2025

Nanoimprinted PVDF–MWCNT Composites with Silver Coating as a Label-Free Plasmonic Platform for Ultrasensitive Detection Aeshah F. Alotaibi, Waseem Ahmad Wani, Ghadeer Almohammadi, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, ACS Applied Nano Materials 8(15), 7440–7448, 2025.

Cytocompatible and antibacterial efficacy of surface designed Ti40Cu40Zr11Fe3Sn3Ag3 amorphous alloy for potential biomedical applications Kriti Tiwari, Ana Blanquer, David Z. Pérez, Carlos Pavan, Marco Tomatis, Natalia F. Navas, Rosa M. Pérez-Martín, Brian J. Rodriguez, et al., Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1014, 178584, 2025.

Ultrasensitive detection of E. coli using bioinspired based platform Sawsan Almohammed, Tom Nolan, Niamh Martin, Wouter G. Meijer, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Analytical Methods 17(1), 10–14, 2025.

Electrostriction contribution to the electromechanical response of cast chitosan films Diego L.G. Sierra, Qian Zhang, Srikanth Kolagatla, Paula M. Vilarinho, Cláudia Nunes, Brian J. Rodriguez, et al., Journal of Materials Chemistry C 13(4), 1907–1918, 2025.

A comprehensive investigation of the effect of pulse plating parameters on the electrodeposition of Ni/ZrO2 composite coatings Manuel M. Dardavila, Maria Veronica Sofianos, Brian J. Rodriguez, Raman Bekarevich, Apostolos Tzanis, et al., Results in Surfaces and Interfaces 18, 100421, 2025.

2024

Metal-Free Peptide Semiconductor-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sawsan Almohammed, Agata Fularz, Ahmed Alanazi, Mohammed Benali Kanoun, Souraya Goumri Said, Kai Tao, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Nano Letters 24, 16301–16308, 2024.

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Enabling the Clinical Translation of Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Biomarkers for Cancer Diagnosis Aidan T. O’Dowling, Brian J. Rodriguez, Tom K. Gallagher, Stephen D. Thorpe, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 24, 661–671, 2024.

Evidence of the Monopolar–Dipolar Crossover Regime: A Multiscale Study of Ferroelastic Domains by In Situ Microscopy Techniques John J.R. Scott, Guangming Lu, Brian J. Rodriguez, Ian MacLaren, Ekhard K.H. Salje, Miryam Arredondo, Small 20, 2400646, 2024.

Quasi-Hexagonal Nanopatterned Porous Cobalt Ferrite Thin Films Prepared via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Ana Castro, Luís P. Ferreira, Mariana Godinho, Brian J. Rodriguez, Paula M. Vilarinho, Paula Ferreira, Nano Select 5, e2300113, 2024.

Bioresorbable Polyester Coatings with Antifouling and Antimicrobial Properties for Prevention of Biofilm Formation in Early Stage Infections on Ti6Al4V Hard-Tissue Implants David Zermeño-Pérez, Hicham Chouirfa, Brian J. Rodriguez, Thomas Dürig, Patrick Duffy, Tadhg Ó Cróinín, ACS Applied Bio Materials 7, 5728–5739, 2024.

Spatially Resolved High Voltage Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy: A Novel Avenue for Examining Electrical Phenomena at Nanoscale Conor J. McCluskey, Niyorjyoti Sharma, Jesi R. Maguire, Serene Pauly, Andrew Rogers, T.J. Lindsay, Kristina M. Holsgrove, Brian J. Rodriguez, Navneet Soin, John Marty Gregg, Raymond G.P. McQuaid, Amit Kumar, Advanced Physics Research 3, 2400011, 2024.

Rapidly Reversible Persistent Long-Term Potentiation Inhibition by Patient-Derived Brain Tau and Amyloid β Proteins Tomas Ondrejcak, Igor Klyubin, Neng-Wei Hu, Yin Yang, Qiancheng Zhang, Brian J. Rodriguez, et al., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379, 20230234, 2024.

The Use of Fluid-Phase 3D Printing to Pattern Alginate-Gelatin Hydrogel Properties to Guide Cell Growth and Behaviour In Vitro Andrea Souza, M.C. Kevin, Brian J. Rodriguez, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Biomedical Materials 19, 045024, 2024.

