Publications

21. Yutong Wu, Charlene Z. Salamat, Alex Leon Ruiz, Alexander Simafranca, Eric Wu, Evan Doud, Zerina Mehmedovic, Jeffrey R. Lindemuth, Minh D. Phan, Alexander M. Spokoyny, Benjamin J. Schwartz* and Sarah H. Tolbert*. Using Bulky Dodecaborane-Based Dopants to Produce Mobile Charge Carriers in Amorphous Semiconducting Polymers. 2024. Chemistry of Materials, Accepted (LINK)

20. Ngoc A. Nguyen*, Christopher C. Bowland, Lilin He, Naresh C. Osti, Minh D. Phan, Jong K. Keum, Madhusudan Tyagi, Kelly M. Meek, Kenneth C. Littrell, Eugene Mamontov, John. Ankner, and Amit K. Naskar*. A Sustainable Multi-Dimensional Printable Material. 2023. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 7, 2300079 (LINK)

19. Ethan J. Miller, Minh D. Phan, Jamila Shah, and Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith*. Passive and Reversible Area Regulation of Supported Lipid Bilayers in Response to Fluid Flow. 2023. Biophysical Journal, 11, 2242-2255 (LINK)

18. J. F. Ankner*, R. Ashkar, J. F. Browning, T. R. Charlton, M. Doucet, C. E. Halbert, F. Islam, A. Karim, E. Kharlampieva, S. M. Kilbey II, J. Y. Y. Lin, M. D. Phan, G. S. Smith, S. A. Sukhishvili, R. Thermer, G. M. Veith, E. B. Watkins, and D. Wilson. Cinematic Reflectometry Using QIKR, The Quite Intense Kinetics Reflectometer. 2023. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94, 013302 (LINK)

17. Luke A. Galuska, Eric S. Muckley, Zhiqiang Cao, Dakota F. Ehlenberg, Zhiyuan Qian, Song Zhang, Simon Rondeau-Gagné, Minh D. Phan, John F. Ankner, Ilia N. Ivanov & Xiaodan Gu*. SMART Transfer Method to Directly Compare the Mechanical Response of Water-Supported and Free-Standing Ultrathin Polymeric Films. 2021. Nature Communications, 12, 2347 (LINK)

16. Minh D. Phan,§ Keel Yong Lee,§ Jumi Lee, Sushil K. Satija, Kwanwoo Shin*. The effect of cholesterol on membrane binding and self-assembly of collagen fibrils. 2020. Langmuir, 36, 7259-7267 (LINK)

15. Taylor J. Aubry,§ K.J. Winchell,§ Charlene Z. Salamat, Victoria M. Basile, Jeffrey R. Lindemuth, Julia M. Stauber, Jonathan C. Axtell, Rebecca M. Kubena, Minh D. Phan, Matthew J. Bird, Alexander M. Spokoyny*, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*. Tunable dopants with intrinsic counterion separation reveal the effects of electron affinity on dopant intercalation and free carrier production in sequentially doped conjugated polymer films. 2020. Advanced Functional Materials, 30, 2001800 (LINK)

14. Minh D. Phan*,§ Olena I. Korotych,§ Nathan G. Brady,§ Madeline M. Davis, Sushil K. Satija, John F. Ankner, and Barry D. Bruce*. X-ray and neutron reflectivity studies of styrene-maleic acid copolymer interactions with galactolipid-containing monolayers. 2020. Langmuir, 36, 3970-3980 (LINK) (§ Contributed equally)

13. Dongjin Choi, Jumi Lee, Minh Dinh Phan, Kwang Pyo Hong, Kwanwoo Shin*. Bio-REF: Neutron Reflectometer for investigation of bio-related thin films. 2018. Physica B, 551, 236-243 (LINK)

12. Jonghyun Kim, Jin Chul Kim, Minh Dinh Phan, Heesoo Kim*, Kwanwoo Shin*, and Moonhor Ree*. Self-Assembling Characteristics of Amphiphilic Zwitterionic Brush Random Copolymers at Air-Water Interface. 2017. RSC Advances, 7, 11813-11820 (LINK)

