Georgetown University
The Swift Lab
publications

(* = undergraduate author)

  1. Jen E. Mann, Renee Gao*, Shae S. London and Jennifer A. Swift, "Desolvation Processes in Channel Solvates of Niclosamide," Mol. Pharmaceutics, 20, 11, 5554-5562 (2023). [Link]

    2. Biogenic Ammonium


  2. Alyssa M. Thornton, Timothy G. Fawcett, James A. Kaduk, YuJai Lin and Jennifer A. Swift, "An Improved Model for Biogenic Ammonium Urate," Cryst. Growth Des., 23, 9, 6953-6959 (2023) [Link]

    3. Biogenic Ammonium


  3. Megan E. Fleming and Jennifer A. Swift, "Enhancement of Hydrate Stability through Substitutional Defects," Cryst. Growth Des.23, 8, 5860-5867 (2023) [Link]

    4. Enhancement of Hydrate


  4. Jen E. Mann, Renee Gao*, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Dehydration of Niclosamide Monohydrate Polymorphs: Different Mechanistic Pathways to the Same Product," Cryst. Growth Des23, 7, 5102-5111 (2023) [Link]

    5. Dehydration of Niclosamide

  5. Megan E. Fleming, Daniel E. Hooks, Michael McBride, Nan Li, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Cytosine Monohydrate Crystals Under Mechanical Stress," CrystEngComm, 25, 3044-3050 (2023) [Link]

    6. Cytosine Monohydrate

  6. Megan E. Fleming, Taylor A. Watts, Kelly A. McKenna*, Elizabeth K. Miehls and Jennifer A. Swift, "Cooperative Rotational Motion Triggered by a Water Switch: Dehydration and Rehydration of Cytosine Monohydrate," Cryst. Growth Des. 22, 12, 7443-7451 (2022). [Link]

    7. Cooperative Rotational

  7. Taylor A. Watts, Courtney E. Lee*, Sara M. Niederberger*, Jeffery A. Bertke, Jennifer A. Swift, "Steric Perturbation to a Channel Hydrate: The Limits of Isomorphism," Cryst. Growth Des 21, 10, 5889-5896 (2021) [Link]

    8. Steric Perturbation.png

  8. Taylor A. Watts, Louise S. Price, Sarah L. Price, Sara M. Niederberger*, Jeffery A. Bertke and Jennifer A. Swift, "The Crystal Structure of 5-Aminouracil and the Ambiguity of Alternative Polymorphs," Israel Journal of Chemistry, 61, 9-10, 590-597 (2021) [Link]

    9. The Crystal

  9. Taylor A. Watts, Sara M. Niederberger* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Improving Channel Hydrate Stability via Localized Chemical Tuning of the Water Environment," Cryst. Growth Des. 21, 9, 5206-5214 (2021) [Link]

    10. Improving Channel

  10. Alyssa Thornton, Gordon W. Schuett and Jennifer A. Swift, "Urates of Colubroid Snakes are Different from Boids and Pythonids," Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 133 (3), 910-919 (2021) [Link]

    11. Urates of Colubroid

  11. Jen E. Werner and Jennifer A. Swift, "Organic Solvates in the Cambridge Structural Database," CrystEngComm, 23, 1555-1565 (2021). [Link]

    12. Organic Solvates

  12. Taylor A. Watts, Elizabeth K. Miehls, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Time-Resolved Cooperative Motions During Solid-State Dehydration of Thymine Hydrate," Cryst. Growth & Des. 20, 12, 7941-7950 (2020) [Link]

    13. Time-Resolved

  13. Alyssa M. Thornton, Victoria M. Hall and Jennifer A. Swift, "Hydrate Transformation via Anhydrate Pairs," Cryst. Growth Des., 20, 9, 5633-5637 (2020). [Link]

    14. Hydrate Transformation

  14. Jen E. Werner and Jennifer A. Swift, "Data Mining the Cambridge Structural Database for Hydrate-Anhydrate Pairs with SMILES Strings," CrystEngComm, 22, 7290 - 7297 (2020) [Link]

