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2022

 

76. Kumar, S., Wang, Y., Hedayati, M., Fleissner, F., Rausch, M. K., & Parekh, S. H. (2022). Structural control of fibrin bioactivity by mechanical deformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2117675119.

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75. Kalkunte, N., Delambre, T., Sohn, S., Pickett, M., Parekh, S. H., & Zoldan, J. (2022). Engineering Alignment has Mixed Effects on hiPSC-CM Maturation. bioRxiv..

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74. Paul, A., Kumar, S., Kaoud, T. S., Pickett, M. R., Bohanon, A. L., Zoldan, J., ... & Parekh, S. H. (2022). Biomechanical dependence of SARS-CoV-2 infections. ACS applied bio materials.

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73. Jennings, C. M., King, J. B., & Parekh, S. H. (2022). Low-cost, minimalistic line-scanning confocal microscopy. Optics Letters, 47(16), 4191-4194.

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72. Chatterjee, S., Maltseva, D., Kan, Y., Hosseini, E., Gonella, G., Bonn, M., & Parekh, S. H. (2022). Lipid-driven condensation and interfacial ordering of FUS. Science advances, 8(31), eabm7528.

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71. Scott, N. R., & Parekh, S. H. (2022). A-type lamins involvement in transport and implications in cancer?. Nucleus, 13(1), 221-235.

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70. Michels, J.J.#, Brzezinski, M., Scheidt, R., Lemke, E.A., Parekh, S.H. Role of Solvent Compatibility in the Phase Behavior of Binary Solutions of Weakly Associating Multivalent Polymers, Biomacromolecules, 23(1): 349-364. 

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2021

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69. Chatterjee, S., Kan, Y., Brzezinski, M., Koynov, K., Regy, R.M., Murthy, A.C., Burke, K.A., Michels, J.J., Mittal, J., Fawzi, N.L., Parekh, S.H.#, Reversible Kinetic Trapping of FUS Biomolecular Condensates, Advanced Science, 9(4): 2104247.

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68. Fawzi, N.L.#, Parekh, S.H., Mittal, J. Biophysical studies of phase separation integrating experimental and computational methods, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 70: 78-86.

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67. Rausch, M.K.#, Parekh, S.H.#, Dortdivanlioglu, B.#, Rosales, A.M.#, Synthetic hydrogels as blood clot mimicking wound healing materials, Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 3(4): 024006.

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66. Crosby, C.O., Hillsley, A., Kumar, S., Stern, B., Parekh, S.H., Rosales, A.M., Zoldan,J.#, Phototunable interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels to stimulate the vasculogenesis of stem cell-derived endothelial progenitors, Acta Biomaterialia, 122: 133-144.

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​65. Sugerman, G.P., Kakaletsis, S., Thakkar, P., Chokshi, A., Parekh, S.H., Rausch, M.K.#, A whole blood thrombus mimic: Constitutive behavior under simple shear, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 115: 104216.

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64. Wang, Y., Kumar, S., Nisar, A., Bonn, M., Rausch, M.K., Parekh, S.H.#, Probing fibrin's molecular response to shear and tensile deformation with coherent Raman microscopy, Acta Biomaterialia, 121: 383-392.


63. Kumar, S.*, Paul, A.*, Chatterjee, S., Pütz, S., Nehra, N., Wang, D.S., Nisar, A., Jennings, C.M., Parekh, S.H.#, Effect of ambient temperature on respiratory tract cells exposed to SARS-CoV-2 viral mimicking nanospheres—An experimental study, Biointerfaces, accepted.

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62. Kumar, S., Parekh, S.H.# Molecular control of interfacial fibronectin structure on graphene oxide steers cell fate, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(1): 011006.

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​2020

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61. Li, M., Zajaczkowski, W., Velpula, G., Jänsch, D., Graf, R., Marszalek, T., Parekh, S.H., Zagranyarski Y., Mali, K., Wagner, M., De Feyter, S., Li., C., Müllen, K., Pisula, W.#, Transformation from helical to layered supramolecular organization of asymmetric perylene diimides via multiple intermolecular hydrogen bonding, Chemical Science, 11(19): 4960-4968.

