Publications | Dorval Lab at McGill

Journal Articles

§ Equal contribution, * Corresponding author; Members of the Dorval Lab are listed in bold.

Mixed ionic and electronic charge transport in conductive protein fibers revealed with DC electrical measurements

Modafferi D., Hao X., Wong K., Ferraro J., Zhang W., Xie O., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202507906, Accepted, (2025).

Maximizing yield, purity and throughput of M13 bacteriophage bioprocessing

Modafferi D., de Medeiros Dantas J.M., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Biochemical Engineering Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bej.2025.109890, (2025).

M13 bacteriophage as a versatile platform for the creation of new materials via genetic engineering

de Medeiros Dantas J.M., Kabir R.F., Modafferi D., Ozbaran B., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2025-0019 (2025).

Biological synthesis of reusable silver nanoparticle-protein antimicrobial films

Arenas García M.A., Hidouri S., Hao X., de Medeiros Dantas J.M., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 12, 2400649 (2025).

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Living dual heat- and pH-responsive textiles

Saldanha D.J., Rowat S.§, Stephenson H.§, Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Synthetic Biology, 14 (2), 564-574 (2025).

Coating of threads with fluorescent curli fibers for pH sensing

Saldanha D.J., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 8 (1), 225-235

(2025).

Conductive MXene nanosheets infused in protein fiber hydrogels for bioprinting and thin film electrodes

Arenas Garcia M.A., Hidouri S., Little J.M., Modafferi D., Hao X., Chen P.-Y., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Materials Advances, 5, 6873-6886 (2024).

Microbial nanowires for sustainable bioelectronics

Guberman-Pfeffer M., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Lovley D.*, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2, 869-886, (2024).

Mimicking nature to develop halide perovskite semiconductors from proteins and metal carbonates

Aminzare M., Li Y., Mahshid S., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Scientific Reports, 14, 15357 (2024).

Geometric modeling of phase ordering for the isotropic–smectic A phase transition

Zamora Cisneros D.U., Wang Z., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Harrington M.J., Rey A.D.*, Frontiers Soft Matter, Sec. Liquid Crystals, 4 (2024), https://doi.org/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1359128

Endowing textiles with self-repairing ability through the fabrication of composites with a bacterial biofilm

Cai A., Saldanha D.J., Adbali Z., Aminzare M., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Scientific Reports, 13, 11389, (2023).

Biomolecules incorporated in halide perovskite nanocrystals: synthesis, optical properties, and applications

Aminzare M.§, Jiang J.§, Mandl G.A.§, Mahshid S., Capobianco J.A., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Nanoscale (Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators Collection), 15, 2997-3031 (2023).

Bacterial Collagen-Templated Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Particles

Abdali Z., Aminzare M., Chow A., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Biomedical Materials, 18, 015001 (2023).

Fabrication of curli fiber-PEDOT:PSS biomaterials with tunable self-healing, mechanical and electrical properties

Huyer C.§, Modafferi D.§, Aminzare M., Ferraro J., Abdali Z., Roy S., Saldanha D.J., Wasim S., Alberti J., Feng S., Cicoira F., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (Special issue on bioinspired materials for wearable diagnostics and biosensors), 9, 5, 2156–2169 (2023).

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Protein-Mediated Aqueous Synthesis of Stable Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Implications for Biological and Environmental Applications

Aminzare M., Hamzehpoor E., Mahshid S., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, 9, 12666–12678 (2022).

Extracellular Secretion and Simple Purification of Bacterial Collagen from Escherichia coli

Abdali Z., Renner-Rao M., Chow A., Cai A., Harrington M.J., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*,

Biomacromolecules, 23, 4, 1557–1568 (2022).

Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering: Atomic Force Microscopy – AFM

Moraille P., Abdali Z., Ramkaran M., Polcari D., Patience G.S., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Badia A.*, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 100, 10, 2778-2806 (2022).

The Evolving Role of Proteins in Wearable Sweat Biosensors

Saldanha D.J., Cai A., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (Special issue on bioinspired materials for wearable diagnostics and biosensors), 9, 5, 2020–2047 (2021).

Water-processable, biodegradable and coatable aquaplastic from engineered biofilms

Duraj-Thatte A.§, Manjula-Basavanna A.§, Dorval Courchesne N.-M.§, Cannici G.I., Sanchez-Ferrer A., Frank B.P., van’t Hag L., Cotts S.K., Fairbrother H., Mezzenga R., Joshi N.S.*, Nature Chemical Biology, 17, 732–738 (2021).

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Curli-Mediated Self-Assembly of a Fibrous Protein Scaffold for Hydroxyapatite Mineralization

Abdali Z., Aminzare M., Zhu X., DeBenedictis E., Xie O., Keten S., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, ACS Synthetic Biology, 9, 12, 3334-3343 (2020).

Fabrication of Fluorescent pH-Responsive Protein–Textile Composites

Saldanha D.J., Abdali Z., Modafferi D., Janfeshan B., Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, Scientific Reports (Special collection on amyloids in synthetic applications) 10, 13052 (2020).

Challenges in Engineering Conductive Protein Fibers: Disentangling the Knowledge

Roy S.§, Xie O.§, Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, (Special issue on Emerging Leaders in Chemical Engineering and Science), 98, 2081-2095, (2020).