    15. Data Mining

  15. Fan Liu, Daniel E. Hooks, Nan Li, J. Faye Rubinson, Jennifer N. Wacker and Jennifer A. Swift, "Molecular Crystal Mechanical Properties Altered Via Dopant Inclusion," Chem. Mater., 32, 9, 3952-3959 (2020). [Link]

    16. Chem. Mater

  16. Victoria M. Hall, Alyssa Thornton, Elizabeth K. Miehls, Jeffrey A. Bertke and Jennifer A. Swift, "Uric Acid Crystallization Interrupted with Competing Binding Agents," Cryst. Growth Des., 19, 7363-7371 (2019). [Link]

  17. Marina A. Solomos, Christina Capacci-Daniel, J. Faye Rubinson and Jennifer A. Swift, "Polymorph Selection via Sublimation onto Siloxane Templates," Cryst. Growth Des., 18 (11), 6965–6972 (2018). [Link]

  18. Fan Liu, Daniel E. Hooks, Nan Li and Jennifer A. Swift, "Mechanical Properties of Hydrated and Anhydrous Uric acid Crystals," Chem. Mater. 30, 11, 3798-3805 (2018). [Link]

  19. Marina A. Solomos, Jeffrey A. Bertke and Jennifer A. Swift, "One Step Synthesis of a Fused Four-Ring Heterocycle," New J. Chem., 42, 7125 – 7129 (2018). [Link]

  20. Marina A. Solomos, Jeffery A. Bertke, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Crystal structure of a diarylcarbonate: 1,3-phenylene-bis(diphenylcarbonate)," Acta Cryst. E73, 1942-1945 (2017).

  21. Victoria M. Hall, Jeffery A. Bertke and Jennifer A. Swift, "A New Polymorph of 2,6-diaminopyridine," Acta Cryst. C73, 990-993 (2017). [Link]

  22. Elizabeth S. Koch, Kelly A. McKenna,* Hyo Jung Kim,* Victor G. Young and Jennifer A. Swift, "Thymine Cocrystals Based on DNA-Inspired Bonding Motifs," CrystEngComm, 19, 5679 – 5685 (2017). [Link]

  23. Marina A. Solomos, Taylor A. Watts and Jennifer A. Swift, "Predicting Cocrystallization Based on Heterodimer Energies Part II," Cryst. Growth Des., 17 (10), 5073-5079 (2017). [Link]

  24. Marina A. Solomos, Taylor A. Watts and Jennifer A. Swift, "Ortho-Substitutent Effects on Diphenylurea Packing Motifs," Cryst. Growth Des., 17(10), 5065-5072 (2017). [Link]

  25. Christina A. Capacci-Daniel, Jeffery A. Bertke, Shoaleh Dehghan, Rupa Hiremath-Darji and Jennifer A. Swift, "Concomitant polymorphs of 1.3-bis(m-fluorophenyl)urea," Acta Cryst C. 72, 692-696 (2016).[Link]

  26. Victoria M. Hall, Jeffery A. Bertke and Jennifer A. Swift, “Two tautomeric forms of 2-amino-5,6-dimethylpyrimidin-4-one,” Acta. Cryst C, 72(6), 460-464 (2016) [Link]

  27. Victoria M. Hall, Kristin A. Cox,* Ryan E. Sours and Jennifer A. Swift, “Urochrome Pigment in Uric Acid Crystals,” Chem. Mater., 28 (11), 3862–3869 (2016) [Link]

  28. Marina A. Solomos, Cameron Mohammadi*, Jessica H. Urbelis, Natasha Khatri*, Claire Usala*, Rochelle Osborne* and Jennifer A. Swift, “Predicting Cocrystallization Based on Heterodimer Energies: The Case of N,N’-Diphenylureas and Triphenylphosphine Oxide,” Cryst. Growth Des., 15 (10), 5068–5074 (2015). [Link]

  29. Christina A. Capacci-Daniel, Cameron Mohammadi*, Jessica H. Urbelis, Katrina Heyrana*, Natasha M. Khatri*, Marina A. Solomos and Jennifer A. Swift, "Structural Diversity in 1,3-Bis(meta-cyanophenyl) urea," Cryst. Growth Des., 15, 2373-2379 (2015). [Link]

