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2008

 

Ernst, Andrzej Z.; Zoladek, Sylwia; Wiaderek, Kamila; Cox, James A.; Kolary-Zurowska, Aneta; Miecznikowski, Krzysztof; Kulesza, Pawel J.   Network films of conducting polymer-linked polyoxometalate-modified gold nanoparticles: Preparation and electrochemical characterization.    Electrochimica Acta  (2008),  53(11),  3924-3931. 

 

Zhang, Rong; Kumar, Sachin; Zou, Shouzhong; Kerr, Lei L.   High-Density Vertically Aligned ZnO Rods with a Multistage Terrace Structure and Their Improved Solar Cell Efficiency.  Crystal Growth & Design  (2008),  8(2),  381-383.

 

2007

 

J.A. Heuser, W.U. Spendel, A.N. Pisarenko, C. Yu, M.J. Pechan, and G.E. Pacey, “Formation of Surface Magnetite Nanoparticles from Iron-Exchanged Zeolite using Microwave Radiation”, J. Mater. Sci.,  42, (2007), 9057–9062.

 

Ernst, Andrzej Z.; Sun, Laisheng; Wiaderek, Kamila; Kolary, Aneta; Zoladek, S.; Kulesza, Pawel J.; Cox, James A..   Synthesis of polyoxometalate-protected gold nanoparticles by a ligand-exchange method: application to the electrocatalytic reduction of bromate.    Electroanalysis  (2007),  19(19-20),  2103-2109. 

 

Yang, Hongzhou; Yang, Yuqing; Zou, Shouzhong.   In Situ Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Studies of CO Adsorption and Methanol Oxidation on Ru-Modified Pt Surfaces.    Journal of Physical Chemistry C  (2007),  111(51),  19058-19065. 

 

Kumar, Sachin; Yang, Hongzhou; Zou, Shouzhong.   Seed-Mediated Growth of Uniform Gold Nanoparticle Arrays.    Journal of Physical Chemistry C  (2007),  111(35),  12933-12938.

 

Kumar, Sachin; Zou, Shouzhong.   Electrooxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Methanol on Platinum-Overlayer-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: Effects of Film Thickness.    Langmuir  (2007),  23(13),  7365-7371.

 

Hartley, C. Scott; Moore, Jeffrey S.   Programmed Dynamic Covalent Assembly of Unsymmetrical Macrocycles.    Journal of the American Chemical Society  (2007),  129(38),  11682-11683.

 

Hartley, C. Scott; Elliott, Erin L.; Moore, Jeffrey S.   Covalent Assembly of Molecular Ladders.    Journal of the American Chemical Society  (2007),  129(15),  4512-4513. 

Wandstrat, Michelle M.; Spendel, Wolfgang U.; Pacey, Gilbert E.; Cox, James A., Oxidation of a Phospholipid at an Electrode Modified with an Electrochemically Formed Sol-Gel Film Doped with Cyclodextrin, Electroanalysis, Vol. 19, Issue: 2-3, January 2007. pp. 139 - 143.

2006

Vipul Kumar, Nathan Lee, and C.L.B. Almquist. The catalytic oxidation of methanol over nanostructured WO3/V2O5/TiO2 catalysts prepared by 2 different methods. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2006 in print.

S.B. Bayram, M.D. Havey, M.S. Safronova, A. Sieradzan, Nonlinear optical approach to matrix-element spectroscopy of the 5s 2S1/2 ? 5p 2Pj ? 5d 2Dj' transitions in 87Rb, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 1-16 (2006)

S.B. Bayram, S. Kin*, M.J. Welsh, J.D. Hinkle, Collisional depolarization of Zeeman coherences in the [formula] level: Double-resonance two-photon polarization spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. A 73, 042713 (2006)

D.V. Ca, L. Sun, J.A. Cox, Optimization of the Dispersion of Gold and Platinum Nanoparticles on Indium Tin Oxide for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Cysteine and Arsenite, Electrochimica Acta, 51, 2188-2194, 2006.

