Gilbert C. Walker

Force Modulation Elasticity Mapping of Plastic-embedded, Thin-sectioned Skeletal Muscle.

Noncovalent engineering of carbon nanotube surfaces by rigid, functional conjugated polymers.

Application of scanning force and near field microscopies to the characterization of minimally adhesive polymer surfaces.

Quantifying adhesion bond parameters to distinguish interactions of hydrophilic and hydrophobic blocks of polystyrene-poly-2-vinylpyridine with a silicon nitride surface.

Surface elastic modulus of barnacle adhesive and release characteristics from silicone surfaces.

Force microscopy studies of fibronectin adsorption and subsequent cellular adhesion to substrates with well-defined surface chemistries.

Ferrocenylundecanethiol self-assembled monolayer charging correlates with negative differential resistance measured by conducting probe atomic force microscopy.

Viscoelastic response of poly(dimethylsiloxane) in the adhesive interaction with AFM tips.

Using the adhesive interaction between atomic force microscopy tips and polymer surfaces to measure the elastic modulus of compliant samples.

Conjugated thiol linker for enhanced electrical conduction of gold-molecule contacts.

Field localization in very small aperture lasers studied by apertureless near-field microscopy.

Microfluidic production of biopolymer microcapsules with controlled morphology.

Ordered CdSe nanoparticles within self-assembled block copolymer domains on surfaces.

Infrared near-field detection of a narrow resonance due to molecular vibrations in a nanoparticle.

Self-assembly of metal-polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers.

Force-induced globule-coil transition in single polystyrene chains in water.

Pressure-induced restructuring of a monolayer film nanojunction produces threshold and power law conduction.

Nanomechanical fingerprints of individual blocks of a diblock copolymer chain.

Chemical imaging of the surface of self-assembled polystyrene-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer films using apertureless near-field IR microscopy.

Nanoscale structures and mechanics of barnacle cement.

Water-stable diblock polystyrene-block-poly(2-vinyl pyridine) and diblock polystyrene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) cylindrical patterned surfaces inhibit settlement of zoospores of the green alga Ulva.

Immuno-atomic force microscopy characterization of adsorbed fibronectin.

Insights into the composition, morphology, and formation of the calcareous shell of the serpulid Hydroides dianthus.

The role of surface energy and water wettability in aminoalkyl/fluorocarbon/hydrocarbon-modified xerogel surfaces in the control of marine biofouling.

Detection of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cell surface markers using surface enhanced Raman scattering gold nanoparticles.

Phase segregation of untethered zwitterionic model lipid bilayers observed on mercaptoundecanoic-acid-modified gold by AFM imaging and force mapping.

Interfacial free energy governs single polystyrene chain collapse in water and aqueous solutions.

Composite nanoparticle nanoslit arrays: a novel platform for LSPR mediated subwavelength optical transmission.

Cholesterol-dependent nanomechanical stability of phase-segregated multicomponent lipid bilayers.

Barnacle settlement and the adhesion of protein and diatom microfouling to xerogel films with varying surface energy and water wettability.

Self-assembly of colloidal quantum dots on the scaffold of triblock copolymer micelles.

Retrospective. Paul F. Barbara (1953-2010).

The control of marine biofouling on xerogel surfaces with nanometer-scale topography.

Imaging secondary structure of individual amyloid fibrils of a β2-microglobulin fragment using near-field infrared spectroscopy.

Phospholipid membrane encapsulation of nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering.

Signature of hydrophobic hydration in a single polymer.