Publications

2024

Yilin Zhang, Hui Sun, Yunteng Cao, Maxwell Kalinowski, Meng Li, Benedetto Marelli, Directed assembly of proteinaceous-polysaccharide nanofibrils to fabricate membranes for emerging contaminant remediation, ACS Nano, 2024

MIT News

Yilin Zhang, Yunteng Cao, Wenzhi Jiang, Qingquan Ma, Jinwoo Shin, Hui Sun, Jianqiao Cui, Yongsheng Chen, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Michael S. Strano, Gregory V. Lowr, Jen Sheen, Benedetto Marelli, Polymeric nanocarriers autonomously cross the plant cell wall and enable protein delivery for stress sensing, Advanced Materials, 2024

Muchun Liu, Yunteng Cao, Zheng Li, Emily Wang, Rajeev J Ram, Benedetto Marelli, Precise and high throughput delivery of micronutrients in plants enabled by pollen-inspired spiny and biodegradable microcapsules, Advanced Materials, 2024

Samuel Lim, Charles B Reilly, Zeina Barghouti, Benedetto Marelli, Jeffrey C Way, Pamela A Silver, Tardigrade secretory proteins protect biological structures from desiccation, Communications Biology, 2024

Yue Hu, Yunteng Cao, Franklin M Nguyen, Bradley D Frank, Maxwell J Kalinowski, Meng Li, Sarojam Rajani, Benedetto Marelli, Antibody-targeted phytohormone delivery using foliar sprayed silk fibroin puckering emulsions, Advanced Functional Materials, 2024

2023

Yilin Zhang, Michael R Martinez, Hui Sun, Mingkang Sun, Rongguan Yin, Jiajun Yan, Benedetto Marelli, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D Tilton, Gregory V Lowry, Charge, aspect ratio, and plant species affect uptake efficiency and translocation of polymeric agrochemical nanocarriers, Environmental Science & Technology, 2023

Benedetto Marelli, Adam Behrens, Silk protein can extend shelf life and improve food security, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023

Yangyang Han, Song Wang, Yunteng Cao, Gajendra Pratap Singh, Suh In Loh, Raju Cheerlavancha, Mervin Chun-Yi Ang, Duc Thinh Khong, Patrina Wei Lin Chua, Peiying Ho, Michael S Strano, Benedetto Marelli, Design of biodegradable, climate-specific packaging materials that sense food spoilage and extend shelf life, ACS nano, 2023

Hui Sun, Benedetto Marelli, Large-scale, proteinaceous nanotube arrays with programmable hydrophobicity, oleophilicity, and gas permeability, Nano Letters, 2023

Hui Sun, Saurav Maji, Anantha P Chandrakasan, Benedetto Marelli, Integrating biopolymer design with physical unclonable functions for anticounterfeiting and product traceability in agriculture, Science Advances, 2023

Yilin Zhang, Liye Fu, Michael R Martinez, Hui Sun, Valeria Nava, Jiajun Yan, Kurt Ristroph, Saadyah E Averick, Benedetto Marelli, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Robert D Tilton, Gregory V Lowry, Temperature-Responsive Bottlebrush Polymers Deliver a Stress-Regulating Agent In Vivo for Prolonged Plant Heat Stress Mitigation, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2023

Yue Hu, Federica Rigoldi, Hui Sun, Alfonso Gautieri, Benedetto Marelli, Unbiased in silicon design of pH-sensitive tetrapeptides, Chemical Communications, 2023

2022

Yunteng Cao, Sally Shuxian Koh, Yangyang Han, Javier Jingheng Tan, Doyoon Kim, Nam-Hai Chua, Daisuke Urano, Benedetto Marelli, Drug Delivery in Plants Using Silk Microneedles, Advanced Materials, 2022

Augustine T. Zvinavashe, Zeina Barghouti, Yunteng Cao, Hui Sun, Doyoon Kim, Muchun Liu, Eugene J. Lim, and Benedetto Marelli, Degradation of Regenerated Silk Fibroin in Soil and Marine Environments, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 10, 34, 2022

Hui Sun,Yunteng Cao,Doyoon Kim,Benedetto Marelli, Biomaterials Technology for AgroFood Resilience, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022

Muchun Liu, Pierre‐Eric Millard, Henning Urch, Ophelie Zeyons, Douglas Findley, Rupert Konradi, Benedetto Marelli, Microencapsulation of High‐Content Actives Using Biodegradable Silk Materials, Small, 2201487, 2022

Benedetto Marelli, Biomaterials for boosting food security, Science, 6589 (376) 146-147, 2022

