M.Sc., University of Mainz
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Professor Of Chemistry
M.Sc., University of Mainz
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Award of the Humboldt Foundation - 2014
Fellow of the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society - 2013
Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award - 2006
CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award - 2006
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship - 2005
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award - 2005
Blanchard Fellow - 2004; DuPont Young Faculty Award - 2004
NSF CAREER award - 2003
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2002 and 2003
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award 2002
"Intramolecular Folding of Coil-Helix Block Copolymers Induced by Quadrupole
Interactions" Chengyuan Wang and Marcus Weck* Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2021, 42,
2100368 (DOI: 10.1002/marc.202100368).
"Engineering of Janus-Like Dendrimers with Peptides Derived from Glycoproteins
of Herpes Simplex Virus Type I: Toward a Versatile and Novel Antiviral Platform"
Annarita Falanga, Valentina Del Genio, Elizabeth A. Kaufman, Carla Zannella, Gianluigi
Franci, Marcus Weck, and Stefania Galdiero* Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 6488 (DOI:
10.3390/ijms22126488 ).
"Side-Chain Functionalized Supramolecular Helical Brush Copolymers" Ru Deng,
Chengyuan Wang, Margarita Milton, Danni Tang, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, and Marcus
Weck* Polym. Chem. 2021 12, 4916 – 4923 (DOI: 10.1039/D1PY00373A).
"Secondary Structure in Nonpeptidic Supramolecular Block Copolymers" Margarita
Milton, Ru Deng, Arielle Mann, Chengyuan Wang, Danni Tang and Marcus Weck* Acc.
Chem. Res. 2021 54, 2397-2408 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00028).
"Cross-Linked Polymeric Micelles as Catalytic Nanoreactors" Peiyuan Qu, Michael
Kuepfert, Eman Ahmed, Fangbei Liu, and Marcus Weck* Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021,
1420-1427 (DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202100013).
"Self-Assembled Thermoresponsive Molecular Brushes as Nanoreactors for
Asymmetric Aldol Addition in Water" Michael Kuepfert, Eman Ahmed, and Marcus
Weck* Macromolecules 2021, 54, 3845-3853 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02708).
"Compartmentalization and Photo-Regulating Pathways for Incompatible Tandem
Catalysis" Peiyuan Qu, Michael Kuepfert, Maryam Hashmi, and Marcus Weck* J. Am.
Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 4705-4713 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00257).
"One-Pot Synthesis of Linear Triblock Terpolymers and their Aqueous Self-
Assembly" Eman Ahmed, C. Tyler Womble, Jinwon Cho, Kristen Dancel-Manning, Dr.
William J. Rice, Seung Soon Jang* and Marcus Weck* Polym. Chem. 2021, 12, 1967-
1974 (DOI: 10.1039/D1PY00054C).
"Cost and Time Effective Lithography of Reusable Millimeter Size Bone Tissue
Replicas With Sub-15 nm Feature Size on A Biocompatible Polymer" Xiangyu Liu,
Alessandra Zanut, Martina Sladkova-Faure, Liyuan Xie, Marcus Weck, Xiaorui Zheng,
Elisa Riedo,* and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2008662
(DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202008662)
"Top-down Heterogeneous Microparticle Engineering using Capillary Assembly of
Liquid Particles" Cicely Shillingford, Brandon M. Kim, and Marcus Weck* ACS Nano
2021, 15, 1640-1651 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09246).
"Two-Dimensional (2D) or Quasi-2D Superstructures from DNA-Coated Colloidal
Particles" Mingzhu Liu, Xiaolong Zheng, Veronica Grebe, Mingxin He, David J Pine and
Marcus Weck* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 5744-5748 (DOI:
10.1002/anie.202014045).
"Quantifying Patterns in Optical Micrographs of One- and Two-Dimensional
Anisotropic Particle Assemblies" Veronica Grebe, Mingzhu Liu and Marcus Weck* Soft
Matter 2020, 16, 10900-10909 (DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01692F).
