This page contains a rolling summary of research enabled by the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility. If you have an item to include in this list please contact Aju Jugessur by email. 

  • Avila, V., Yoon, B., Ingraci Neto, R. R., Silva, R. S., Ghose, S., Raj, R., & Jesus, L. M. (2020). Reactive flash sintering of the complex oxide Li0.5La0.5TiO3 starting from an amorphous precursor powder. Scripta Materialia, 176, 78–82. DOI                
  • Cho, S. K., Su, L.-J., Mao, C., Wolenski, C. D., Flaig, T. W., & Park, W. (2019). Multifunctional nanoclusters of NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ upconversion nanoparticle and gold nanorod for simultaneous imaging and targeted chemotherapy of bladder cancer. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 97, 784–792. DOI                
  • Maharaj, F. D. R., & Marshak, M. P. (2020). Titanium-Anthraquinone Material as a New Design Approach for Electrodes in Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries. Energies, 13(7), 1722. DOI                
  • O’Toole, R. J., Buur, P. J., Gump, C. J., Musgrave, C. B., & Weimer, A. W. (2020). Solid‐state sintering of core‐shell ceramic powders fabricated by particle atomic layer deposition. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. DOI                
  • Tao, R., Shen, X., Hu, Y., Kang, K., Zheng, Y., Luo, S., Yang, S., Li, W., Lu, S., Jin, Y., Qiu, L., & Zhang, W. (2020). Phosphine‐Based Covalent Organic Framework for the Controlled Synthesis of Broad‐Scope Ultrafine Nanoparticles. Small, 16(8), 1906005. DOI                
  • Wu, H., Sarfati, R., Wang, D., & Schwartz, D. K. (2020). Electrostatic Barriers to Nanoparticle Accessibility of a Porous Matrix. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(10), 4696–4704. DOI               


  • Avila, V., & Raj, R. (2019). Flash sintering of ceramic films: The influence of surface to volume ratio. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(6), 3063–3069. DOI                
  • Avila, V., & Raj, R. (2019). Reactive flash sintering of powders of four constituents into a single phase of a complex oxide in a few seconds below 700°C. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(11), 6443–6448. DOI                
  • Cai, Y., & Schwartz, D. K. (2018). Single-nanoparticle tracking reveals mechanisms of membrane fouling. Journal of Membrane Science, 563, 888–895. DOI                
  • Cox, L. M., Blevins, A. K., Drisko, J. A., Qi, Y., Ding, Y., Fiedler‐Higgins, C. I., Long, R., Bowman, C. N., & Killgore, J. P. (2019). Tunable Mechanical Anisotropy, Crack Guiding, and Toughness Enhancement in Two‐Stage Reactive Polymer Networks. Advanced Engineering Materials, 21(8), 1900578. DOI                
  • Dischinger, S. M., Rosenblum, J., Noble, R. D., & Gin, D. L. (2019). Evaluation of a nanoporous lyotropic liquid crystal polymer membrane for the treatment of hydraulic fracturing produced water via cross-flow filtration. Journal of Membrane Science, 592, 117313. DOI                
  • Dunn, C. A., Shi, Z., Zhou, R., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2019). (Cross-Linked Poly(Ionic Liquid)–Ionic Liquid–Zeolite) Mixed-Matrix Membranes for CO2/CH4 Gas Separations Based on Curable Ionic Liquid Prepolymers. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58(11), 4704–4708. DOI    
  • Dwulet, G. E., Dischinger, S. M., McGrath, M. J., Basalla, A. J., Malecha, J. J., Noble, R. D., & Gin, D. L. (2019). Breathable, Polydopamine-Coated Nanoporous Membranes That Selectively Reject Nerve and Blister Agent Simulant Vapors. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58(47), 21890–21893. DOI                
  • Grayson, M., Zohrabi, M., Bae, K., Zhu, J., Gopinath, J. T., & Park, W. (2019). Enhancement of third-order nonlinearity of thermally evaporated GeSbSe waveguides through annealing. Optics Express, 27(23), 33606. DOI                
  • Greydanus, B., Schwartz, D. K., & Medlin, J. W. (2019). Controlling Catalyst-Phase Selectivity in Complex Mixtures with Amphiphilic Janus Particles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(2), 2338–2345.DOI                
  • Hu, Y., Dunlap, N., Wan, S., Lu, S., Huang, S., Sellinger, I., … Zhang, W. (2019). Crystalline Lithium Imidazolate Covalent Organic Frameworks with High Li-Ion Conductivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(18), 7518–7525. DOI                
  • Jacobson, D. R., Uyetake, L., & Perkins, T. T. (2019). Membrane-Protein Unfolding Intermediates Detected with Enhanced Precision Using a Zigzag Force Ramp. Biophysical Journal. DOI         
  • Kociolek, J. P., Williams, D. M., Stepanek, J., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., You, Q., Karthick, B., & Kulikovskiy, M. (2019). Rampant homoplasy and adaptive radiation in pennate diatoms. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 152(2), 131–141. DOI                
  • Mao, C., Min, K., Bae, K., Cho, S., Xu, T., Jeon, H., & Park, W. (2019). Enhanced Upconversion Luminescence by Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Structure. ACS Photonics, 6(8), 1882–1888. DOI                
  • McGrath, M. J., Hardy, S. H., Basalla, A. J., Dwulet, G. E., Manubay, B. C., Malecha, J. J., Shi, Z., Funke, H. H., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2019). Polymerization of Counteranions in the Cationic Nanopores of a Cross-linked Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Network to Modify Ion Transport Properties. ACS Materials Letters, 1(4), 452–458. DOI                
  • O’Toole, R. J., Bartel, C. J., Kodas, M. U., Horrell, A. J., Ricote, S., Sullivan, N. P., … Weimer, A. W. (2018). Particle atomic layer deposition of alumina for sintering yttria‐stabilized cubic zirconia. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. DOI                
  • Stepanek, J. G., & Patrick Kociolek, J. (2019). Molecular phylogeny of the diatom generaAmphoraandHalamphora(Bacillariophyta) with a focus on morphological and ecological evolution. Journal of Phycology, 55(2), 442–456. DOI                
  • Wang, D., Wu, H., Liu, L., Chen, J., & Schwartz, D. K. (2019). Diffusive Escape of a Nanoparticle from a Porous Cavity. Physical Review Letters, 123(11). DOI                
  • Wang, M., Stafford, C. M., Cox, L. M., Blevins, A. K., Aghajani, M., Killgore, J. P., & Ding, Y. (2019). Controlled Growth of Polyamide Films atop Homogenous and Heterogeneous Hydrogels Using Gel–Liquid Interfacial Polymerization. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 1900100. DOI    
  • Yoon, B., Avila, V., Raj, R., & Jesus, L. M. (2020). Reactive flash sintering of the entropy-stabilized oxide Mg0.2Ni0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O. Scripta Materialia, 181, 48–52. DOI                
  • Yoon, B., Yadav, D., Ghose, S., Sarin, P., & Raj, R. (2019). On the synchronicity of flash sintering and phase transformation. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(6), 3110–3116. DOI
  • Zhang, Y., Hu, Y., Zhao, J., Park, E., Jin, Y., Liu, Q., & Zhang, W. (2019). Covalent organic framework-supported Fe–TiO2 nanoparticles as ambient-light-active photocatalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(27), 16364–16371. DOI                


