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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For demonstrating and developing the principles of programmable selfassembly of polymerbased nanostructures and for elucidating the physical origin of their assembly behavior

Overview

Oleg Gang is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 72 publications, and Materials Science with 68 publications. The subfields they focus on include Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Biomaterials.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, RNA interference and gene delivery, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, modular robots and swarm intelligence, and nanocluster synthesis and applications.

Oleg Gang has contributed significantly to scientific literature, with publications appearing frequently in venues such as ACS Nano, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Materials, and Science Advances. Their recent papers include:

  • Ordered three-dimensional nanomaterials using DNA-prescribed and valence-controlled material voxels (2020) in Nature Materials
  • DNA origami protection and molecular interfacing through engineered sequence-defined peptoids (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Three-dimensional visualization of nanoparticle lattices and multimaterial frameworks (2022) in Science
  • Rationally Programming Nanomaterials with DNA for Biomedical Applications (2021) in Advanced Science
  • DNA-assembled superconducting 3D nanoscale architectures (2020) in Nature Communications

The collaborative aspects of their research are indicated by frequent coauthors, including Aaron Michelson, Brian Minevich, Jason S. Kahn, Yan Xiong, and Honghu Zhang.

Oleg Gang's published book works include titles released by World Scientific, notably the multiple editions of "Soft Matter and Biomaterials on the Nanoscale" in 2020.

Among their recognitions, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2014, with a citation highlighting their contributions to programmable self-assembly of polymer-based nanostructures and the elucidation of the physical origins of assembly behavior.

Best Publications

  • DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles

    Dmytro Nykypanchuk;Mathew M. Maye;Daniel van der Lelie;Oleg Gang

  • Surface freezing in chain molecules: Normal alkanes

    B. M. Ocko;X. Z. Wu;X. Z. Wu;E. B. Sirota;S. K. Sinha

  • Diamond family of nanoparticle superlattices

    Wenyan Liu;Miho Tagawa;Huolin L. Xin;Tong Wang

  • A general strategy for the DNA-mediated self-assembly of functional nanoparticles into heterogeneous systems

    Yugang Zhang;Fang Lu;Kevin G. Yager;Daniel van der Lelie

  • Switching binary states of nanoparticle superlattices and dimer clusters by DNA strands

    Mathew M. Maye;Mudalige Thilak Kumara;Dmytro Nykypanchuk;William B. Sherman

  • Stepwise surface encoding for high-throughput assembly of nanoclusters.

    Mathew M. Maye;Dmytro Nykypanchuk;Marine Cuisinier;Daniel van der Lelie

  • Surface patterning of nanoparticles with polymer patches

    Rachelle M. Choueiri;Elizabeth Galati;Héloïse Thérien-Aubin;Anna Klinkova

  • Prescribed nanoparticle cluster architectures and low-dimensional arrays built using octahedral DNA origami frames

    Ye Tian;Tong Wang;Wenyan Liu;Huolin L. Xin

  • Ordered three-dimensional nanomaterials using DNA-prescribed and valence-controlled material voxels.

    Ye Tian;Ye Tian;Julien R. Lhermitte;Lin Bai;Thi Vo

  • Lattice engineering through nanoparticle-DNA frameworks.

    Ye Tian;Yugang Zhang;Tong Wang;Huolin L. Xin

  • Self-organized architectures from assorted DNA-framed nanoparticles.

    Wenyan Liu;Jonathan Halverson;Ye Tian;Alexei V. Tkachenko

  • Ion-Mediated Gelation of Aqueous Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals

    Mokit Chau;Shivanthi E. Sriskandha;Dmitry Pichugin;Héloïse Thérien-Aubin

  • Salt Complexation in Block Copolymer Thin Films

    Seung Hyun Kim;Matthew J. Misner;Ling Yang;Oleg Gang

  • Superlattices assembled through shape-induced directional binding.

    Fang Lu;Kevin G. Yager;Yugang Zhang;Huolin Xin

  • Shapeshifting: Reversible Shape Memory in Semicrystalline Elastomers

    Jing Zhou;Sara A. Turner;Sarah M. Brosnan;Qiaoxi Li

  • Discrete Nanocubes as Plasmonic Reporters of Molecular Chirality

    Fang Lu;Ye Tian;Mingzhao Liu;Dong Su

  • Regioselective surface encoding of nanoparticles for programmable self-assembly

    Gang Chen;Kyle J. Gibson;Di Liu;Huw C. Rees

  • Selective transformations between nanoparticle superlattices via the reprogramming of DNA-mediated interactions

    Yugang Zhang;Suchetan Pal;Babji Srinivasan;Thi Vo

  • Phase behavior of nanoparticles assembled by DNA linkers.

    Huiming Xiong;Daniel van der Lelie;Oleg Gang

  • Electric Field Induced Sphere-to-Cylinder Transition in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

    Ting Xu;A. V. Zvelindovsky;G. J. A. Sevink;Oleg Gang

  • A simple method for kinetic control of DNA-induced nanoparticle assembly

    Mathew M. Maye;Dmytro Nykypanchuk;Daniel van der Lelie;Oleg Gang

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel van der Lelie
Daniel van der Lelie Gusto Global LLC
Mathew M. Maye
Mathew M. Maye Syracuse University
Sanat K. Kumar
Sanat K. Kumar Columbia University
Eric B. Sirota
Eric B. Sirota MSD (United States)
Moshe Deutsch
Moshe Deutsch Bar-Ilan University
Kevin G. Yager
Kevin G. Yager Brookhaven National Laboratory
Benjamin M. Ocko
Benjamin M. Ocko Brookhaven National Laboratory
Huolin L. Xin
Huolin L. Xin University of California, Irvine
Peter S. Pershan
Peter S. Pershan Harvard University
Francis W. Starr
Francis W. Starr Wesleyan University

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