Appointments
July 2016-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis
Awards and Fellowships
April 2015 2015 IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists
March 2015 Northwestern Department of Chemistry Award for Excellence in Graduate Research
August 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation
February 2014 2013 Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award Winner
June 2013 Department of Energy Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Award
July 2012 Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology Ryan Fellowship
April 2012 Department of Defense National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
September 2011 World Class University Fellowship – NanoCentury KAIST Institute / Korea
August 2001 Thomas B. Nantz Memorial Scholarship (Excellence in Chemistry), University of Kentucky
Selected Publications (30+ total)
Barnes, J. C.; Bruno, P.; Nguyen, H. V.-T.; Liao, L.; Liu, J.; Hemann, M. T.; Johnson, J. A. Using an RNAi Signature Assay to Guide the Design of Three-Drug Conjugated Nanoparticles with Validated Mechanisms, In Vivo Efficacy, and Low Toxicity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 12494–12501. Highlighted in MIT News
Barnes, J. C.; Ehrlich, D. J.; Gao, A. X.; Leibfarth, F. A.; Jiang, Y.; Zhou, E.; Jamison, T. F.; Johnson, J. A. Iterative Exponential Growth of Stereo- and Sequence-Controlled Polymers. Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 810–815. Highlighted in RSC’s Chemistry World.
Barnes, J. C.; Dale, E. J.; Prokofjevs, A.; Narayanan, A.; Gibbs-Hall, I. C.; Juríček, M.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Botros, Y. Y.; Stupp, S. I.; Stoddart, J. F. Semiconducting Single Crystals Comprising Segregated Arrays of Complexes of C60. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 2392–2399.
Barnes, J. C.; Frasconi, M.; Young, R. M.; Khdary, N. H.; Liu, W.-G.; Dyar, S. M.; McGonigal, P. R.; Gibbs-Hall, I. C.; Diercks, C. S.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stern, C. L.; Goddard, W. A., III; Wasielewski, M. R.; Stoddart, J. F. Solid-State Characterization and Photoinduced Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Nanoconfined Octacationic Homo[2]Catenane. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10569‒10572.
Juríček, M.; Strutt, N. L.; Barnes, J. C.; Butterfield, A. M.; Dale, E. J.; Baldridge, K. K.; Stoddart, J. F.; Siegel, J. S. Induced-Fit Catalysis of Corannulene Bowl-to-Bowl Inversion. Nature Chem. 2014, 6, 222‒228.
Barnes, J. C.; Juríček, M.; Vermeulen, N. A.; Dale, E. J.; Stoddart, J. F. Synthesis of ExnBox Cyclophanes. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 11962–11969.
Juríček, M. †; Barnes, J. C.†; Dale, E. J.; Liu, W.-G.; Strutt, N. L.; Bruns, C. J.; Vermeulen, N. A.; Ghooray, K.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stern, C. L.; Botros, Y. Y.; Goddard, W. A., III; Stoddart, J. F. Ex2Box: Interdependent Modes of Binding in a Two-Nanometer-Long Synthetic Receptor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12736–12746. †These authors contributed equally.
Barnes, J. C.; Fahrenbach, A. C.; Cao, D.; Dyar, S. M.; Frasconi, M.; Giesener, M. A.; Benítez, D.; Tkatchouk, E.; Chernyashevskyy, O.; Shin, W. H.; Li, H.; Sampath, S.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Hartlieb, K. J.; Liu, Z.; Carmieli, R.; Botros, Y. Y.; Choi, J. W.; Slawin, A. M. Z.; Ketterson, J. B.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Goddard, W. A., III; Stoddart, J. F. A Radically Configurable Six-State Compound. Science 2013, 339, 429–433. Highlighted in C&EN ‘News of the Week’, RSC’s Chemistry World, Nature Middle East, and Nature Chemistry’s News and Views.
Barnes, J. C.; Juríček, M.; Strutt, N. L.; Frasconi, M.; Sampath, S.; Giesener, M. A.; McGrier, P. L.; Bruns, C. J.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Stoddart, J. F. ExBox: A Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Scavenger. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 183–192. Front Cover Article. Highlighted in C&EN and RSC’s Chemistry World.
Barnes, J. C.; Fahrenbach, A. C.; Dyar, S. M.; Frasconi, M.; Giesener, M. A.; Zhu, Z.; Liu, Z.; Hartlieb, K. J.; Carmieli, R.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Stoddart, J. F. Mechanically-Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Mixed-Valence Molecular Shuttle. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2012, 109, 11546–11551. Front Cover Article.
Fahrenbach, A. C.; Barnes, J. C.; Lanfranchi, D. A.; Li, H.; Coskun, A.; Gassensmith, J. J.; Liu, Z.; Benítez, D.; Trabolsi, A.; Goddard, W. A., III; Elhabiri, M.; Stoddart, J. F. Solution-Phase Mechanistic Study and Solid-State Structure of a Tris(Bipyridinium Radical Cation) Inclusion Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 3061–3072.
Li, Z.; Barnes, J. C.; Bosoy, A.; Stoddart, J. F.; Zink, J. I. Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 2590–2605.
Patents
Johnson, J. A.; Longyan, L.; Barnes, J. C. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62/346,923. Drug Delivery Polymers and Uses Thereof. Filed: June 7, 2016.
Johnson, J. A.; Barnes, J. C.; Ehrlich, D. J. C.; Jiang, Y.; Gao, A. X. U.S. Patent Application 15/074,779. Formation of Macromolecules Using Iterative Growth and Related Compounds. Filed: June 6, 2016.
Stoddart, J. F.; Barnes, J. C.; Juricek, M. U.S. Patent 9,290,495. Tetracationic Cyclophanes and Their Use in the Sequestration of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons By Way of Complexation. Published: March 22, 2016.
Stoddart, J. F.; Dale, E. J.; Vermeulen, N. A.; Barnes, J. C.; Juricek, M. U.S. Patent Application 14/844,577. ExCage: Synthesis of Viologen-Like Pyridinium-Based Cages for the Selective Capture of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Filed: September 3, 2015.
Stoddart, J. F.; Fahrenbach, A. C.; Barnes, J. C.; Li, H.; Sampath, S.; Basuray, A. U.S. Patent 9,120,799. Crystalline Bipyridinium Radical Complexes and Uses Thereof. Published: September 1, 2015.