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LIBER Publications

LIBER CoE has published over 175 peer-reviewed scientific publications since it started operating in 2022. The number of publications increased from 36 in 2022 to 83 in 2023. About 50% of the articles were published in journals with an impact factor higher than 7. 

2023

ACS Synthetic Biology

A Minispidroin Guides the Molecular Design for Cellular Condensation Mechanisms in S. cerevisiae

Jianhui Feng, Bartosz Gabryelczyk, Isabell Tunn, Ekaterina Osmekhina, Markus Linder

Langmuir

A Perspective on the Glass Transition and the Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers and Complexes

Hongwei Li, Suvesh Manoj Lalwani, Chikaodinaka I. Eneh, Tamunoemi Braide, Piotr Batys, Maria Sammalkorpi, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus

Chemical Science

A visible-light-driven molecular motor based on barbituric acid

Kim Kuntze, Arri Priimägi

Nanoscale Horizons

An ultra-sensitive NH3 gas sensor enabled by an ion-in-conjugated polycroconaine/Ti3C2Tx core-shell composite

Jin Zhou, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Shokouh, Linfan Cui, Topias Järvinen, Olli Pitkänen, Zhong-Peng Lv, Krisztian Kordas

Langmuir

Analysis of Silicon Quantum Dots and Serum Proteins Interactions Using Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation

Usharani Nagarajan, Sourov Chandra, Tomohiko Yamazaki, Naoto Shirahata, Françoise M. Winnik

Materials Today Communications

Antimicrobial efficacy of solar disinfection in cellulose fiber supported photoactive materials

Daniel Langerreiter, Katariina Solin, Mireia Jordà-Redondo, Roger Bresolí-Obach, Lukas Fliri, Santi Nonell, Mauri A. Kostiainen, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza

Chemical Communications

Assembly and optically triggered disassembly of lipid-DNA origami fibers

Sofia Julin, Nadine Best, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Eeva Enlund, Veikko Linko, Mauri A. Kostiainen

Angewandte Chemie

Biomolecular Click Reactions Using a Minimal pH-Activated Catcher/Tag Pair for Producing Native-Sized Spider-Silk Proteins

Ruxia Fan, Johanna Hakanpää, Karoliina Elfving, Helena Taberman, Markus B. Linder, A. Sesilja Aranko

Advanced Materials Interfaces

Bio‐Templated Silver Nanopatterns for Photothermal and Antifogging Coatings

Swarnalok De, Hoang M. Nguyen, Fangxin Zou, Fevzihan Basarir, Maryam Mousavi, Kristiina Mäkinen, Mauri A. Kostiainen, Jaana Vapaavuori

Advanced Optical Materials

Bright and Switchable Whiteness in Macro-Crosslinked Hydrogels

Amanda Eklund, Shanming Hu, Yuhuang Fang, Henri Savolainen, Haotian Pi, Hao Zeng, Arri Priimagi, Olli Ikkala, Hang Zhang

ChemBioChem

Catcher/Tag Toolbox: Biomolecular Click-Reactions For Protein Engineering Beyond Genetics

Ruxia Fan, A. Sesilja Aranko

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Compressibility and porosity modulate the mechanical properties of giant gas vesicles

Hedar H. Al-Terke, Grégory Beaune, Muhammad Junaid, Jani Seitsonen, Arja Paananen, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Jussi Joensuu, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Robin H.A. Ras

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Controlling self-assembling co-polymer coatings of hydrophilic polysaccharide substrates via co-polymer block length ratio

Alberto Scacchi, Kourosh Hasheminejad, Sousa Javan Nikkhah, Maria Sammalkorpi

Advanced Optical Materials

Core-Selective Silver-Doping of Gold Nanoclusters by Surface-Bound Sulphates on Colloidal Templates: From Synthetic Mechanism to Relaxation Dynamics

Sourov Chandra, Alice Sciortino, Shruti Shandilya, Lincan Fang, Xi Chen, Nonappa, Hua Jiang, Leena Sisko Johansson, Marco Cannas, Janne Ruokolainen, Robin H.A. Ras, Fabrizio Messina, Bo Peng, Olli Ikkala

Applied Surface Science

Cracking polymer coatings of paper-like surfaces: Control via block co-polymer structure and system composition

Kourosh Hasheminejad, Alberto Scacchi, Sousa Javan Nikkhah, Maria Sammalkorpi

Nature Nanotechnology

DNA-origami-directed virus capsid polymorphism

Iris Seitz, Sharon Saarinen, Esa-Pekka Kumpula, Donna McNeale, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Vili Lampinen, Vesa P. Hytönen, Frank Sainsbury, Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Veikko Linko, Juha T. Huiskonen, Mauri A. Kostiainen