11. Minh Dinh Phan, Heesuk Kim, Songyi Lee, Chung-Jong Yu, Bongjin Moon, and Kwanwoo Shin*. HIV Peptide-Mediated Binding Behaviors of Nanoparticles on a Lipid Membrane. 2017.Langmuir, 33, 2590-2595 (LINK)  --> Selected as a Front Cover

10. Minh Dinh Phan,§ Jumi Lee,§ and Kwanwoo Shin*. Collapsed States of Langmuir Monolayer. 2016. Journal of Oleo Science, 65, 385-397 (§ Contributed equally) (LINK)

9. Siyeon Baek,§ Minh Dinh Phan,§ Jumi Lee,§ and Kwanwoo Shin*. Packing Effects on Polymerization of Diacetylene Lipids in Liposomes and Monolayers Matrices. 2016. Polymer Journal, 48, 457-463 (§ Contributed equally) (LINK)

8. Minh Dinh Phan, Kwanwoo Shin*. Polymer Brushes at Air-Water Interfaces. 2015. Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering (Elsevier) (LINK)

7. Zaure Avazbaeva, Woongmo Sung, Jonggwan Lee, Minh Dinh Phan, Kwanwoo Shin, David Vaknin, and Doseok Kim*. Origin of the Instability of Octadecylamine Langmuir Monolayer at low pH. 2015. Langmuir, 31, 13753-13758 (LINK)

6. Jonghyun Kim,§ Jungwoon Jung,§ Minh Dinh Phan,§ Kyung Ho Kwon, Brian J. Ree, Shunichi Nakayama, Heesoo Kim, Kwanwoo Shin*, Hideki Matsuoka*, and Moonhor Ree*. Self-assembly Behaviours of a Lipid-mimic Brush Polymer in Thin Films and at Air-Water Interface. 2015. Polymer, 78, 161-172 (§ Contributed equally) (LINK)

5. Minh Dinh Phan, Kwanwoo Shin*. Effect of Cardiolipin on Membrane Morphology: A Langmuir Monolayer Study. 2015. Biophysical Journal, 108, 1977-1986 (LINK)

The schematic model illustrates the effects of cardiolipin on the morphology of the monolayer membrane

4. Minh Dinh Phan, Kwanwoo Shin*. A Langmuir Monolayer: Ideal Model Membrane to Study Cell. 2014. Journal of Chemical and Biological Interfaces, 2, 1-5 (LINK)

General scheme for the in situ characterization for the Langmuir Monolayer at the water-air interface by using X-ray and neutron reflectivity

3. Jonghyun Kim§, Jungwoon Jung§, Minh Dinh Phan§, Kyung Ho Kwon, Brian J. Ree, Shunichi Nakayama, Heesoo Kim, Kwanwoo Shin*, Hideki Matsuoka*, and Moonhor Ree*. Self-Assembly Behaviors of a Well-Defined Amphiphilic Brush Polymer at the Air-Water Interface. 2014. Science of Advanced Materials, 6 (11), 2445-2452 (§ Contributed equally) (LINK)

Electron density profiles of the brush polymer at the air-water interface extracted from X-ray reflectivities at various packing states

2. Hyojin Ko, Minh Dinh Phan, Dibyendu Khatua, Chan-Hee Jung, Jae-Hak Choi, Oh-Sun Kwon*, and Kwanwoo Shin*. Analysis of Thickness of a Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Film Based on Electrowetting. 2013, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 9 (7), 1250-1253 (LINK)

Scheme for electrowetting device with two different wetting states of water drop upon the voltage applied

1. Joon Heon Kim*, Sang-Youp Yim, Myoung-Kyu Oh, Minh Dinh Phan, and Kwanwoo Shin. 2012. Adsorption behaviors and structural transitions of organic cations on an anionic lipid monolayer at the air-water interface. 2012, Soft Matter, 8, 6504-6511 (LINK)

The 3D schematic models for the equilibrated orientations of MG at the DPPG monolayer at different packing states.