  • Aghajani, M., Wang, M., Cox, L. M., Killgore, J. P., Greenberg, A. R., & Ding, Y. (2018). Influence of support-layer deformation on the intrinsic resistance of thin film composite membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 567, 49–57. DOI                
  • Das, A., Mao, C., Cho, S., Kim, K., & Park, W. (2018). Over 1000-fold enhancement of upconversion luminescence using water-dispersible metal-insulator-metal nanostructures. Nature Communications, 9(1). DOI                
  • He, L., Mao, C., Brasino, M., Harguindey, A., Park, W., Goodwin, A. P., & Cha, J. N. (2018). TiO2-Capped Gold Nanorods for Plasmon-Enhanced Production of Reactive Oxygen Species and Photothermal Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(33), 27965–27971. DOI                
  • Hou, D., Iddya, A., Chen, X., Wang, M., Zhang, W., Ding, Y., … Ren, Z. J. (2018). Nickel-Based Membrane Electrodes Enable High-Rate Electrochemical Ammonia Recovery. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(15), 8930–8938. DOI                
  • Mori, D. I., & Gin, D. L. (2018). Curable Ionic Liquid Prepolymer-Based Ion Gel Coating System for Toxic Industrial Chemical Hazard Mitigation on Porous Substrates. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(47), 16012–16020. DOI                
  • Shao, F., Dai, W., Zhang, Y., Zhang, W., Schlüter, A. D., & Zenobi, R. (2018). Chemical Mapping of Nanodefects within 2D Covalent Monolayers by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Nano, 12(5), 5021–5029. DOI                
  • Stepanek, Joshua & Kociolek, Patrick. (2018). Amphora and Halamphora from coastal and inland waters of the United States and Japan, with the description of 33 new species.                               
  • Tan, L.-L., Zhu, Y., Jin, Y., Zhang, W., & Yang, Y.-W. (2018). Highly CO2 selective pillar[n]arene-based supramolecular organic frameworks. Supramolecular Chemistry, 30(7), 648–654. DOI         
  • Uzcategui, A. C., Muralidharan, A., Ferguson, V. L., Bryant, S. J., & McLeod, R. R. (2018). Understanding and Improving Mechanical Properties in 3D printed Parts Using a Dual-Cure Acrylate-Based Resin for Stereolithography. Advanced Engineering Materials, 20(12), 1800876. DOI               
  • Wang, D.-G., Li, N., Hu, Y., Wan, S., Song, M., Yu, G., … Zhang, W. (2018). Highly Fluoro-Substituted Covalent Organic Framework and Its Application in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(49), 42233–42240. DOI                
  • Yoon, B., Yadav, D., Ghose, S., & Raj, R. (2018). Reactive flash sintering: MgO and α‐Al 2 O 3 transform and sinter into single‐phase polycrystals of MgAl 2 O 4. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. DOI                
  • Zou, Z., Zhu, C., Li, Y., Lei, X., Zhang, W., & Xiao, J. (2018). Rehealable, fully recyclable, and malleable electronic skin enabled by dynamic covalent thermoset nanocomposite. Science Advances, 4(2), eaaq0508. DOI   