"Synthesis and Aqueous Self-assembly of ABCD Bottlebrush Block-Copolymers"
Eman Ahmed, C. Tyler Womble and Marcus Weck* Macromolecules 2020, 53, 9018-
9025 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01785).
"Tunable Assembly of Hybrid Colloids Induced by Regioselective Depletion"
Mingzhu Liu, Xiaolong Zheng, Veronica Grebe, David J. Pine and Marcus Weck* Nat.
Mater. 2020, 19, 1354-1361 (DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0744-2).
"Customized Chiral Colloids" Mingzhu Liu, Fangyuan Dong, Nicolle S. Jackson,
Michael D. Ward* and Marcus Weck* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 16528-16532 (DOI:
10.1021/jacs.0c07315).
"Reversible Photoswitching in Poly(2-oxazoline) Nanoreactors" Michael Kuepfert,
Peiyuan Qu, Aaron E. Cohen, Caroline B. Hoyt, Christopher W. Jones,* and Marcus
Weck* Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 11776-11781 (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000179).
"Assembly of Shape-tunable Colloidal Dimers in a Dielectrophoretic Field"
Fangyuan Dong, Mingzhu Liu, Veronica Grebe, Michael D. Ward*, and Marcus Weck*
Chem. Mater. 2020, 32, 6898-6905 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01947).
"Capillary Assembly of Liquid Particles" Cicely Shillingford, Brandon M. Kim, and
Marcus Weck* Small 2020, 16, 1907523 (DOI: 10.1002/smll.201907523).
"Synthesis, ω-Functionalization, and Reversible Light-Mediated Structural
Disruption of an Azobenzene-Containing Helical Poly(isocyanide)" Scott K. Pomarico,
Chengyuan Wang, and Marcus Weck* Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2020, 41, 1900324
(DOI: 10.1002/marc.201900324).
"Sub-10 nm Resolution Patterning of Pockets for Enzymes Immobilization with
Independent Density and Quasi-3D Topography Control" Xiangyu Liu, Mohit Kumar,
Annalisa Calò, Edoardo Albisetti, Xiaorui Zheng, Kylie B. Manning, Elizabeth Elacqua,
Marcus Weck, Rein Ulijn, and Elisa Riedo* ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. 2019, 11, 41780-
41790 (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b11844).
"Dislocation Generation by Microparticle Inclusions" Xiaodi Zhong, Alexander
Shtukenberg, Mingzhu Liu, Isabel Olsen, Marcus Weck, Michael D. Ward* and Bart
Kahr* Cryst. Growth Des. 2019 19, 6649-6655 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b01041).
"High-throughput Enzyme Nanopatterning" Xiangyu Liu, Mohit Kumar, Annalisa
Calo’, Edoardo Albisetti, Xiaouri Zheng, Kylie B. Manning, Elisabeth Elacqua, Marcus
Weck, Rein Ulijn, and Elisa Riedo* Faraday Discuss. 2019, 219, 33-43 (DOI:
10.1039/C9FD00025A).
"Synthesis of a Heterotelechelic Helical Poly(methacrylamide) and its Incorporation
into a Supramolecular Triblock Copolymer" Ru Deng, Margarita Milton, Scott K.
Pomarico and Marcus Weck* Polym. Chem. 2019, 10, 5087-5093 (DOI:
10.1039/C9PY01047E).
"Controlled Colloidal Crystal Packing via Templated Capillary Assembly" Cicely
Shillingford, Veronica Grebe, Angus McMullen, Jasna Brujic*, and Marcus Weck*
Langmuir 2019, 35, 12205-12214 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02124).
"Compartmentalized Nanoreactors for One-pot Redox-driven Transformations" Peiyuan Qu, Michael Kuepfert, Steffen Jockusch, and Marcus Weck* ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 2701-2706 (DOI:10.1021/acscatal.8b04667).
"Synthesis and Folding Behavior of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)-based β-sheet Polychromophores" Elizabeth Elacqua, Geoffrey T. Geberth, David A. Vanden Bout*, and Marcus Weck* Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2144-2152 (DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05111a).
