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  1. Bioengineering approach for the design of magnetic bacterial cellulose membranes

    Article • Communications Materials, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  2. Synthesis and Applications of Bacterial Cellulose Composites

    Article • February 2024, Bentham Science Publishers

    Anindya Basu, Dr Sierin Lim

  3. Protein nanocage engineering for Pickering emulsions and potential food applications

    Article • Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  4. Antimicrobial peptide immobilization on catechol-functionalized PCL/alginate wet-spun fibers to combat surgical site infection

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  5. Color changing bioadhesive barrier for peripherally inserted central catheters

    Article • Biomaterials Science, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  6. Ferritin cages as building blocks for higher-order assembly through copper–sulfur bonds for HER analysis

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  7. Elucidating the Effect of Polyethylene Terephthalate Chain Structure on Its Enzymatic Degradation Behavior

    Article • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  8. Electron tunneling in ferritin and associated biosystems

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  9. Protein nanoparticle cellular fate and responses in murine macrophages

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  10. The Role of Structural Order in the Mechanism of Charge Transport across Tunnel Junctions with Various Iron‐Storing Proteins

    Article • Small, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  11. Cellular Uptake of His-Rich Peptide Coacervates Occurs by a Macropinocytosis-Like Mechanism

    Article • August 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sierin Lim

  12. Development of conductive bacterial cellulose foams using acoustic cavitation

    Article • Cellulose, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  13. The influences of substrates' physical properties on enzymatic PET hydrolysis: Implications for PET hydrolase engineering

    Article • Engineering Biology, March 2022, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  14. Bacterial cellulose production, functionalization, and development of hybrid materials using synthetic biology

    Article • Polymer Journal, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  15. Engineering biology in the environment and sustainability

    Article • Engineering Biology, February 2022, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  16. Fibrillated bacterial cellulose liquid carbene bioadhesives for mimicking and bonding oral cavity surfaces

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  17. Bacterial cellulose adhesive composites for oral cavity applications

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  18. Rapid Activation of Diazirine Biomaterials with the Blue Light Photocatalyst

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, August 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  19. Protein cages as building blocks for superstructures

    Article • Engineering Biology, June 2021, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  20. Engineering protein nanocages for targeting melanocytes in skin for managing hyperpigmentation

    Article • Advanced NanoBiomed Research, May 2021, Wiley

    Sathya Moorthy Bhaskar, Dr Sierin Lim

  21. Protein nanoparticles in molecular, cellular, and tissue imaging

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  22. Switching of the mechanism of charge transport induced by phase transitions in tunnel junctions with large biomolecular cages

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  23. Enhanced rheological properties and conductivity of bacterial cellulose hydrogels and aerogels through complexation with metal ions and PEDOT/PSS

    Article • Cellulose, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  24. Holistic engineering of cell-free systems through proteome-reprogramming synthetic circuits

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  25. Solid-State Protein Junctions: Cross-Laboratory Study Shows Preservation of Mechanism at Varying Electronic Coupling

    Article • iScience, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  26. Incorporation of Graphene Quantum Dots, Iron, and Doxorubicin in/on Ferritin Nanocages for Bimodal Imaging and Drug Delivery

    Article • Advanced Therapeutics, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  27. Molecular Entrapment in Thermophilic Ferritin for Nanoformulation in Photodynamic Therapy

    Article • Advanced Therapeutics, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  28. Supramolecular Protein Assembly Retains Its Structural Integrity at Liquid–Liquid Interface

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  29. Intelligent optofluidic analysis for ultrafast single bacterium profiling of cellulose production and morphology

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  30. Protein cages and virus-like particles: from fundamental insight to biomimetic therapeutics

    Article • Biomaterials Science, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  31. Probe-dependence of competitive fluorescent ligand binding assays to odorant-binding proteins

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  32. Cyclodextrin conjugated ferritin nanocages reduce intracellular cholesterol level in foam cells

    Article • Nano Research, November 2019, Tsinghua University Press

    Dr Sierin Lim

  33. Abundant neuroprotective chaperone Lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGDS) disassembles the Amyloid-β fibrils

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  34. Easy Formation of Functional Liposomes in Water Using a pH‐Responsive Microbial Glycolipid: Encapsulation of Magnetic and Upconverting Nanoparticles

    Article • ChemNanoMat, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  35. Graphene quantum dot based charge‐reversal nanomaterial for nucleus‐targeted drug delivery and efficiency controllable photodynamic therapy

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  36. Rational design of a scalable bioprocess platform for bacterial cellulose production

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  37. Targeting graphene quantum dots to epidermal growth factor receptor for delivery of cisplatin and cellular imaging

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering C, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  38. MnSOD mediates shear stress-promoted tumor cell migration and adhesion

    Article • Free Radical Biology and Medicine, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  39. Fluidic shear stress increases the anti-cancer effects of ROS-generating drugs in circulating tumor cells

    Article • Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  40. Disassembly and trimer formation of E2 protein cage: the effects of C-terminus, salt, and protonation state

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, August 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sierin Lim

  41. A Novel Platform for Evaluating the Environmental Impacts on Bacterial Cellulose Production

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  42. Highly sensitive naked eye detection of Iron (III) and H2O2 using poly-(tannic acid) (PTA) coated Au nanocomposite

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  43. Rupturing cancer cells by the expansion of functionalized stimuli-responsive hydrogels

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  44. Long‐Range Tunneling Processes across Ferritin‐Based Junctions

