Nanofluidics: The following are some of the nanofluidics research areas undertaken in the Takayama Lab: Uchida, T.; Mills, K. L.; Tung, Y.-C.; Thouless, M.D.; Takayama, S. “External Compression-induced Fracture Patterning on the Surface of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Cubes and Microspheres” Langmuir 2009, in press. Mills, K. L.; Zhu, X.; Takayama, S.; Thouless, M. D. “The mechanical properties of a surface-modified layer on poly(dimethylsiloxane)” J. Mater. Res. 2008, 23, 37-48. Douville, N.; Huh, D.; Takayama, S. “DNA linearization through confinement in nanochannels” Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2008, 391, 2395-2409.

Huh, D.; Mills, K.L.; Zhu, X.Y.; Burns, M.A.; Thouless, M.D.; Takayama, S. “Tuneable elastomeric nanochannels for nanofluidic manipulation” Nature Materials 2007, 6, 424-428.

Zhu, X.; Mills, K. L.; Peters, P. R.; Bahng, J. H.; Liu E. H.; Shim, J.; Naruse, K.; Csete, M. E.; Thouless, M. D.; Takayama, S. “Fabrication of Reconfigurable Protein Matrices by Cracking” Nat. Mater. 2005, 4, 403-406.

Shim, J.; Bersano-Begey, T. F.; Zhu, X.; Tkaczyk, A.; Linderman, J.J.; Takayama, S. “Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Studying Cellular Function” Curr. Top. Med. Chem., 2003, 3, 687-703.