Advanced Materials

Design of Fluoro-Free Surfaces Super-Repellent to Low-Surface-Tension Liquids

William S.Y. Wong, Mariia S. Kiseleva, Shaochen Zhou, Muhammad Junaid, Leena Pitkänen, Robin H.A. Ras

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate surfactant self-assembly dependency of solvent hydrophilicity: a modelling study

Maisa Vuorte, Aapo Lokka, Alberto Scacchi, Maria Sammalkorpi

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Disequilibrating azobenzenes by visible-light sensitization under confinement

Tero-Petri Ruoko, Nikita Durandin, Arri Priimägi

Nature Chemistry

Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale

Sakari Lepikko, Ygor Morais Jaques, Muhammad Junaid, Matilda Backholm, Jouko Lahtinen, Jaakko Julin, Ville Jokinen, Timo Sajavaara, Maria Sammalkorpi, Adam Foster, Robin Ras

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Dynamics of DNA Origami Lattices

Sofia Julin, Adrian Keller, Veikko Linko

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Equilibrium state model for surfactants in oils: Colloidal assembly and adsorption

Maisa Vuorte, Susanna Kuitunen, Paul R. Van Tassel, Maria Sammalkorpi

Angewandte Chemie

Exploration of Chemical Diversity in Intercellular Quorum Sensing Signalling Systems in Prokaryotes

Christopher Jonkergouw, Pihla Savola, Ekaterina Osmekhina, Joeri van Strien, Piotr Batys, Markus B. Linder

Advanced Healthcare Materials

Fibrin Stiffness Regulates Phenotypic Plasticity of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells

Maria Heilala, Arttu Lehtonen, Ossi Arasalo, Aino Peura, Juho Pokki, Olli Ikkala, Nonappa, Juha Klefström, Pauliina M. Munne

Physical Review Letters

Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets : Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation

Davide Riccobelli, Hedar H. Al-Terke, Päivi Laaksonen, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, Robin H.A. Ras, Pasquale Ciarletta, Dominic Vella

Soft Matter

From microemulsion phase diagrams to hydrophilicity and hydration controlled adsorption: a dissipative particle dynamics modelling study of phospholipid assembly in bio oils

Maisa Vuorte, Maria Sammalkorpi

Advanced Optical Materials

Gold Au(I)6 Clusters with Ligand-Derived Atomic Steric Locking: Multifunctional Optoelectrical Properties and Quantum Coherence

Sourov Chandra, Alice Sciortino, Susobhan Das, Faisal Ahmed, Arijit Jana, Jayoti Roy, Diao Li, Ville Liljeström, Hua Jiang, Leena Sisko Johansson, Xi Chen, Nonappa, Marco Cannas, Thalappil Pradeep, Bo Peng, Robin H.A. Ras, Zhipei Sun, Olli Ikkala, Fabrizio Messina

Small

Gustation-Inspired Dual-Responsive Hydrogels for Taste Sensing Enabled by Machine Learning

Ziyue Miao, Hongwei Tan, Lotta Gustavsson, Yang Zhou, Quan Xu, Olli Ikkala, Bo Peng

ACS Omega

Heating-Induced Switching to Hierarchical Liquid Crystallinity Combining Colloidal and Molecular Order in Zwitterionic Molecules

Lotta Gustavsson, Zhong-Peng Lv, Tomy Cherian, Wille Seppälä, Ville Liljeström, Bo Peng, Simo Huotari, Patrice Rannou, Olli Ikkala

Advanced Science

High-permittivity Solvents Increase MXene Stability and Stacking Order Enabling Ultraefficient Terahertz Shielding

Xiaodan Hong, Zhenyu Xu, Zhong Peng Lv, Zhen Lin, Mohsen Ahmadi, Linfan Cui, Ville Liljeström, Volodymyr Dudko, Jiali Sheng, Xiaoqi Cui, Alexey P. Tsapenko, Josef Breu, Zhipei Sun, Qiang Zhang, Esko Kauppinen, Bo Peng, Olli Ikkala

Advanced Functional Materials

Highly Efficient Switchable Underwater Adhesion in Channeled Hydrogel Networks

Amanda Eklund, Olli Ikkala, Hang Zhang

Langmuir

Highly Hydrophobic Films of Engineered Silk Proteins by a Simple Deposition Method