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60. Sugerman, G.P., Parekh, S.H., Rausch, M.K.#, Nonlinear dissipative phenomena in whole blood clot mechanics, Soft Matter, 16(43): 9908-9916.

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59. Centi, A., Dutta, A., Parekh, S.H., Bereau, T.#, Inserting Small Molecules across Membrane Mixtures: Insight from the Potential of Mean Force, Biophysical Journal, 118(6): 1321-1332, 202058.

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58. Daemen, S., Gemmink, A., Paul, P., Billecke, N., Rieger, K., Parekh, S.H.#, Hesselink, M.K.C.#, Label-free CARS microscopy reveals similar triacylglycerol acyl chain length and saturation in myocellular lipid droplets of athletes and individuals with type 2 diabetes, Diabetologia, 63(12): 2652-2664.

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57. Fleissner, F., Kumar, S., Klein, N., Wirth, D., Dhiman, R., Schneider, D., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Tension Causes Unfolding of Intracellular Vimentin Intermediate Filaments, Advanced biosystems, 4(11): 2000111.

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56. Varol, H.S#., Srivastava, A., Kumar, S., Bonn, M., Meng, F., Parekh S.H.#, Bridging chains mediate nonlinear mechanics of polymer nanocomposites under cyclic deformation, Polymer, 200: 122529.

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55. Schwendy, M#., Unger, R.E., Parekh S.H#., EVICAN – A balanced dataset for algorithm development in cell and nucleus segmentation, Bioinformatics, 36(12): 3863–3870.

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54. Kumar, S., Parekh S.H#., Linking graphene based material physicochemical properties with molecular adsorption, structure, and cell fate, Communciations Chemistry, 3(1), 1-11.

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53. Liu, X., Chen, S., Chen, Q. Yao, X., Gelléri, M., Ritz, S. Kumar, S., Cremer, C., Landfester, K.,Müllen, K., Parekh, S.H., Narita, A., Bonn, M#. Nanographenes: ultrastable, switchable, and bright probes for super-resolution microscopy, Angewandte Chemie, 59: 496-602. PDF

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2019

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52. Murthy, A., Dignon, G., Kan, Y., Zerze, G., Parekh, S.H., Mittal, J., Fawzi, N.L.#. Characterization of the molecular interactions underlying liquid phase separation of the low complexity domain of FUS, Nature Struct. and Mol. Bio., 26 (7): 637-648. PDF

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51. Paul, A., Wang, Y., Brännmark, C., Kumar, S., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#. Quantitative mapping of triacylglycerol chain length and saturation using broadband CARS microscopy, Biophysical Journal, 116(12): 2346-2355. PDF

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50. Ling, X., Bonn, M., Domke, K.F., Parekh, S.H.#. Correlated interfacial water transport and proton conductivity in perfluorosulfonic acid membranes, PNAS, 116(18): 8715-8720. PDF

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49. Crosby, C.O., Valliappan, D., Shu, D., Kumar, S., Tu, C., Deng, W., Parekh, S.H., Zoldan, J#. Quantifying the vasculogenic potential of iPSC-derived endothelial progenitors in collagen hydrogels, Tissue Engineering Part A, 25(9-10): 746-758. PDF

 

48. Breitenbach, B.B., Steiert, E., Konhäuser, M., Vogt, L-M., Wang. Y., Parekh, S.H., Wich, P.R.#, Double stimuli-responsive polysaccharide block copolymers as green macrosurfactants for near-infrared photodynamic therapy, Soft Matter, 15: 1423-1324. PDF.

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47. Schwendy M.#, Unger, R.E., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Automated cell segmentation in FIJI® using the DRAQ5 nuclear dye, BMC Bioinformatics, 20: 39, 2019. PDF

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2018
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46. Rastian, Z., Pütz, S., Wang Y., Kumar, S., Fleissner, F., Weidner, T., Parekh, S.H.#, Type I collagen from jellyfish Catostylus mosaicus for biomaterial applications, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 4: 2115-2125, 2018. PDF

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45. Moreno Ostertag, L.*, Ling, X.*, Domke, K.F., Parekh, S.H., Valtiner, M.#, Characterizing the hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic transition of electrolyte structuring in proton exchange membrane mimicking surfaces, PCCP, 20: 11722-11729, 2018. PDF