  30. Jessica H. Urbelis, Victor G. Young and Jennifer A. Swift, “Using Solvent Effects to Guide the Design of a CL-20 Cocrystal,” CrystEngComm, 17, 1564 – 1568 (2015). [Link]

  31. Jessica H. Urbelis and Jennifer A. Swift, “Phase-Selective Crystallization of Perylene on Monolayer Templates,” Crystal Growth & Design., 14 (10), 5244-5251 (2014). [Link]

  32. Janeth B. Presores and Jennifer A. Swift, “Solution-Mediated Phase Transformation of Uric Acid Dihydrate,” CrystEngComm, 16, 7278-7284 (2014). [Link]

  33. Jessica H. Urbelis and Jennifer A. Swift, “Solvent Effects on the Growth Morphology and Phase Purity of CL-20,” Crystal Growth & Design, 14 (4) 1642-1649 (2014). [Link]

  34. Janeth B. Presores, Katherine E. Cromer*, Christina Capacci-Daniel and Jennifer A. Swift, “Calcium Urate Hexahydrate,” Crystal Growth & Design, 13 (12), 5162-5164 (2013). [Link]

  35. Richard S. Abendan and Jennifer A. Swift, “Cholesterol Monohydrate Dissolution in the Presence of Bile Acid Salts,” Crystal Growth & Design, 13, 3596-3602 (2013). [Link]

  36. Janeth B. Presores and Jennifer A. Swift, “Adhesion Properties of Uric Acid Crystal Surfaces,” Langmuir, 28 (19), 7401-7406 (2012). [Link]

  37. Srinivasulu Aitipamula, Rahul Banerjee, Arvind K. Bansal, Kumar Biradha, Miranda L. Cheney, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Gautam R. Desiraju, Amol G. Dikundwar, Ritesh Dubey, Nagakiran Duggirala, Preetam P. Ghogale, Soumyajit Ghosh, Pramod Kumar Goswami, N. Rajesh Goud, Ram R. K. R. Jetti, Piotr Karpinski, Poonam Kaushik, Dinesh Kumar, Vineet Kumar, Arijit Mukherjee, Gargi Mukherjee, Allan S. Myerson, Vibha Puri, Arunachalam Ramanan, T. Rajamannar, C. Malla Reddy, Nair Rodriguez-Hornedo, Robin D. Rogers, T.N. Guru Row, Palash Sanphui, Ning Shan, Ganesh Shete, Amit Singh, Changquan C. Sun, Jennifer A. Swift, Ram Thaimattam, Tejender S. Thakur, Rajesh Kumar Thaper, Sajesh P. Thomas, Srinu Tothadi, Venu R. Vangala, Narayan Variankaval, Peddy Vishweshwar, David R. Weyna, Michael J. Zaworotko, “Polymorphs, Salts and Cocrystals: What’s in a Name?” Crystal Growth & Design, 12, 2147-2152 (2012). [Link]

  38. Ilana G. Goldberg and Jennifer A. Swift, “New Insights into the Metastable β Form of RDX,” Crystal Growth & Design, 12 (2), 1040–1045 (2012). [Link]

  39. Clare M. Perrin and Jennifer A. Swift, “Step Kinetics on Monosodium Urate Monohydrate Single Crystal Surfaces: An in situ AFM Study,” CrystEngComm, 14 (5), 1709 – 1715 (2012). [Link]

  40. Clare M. Perrin, Mark A. Dobish*, Edward Van Keuren, and Jennifer A. Swift, “Monosodium Urate Monohydrate Crystallization,” CrystEngComm, 13 (4), 1111 – 1117 (2011). [Link]

  41. Jennifer Swift, “Crystal Growth,” CrystEngComm, 13 (4), 1059 – 1059 (2011). [Link]

  42. Amanuel Z. Zellelow, Kristin A. Cox*, Dorothy A. Fink*, Catherine E. Ford*, Kun-Hae Kim*, Ryan E. Sours and Jennifer A. Swift, "Doping Uric Acid Crystals. 2. Anhydrous Uric Acid," Crystal Growth & Design, 10 (8), 3348-3354 (2010). [Link]