Visible Light Activation of Impurity Doped Lithium Niobate for Photocatalysis Ahmed T. Alanazi, Aeshah F. Alotaibi, Jordan Kenny, Conor Dillon, Fahad Thuwayb, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Applied Physics Letters 124, 081105, 2024.

Insights into the Feature Size Required for the Death of Pseudomonas fluorescens on Nanostructured Silicon Fabricated by Block Copolymer Lithography Graham Reid, Lucia Podhorska, Jessica McFadden, Robert O’Connor, Brian J. Rodriguez, Laura Quinn, Dishon Hiebner, Eoin Casey, Susan M. Kelleher, Materials Today Communications 38, 108386, 2024.

Engineering 2D Nickel Boride/Borate Amorphous/Amorphous Heterostructures for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting and Magnetism Xu Lin, Vasileios Tzitzios, Qiancheng Zhang, Brian J. Rodriguez, Aran Rafferty, Raman Bekarevich, Michael Pissas, Maria Veronica Sofianos, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 8, 2125–2137, 2024.

The Antibacterial Activity of Hierarchical Patterns of Nanostructured Silicon Fabricated Using Block Copolymer Micelle Lithography Jessica McFadden, Graham Reid, Lucia Podhorska, Brian J. Rodriguez, Eoin Casey, Susan M. Kelleher, Advanced Engineering Materials 26, 2301663, 2024.

Structure-Dynamics Correlations in Composite PF127-PEG-Based Hydrogels; Cohesive/Hydrophobic Interactions Determine Phase and Rheology and Identify the Role of Micelle Krutika Singh, Jacek K. Wychowaniec, Charlotte J.C. Edwards-Gayle, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Brian J. Rodriguez, Dermot F. Brougham, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 660, 302–313, 2024.

Piezoelectric Peptide Nanotube Substrate Sensors Activated Through Sound Wave Energy Sawsan Almohammed, Allan Finlay, Dominik Duleba, Shane Cosgrave, Robert Johnson, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, ACS Materials Letters 6, 1863–1869, 2024.

Nanoimprinted Cellulose Acetate-TiO₂ Composite Thin Film Aeshah F. Alotaibi, Ahmed Alanazi, Anna Lesniak-Podsiadlo, Aoife Gowen, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 59, 101257, 2024.

A Nano-Imprinted Graphene Oxide-Cellulose Composite as a SERS Active Substrate Aeshah F. Alotaibi, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Analytical Methods 16, 3385–3391, 2024.

AFM-Based Functional Tomography – To Mill or Not to Mill, That is the Question! Niyorjyoti Sharma, Kristina M. Holsgrove, James Dalzell, Conor J. McCluskey, Jing He, Dennis Meier, Brian J. Rodriguez, Navneet Soin, John Marty Gregg, Amit Kumar, Advanced Materials Interfaces 11, 2400813, 2024.

Thermoresponsiveness Across the Physiologically Accessible Range: Effect of Surfactant, Cross-Linker, and Initiator Content on Size, Structure, and Transition Temperature of Poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) Microgels Danielle Winning, Jacek K. Wychowaniec, Bing Wu, Brian J. Rodriguez, Dermot F. Brougham, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 660, 314–325, 2024.

Magnetic Chitosan Bionanocomposite Films as a Versatile Platform for Biomedical Hyperthermia A Barra, Jacek K. Wychowaniec, Danielle Winning, M.M. Cruz, Luís P. Ferreira, Brian J. Rodriguez, Helena Oliveira, Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, Cláudia Nunes, Dermot F. Brougham, Paula Ferreira, Advanced Healthcare Materials 13, 2303861, 2024.

Modification of Living Diatom, Thalassiosira weissflogii, with a Calcium Precursor through a Calcium Uptake Mechanism: A Next Generation Biomaterial A Abdul Rahman, I.L. Mohd Isa, S.A.M. Tofail, L. Bartlomiej, Brian J. Rodriguez, Manus J. Biggs, Abhay Pandit, ACS Applied Bio Materials 7, 4102–4115, 2024.

Scalable One-Pot Synthesis of Amorphous Iron-Nickel-Boride Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Alkaline Water Electrolysis B. Schmitt, E. Murphy, S.J. Trivedi, Qiancheng Zhang, Brian J. Rodriguez, Aran Rafferty, Raman Bekarevich, Gabor Ersek, Giuseppe Portale, M. Veronica Sofianos, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 8, 5793–5805, 2024.

