Publications

• Mehdi Jorfi, Matthew N. Roberts, ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster*Mechanically Adaptive Polymers. Macromolecules invited Perspective. Submitting Oct 2014
• Pratheep K. Annamalai, Mehdi Jorfi, Mahesh Biyani, Koffi L. Dagnon, E. Johan Foster, Stuart J. Rowan, ChristophWeder; Crosslinked Polyurethanes Nanocomposites based on Cellulose Nanocrystals and Reactive Polyurethanes. Under company review
• ApiradeeNicharat, ChristophWeder*. and E. Johan Foster* Reinforcing Polyamide with Thermally Stable Nanocrystalline Cellulose. Manuscript in preparation (Oct 2014 expected)
• Tobias Kuhnt, Andreas Herrmann, ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* Controlled fragrance release from a cellulose nanocrystal scaffold.Manuscript in preparation (Sept 2014 expected)
• Sandra Camarero Espinosa, Silvana Müller, CarolaEndes, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen- Rutishauser, ChristophWeder Martin J.D. Clift and E. Johan Foster*. A perspective on the potential application and biocompatibility of nanocellulose; a key understanding of their physio-chemical characteristics as it applies to biological systems. Invited Article. Manuscript in Preparation
• Silvana Mueller, JanakSapkota, ApiradeeNicharat, ChristophWeder* and E. Johan Foster*Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Aerogels Containing Differing Aspect Ratio Nanocelluloses: a Comparative Study. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Sept 2014)
• JanakSapkota, Sandeep Kumar, ChristophWeder* and E. Johan Foster* Melt-processing of poly (vinyl acetate) / cellulose nanocrystalnanocomposites. Manuscript Submitted to Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (Sept 2014)
• Sandra Camarero Espinosa; Dylan J. Boday; ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* Cellulose Nanocrystal Driven Crystallization of Amorphous Poly (D,L)-Lactic Acid and Improvement the Mechanical Properties. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Applied Polymer Science(Sept 2014)
• Tobias Kuhnt, Daniel Benczedi, Andreas Herrmann, ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* Controlled fragrance release from a sugar molecule scaffold.RSC Advances. 2014. Under Revision
• Mehdi Jorfiand E. Johan Foster*. Recent Advances in Cellulose-Based Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications.Journal of Applied Polymer Science as an Invited Review.2014 Manuscript in revision
• Davide Bandera, JanakSapkota, SébastienJosset, ChristophWeder, Philippe Tingaut, XinGao, E. Johan Foster,*TanjaZimmermanna* Influence of mechanical treatments on the properties of cellulose nanofibers isolated from microcrystalline cellulose. Reactive and Functional Polymers. 2014Invited Article. Accepted
• Silvana Mueller, ChristophWederand E. Johan Foster* Water-insoluble Aerogels Made from Cellulose Nanocrystals and Poly (Vinyl Alcohol). Green Materials.2014. Special Issue Invited Article. Accepted. DOI: 10.1680/gmat.14.00012
• Soo-Hyon Lee, ÁguedaSonseca, Roberto Vadrucci, Enrique Giménez, E. Johan Foster, and Yoan C. Simon*. Low-Power Upconversion in Poly(Mannitol-Sebacate) Networks with Tethered Diphenylanthracene and Palladium Porphyrin. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. Accepted
• JanakSapkota, Mehdi Jorfi, ChristophWeder* and E. Johan Foster,* Reinforcing Hydrophobic Polymer Nanocomposites with Cellulose Nanocrystals. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2014. Early View DOI: 10.1002/marc.201400382
• ÁguedaSonseca, Sandra Camarero, Laura Peponi, ChristophWeder, E. Johan Foster, José M. Kenny and Enrique Giménez* Mechanical and shape-memory properties of poly(mannitolsebacate) / cellulose nanocrystalnanocomposites. Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry 2014.Early View.DOI: 10.1002/pola.27367
• BastienSchyrr, StéphaniePasche, Guy Voirin, ChristophWederYoan C. Simon*, E. Johan Foster*. Biosensors based on porous cellulose nanocrystal – poly(vinyl alcohol) as scaffolds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014.ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/am502670u
• Mahesh V. Biyani, ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* PhotoswitchableNanocomposites with Coumarin Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrystals.Polymer Chemistry. 2014, 5, 5501-5508DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00486H Selected as a “2014 Polymer Chemistry Papers of the week”
• Mahesh V. Biyani, Mehdi Jorfi, ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* Light-stimulated mechanically switchable, photopatternable cellulose nanocomposites. Polymer Chemistry. 2014, 5, 5716-5724. DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00487F
