Murphy Group Affiliations:

 

 

Contact:

                                     Prof. William L. Murphy

                                     Rm. 3152 Engineering Centers Building

                                     Phone: 608-262-2224, Email: wlmurphy@wisc.edu

                                     Bioinspired Materials Laboratory

                                     Rm. 3004 and 2027 Engineering Centers Building

                                     Phone: 608-265-4031

                                     Murphy Group Offices 

                                     Rm. 3153, 3155, 3157 Engineering Centers Building,

                                     Phone: 608-262-1077

     
     
     

 

Bioinspired Materials Lab News

April, 2008
 Kelvin Ng receives the UW Hilldale Fellowship for Undergraduate Research.

January, 2008
 William Murphy receives NSF CAREER award.

November, 2007
 Protein-based, dynamic materials work (Sui et al. 2007) featured as "spotlight" on nanowerk.com.

September, 2007
 Protein-based, dynamic materials work (Sui et al. 2007) featured in "Advances in Advance" section of Adv. Mat.

May 2007
 Protein-based, dynamic hydrogels (Murphy et al., 2007)     featured in "Editors' Choice" section of Science.

 

Recent Publications

Multifunctional mixed SAMs that promote both cell adhesion and non-covalent DNA immobilization, Langmuir, 2008; 24:6873-6880.

Adaptable hydrogel array format for 3-dimensional cell culture, Biomaterials, 2008;29:3346-3356.

Protein-based hydrogels with tunable dynamic responses, Advanced Functional Materials, 2008;18:1824-1831.

An approach to modulate degradation and mesenchymal stem cell behavior in poly(ethylene glycol) networks. Biomacromolecules, 2008; 9:842-849.

Dynamic materials based on a protein conformational change. Advanced Materials, 2007;19:3377-3380.

Dynamic hydrogels: translating a protein conformational change into macroscopic motion. Angewandte Chemie, 2007;46:3066-3069.