Malkiat S. Johal
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College

 

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·        Theodore J. Zwang, Will R. Fletcher, Thomas J. Lane, and Malkiat S. Johal* 

“Quantification of the Layer of Hydration of a Supported Lipid Bilayer”

Langmuir, 2010, 26(7), 4598-4601.

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·        Michael V. Gormally, Rebecca A. McKibben, Malkiat S. Johal*, and Cynthia R.D. Selassie*

 “Controlling Tyrosinase Activity on Charged Polyelectrolyte Surfaces: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study”

Langmuir, 2009, 25 (17), 10014-10019.

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·        Peter J. N. Kett, Michael T. L. Casford, Amanda Y. Yang, Thomas J. Lane, Malkiat S. Johal, and Paul B. Davies*

 “Structural Changes in a Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assembly Investigated by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy and Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy”

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2009, 113(6), 1559-1568.

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·        Peter A. Chiarelli, Ding-Guo Lui , Erik B. Watkins , Frans R. Trouw, Jaroslow Majewski, Joanna L. Casson, Zhexiong Tang, Malkiat S. Johal, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“Molecular Order in Langmuir-Blodgett Assembled Films of an Azobenzene Amphiphile”

Thin Solid Films, 2009, 517 (16), 4638-4643.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal*, Talya Dayton, Peter A, Chiarelli, and Hsing-Lin Wang

Book Chapter: “Electrostatic Self-Assembly Methods of Fabricating Enzymatic Surfaces”

Soft Nanomaterials, Copyright 2009 by American Scientific Publishers, 209-231.

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·        Matthew Dixon, Michael Gormally, and Malkiat Johal

“Real-Time Characterization of Polymer Film Degradation with Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring”

NSTI-Nanotech 2009, 2009, 1, 364-367.

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·        Thomas J. Lane, Will R. Fletcher, Michael V. Gormally, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Dual-Beam Polarization Interferometry Resolves Mechanistic Aspects of Polyelectrolyte Adsorption”

Langmuir, 2008, 24(19), 10633-10636.

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·        Amanda Y. Yang, Robert J. Rawle, Cynthia R. D. Selassie, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“A Quartz-Crystal Microbalance Study of Polycation-Supported Single and Double Stranded DNA Surfaces”

Biomacromolecules, 2008, 9(12), 3416-3421.

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·        Thomas J. Lane, Connie Y. H. Cheng, Matthew C. Dixon, Anna Oom, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“A Novel Quartz Resonator-Based Approach to Ultrasonic Rheology of a Mixed-Phase Micellar System”

Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80(20), 7840-7845.

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·        Jeremy S. Treger, Vincent Y. Ma, Yuan Gao, Chun-Chih Wang, Seaho Jeon, Jeanne M. Robinson, Hsing-Lin Wang, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Controlling Layer Thickness and Photostability of a Water-Soluble Cationic PPV in Multilayer Thin Films by Surfactant Complexation”

Langmuir, 2008, 24(22), 13127-13131.

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·        Jeremy S. Treger, Vincent Y. Ma, Yuan Gao, Chun-Chih Wang, Hsing-Lin Wang, and Malkiat S. Johal*

"Tuning the Optical Properties of a Water-Soluble Cationic PPV: Surfactant Complexation with a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte"

Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 2008, 112(3), 760-763.

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·        Robert J. Rawle, Malkiat S. Johal, and Cynthia R. D. Selassie*

“A Real-Time QCM-D Approach to Monitoring Mammalian DNA Damage Using DNA Adsorbed to a Polyelectrolyte Surface”

Biomacromolecules, 2008, 9, 9-12.

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·        Jeremy S. Treger, Vincent Y. Ma, Yuan Gao, Chun-Chih Wang, Hsing-Lin Wang, and Malkiat S. Johal*

"Tuning the Optical Properties of a Water-Soluble Cationic PPV using Surfactant Complexation"

Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 2008, 98, 1550-6703.

