Publications

1. Richter, A.G.; Dergunov, S.A.; Kim, M.D.; Shmakov, S.N.; Pingali, S.V.; Urban, V.S.; Liu, Y.; Pinkhassik, E. Unraveling the Single-Nanometer Thickness of Shells of Vesicle-Templated Polymer Nanocapsules, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2017, 8, 3630-3636.
2. Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Controlling the Encapsulation of Charged Molecules in Vesicle-Templated Nanocontainers Through Electrostatic Interactions with the Bilayer Scaffold, Langmuir, 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01706.
3. Dergunov, S.A.; Khabiyev, A.T.; Shmakov, S.N.; Kim, M.D.; Ehterami, N.; Weiss, M.C.; Birman, V.B.; Pinkhassik, E. Encapsulation of Homogeneous Catalysts in Porous Polymer Nanocapsules Produces Fast-Acting Selective Nanoreactors, ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 11397-11406.
4. Dergunov, S.A.; Ehterami, N.; Pinkhassik, E. Rotaxane-Like Structures Threaded Through the Pores of Hollow Polymer Nanocapsules, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2016, 22, 14137-14140; featured on the cover.
5. Jia, Y.; Shmakov, S.N.; Pinkhassik, E. Controlled Permeability in Porous Polymer Nanocapsules Enabling Size- and Charge-Selective SERS Nanoprobes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8, 19755-19763; featured on the cover.
6. Dergunov, S.A.; Kim, M.D.; Shmakov, S.N.; Richter, A.G.; Weigand, S.; Pinkhassik, E. Tuning Optical Properties of Encapsulated Clusters of Gold Nanoparticles through Stimuli-Triggered Controlled Aggregation, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2016, 22, 7702-7705; featured on the cover.
7. Jia, Y.; Shmakov, S.N.; Register, P.; Pinkhassik, E. Size-Selective Yolk-Shell Nanoreactors With Nanometer-Thin Porous Polymer Shells, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2015, 21, 12709-12714; featured on the cover, selected as a Hot Paper; featured in ChemistryViews.
8. Dergunov, S.A.; Bowles, E.A.; Gordon, W.; Green, M.; Bierman, A.; Ellsworth, M.L.; Pinkhassik, E.; Sprague, R.S. Liposomal delivery of a phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor rescues low oxygen-induced ATP release from erythrocytes of humans with type 2 diabetes, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2015, 2, 137-142.
9. Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Directed Assembly of Vesicle-Templated Polymer Nanocapsules under Near-Physiological Conditions, Langmuir, 2015, 31, 2561-2568, featured on the cover, selected as ACS Editor’s Choice, featured in Nano Today.
10. Maclin, A.Q.; Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E.; Lindner, E. Small-Volume pH Sensing with a Capillary Optode Utilizing Dye-Loaded Porous Nanocapsules in a Hydrogel Matrix, Electroanalysis, 2015, 27, 733-744, invited article.
11. Cho, H.; Pinkhassik, E.; David, V.; Stuart, J.; Hasty, K. Detection of Early Cartilage Damage using Targeted Nanosomes in a Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Mouse Model, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 2015, 11, 939-946.
12. Zhegalova, N.G.; Dergunov, S.A.; Wang, S.T.; Pinkhassik, E.; Berezin, M.Y. Design of fluorescent nanocapsules as radiometric nanothermometers, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2014, 20, 10292-10297, featured on the cover.
13. Dergunov, S.A.; Durbin, J.; Pattanaik, S.; Pinkhassik, E. pH-Mediated Catch and Release of Charged Molecules with Porous Hollow Nanocapsules, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 2212-2215.
14. Shmakov, S.N.; Jia, Y.; Pinkhassik, E. Selectively Initiated Ship-In-A-Bottle Assembly of Yolk-Shell Nanostructures, Chemistry of Materials, 2014, 26, 1126-1132.
15. Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Richter, A.G.; Durbin, J.; Shmakov, S.N.; Jia, Y.; Kenbeilova, S.; Orazbekuly, Y.; Kengpeiil, A.; Lindner, E.; Pingali, S.V.; Urban, V.S.; Weigand, S.; Pinkhassik, E. Facile Directed Assembly of Hollow Polymer Nanocapsules Within Spontaneously Formed Catanionic Surfactant Vesicles, Langmuir, 2014, 30, 7061-7069, featured on the cover.
16. Ehterami, N.; Dergunov, S.A.; Ussypbekova, Y.; Birman, V.; Pinkhassik, E. Catalytic Ship-In-A-Bottle Assembly within Hollow Porous Nanocapsules, New Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 38, 481-485, featured on the cover.
17. Cho, H.; Magid, R.; Danila, D.C.; Hunsaker, T.; Pinkhassik, E.; Hasty, K.A. Theranostic Immunoliposomes for Arthritis, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 2014, 10, 619-627.
18. Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Hollow Nanocapsules in Biomedical Imaging Applications, in Nanotechnology in Biomedical Imaging and Diagnostics: From Nanoparticle Design to Clinical Applications, M.Y. Berlin, Ed., Wiley, 2014, invited book chapter, featured on the cover.
19. Cho, H.; Zook, J.; Banner, L.T.; Park, S.-H.; Min, B.-H.; Hasty, K.A.; Pinkhassik, E.; Lindner, E. Immobilization of fibrinogen antibody on self-assembled gold monolayers for immunosensor applications, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2014, 11, 10-15.
20. Dergunov, S.A.; Richter, A.G.; Kim, M.D.; Pingali, S.V.; Urban, V.S.; Pinkhassik, E. Synergistic Self-Assembly of Scaffolds and Building Blocks for Directed Synthesis of Organic Nanomaterials, Chemical Communications, 2013, 49, 11026-11028, featured on the cover.
21. Gustafson, T.P.; Dergunov, S.A.; Akers, W.J.; Cao, Q.; Magalotti, S.; Achilefu, S.; Pinkhassik, E.; Berezin, M.Y. Blood triggered rapid release porous nanocapsules, RCS Advances, 2013, 3, 5547-5555.
22. Zhang, Y.; Tekobo, S.; Tu, Y.; Zhou, Q.; Jin, X.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E.; Yan, B. Permission to Enter Cell by Shape: Nanodisk vs Nanosphere, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2012, 4, 4099-4105, featured in Chemical & Engineering News.
23. Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Lindner, E.; Pinkhassik, E. Dye-Loaded Porous Nanocapsules Immobilized in a Permeable Polyvinyl Alcohol Matrix: a Versatile Optical Sensor Platform, Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 2695-2701, featured on the cover.
24. Lindner, E.; Bordelon, D.; Kim, M.D.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E.; Chaum, E. Ion-Selective Opcodes in a Sampling Capillary for Tear Fluid Analysis, Electroanalysis, 2012, 24, 42-52, invited article.
25. Mun, G.A.; Pinkhassik, E.; Korobova, N.E.; Alpysbaeva, B.E. Investigation of metabolized hydrophilic polymer films using atomic force microscopy, International Journal of Mathematics and Physics, 2012, 3, 33-35
26. Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Synergistic Co-Entrapment and Triggered Release in Hollow Nanocapsules With Uniform Nanopores, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 19656-19659.
27. Shmakov, S.N.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Ship-in-a-bottle entrapment of molecules in porous nanocapsules, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 8223-8225, featured on the cover.
28. Dergunov, S.A.; Mun, G.A.; Dergunov, M.A.; Suleimenov, I.E.; Pinkhassik, E. Tunable thermosensitivity in multistimuli-responsie terpolymers, Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2011, 71, 1129-1136.
29. Tekobo, S.; Richter, A.G.; Dergunov, S.A.; Pingali, S.V.; Urban, V.S.; Yan, B.; Pinkhassik, E. Synthesis, Characterization, and Controlled Aggregation of Biotemplated Organic Nanodisks, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2011, 13, 6427-6437.
30. Zhou, Q.; Dergunov, S.A.; Zhang, Y.; Li, X.; Mu, Q.; Zhang, Q.; Jiang, G.; Pinkhassik, E.; Yan, B. Safety profile and cellular uptake of biotemplated nanocapsules with nanometer-thin walls, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 2576-2582.