Dong, H., Scheibe, T.D., Johnson, W.P., Monkman, C.M. and Fuller, M.E. (2006) Change in collision efficiency with distance in bacterial transport experiments. Ground Water, 44(3), 415-429

Jiang, H., Dong, H., Zhang, G., Yu, B., Chapman, L.R., and Fields, M.W. (2006) Microbial diversity in water and sediment of Lake Chaka: an inland hyersaline lake in Northwestern China. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72(6), 3832-3845.

Zhang, G., Dong, H., Jiang, H., Xu, Z. and Eberl D. (2006) Unique microbial community in drilling fluid from Chinese Continental Scientific Deep Drilling. Geomicrobiology Journal, 23, 499-514.

Dong, H., Zhang, G., Jiang, H., Yu, B., Chapman, L.R., Lucas, C.R., and Fields, M.W. (2006) Microbial diversity in sediments of saline Qinghai Lake, China: linking geochemical controls to Microbial Ecology. Microbial Ecology, 51(1), 65-82.

Seabaugh, J.L., Dong, H., Kukkadapu, R.K., Eberl, D., Morton, J.P., and Kim, J.W. (2006) Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the Fithian and Muloorina illites: contrasting extents and rates of bioreduction. Clays & Clay Minerals, 54(1), 67-79.

Jaisi, D.P., Dong, H., Kim, J.W., He, Z., and Morton, J.P. (2006) Particle aggregation kinetics during microbial reduction of Fe(III) in nontronite. Clays & Clay Minerals, in press.

Lei Kerr, Xiaonan Li, Marina Canepa, Andre Sommer, "Raman Analysis of Nitrogen Doped ZnO", Accepted for Thin Solid Films, (2006).

Rong Zhang, Lei Kerr and Richard Edelmann, "Flower-like nano-structured ZnO for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Applications" Published in the proceeding of 4th world Photovoltaic and Energy Conversion Conference, (2006).

Keith, J.; Hess, L.C.; Spendel, W. U.; Cox, J.A.; and Pacey, G.E., "The Investigation of the Behavior of a Long Period Grating Sensor with a Copper Sensitive Coating Fabricated by Layer-by-layer Electrostatic Adsorption", Talanta, 2006, 70, 818-822.

Burns, C.; Spendel, W. U.; Puckett, S.; Pacey, G. E.; Solution ionic strength effect on gold nanoparticle solution color transition; Talanta (2006), 69(4), 873-876.

Keith, J.; Hess, L.C.; Spendel, W. U.; Cox, J.A.; and Pacey, G.E., "The Investigation of the Behavior of a Long Period Grating Sensor with a Copper Sensitive Coating Fabricated by Layer-by-layer Electrostatic Adsorption", Talanta, 2006, 70, 818-822.

Chengtao Yu, Michael J. Pechan, David Carr and Chris J. Palmstrøm "Ferromagnetic resonance in the stripe domain state: a study in Co2MnGa (001)", J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08J107 (2006).

Michael J. Pechan, Chengtao Yu, Dane Owen, Jordan Katine, Liesl Folks and Matthew Carey. J., "Vortex magnetodynamics: ferromagnetic resonance in Permalloy dot arrays". Appl. Phys. 99, 08C702 (2006).

M.Y Tekeste and J.M. Yarrison-Rice, "High efficiency photonic crystal based wavelength demulitplexer," Opt. Exp. 14, 7931-7942 (2006). Has online movies available at Optics Express journal website.

V. Titova, T.B. Hoang, J.M. Yarrison-Rice, H.E. Jackson, L.M. Smith, J.L. Lensch, and L.J. Lauhon, "Low temperature photoluminescence imaging and time-resolved spectroscopy of single CdS nanowires," L. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 053119 (2006). "Selected as a contribution to frontier science" for inclusion in Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci. and Tech., 14, Issue 7, Optical Properties and Quantum Optics Section, (2006). Also, Highlighted in Photonics Spectra, 40, 99-100 (2006).