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44. Lau, H., Paul, A., Sidhu, I., Li, L., Sabanayagam, C.R., Parekh, S.H., Kiick,K.L.#, Microstructured Elastomer-PEG Hydrogels via Kinetic Capture of Aqueous Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, Advanced Science, 1701010, 2018. PDF

43. Fleissner, F. and Parekh, S.H.#, Imaging mechanotransduction:  Seeing the forces from molecules to cells, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 5: 58-65, 2018. PDF

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2017

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42. Mozhdehi, D., Luginbuhl, K.M., Simon, J.R., Dzuricky, M., Berger, R., Varol, H.S., Huang, F.C., Buehne, K.L., Mayne, N.R., Weitzhandler, I., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H., Chilkoti, A.#, Genetically encoded lipid-polypeptide hybrid biomaterials that exhibit temperature triggered hierarchical self-assembly, Nature Chemistry, 10: 496-505, 2017. PDF
 

41. Fleissner, F., Pütz, S., Schwendy, M., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Measuring intracellular secondary structure of a cell penetrating peptide in situ, Analytical Chemistry, 89 (21): 11310-112317, 2017. PDF

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40. Chen, Z., Thiramanas, R., Schwendy, M., Xie, C., Parekh, S.H., Mailänder, V.#, Wi, S.#, Upconversion nano-carriers encapsulated with photoactivatable Ru complexes for nearinfrared light-regulated enzyme activity, Small, 13 (1700997): 1-9, 2017. PDF

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39. Hunger, J.# and Parekh, S.H.#, A water window on surface chemistry, Science, 357 (6353): 755-756, 2017. PDF

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38. Kim, H.#, Hunger, J., Cánovas, E., Karakus, M., Mics, Z., Grechko, M., Turchinovich, D., Parekh, S.H., Bonn, M.#, Direct observation of mode-specific phonon-band gap coupling in methylammonium lead halide perovskites, Nature Communications, 8 (687), 2017. PDF

37. Liu, A.P.#, Chaudhuri, O.#, Parekh, S.H.#, New advances in probing cell-ECM interactions, Integrative Biology, 9 (5): 383-405, 2017. PDF

36. Varol, H.S., Meng, F., Hosseinkhani, B., Malm, C., Bonn, D., Bonn, M., Zaccone, A., Parekh, S.H.#, Nanoparticle amount, and not size, determines chain alignment and nonlinear hardening in polymer nanocomposites, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (16):  E3170-E3177, 2017. PDF

35. von Hoven, G., Rivas, A., Neukirch, C., Qin, Q., Meyenburg, M., Parekh, S.H., Hellmann, N., Husmann, M.#, Repair of a bacterial small β-barrel toxin pore depends on channel width, mBio, 8 (1): e02083-16, 2017. PDF

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2016

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34. Waschatko, G., Billecke, N., Schwendy, S., Jaurich, H., Bonn, M., Vilgis, Parekh, S.H.#, Label-free in situ imaging of oil body dynamics and chemistry in germination, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13: 20160677, 2016. PDF

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33. Fleissner, F., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Microscale spatial heterogeneity of protein structural transitions in fibrin matrices, Science Advances, 2 (7): e1501778, 2016. PDF

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32. D'Angelo, F., H. Nemec, Parekh, S.H., Kuzel, P., Bonn, M., Turchinovich, D.#, Self-referenced ultrabroadband transient terahertz spectroscopy using air-photonics, Optics Express, 24 (9): 10157-10171, 2016. PDF

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31. Ling, X., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Domke, K.F.#, Nanoscale distribution of sulfonic acid groups determines structure and binding of water in Nafion membranes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55 (12): 4011-4015, 2016. PDF

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30. Daemen, S., van Zandvoort, M.A.M.J., Parekh, S.H., Hesselink, M.K.C.#, Microscopy tools for the investigation of intracellular lipid storage and dynamics, Molecular Metabolism, 5 (3): 153-163, 2016. PDF

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2015

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29. Kopp, R.#, Billecke, N., den Broeder, M., Parekh, S.H., Legler, J.#, BRINGING OBESITY TO LIGHT: Rev-erbα, a central player in light induced adipogenesis in the zebrafish?, International Journal of Obesity, 1-9, 2015. PDF