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  45. Modulation of the Vault Protein-Protein Interaction for Tuning of Molecular Release

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  46. Universal one-pot, one-step synthesis of core-shell nanocomposites with self-assembled tannic acid shell and their antibacterial and catalytic activities

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, October 2017, Wiley

    Jiajun Tan, Dr Sierin Lim

  47. Engineering nanoparticle synthesis in microbial factories

    Article • May 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  48. Analysis of Tumor and Vessel Growth in a 3D Co-Culture

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, May 2017, Wiley

    Geraldine Chiew, Dr Sierin Lim

  49. Repurposing a Two-Component System-Based Biosensor for the Killing of Vibrio cholerae

    Article • ACS Synthetic Biology, May 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  50. Engineering protein nanocages as carriers for biomedical applications

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  51. Protein Nanocage as a pH-Switchable Pickering Emulsifier

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  52. A ferritin-containing nanoconjugate as MRI image-guidance to target Necl-5, a tumor-surface antigen: a potential thermal accelerant for microwave ablation

    Article • February 2017, SPIE

    Dr Sierin Lim

  53. Engineered ferritin nanocages as natural contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  54. Production of Hollow Bacterial Cellulose Microspheres Using Microfluidics to Form an Injectable Porous Scaffold for Wound Healing

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, November 2016, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  55. Study of stability and biophysical characterization of ranibizumab and aflibercept

    Article • European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  56. Specific Internalisation of Gold Nanoparticles into Engineered Porous Protein Cages via Affinity Binding

    Article • PLOS One, September 2016, PLOS

    Dr Sierin Lim

  57. Targeted Delivery of Docetaxel by Use of Transferrin/Poly(allylamine hydrochloride)-functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanocarrier

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  58. Long‐Range Tunneling Processes across Ferritin‐Based Junctions

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  59. The unique self-assembly/disassembly property of Archaeoglobus fulgidus ferritin and its implications on molecular release from the protein cage

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  60. Polarized Raman spectroscopy for enhanced quantification of protein concentrations in an aqueous mixture

    Article • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, June 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  61. Interaction and charge transfer between isolated thylakoids and multi-walled carbon nanotubes

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  62. Design of a reversible inversed pH-responsive caged protein

    Article • Biomaterials Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  63. Development of a protein nanoparticle platform for targeting EGFR expressing cancer cells

    Article • Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  64. Determining the Relaxivity Values of Protein Cage-Templated Nanoparticles Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Article • October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  65. Designing Non‐Native Iron‐Binding Site on a Protein Cage for Biological Synthesis of Nanoparticles

    Article • Small, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  66. Facile Synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots from 3D Graphene and their Application for Fe3+ Sensing

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  67. Investigation of electron transfer from isolated spinach thylakoids to indium tin oxide

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  68. A controlled release of antibiotics from calcium phosphate-coated poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) particles and their in vitro efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus biofilm

    Article • Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  69. The Role of Nonconserved Residues of Archaeoglobus fulgidus Ferritin on Its Unique Structure and Biophysical Properties

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  70. Bioengineered Tunable Memristor Based on Protein Nanocage

    Article • Small, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  71. Ferritin-Templated Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Pt Nanoparticles on a Monolithic Porous Graphene Network for Electrocatalysis in Fuel Cells

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  72. MRI contrast demonstration of antigen-specific targeting with an iron-based ferritin construct

    Article • Journal of Nanoparticle Research, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  73. Protein Cages as Theranostic Agent Carriers

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  74. Graphene/carbon cloth anode for high-performance mediatorless microbial fuel cells

    Article • Bioresource Technology, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Sierin Lim

  75. Isolating a Trimer Intermediate in the Self-Assembly of E2 Protein Cage

    Article • Biomacromolecules, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  76. A manganese–ferritin nanocomposite as an ultrasensitive T2contrast agent

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  77. Additions and corrections published in 2012

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sierin Lim

  78. Investigating the influence of ionic concentrations and subunit interactions on the self-assembly of E2 protein

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sierin Lim

  79. Protein cage assisted metal-protein nanocomposite synthesis: Optimization of loading conditions

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sierin Lim

  80. Fabrication of Cisplatin-Loaded Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Composite Microspheres for Osteosarcoma Treatment

    Article • Pharmaceutical Research, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  81. Protein‐Based Memristive Nanodevices

    Article • Small, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  82. Synthesis and cytocompatibility of manganese (II) and iron (III) substituted hydroxyapatite nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of Materials Science, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  83. Trimer-Based Design of pH-Responsive Protein Cage Results in Soluble Disassembled Structures

    Article • Biomacromolecules, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  84. Iron-based ferritin nanocore as a contrast agent

    Article • Biointerphases, September 2010, American Vacuum Society

    Dr Sierin Lim

  85. pH-Triggered Disassembly in a Caged Protein Complex

    Article • Biomacromolecules, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  86. Design of a pH-Dependent Molecular Switch in a Caged Protein Platform

    Article • Nano Letters, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Sierin Lim

  87. Characterization of a key trifunctional enzyme for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Article • Extremophiles, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sierin Lim

  88. Thermostability and molecular encapsulation within an engineered caged protein scaffold

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, September 2008, Wiley

    Dr Sierin Lim

  89. A Novel Archaeal Alanine Dehydrogenase Homologous to Ornithine Cyclodeaminase and μ-Crystallin

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Sierin Lim

  90. A thermostable shikimate 5-dehydrogenase from the archaeon

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, September 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sierin Lim