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Brenna Norton-Baker

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

…, I Dunkel, B Seychell, H Gieseler, B Norton-Baker… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is creating tremendous human
suffering. To date, no effective drug is available to directly treat the disease. In a search for …

Polymer-free carbon nanotube thermoelectrics with improved charge carrier transport and power factor

B Norton-Baker, R Ihly, IE Gould, AD Avery… - ACS Energy …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs) have recently attracted attention
for their promise as active components in a variety of optical and electronic applications, …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale recombinant production of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome for high-throughput and structural biology applications

…, TC Neves-Martins, X Ni, B Norton-Baker… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The highly infectious disease COVID-19 caused by the Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses
a severe threat to humanity and demands the redirection of scientific efforts and criteria to …

Intrinsic and extrinsically limited thermoelectric transport within semiconducting single‐walled carbon nanotube networks

…, SD Kang, MJ Roos, B NortonBaker… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Doped networks of semiconducting single‐walled carbon nanotubes (s‐SWCNTs) have
recently demonstrated high thermoelectric (TE) power factors and figures of merit. Efforts to …

Human γS-crystallin–copper binding helps buffer against aggregation caused by oxidative damage

KW Roskamp, S Azim, G Kassier, B Norton-Baker… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Divalent metal cations can play a role in protein aggregation diseases, including cataract.
Here we compare the aggregation of human γS-crystallin, a key structural protein of the eye …

Human γS-crystallin resists unfolding despite extensive chemical modification from exposure to ionizing radiation

B Norton-Baker, MA Rocha… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ionizing radiation has dramatic effects on living organisms, causing damage to proteins, DNA,
and other cellular components. γ radiation produces reactive oxygen species (ROS) that …

Deamidation of the human eye lens protein γS-crystallin accelerates oxidative aging

B Norton-Baker, P Mehrabi, AO Kwok, KW Roskamp… - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
Cataract, a clouding of the eye lens from protein precipitation, affects millions of people every
year. The lens proteins, the crystallins, show extensive post-translational modifications (…

An introduction to color-changing systems from the cephalopod protein reflectin

A Chatterjee, B Norton-Baker, LE Bagge… - Bioinspiration & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cephalopods possess unrivaled camouflage and signaling abilities that are enabled by their
sophisticated skin, wherein multiple layers contain chromatophore pigment cells (as part of …

Rapid chemically selective 3D imaging in the mid-infrared

…, Y Davydova, A Durkin, A Fast, M Balu, B Norton-Baker… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The emerging technique of mid-infrared optical coherence tomography (MIR-OCT) takes
advantage of the reduced scattering of MIR light in various materials and devices, enabling …

[HTML][HTML] Solution-phase p-type doping of highly enriched semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes for thermoelectric thin films

NJ Stanton, R Ihly, B Norton-Baker… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are attractive materials for next-generation
energy-harvesting technologies, including thermoelectric generators, due to their tunable opto-…