2023

Role of pH and Crosslinking Ions on Cell Viability and Metabolic Activity in Alginate–Gelatin 3D Prints A Souza, M. Parnell, Brian J. Rodriguez, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Gels 9, 853, 2023.

Antibacterial Properties of Lithium Niobate Crystal Substrates R.M. Al-Shammari, A. Kassem, Nebras Al-attar, Michele Manzo, Katia Gallo, P. Whyte, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, International Journal of Optomechatronics 6, 4150–4160, 2023.

Cannabidiol-Mediated Sequestration of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Peptides in ADDL Oligomers Y. Li, Fengyuan Zhang, C.E. Herron, I. Rosales, A. Heredia, N.V. Buchete, Brian J. Rodriguez, Nicolae-Viorel Buchete, American Journal of Molecular Biology 13, 113–126, 2023.

Deterministic Dual Control of Phase Competition in Strained BiFeO₃: A Multiparametric Structural Lithography Approach Nathan Black, David Edwards, Niall Browne, Joseph G.M. Guy, Niyorjyoti Sharma, Kristina M. Holsgrove, Aaron B. Naden, Raymond G.P. McQuaid, Brian J. Rodriguez, Amit Kumar, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology 6, 60–66, 2023.

Controlled Degradation of Polycaprolactone-Based Micropillar Arrays N. Geoghegan, M. O’Loughlin, C. Delaney, K.D. Rochfort, M. Kennedy, Brian J. Rodriguez, Susan M. Kelleher, Biomaterials Science 11, 3077–3091, 2023.

Exploring the Magnetic and Electrocatalytic Properties of Amorphous MnB Nanoflakes B. Fu, V. Tzitzios, Q. Zhang, Brian J. Rodriguez, M. Pissas, M.V. Sofianos, Nanomaterials 13, 300, 2023.

Thermally-Controlled Spherical Peptide Gel Architectures Prepared Using the pH Switch Method Sawsan Almohammed, M.B. Kanoun, S. Goumri-Said, M.W. Alam, A. Fularz, Brian J. Rodriguez, James H. Rice, Peptide Science 115, e24304, 2023.

2022

Comparing the performance of single and multifrequency Kelvin probe force microscopy techniques in air and water Jason I Kilpatrick, Emrullah Kargin, Brian J Rodriguez, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 13(1), 922–943, 2022.

A Biomimetic High Throughput Model of Cancer Cell Spheroid Dissemination onto Aligned Fibrillar Collagen Hossam Ibrahim, Stephen D Thorpe, Michael Paukshto, Tatiana S Zaitseva, Wolfgang Moritz, Brian J Rodriguez, SLAS technology, 27(4), 267–275, 2022.

Controlling Amyloid Fibril Properties Via Ionic Liquids: The Representative Case of Ethylammonium Nitrate and Tetramethylguanidinium Acetate on the Amyloidogenesis of Lysozyme Visakh VS Pillai, Pallavi Kumari, Srikanth Kolagatla, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Svemir Rudić, Brian J Rodriguez, Marina Rubini, Katarzyna M Tych, Antonio Benedetto, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13, 7058–7064, 2022.

Topographical changes in high-protein, milk powders as a function of moisture sorption using amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy Vinay SN Mishra, Tomasz J Ochalski, Noel A McCarthy, André Brodkorb, Brian J Rodriguez, Sean A Hogan, Food Hydrocolloids, 127, 107504, 2022.

Characterization of Electromechanical Performance of Chitosan Films Dayana Guzmán, Srikanth Kolagatla, Brian J Rodriguez, Paula M Vilarinho, Cláudia Nunes, Paula Ferreira Materials Proceedings, 8(1), 76, 2022.

Graphene oxide modulates inter-particle interactions in 3D printable soft nanocomposite hydrogels restoring magnetic hyperthermia responses Esther Rani Aluri, Edward Gannon, Krutika Singh, Srikanth Kolagatla, Krystian Kowiorski, Sameer Shingte, Eoin McKiernan, Cara Moloney, Katie McGarry, Liam Jowett, Brian J Rodriguez, Dermot F Brougham, and Jacek K Wychowaniec, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 611, 533–544, 2022.

Structure Fabrication on Silicon at Atomic and Close-To-Atomic Scale Using Atomic Force Microscopy: Implications for Nanopatterning and Nanodevice Fabrication Paven Thomas Mathew, Wei Han, Brian J Rodriguez, Fengzhou Fang, Micromachines, 13(4), 524, 2022.