• CarolaEndes, OtmarSchmit, Calum Kinnear, Silvana Müller, Sandra Camarero Espinosa, DimitriVanhecke, E. Johan Foster, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen- Rutishauser, ChristophWeder and Martin J.D. Clift. A systematic in vitro approach towards mimicking the inhalation of high aspect ratio nanoparticles.Particle and Fibre Toxicology.2014, 11:40. DOI: 10.1186/s12989-014-0040-x
• Mehdi Jorfi, Guy Voirin, E. Johan Fosterand ChristophWeder * Physiologically Responsive Mechanically Adaptive Polymer Optical Fibers for Optogenetics. Optic Letters2014.39(10), 2872 – 2875. DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.002872Editor selected for feature in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics (VJBO)
• Iulia A. Sacui, Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, HenrykSzmacinski, Daniel J. Burnett, Stephen J. Stranick, Mehdi Jorfi, ChristophWeder, E. Johan Foster, Richard T. Olsson, and Jeffery W. Gilman; Comparison of the properties of cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibrils isolated from bacteria, tunicate, and wood processed using acid, enzymatic, mechanical, and oxidative methods. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 6 (9), pp 6127–6138DOI: 10.1021/am500359f
• Pratheep K. Annamalai, Koffi L. Dagnon, E. Johan Foster, Stuart J. Rowan, and Christoph Weder, Water-Responsive Mechanically AdaptiveNanocomposites based on Styrene-Butadiene and Cellulose Nanocrystals – Processing Matters.ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014. 6 (2), pp 967–976 DOI: 10.1021/am404382x
• SouleymaneCoulibaly, Anita Roulin, SandorBalog, Mahesh Biyani, E. Johan Foster, Stuart J. Rowan, Gina L. Fiore and ChristophWeder. Reinforcement of optically healable supramolecular polymers with cellulose nanocrystals.Macromolecules. 2014. 47 (1), pp 152–160 DOI: 10.1021/ma402143c
• Kelsey A. Potter, Mehdi Jorfi, Kyle T. Householder, E. Johan Foster, ChristophWeder, Jeffrey R. Capadona. Curcumin-releasing mechanically-adaptiveintracortical implants improve the proximal neuronal density and blood-brain barrier stability. ActaBiomaterialia.2014. 10 (5) pp 2209–2222. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.01.018
• AinaraSaralegi,E. Johan Foster,ChristophWeder, ArantxaEceiza, Maria Corcuera. Thermoplastic shape-memory polyurethanes based on natural oils.Smart Materials and Structures 2014 (23) 025033DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/2/025033
• Silvana Mueller; ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster* Isolation of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Pseudostems of Banana Plants. RSC Advances.2014, 4 (2): 907 – 915.DOI: 10.1039/C3RA46390G
• AinaraSaralegi, Susana Fernandes, Ana Alonso-Varona, TeodoroPalomares, E. Johan Foster, ChristophWeder, ArantxaEceiza, Maria Corcuera. Shape-Memory Bionanocomposites Based on Chitin Nanocrystals and Thermoplastic Polyurethane with a Highly Crystalline Soft Segment. Biomacromolecules. 2013. 14(12):4475-82 DOI: 10.1021/bm401385c
• Jennifer S. Haghpanah, Raymond Tu, Sandra Da Silva, Deng Yan, Silvana Mueller, ChristophWeder, E. Johan Foster, Iulia Sacui, Jeffery W. Gilman and Jin Kim Montclare, Bionanocomposites: Differential Effects of Cellulose Nanocrystals on Protein Diblock Copolymers.Biomacromolecules2013. ASAP DOI:10.1021/bm401304w
• CarolaEndes; Silvana Mueller; OtmarSchmid; DimitriVanhecke; E. Johan Foster; Alke Petri-Fink; Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser; ChristophWeder and Martin J. D. Clift, Risk assessment of released cellulose nanocrystals – mimicking inhalatory exposure Journal of Physics: Conference Series2013, 429, 012008. DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/429/1/012008
• Sandra Camarero Espinosa; Tobias Kuhnt; E. Johan Foster* and ChristophWeder* Isolation of thermally stable cellulose nanocrystals by phosphoric acid hydrolysis.Biomacromolecules.2013. 14(4):1223-30 DOI: 10.1021/bm400219u
• Mahesh V. Biyani, E. Johan Foster*and ChristophWeder * Light-Healable SupramolecularNanocomposites Based on Modified Cellulose Nanocrystals. ACS Macro Letters2013 2(3) pp 236–240 DOI: 10.1021/mz400059w
• Mehdi Jorfi; Matthew N. Roberts; E. Johan Foster*and ChristophWeder* Mechanically-Adaptive Bio-Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2013 5 (4)pp 1517–1526. DOI: 10.1021/am303160j
• Sandeep Kumar; Manfred Hofmann; Bettina Steinmann;E. Johan Foster; ChristophWeder, Reinforcement of Stereolithographic Resins for Rapid Prototyping with Cellulose Nanocrystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2012, 4, (10), 5399-5407.DOI: 10.1021/am301321v
