Education: Ph.D. - 2008, Texas A&M University Postdoctoral Appointments: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2009-2012, Harvard University

Low temperature synthetic techniques to access inorganic nanoparticles Structured surfaces affecting cellular morphology; microtopography in human mesenchymal stem cells Nanomaterials synthesis, bioengineering, drug delivery, materials science

A. Shastri, L. M. McGregor, Y. Liu, V. Harris, H. Nan, M. Mujica, Y. Vasquez, A. Bhattacharya, Y. Ma, M. Aizenberg, O. Kuksenok, A. C. Balazs, J. Aizenberg, X. He, “An aptamer functionalized chemomechanically modulated biomolecule catch-and-release system,” Nat. Chem. doi:10.1038/nchem.2203. View PDF

D. Fernando, M. Khan, Y. Vasquez, “Control of the crystal phase and morphology of CdS deposited on microstructured surfaces by chemical bath deposition,” Mater. Sci. Semicond. Process. 2015, 30, 174-180. View PDF

T. J. Athauda, U. S. K. Madduma-Bandarage, Y. Vasquez, “Integration of ZnO/ZnS nanostructured materials into a cotton platform,” RSC Advances 2014, 4, 61327-61332. View PDF

Y. Vasquez, M. Kolle, L. Mishchenko, B. D. Hatton, J. Aizenberg, “Three-phase co-assembly: in-situ incorporation of nanoparticles into tunable, highly-ordered, porous silica films,” ACS Photonics 2014, 1, 53-60. View PDF

M. A. Bucaro, Y. Vasquez, B. D. Hatton, J. Aizenberg, “Fine-tuning the degree of stem cell polarization and alignment on arrays of high-aspect ratio nanopillars,” ACS Nano 2012, 6, 6222-6230. (Cover) View PDF

Z. P. Luo, Y. Vasquez, J. F. Bondi, R. E. Schaak, “Pawley and Rietveld refinements using electron diffraction from L12-type intermetallic Au3Fe1-x nanocrystals during their in-situ order-disorder transition,” Ultramicroscopy, 2011, 111, 1295-1304. View PDF

Y. Vasquez, E. M. Fenton, V. F. Chernow, J. Aizenberg, “Growth of polygonal rings and wires of CuS on structured surfaces,” Cryst. Eng. Comm. 2011, 13, 1077-1080. (Invited paper) View PDF

Y. Vasquez, Z. P. Luo, R. E. Schaak, “Low-temperature solution synthesis of the non-equilibrium ordered intermetallic compounds Au3Fe, Au3Co, and Au3Ni as nanocrystals,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 11866-11867. View PDF

Y. Vasquez, A. E. Henkes, J. C. Bauer, R. E. Schaak, “Nanocrystal conversion chemistry: a unified and materials-general strategy for the template-based synthesis of nanocrystalline solids,” J. Solid State Chem. 2008, 181(7), 1509-1523. (Invited review article for special thematic issue; cover.) View PDF

A. E. Henkes, Y. Vasquez, R. E. Schaak, “Converting metals into phosphides: a general strategy for the synthesis of metal phosphide nanocrystals,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 1896-1897. View PDF

Y. Vasquez, A. K. Sra, R.E. Schaak, “One-pot synthesis of hollow Co-Pt superparamagnetic nanospheres,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12504-12505. View PDF

R. E. Schaak, A. K. Sra, B. M. Leonard, R. E. Cable, J. C. Bauer, Y. F. Han, J. Means, W. Teizer, Y. Vasquez, E. S. Funck, “Metallurgy in a beaker: nanoparticle toolkit for the rapid low temperature solution synthesis of functional multimetallic solid state materials,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 3506-13515. View PDF