Publications
Gold nanoparticles propulsion from surface fueled by absorption of femtosecond laser pulse at their surface plasmon resonance. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006 ;128:13330-13331.
. Molecular mechanism of the photochemical generation of gold nanoparticles in ethylene glycol: Support for the disproportionation mechanism. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:14014-14019.
. Observation of optical gain in solutions of CdS quantum dots at room temperature in the blue region. Applied Physics Letters. 2006 ;88.
. Plasmon coupling in nanorod assemblies: Optical absorption, discrete dipole approximation simulation, and exciton-coupling model. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:18243-18253.
. Selective laser photo-thermal therapy of epithelial carcinoma using anti-EGFR antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles. Cancer Letters. 2006 ;239:129-135.
. Size-dependent ultrafast electronic energy relaxation and enhanced fluorescence of copper nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:143-149.
. Ultrafast cooling of photoexcited electrons in gold nanoparticle-thiolated DNA conjugates involves the dissociation of the gold-thiol bond. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006 ;128:2426-2433.
. Ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics in coupled metal nanoparticles in aggregates. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:136-142.
. Ultrafast electronic relaxation and charge-carrier localization in CdS/CdSe/CdS quantum-dot quantum-well heterostructures. Nano Letters. 2006 ;6:1940-1949.
. Using silica films and powders modified with benzophenone to photoreduce silver nanoparticles. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology a-Chemistry. 2006 ;181:385-393.
. Au nanoparticles target cancer. Nano Today. 2007 ;2:18-29.
. Cancer cells assemble and align gold nanorods conjugated to antibodies to produce highly enhanced, sharp, and polarized surface Raman spectra: A potential cancer diagnostic marker. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:1591-1597.
. Change in titania structure from amorphousness to crystalline increasing photoinduced electron-transfer rate in dye-titania system. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2007 ;111:9008-9011.
. Dependence of the threshold energy of femtosecond laser ejection of gold nanoprisms from quartz substrates on the nanoparticle environment. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2007 ;111:8934-8941.
. The effect of plasmon field on the coherent lattice phonon oscillation in electron-beam fabricated gold nanoparticle pairs. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:3227-3234.
. Effect of plasmonic gold nanoparticles on benign and malignant cellular autofluorescence: A novel probe for fluorescence based detection of cancer. Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment. 2007 ;6:403-412.
. Effect of the lattice crystallinity on the electron-phonon relaxation rates in gold nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2007 ;111:10751-10757.
. Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostic and therapy. Nanomedicine. 2007 ;2:681-693.
. Multicolorimetric plasmonic gold nanoparticles for 8 optical detection of oral squamous carcinoma. Oral Oncology. 2007 ;43(5):121-121.
. Peptide-conjugated gold nanorods for nuclear targeting. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2007 ;18:1490-1497.
. The potential use of the enhanced nonlinear properties of gold nanospheres in photothermal cancer therapy. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 2007 ;39:747-753.
. Reaction of Platinum Nanocatalyst with the Ferricyanide Reactant to Produce Prussian Blue Analogue Complexes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [Internet]. 2007 ;111(46):17180 - 17183. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp709735n
. Review of some interesting surface plasmon resonance-enhanced properties of noble metal nanoparticles and their applications to biosystems. Plasmonics [Internet]. 2007 ;2(3):107-118. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11468-007-9031-1
. Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensitivity of Metal Nanostructures: Physical Basis and Universal Scaling in Metal Nanoshells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [Internet]. 2007 ;111(47):17451 - 17454. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp0773177
. On the universal scaling behavior of the distance decay of plasmon coupling in metal nanoparticle pairs: A plasmon ruler equation. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:2080-2088.
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