• Julie Mendez; Pratheep K. Annamalai; Stephen J. Eichhorn; RafeadahRusli; Stuart J. Rowan; E. Johan Foster* and ChristophWeder*, Bioinspired Mechanically Adaptive Polymer Nanocomposites with Water-Activated Shape-Memory Effect. Macromolecules 2011, 44, (17), 6827-6835. DOI: 10.1021/ma201502k
• Martin J. D. Clift; E. Johan Foster; DimitriVanhecke; Daniel Studer; Peter Wick; Peter Gehr; Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser; ChristophWeder, Investigating the Interaction of Cellulose Nanofibers Derived from Cotton with a Sophisticated 3D Human Lung Cell Coculture. Biomacromolecules2011, 12, (10), 3666-3673. DOI: 10.1021/bm200865j
• SutheeratChangsarn; James D. Mendez; KadhiravanShanmuganathan; E. Johan Foster; ChristophWeder and Pitt Supaphol, Biologically Inspired Hierarchical Design of Nanocomposites Based on Poly(ethylene oxide) and Cellulose Nanofibers. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2011, 32, (17), 1367-1372. DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100183
• E. Johan Foster; Erik B. Berda; Egbert W. Meijer, Tuning the Size of Supramolecular Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles.Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry 2011, 49, (1), 118-126.(COVER ARTICLE) DOI: 10.1002/pola.24426
• Erik B. Berda; E. Johan Foster and Egbert W. Meijer, Toward Controlling Folding in Synthetic Polymers: Fabricating and Characterizing Supramolecular Single-Chain Nanoparticles. Macromolecules 2010, 43, (3), 1430-1437. DOI: 10.1021/ma902393h
• Emilie Voisin; E. Johan Foster; Muriel Rakotomalala andVance E. Williams, Effects of Symmetry on the Stability of Columnar Liquid Crystals. Chemistry of Materials 2009, 21, (14), 3251-3261. DOI: 10.1021/cm9012443
• E. Johan Foster; Erik B. Berda and Egbert W. Meijer, Metastable Supramolecular Polymer Nanoparticles via Intramolecular Collapse of Single Polymer Chains.Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, (20), 6964.(COVER ARTICLE) DOI: 10.1021/ja901687d
• Christine Lavigueur; E. Johan Foster and Vance E. Williams, A simple and inexpensive capillary furnace for variable-temperature X-ray diffraction. Journal of Applied Crystallography 2008, 41, 214-216. DOI:10.1107/S0021889807057251
• Christine Lavigueur; E. Johan Foster and Vance E. Williams, Self-assembly of discoticmesogens in solution and in liquid crystalline phases: Effects of substituent position and hydrogen bonding. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (35), 11791-11800. DOI: 10.1021/ja803406k
• Christine Lavigueur; E. Johan Foster and Vance E. Williams, Modular assembly of elliptical mesogens. Liquid Crystals 2007, 34, (7), 833-840.DOI: 10.1080/02678290701407243
• E. Johan Foster; R. Brad Jones; Christine Lavigueur and Vance E. Williams Structural factors controlling the self-assembly of columnar liquid crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006, 128, (26), 8569-8574. DOI: 10.1021/ja0613198
• E. Johan Foster; Christine Lavigueur; Ying-ChiehKe and Vance E. Williams, Self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded molecules: discotic and elliptical mesogens. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2005, 15, (37), 4062-4068. DOI: 10.1039/B503310A
• E. Johan Foster; JarretBabuin; Natalie Nguyen and Vance E. Williams Synthesis of unsymmetrical dibenzoquinoxalinediscoticmesogens.Chemical Communications 2004, (18), 2052-2053. DOI: 10.1039/B400998C
• JarretBabuin; E. Johan Foster and Vance E. Williams, An investigation of the mesogenic properties of dibenzoquinoxaline derivatives. Tetrahedron Letters 2003, 44, (37), 7003-7005. DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(03)01798-2

 Book Contributions

• JanakSapkota; Matthew N. Roberts; ChristophWeder andE. Johan Foster*, Melt Processing of PVAc-Cellulose NanocrystalNanocomposites. In: Production and Applications of Cellulose Nanomaterials; Postek, M.T.; Moon, R.; Bilodeau, M.; Rudie, A.; Eds.; TAPPI Press. ISBN: 978-1-59510-224-9 2013.Pg 111
• Mahesh V. Biyani; Mehdi Jorfi; ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster*, Light-Responsive Cellulose-based Materials. In: Production and Applications of Cellulose Nanomaterials; Postek, M.T.; Moon, R.; Bilodeau, M.; Rudie, A.; Eds.; TAPPI Press. ISBN: 978-1-59510-224-9 2013.Pg 129
• Sandra Camarero; Tobias Kuhnt; ChristophWeder and E. Johan Foster*, Thermally Stable Cellulose Nanocrystals Isolated By Phosphoric Acid Hydrolysis. In: Production and Applications of Cellulose Nanomaterials; Postek, M.T.; Moon, R.; Bilodeau, M.; Rudie, A.; Eds.; TAPPI Press. ISBN: 978-1-59510-224-9 2013.Pg 17