M. Tekeste, and J.M. Yarrison-Rice, "Modeling and fabrication of a photonic crystal based wavelength demultiplexer," 6th IEEE Nanotechnology Proceedings, ISBN 1-4244-0078-3, 2006.

S. Rajagopal, N. Smith, J.M. Yarrison-Rice, C. Urig, T.A. Scott, H. Zhou, and S. Zou, "Conductivity measurements of paddlewheel dimetal complexes with metal-metal multiple bonds," 6th IEEE Nanotechnology Proceedings, ISBN 1-4244-0078-3, 2006.

T. Hoang, L. Titova, J. M. Yarrison-Rice, L.M. Smith, H.E. Jackson, Y. Kim, and C. Jagadish, "Imaging and optical properties of single core-shell GaAs-AlGaAs nanowires," 6th IEEE Nanotechnology Proceedings, ISBN 1-4244-0078-3, 2006.

S.A. Masturzo, J.M. Yarrison-Rice, J.T. Boyd, H.E. Jackson, "Optimization of grating coupler efficiency for nanophotonic device integration," 6th IEEE Nanotechnology Proceedings, ISBN 1-4244-0078-3, 2006.

S. Ma and H.-C. Zhou, A Metal-Organic Framework with Entatic Metal Centers Exhibiting High Gas-Adsorption Affinity, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11734-11735.

D. Sun, Y. Ke, T. M. Mattox, S. Parkin, and H.-C. Zhou, Stability and Porosity Enhancement Through Concurrent Ligand Extension and SBU Stabilization, Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 7566.

Sun, D.; Ma, S.; Ke, Y.; Collins, D. J.; Zhou, H.-C. "An Interweaving MOF with High Hydrogen Uptake", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3896-3897.

D. Sun, D. J. Collins, Y. Ke, J.-L. Zuo, and H.-C. Zhou

, Construction of metal-organic frameworks based on pre-designed carboxylate isomers: From achiral to chiral nets, Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 12, 3768-3776.

Ke, Y.; Collins, D. J.; Sun, D.; Zhou, H.-C., (10,3)-a Noninterpenetrated Network Built from a Piedfort Ligand Pair, Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 1897-1899.

H. Yang, Y. Yang and S. Zou, "Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic evidence of methanol oxidation on Ru electrodes", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 17296.

S. Kumar, S. Zou, "Electroreduction of O2 on uniform arrays of Pt and PtCo nanoparticles", Electrochem. Commu., 2006, 8, 1151.

S. Gruenbaum, M. Henney, S. Kumar, S. Zou, "Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy studies of 1,4-phenylene diisocyanide adsorption on Au and Pt-group transition metals", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 4782.

A. Jaiswal, K. Tavakoli, S. Zou, "Coupled surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and electrical conductivity study of 1, 4-phenylene diisocyanide in molecular electronic junctions", Anal. Chem., 2006, 78, 120.

2005

McGillivary, G., L. M. Smoot, and L. A. Actis. Characterization of the IgA1 protease from the Brazilian purpuric fever strain F3031 of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 250, 229-236, 2005.

McGillivary, G., A. P. Tomaras, E. R. Rhodes, and L. A. Actis. Cloning and sequencing of a genomic island found in the Brazilian purpuric fever clone of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius. Infect. Immun. 73, 1927-1938, 2005.

Rhodes, E. R., A. P. Tomaras, G. McGillivary, P. L. Connerly, and L. A. Actis. Genetic and functional analysis of the Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans AfeABCD siderophore independent iron-acquisition system. Infect. Immun. 73, 3758-3763, 2005.

Pacey, G.E., Puckett, S, Cheng, L., Khatib-Shahidi, S., Cox, J.A., "Detection of DNA damaging agents using layer-by layer assembly", Anal. Chim. Acta, 2005, 533, 135-139.