Teemu Välisalmi, Nelmary Roas-Escalona, Kristoffer Meinander, Pezhman Mohammadi, Markus B. Linder

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Highly Selective H2S Gas Sensor Based on Ti3C2TxMXene-Organic Composites

Seyed Hossein Hosseini-Shokouh, Jin Zhou, Ethan Berger, Zhong Peng Lv, Xiaodan Hong, Vesa Virtanen, Krisztian Kordas, Hannu Pekka Komsa

Advanced Optical Materials

Hydrogel Lasers Via Supramolecular Host-Guest Complexation

Matias Paatelainen, Markus Lahikainen, Alex Berdin, Kim Kuntze, Nonappa Nonappa, Arri Priimägi

Physical Review Letters

Interactions between Rigid Polyelectrolytes Mediated by Ordering and Orientation of Multivalent Nonspherical Ions in Salt Solutions

Hossein Vahid, Alberto Scacchi, Maria Sammalkorpi, Tapio Ala-Nissila

Advanced Materials

Light-Fueled Nonreciprocal Self-Oscillators for Fluidic Transportation and Coupling

Zixuan Deng, Hang Zhang, Arri Priimagi, Hao Zeng

Advanced science

Light-Induced Nanoscale Deformation in Azobenzene Thin Film Triggers Rapid Intracellular Ca2+ Increase via Mechanosensitive Cation Channels

Heidi Peussa, Chiara Fedele, Huy Tran, Mikael Marttinen, Julia Fadjukov, Elina Mäntylä, Arri Priimägi, Soile Nymark, Teemu Ihalainen

Nature Communications

Light-driven peristaltic pumping by an actuating splay-bend strip

Zixuan Deng, Arri Priimägi

ACS Applied Polymer Materials

Light-triggered Time-Programmed Self-adhesion in Low-Hysteresis Hydrogels

Henri Savolainen, Matilda Backholm, Olli Ikkala, Hang Zhang

Advanced Materials

Liquid Crystal Networks Meet Water

Natalie Pinchin, Hongshuang Guo, Henning Meteling, Zixuan Deng, Arri Priimägi

Nature Materials

Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater

Alexander B. Tesler, Stefan Kolle, Lucia H. Prado, Ingo Thievessen, David Böhringer, Matilda Backholm, Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran, Heikki A. Nurmi, Mika Latikka, Lena Fischer, Shane Stafslien, Zoran M. Cenev, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Mark Bruns, Anca Mazare, Ulrich Lohbauer, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Ben Fabry, Patrik Schmuki, Robin H.A. Ras, Joanna Aizenberg, Wolfgang H. Goldmann

Science Advances

Magnetic Quincke rollers with tunable single-particle dynamics and collective states

Ricardo Reyes Garza, Nikos Kyriakopoulos, Zoran M. Cenev, Carlo Rigoni, Jaakko V.I. Timonen

Applied Surface Science

Molecular mechanisms of pH-tunable stability and surface coverage of polypeptide films

Adam L. Harmat, Maria Morga, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Piotr Batys, Maria Sammalkorpi

Nature Reviews : Chemistry

Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces

Liwei Chen, Shilin Huang, Robin H.A. Ras, Xuelin Tian

Angewandte Chemie

Optically Controlled Construction of Three-Dimensional Protein Arrays

Qing Liu, Yu Zhou, Ahmed Shaukat, Zhuojun Meng, Daniella Kyllönen, Iris Seitz, Daniel Langerreiter, Kim Kuntze, Arri Priimagi, Lifei Zheng, Mauri A. Kostiainen

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)

Optically Controlled Construction of Three-Dimensional Protein Arrays

Kim Kuntze, Arri Priimägi

Chemistry of Materials

Photoconversion of Ag31 to Ag42 Initiated by Solvated Electrons

Arijit Jana, Wakeel Ahmed Dar, Sourav Kanti Jana, Ajay Kumar Poonia, Vivek Yadav, Jayoti Roy, Sourov Chandra, Kumaran Nair Valsala Devi Adarsh, Robin H. A. Ras, Thalappil Pradeep

Communications Physics

Probing surface wetting across multiple force, length and time scales

Dan Daniel, Maja Vuckovac, Matilda Backholm, Mika Latikka, Rahul Karyappa, Xue Qi Koh, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Nikodem Tomczak, Robin H.A. Ras

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)

Programmable and Self-Healable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators Based on Halogen Bonding

Hongshuang Guo, Tero-Petri Ruoko, Henning Meteling, Hao Zeng, Arri Priimägi

Springer Protocol

Protein Coating of DNA Origami

Heini Ijäs, Mauri A. Kostiainen, Veikko Linko

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Pulling and analyzing silk fibers from aqueous solution using a robotic device

