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Guillermo Bazan

Distinguished Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry and Materials
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-5538
Email:
bazan@chem.ucsb.edu
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

Design of self-assembled systems for optical amplification of biosensors. Optical amplification of fluorescent biosensors using light-harvesting polyelectrolytes. Novel fabrication/processing methods for organic solar cell materials.

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ICB Supported Publications

A Broad-spectrum Synthetic Antibiotic that does not Evoke Bacterial Resistance

Douglas M. Heithoff, Scott P. Mahan, Lucien Barnes V, Semen A. Leyn, Cyril X. George, Jaime E. Zlamal, Jakkarin Limwongyut, Guillermo C. Bazan, Jeffrey C. Fried, Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, John K. House, Charles E. Samuel, Andrei L. Osterman, David A. Low, and Michael J. Mahan
The Lancet, eBioMedicine,
10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104461

Amide Moieties Modulate the Antimicrobial Activities of Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes against Gram-negative Bacteria

Jakkarin Limwongyut, Dr. Alex S. Moreland, Dr. Chenyao Nie, Prof. Javier Read de Alaniz, Prof. Guillermo C. Bazan
Chemistry Open,
10.1002/open.202100260

Predicting Antimicrobial Activity of Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Molecules via Machine Learning

Armi Tiihonen, Sarah J. Cox-Vazquez, Qiaohao Liang, Mohamed Ragab, Zekun Ren, Noor Titan Putri Hartono, Zhe Liu, Shijing Sun, Cheng Zhou, Nathan C. Incandela, Jakkarin Limwongyut, Alex S. Moreland, Senthilnath Jayavelu, Guillermo C. Bazan and Tonio Buonassisi
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
10.1021/jacs.1c05055

Gram-Typing Using Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes

Cheng Zhou, James C. S. Ho, Geraldine W. N. Chia, Alex S. Moreland, Lin Ruan, Bo Liedberg, Staffan Kjelleberg, Jamie Hinks and Guillermo C. Bazan
Advanced Functional Materials,
10.1002/adfm.202004068

Molecular design of antimicrobial conjugated oligoelectrolytes with enhanced selectivity toward bacterial cells

Jakkarin Limwongyut, Chenyao Nie, Alex S. Morelanda and Guillermo C. Bazan
Chemical Science,
10.1039/d0sc03679j

Photoswitchable Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes for a Light-Induced Change of Membrane Morphology

Dirk Leifert, Alex S. Moreland, Jakkarin Limwongyut, Alexander A. Mikhailovsky and Guillermo C. Bazan
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
10.1002/anie.202004448

Living Bioelectrochemical Composites

Samantha R. McCuskey, Yude Su, Dirk Leifert, Alex S. Moreland, and Guillermo C. Bazan
Advanced Materials Technologies,
10.1002/adma.201908178

Interactions of a paracyclophane-based conjugated oligoelectrolyte with biological membranes

Jakkarin Limwongyut, Yang Liu, Gayatri Shankar Chilambi, Thomas Seviour, Jamie Hinks, Yuguang Mu and Guillermo C. Bazan
RSC Advances,
10.1039/c8ra08069k

Achieving high permeability and enhanced selectivity for Angstrom-scale separations using artificial water channel membranes

Yue-xiao Shen, Woochul C. Song, D. Ryan Barden, Tingwei Ren, Chao Lang, Hasin Feroz, Codey B. Henderson, Patrick O. Saboe, Daniel Tsai, Hengjing Yan, Peter J. Butler, Guillermo C. Bazan, William A. Phillip, Robert J. Hickey, Paul S. Cremer, Harish Vashisth and Manish Kumar
Nature Communications,
10.1038/s41467-018-04604-y

Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes: Materials for Acceleration of Whole Cell Biocatalysis

Bing Wang, Stephanie L. Fronk, Zachary D. Rengert, Jakkarin Limwongyut and Guillermo C. Bazan
Chemistry of Materials,
10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b02848

Conjugated-Polymer-Amplified Sensing, Imaging, and Therapy

Wenbo Wu, Guillermo C. Bazan and Bin Liu
Chem,
10.1016/j.chempr.2017.05.002

Informed Molecular Design of Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes To Increase Cell Affinity and Antimicrobial Activity

Cheng Zhou, Geraldine W. N. Chia, James C. S. Ho, Thomas Seviour, Talgat Sailov, Bo Liedberg, Staffan Kjelleberg, Jamie Hinks, and Guillermo C. Bazan
Angewandte Chemie,
10.1002/ange.201803103

Membrane adaptation limitations in Enterococcus faecalis underlie sensitivity and the inability to develop significant resistance to conjugated oligoelectrolytes

Gayatri Shankar Chilambi, Iris H. Gao, Bo Kyeong Yoon, Soohyun Park, Lisa M. Kawakami, Vikashini Ravikumar, Mary B. Chan-Park, Nam-Joon Cho, Guillermo C. Bazan, Kimberly A. Kline, Scott A. Rice and Jamie Hinks
RSC Advances,
10.1039/c7ra11823f

Antibacterial Narrow-Band-Gap Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes with High Photothermal Conversion Efficiency

Angewandte Chemie,
10.1002/anie.201709887

Anaerobic respiration on self-doped conjugated polyelectrolytes: impact of chemical structure

Kirchhofer, N.D., McCuskey, S.R., Mai, C.K. and Bazan, G.C.
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition,
10.1002/anie.201701964

Membrane Protein Insertion into and Compatibility with Biomimetic Membranes

Tingwei Ren, Mustafa Erbakan, Yuexiao Shen, Eduardo Barbieri, Patrick Saboe, Hasin Feroz, Hengjing Yan, Samantha McCuskey, Joseph F. Hall, A. Benjamin Schantz, Guillermo C. Bazan, Peter J. Butler, Mariusz Grzelakowski and Manish Kumar
Advanced Biosystems,
10.1002/adbi.201700053

A Membrane-Intercalating Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte with High-Efficiency Photodynamic Antimicrobial Activity

Bing Wang, Ming Wang, Alexander Mikhailovsky, Shu Wang, and Guillermo C. Bazan
Angewandte Chemie,
10.1002/anie.201701146

A Ferrocene-Based Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Catalyzes Bacterial Electrode Respiration

Nathan D. Kirchhofer, Zachary D. Rengert, Frederick W. Dahlquist, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan
Chem,
10.1016/j.chempr.2017.01.001

Ferrocene-based conjugated oligoelectrolyte catalyzes bacterial electrode respiration

Kirchhofer, N.D., Rengert, Z.D., Dahlquist, F.W., Nguyen, T-Q. and Bazan, G.C.
Chemistry,
10.1016/j.chempr.2017.01.001

Membrane permeabilization by conjugated oligoelectrolytes accelerates whole-cell catalysis

Catania, C., Ajo-Franklin, C.M. and Bazan, G.C.
RSC Advances,
10.1039/c6ra23083k
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