutic applications, including biodegradability and low imm..

The Attraction of Water for Itself at Hydrophobic Quartz Interfaces

Quinn A Besford, Andrew J Christofferson, Jas Kalayan, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Richard H Henchman

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Structural forces within aqueous water at a solid interface can significantly change surface reactivity and the affinity of solute..

Surface Modification of Spider Silk Particles to Direct Biomolecular Corona Formation.

Alessia CG Weiss, Heike M Herold, Sarah Lentz, Matthew Faria, Quinn A Besford, Ching-Seng Ang, Frank Caruso, Thomas Scheibel

Journal article  |  2020  |  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

In recent years, spider silk-based materials have attracted attention because of their biocompatibility, processability, and biode..

Glycogen as a Building Block for Advanced Biological Materials

Quinn A Besford, Francesca Cavalieri, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Materials

Biological nanoparticles found in living systems possess distinct molecular architectures and diverse functions. Glycogen is a uni..

Cobalt-Directed Assembly of Antibodies onto Metal-Phenolic Networks for Enhanced Particle Targeting.

Wenjie Zhang, Quinn A Besford, Andrew J Christofferson, Patrick Charchar, Joseph J Richardson, Aaron Elbourne, Kristian Kempe, Christoph E Hagemeyer, Matthew R Field, Chris F McConville, Irene Yarovsky, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nano Letters

The orientation-specific immobilization of antibodies onto nanoparticles, to preserve antibody-antigen recognition, is a key chall..

The Biomolecular Corona in 2D and Reverse: Patterning Metal–Phenolic Networks on Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Polysaccharides, and Fingerprints

G Yun, JJ Richardson, M Capelli, Y Hu, QA Besford, ACG Weiss, H Lee, IS Choi, BC Gibson, P Reineck, F Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Functional Materials

The adsorption of biomolecules onto nanomaterials can alter the performance of the nanomaterials in vitro and in vivo. Recent stud..

Modular Assembly of Host-Guest Metal-Phenolic Networks Using Macrocyclic Building Blocks

Shuaijun Pan, Rui Guo, Nadja Bertleff-Zieschang, Shanshan Li, Quinn A Besford, Qi-Zhi Zhong, Gyeongwon Yun, Yunti Zhang, Francesca Cavalieri, Yi Ju, Eirini Goudeli, Joseph J Richardson, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The manipulation of interfacial properties has broad implications for the development of high‐performance coatings. Metal–phenolic..

Ricocheting Droplets Moving on Super-Repellent Surfaces

Shuaijun Pan, Rui Guo, Joseph J Richardson, Joseph D Berry, Quinn A Besford, Mattias Bjornmalm, Gyeongwon Yun, Ruoxi Wu, Zhixing Lin, Qi-Zhi Zhong, Jiajing Zhou, Qiang Sun, Jianhua Li, Yanbing Lu, Zhichao Dong, Margaret Katherine Banks, Weijian Xu, Jianhui Jiang, Lei Jiang, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2019  |  Advanced Science

Droplet bouncing on repellent solid surfaces (e.g., the lotus leaf effect) is a common phenomenon that has aroused interest in var..

Link between Low-Fouling and Stealth: A Whole Blood Biomolecular Corona and Cellular Association Analysis on Nanoengineered Particles

Alessia CG Weiss, Hannah G Kelly, Matthew Faria, Quinn A Besford, Adam K Wheatley, Ching-Seng Ang, Edmund J Crampin, Frank Caruso, Stephen J Kent

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS Nano

Upon exposure to human blood, nanoengineered particles interact with a multitude of plasma components, resulting in the formation ..