Sintu Rongpipi

Publications

1. "Matrix polysaccharides affect preferred orientation of cellulose crystals in primary cell walls," Rongpipi, S.; Barnes, W.J.; Siemianowski, O.; Ye, D.; Del Mundo, J.T.; Duncombe, S.; Xin, X.; Zhu, C.; Toney, M.F.; Gu, Y.; Anderson, C.T.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W., Cellulose, 2024, 31, 1397-1415.

2. "Flexible pectin nanopatterning drives cell wall organization in plants," Siemianowski, O.; Rongpipi, S.; Del Mundo, J.T.; Freychet, G.; Zhernenkov, M.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W.; Anderson, C.T., JACS Au, 2024, 4(1): 177-188. 

3. "Measuring calcium content in plants using NEXAFS spectroscopy," Rongpipi, S.; Barnes, W.J.; Semianowski, O.; Del Mundo, J.T.; Wang, C.; Freychet, G.; Zhernenkov, M.; Anderson, C.T.; Gomez, E.W.; Gomez, E.D. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023, 14:1212126.  

4. "Grazing-incidence diffraction reveals cellulose and pectin organization in hydrated plant primary cell wall," Del Mundo, J.T.; Rongpipi, S.; Yang, H.; Ye, D.; Kiemle, S.N.; Moffit, S.L.; Troxel, C.L.; Toney, M.F.; Zhu, C.; Kubicki, J.D.; Cosgrove, D.J.; Gomez, E.W.; Gomez, E.D., Scientific Reports, 2023, 13: 5421. 

5. "Extracting structural insights from soft X-ray scattering of biological assemblies," Rongpipi, S.; Del Mundo, J.T.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W. in Small Angle Scattering Part B: Methods for Structural Interpretation (Methods in Enzymology), 2022, (ed. J. Tainer) (Elsevier). 

6. "Characterization of biological materials with soft X-ray scattering," Del Mundo, J.T.; Rongpipi, S.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W. in Small Angle Scattering Part A: Methods for Structural Investigation (Methods in Enzymology), 2022, (ed. J. Tainer) (Elsevier). 

7. "An insight into microscopy and analytical techniques for morphological, structural, chemical, and thermal characterization of cellulose," Chakraborty, I.; Rongpipi, S.; Govindaraju, I.; Rakesh, B.; Mal, S.S.; Gomez, E.W., Gomez, E.D., Kalita, R.D., Nath, Y., Mazumder, N. Microscopy Research & Technique, 2022 85, 1990-2015.  

8. "Resonant X-ray scattering of biological assemblies," Rongpipi, S.; Del Mundo, J.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W., MRS Communications, 11(1), 1-17.

9. "Preferred crystallographic orientation of cellulose in plant primary cell walls," *Ye, D.; *Rongpipi, S.; Kiemle, S.; Barnes, W.; Chaves, A.; Zhu, C.; Norman, V.; Liebman-Pelaez, A.; Hexemer, A.; Toney, M.; Roberts, A.; Anderson, C.; Cosgrove, D.; Gomez, E.W.; Gomez, E.D., Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 1420. Penn State News *authors contributed equally to the work.

10.  "Aluminum oxide free-standing thin films to enable nitrogen edge soft X-ray scattering," Ye, D.; Rongpipi, S.; Litofsky, J.; Lee, Y.; Culp, T.; Yoo, S.H.; Jackson, T.N.; Wang, C.; Gomez, E.W.; Gomez, E.D., MRS Communications, 2019, 9, 224-228.

11.  "Progress and opportunities in the characterization of cellulose - an important regulator of cell wall growth and mechanics," Rongpipi, S.; Ye, D.; Gomez, E.D.; Gomez, E.W., Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019, 9, 1894. 

12. "Resonant soft X-ray scattering reveals cellulose microfibril spacing in plant primary cell walls," Ye, D.; Kiemle, S.; Rongpipi, S.; Wang, X.; Wang, C.; Cosgrove, D.J.; Gomez, E.W.; Gomez, E.D., Scientific Reports, 2018, 8, 12449.

Awards

Neville B. Smith Award, Advanced Light Source Student Poster Competition (2020)

Student Support Award, 4th International Conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering (2019)

NSLS – II & CFN Users’ Meeting Student Scholarship Award, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2017)