Publications (2003)

"Metal Oxide-Coated Polymer Nanofibers," (C. Drew, X. Liu, D. Ziegler,
X. Wang, F.F. Bruno, J. Whitten, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), NANO
Letters, V.3, #2, pp. 143-147 (2003).

“Azobenzene-Modified Poly(L-glutamic Acid) (AZOPLGA):  Its
Conformational and Photodynamic Properties,” (S. Yang, L. Li, A.L.
Cholli, J. Kumar, S.K. Tripathy), Biomacromolecules V. 4, #2, pp.
366-371 (2003).

"Efficient Light Harvesting Polymers for Nanocrystalline TiO2 Photovoltaic Cells,"    (Y.-G. Kim, J. Walker, L.A. Samuelson, J.Kumar), Nano Letters, V. 3, #4, pp. 523-525 (2003).

"Nanocomposites from In-Situ Polymerization of Substituted Polyacetylene within Lamellar Surface of the Montmorillonite:  A Solid-State NMR Study," (S.K. Sahoo, D.W. Kim, J. Kumar, A. Blumstein, A.L. Cholli), Macromolecules, 36, pp. 2777-2784 (2003).

"Structural Investigation of Polymer Nano Composites and
Biocatalytically Polymerized Conducting Polyaniline by Solids NMR,"
(A.L. Cholli, S.K. Sahoo, D.W. Kim, L. Samuelson, J. Kumar, A.
Blumstein), International Journal of Plastics Technology V. 6, pp. 1-5
(2003).

"Enzymatic and Biomimetic Synthesis of Electroactive Polymers and
Their Optical and Electronic Properties," (J. Kumar, W. Liu, S. Roy, R.
Nagarajan, S. Tripathy, F. Bruno, L. Samuelson), International Journal of Plastics Tech. V. 6, pp. 32-36 (2003).

"Biomimetic Synthesis of Water Soluble Conductive Polypyrrole and
Poly (3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene),"(F.F. Bruno, J.M. Fortier, R.
Nagarajan, S. Roy, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson), Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc.
V. 736, (2003).

"Enzymatically Synthesized Electronic and Photo Active Materials,"
(J. Kumar, W. Liu, S.-H. Lee, S. Yang, S. Tripathy), (2003).

"Highly Efficient Diastereoselective Biocatalytic Acylation of a
Diastereotopic Furanose Diol and Synthesis of Key Intermediates for
Amino Derivatized Bicyclonucleosides," (A.K. Prasad, S. Roy, R. Kumar,
N. Kalra, J. Wengel, C.E. Olsen, A.L. Cholli,           L.A. Samuelson,
J. Kumar, A.C. Watterson, R.A. Gross, V.S. Parmar), Science Direct,
Tetrahedron 59, pp. 1333-1338 (2003).

"Synthetic and Novel Biocatalytic Resolution Studies on
(±)-5/6/7-Aacetoxy-4-aryl-3,   4-dihydrocoumarins," (I. Singh, A.K.
Prasad, A.K. Sharma, R.K. Saxena, C.E. Olsen,   A.L. Cholli, L.A.
Samuelson, J. Kumar, A.C. Watterson, V.S. Parma), Science Direct,
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry II, pp. 529-538 (2003).

"Synthesis, Characterization and In Vitro Anti-invasive Activity
Screening of Polyphenolic and Heterocyclic Compounds," (V.S. Parmar,
N.K. Sharma, M. Husain, A.C. Watterson, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson, A.L.
Prasad, A. Kumar, S. Malhotra,           N. Kumar, A. Jha, A. Singh, I.
Singh, Himanshu, A. Vats, N.A. Shakil, S. Trikha,           S.
Mukherjee, A.K. Sharma, S.K. Singh, A. Kumar, H.N. Jha, C.E. Olsen, C.P.
Stove, M.E. Bracke, M.M. Mareel), Science Direct, Biooranic & Medicinal
Chemistry II,        pp. 913-929 (2003).

"Barrier Properties of Ordered Multilayer Polymer Nanocomposites,"
(B.-C. Ku,           A. Blumstein, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson, D.W. Kim),
submitted to Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2003).

