Page 6 • Lehigh University S. Kim, Y. Liu, Z. Lei, J. Dicker, Y. Cao, X.F. Zhang, and W. Im, Differential Interactions Between Human ACE2 and Spike RBD of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 17:7972-7979 (2021). A. Pisapati, W. Cao, K.R. Anderson, G. Jones, K. Hoffman, P. Whiteaker, W. Im, X.F. Zhang, and J.M. Miwa, Biophysical Characterization of Lynx-Nicotinic Receptor Interactions Using Atomic Force Microscopy. FASEB Bioadv. 3:1034-1042 (2021). H. Guterres, S-J. Park, Y. Cao, and W. Im, CHARMM-GUI Ligand Designer for Template-based Ab Initio Ligand Design in a Binding Site. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 61:5336-5342 (2021). N. Ferraro, S. Kim, W. Im, and M.M. Pires, Systematic Assessment of Accessibility to the Surface of Staphylococcus aureus. ACS Chem. Biol. 16:2527-2536 (2021). S. Park, W. Im, and R.W. Pastor, Developing Initial Conditions for Simulations of Asymmetric Membranes: A Practical Recommendation. Biophys. J. 120:5041-5059 (2021). S. Park, Y.K. Choi, S. Kim, J. Lee, and W. Im, CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder for Lipid Nanoparticles with During the past year, graduate student Jiajie Li continued her research studying the influence of carbon dioxide partial pressure on supercapacitive swing adsorption for carbon capture. She is also in the process of building and testing of scaled supercapacitive swing adsorption modules with bipolar electrodes. Graduate student Muhammad Bilal continued to work on improved electrode materials for supercapacitive swing adsorption, and improved the gravimetric sorption capacity by a factor of ten. Graduate student Jacob Dooley continued to construct his lab for ammonothermal cubic boron nitride crystal growth (collaboration with Prof. Siddha Pimputkar in Materials Science). He also developed a hot-press approach to ammonothermal crystal growth. To help bring closure to his 50 year career as a University Professor, Steve Regen published a summary of some of his past efforts aimed at (i) understanding cholesterol’s condensing effect (Regen, S. L. Cholesterol’s condensing effect: unpacking a century-old mystery. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Au, 2022, 2, 84-91) and (ii) creating hyperthin membranes for gas separations (Regen, S. L. Creating hyperthin membranes for gas separations. Langmuir, 2022, 38, 4490-4493.) Professor Regen also recently published what may prove to be his “crowning achievement” in the gas separation area with the introduction of a surface crosslinking strategy that can produce membranes having high permeability and high permeation selectivity. This strategy has already yielded membranes having practical potential for the separation of CO2 from N2 in flue gas, which is the major source of anthropogenic CO2 and the major source of climate change (Shaligram, S.; Regen, S. L. Increased CO2 /N2 selectivity of PTMSP by surface crosslinking, Chemical Communications., 2022, 58, 3557-3560). Thévenin The Thévenin Lab received two Exploratory/Developmental Research R21 Grant Awards from the National Cancer Institutes related to its work on the development of tumor-selective approaches: (1) ”Chemical Remodeling of Cell Surface to Enhance the Accumulation of Therapeutic Bacteria to
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