Zauscher Lab

The Zauscher lab research lies at the intersection of surface and colloid science, polymer materials engineering, and biointerface science. These broad inquiries deal with fundamental behaviors of soft-wet materials on surfaces and interfaces.

Current projects include:

(1) fabrication, manipulation, and characterization of stimulus-responsive biomolecular and bio-inspired polymeric nanostructures on surfaces;
(2) nanomechanics of soft-wet materials and hybrid biological/non-biological microdevices;
(3) interaction of proteins with lipid membranes in the context of HIV-1;
(4) the role of glycoproteins in boundary lubrication of cartilage.

Recent Publications:

Yang, Yunqi, Qinyi Lu, Yu Chen, Marcello DeLuca, Gaurav Arya, Yonggang Ke, and Stefan Zauscher. “Spatiotemporal Control over Polynucleotide Brush Growth on DNA Origami Nanostructures.” Angewandte Chemie 135, no. 48 (November 27, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202311727.

Bekir, M., C. Brückner, S. Zauscher, and M. Gradzielski. “Polyelectrolyte brushes affect the adsorption kinetics of nanoparticles onto lipid membranes (Accepted).” Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 677 (November 20, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2023.132354.

Yang, Yunqi, Qinyi Lu, Yu Chen, Marcello DeLuca, Gaurav Arya, Yonggang Ke, and Stefan Zauscher. “Spatiotemporal Control over Polynucleotide Brush Growth on DNA Origami Nanostructures.” Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English) 62, no. 48 (November 2023): e202311727. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202311727.