Structural Transition-Induced Raman Enhancement in Bioinspired Diphenylalanine Peptide Nanotubes Sawsan Almohammed, Agata Fularz, Mohammed Benali Kanoun, Souraya Goumri-Said, Abdullah Aljaafari, Brian J. Rodriguez, and James H. Rice, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(10), 12504–12514, 2022.

Toward Single-Atomic-Layer Lithography on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite Surfaces Using AFM-Based Electrochemical Etching Wei Han, Paven Thomas Mathew, Srikanth Kolagatla, Brian J Rodriguez, Fengzhou Fang, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, 5(1), 32–38, 2022.

Foreword to the Special Issue on SPM-Based Nanofabrication: Machining, Electrochemistry, and Lithography Brian J Rodriguez, Jason I Kilpatrick Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, 5(1), 1, 2022.

Deterministic Dual Control of Phase Competition in Strained BiFeO3: A Multiparametric Structural Lithography Approach Nathan Black, David Edwards, Niall Browne, Joseph GM Guy, Niyorjyoti Sharma, Kristina M Holsgrove, Aaron B Naden, Raymond GP McQuaid, Brian J Rodriguez, Amit Kumar, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, 5(1), 60–66, 2022.

Mechanical writing of electrical polarization in poly (L-lactic) acid Nathalie Barroca, Liam Collins, Brian J Rodriguez, M Helena V Fernandes, Paula M Vilarinho, Acta Biomaterialia, 139, 249–258, 2022.

Microfabrication of peptide self-assemblies: inspired by nature towards applications Jiahao Zhang, Yancheng Wang, Brian J. Rodriguez, Rusen Yang, Bin Yu, Deqing Mei, Kai Tao, Junbai Li, and Ehud Gazit, Chemical Society Reviews, 51, 6936–6947, 2022.

2021

Boosting Polarization Switching-Induced Current Injection by Mechanical Force in Ferroelectric Thin Films Fengyuan Zhang, Hua Fan, Bing Han, Yudong Zhu, Xiong Deng, David Edwards, Amit Kumar, Deyang Chen, Xingsen Gao, Zhen Fan, and Brian J Rodriguez, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 26180–26186, 2021.

Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics of Diphenylalanine Amyloid Peptides in Electric Fields Brajesh Narayan, Colm Herbert, Brian J Rodriguez, Bernard R Brooks, and Nicolae-Viorel Buchete, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125, 5233–5242, 2021.

High Aspect Ratio Polymeric Nanoneedle Arrays James C McCormack, Lucia Podhorska, Colm Delaney, Fengyuan Zhang, Brian J Rodriguez, and Susan M Kelleher, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 306, 2000754, 2021.

Spatiotemporally Resolved Heat Dissipation in 3D Patterned Magnetically Responsive Hydrogels Patricia Monks, Jacek K Wychowaniec, Eoin McKiernan, Shane Clerkin, John Crean, Brian J Rodriguez, Emmanuel G Reynaud, Andreas Heise, and Dermot F Brougham, Small 17, 2004452, 2021.

Maximizing Information: A Machine Learning Approach for Analysis of Complex Nanoscale Electromechanical Behavior in Defect‐Rich PZT Films Fengyuan Zhang, Kerisha N Williams, David Edwards, Aaron B Naden, Yulian Yao, Sabine M Neumayer, Amit Kumar, Brian J Rodriguez, and Nazanin Bassiri‐Gharb, Small Methods 5, 2100552, 2021.

Electric Field Tunability of Photoluminescence from a Hybrid Peptide–Plasmonic Metal Microfabricated Chip Sawsan Almohammed, Okan K. Orhan, Sorcha Daly, David D O’Regan, Brian J Rodriguez, Eoin Casey, and James H Rice, JACS Au 1, 1987–1995, 2021.

Mechanism of action of ionic liquids on the amyloidogenesis of lysozyme Visakh Pillai, Katarzyna Tych, Marina Rubini, Brian Rodriguez, and Antonio Benedetto, EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS 50, SUPPL 1, 149, 2021.

Subtoxic concentrations of ionic liquids enhance cell migration by reducing the elasticity of the cellular lipid membrane Pallavi Kumari, Visakh Pillai, Brian Rodriguez, Maria Prencipe, and Antonio Benedetto, EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS 50, SUPPL 1, 149, 2021.