"A New Approach to Catalyze Template Polymerization of Aniline
Using Electrostatically Multilayered Hematin Assemblies," (B.-C. Ku,
S.H. Lee, W. Liu,         J.-A. He, J. Kumar, F.F. Bruno, L.A.
Samuelson), submitted to J. of Macromol. Sci., Pure & Appl. Chem.
(2003).

"Biocatalytic Routes for the Synthesis of Amino Acid Containing
Amphiphilic Copolymers for Drug Delivery Applications," (R. Tyagi, R.
Kumar, V.S. Parmar,       L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar, A.C. Watterson),
Accepted for Polymer Pre-prints (2003).

"Synthesis of Amino Functionalized Amphiphilic Copolymers as
Potential Gene Delivery Carriers," (S.K. Sharma, A.K. Sharma, R. Kumar,
V.S. Parmar,                    L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar, A.C.
Watterson), Accepted for Polymer Pre-prints (2003).

"Novel Self-Assembled Polymeric Nano-Particles for Drug Delivery:
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis, Characterization and Applications," (R. Kumar,
N.A. Shakil, M.H. Chen,   V.S. Parmar, A. Samuelson, J. Kumar, R.
Nicolosi, S. Yoganathan, A.C. Watterson), submitted to Journal of Amer.
Chem. Soc. (2003).

"Enzymatic Synthesis of Multi-Component Copolymers and their
Structural Characterization," (R. Kumar, R. Tyagi, V.S. Parmar, L.A.
Samuelson, J. Kumar,      A.C. Watterson), submitted to Molecular
Diversity, 6, pp 287-295 (2003).

"Synthesis of Novel Poly(ethylene glycol) Based Amphiphilic
Polymers." (K. Danprasert, R. Kumar, M. H-Cheng, P.Gupta, N.A. Shakil, A.K. Prasad,  V.S. Parmar, J. Kumar,L.S. Samuelson, A.C. Watterson), Science Direct, European Polymer Journal, in press, (2003).

"Synthesis of Novel Silicon-Based Macromers and Polymers by
Enzymatic Catalysis," (R. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar, V.S. Parmar,
A.C. Watterson), Polymeric Materials: Sci. & Engr., 88, 429 (2003).

"Role of Temperature in Suppression of the Formation of Pummerer's
Type Ketone in Enzymatic Polymerization of 4-Propylphenol:  an In-Situ
Variable Temperature 1H NMR Study," (X. Wu, W. Liu, R. Nagarajan, J.
Kumar, L.A. Samuelson, A.L. Cholli), submitted to Macromolecules (2003).

"Variable Temperature In-Situ NMR Approach to Study the Effect of
Temperature on the Biocatalytic Polymerization of 4-Propyl Phenol", (X.
Wu, W. Liu, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson, A.L. Cholli), J. of Macromolecules, Pure & Applied Sci., Part A. (2003).

"Mono and Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes for Nanocrystalline TiO2 based Dye-sensitized Photovoltaics", (Ravi Mosurkal, Young-Gi Kim, Jayant Kumar, Lian Li, John Walker and Lynne A. Samuelson), J. Macromol. Sci. – Pure Appl.  Chem. , A40, 1317 (2003).

"Biocatalytic Synthesis of the Conjugated Bridging Ligand, tetrapyrido phenazine (tpphz) and a dinuclear ruthenium complex", (Ravi Mosurkal, Lynne A. Samuelson, Jayant Kumar), Inorganic Chemistry, 42, 5450 (2003).

"Helical Conformational Specificity of Enzymatically Synthesized
Water-Soluble Conducting Polyaniline Nanocomposites," (M. Thiyagarajan,
L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar, A.S. Cholli), J. Amer. Chem. Soc., V. 125,
#38, pp. 11502-11503 (2003).

"Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Cellulose" (S. Yang,
X. Wu, X. Wang, L.A. Samuelson, A.L. Cholli, J. Kumar), J. of
Macromolecular Sci., Part A-Pure & Appl. Chem., V. A40, #12, pp.
1275-1282 (2003).

