Publications

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30. E. Bethur*, R. Guha*, Z. Zhao*, B. B. Katz, P. E. Ashby, H. Zeng, S. M. Copp. Formation and nanomechanical properties of silver- mediated guanine DNA duplexes in aqueous solution, ACS Nano, 18, 3002 (2024). *Co-first authorship

29. B. P. Carpenter, B. Rose, E. M. Olivas, M. X. Navarro, A. R. Talosig, P. J. Hurst, G. Di Palma, L. Xing, R. Guha, S. M. Copp, J. P. Patterson. The role of protein folding in prenucleation clusters on the activity of enzyme@metal–organic frameworks, J. Mater. Chem. A., 12, 813, (2024).

28. R. Guha, A. Gonzàlez-RosellM. Rafik, N. Arevalos, B. B. Katz, S. M. Copp. Electron count and ligand composition influence the optical and chiroptical signatures of NIR-emissive DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters, Chem. Sci. 14, 11340 (2023).

27. P. Mastracco and S. M. Copp. Beyond Nature’s base pairs: machine learning-enabled design of DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters, Chem. Commun. 59, 10360 (2023).

26. R. Guha, M. Rafik, A. Gonzàlez-RosellS. M. Copp. Heat, acid, and salt: synthesis strategies to favor formation of near-infrared emissive DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters, Chem. Commun. 59, 10488 (2023).

25. A. Gonzàlez-Rosell, S. Malola, R. GuhaN. Arevalos, M. Matus, M. Coulet, E. Haaspaniemi, B. Katz, T. Vosch, J. Kondo, H. Häkkinen, S. M. Copp. Chloride ligands on DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 10721 (2023).

24. R. Guha, S. M. Copp. Nucleic acid-templated metal nanoclusters. In Modern avenues in metal-nucleic acid chemistry, Eds. J. Müller and B. Lippert. CRC Press, pp 291-342 (2023).

23. P. Mastracco, A. Gonzàlez-Rosell, J. Evans, P. Bogdanov, S. M. Copp. Chemistry-Informed Machine Learning Enables Discovery of DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters with Near-Infrared Fluorescence. ACS Nano, 1616322 (2022).

22. A. Gonzàlez-Rosell, R. Guha, C. Cerretani, V. Rück, M. B. Liisberg, B. B. Katz, T. Vosch, S. M. Copp. DNA stabilizes eight-electron superatom silver nanoclusters with broadband downconversion and microsecond-lived luminescence. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 13, 8305 (2022).

21. F. Moomtaheen, M. Killeen, J. Oswald, A. Gonzàlez-Rosell, P. Mastracco, A. Gorovits, S. M. Copp, P. Bogdanov. DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanocluster Design via Regularized Variational Autoencoders. KDD ’22: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 3593 (2022).

20. S. M. Copp, R. Hamblin, K. Swingle, D. Rai, V. Urban, S. A. Ivanov, G. A. Montaño. Complex pH-Dependent Interactions Between Weak Polyelectrolyte Block Copolymer Micelles and Molecular Fluorophores. Langmuir38, 2038 (2022).

19. S. M. Copp and A. Gonzàlez-RosellLarge-scale investigation of the effects of nucleobase sequence on fluorescence excitation and Stokes shifts of DNA-stabilized silver clusters. Nanoscale, 13, 4602 (2021).

18. A. Gonzàlez-Rosell, C. Cerretani, P. Mastracco, T. Vosch, S. M. Copp. Structure and luminescence of DNA-templated silver clusters. Nanoscale Advances, 3, 1230 (2021). **Featured on inside back cover.

17. M. B. Baldtzer, Z. S. Sharkerikardar, S. M. Copp, C. Cerretani, T. Vosch. Single Molecule Detection of DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters Emitting at the NIR I/II BorderJ. Phys. Chem. Lett. 21, 1150 (2021).

