email: prof.ethan.tsai [at] gmail.com
Education
B.A.: Carleton College
Ph.D.: University of Colorado Boulder (Chemistry: David M. Walba)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow: University of Colorado Boulder (Condensed Matter Physics: Noel A. Clark)
Industry Experience
Cigar City Brewing (General Manager of Brewery Operations)
Tivoli Brewing Co. (Brewery Director)
Tivoli Brewing Co. (Director of QC)
SeriousEnergy, Inc (Senior Research Chemist)
Dynamic Organic Light (Principal Chemist)
Selected Publications (undergraduate research students are underlined)
- Davis-Hall, D., Nguyen, V., D’Ovidio, T.J., Tsai, E., Bilousova, G., Magin, C.M. “Peptide-Functionalized Hydrogels Modulate Integrin Expression and Stemness in Adult Human Epidermal Keratinocytes.” Biosystems. 2019, doi:10.1002/adbi.201900022
- Shi, Y., Sun, Z., Chen, R., Zhu, C., Shoemaker, R.K., Tsai, E., Walba, D.M., Glaser, M.A., Maclennan, J.E., Chen, D., Clark, N.A. “Effect of Conformational Chirality on Optical Activity Observed in an Achiral, Bent-Core Molecule.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2017, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b04033
- Lee, S., Kim, H., Tsai, E., Richardson, J.M., Körblova, E., Walba, D.M., Clark, N.A., Lee, S.B., Yoon, D.K. “Multidimensional Helical Nanostructures in Multiscale Nanochannels.” Langmuir. 2015, doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01620
- Lee, S., Kim, H., Shin, T.J., Tsai, E., Richardson, J.M., Körblova, E., Walba, D.M., Clark, N.A., Lee, S.B., Yoon, D.K. “Physico-chemical Confinement of Helical Nanofilaments,” Soft Matter. 2015, 11, 3653-3659. doi:10.1039/C5SM00417A
- Magrini, M., Kuehl, N., Tsai, E. Paintbrush Terminated NTB Mesogen. Presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals. 2015, 21-26 June, Biddeford, Maine.
- Tsai, E., Richardson, J.M., Körblova, E., Nakata, M., Chen, D., Shen, Y., Shao, R., Clark, N.A., Walba, D.M. “A Modulated Helical Nanofilament Phase,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2013, 52, 5254-5257. doi:10.1002/anie.201209453
- Metropolitan State University of Denver: Organic Chemistry Lab I & II On-Line Manual. Schelble, S.M.; Tsai, E.; Wieder, M.; Barrows, R.; Drotar, AnnaMarie; McElwee, D. Great River Technologies: Dubuque, IA, 2012.
- Smith, G, Tsai, E., Robins, T., Khodaghulyan, A., Zanchetta, G., Fraccia, T., Bellini, T., Walba, D.W., Clark, N.A. Segregation by Complementarity of NanoDNA Based on Liquid Crystal Ordering and Centrifugation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society: March Meeting 2012. 27 February – 2 March, Boston, MA.
- Bellini, T., Zanchetta, G., Fraccia, T., Cerbino, R., Tsai, E., Moran, M., Smith, G., Walba, D.M., Clark, N.A. Liquid Crystal Ordering of Random DNA Oligomers. Bulletin of the American Physical Society: March Meeting 2012. 27 February – 2 March, Boston, MA.
- Yoon, D.K., Smith, G., Tsai, E., Moran, M., Bellini, T., Walba, D.M., Smalyukh, I., Clark, N.A. “Alignment of the Columnar Liquid Crystal Phase of NanoDNA by Confinement in Channels,” Liquid Crystals. 2012, 39, 571-577. doi:10.1080/02678292.2012.666809
- Bellini, G., Zanchetta, G., Fraccia, T., Cerbino, R., Tsai, E., Smith, G. P., Moran, M. J., Walba, D. M., Clark, N.A. “Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly of Random-Sequence Oligomers,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2012, 109, 1110-1115. doi:10.1073/pnas.1117463109