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·        Robert J. Rawle, Cynthia R.D. Selassie, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Creation of Mammalian Single- and Double-Stranded DNA Surfaces: A Real-Time QCM-D Study”

Langmuir, 2007, 23(19), 9563-9566.

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·        Rebecca E. Hamlin, Talya L. Dayton, Lewis E. Johnson, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“A QCM Study of the Immobilization of b-Galactosidase on Polyelectrolyte Surfaces: Effect of the Terminal Polyion on Enzymatic Surface Activity”

Langmuir, 2007, 23(8), 4432-4437.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal* and Peter A. Chiarelli

“Polymer-Surfactant Complexation in Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assemblies”

Soft Matter 2007, 1, 34-46.

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·        Zhexiong Tang, Malkiat S. Johal*, Paul H. Scudder, Nińa Caculitan, Rudolph J. Magyar, Sergei Tratiak, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“A Study of the Non Covalent Interactions in Langmuir-Blodgett Films: An Interplay Between p-p and Dipole-Dipole Interactions”

Thin Solid Films, 2007, 516 (1), 58-66.

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·        Michael C. Howland, Malkiat S. Johal, and Atul N. Parikh*

“Transition from Homogeneous Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers to Striped Bilayers Driven by a Wetting Instability in Octadecylsiloxane Monolayers”

Langmuir, 2005, 21(23), 10468-10474.

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·        Victoria E. Campbell, Peter A. Chiarelli, Sanjit Kaur, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Coadsoprtion of a Polyanion and an Azobenzene Dye in Self-Assembled and Spin-Assembled Polyelectrolyte Multilayers”

Chemistry of Materials, 2005, 17, 186-190.

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·        Nińa Caculitan, Paul H. Scudder, Joanna L. Casson, Hsing-Lin Wang, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Malkiat S. Johal*

In Situ Kinetics of LBL Assembled NLO Amphiphiles Using Dynamic Surface Force Measurements”

Langmuir 2004, 20, 8735-8739.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal*, Byram H. Ozer, Ashlee St. John, Joanna L. Casson, Hsing-Lin Wang, and Jeanne M. Robinson

Coadsorption of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and a Polyanion onto Poly(ethylenimine) in Multilayered Thin Films

Langmuir, 2004, 20(7), 2792-2796.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal*, Michael C. Howland, Jeanne M. Robinson, Joanna L. Casson, and Hsing-Lin Wang

“Photoluminescent Studies of Spin-Assembled MPS-PPV/Dendrimer Multilayers”

Chemical Physics Letters, 2004, 383 (3-4), 276.

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·        Peter A. Chiarelli, Jeanne M. Robinson, Joanna L. Casson, Malkiat S. Johal, and Hsing-Lin Wang

“Fabrication of Multilayered Thin Films via Spin-Assembly”

U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ.  (2004), 11 pp.  US  2004086649  A1  20040506  CAN 140:384233  AN 2004:372626.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal*, Joanna L. Casson, Hsing-Lin Wang, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Rita Jaqueline El-Khouri

“Fine-Tuning the Wetting Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Films Containing Ionic Surfactants”

Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 2003, 89, 841-843.

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·        Joanna L. Casson, Malkiat S. Johal, Peter A. Chiarelli, Ding-Guo Liu, Jennifer A. Shaw, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“Polyelectrolyte Trilayer Combinations using Spin-Assembly and Ionic Self-Assembly”

  Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 2003, 89, 33-34.

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·        Rita J. El-Khouri and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Fine-Tuning the Wetting Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Films with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate”

Langmuir 2003, 19, 4880.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Joanna L. Casson, Peter A. Chiarelli, Ding-Guo Lui, Jennifer A. Shaw, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“Polyelectrolyte Trilayer Combinations Using Spin-Assembly and Ionic Self-Assembly”

Langmuir 2003, 19 (No.21), 8876.