31. Richter, A.G.; Dergunov, S.A.; Ganus, B.; Thomas, Z.; Pingali, S.V.; Urban, V.S.; Liu, Y.; Porcar, L.; Pinkhassik, E., Scattering Studies of Hydrophobic Monomers in Liposomal Bilayers: An Expanding Shell Model of Monomer Distribution, Langmuir, 2011, 27, 3792-3797.
32. Shmakov, S.N.; Pinkhassik, E., Simultaneous Tempting of Polymer Nanocapsules and Entrapped Silver Nanoparticles, Chemical Communications, 2010, 46, 7346-7348.
33. Dergunov, S.A.; Kesterson, K.; Li, W.; Wang, Z.; Pinkhassik, E., Synthesis, Characterization, and Long-term Stability of Hollow Polymer Nanocapsules with Nanometer-Thin Walls, Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 7785-7792.
34. Pinkhassik, E.; Shmakov, S.N. Polymer nanocapsules entrapping metal nanoparticles, US Patent application 2010-378934P, filed August 2010.
35. Dergunov, S.A.; Miksa, B.; Ganus, B.; Lindner, E.; Pinkhassik, E., Nanocapsules with “Invisible” Walls, Chemical Communications, 2010, 46, 1485-1487.
36. Banner, L.T.; Tekobo, S.; Garay, F.; Clayton, B.T.; Thomas, Z.P.; Lindner, E.; Richter, A.G.; Pinkhassik, E., Self-Limiting Robust Surface-Grafted Nanofilms, Chemistry of Materials, 2010, 22, 2248-2254.
37. Dergunov, S.A.; Schaub, S.C.; Richter, A.G.; Pinkhassik, E., Time-Resolved Loading of Monomers into Bilayers with Different Curvature, Langmuir, 2010, 26, 6276-6280.
38. Tekobo, S.; Pinkhassik, E., Directed Covalent Assembly of Rigid Organic Nanodisks Using Self-Assembled Temporary Scaffolds, Chemical Communications, 2009, 1112-1114.
39. Banner, L.T.; Richter, A.; Pinkhassik, E., Pinhole-free large-grained atomically flat gold substrates, Surface and Interface Analysis, 2009, 41, 49-55.
40. Dergunov, S.A.; Pinkhassik, E., Functionalization of Nanopores in Nanometer-Thin Organic Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 8264-8267, highlighted in SYNFACTS, 2009, 32.
41. Danila, D.C., Banner, L.T.; Karimova, E.J. Tsurkan, L.; Wang, X.; Pinkhassik, E., Directed Assembly of Sub-Nanometer Thin Organic Materials with Selective Nanopores, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 7036-7039.
42. Pinkhassik, E.; Danila, D.C. Aminophosphonate carriers for liposome-based drug release systems, US Patent application 61/035,332, filed March 2008.
43. Banner, L.T.; Danila, D.C.; Sharpe, K.; Durkin, M.; Clayton, B.; Anderson, B.; Richter, A.; Pinkhassik, E., Controlled Loading of Building Blocks into Temporary Self-Assembled Scaffolds for Directed Assembly of Organic Nanostructures, Langmuir, 2008, 24, 11464-11473.
44. Danila, D.C., Wang, X.; Hubble, H.; Antipin, I.S.; Pinkhassik, E., Increasing Permeability of Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes to Alanine with Synthetic α Aminophosphonate Carriers, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2008, 18, 2320-2323.
45. Ehara, M.; Fukawa, S.; Nakatsuji, H.; David, D.E.; Pinkhassik, E.; Levin, M.D.; Apostol, M.; Michl, J. Coupling between substituents as a function of cage structure: Synthesis and valence ionized states of bridgehead disubstituted parent and hexafluorinated bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane derivativesC(5)X(6)Y(2), Chemistry – an Asian Journal, 2007, 2, 1007-1019.
