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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Au nanoparticles target cancer
   Nano Today, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 18–29, 2007
2. Effect of the Lattice Crystallinity on the Electron-Phonon Relaxation Rates in Gold Nanoparticles
   Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 29, pp. 10751–10757, 2007
3. Dependence of the Threshold Energy of Femtosecond Laser Ejection of Gold Nanoprisms from Quartz Substrates on the Nanoparticle Environment
   Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 25, pp. 8934–8941, 2007
4. Change in Titania Structure from Amorphousness to Crystalline Increasing Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Rate in Dye-Titania System
   Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 26, pp. 9008–9011, 2007
5. 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, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1591–1597, 2007
6. On the Universal Scaling Behavior of the Distance Decay of Plasmon Coupling in Metal Nanoparticle Pairs: A Plasmon Ruler Equation
   Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 2080–2088, 2007
7. Why gold nanoparticles are more precious than pretty gold: Noble metal surface plasmon resonance and its enhancement of the radiative and nonradiative properties of nanocrystals of different shapes
   Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 209, 2006
8. Observation of optical gain in solutions of CdS quantum dots at room temperature in the blue region
   Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 26, p. 261108, 2006
9. Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1940–1949, 2006
10. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 40, pp. 19745–19746, 2006
11. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 39, pp. 19220–19225, 2006
12. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 143–149, 2006
13. Determination of the aspect ratio statistical distribution of gold nanorods in solution from a theoretical fit of the observed inhomogeneously broadened longitudinal plasmon resonance absorption spectrum
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 100, no. 4, p. 044324, 2006
14. Determination of the Minimum Temperature Required for Selective Photothermal Destruction of Cancer Cells with the Use of Immunotargeted Gold Nanoparticles
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 82, no. 2, p. 412, 2006
15. Selective laser photo-thermal therapy of epithelial carcinoma using anti-EGFR antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles
    Cancer Letters, vol. 239, no. 1, pp. 129–135, 2006
16. Using silica films and powders modified with benzophenone to photoreduce silver nanoparticles
    Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, vol. 181, no. 2-3, pp. 385–393, 2006
17. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 6, pp. 2115–2120, 2006
18. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 7, pp. 2426–2433, 2006
19. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 14, pp. 7238–7248, 2006
20. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 29, pp. 14014–14019, 2006
21. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 37, pp. 18243–18253, 2006
22. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 136–142, 2006
23. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 41, pp. 13330–13331, 2006
24. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 39, pp. 18460–18464, 2005
25. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 26, pp. 12663–12676, 2005
26. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 40, pp. 18881–18888, 2005
27. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 34, pp. 16350–16356, 2005
28. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 11, pp. 4811–4815, 2005
29. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 10, pp. 4357–4360, 2005
30. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 20331–20338, 2005
31. Carbon-supported spherical palladium nanoparticles as potential recyclable catalysts for the Suzuki reaction
    Journal of Catalysis, 2005
32. Chemical Reviews, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 1025–1102, 2005
33. Gold nanoparticles: Catalyst for the oxidation of NADH to NAD
    Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 76–83, 2005
34. Partial Dehydration of the Retinal Binding Pocket and Proof for Photochemical Deprotonation of the Retinal Schiff Base in Bicelle Bacteriorhodopsin Crystals
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 81, no. 6, p. 1356, 2005
35. Femtosecond excitation dynamics in gold nanospheres and nanorods
    Physical Review B, vol. 72, no. 23, 2005
36. The Protonation-Deprotonation Kinetics of the Protonated Schiff Base in Bicelle Bacteriorhodopsin Crystals
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 444–451, 2005
37. Growth and fragmentation of silver nanoparticles in their synthesis with a fs laser and CW light by photo-sensitization with benzophenone
    Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 154, 2005
38. Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 2027–2033, 2005
39. Photothermal reshaping of prismatic Au nanoparticles in periodic monolayer arrays by femtosecond laser pulses