2021

Augustine T. Zvinavashe, Julie Laurent, Manal Mhada, Hui Sun, Henri Manu Effa Fouda, Doyoon Kim, Salma Mouhib, Lamfeddal Kouisni, Benedetto Marelli, Programmable design of seed coating function induces water-stress tolerance in semi-arid regions, Nature Food, 2021

Augustine T. Zvinavashe, Ilham Mardad, Manal Mhada, Lamfeddal Kouisni, and Benedetto Marelli, Engineering the Plant Microenvironment To Facilitate Plant-Growth-Promoting Microbe Association, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2021

Heyu Yin, Yunteng Cao, Benedetto Marelli, Xiangqun Zeng, Andrew J. Mason, Changyong Cao, Soil Sensors and Plant Wearables for Smart and Precision Agriculture, Advanced Materials, 2021

Guiyin Xu, Haibin Jiang, Myles Stapelberg, Jiawei Zhou, Mengyang Liu, Qing-Jie Li, Yunteng Cao, Rui Gao, Minggang Cai, Jinliang Qiao, Mitchell S Galanek, Weiwei Fan, Weijiang Xue, Benedetto Marelli, Meifang Zhu, and Ju Li, Self-Perpetuating Carbon Foam Microwave Plasma Conversion of Hydrocarbon Wastes into Useful Fuels and Chemicals, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021

Giulia Guidetti, Hui Sun, Alesja Ivanova, Benedetto Marelli, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Co‐Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Silk Fibroin into Photonic Cholesteric Films, Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2000272, 2021

Hui Sun, and Benedetto Marelli, Growing silk fibroin in advanced materials for food security, MRS Communications, 1-15, 2021

Elisabetta Ruggeri, Silvia Farè, Luigi De Nardo, Benedetto Marelli, Edible Biopolymers for Food Preservation, Sustainable Food Packaging Technology, 57-105, 2021

2020

Doyoon Kim, Yunteng Cao, Dhanushkodi Mariappan, Michael S. Bono Jr., A. John Hart, Benedetto Marelli, A Microneedle Technology for Sampling and Sensing Bacteria in the Food Supply Chain, Advanced Functional Materials, 2005370, 2020

Elisabetta Ruggeri, Doyoon Kim, Yunteng Cao, Silvia Fare, Luigi De Nardo, Benedetto Marelli, A Multilayered Edible Coating to Extend Produce Shelf-life, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020

Guilia Guidetti, Hui Sun, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Photonic paper: multiscale assembly of reflective cellulose sheets in Lunaria annua, Science Advances, 6:20, eaba8966, 2020

Yunteng Cao, Eugene Lim, Menglong Xu, Jing‐Ke Weng, and Benedetto Marelli, Precision Delivery of Multiscale Payloads to Tissues Specific Targets in Plants, Advanced Science, 1903551, 2020 (Open Access)

Zhao Qin, Lingfei Wu, Hui Sun, Siyu Huo, Tengfei Ma, Eugene Lim, Pin-Yu Chen, Benedetto Marelli, Markus J Buehler, Artificial intelligence method to design and fold alpha-helical structural proteins from the primary amino acid sequence, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 36, 100652, 2020

Hui Sun and Benedetto Marelli, Polypeptide Templating for Designer Hierarchical Materials, Nature Communications, 11: 351, 2020 (Open Access)

Maziar Shah Mohammadi, Ehsan Rezabeigi, Jason Bertram, Benedetto Marelli, Richard Gendron, Showan N Nazhat, Martin N. Bureau, Poly(D.L-Lactic acid) composite foams containing phosphate glass particles produced via solid-state foaming using CO2 for bone tissue engineering applications, Polymers, 12: 231, 2020 (Open Access)

2019

Augustine T. Zvinavashe, Eugene Lim, Hui Sun, and Benedetto Marelli, A bioinspired approach to engineer seed microenvironment to boost germination and mitigate soil salinity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (51) 25555-25561, 2019 (Open access)

Mario Milazzo, Nicola Contessi Negrini, Stefania Scialla, Benedetto Marelli, Silvia Farè, Serena Danti, Markus J Buehler, Manufacturing Approaches for Hydroxyapatite‐Reinforced Composites, Advanced Functional Materials, 39, (15) 1903055, 2019

Nicola Contessi Negrini, Mathilde Bonnetier, Giorgio Giatsidis, Dennis P Orgill, Silvia Farè, Benedetto Marelli, Tissue-mimicking gelatin scaffolds by alginate sacrificial templates for adipose tissue engineering, Acta Biomaterialia, 87 (15) 61-75, 2019

