Publications 2025

Multimodal in situ X-ray mechanistic studies of a bimetallic oxide electrocatalyst in alkaline media

Huang J.J., Yang Y., Weinstock D., Bundschu C.R., Li Q., Sarker S., Ruff J.P.C., Arias T.A., Abruña H.D. & Singer A. "Multimodal in situ X-ray mechanistic studies of a bimetallic oxide electrocatalyst in alkaline media." Nat. Catal., 2025. 

  1. Carrero R.J.R., Lloyd C.T., Borkar J., Nath S., Mirica L.M., Nair S., Booker S.J., Metcalf W. "Genetic and biochemical characterization of a radical SAM enzyme required for post-translational glutamine methylation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase." ASM Journals, mBio, 16, 2, 2025. doi:10.1128/mbio.03546-24. Instrument: ID7B2 (HPBio MX & FlexX)
  2. Deck S.L., Xu M., Milano S.K., Cerione R.A. "Revealing Functional Hotspots: Temperature-Dependent Crystallography of K-RAS Highlights Allosteric and Druggable Sites". bioRxiv , Feb. 2025. doi:10.1101/2025.02.27.639303. Instrument: ID7B2 (HPBio MX & FlexX)
  3. Gupta K., Sekulić N., Allu P.K., Sapp N., Huang Q., Sarachan K., Christensen M., Lund R., Krueger S., Curtis J.E., Gillilan R.E., Van Duyne G.D., Black B.E. "Solution conformational differences between conventional and CENP-A nucleosomes are accentuated by reversible deformation under high pressure." bioRxiv [Preprint], .01.16.633457. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.16.633457. Instrument: ID7A1 (HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS)
  4. Huang J.J., Yang Y., Weinstock D., Bundschu C.R., Li Q., Sarker S., Ruff J.P.C., Arias T.A., Abruña H.D. & Singer A. "Multimodal in situ X-ray mechanistic studies of a bimetallic oxide electrocatalyst in alkaline media." Nat. Catal., 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41929-025-01289-7. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  5. Huang M.Y., Smieska L.M., Tako E. "Intestinal Effects of Brewers’ Spent Grain Extract In Ovo (Gallus gallus)—A Pilot Study". Animals, 22, 15, 3, 303, 2025. doi: 10.3390/ani15030303. Instrument: ID3B (FMB)
  6. Justen S.F., Fenwick M.K., Axt K.K., Cherry J.A., Ealick S.E., Philmus B. "Crystal Structure, Modeling, and Identification of Key Residues Provide Insights into the Mechanism of the Key Toxoflavin Biosynthesis Protein ToxD". Biochemistry, 64, 6, 2025. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00421. MacCHESS
  7. Kimball  W.D., Lanzaro A., Hurd C., Jhaveri N., Huang J., Lewandowski J., Qian K.K., Woldeyes M.A., Majumdar R., Witek M.A., Jiangyan Feng J., Richard E. Gillilan R.E., Huang Q., Marras A.E., Truskett T.M., Johnston K.P. "Growth of Clusters toward Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of Monoclonal Antibodies as Characterized by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulation". J. Phys. Chem. B 2025, 129, 2856−28, 2025. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07064. Instrument: ID7A1 (HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS)
  8. Li Q., Pollock C.J., Soto J., Villarino A.M., Shi Z., Krumov M.R., Muller D.A., Abruña H.D. Nat. Commun., 27, 16, 1, 3008, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57177-y. Instrument: ID2A (PIPOXS)
  9. Lormand J.D., Savelle C.H., Teschler J.K., López E., Little R.H., Malone J.G., Yildiz F.H., García-García M.J., Sondermann H. "A class of secreted retropepsin-like enzymes is required for osmotic stress tolerance, antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa". bioRxiv, 2025. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.18.643919. Intrument: F1
  10. Mitra S., Chen M-T., Stedman F., Hernandez J., Kumble G., Kang X., Zhang C., Tang G., Daugherty I., Liu W., Ocloo J., Klucznik K.R., Li A.A., Heinrich F.,Deslouches B., and Tristram-Nagle S. "How Unnatural Amino Acids in Antimicrobial Peptides Change Interactions with Lipid Model Membranes." ACS Omega, 10, 9728−9740, 2025. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.4c11466. Instrument: ID7B2 (HPBio MX & FlexX)
  11. Narendra A.N., Howell E.E., & Narayana N. "Crystal structure of the plasmid-encoded R67 dihydrofolate reductase complexed with Congo red an amyloid binding dye". Scientific Reports, 15, 5212, 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-89539-3. Instrument: A1