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·        Peter A. Chiarelli, Malkiat S. Johal*, Daniel J. Holmes, Joanna L. Casson, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“Polyelectrolyte Spin-Assembly”

Langmuir 2002, 18, 168-173.

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·        Joanna L. Casson, Hsing-Lin Wang*, Jerrad B. Roberts, Atul N. Parikh, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Kinetics and Interpenetration of Ionically Self-Assembled Dendrimer and PAZO Multilayers”

Journal of Physical Chemistry B.,  2002, 106, 1697-1702.

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·        Peter A. Chiarelli, Malkiat S. Johal, Joanna L. Casson, Jerrad B. Roberts, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Hsing-Lin Wang*

“Controlling Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Thin Film Fabrication Using Spin-Assembly”

Advanced Materials 2001, 13, No. 15, August 3, 1167-1171.

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·        Joanna L. Casson, Duncan W. McBranch, Jeanne M. Robinson*, Hsing-Lin Wang, Jerrad B. Roberts, Peter A. Chiarelli, and Malkiat S. Johal*

“Reversal of Interfacial Dipole Orientation in Polyelectrolyte Superlattices Due to Polycationic Layers”

Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 2000, 104, 11996-12001.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal*, Atul N. Parikh, Yongwoo Lee, Joanna L. Casson, Laura Foster, Basil I. Swanson, Duncan W. McBranch, DeQuan Li, and Jeanne M. Robinson

“Study of the Conformational Structure and Cluster Formation in a Langmuir-Blodgett Film Using Second Harmonic Generation, Second Harmonic Microscopy, and FTIR Spectroscopy”

Langmuir, 1999, 15(1), 1275-1282.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Y. W. Cao, Laura B. Smilowitz, Jeanne M. Robinson, Duncan W. McBranch, and DeQuan Li*

“Spontaneously Self-Assembled Polar Asymmetric Multilayers Formed by Complementary H-Bonds”

Chemistry of Materials, 1999, 11(8), 1962-1965.

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·        Adam M. Briggs, Malkiat S. Johal, Paul B. Davies*, and Deborah J. Cooke

“Structure and Thermal Stability of Dichain Sugar Surfactants at the Solid/Water Interface Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”

Langmuir, 1999 15(5) 1817-1828.

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·        Wenxi Huang, Merritt Helvenston, Joanna L. Casson, Rong Wang, Jean-Francois Bardeau, Yongwoo Lee, Malkiat S. Johal, Basil I. Swanson, Jeanne M. Robinson, and DeQuan Li*

“Synthesis, Characterization, and NLO Properties of a Phenothiazine-Stilbazole Monolayer”

Langmuir, 1999, 15(19), 6510-6514.

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·        Joanna L. Casson, Wenxi Huang, Yongwoo Lee, Jean-Francois Bardeau, Malkiat S. Johal, Rong Wang, DeQuan Li, Basil I. Swanson, Duncan W. McBranch, Merritt Helvenston, and Jeanne M. Robinson*

“NLO-Studies of a Novel Phenothiazine Self-Assembled Monolayer”

Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, 1999, 3796, 238-241.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Jeanne M. Robinson, Duncan W. McBranch, and DeQuan Li

“Spontaneously Self-Assembled Polar Multilayers with High Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity”

Organic Thin Films for Photonics Apps, 1997, Technical Digest Series, 14, 155-157.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Robert N. Ward, and Paul B. Davies*

“Coadsorption of Tri-Chain Surfactants and Dodecanol at a Hydrophobic Surface Studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy”

Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 274-276.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Eric W. Usadi, and Paul B. Davies*

“Structural Phase Transition of a 1-Dodecanol Monolayer at the Solid-Liquid Interface Studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy”

Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, 1996, 92(4), 573-578.

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·        Malkiat S. Johal, Eric W. Usadi, and Paul B. Davies*

“Coadsorption of Didodecyl dimethylammonium Bromide and 1-Dodecanol on a Hydrophobic Surface Studied by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy”

Faraday Discussion, 1996, 104, 231-243.

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