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Robert Ducker
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 6
Citations - 648
Robert Ducker is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polymer & Photolithography. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 610 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Ducker include University of Sheffield & MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology.
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Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on surfaces: Transduction mechanisms and applications
TL;DR: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes (SRPBs) exhibit a change in conformation and structure, often accompanied by a noticeable change in surface energy, due to an external stimulus such as change in solvent composition, temperature, pH, ionic strength, light, or mechanical stress as discussed by the authors.
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Templated formation of giant polymer vesicles with controlled size distributions
Jonathan R. Howse,Richard A. L. Jones,Giuseppe Battaglia,Robert Ducker,Robert Ducker,Graham J. Leggett,Anthony J. Ryan +6 more
TL;DR: A method that enables the spontaneous creation of unilamellar vesicles with a narrow size distribution that could find applications in drug and gene delivery, nano- and micro-reactors, substrates for macromolecular crystallography and model systems for studies of membrane function is reported.
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Polymeric and biomacromolecular brush nanostructures: progress in synthesis, patterning and characterization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the field and highlight, through selected examples, recent advances in the nanostructuring of polymer and biomacromolecular brushes, including a brief overview of polymer brush synthesis techniques and how these are integrated with nanolithographic and templating approaches.
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Directed formation of micro- and nanoscale patterns of functional light-harvesting LH2 complexes.
Nicholas P. Reynolds,Stefan Janusz,Maryana Escalante-Marun,John A. Timney,Robert Ducker,John D. Olsen,Cees Otto,Vinod Subramaniam,Graham J. Leggett,C. Neil Hunter +9 more
TL;DR: The selective binding of an optically active membrane protein, the light-harvesting LH2 complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, to patterned self-assembled monolayers at the micron scale and the fabrication of nanometer-scale patterns of these molecules using near-field photolithographic methods are demonstrated.
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Tribochemical nanolithography: selective mechanochemical removal of photocleavable nitrophenyl protecting groups with 23 nm resolution at speeds of up to 1 mm s−1
TL;DR: In this paper , an atomic force microscope (AFM) probe is used to remove photocleavable nitrophenyl protecting groups from alkylsilane films at loads too small for mechanical wear, thus enabling nanoscale differentiation of chemical reactivity.