"Multi-compartment Polymeric Nanoreactors for Non-orthogonal Cascade Catalysis" C. Tyler Womble, Michael Kuepfert, Aaron E. Cohen, and Marcus Weck* Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2019, 40, 1800580 (DOI: 10.1002/marc.201800580).
"Shell Cross-linked Micelles as Nanoreactors for Enantioselective Three-Step Tandem Catalysis" Michael Kuepfert, Aaron E. Cohen, Olivia Cullen, and Marcus Weck* Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 18648-18652 (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201804956).
"Synthesis of Sheet-coil-helix and Coil-sheet-helix Triblock Copolymers by Combining ROMP with Anionic Polymerization" Scott K. Pomarico, Diane S. Lye, Elizabeth Elacqua*, and Marcus Weck* Polym. Chem. 2018, 9, 5655-5659 (DOI: 10.1039/C8PY01361F). Selected as paper of the months: Polymer Chemistry
"Reversible Morphology Switching of Colloidal Particles" Mingzhu Liu, Xiaolong Zheng, Fangyuan Dong, Michael D. Ward and Marcus Weck* Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 6903-6907 (DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03227)
"Molecular Recognition in the Colloidal World" Elizabeth Elacqua, Xiaolong Zheng, Cicely Shillingford, Mingzhu Liu, and Marcus Weck* Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 2756-2766 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00370).
"Assembly of Colloids via Reversible Host-Guest Interactions" Elizabeth Elacqua, Xiaolong Zheng, and Marcus Weck* ACS Macro Lett. 2017, 6, 1060-1065 (DOI:10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00539).
"Supramolecular Multiblock Copolymers Featuring Complex Secondary Structures" Elizabeth Elacqua, Kylie B. Manning, Diane Lye, Scott K. Pomarico, Federica Morgia, and Marcus Weck* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 12240-12250 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06201).
"Synthesis of Well-Defined Bifunctional Newkome-Type Dendrimers" Elizabeth A. Kaufman, Rossella Tarallo, Elizabeth Elacqua, Tom P. Carberry and Marcus Weck* Macromolecules 2017, 50, 4897-4905 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01035).
"ABC Supramolecular Triblock Copolymer by ROMP and ATRP" Diane S. Lye, Yan Xia, Madeleine Z. Wong, Yufeng Wang, Mu-Ping Nieh*, and Marcus Weck* Macromolecules 2017, 50, 4244-4255 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00169).
"End-Functionalized Palladium SCS-Pincer Polymers via Controlled Radical Polymerizations" Diane S. Lye, Aaron E. Cohen, Madeleine Z. Wong, and Marcus Weck* Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2017, 38, 1700174 (DOI: 10.1002/marc.201700174).
"Shape-Shifting Patchy Particles" Xiaolong Zheng, Mingzhu Liu, Mingxin He, David J. Pine,* and Marcus Weck* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 5507-5511 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701456).
"The Intriguing Journey of gH625-Dendrimers" Annarita Falanga, Lucia Lombardi, Rossella Tarallo, Gianluigi Franci, Emiliana Perillo, Luciana Paolmba, Massimiliano Galdiero, Diego Pontoni,* Giovanna Fragneto,* Marcus Weck,* Stefania Galdiero* RSC Adv. 2017, 7, 9106-9114 (DOI: 10.1039/c6ra28405a).
"Generation Effect of Newkome Dendrimer on Cellular Uptake" Elizabeth A. Kaufman, Rossella Tarallo, Anarita Falanga, Stefania Galdiero*, and Marcus Weck* Polymer 2017, 113, 67-73 (DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.02.040).
"Bifunctional Polymer Architectures for Cooperative Catalysis: Tunable Acid-Base Polymers for the Aldol Condensation" Caroline B. Hoyt, Li-Chen Lee, Aaron E. Cohen, Marcus Weck, Christopher W. Jones* ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 137-143 (DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201601104).