Publications
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.
. The role of the native lipids and lattice structure in bacteriorhodopsin protein conformation and stability as studied by temperature-dependent Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2002 ;277:29437-29443.
. Eu3+ binding to europium-regenerated bacteriorhodopsin upon delipidation and monomerization. Febs Letters. 2004 ;562:207-210.
. Carrier dynamics and the role of surface defects: Designing a photocatalyst for gas-phase CO2 reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 .
The Sensitivity of the Distance Dependent Plasmonic Coupling between Two Nanocubes to their Orientation: Edge-to-Edge versus Face-to-Face. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016 ;120:4564–4570.
. Are hot spots between two plasmonic nanocubes of silver or gold formed between adjacent corners or adjacent facets? A DDA examination. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2014 .
. Collective multipole oscillations direct the plasmonic coupling at the nanojunction interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019 .
. High-sensitivity molecular sensing using plasmonic nanocube chains in classical and quantum coupling regimes. Nano Today. 2017 .
Plasmonic Spectroscopy: The Electromagnetic Field Strength and its Distribution Determine the Sensitivity Factor of Face-to-Face Ag Nanocube Dimers in Solution and on a Substrate. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [Internet]. 2015 ;119:15579-15587. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05395
. The Spectroscopy of Homo and Heterodimers of Silver and Gold Nanocubes as a Function of Separation: a DDA Simulation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2014 .
. Effects of the substrate refractive index, the exciting light propagation direction, and the relative cube orientation on the plasmonic coupling behavior of two silver nanocubes at different separations. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016 .
Plasmonic Spheroidal Metal Nanoshells Showing Larger Tunability and Stronger Near Fields Than Their Spherical Counterparts: An Effect of Enhanced Plasmon Coupling. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2011 ;2:374-378.
. Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostic and therapy. Nanomedicine. 2007 ;2:681-693.
. Photothermal reshaping of prismatic Au nanoparticles in periodic monolayer arrays by femtosecond laser pulses. Journal of Applied Physics. 2005 ;98.
. Coherent vibrational oscillation in gold prismatic monolayer periodic nanoparticle arrays. Nano Letters. 2004 ;4:1741-1747.
. Gold Nanorods: From Synthesis and Properties to Biological and Biomedical Applications. Advanced Materials. 2009 ;21:4880-4910.
. Fluorescent Quenching Gold Nanoparticles: Potential Biomedical Applications. In: Metal Enhanced Fluorescence. Metal Enhanced Fluorescence. Wiley Online Library; 2010. pp. 573-599. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470642795.ch20
. Effect of the lattice crystallinity on the electron-phonon relaxation rates in gold nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2007 ;111:10751-10757.
. Cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy in the near-infrared region by using gold nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006 ;128:2115-2120.
. Pulsed laser photothermal annealing and ablation of plasmonic nanoparticles. European Physical Journal-Special Topics. 2008 ;153:223-230.
. Gold nanoparticles: Catalyst for the oxidation of NADH to NAD(+). Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology. 2005 ;81:76-83.
. The effect of plasmon field on the coherent lattice phonon oscillation in electron-beam fabricated gold nanoparticle pairs. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:3227-3234.
. Applications of gold nanorods for cancer imaging and photothermal therapy. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 624. Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer; 2010. pp. 343-357. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-609-2_23
. Determination of the minimum temperature required for selective photothermal destruction of cancer cells with the use of immunotargeted gold nanoparticles. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2006 ;82:412-417.
. Comparative study of photothermolysis of cancer cells with nuclear-targeted or cytoplasm-targeted gold nanospheres: continuous wave or pulsed lasers. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 2010 ;15.
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