Quinn Besford

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 ..

Selective Metal-Phenolic Assembly from Complex Multicomponent Mixtures

Gan Lin, Md Arifur Rahim, Michael G Leeming, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Quinn A Besford, Yi Ju, Qi-Zhi Zhong, Stuart T Johnston, Jiajing Zhou, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Metal-dependent inhibition of amyloid fibril formation: synergistic effects of cobalt-tannic acid networks

Wenjie Zhang, Andrew J Christofferson, Quinn A Besford, Joseph J Richardson, Junling Guo, Yi Ju, Kristian Kempe, Irene Yarovsky, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2019  |  NANOSCALE

Metal–phenolic networks (MPNs) have received widespread interest owing to their modular incorporation of functional metal ions and..

In Situ Characterization of Protein Corona Formation on Silica Microparticles Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Combined with Microfluidics

Alessia CG Weiss, Kilian Krueger, Quinn A Besford, Mathias Schlenk, Kristian Kempe, Stephan Foerster, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Cobalt Phosphate Nanostructures for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing at Physiological pH

Pietro Pacchin Tomanin, Pavel V Cherepanov, Quinn A Besford, Andrew J Christofferson, Alessia Amodio, Chris F McConville, Irene Yarovsky, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2018  |  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Self-Assembled Metal-Phenolic Networks on Emulsions as Low-Fouling and pH-Responsive Particles

Quinn A Besford, Yi Ju, Ting-Yi Wang, Gyeongwon Yun, PavelV Cherepanov, Christoph E Hagemeyer, Francesca Cavalieri, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2018  |  SMALL

Glycogen-nucleic acid constructs for gene silencing in multicellular tumor spheroids

Marcin Wojnilowicz, Quinn A Besford, Yun-Long Wu, Xian Jun Loh, Julia A Braunger, Agata Glab, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2018  |  BIOMATERIALS

Stabilizing Dipolar Interactions Drive Specific Molecular Structure at the Water Liquid-Vapor Interface

Quinn Alexander Besford, Maoyuan Liu, Andrew Joseph Christoffersonk

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Self-Assembly of Nano- to Macroscopic Metal–Phenolic Materials

G Yun, Quinn Besford, S Johnston, JJ Richardson, Shuaijun Pan, M Biviano, F Caruso

Journal article  |  2018  |  Chemistry of Materials

The self-assembly of molecular building blocks into well-defined macroscopic materials is desirable for developing emergent functi..

Long-range dipolar order and dispersion forces in polar liquids

Quinn Alexander Besford, Andrew Joseph Christofferson, Maoyuan Liu, Irene Yarovsky

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Journal of Chemical Physics

Influence of Ionic Strength on the Deposition of Metal-Phenolic Networks

Junling Guo, Joseph J Richardson, Quinn A Besford, Andrew J Christofferson, Yunlu Dai, Chien W Ong, Blaise L Tardy, Kang Liang, Gwan H Choi, Jiwei Cui, Pil J Yoo, Irene Yarovsky, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2017  |  LANGMUIR

Rust-Mediated Continuous Assembly of Metal-Phenolic Networks

Md Arifur Rahim, Mattias Bjoernmalm, Nadja Bertleff-Zieschang, Quinn Besford, Srinivas Mettu, Tomoya Suma, Matthew Faria, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2017  |  ADVANCED MATERIALS

Lactosylated Glycogen Nanoparticles for Targeting Prostate Cancer Cells

Quinn A Besford, Marcin Wojnilowicz, Tomoya Suma, Nadja Bertleff-Zieschang, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cayalieri

Journal article  |  2017  |  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Pair correlations that link the hydrophobic and Hofmeister effects

Quinn Alexander Besford, Maoyuan Liu, Angus Gray-Weale

Journal article  |  2016  |  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The Coalescence of Polystyrene in Correlated Binary Solvents

Quinn A Besford, Maoyuan Liu, James K Beattie, Angus Gray-Weale

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics

Liver glycogen in type 2 diabetic mice is randomly branched as enlarged aggregates with blunted glucose release

Quinn Alexander Besford, Xiao-Yi Zeng, Ji-Ming Ye, Angus Gray-Weale

Journal article  |  2016  |  Glycoconjugate Journal

Probing cell internalisation mechanics with polymer capsules

Xi Chen, Jiwei Cui, Yuan Ping, Tomoya Suma, Francesca Cavalieri, Quinn A Besford, George Chen, Julia A Braunger, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2016  |  NANOSCALE

Order and correlation contributions to the entropy of hydrophobic solvation

Maoyuan Liu, Quinn Alexander Besford, Thomas Mulvaney, Angus Gray-Weale

Journal article  |  2015  |  The Journal of Chemical Physics

The structure of cardiac glycogen in healthy mice

Quinn A Besford, Mitchell A Sullivan, Ling Zheng, Robert G Gilbert, David Stapleton, Angus Gray-Weale

Journal article  |  2012  |  International Journal of Biological Macromolecules