  • Aghajani, M., Maruf, S. H., Wang, M., Yoshimura, J., Pichorim, G., Greenberg, A., & Ding, Y. (2017). Relationship between permeation and deformation for porous membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 526, 293–300. DOI
  • Cai, Y., & Schwartz, D. K. (2017). Mapping the Functional Tortuosity and Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Porous Polymer Membranes with Super-Resolution Nanoparticle Tracking. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(49), 43258–43266. DOI                
  • Cox, L. M., Sun, X., Wang, C., Sowan, N., Killgore, J. P., Long, R., … Ding, Y. (2017). Light-Stimulated Permanent Shape Reconfiguration in Cross-Linked Polymer Microparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(16), 14422–14428. DOI                
  • Du, Y., Yang, H., Wan, S., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). A titanium-based porous coordination polymer as a catalyst for chemical fixation of CO2. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(19), 9163–9168. DOI                
  • He, L., Brasino, M., Mao, C., Cho, S., Park, W., Goodwin, A. P., & Cha, J. N. (2017). DNA-Assembled Core-Satellite Upconverting-Metal-Organic Framework Nanoparticle Superstructures for Efficient Photodynamic Therapy. Small, 13(24), 1700504. DOI                
  • Kang, G., Krogstad, M. R., Grayson, M., Kim, D.-G., Lee, H., Gopinath, J. T., & Park, W. (2017). High quality chalcogenide-silica hybrid wedge resonator. Optics Express, 25(13), 15581. DOI
  • Lowe, Rex & Kociolek, Patrick & Qingmin, You & Wang, Quanxi & Stepanek, Joshua. (2017). Lowe R.L., Kociolek, J.P., You, Q & Wang. Q. 2017. Diversity of the diatom genus Humidophila in karst areas of Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 305: 269-284. Phytotaxa. 305. 269-284. DOI                
  • Lu, D., Das, A., & Park, W. (2017). Direct modeling of near field thermal radiation in a metamaterial. Optics Express, 25(11), 12999. DOI                
  • Lu, S., Hu, Y., Wan, S., McCaffrey, R., Jin, Y., Gu, H., & Zhang, W. (2017). Synthesis of Ultrafine and Highly Dispersed Metal Nanoparticles Confined in a Thioether-Containing Covalent Organic Framework and Their Catalytic Applications. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(47), 17082–17088. DOI                
  • Rickman, M., Maruf, S., Kujundzic, E., Davis, R. H., Greenberg, A., Ding, Y., & Pellegrino, J. (2017). Fractionation and flux decline studies of surface-patterned nanofiltration membranes using NaCl-glycerol-BSA solutions. Journal of Membrane Science, 527, 102–110. DOI                
  • Singh, Z. V., Tan, L.-L., Cowan, M. G., Yang, Y.-W., Zhang, W., Gin, D. L., & Noble, R. D. (2017). Pillar [5]arene/Matrimid™ materials for high-performance methane purification membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 539, 224–228. DOI                
  • Wang, M., Gorham, J. M., Killgore, J. P., Omidvar, M., Lin, H., DelRio, F. W., Cox, L. M., Zhang, Z., & Ding, Y. (2017). Formation of a Crack-Free, Hybrid Skin Layer with Tunable Surface Topography and Improved Gas Permeation Selectivity on Elastomers Using Gel–Liquid Infiltration Polymerization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(33), 28100–28106. DOI                
  • Xiaoping Yang, Lih-Jen Su, Francisco G. La Rosa, Elizabeth Erin Smith, Isabel R. Schlaepfer, Suehyun K. Cho, Brian Kavanagh, Wounjhang Park, & Thomas W. Flaig. (2017). The Antineoplastic Activity of Photothermal Ablative Therapy with Targeted Gold Nanorods in an Orthotopic Urinary Bladder Cancer Model. Bladder Cancer, 3(3), 201–210. DOI                
  • Yang, H., Zhu, Y., Du, Y., Tan, D., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). Aromatic-rich hydrocarbon porous networks through alkyne metathesis. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 1(7), 1369–1372. DOI
  • Zhu, C., Xi, C., Doro, W., Wang, T., Zhang, X., Jin, Y., & Zhang, W. (2017). Tuning the physical properties of malleable and recyclable polyimine thermosets: the effect of solvent and monomer concentration. RSC Adv., 7(76), 48303–48307. DOI      


