I My current research focuses on the development of stimuli-responsive nanomaterials based on inorganic nanoparticles, polymers and liquid crystals with an emphasis on solid-state NMR as a characterization tool.
In recent years my group has produced new materials that include giant cubic lattices of gold nanoparticles templated by"blue phase" liquid crystals, hydrogen bonded liquid crystalline nanocomposites, polymer-liquid crystal nanocomposites and amphiphilic mixed polymer brush NPs.
Recent Publications
Wong, Jessie, Violeta Toader, and Linda Reven. "Lyotropic Nematic Phases of Isotropic Nanoparticles via Semiflexible Polymer Ligands."
Macromolecular Rapid Communications 44.8, 2023: 2200951.
Guzman-Juarez, Brenda, Ahmed Bahaeldin Abdelaal, and Linda Reven.
"NMR Characterization of Nanoscale Surface Patterning in Mixed Ligand Nanoparticles."
ACS nano 16.12, 2022: 20116-20128.
Esquivel, Gabriela Romero, et al. "Ligand-flexible synthesis of strongly confined perovskite nanocrystals: a microwave synthetic approach."
Nanoscale 14.42, 2022: 15789-15798.
Jiang, B., Zhao, C., Metz, P. C., Jothi, P. R., Kavey, B., Reven, L., ... & Page, K.. "Temperature dependent local structure coherence of surface-modified BaTiO3 nanocubes"
J. Mater. Chem. C, 10(30), 2022)10832-10842.
Zhang, M., Lindner-D’Addario, M., Roohnikan, M., Toader, V., Lennox, R. B., & Reven, L. . "Polymer Functionalized Nanoparticles in Blue Phase LC: Effect of Particle Shape" Nanomaterials, 12(1), 2021: 91.
Roohnikan, M., Cummings Premack, K., Guzman-Juarez, B., Toader, V., Rey, A., & Reven, L. . "Hydrogen-bonded LC nanocomposites: characterisation of nanoparticle-LC interactions by solid-state NMR and FTIR spectroscopies" Liquid Crystals, 46(7), 2019:1067-1078.
Roohnikan, M., Lindner-D'Addario, M., Toader, V., Rey, A., Tan, D., Friščić, T., & Reven, L. "Mechanochemical nanoparticle functionalization for liquid crystal nanocomposites based on COOH-pyridine heterosynthons"
J. Mater. Chem. C, 6(7), 2018:1789-1796.
Allie, S., Hegoburu, I., Shin, M. J., Jung, J. Y., Toader, V., Rey, A., ... & Reven, L. "Polymer functionalized nanoparticles in liquid crystals: combining PDLCs with LC nanocomposites. "
Soft Matter, 14(42), 2018: 8580-8589.
Guzman-Juarez, B., Abdelaal, A., Kim, K., Toader, V., & Reven, L. "Fabrication of amphiphilic nanoparticles via mixed homopolymer brushes and NMR characterization of surface phase separation."
Macromolecules, 51(23), 2018: 9951-9960.
Gharbi, M. A., Manet, S., Lhermitte, J., Brown, S., Milette, J., Toader, V., Sutton, M., Reven, L. "Reversible nanoparticle cubic lattices in blue phase liquid crystals".
ACS nano, 10(3), 2016: 3410-3415.
Roohnikan, M., Toader, V., Rey, A., & Reven, L. "Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystal nanocomposites" Langmuir, 32(33), 2016: 8442-8450.
Hu, Hang, Linda Reven, and Alejandro D. Rey. "DFT Study of Gold Surfaces–Ligand Interactions: Alkanethiols versus Halides." J. Phys. Chem. C 119.21, 2015: 11909-11913.
Leonardi, A.B., Puig, J., Antonacci, J., Arenas, G.F., Zucchi, I.A., Hoppe, C.E., Reven, L., Zhu, L., Toader, V. and Williams, R.J.J., . Remote activation by green-light irradiation of shape memory epoxies containing gold nanoparticles. Eur. Poly. J. 71, 2015: .451-460.
Milette, J., Toader, V., Soulé, E. R., Lennox, R. B., Rey, A. D., & Reven, L. A molecular and thermodynamic view of the assembly of gold nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal. Langmuir, 29(4), 2013:1258-1263.
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