Teemu Välisalmi, Houari Bettahar, Quan Zhou, Markus B. Linder

Nanoscale

Raman enhancement in bowtie-shaped aperture-particle hybrid nanostructures fabricated with DNA-assisted lithography

Kabusure M. Kabusure, Petteri Piskunen, Jiaqi Yang, Veikko Linko, Tommi K. Hakala

ACS Nano

Reconfigurable pH-Responsive DNA Origami Lattices

Sofia Julin, Veikko Linko, Mauri A. Kostiainen

Chemical Science

Red-light photoswitching of indigos in polymer thin films

Kim Kuntze, Matti Virkki, Arri Priimägi

Nature Communications

Repurposing host-guest chemistry to sequester virulence and eradicate biofilms in multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii

Christopher Jonkergouw, Ngong Kodiah Beyeh, Ekaterina Osmekhina, Katarzyna Leskinen, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Dmitrii Fedorov, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Mauri A. Kostiainen, John F. Trant, Robin H.A. Ras, Päivi Saavalainen, Markus B. Linder

Langmuir

Shaping Liquid Droplets on an Active Air–Ferrofluid Interface

P. A. Diluka Harischandra, Teemu Välisalmi, Zoran Cenev, Markus Linder, Quan Zhou

ACS Sensors

Signal Amplification in Electrochemical DNA Biosensors Using Target-Capturing DNA Origami Tiles

Paul Williamson, Petteri Piskunen, Heini Ijäs, Adrian Butterworth, Veikko Linko, Damion K. Corrigan

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Single core and multicore aggregates from a polymer mixture: A dissipative particle dynamics study

Sousa Javan Nikkhah, Maria Sammalkorpi

Biomacromolecules

Spidroins under the Influence of Alcohol: Effect of Ethanol on Secondary Structure and Molecular Level Solvation of Silk-Like Proteins

Dmitry Tolmachev, Maaria Malkamäki, Markus Linder, Maria Sammalkorpi

Soft Matter

Stereochemistry-dependent thermotropic liquid crystalline phases of monosaccharide-based amphiphiles

Ida Mattsson, Johanna Majoinen, Manu Lahtinen, Thomas Sandberg, Anna Fogde, Tiina Saloranta-Simell, Orlando J. Rojas, Olli Ikkala, Reko Leino

ACS Nano

Supercharged Fluorescent Protein-Apoferritin Cocrystals for Lighting Applications

Marta Patrian, Ahmed Shaukat, Mattia Nieddu, Jesús Agustín Banda-Vázquez, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Mauri A. Kostiainen, Rubén D. Costa

Physical Review E

Theoretical and computational analysis of the electrophoretic polymer mobility inversion induced by charge correlations

Xiang Yang, Sahin Buyukdagli, Alberto Scacchi, Maria Sammalkorpi, Tapio Ala-Nissila

Nature Communications

Thermally trainable dual network hydrogels

Shanming Hu, Yuhuang Fang, Chen Liang, Matti Turunen, Olli Ikkala, Hang Zhang

Soft Matter

Through-drop imaging of moving contact lines and contact areas on opaque water-repellent surfaces

Arthur Freitas Vieira, Wenjuan Cui, Ville Jokinen, Robin H.A. Ras, Quan Zhou

Small

Triblock Proteins with Weakly Dimerizing Terminal Blocks and an Intrinsically Disordered Region for Rational Design of Condensate Properties

Dmitrii Fedorov, Nelmary Roas-Escalona, Dmitry Tolmachev, Adam L. Harmat, Alberto Scacchi, Maria Sammalkorpi, A. Sesilja Aranko, Markus B. Linder

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Upcycling of Keratin Wastes in Sustainable Textile Fiber Applications

Wenwen Fang, Ruxia Fan, A. Sesilja Aranko, Michael Hummel, Herbert Sixta

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

pH dependence of the assembly mechanism and properties of poly(l-lysine) and poly(l-glutamic acid) complexes

Tuuva Kastinen, Dawid Lupa, Piotr Bonarek, Dmitrii Fedorov, Maria Morga, Markus B. Linder, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Piotr Batys, Maria Sammalkorpi

Angewandte Chemie

pH-Responsive Near-Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters

Shaochen Zhou, Lotta Gustavsson, Grégory Beaune, Sourov Chandra, Jukka Niskanen, Janne Ruokolainen, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Olli Ikkala, Bo Peng, Robin H. A. Ras

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