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28. Varol, H.S., Sánchez, M.A., Lu, H., Baio, J., Malm, C., Garcia, N.E., Mermet-Guyennet, M.R.B., Martzel, N., Bonn, D., Bonn, M., Weidner, T., Backus, E.H.G., Parekh, S.H.#, Multi-scale effects of interfacial polymer confinement in silica nanocomposites, Macromolecules, 48 (21): 7929-7937, 2015. PDF

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27. Prakash, K., Fournier, D., Redl, S., Best, G., Borsos, M., Tiwari, V.K., Tachibana-Konwalski, K., Ketting, R.F., Parekh, S.H., Cremer, C., Birk, U., Super-resolution imaging reveals structurally distinct periodic patterns of chromatin along pachytene chromosomes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (47): 14635-14640, 2015. PDF

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26. Schach, D.K.*, Rock, W.*, Franz, J.*, Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Weidner, T.#, Reversible activation of a cell-penetrating peptide in a membrane environment, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137 (38): 12199-12202, 2015. PDF

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25. Mermet-Guyennet, M.R.B.#, de Castro, J.G., Varol, H.S., Habibi, M., Hosseinkhani, B., Martzel, N., Sprik, R., Denn, M.M., Zaccone, A., Parekh, S.H., Bonn, D., Size-dependent reinforcement of composite rubbers, Polymer, 73: 170-173, 2015. PDF

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24. de Castro, J.G., Zargar, R.#, Habibi, M., Varol, H.S., Parekh, S.H., Hosseinkhani, B., Adda-Bedia, M., Bonn, D., Nonmonotonic fracture behavior of polymer nanocomposites, Applied Physics Letters, 106 (221904): 1-4, 2015. PDF

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23. Farrukh, A., Ashraf F., Kaltbeitzal, A., Ling, X., Wagner, M., Duran, H., Ghaffar, A., Rehman, H., Parekh, S.H., Domke K.F., Yameen, B., Polymer brush functionalized SiO2 nanoparticles based Nafion nanocomposites: A novel avenue to low-humidity proton conducting membranes, Polymer Chemistry, 6: 5782-5789, 2015. PDF

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22. Billecke, N., Bosma, M., Rock, W., Fleissner, F., Best, G., Schrauwen, P., Kersten, S., Bonn, M., Hesselink, M.K.C.#, Parekh, S.H.#, Perlipin 5 mediated lipid droplet remodeling revealed by coherent Raman imaging, Integrative Biology, 7 (4): 467-476, 2015. PDF

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2014

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21. Dorresteijn, R., Billecke, N., Parekh, S.H., Klapper, M.#, Müllen, K., Polarity Reversal of Nanoparticle Surfaces by the Use of Light Sensitive Polymeric Emulsifiers, J. Polymer Science Part A, 52 (3): 200-205, 2014. PDF

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20. Lis, D.#, Backus, E.H.G., Hunger, J., Parekh, S.H., Bonn, M.#, Liquid flow along a surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry, Science, 344 (6188): 1138-1142, 2014. PDF

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19. Dorresteijn, R., Billecke, N., Schwendy, M., Pütz, S., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Klapper, M.#, Müllen, K., Polylactide-block-Polypeptide-block-Polylactide Copolymer Nanoparticles with Tunable Cleavage and Controlled Drug Release, Adv. Funct. Mater., 24: 4026-4033, 2014. PDF

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18. Farooque, T.M., Camp, C.H., Tison, C.K., Kumar, G., Parekh, S.H., Simon, C.G.#, Measuring stem cell dimensionality in tissue scaffolds, Biomaterials, 35: 2558-2567, 2014. PDF

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17. Billecke, N.*, Rago, G.*, Bosma, M., Eijkel, Gemmink, A., Leproux, P., Huss, G., Schrauwen, P., Hesselink, M.K.C., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H.#, Chemical imaging of lipid droplets in muscle tissues using hyperspectral coherent Raman microscopy, Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 141 (3): 263-273, 2014. PDF

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2013

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16. Oshovsky, G.V., Rago, G., Day, J.P.R., Soudijn, M.L., Rock, W., Parekh, S.H., Ciancaleoni, G., Reek, J.N., Bonn, M.#, Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microspectroscopic kinetic study of fast hydrogen bond formation in microfluidic devices, Analytical Chemistry, 85 (19): 8923–8927, 2013. PDF