  43. Amanuel Z. Zellelow, Melat Abiye*, Dorothy A. Fink*, Catherine E. Ford*, Kun-Hae Kim*, Ryan E. Sours, Clare M. Yannette and Jennifer A. Swift, "Doping Uric Acid Crystals. 1. Uric Acid Dihydrate," Crystal Growth & Design,10 (8), 3340-3347 (2010). [Link]

  44. Christina Capacci-Daniel, Karen J. Gaskell and Jennifer A. Swift, "Nucleation and Growth of Metastable Polymorphs on Siloxane Monolayer Templates," Crystal Growth & Design, 10, 2, 952-962 (2010). [Link]

  45. Amanuel Z. Zellelow, Kun-Hae Kim*, Ryan E. Sours and Jennifer A. Swift, "Solid State Dehydration of Uric Acid Dihydrate" Crystal Growth & Design, 10, 418-425 (2010).[Link]

  46. Christina Capacci-Daniel, Shoaleh Dehghan, Rupa Hiremath, Victoria M. Wurster*, Joseph A. Basile*, Amy A. Sarjeant and Jennifer A. Swift, "Halogen/Methyl Exchange in a Series of Isostructural 1,3-bis(m-Dihalophenyl)Ureas," CrystEngComm, 10, 1875-1880 (2008). [Link]

  47. Simeen Sattar, Megan J. Carroll*, Amy A. Sargeant, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Structure of lead urate and its effect on the nucleation of monosodium urate monohydrate" CrystEngComm., 10, 2, 155-157 (2008). [Link]

  48. Jennifer A. Swift, "Biomineralization of Organic Phases Associated with Human Disease," in Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties. State of the Art in Modeling, Design and Applications, Eds. J.J. Novoa, D. Braga, L. Addadi (Springer, Dordrecht) p 449-475, 2008.

  49. Rositza I. Petrova, Rakesh Patel* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Habit Modification of Asparagine Monohydrate Crystals by Growth in Hydrogel Media," Crystal Growth & Design, 6, 12, 2709-2715 (2006). [Link]

  50. Rupa Hiremath and Jennifer A. Swift, "Directed Nucleation of Molecular Crystals on Self-Assembled Monolayer Surfaces," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 456, 95-106 (2006).

  51. Rupa Hiremath, Joseph A. Basile*, Stephen W. Varney*, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Controlling Polymorphism of Molecular Crystals with Self-Assembled Monolayer Templates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (51), 18321-18327 (2005). [Link]

  52. Mark D. Hollingsworth, Jennifer A. Swift and Bart Kahr, "J. Michael McBride at 65 - An Appreciation," Crystal Growth & Design, 5(6), 2022-2035 (2005). [Link]

  53. Richard S. Abendan and Jennifer A. Swift, "Dissolution on Cholesterol Monohydrate Single Crystal Surfaces Monitored by In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy," Crystal Growth & Design, 5(6), 2146-2153 (2005). [Link]

  54. Rupa Hiremath, Amy A. Sarjeant and Jennifer A. Swift, "Template-Directed Growth of p-Bromoiodobenzene," Acta Cryst. E61, 11, o3822-o3824 (2005)

  55. Ryan E. Sours, Amanuel Z. Zellelow and Jennifer A. Swift, "An in situ Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Uric Acid Crystal Growth," J. Phys. Chem B, 109, 9989-9995 (2005). [Link]

  56. Rupa Hiremath, Stephen W. Varney* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Selective Growth of a Less Stable Polymorph of 2-Iodo-4-nitroaniline on a Self-Assembled Monolayer Template," Chem. Comm., 2676-2677 (2004). [Link]

  57. Ryan E. Sours and Jennifer A. Swift, "The Relationship Between Uric Acid Crystals and Kidney Stone Disease," Transactions ACA, 39, 83-89 (2004).