2018

Zhitao Zhou, Shaoqing Zhang, Yunteng Cao, Benedetto Marelli, Xiaoxia Xia, Tiger H Tao, Engineering the Future of Silk Materials through Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, 20 (33) 1706983, 2018

2017

Chiara E Ghezzi, Benedetto Marelli, Ilaria Donelli, Antonio Alessandrino, Giuliano Freddi, Showan N Nazhat, Multilayered dense collagen–silk fibroin hybrid: a platform for mesenchymal stem cell differentiation towards chondrogenic and osteogenic lineages, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2017, 11 (7) 2046-2059, https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1002/term.2100

Peter Tseng, Bradley Napier, Siwei Zhao, Alexander N Mitropoulos, Matthew B Applegate, Benedetto Marelli, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Directed assembly of bio-inspired hierarchical materials with controlled nanofibrillar architectures, Nature Nanotechnology, 2017, 12 474–480, https://www-nature-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/articles/nnano.2017.4

Michele Gaio, Soraya Caixeiro, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Riccardo Sapienza, Gain-Based Mechanism for pH Sensing Based on Random Lasing, Physical Review Applied, 2017, 7 034005, https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.034005

Benedetto Marelli, Nereus Patel, Thomas Duggan, Giovanni Perotto, Elijah Shirman, Chunmei Li, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Programming function into mechanical forms by directed assembly of silk bulk materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114 (3) 451-456, https://www.pnas.org/content/114/3/451.short

Chiara E Ghezzi, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, James L Funderburgh, David L Kaplan, 3D Functional Corneal Stromal Tissue Equivalent Based on Corneal Stromal Stem Cells and Multi-Layered Silk Film Architecture, PlosONE, 2017, e0169504 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169504

2016

Chunmei Li, Blake Hotz, Shengjie Ling, Jin Guo, Dylan S Haas, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Samuel J Lin, David L Kaplan, Regenerated silk materials for functionalized silk orthopedic devices by mimicking natural processing, Biomaterials, 2016, 110 24-33, https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0142961216305099

Nan Qin, Shaoqing Zhang, Jianjuan Jiang, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Zhigang Qian, Zhitao Zhou, Woonsoo Lee, Keyin Liu, Xiaohan Wang, Xinxin Li, Zhifeng Shi, Ying Mao, Hans A Bechtel, Michael C Martin, Xiaoxia Xia, Benedetto Marelli, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Mengkun Liu, Tiger H Tao, Nanoscale probing of electron-regulated structural transitions in silk proteins by near-field IR imaging and nano-spectroscopy, Nature Communications, 2016, 7 13079, https://www-nature-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/articles/ncomms13079

Soraya Caixeiro, Michele Gaio, Benedetto Marelli, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Riccardo Sapienza, Silk‐Based Biocompatible Random Lasing, Advanced Optical Materials, 2016, 4 (7) 998-1003, https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/full/10.1002/adom.201600185

Benedetto Marelli, MA Brenckle, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Silk Fibroin as Edible Coating for Perishable Food Preservation, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6 25263, https://www-nature-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/articles/srep25263 (Open access)

Matthew B Applegate, Benjamin P Partlow, Jeannine Coburn, Benedetto Marelli, Christopher Pirie, Roberto Pineda, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Photocrosslinking of Silk Fibroin Using Riboflavin for Ocular Prostheses, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28 (12) 2417-2420, https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201504527

Alexander N Mitropoulos, Benedetto Marelli, Giovanni Perotto, Jason Amsden, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Towards the fabrication of biohybrid silk fibroin materials: entrapment and preservation of chloroplast organelles in silk fibroin films, RSC Advances, 2016, 6 (76) 72366-72370, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c6ra13228f

Joonhan Park, Sung-Gyu Lee, Benedetto Marelli, Myungjae Lee, Taehyung Kim, Hye-Keun Oh, Heonsu Jeon, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Sunghwan Kim, Eco-friendly photolithography using water-developable pure silk fibroin, RSC Advances, 2016, 6 (45) 39330-39334, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c6ra04516b

Asma Khalid, Alexander N Mitropoulos, Benedetto Marelli, Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Doxorubicin loaded nanodiamond-silk spheres for fluorescence tracking and controlled drug release, Biomedical Optics Express, 2016, 7 (1) 132-147, https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-7-1-132

Mark A Brenckle, Benjamin Partlow, Hu Tao, Matthew B Applegate, Andrew Reeves, Mark Paquette, Benedetto Marelli, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Methods and Applications of Multilayer Silk Fibroin Laminates Based on Spatially Controlled Welding in Protein Films, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26 (1) 44-50, https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.201502819

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