  12. Nekouei, F., Pollock, C. J., Wang, T., Zheng, Z., Zhang, Y., Fusco, Z., Jin, H., Ramireddy, T. R., Wibowo, A. A., Lu, T., Nekouei, S., Keshtpour, F., Langley, J., Abdelkader, E. H., Cox, N., Yin, Z., Nguyen, H., Glushenkov, A., Karuturi, S., Liu, Z., Wei, L., Li, H., Liu, Y. “Exceptionally Low-Coordinated Bismuth–Oxygen Vacancy Defect Clusters for Generating Black In2O3 Photocatalysts with Superb CO2 Reduction Performance.” ACS Catalysis 2025 15 (3), 1431-1443. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.4c03491. Instrument: ID2A (PIPOXS)
  13. Page K.A., Crossno J., Carrola M., Zheng B., Ryan D., Ree B.J., Smieska L.M., Woll A.R., Koerner H. "Observations and Origin of Interfacial Heterogeneities in High-Performance Engineering Thermoplastics During Additive Manufacturing via Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction". ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 19, 17, 11,17569-17579, 2025. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c22625. Instrument: ID3B (FMB)
  14. Que N.L.S., Seidler P.M., Aw W.J., Chiosis G., Gewirth D.T. "Selective Inhibition of hsp90 Paralogs: Uncovering the Role of Helix 1 in Grp94-Selective Ligand Binding". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 93, 654–672, 2025. doi:10.1002/prot.26756. Instrument: ID7B2 (HPBio MX & FlexX)
  15. Reinhardt, C. R., Lee, J. A., Hendricks, L., Green, T., Kunczynski, L ., Roberts, A. J., Miller, N., Rafalin, N.,  Kulik, H. J., Pollock, C. J., Austin, R. N. “No Bridge between Us: EXAFS and Computations Confirm Two Distant Iron Ions Comprise the Active Site of Alkane Monooxygenase (AlkB).” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 147 (3), 2432-2443. doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c12633. Instrument: ID2A (PIPOXS)
  16. Rinee K.C., Patton Z.E., Gillilan R.E., Huang Q., Pingali S.V., Heroux L., Xu A.Y. "Elucidating the porous structure of aluminum adjuvants via in-situ small-angle scattering technique". Vaccine, 19, 50, 126813, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126813. Instrument: ID7A1 (HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS)
  17. Tran N., Frenette A., Holyoak T. "Structure of the Thomasclavelia ramosa immunoglobulin A protease reveals a modular and minimizable architecture distinct from other immunoglobulin A proteases". doi:10.1101/2024.12.31.63091. Instrument: ID7A1 (HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS)
  18. Tyson, T. A., Liu, S., Amarasinghe, S., Wang, K., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V., Chang, T., Chen, Y. -S., Pollock, C. J., Cheong, S. -W., Abeykoon, M. “Critical Structural Parameter Determining Magnetic Phases in the Fe2Mo3O8 Altermagnet System.” arXiv:2503.09880, 2025. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.09880. Instrument: ID2A (PIPOXS)
  19. Ugras T.J., Carson R.B., Lynch R.P., Li H., Yao Y., Cupellini L., Page K.A., Wang D., Arbe A., Bals S., Smieska L., Woll A.R., Arteaga O., Jávorfi T., Siligardi G., Pescitelli G., Weinstein S.J., Robinson R.D. "Transforming achiral semiconductors into chiral domains with exceptional circular dichroism". Science, 387, 6733, 7201, 2025. doi: 10.1126/science.ado7201. Instrument: ID3B (FMB)
  20. Stepanic, O. M., Pollock, C. J., Zielinski, K. A., Foschi, W., Rice, D. B., Pollack, L., DeBeer, S. “Implementation of simultaneous ultraviolet/visible and x-ray absorption spectroscopy with microfluidics.” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1 January 2025; 96 (1): 015107. doi: 10.1063/5.0218572. Instrument:
  21. Sze C.W., Lynch M.J., Zhang K., Neau D.B, Ealick S.E., Crane B.R., Li C. "Lactate dehydrogenase is the Achilles’ heel of Lyme disease bacterium Borreliella burgdorferi". Bacteriology, 2025. doi:10.1128/mbio.03728-24. Instrument: ID7B2 (HPBio MX & FlexX)
  22. Z-Z Luo, H. Zhao, W. Cai, S. Shahabfar, J. Li, S. Cai, J. Berg, T. Bhowmick, J-K Bao, S. Hao, Y. He, W. Guo, D. Y Chung, Y. Yu, S. Sarker, M. Grayson, C. Wolverton, V. P Dravid, W. Cheng, Z. Zou, S. Rosenkranz, C. D Malliakas, S. Deemyad, M. G Kanatzidis, "Charge Density Wave and Superconductivity in BaSbTe2S Heterolayer Crystal with 2D Te Square Nets." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c16505. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  23. S. Li, D. Chen, B. Li, H. Yan, B. J Lawrie, B. Choi, D. Rhee, Y. Li, H. Zhao, L. Chen, A. Pattammattel, S. Sarker, D. Jariwala, P. Guo, "Spontaneous Formation of Single-Crystalline Spherulites in a Chiral 2D Hybrid Perovskite." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c15471. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  24. S. Hazra, T. Schwaigert, A. Ross, H. Lu, U. Saha, V. Trinquet, B. Akkopru‐Akgun, B. Z Gregory, A. Mangu, S. Sarker, T. Kuznetsova, S. Sarker, X. Li, M. R Barone, X. Xu, J. W Freeland, R. Engel‐Herbert, A. M Lindenberg, A. Singer, S. Trolier‐McKinstry, D. A Muller, G‐M Rignanese, S. Salmani‐Rezaie, V. A Stoica, A. Gruverman, L‐Qing Chen, D. G. Schlom, V. Gopalan, "Colossal Strain Tuning of Ferroelectric Transitions in KNbO3 Thin Films." Advanced Materials 36, 52, 2408664 (2025). doi: 10.1002/adma.202408664. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  25. B. R. Ortiz, W. R Meier, G. Pokharel, J. Chamorro, F. Yang, S. Mozaffari, A. Thaler, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, H. Zhang, D. S. Parker, G. D.  Samolyuk, J. AM Paddison, J. Yan, F. Ye, S. Sarker, S. D. Wilson, H. Miao, D. Mandrus, M. A. McGuire, "Stability Frontiers in the AM 6 X 6 Kagome Metals: The Ln Nb6Sn6 (Ln: Ce–Lu, Y) Family and Density-Wave Transition in LuNb6Sn6." Journal of the American Chemical Society 147, 6, 5279–5292 (2025). doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c16347. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  26. Bhowmick, Mithun, Dhanalakshmi Sellan, Kade Johnson, Kenneth Mikolaichik, Xuan Zhou, Amlan Das, Chari Ramkumar, Brenden A. Magill, Nicholas W. G. Smith, Giti A. Khodaparast. “Probing structural alterations in shock compressed GaAs.” AIP Advances 15 (2025) 035203. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0249899
  27. Wakai, Akane, Jenniffer Bustillos, Noah Sargent, Jamesa L. Stokes, Wei Xiong, Timothy M. Smith, Atieh Moridi. “Harnessing metastability for grain size control in multiprincipal element alloys during additive manufacturing.” Nature Communications 16 (2025) 1446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56616-0
  28. Phan, Thien, Hazar Seren, Amlan Das, Kelly Nygren, Lyle Levine. “Elastic residual strain measurements of 3D additively manufactured builds on nickel alloy 718 AM Bench 2022 artifacts using energy dispersive synchrotron x-ray diffraction.” Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-024-00388-w
  29. Bustillos, Jenniffer, Akane Wakai, Kaushalendra Singh, Chenxi Tian, Adrita Dass, Sai Pratyush Akula, Amlan Das, Atieh Moridi. “Alloy amalgamation: Unlocking the co-existence of multiple phases in additively manufactured titanium alloys.” Applied Materials Today 42 (2025) 102606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2025.102606
  30. Jenkins, David M., Jared P. Matteucci, Alexander J. Kerstanski, Johannes Hammerli, Katherine S. Shanks, Zhongwu Wang. “Thermophysical properties of synthetic marialite.” Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 52 (2025) 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-024-01307-3
  31. Amon, Alfred, Glenn E. Bean, J.-B. Forien, Thomas Voisin, Joshua A. Hammons, Emily E. Moore, Emrah Simsek, Jibril Shittu, Katherine S. Shanks, Kelly E. Nygren, Aurelién Perron, Ryan Ott, Scott K. McCall, Hunter B. Henderson. “Alloy design for additive manufacturing: Continuously reinforced Al-Ce nanocomposites.” Materials & Design 250 (2025) 113595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113595
  32. Gong, D., Yang, J., Zhang, S. et al. "Large asymmetric anomalous Nernst effect in the antiferromagnet" SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3. Nat Commun16, 2888 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58020-0. Instrument: ID4B (QM2)
  33. Li, Q., Pollock, C.J., Soto, J. et al. “Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalysts state in anion exchange membrane fuel cells.” Nat Commun 16, 3008 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57177-y. Instrument: ID2A (PIPOXS)