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Bradley Chmelka

ICB Co-Director
ICB Bio-Enabled Materials Leader
Professor
Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-3673
Email:
bradc@engineering.ucsb.edu
Website:
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

Molecular-level engineering; design, fabrication, and functions of new materials for energy, catalysis, opto-electronic, separation, and electrochemical applications; development and application of state-of-the-art techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

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ICB Supported Publications

Co-Assembly of Functionally Active Proteorhodopsin Membrane Protein Molecules in Mesostructured Silica−Surfactant Films

Maxwell W. Berkow, Hosu Gwak, Matthew N. Idso, Michael B. Schmithorst, Bailey E. Rhodes, Brad D. Price, Daniel S. Gianola, Songi Han, and Bradley F. Chmelka
Chemistry of Materials,
10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01303

Mesostructured Materials with Controllable Long-Range Orientational Ordering and Anisotropic Properties

Justin P. Jahnke, Donghun Kim, Douglas J. Wildemuth, Jordi Nolla, Maxwell W. Berkow, Hosu Gwak, Shany Neyshtadt, Tamar Segal-Peretz, Gitti L. Frey, and Bradley F. Chmelka
Advanced Materials,
10.1002/adma.202306800

Lipid membrane mimetics and oligomerization tune functional properties of proteorhodopsin

C.-T. Han, K.D.Q. Nguyen, M.W. Berkow, S. Hussain, A. Kiani, M. Kinnebrew, M.N. Idso, N. Baxter, E. Chang, E. Aye, E. Winslow, M. Rahman, S. Seppala, M. O’Malley, B.F. Chmelka, B. Mertz, S. Han
Biophysical Journal,
10.1016/j.bpj.2022.11.012

Production of hydrogen from gas-phase ethanol dehydrogenation over iron-grafted mesoporous Pt/TiO2 photocatalysts

Patricia García-Muñoz, Niels P. Zussblatt, Bradley F. Chmelka, Víctor A. de la Peña O'Shea, Fernando Fresno
Chemical Engineering Journal,
10.1016/j.cej.2022.138450

Scaling analyses for hyperpolarization transfer across a spin-diffusion barrier and into bulk solid media

Nathan A. Prisco, Arthur C. Pinon, Lyndon Emsley and Bradley F. Chmelka
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
10.1039/d0cp03195j

Measurement of Proton Spin Diffusivity in Hydrated Cementitious Solids

Brennan J. Walder, Nathan A. Prisco, Federico M. Paruzzo, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Bradley F. Chmelka and Lyndon Emsley
Journal f Physical Chemistry Letters,
10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01861

Evaluation of photoassisted treatments for norfloxacin removal in water using mesoporous Fe2O3-TiO2 materials

Patricia García-Muñoz, Niels P. Zussblatt, Gema Pliego, Juan A. Zazo, Fernando Fresno, Bradley F. Chmelka, Jose A. Casas
Journal of Environmental Management,
10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.109

Proteorhodopsin Function Is Primarily Mediated by Oligomerization in Different Micellar Surfactant Solutions

Matthew N. Idso, Naomi R. Baxter, Sirish Narayanan, Evelyn Chang, Julia Fisher, Bradley F. Chmelka, and Songi Han
Journal of Physical Chemistry B,
10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b00922

Highly Graphitic Mesoporous Fe,N-Doped Carbon Materials for Oxygen Reduction Electrochemical Catalysts

Donghun Kim, Niels P. Zussblatt, Hoon T. Chung, Shona M. Becwar, Piotr Zelenay, and Bradley F. Chmelka
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,
10.1021/acsami.8b06009

Functionally Active Membrane Proteins Incorporated in Mesostructured Silica Films

Justin P. Jahnke, Matthew N. Idso, Sunyia Hussain, Matthias J. N. Junk, Julia M. Fisher, David D. Phan, Songi Han, and Bradley F. Chmelka
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
10.1021/jacs.7b06863

Macroscopic structural composition of π-conjugated polymers: combined insights from solid-state NMR and molecular dynamics simulations

Melnyk, A., Junk, M.J.N., Kremer, K., McCulloch, I., McGehee, M.D., Chmelka, B.F., Hansen, M.R. and Andrienko, D.
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters,
10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01443

Proton-based structural analysis of a heptahelical transmembrane protein in lipid bilayers

Lalli, D., Idso, M.N., Andreas, L.B., Baxter, N., Han, S., Chmelka, B.F. and Pintacuda, G.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
10.1021/jacs.7b05269

Correlated Diffusivities, Solubilities, and Hydrophobic Interactions in Ternary Polydimethylsiloxane–Water–Tetrahydrofuran Mixtures

Stephen H. Donaldson, Jr., Justin P. Jahnke, Robert Messinger, Åsa Östlund, David Uhrig, Jacob N. Israelachvili and Bradley F. Chmelka
Macromolecules,
10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01514

Correlating Surface-Functionalization of Mesoporous Silica with Adsorption and Release of Pharmaceutical Guest Species

Victoria Morales, Matthew N. Idso, Moiseś Balabasquer, Bradley Chmelka and Rafael A. García-Muñoz
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C,
10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06238

13C NMR assignments of regenerated cellulose from solid-state 2D NMR spectroscopy

Alexander Idström, Staffan Schantz, Johan Sundberga, Bradley F. Chmelka, Paul Gatenholm and Lars Nordstiern
Carbohydrate Polymers,
10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.05.107

Eutectic syntheses of graphitic carbon with high pyrazinic nitrogen content

Fechler, N., Zussblatt, N. P., Rothe, R., Schlögl, R., Willinger, M.-G., Chmelka, B. F. and Antonietti, M.
Advanced Materials,
10.1002/adma.201501503

Improved amplified spontaneous emission of dye-doped functionalized mesostructured silica waveguide films

Ramírez, M. G., Jahnke, J. P., Junk, M. J. N., Villalvilla, J. M., Boj, P. G., Quintana, J. A., Calzado, E. M., Chmelka, B. F. and Díaz-García, M. A.
Advanced Optical Materials,
10.1002/adom.201500297

Eutectic syntheses of graphitic carbon with high pyrazinic nitrogen content

N. Fechler, N. P. Zussblatt, R. Rothe, R. Schlögl, M-G. Willinger, B. F. Chmelka, and M. Antonietti
Advanced Materials,
10.1002/adma.201501503

Robust transparent mesoporous silica membranes as matrices for colorimetric sensors

D. Kim and B. F. Chmelka
RSC Advances,
10.1039/c4ra10339d

Molecular interactions and ordering in electrically doped polymers: Blends of PBTTT and F4TCNQ

J. E. Cochran, M. J. N. Junk, A. M. Glaudell, P. L. Miller, J. S. Cowart, M. F. Toney, C. J. Hawker, B. F. Chmelka , and M. L. Chabinyc
Macromolecules,
10.1021/ma501547h
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