  58. Rupa Hiremath, Stephen W. Varney* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Oriented Crystal Growth of 4-Iodo-4'-Nitrobiphenyl on Polar Self-Assembled Monolayer Templates: a Case for "Chemical Epitaxy"," Chem. Mater., 16, 24, 4948- 4954 (2004). [Link]

  59. M. Crina Frincu, Caitlin E. Fogarty* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Epitaxial Relationships Between Uric Acid Crystals and Mineral Surfaces: A Factor in Urinary Stone Formation," Langmuir, 20, 6524-6529 (2004). [Link]

  60. M. Crina Frincu, Sean D. Fleming, Andrew L. Rohl and Jennifer A. Swift, "The Epitaxial Growth of Cholesterol Crystals from Model Bile Solutions on Calcite Substrates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 25, 7915 � 7924 (2004).[Link]

  61. Rositza I. Petrova and Jennifer A. Swift, "Selective Growth and Distribution of Crystalline Enantiomers in Hydrogels," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 1168-1173 (2004). [Link]

  62. M. Crina Frincu, Richard E. Sharpe* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Epitaxial Relationships Between Cholesterol Crystals and Mineral Phases: Implication for Human Disease," Crystal Growth & Design, 4, 2, 223-226 (2004).[Link]

  63. Ryan E. Sours, Dorothy A. Fink*, Kristin A. Cox*, and Jennifer A. Swift, "Uric Acid Dye Inclusion Crystals" Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.,440, 187-193 (2005).

  64. Dorothy A. Fink*, Ryan E. Sours and Jennifer A. Swift, "Modulated Uric Acid Crystal Growth in the Presence of Acridine Dyes," Chem. Mater. 15, 2718-2723 (2003). [Link]

  65. Rositza I. Petrova and Jennifer A. Swift, "Habit Changes in Sodium Bromate Crystals Grown from Hydrogel Media," Crystal Growth & Design2, 6, 573-578 (2002). [Link]

  66. Ryan E. Sours, Dorothy A. Fink* and Jennifer A. Swift, "Dyeing Uric Acid Crystals with Methylene Blue," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 8630-8636 (2002). [Link]

  67. Richard S. Abendan and Jennifer A. Swift, "Surface Characterization of Cholesterol Monohydrate Single Crystals by Chemical Force Microscopy," Langmuir 18, 12, 4847-4853 (2002). [Link]

  68. K. Travis Holman, Adam M. Pivovar, Jennifer A. Swift and Michael D. Ward, "Metric Engineering of Soft Molecular Host Frameworks" Acc. Chem. Res. 24, 107-118 (2001). [Link]

  69. Jennifer A. Swift and Michael D. Ward "Cooperative Polar Ordering of Acentric Guest Molecules in Topologically Controlled Host Frameworks" Chem. Mater. 12, 6, 1501-1504 (2000). (Highlighted in MRS Bulletin Aug 2000, p. 5.) [Link]

  70. J. A. Swift, A. M. Pivovar, A. M. Reynolds*, C. C. Evans, V. A. Russell and M. D. Ward "'Crystal Engineering' with Two-Dimensional Hydrogen Bonding Networks" In Current Challenges on Large Supramolecular Assemblies (G. Tsoucaris, Ed.) Kluwer: Boston, 133-144 (1999).

  71. Jennifer A. Swift, Anne M. Reynolds* and Michael D. Ward "Cooperative Host-Guest Recognition in Crystalline Clathrates: Steric Guest Ordering by Molecular Gears" Chem. Mat. 10, 4159-4168 (1998). [Link]

  72. Jennifer A. Swift, Adam M. Pivovar, Anne M. Reynolds* and Michael D. Ward "Template Directed Architectural Isomerism of Open Molecular Frameworks: Engineering of Crystalline Clathrates" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 24, 5887-5894 (1998). (Highlighted in C&EN, June 8, 1998, p. 39.) [Link]

  73. Jennifer A. Swift, Victoria A. Russell and Michael D. Ward "Organoporous Hosts with Adjustable Molecular Environments" Adv. Mater. 9, 15, 1183-1186 (1997). [Link]

  74. Jennifer A. Swift, Rajib Pal* and J. Michael McBride "Using Hydrogen-Bonds and Herringbone Packing to Design Interfaces of 4,4' Disubstituted meso-Hydrobenzoin Crystals. The Importance of Unfavorable Packing Motifs" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1, 120, 96-104 (1998). [Link]

  75. E. A. Stemmler, J. L. Diener* and J. A. Swift* "Gas-Phase Reactions of O2-. with Alkyl and Aryl Esters of Benzenedicarbocylic Acids" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 5, 11, 990-1000 (1994).