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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN@UIUC)
National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors (NCDBN)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Materials Computation Center (MCC)
SCCNE-UIUC
Center for Cellular Mechanics (CCM)

M. L. Kraft, P. K. Weber, M. L. Longo, I. D. Hutcheon, and S. G. Boxer, "Phase separation of lipid membranes analyzed with high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry , " Science, 313, 1948-1951 (2006).
(Perspectives Article in Science 2006, 313, 1901-1902; News of the Week in Chemical and Engineering News 2006, 84, 11; Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology 2006, doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.105.)

M. L. Kraft, S. F. Fishel, C. Galli Marxer, P. K. Weber, I. D. Hutcheon, and S. G. Boxer, "Quantitative analysis of supported membrane composition using the NanoSIMS," Applied Surface Science, 252, 6950-6956 (2006).

C. Galli Marxer, M. L. Kraft, P. K. Weber, I. D. Hutcheon, and S. G. Boxer, "Supported membrane composition analysis by secondary ion mass spectrometry with high lateral resolution , " Biophysical Journal, 88, 2965-2975 (2005). Cover article.

M.L. Kraft and J.S. Moore, "Multitechnique characterization of fatty acid-modified microgels," Langmuir, 20, 1111-1119 (2004).

M.L. Kraft and J.S. Moore, "n-Alkyl fatty acid-modified microgels: Ion permeation as a function of chain length," Langmuir, 19, 910-915 (2003).

M.L. Kraft and J.S. Moore, "Surfactant-induced lysis of lipid-modified microgels," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123, 12921-12922 (2001).

D. J. Beebe, J. S. Moore, Q. Yu, R. H. Liu, M. L. Kraft, B.-H. Jo, and C. Devadoss, "Microfluidic tectonics: A comprehensive platform for microfluidic systems," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97, 13488-13493 (2000).

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Nano-Bio Workshop and nanoHUB Summer School,
  NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 30-31, 2007

• Mary Kraft (2008), "Using Mass Spectrometry to Understand Membrane Organization ," https://nanohub.org/resources/4181.

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1. Illinois
2. membranes
3. nano/bio
4. nanobio applications
5. nano-bio workshop
6. nanoHUB summer school
7. research seminar
8. Summer School