Sina Jamalzadegan

Publications

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. S. Jamalzadegan, A. Penumudy, M. Eghbali, S. Moghaddam, M. F. Hamedani, and Q. Wei. From Sensor to Solution: Grounded LLM Interfaces for Equitable, Smartphone-Based Pathogen Surveillance. Frontiers in Sensors, 2026, 7, 1826260. DOI
  2. L. Phan, A. Gatti, et al., HLE Contributors Consortium (incl. S. Jamalzadegan). A Benchmark of Expert-Level Academic Questions to Assess AI Capabilities. Nature, 2026, 649, 1139–1146. DOI arXiv Humanity's Last Exam, a 2,500-question benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, written by subject-matter experts worldwide.
  3. N. Mohammad, A. Velayati, Y. Tang, A. Steksova, L. Huang, S. Zhang, A. Poonam, S. Jamalzadegan, M. Breen, G. Jiang, and Q. Wei. Attomolar Detection of HIV-1 with Label-Free RCA-rCRISPR on Smartphone. Accepted, 2026. DOI
  4. S. Jamalzadegan, J. Xu, Y. Shen, B. Mativenga, M. Li, M. Zare, A. Penumudy, Z. Hetzler, Y. Zhu, and Q. Wei. Advancing Wearable VOC Sensors: A Roadmap for Sustainable Agriculture and Real-Time Plant Health Monitoring. Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Journal, 2025, 2, 460–474. DOI Cover
  5. S. Jamalzadegan, M. Zare, M. J. Dickens, F. Schenk, A. Velayati, M. Yarema, M. D. Dickey, and Q. Wei. Shape and Size-Dependent Surface Plasmonic Resonances of Liquid Metal Alloy (EGaIn) Nanoparticles. Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 22819–22833. DOI Cover
  6. M. Bagi, S. Jamalzadegan, A. Steksova, and Q. Wei. CRISPR-Cas Based Platforms for RNA Detection: Fundamentals and Applications. Chemical Communications, 2025, 61, 13571–13600. DOI Cover
  7. O. Hossain, Y. Wang, M. Li, B. Mativenga, S. Jamalzadegan, N. Mohammad, A. Velayati, A. D. Poonam, and Q. Wei. A Dual-Functional Needle-Based VOC Sensing Platform for Rapid Vegetable Phenotypic Classification. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2025, 278, 117341. DOI
  8. O. Hossain, A. Mainello-Land, Y. Wang, S. Jamalzadegan, J. B. Ristaino, and Q. Wei. Smartphone-Based Colorimetric VOC Sensor for Early Detection of Phytophthora Ramorum in Rhododendrons. ACS Sensors, 2026, 11, 257–269. DOI Editors' Choice
  9. S. Zhang, S. Jamalzadegan, Y. Wang, N. Kelmer, and Q. Wei. A Compartment-Free Digital Plasmonic Coupling Assay via Single-Particle Imaging and Counting. Nanoscale Advances, 2025, 7, 5720–5734. DOI
  10. S. Im, E. Frey, D. H. Kim, S.-Y. Heo, Y. M. Song, M. H. Vong, S. Jamalzadegan, Q. Wei, A. A. Gregg, O. Khatib, W. J. Padilla, J. Genzer, and M. D. Dickey. Tunable Infrared Emissivity Using Laser-Sintered Liquid Metal Nanoparticle Films. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 2422453. DOI
  11. S. Jamalzadegan, S. Kim, N. Mohammad, H. Koduri, Z. Hetzler, G. Lee, M. D. Dickey, and Q. Wei. Liquid Metal-Based Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 2308173. DOI
  12. G. Lee, O. Hossain, S. Jamalzadegan, Y. Liu, H. Wang, A. C. Saville, T. Shymanovich, R. Paul, D. Rotenberg, A. E. Whitfield, J. B. Ristaino, Y. Zhu, and Q. Wei. Abaxial Leaf Surface-Mounted Multimodal Wearable Sensor for Continuous Plant Physiology Monitoring. Science Advances, 2023, 9(4), eade2232. DOI Covered by The Wall Street Journal, Nature Food, Nature Plants, NC State News
  13. S. Kiani, P. F. Rezaei, and S. Jamalzadegan. Exo-Polygalacturonase Production Enhancement by Piriformospora indica from Sugar Beet Pulp. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023. DOI
  14. Z. Hetzler, Y. Wang, D. Krafft, S. Jamalzadegan, L. Overton, M. W. Kudenov, F. S. Ligler, and Q. Wei. Flexible Sensor Patch for Continuous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring. Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022, 10, 983523. DOI Editors' Showcase

In review

Submitted and under review. Not yet peer reviewed.

  1. J. Gonzalez-Ferrer*, L. F. S. Eugenio dos Santos, A. Moreno-Ochando, S. Jamalzadegan, and M. A. Mostajo-Radji*. Virtual Brain Organoids. Trends Open (Cell Press), under review, 2026.
  2. M. Zare, S. Jamalzadegan, J. Y. Kim, S. A. Jaseem, J. Xu, A. D. Poonam, H. Choi, N. Atar, B. Chen, M. D. Dickey, and Q. Wei. Clear Patch: Transparent Wearable Sensors for Human and Plant Health Monitoring. ACS Nano, under review, 2026.
  3. J. Xu, Y. Shen, M. Li, S. Jamalzadegan, M. Zare, Z. Hetzler, S. Danderm, W. Zhou, A. Akbari, S.-Y. Lee, Y. Zhu*, and Q. Wei. Organ-Specific Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous and High-Precision Plant Health Monitoring. Advanced Materials, under review, 2026.

Preprints

  1. HueBase AI: AI-Driven Colorimetric Sensor Discovery. chemRxiv, preprint, 2025. Preprint Not peer reviewed.
  2. PhytoClip: Multimodal Wearable Sensing and Online Machine Learning for Real-Time Plant Health Monitoring and Early Stress Detection. chemRxiv, preprint, 2025. Preprint Not peer reviewed.

Book chapters

  1. Y. Wang, S. Jamalzadegan, and Q. Wei. Photonic Crystal, Plasmonic, and Hybrid Interfaces: Fundamentals and Applications of Photo-Plasmonic Modalities, Chapter 26. In Smartphone-Enabled Point-of-Care Diagnostics Using Photonic Technologies, Elsevier, under review.