16. V. A. Neacsu, C. Cerretani, M. B. Liisberg, S. M. Swasey, E. G. Gwinn, S. M. Copp, T. Vosch. Unusually large fluorescence quantum yield for a near-infrared emitting DNA-stabilized silver nanocluster. Chem. Commun., 56, 6384 (2020).

Before UC Irvine

15. S. M. Copp, S. M. Swasey, A. Govorits, P. Bogdanov, E. G. Gwinn. A General Approach for Machine Learning-Aided Design of DNA-Stabilized Silver Clusters. Chem. Mater., 32, 430 (2020).

14. T Elkin, S. M. Copp, R. L. Hamblin, J. S. Martinez, G. A. Montano, R. C. Rocha. Synthesis of Terpyridine- Terminated Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Their Self-Assembly into Metallo-Polymer Nanovesicles. Materials, 12, 601 (2019).

13. S. M. Swasey, F. Rosu, S. M. Copp, V. Gabelica, E. G. Gwinn. Parallel G-duplex and C-duplex DNA with Uninterrupted Spines of AgI-Mediated Base Pairs. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 6605 (2018).

12. S. M. Swasey, S. M. Copp, H. C. Nicholson, P. Bogdanov, A. Govorits, E. G. Gwinn. High throughput near infrared screening discovers DNA-templated silver clusters with peak fluorescence beyond 950 nm. Nanoscale, 10, 19701 (2018).

11. S. M. Swasey, H. C. Nicholson, S. M. Copp, P. Bogdanov, A. Govorits, E. G. Gwinn. Adaptation of a visible wavelength fluorescence microplate reader for discovery of near-infrared fluorescent probes. Rev. Sci. Instrum.,89, 095111 (2018).

10. S. M. Copp, A. Gorovits, S. M. Swasey, S. Godibandi, P. Bogdanov, E. G. Gwinn. Fluorescence Color by Data- Driven Design of Genomic Silver Clusters. ACS Nano, 12, 8240-8247 (2018).

9. S. Bogh, M. Carro-Temboury, C. Cerretani, S. Swasey, S. M. Copp, E. G. Gwinn, T. Vosch. Unusually large Stokes Shift for a Near-Infrared Emitting DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanocluster. Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 16, 024004 (2018).

8. S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, A. Faris, S. Swasey, E. Gwinn. Cluster Plasmonics: Dielectric and Shape Effects on DNA-Stabilized Silver Clusters. Nano Lett., 16, 3594-3599 (2016).

7. S. M. Copp, A. Faris, S. Swasey, E. Gwinn. Heterogeneous Solvatochromism of Fluorescent DNA-Stabilized Silver Clusters Precludes Use of Simple Onsager-Based Stokes Shift Models. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 698-703 (2016).

6. E. Gwinn, D. Schultz, S. M. Copp, S. Swasey. DNA-Protected Silver Clusters for Nanophotonics. Nanotechnology, 5, 180-207 (2015).

5. S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, S. Swasey, E. Gwinn. Atomically Precise Arrays of Fluorescent Silver Clusters: a Modular Approach for Photonics on DNA Nanostructures. ACS Nano, 9, 2303-2310 (2015).

4. S. M. Copp, P. Bogdanov, M. Debord, A. Singh, E. Gwinn. Base Motif Recognition and Design of DNA Templates for Fluorescent Silver Clusters by Machine Learning. Adv. Mater. 26, 5839-5845 (2014).

3. S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, S. M. Swasey, J. Pavlovich, M. Debord, A. Chiu, K. Olsson, E. Gwinn. Magic Numbers in DNA-Stabilized Fluorescent Silver Clusters Lead to Magic Colors. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 959-963 (2014).

2. D. Schultz, S. M. Copp, N. Markeševic ́, K. Gardner, S.S.R. Oemrawsingh, D. Bouwmeester, E. Gwinn. Dual-Color Nanoscale Assemblies of Structurally Stable, Few-Atom Silver Clusters, as Reported by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. ACS Nano 7, 9798-9807 (2013).

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