Nature Reviews Chemistry · 2025
Self-Healing Crystals
Commins, Al-Handawi & Naumov
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Peer-reviewed articles from the Smart Materials Lab, spanning crystal adaptronics, soft robotics, and self-healing materials.
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Peer-reviewed articles from the Smart Materials Lab, spanning crystal adaptronics, soft robotics, and self-healing materials.
Nature Reviews Chemistry · 2025
Commins, Al-Handawi & Naumov
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Cryogenically Self-Healing Organic Crystals
Ding, Chengde; Tang, Baolei; Zhou, Yuxing; Jin, Bowen; Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu
Atomistic Understanding of Self-Healing of a Ferroelastic Crystal
Fahim, Zarif; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhu, Qiang
Green-Synthesized Single-Benzene Fluorophores Exhibiting Room-Temperature Phosphorescence and Solid-State Fluorescence for Biological and Optical Applications
Kramp, Maximilian; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Zschommler, Juan Camilo; Commins, Patrick; Prestel, Thomas; Ibl, Verena; Naumov, Panče; Müller, Carolin; Schramm, Stefan
Self-Healing Crystals
Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Naumov, Panče*
Flexible Organic Crystals for Light Delivery in Biological Tissues
Lan, Linfeng; Pan, Xiuhong; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang; Catalano, Luca; Yan, Dongmei; Xiong, Haonan; Wang, Chenguang*; Naumov, Panče*; Zhang, Hongyu*
Natural Product Isolation of the Extract of Cleome rupicola Fruits Exhibiting Antioxidant Activity
Gambrill, Yumi; Commins, Patrick*; Schramm, Stefan; Lui, Nathan M.; AlNeyadi, Shaikha S.; Naumov, Panče*
Ferroelastic Control of the Multicolor Emission from a Triply Doped Organic Crystal
Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Deger, Caner; Polavaram, Srujana; Yavuz, Ilhan; Rezgui, Rachid; Li, Liang; Houk, K. N.*; Naumov, Panče*
Ferroelastic Ionic Organic Crystals that Self-Heal to 95%
Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Dalaq, Ahmed S.; Santos-Florez, Pedro S.; Polavaram, Srujana; Didier, Pascal; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Zhu, Qiang; Daqaq, Mohammed; Li, Liang*; Naumov, Panče*
Harvesting of Aerial Humidity with Natural Hygroscopic Salt Excretions
Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Dinnebier, Robert E.; Li, Liang*; Naumov, Panče*
Autonomous and Directional Flow of Water and Transport of Particles across a Subliming Dynamic Crystal Surface
Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B; Rezgui, Rachid; Li, Liang; McNamara, Mark; Naumov, Panče
Autonomous Reconstitution of Fractured Hybrid Perovskite Single Crystals
Al-Handawi, Marieh; Dushaq, Ghada; Commins, Patrick; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Rasras, Mahmoud; Catalano, Luca*; Naumov, Panče*
Spectrochemistry of Firefly Bioluminescence
Al-Handawi, Marieh; Polavaram, Srujana; Kurlevskaya, Anastasiya; Commins, Patrick; Schramm, Stefan; Carrasco-Lopez, Cesar; Lui, Nathan; Solntsev, Kyril; Laptenok, Sergey; Navizet, Isabelle; Naumov, Panče*
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Inhibitors for Middle Eastern Asphaltenes by Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation
Kahs, Tim; Raj, Gijo; Whelan, Jamie; Larkin, Edward; Commins, Patrick; Punnapala, Sameer; Odeh, Nadir; Abdallah, Dalia; Naumov, Panče*
The Nature of the van Dyck "Crystals"
Commins, Patrick; Lee, Veronica; Panda, Tamas; Lesimple, Alain; Naumov, Panče*
Mechanically Compliant Single Crystals of a Stable Organic Radical
Commins, Patrick; Dippenaar, A. Bernard; Li, Liang; Hara, Hideyuki; Haynes, Delia A.; Naumov, Panče*
Formation of Noncovalent Complexes between Complex Mixtures of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Asphaltenes) and Substituted Aromatics Studied by Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Faisal, Tabinah; Solntsev, Kyril M.; Kahs, Tim; Saleh, Na'il; Commins, Patrick; Whelan, Jamie; Mohamed, Sharmarke; Naumov, Panče*
Efficiently Self-Healing Boronic Ester Crystals
Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Raj, Gijo; Naumov, Panče*