Genetically Programmable Self-Regenerating Bacterial Hydrogels

Duraj-Thatte A.§, Dorval Courchesne N.-M.§, Praveschotinunt P.§, Rutledge J., Lee Y., Karp J.M., Joshi N.S.*, Advanced Materials, 31 (40), 1901826, (2019).

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Biomimetic Engineering of Conductive Protein Films

Dorval Courchesne N.-M.*, DeBenedictis E.P., Tresback J., Kim J.J., Duraj-Thatte A., Zanuy D., Keten S., Joshi N.S.*, Nanotechnology (Special Issue on Bionic Nanotechnology), 29 (45), 454002 (2018).

Tracking of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo Using Non-Standard Amino Acid Incorporation

Praveschotinunt P.§, Dorval Courchesne N.-M.§, den Hartog I., Lu C., Kim J., Nguyen P.Q., Joshi N.S.*, ACS Synthetic Biology, 7 (6), pp.1640-1650 (2018).

Fabrication of Amyloid Curli Fiber-Alginate Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Enhanced Stiffness

Axpe E., Duraj-Thatte A., Chang Y., Kaimaki D.-M., Sanchez-Sanchez A., Caliskan H.B., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Joshi N.S., ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 4 (6), pp.2100-2105 (2018).

Engineered Living Materials: Prospects and Challenges for Using Biological Systems to Direct the Assembly of Smart Materials

Nguyen P.Q., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Duraj-Thatte A., Praveschotinunt P., Joshi N.S., Advanced Materials (Special Issue on Bioinspired Materials), 30, 1704847 (2018).

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Mediated Growth of Zinc Chalcogen Shells on Gold Nanoparticles by Free-Base Amino Acids

Klug M.T., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Lee Y.E., Qi J., Heldman N.C., Hammond P.T., Fang N.X., and Belcher A.M., Chemistry of Materials, 29 (16), pp.6993-7001 (2017).

Scalable Production of Genetically Engineered Nanofibrous Materials via Filtration

Dorval Courchesne N.-M.§, Duraj-Thatte A.§, Tay P.K.R., Nguyen P.Q., Joshi N.S., ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 3 (5), pp.733-741 (2017).

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Biotemplated Silica and Silicon Materials as Building Blocks for Micro- to Nanostructures

Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Steiner S.A., Cantú V.J., Hammond P.T., and Belcher A.M., Chemistry of Materials, 27 (15), pp.5361–5370 (2015).

Nanostructured Core-Shell Carbon Nanotubes-Polyaniline Hydrogels with High Electrochemical Energy Storage

Chen P.-Y., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Hyder M.N., Belcher A.M., and Hammond P.T., RSC Advances, 5, pp.37970-37977 (2015).

Constructing Multifunctional Virus-Templated Nanoporous Composites for Thin Film Solar Cells: Contributions of Morphology and Optics to Photocurrent Generation

Dorval Courchesne N.-M.§, Klug M.T.§, Huang K.J., Weidman M.C., Cantú V.J., Chen P.-Y., Kooi S.E., Yun D.S., Tisdale W.A., Fang N.X., Belcher A.M., and Hammond P.T., J. Phys. Chem. C., 119 (25), pp.13987-14000 (2015).

M13 Virus-Enabled Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Nanowires for Tunable Mesoporous Semiconducting Networks

Chen P.-Y, Dang X., Klug M.T., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Qi J., Hyder M.N., Belcher A.M., and Hammond P.T., Chemistry of Materials, 27 (5), pp.1531-1540 (2015).

Adaptive Growth Factor Delivery from Polyelectrolyte Coatings Promotes Synergistic Bone Tissue Repair and Reconstruction

Shah N.J., Hyder N.M., Quadir M.A., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Seeherman H.J., Nevins M.L., Spector M., and Hammond P.T., PNAS, 111 (35), pp.12847-12852 (2014).

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Assembly of Viral Hydrogels for Three-dimensional Conducting Nanocomposites

Chen P.-Y., Hyder M.N., Mackanic D., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Qi J., Klug M.T., Belcher A.M., Hammond P.T., Advanced Materials, 26 (30), pp. 5101-5107 (2014).

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Assembly of a Bacteriophage-Based Template for the Organization of Materials into Nanoporous Networks

Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Klug M.T., Chen P.-Y., Kooi S.E., Yun D.S., Hong N., Fang N.X., Belcher A.M., Hammond P.T., Advanced Materials, 26 (21), pp. 3398-3404 (2014).

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Versatile Three-Dimensional Virus-Based Template for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Improved Electron Transport and Light Harvesting

Chen P.-Y., Dang X., Klug M.T., Qi J., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Fang N.X., Hammond P.T., Belcher A.M., ACS Nano, 7(8), 6563-6574 (2013).

Measurement of Δ1J(199Hg,31P) in [HgPCy3(OAc)2]2 and Relativistic ZORA DFT Investigations of Mercury-Phosphorus Coupling Tensors

Bryce D.L., Dorval Courchesne N.-M., and Perras F.A., Solid State Nucl. Magn. Reson., 36, 182-191 (2009).

Enhancement of Lipid Production Using Biochemical, Genetic and Transcription Factor Engineering Approaches

Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Parisien A., Wang B., and Lan C.Q., Journal of Biotechnology, 141 (1-2), pp. 31-41 (2009).

Production and Applications of Phage and Phage-Encoded Lytic Enzymes

Dorval Courchesne N.-M., Parisien A., and Lan C.Q., Recent Patents on Biotechnology, 3 (1), pp. 37-45 (2009).