Publications
Au nanoparticles target cancer. Nano Today. 2007 ;2:18-29.
. Calculated absorption and scattering properties of gold nanoparticles of different size, shape, and composition: Applications in biological imaging and biomedicine. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:7238-7248.
. 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.
. The effect of plasmon field on the coherent lattice phonon oscillation in electron-beam fabricated gold nanoparticle pairs. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:3227-3234.
. Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostic and therapy. Nanomedicine. 2007 ;2:681-693.
. Noble Metal Nanoparticle Pairs: Effect of Medium for Enhanced Nanosensing. Nano Letters. 2008 ;8:4347-4352.
. Noble Metals on the Nanoscale: Optical and Photothermal Properties and Some Applications in Imaging, Sensing, Biology, and Medicine. Accounts of Chemical Research. 2008 ;41:1578-1586.
. Plasmon coupling in nanorod assemblies: Optical absorption, discrete dipole approximation simulation, and exciton-coupling model. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:18243-18253.
. Plasmonic coupling in noble metal nanostructures. Chemical Physics Letters. 2010 ;487:153-164.
. Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles. Lasers in Medical Science. 2008 ;23:217-228.
. 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.
. 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 coupling and its universal size scaling in metal nanostructures of complex geometry: Elongated particle pairs and nanosphere trimers. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2008 ;112:4954-4960.
. 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
. 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.
. 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.
. Universal scaling of plasmon coupling in metal nanostructures: Extension from particle pairs to nanoshells. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:2854-2858.
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