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 98, no. 11, p. 114301, 2005
40. Nano Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 829–834, 2005
41. Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1343–1348, 2004
42. Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 1741–1747, 2004
43. Model System for Growing and Quantifying Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilms In Situ and in Real Time
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 4980–4988, 2004
44. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 17, pp. 5230–5234, 2004
45. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 326–333, 2004
46. Eu binding to europium-regenerated bacteriorhodopsin upon delipidation and monomerization
    FEBS Letters, vol. 562, no. 1-3, pp. 207–210, 2004
47. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 36, pp. 13619–13625, 2004
48. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 31, pp. 11876–11876, 2004
49. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 18, pp. 5726–5733, 2004
50. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 25, pp. 8572–8580, 2004
51. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 23, pp. 7194–7195, 2004
52. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 27, pp. 8340–8347, 2003
53. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 44, pp. 12045–12053, 2003
54. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 45, pp. 12416–12424, 2003
55. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 40, pp. 8371–8375, 2003
56. Medium Effect on the Electron Cooling Dynamics in Gold Nanorods and Truncated Tetrahedra
    Advanced Materials, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 393–396, 2003
57. Propene hydrogenation over truncated octahedral Pt nanoparticles supported on alumina
    Journal of Catalysis, vol. 214, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 2003
58. Why is the thermalization of excited electrons in semiconductor nanoparticles so rapid? Studies on CdSe nanoparticles
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 373, no. 3-4, pp. 284–291, 2003
59. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1957–1962, 2003
60. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 14, pp. 3101–3104, 2003
61. OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS OF METALLIC NANOCRYSTALS
    Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 331–366, 2003
62. Room temperature optical gain in CdSe nanorod solutions
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 92, no. 11, p. 6799, 2002
63. The Quenching of CdSe Quantum Dots Photoluminescence by Gold Nanoparticles in Solution�
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 75, no. 6, p. 591, 2002
64. Determination of the localization times of electrons and holes in the HgS well in a CdS/HgS/CdS quantum dotâ??quantum well nanoparticle
    Physical Review B, vol. 66, no. 20, 2002
65. 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, vol. 277, no. 33, pp. 29437–29443, 2002
66. The pump power dependence of the femtosecond relaxation of CdSe nanoparticles observed in the spectral range from visible to infrared
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 9, p. 3828, 2002
67. Langmuir, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 4921–4925, 2002
68. Transfer times of electrons and holes across the interface in CdS/HgS/CdS quantum dot quantum well nanoparticles
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 361, no. 5-6, pp. 446–452, 2002
69. Transition from nanoparticle to molecular behavior: a femtosecond transient absorption study of a size-selected 28 atom gold cluster
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 356, no. 3-4, pp. 240–246, 2002
70. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of molecules adsorbed on gold nanorods: off-surface plasmon resonance condition
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 366, no. 1-2, pp. 17–23, 2002
71. The effect of surface adsorption on the hyper-Rayleigh scattering of large and small CdSe nanoparticles
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 363, no. 5-6, pp. 465–470, 2002
72. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 33, pp. 7621–7627, 2002
73. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 13, pp. 3410–3415, 2002
74. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 10, pp. 2049–2054, 2002
75. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 3, pp. 723–729, 2002
76. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 5, pp. 945–955, 2002
77. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 49, pp. 12286–12292, 2001
78. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 37, pp. 8938–8943, 2001
79. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 43, pp. 10554–10558, 2001
80. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 23, pp. 5542–5547, 2001
81. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 45, pp. 11284–11289, 2001
82. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 15, pp. 2981–2986, 2001
83. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 23, pp. 5548–5551, 2001
84. Biochemistry, vol. 40, no. 39, pp. 11819–11827, 2001
85. Hot electron and phonon dynamics of gold nanoparticles embedded in a gel matrix
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 343, no. 1-2, pp. 55–63, 2001
86. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 257–264, 2001
87. Spectroscopic determination of the melting energy of a gold nanorod
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 114, no. 5, p. 2362, 2001
88. Formation of quantum-dot quantum-well heteronanostructures with large lattice mismatch: ZnS/CdS/ZnS
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 114, no. 4, p. 1813, 2001
89. Nano Letters, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 589–593, 2001
90. Nano Letters, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 667–670, 2001
91. The Effect of Metal Cation Binding on the Protein, Lipid and Retinal Isomeric Ratio in Regenerated Bacteriorhodopsin of Purple Membrane�
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 73, no. 5, p. 564, 2001
92. 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, vol. 98, no. 15, pp. 8475–8479, 2001
93. Langmuir, vol. 17, no. 20, pp. 6368–6374, 2001
94. Femtosecond time-resolved electron-hole dynamics and radiative transitions in the double-layer quantum well of the CdS/(HgS)_{2}/CdS quantum-dotâ??quantum-well nanoparticle
    Physical Review B, vol. 64, no. 3, 2001
95. Direct observation of charge-transfer dynamics in a conjugated conducting polymer poly(3-octylthiophene)-fullerene composite by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
    Physical Review B, vol. 64, no. 23, 2001
96. Femtosecond transient-absorption dynamics of colloidal gold nanorods: Shape independence of the electron-phonon relaxation time
    Physical Review B, vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 6086–6090, 2000
97. Origin of emission from porous silicon: Temperature-dependence correlation with proton conductivity
    Physical Review B, vol. 62, no. 24, pp. 16595–16599, 2000
98. Probing the Primary Event in the Photocycle of Photoactive Yellow Protein Using Photochemical Hole-burning Technique¶
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 72, no. 5, p. 639, 2000
99. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 18, pp. 4333–4337, 2000
100. Organic Letters, vol. 2, no. 15, pp. 2385–2388, 2000
101. Shape and size dependence of radiative, non-radiative and photothermal properties of gold nanocrystals
     International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 409–453, 2000
102. The 'lightning' gold nanorods: fluorescence enhancement of over a million compared to the gold metal
     Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 317, no. 6, pp. 517–523, 2000
103. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 28, pp. 6720–6726, 2000
104. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 36, pp. 8635–8640, 2000
105. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 23, pp. 5417–5420, 2000
106. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 33, pp. 7867–7870, 2000
107. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 47, pp. 10956–10959, 2000
108. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 26, pp. 6152–6163, 2000
109. How long does it take to melt a gold nanorod? A femtosecond pump–probe absorption spectroscopic study
     Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 315, no. 1-2, pp. 12–18, 1999
110. Effect of different capping environments on the optical properties of CdS nanoparticles in reverse micelles
     International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 439–450, 1999
111. Crystallographic facets and shapes of gold nanorods of different aspect ratios
     Surface Science, vol. 440, no. 1-2, pp. L809–L814, 1999
112. Comparison between the polarized Fourier-transform infrared spectra of aged porous silicon and amorphous silicon dioxide films on Si (100) surface
     Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 508, no. 1-3, pp. 87–96, 1999
113. Time-resolved Fourier-transform infrared and visible luminescence spectroscopy of photoexcited porous silicon
     Physical Review B, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 5026–5031, 1999
114. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 18, pp. 3529–3533, 1999
115. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 49, pp. 10255–10259, 1999
116. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 21, pp. 4212–4217, 1999
117. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 16, pp. 3073–3077, 1999
118. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 49, pp. 10775–10780, 1999
119. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 40, pp. 8410–8426, 1999
120. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 103, no. 11, pp. 1783–1788, 1999
121. The Effect of Low and High Temperature Anneals on the Hydrogen Content and Passivation of Si Surface Coated with SiO[sub 2] and SiN Films
     Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 1921, 1999
122. Electron dynamics in gold and gold–silver alloy nanoparticles: The influence of a nonequilibrium electron distribution and the size dependence of the electron–phonon relaxation
     The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 111, no. 3, p. 1255, 1999
123. Polarity Change of the Transient Photoelectric Signals by Orientation and pH of Purple Membrane Films
     Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, vol. 316, no. 1, pp. 133–136, 1998
124. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 102, no. 28, pp. 5652–5658, 1998
125. SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
     Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 1364–1367, 1998
126. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 34, pp. 8889–8890, 1998
127. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 102, no. 18, pp. 3316–3320, 1998
128. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 102, no. 41, pp. 8109–8112, 1998
129. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 20, pp. 3699–3701, 1997
130. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 36, pp. 6562–6567, 1997
131. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, no. 33, pp. 6629–6633, 1997
132. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, no. 49, pp. 10599–10604, 1997
133. Steps, ledges and kinks on the surfaces of platinum nanoparticles of different shapes
     Surface Science, vol. 380, no. 2-3, pp. 302–310, 1997
134. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 690–693, 1997
135. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, no. 17, pp. 3420–3423, 1997
136. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, no. 19, pp. 3713–3719, 1997
137. Spectral diffusion within the porous silicon emission wavelength range on the nanosecond to millisecond time scale
     Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 82, no. 2, p. 836, 1997
138. Detection of a Yb3+ binding site in regenerated bacteriorhodopsin that is coordinated with the protein and phospholipid head groups
     Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 93, no. 25, pp. 14333–14337, 1996
139. Effects of rapid thermal anneal on refractive index and hydrogen content of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposited silicon nitride films
     Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 80, no. 9, p. 5384, 1996
140. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 16, pp. 6863–6866, 1996
141. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 29, pp. 12002–12007, 1996
142. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 47, pp. 18586–18591, 1996
143. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 24, pp. 10479–10481, 1996
144. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 8, pp. 2762–2765, 1996
145. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 19, pp. 7989–7996, 1996
146. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 16, pp. 6381–6384, 1996
147. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 6, pp. 2391–2398, 1996
148. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 20, pp. 8053–8056, 1996
149. Photodissociation dynamics of iodobenzene by state-selective photofragment translational spectroscopy
     Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 13–20, 1996
150. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 19, pp. 7395–7406, 1995
151. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 19, pp. 7723–7730, 1995
152. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 19, pp. 7776–7781, 1995
153. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 29, pp. 11600–11604, 1995
154. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 24, pp. 10052–10055, 1995
155. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 44, pp. 11316–11320, 1994
156. Excess Energy and Structural Dependence of the Rate of Energy Redistribution during the Photodissociation of Iodotoluenes
     Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 13, pp. 3322–3329, 1994
157. Binding Characteristics of an Organometallic Cation, Ru(bpy)32+, in Regenerated Bacteriorhodopsin
     Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 30, pp. 7246–7251, 1994
158. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 42, pp. 10674–10677, 1994
159. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 37, pp. 9339–9344, 1994
160. The photodissociation dynamics of ICN at 304.67 nm by state-selective one-dimensional translational fragmentation spectroscopy
     The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 100, no. 7, p. 4910, 1994
161. Recording of transient gratings using the short lived bacteriorhodopsin photocycle intermediates
     Advanced Materials, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 838–842, 1993
162. Molecular rotation clocking of the subpicosecond energy redistribution in molecules falling apart. 2. Excess energy dependence of the rates of energy redistribution in the two photodissociation channels of iodobenzene
     Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 48, pp. 12481–12484, 1993
163. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 25, pp. 6598–6601, 1993
164. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 115–120, 1993
165. Biochemistry, vol. 32, no. 51, pp. 14173–14175, 1993
166. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 96, no. 22, pp. 8728–8735, 1992
167. Fluorescence anisotropy studies of dibucaine·HCl in micelles and bacteriorhodopsin
     Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 169–185, 1992
168. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 1664–1667, 1991
169. Symmetry and product-state correlation of the C state of iodine in the 304-nm region
     Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 21, pp. 8044–8047, 1991
170. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 23, pp. 9169–