Publications of Shahrouz Amini

Phua, E. J. R.; Liu, M.; Cho, B.; Liu, Q.; Amini, S.; Hu, X.; Gan, C. L.: Novel high temperature polymeric encapsulation material for extreme environment electronics packaging. Materials & Design 141, pp. 202 - 209 (2018)

Eder, M.; Shahrouz, A.; Fratzl, P.: Biological composites—complex structures for functional diversity. Science 362 (6414), pp. 543 - 547 (2018)

Tadayon, M.; Amini, S.; Wang, Z.; Miserez, A.: Biomechanical design of the mantis shrimp saddle: a biomineralized spring used for rapid raptorial strikes. iScience 8, pp. 271 - 282 (2018)

Hiew, S. H.; Sanchez-Ferrer, A.; Amini, S.; Zhou, F.; Adamcik, J.; Guerette, P.; Su, H.; Mezzenga, R.; Miserez, A.: Squid suckerin biomimetic peptides form amyloid-like crystals with robust mechanical properties. Biomacromolecules 18 (12), pp. 4240 - 4248 (2017)

Marcus, M. A.; Amini, S.; Stifler, C. A.; Sun, C.-Y.; Tamura, N.; Bechtel, H. A.; Parkinson, D. Y.; Barnard, H. S.; Zhang, X. X. X.; Chua, J. Q. I. et al.; Miserez, A.; Gilbert, P. U. P. A.: Parrotfish teeth: stiff biominerals whose microstructure makes them tough and abrasion-resistant to bite stony corals. ACS Nano 11 (12), pp. 11856 - 11865 (2017)

Ding, D.; Pan, J.; Lim, S. H.; Amini, S.; Kang, L.; Miserez, A.: Squid suckerin microneedle arrays for tunable drug release. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 5 (43), pp. 8467 - 8478 (2017)

Amini, S.; Kolle, S.; Petrone, L.; Ahanotu, O.; Sunny, S.; Sutanto, C. N.; Hoon, S.; Cohen, L.; Weaver, J. C.; Aizenberg, J. et al.; Vogel, N.; Miserez, A.: Preventing mussel adhesion using lubricant-infused materials. Science 357 (6352), pp. 668 - 673 (2017)

Hu, B.; Leow, W. R.; Amini, S.; Nai, B.; Zhang, X.; Liu, Z.; Cai, P.; Li, Z.; Wu, Y.-L.; Miserez, A. et al.; Lim, C. T.; Chen, X.: Orientational coupling locally orchestrates a cell migration pattern for re-epithelialization. Advanced Materials 29 (29), 1700145 (2017)

Ping, Y.; Hu, X.; Yao, Q.; Hu, Q.; Amini, S.; Miserez, A.; Tang, G.: Engineering bioinspired bacteria-adhesive clay nanoparticles with a membrane-disruptive property for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. Nanoscale 8 (36), pp. 16486 - 16498 (2016)

Cai, P.; Layani, M.; Leow, W. R.; Amini, S.; Liu, Z.; Qi, D.; Hu, B.; Wu, Y.-L.; Miserez, A.; Magdassi, S. et al.; Chen, X.: Bio-inspired mechanotactic hybrids for orchestrating traction-mediated epithelial migration. Advanced Materials 28 (16), pp. 3102 - 3110 (2016)

Alam, P.; Amini, S.; Tadayon, M.; Miserez, A.; Chinsamy, A.: Properties and architecture of the sperm whale skull amphitheatre. Zoology 119 (1), pp. 42 - 51 (2016)

Amini, S.; Tadayon, M.; Idapalapati, S.; Miserez, A.: The role of quasi-plasticity in the extreme contact damage tolerance of the stomatopod dactyl club. Nature Materials 14 (9), pp. 943 - 950 (2015)

Alam, P.; Fagerlund, P.; Hagerstrand, P.; Toyryla, J.; Amini, S.; Tadayon, M.; Miserez, A.; Kumar, V.; Pahlevan, M.; Toivakka, M.: L-Lysine templated CaCO₃ precipitated to flax develops flowery crystal structures that improve the mechanical properties of natural fibre reinforced composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 75, pp. 84 - 88 (2015)

Du, Z.; Zeng, X. M.; Liu, Q.; Lai, A.; Amini, S.; Miserez, A.; Schuh, C. A.; Gan, C. L.: Size effects and shape memory properties in ZrO2 ceramic micro- and nano-pillars. Scripta Materialia 101, pp. 40 - 43 (2015)

Rubin, D. J.; Amini, S.; Zhou, F.; Su, H.; Miserez, A.; Joshi, N. S.: Structural, nanomechanical, and computational characterization of D,L-cyclic peptide assemblies. ACS Nano 9 (3), pp. 3360 - 3368 (2015)

Latza, V.; Guerette, P. A.; Ding, D.; Amini, S.; Kumar, A.; Schmidt, I.; Keating, S.; Oxman, N.; Weaver, J. C.; Fratzl, P. et al.; Miserez, A.; Masic, A.: Multi-scale thermal stability of a hard thermoplastic protein-based material. Nature Communications 6, 8313 (2015)

Petrone, L.; Kumar, A.; Sutanto, C. N.; Patil, N. J.; Kannan, S.; Palaniappan, A.; Amini, S.; Zappone, B.; Verma, C.; Miserez, A.: Mussel adhesion is dictated by time-regulated secretion and molecular conformation of mussel adhesive proteins. Nature Communications 6, 8737 (2015)

Tadayon, M.; Amini, S.; Masic, A.; Miserez, a. A.: The mantis shrimp saddle: a biological spring combining stiffness and flexibility. Advanced Functional Materials 25 (41), pp. 6437 - 6447 (2015)

Amini, S.; Masic, A.; Bertinetti, L.; Teguh, J. S.; Herrin, J. S.; Zhu, X.; Su, H.; Miserez, A.: Textured fluorapatite bonded to calcium sulphate strengthen stomatopod raptorial appendages. Nature Communications 5, 3187 (2014)

Guerette, P. A.; Hoon, S.; Ding, D.; Amini, S.; Masic, A.; Ravi, V.; Venkatesh, B.; Weaver, J. C.; Miserez, A.: Nanoconfined beta-sheets mechanically reinforce the supra-biomolecular network of robust squid sucker ring teeth. ACS Nano 8 (7), pp. 7170 - 7179 (2014)