"Molecular Assembly by Sequential Ionic Adsorpation of
Nanocrystalline TiO2 and a Conjugated Polymer," (Y.-G. Kim, J. Kim, H.
Ahn, B. Kang, C. Sung, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), J. of Macromolecular
Sci., Part A-Pure & Appl. Chem., V. A40, #12., pp. 1307-1316 (2003).

“Candida Antarctica Lipase B Catalyzed Copolymerizations of Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acids and Poly(ethylene Glycol) to Generate Novel Functionalized Polyesters,” (R. Kumar, R. Tyagi, V.S. Parmar, L.A. Samuelson, A.C. Watterson, J. Kumar), Journal of Macromolecular Sci., Part A-Pure & Applied Chem., V. A40, #12, pp. 1283-1293 (2003).

“Thermal Solid State Polymerization of 4-Ethynylbenzoic Acid” (J.M. Njus, L. Yang, B.M. Foxman, and D.J. Sandman), Polymer Preprints, V. 44, #1, 905-906 (2003).

"Self-Assembled Monolayers of 3-Thienylalkanethiols on Gold", H. Ahn, M. Kim, D.J. Sandman, J.E. Whitten, Langmuir, 19, 5303-5310 (2003).

 "Photochemical Dissociation of p-Nitrobenzyl 9,10-Dimethoxyanthracene-2-Sulfonate Films and Selective Polycation Adsorption Following Irradiation", X. Liu and J.E. Whitten, Thin  Solid Films, 434, 145-151 (2003).

 "The Metallicity of Aluminum and Gold in Contact with Thin Films of a Urethane-Substituted Polythiophene", H. Ahn and J.E. Whitten, J. Appl. Phys., 93, 3384-3388 (2003).

"Effect of Temperature on the Enzymatic Polymerization of
4-Propylphenol:  An In Situ 1H-NMR Study," (X. Wu, W. Liu, J. Kumar,
L.A. Samuelson, A.L. Cholli), J. of Macromolecular Science Part A-Pure &
Applied Chem.,  V. A40, pp. 1423-1431 (2003).

"Polybutadiene Modified Polyaniline Microparticles," (C. Kuo, L.A.
Samuelson, S.P. McCarthy, S.K. Tripathy,  J. Kumar), J. of
Macromolecular Science, Part A-Pure & Appl. Chem., V. A40, #12, pp.
1383-1396 (2003).

"The Effect of Viscosity and Filler on Electrospun Fiber
Morphology," (C. Drew, X. Wang, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), J.
Macromolecular Sci., Pure & Appl. Chem., A40, #12, pp. 1415-1422 (2003).
 

“Approaches to Conjugated Polymers Via Solid State Polymerization,” (D.J. Sandman), Macromol. Symposia, 192, 99-114 (2003).
 

 “Structure, Polymorphism, and Thermal Properties of Phenyliminoisoindolines,” (Z. Zhang, S. Uth, D.J. Sandman, and B.M. Foxman), J. Phys. Org. Chem., submitted (2003).

“Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide Coatings Applied to Electrospun Nanofibers,” (C. Drew, D. Ziegler, X. Wang, F.F. Bruno, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), Polymeric Materials:  Sci. & Engr. 88, pp. 31-32 (2003).
 

“Biochemical Sensor via Combination of Electrospinning with Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Assembly,” (X. Wang, Y.-G. Kim, C. Drew, B.-C. Ku, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson), Polymeric Materials:  Sci. & Engr. 88, pp. 35-36 (2003).

“Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide Coatings Applied to Electrospun Nanofibers,” (C. Drew, D. Ziegler, X. Wang, F.F. Bruno, L.A. Samuelson, J. Kumar), Polymeric Materials:  Sci. & Engr. 88, pp. 31-32 (2003).

 “Biochemical Sensor via Combination of Electrospinning with Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Assembly,” (X. Wang, Y.-G. Kim, C. Drew, B.-C. Ku, J. Kumar, L.A. Samuelson), Polymeric Materials:  Sci. & Engr. 88, pp. 35-36 (2003).