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15. Parekh, S.H., Domke, K.F.#, Watching orientational ordering at the nanoscale with coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscopy, Chemistry - A European Journal, 19 (36): 11822-11830, 2013. PDF

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14. Rock, W., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H., Near shot-noise limited hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy using low energy lasers and a fast CMOS array, Optics Express, 21 (13): 15113-15120, 2013. PDF

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13. Dorresteijn, R., Ragg, R., Rago, G., Billecke, N., Bonn, M., Parekh, S.H., Battagliarin, G., Peneva, K., Wagner, M., Klapper, M.#, Müllen, K., Biocompatible Polylactide-block-Polypeptide-block-Polylactide Nanocarrier, Biomacromolecules, 14 (5): 1572-1577, 2013. PDF

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Work by Sapun Parekh before being an independent PI

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12. York, A.G.#, Parekh, S.H., Nogare, D.D., Fischer, R.S., Temprine, K., Mione, M., Chitnis, A.B., Combs, C.A., Shroff, H., Resolution doubling in live, multicellular organisms via multifocal structured illumination microscopy, Nature Methods, 9: 749–754, 2012. PDF

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11. Parekh S.H.*, Chatterjee, K.*, Lin-Gibson, S., Moore, N.M., Cicerone, M.T., Young, M.F., Simon, C.G.#, Modulus-driven differentiation of marrow stromal cells in 3D scaffolds that is independent of myosin-based cytoskeletal tension, Biomaterials, 32 (9): 2256-2264, 2011. PDF

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10. Lee, Y.#, Parekh, S.H., Fagan, J.A., Cicerone, M.T.#, Phonon dephasing and population decay dynamics of the G-band of semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes, Physical Review B, 82 (16): 165432, 2010. PDF

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9. Parekh, S.H., Lee, Y., Aamer, K.A., Cicerone, M.T.#, Label-free cellular imaging by broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, Biophysical Journal, 99 (8): 2695-2704, 2010. PDF

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8. Chatterjee, K., Lin-Gibson, S., Wallace, W.E., Parekh, S.H., Lee, Y., Cicerone, M.T., Young, M.F., Simon, C.G.#, The effect of 3D hydrogel scaffold modulus on osteoblast differentiation and mineralization revealed by combinatorial screening, Biomaterials, 31 (19): 5051-5062, 2010. PDF

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7. Lee, Y.#, Parekh S.H., Kim, Y., and Cicerone, M.T., Optimized continuum from a photonic crystal fiber for broadband time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, Optics Express, 18 (5): 4371-4369, 2010. PDF

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6. Chaudhuri, O., Parekh, S.H., Lam, W.A., Fletcher, D.A.#, Combined Side-View and Atomic Force Microscopy for Cell Mechanical Studies, Nature Methods, 6 (5): 383-387, 2009. PDF

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5. Stachowiak, J.C., Richmond, D.L., Li, T.H., Liu, A.P., Parekh, S.H., Fletcher, D.A.#, Unilamellar Vesicle Formation and Encapsulation by Microfluidic Jetting, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (12): 4697-4702, 2008. PDF

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4. Stachowiak, J.C., von Muhlen, M.G., Li, T.H., Jalilian, L., Parekh, S.H., Fletcher, D.A.#, Piezoelectric control of needle-free transdermal drug delivery, Journal of Controlled Release, 124 (1-2): 88-97, 2007. PDF

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3. Choy, J.L.*, Parekh, S.H.*, Chaudhuri, O., Liu, A.P., Footer, M.J., Bustamante, C.J., Theriot, J.A., Fletcher D.A.#, Differential force microscope for long-timescale biophysical measurements, Review of Scientific Instruments, 78 (043711): 1-6, 2007. PDF

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2. Chaudhuri O.*, Parekh S.H.*, Fletcher D.A.#, Reversible stress softening of actin networks, Nature, 445: 295-298, 2007. PDF

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1. Parekh S.H.*, Chaudhuri, O.*, Theriot, J.A., Fletcher D.A.#, Loading history determines the velocity of actin network growth, Nature Cell Biology, 7: 1219-1223, 2005. PDF

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