  • Budd, David A., Making Geologic Sense of Pore-System Characterizations in Carbonate-Rich Mudrocks: Examples from the Niobrara Formation, Houston Geological Society, Applied Geoscience Conference Proceedings: Integrated Approaches to Unconventional Reservoir Assessment and Optimization, 2016:10pp.                              
  • LI, J., KOCIOLEK, J. P., & GAO, Y. (2016). Chaetoceros coloradensis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta, Chaetocerotaceae), a new inland species from Little Gaynor Lake, Colorado, North America. Phytotaxa, 255(3), 199. DOI                
  • Ress, J. A., Thomas, E. W., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Newly describedGomphonemaandGomphospheniafrom Rocky Mountain Front Range streams, Colorado, USA, with additional discussion of rarely reported taxa. Diatom Research, 31(1), 51–62. DOI                
  • Stepanek, J. G., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Re-examination of Mereschkowsky’s genusTetramphora(Bacillariophyta) and its separation from Amphora. Diatom Research, 31(2), 123–148. DOI 
  • Stepanek, J. G., Fields, F. J., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). A comparison of lipid content metrics using six species from the genus Halamphora (Bacillariophyta). Biofuels, 7(5), 521–528. DOI 
  • Thomas, E. W., Stepanek, J. G., & Kociolek, J. P. (2016). Historical and Current Perspectives on the Systematics of the “Enigmatic” Diatom Genus Rhoicosphenia (Bacillariophyta), with Single and Multi-Molecular Marker and Morphological Analyses and Discussion on the Monophyly of “Monoraphid” Diatoms. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0152797. DOI 


  • Fields, F. J., & Kociolek, J. P. (2015). An evolutionary perspective on selecting high-lipid-content diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Applied Phycology, 27(6), 2209–2220. DOI                
  • Kociolek, J. P., & Williams, D. M. (2015). How to define a diatom genus? Notes on the creation and recognition of taxa, and a call for revisionary studies of diatoms. Acta Botanica Croatica, 74(2), 195–210. DOI                
  • Kociolek, J. P., Spaulding, S. A., & Lowe, R. L. (2015). Bacillariophyceae. In Freshwater Algae of North America (pp. 709–772). DOI 
  • Kociolek, J. P., Theriot, E. C., Williams, D. M., Julius, M., Stoermer, E. F., & Kingston, J. C. (2015). Centric and Araphid Diatoms. In Freshwater Algae of North America (pp. 653–708). Elsevier. DOI
  • Kociolek, Patrick & Qingmin, You & Wang, Quanxi & Liu, Qi. (2015). Consideration of some interesting freshwater gomphonemoid diatoms from North America and China, and the description of Gomphosinica, gen. nov. Nova Hedwigia. 144. 175-198.
  • Kohler, T. J., KOPALOVÁ, K., VAN DE VIJVER, B., & PATRICK KOCIOLEK, J. (2015). The genus Luticola D.G.Mann (Bacillariophyta) from the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica, with the description of four new species. Phytotaxa, 208(2), 103. DOI                
  • STEPANEK, J. G., & KOCIOLEK, J. P. (2015). Three new species of the diatom genus Halamphora (Bacillariophyta) from the prairie pothole lakes region of North Dakota, USA. Phytotaxa, 197(1), 27. DOI                
  • Thomas, E. W., & Kociolek, J. P. (2015). Taxonomy of three new Rhoicosphenia (Bacillariophyta) species from California, USA. Phytotaxa, 204(1), 1. DOI 


  • Thomas, E. W., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2014). Four newRhoicospheniaspecies from fossil deposits in India and North America. Diatom Research, 30(1), 35–54. DOI