46. Pinkhassik, E.; Banner, L.T.; Clayton, B.T. Nano thin polymer coatings containing thiol and methods of use thereof, US Patent 7829155, Filed December 2006, issued November 9, 2010; licensed to Nanotech, LLC
47. Pinkhassik, E.; Danila, D.C.; Banner, L.T. Nano thin polymer films with selective pores and methods of use thereof, US Patent 7678838, filed August 2006, issued March 16, 2010
48. Woodward, J.; Heyer, N.I.; Getty, J.P.; O’Neill, H.M.; Pinkhassik, E.; Evans, B. Efficient Hydrogen production using enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway, Proceedings of the 2002 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Program Review, NREL/CP-610-32405.
49. Casnati, A.; Massera, C.; Pelizzin, N.; Stibor, I.; Pinkhassik, E.; Ogozzolli, F.; Ungaro, R. A novel self-assembled supramolecular architecture involving cation, anion and a calix[4]arene heteroditopic receptor, Tetrahedron Letters, 2002, 43, 7311-7314.
50. Shtarev, A.B.; Pinkhassik, E.; Levin, M.D.; Stibor, I.; Michl, J. Partially bridge-fluorinated dimethyl bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1,3-dicarboxylates: Preparation and NMR spectra, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001, 123, 3484-3492.
51. Stibor, I.; Ruzickova, M.; Kratky, R. Vindys, M.; Havlicek, J.; Pinkhassik, E.; Lhotak, P.; Mustafina, A.R.; Morozova, Y.E.; Kazakova, E.K.; Gubskaya, V.P. New calix[4]arene-based amides – Their synthesis, conformation, complexation, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 2001, 66, 641-662.
52. Adcock, W.; Blokhin, A.V.; Elsey, G.M.; Head, N.H.; Krstic, A.R.; Levin, M.D.; Michl, J.; Munton, J.; Pinkhassik, E.; Robert, M.; Saveant, J.M.; Shtarev, A.B.; Stibor, I. Manifestations of bridgehead-bridgehead interactions in the bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane ring system, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1999, 64, 2618-2625.
53. Pinkhassik, E.; Sidorov, V.; Stibor, I. Calix[4]arene-based receptors with hydrogen-bonding groups immersed into a large cavity, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1998, 63, 9644-9651.
54. Pinkhassik, E.; Stibor, I.; Casnati, A.; Ungaro, R. Synthesis of upper and lower rim binaphthyl bridged calix[4]arenes: New potential chiral hosts for molecular recognition and catalysis, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1997, 62, 8654-8659.
55. Antipin, I.S.; Stoikov, I.I.; Pinkhassik, E.; Fitseva, N.A.; Stibor, I. Konovalov, A.I. Calix[4]arene based alpha-aminophosphonates: Novel carriers for zwitterionic amino acids transport, Tetrahedron Letters, 1997, 38, 5865-5868.
56. Smirnov, S.; Sidorov, V.; Pinkhassik, E.; Havlicek, J.; Stibor, I. Complexes of p-t-butylcalix[4]arene derivatives with neutral molecules: Structures and stabilities, Supramolecular Chemistry, 1997, 8, 187-196.
57. Davletshina, G.R.; Stibor, I.; Kazakova, E.K.; Pinkhassik, E.; Karataeva, F.K.; Konovalov, A.I. Synthesis and structure of certain oct-substituted derivatives of tetranonylcalixresorcinol[4]arenes, Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 1997, 67, 2023-2027.
58. Havlicek, J.; Tkadlecova, M.; Vyhnankova, M.; Pinkhassik, E.; Stibor, I. NMR complexation study of several oxyethylated calix[4]arenes with lithium, sodium and potassium ions, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 1996, 61, 1783-1797.
59. Pinkhassik, E.; Stibor, I.; Havlicek, J. Synthesis of new chiral ligands by capping of calix[4]arene derivatives, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 1996, 61, 1182-1190.
60. Rul, E.F.; Chevela, V.V.; Chebotareva, N.E.; Salnikov, Y.I.; Saprykova, Z.A.; Lukina, O.G.; Nazina, L.A.; Khalaev, V.A.; Pinkhassik, E. Fogging solutions for silver halide reversible color cine films, SU patent 1670671, issued August 15, 1991.