From Mechanical Effects to Mechanochemistry: Softening and Depression of the Melting Point of Deformed Plastic Crystals
Ahmed, Ejaz; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Pejov, Ljupčo; Commins, Patrick; Hu, Qichi; Naumov, Panče*
Mechanically Assisted Bioluminescence with Natural Luciferase
Schramm, Stefan; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Kurlevskaya, Anastasiya; Commins, Patrick; Mitani, Ysuo; Wu, Chun; Ohmiya, Yoshihiro; Naumov, Panče*
Reversible Multicolor Photochromism of Dihydroazulene Crystals
Liepuoniute, Ieva; Commins, Patrick; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Schramm, Stefan; Hara, Hideyuki; Naumov, Panče*
Thermochemiluminescent Peroxide Crystals
Schramm, Stefan; Karothu, Durga P.; Lui, Nathan M.; Commins, Patrick; Ahmed, Ejaz; Catalano, Luca; Weston, James; Moriwaki, Taro; Solnstev, Kyril M.; Naumov, Panče*
In Situ Monitoring of the Inhibition of Asphaltene Adsorption by a Surfactant on Carbon Steel Surface
Raj, Gijo; Larkin, Edward; Lesimple, Alain; Commins, Patrick; Whelan, Jamie; Naumov, Panče*
Reversible Photolysis of Nitrosobenzene cis-Dimer Monitored In Situ by Single Crystal Photocrystallography
Rodenbough, Philip P.; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Gjorgjieva, Tamara; Commins, Patrick; Hara, Hideyuki; Naumov, Panče*
Encapsulation of Plant Viral Particles in Calcite Crystals
Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Shukla, Sourabh; Didier, Pascal; Tanaka, Masahiko; Raj, Gijo; Pasricha, Renu; Steinmetz, Nicole F.; Naumov, Panče*
Morphokinematics of the Hygroactuation of Feather Grass Awns
Yanez, Alvaro; Desta, Israel; Commins, Patrick; Magzoub, Mazin; Naumov, Panče*
Self-Healing Molecular Crystals
Commins, Patrick; Hara, Hideyuki; Naumov, Panče*
Crystals on the Move: Mechanical Effects in Dynamic Solids
Commins, Patrick; Tilahun Desta, Israel; Prasad Karothu, Durga; Panda, Manas K.; Naumov, Panče*
Structure-Reactivity Correlations and Mechanistic Understanding of the Photorearrangement and Photosalient Effect of α-Santonin and its Derivatives in Solutions, Crystals and Nanocrystalline Suspensions
Commins, Patrick; Natarajan, Arunkumar; Tsai, Chao-Kuan; Khan, Saeed I.; Nath, Naba K.; Naumov, Panče*; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.*
A Self-Healing Crystal that Repairs Multiple Cracks
Pathan, Javed R.; Balan, Haripriya; Commins, Patrick; Ravi, Arthi; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Hou, Cheng-Yi Ian; Naumov, Panče*; Sureshan, Kana M.
Current Trends and Advancements in Crystallization and Single-Crystal Structural Analysis of Small Molecules
Xiao, Yuntian; Wua, Chuanhua; Zhou, Ling; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang*; Naumov, Panče*; Yin, Qiuxiang*
Organic Crystalline Optical Waveguides that Remain Elastic from -196 to ~200 °C
Tang, Shiyue; Ye, Kaiqi; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče*; Zhang, Hongyu*
The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals
Naumov, Panče; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Ahmed, Ejaz; Catalano, Luca; Commins, Patrick; Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang
Loss of β-actin leads to accelerated mineralization and dysregulation of osteoblast-differentiation genes during osteogenic reprogramming
Gjorgjieva, Tamara; Xie, Xin; Commins, Patrick; Pasricha, Renu; Mahmood, S. Raza; Gunsalus, Kristin C.; Naumov, Panče; Percipalle, Piergiorgio*
Is a Bent Crystal Still a Single Crystal?
Commins, Patrick; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Naumov, Panče*
A Filled Organic Crystal as Hybrid Large-Bandwidth Optical Waveguide
Catalano, Luca; Commins, Patrick; Schramm, Stefan; Karothu, Durga P.; Rezgui, Rachid; Hadef, Kawther; Naumov, Panče*
Martensitic Organic Crystals as Soft Actuators
Li, Liang; Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Schramm, Stefan; Weston, James; Rezgui, Rachid; Naumov, Panče*
Mechanical and Crystallographic Analysis of Cholesterol Crystals Puncturing Biological Membranes
Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Raj, Gijo; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče*