Recently Published - As Seen In the Beckman Bites Newsletter July 2026

Beckman-funded Research Now in Print

• 2021 BYI Margaret Byron, PhD published in Advanced Intelligent Systems: "Cteno-Bot: An Untethered Metachronally Swimming Robot With Magnetoactive Propulsors."
• 2023 AOB Postdoc Matthew Hannigan, PhD published in ACS Macro Letters: "Strain, Chain, Repeat: Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Poly(Naphthalene Benzene Vinylene)s."
• 2023 Instrumentation Grantee Joel A. Thornton, PhD published in Atmospheric measurement techniques: "Characterization of a portable, light-weight, low-power chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer."
• 2025 BSP Gabriela Edler published in Langmuir: "Short Peptoid Capping Ligands Stabilize Dispersion of Gold Nanospheres in Aqueous Solutions."

See more recent publications by Beckman Awardees here.