Publications
. Visible to infrared luminescence from a 28-atom gold cluster. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2002 ;106:3410-3415.
. Direct observation of charge-transfer dynamics in a conjugated conducting polymer poly (3-octylthiophene)-fullerene composite by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. Physical Review B. 2001 ;64.
. The effect of metal cation binding on the protein, lipid and retinal isomeric ratio in regenerated bacteriorhodopsin of purple membrane. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2001 ;73:564-571.
. The effect of stabilizers on the catalytic activity and stability of Pd colloidal nanoparticles in the Suzuki reactions in aqueous solution. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2001 ;105:8938-8943.
. Effect of temperature, pH, and metal ion binding on the secondary structure of bacteriorhodopsin: FT-IR study of the melting and premelting transition temperatures. Biochemistry. 2001 ;40:11819-11827.
. Evidence for bilayer assembly of cationic surfactants on the surface of gold nanorods. Langmuir. 2001 ;17:6368-6374.
. Formation of quantum-dot quantum-well heteronanostructures with large lattice mismatch: ZnS/CdS/ZnS. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2001 ;114:1813-1822.
. Hot electron and phonon dynamics of gold nanoparticles embedded in a gel matrix. Chemical Physics Letters. 2001 ;343:55-63.
. On the Nanoparticle to Molecular Size Transition: Fluorescence Quenching Studies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B [Internet]. 2001 ;105(43):10554 - 10558. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp0118726
. Observation of large changes in the band gap absorption energy of small CdSe nanoparticles induced by the adsorption of a strong hole acceptor. Nano Letters. 2001 ;1:667-670.
. Photoluminescence of CdSe nanoparticles in the presence of a hole acceptor: n-butylamine. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2001 ;105:2981-2986.
. The relaxation dynamics of the excited electronic states of retinal in bacteriorhodopsin by two-pump-probe femtosecond studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2001 ;98:8475-8479.
. Self-assembly of platinum nanoparticles of various size and shape. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2001 ;105:5542-5547.
. Some interesting properties of metals confined in time and nanometer space of different shapes. Accounts of Chemical Research. 2001 ;34:257-264.
. Spectroscopic determination of the melting energy of a gold nanorod. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2001 ;114:2362-2368.
. Temperature-jump investigations of the kinetics of hydrogel nanoparticle volume phase transitions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2001 ;123:11284-11289.
. Time-resolved Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of the polarizable proton continua and the proton pump mechanism of bacteriorhodopsin. Biophysical Journal. 2001 ;80:961-971.
. Variation of the thickness and number of wells in the CdS/HgS/CdS quantum dot quantum well system. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2001 ;105:5548-5551.
. Activation energy of the reaction between hexacyanoferrate(III) and thiosulfate ions catalyzed by platinum nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2000 ;104:10956-10959.
. The effect of the protein conformation change on bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Biophysical Journal. 2000 ;78:159A-159A.
. Femtosecond dynamics of a simple merocyanine dye: Does deprotonation compete with isomerization?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2000 ;122:6720-6726.
. Femtosecond transient-absorption dynamics of colloidal gold nanorods: Shape independence of the electron-phonon relaxation time. Physical Review B. 2000 ;61:6086-6090.
. High-density femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of semiconductor nanoparticles. A tool to investigate surface quality. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 2000 ;72:165-177.
. How does a gold nanorod melt?. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2000 ;104:7867-7870.
. Laser-induced shape changes of colloidal gold nanorods using femtosecond and nanosecond laser pulses. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2000 ;104:6152-6163.