Widera, J., Kijak, A.M., Ca, D.V., Pacey, G.E., Taylor, R.T., Perfect, H., Cox, J.A., "The Influence of the Matrix Structure on the Oxidation of Aniline in a Silica Sol-Gel Composite", Electrochem. Acta, 2005, 50, 1703-1709.

M.M. Wandstrat and J.A. Cox, Acceleration of the Densification of a Silica Sol-Gel by Inclusion of Generation-Zero Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 351, 3667-3670, 2005.

A. Walcarius, D. Mandler, J.A. Cox, M. Collinson, O. Lev, Exciting New Directions in the Intersection of Functionalized Sol-Gel Materials with Electrochemistry (feature article), Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, 3663-3689, 2005.

L. Sun, D.V. Ca, J.A. Cox, Electrocatalysis of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Nanocomposites of Poly(amidoamine)-Encapsulated Platinum Nanoparticles and Phosphotungstic Acid, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 9, 816-822, 2005.

M. Giorgetti, M. Berrettoni, S. Zamponi, P.J. Kulesza, J.A. Cox, Cobalt Hexacyanoferrate in PAMAM Doped Silica Matrix. 2. Structural and Electronic Characterization, Electrochimica Acta, 51, 511-516, 2005.

Jaisi, D.P., Kukkadapu, R.K., Eberl, D.D., and Dong, H. (2005) Control of Fe(III) site occupancy on the extent and rate of microbial Fe(III) reduction in nontronite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(23), 5429-5440.

Zhang, G., Dong, H., Xu, Z., Zhao, D., and Zhang, C. (2005) Bacterial diversity in ultra-high pressure rocks and fluids from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling in China. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(6), 3213-3227.

Puckett, S.D., Heuser, J.A., Keith, J.D., Spendel, W.U., Pacey, G.E., "Interaction of Ozone with Gold Nanoparticles" Talanta, 2005, 66, 1242-1246.

Zhiya Zhao, G. J. Mankey, G. Gubbiotti, S. Tacchi, W.T. Lee, C.T. Yu and M.J. Pechan, "Magnetic Properties of Uniaxial Synthetic Antiferromagnets for Spin Valve Applications." Phys. Rev. B, 71, 104417 (2005).

B. Cui, C. Yu, K. Han, J. Liu, H. Garmestani, M. Pechan and H. Schneider-Muntau, "Nanostructure optimization and magnetic property enhancement in magnetically annealed Nd2Fe14B/a-Fe - type nanocomposites." J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10F308 (2005).

Michael J. Pechan, Chengtao Yu, R. L. Compton, J. P. Park, and P. A. Crowell. "Direct measurement of spatially localized FMR modes in an antidot lattice." J. Appl. Phys., 97 10J903 (2005). Also selected as a focus article in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 11, Issue 20 (2005).

Michael J. Pechan, Chengtao Yu, David Carr and Chris J. Palmstrom, "Remarkable strain induced magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial Co2 MnGa Films." J. Magn. Magn. Mater, 286, 340 (2005).

Lupulescu, M.V., Rakovan, J.., Robinson, and Hughes, J. (2005) Fluoropargasite, a new member of the group 2, calcic amphiboles, from Edenville, Orange County, New York. Canadian Mineralogist. 43, 1439-1444.

Krekeler, K., Hammerly, E., Rakovan, J. and Guggenheim, S. (2005) Microscopy Studies of the Palygorskite to Smectite Transformation. Clay and Clay Minerals, 53, 92-99.

D. Sun, Y. Ke, T. M. Mattox, B. A. Ooro, and H.-C. Zhou, Temperature-dependent Supramolecular stereoisomerism in porous copper coordination networks based on a designed carboxylate ligand, Chem. Commun., 2005, 5447-5449.

S. Kumar and S. Zou, "Electrooxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Gold Nanoparticle Ensemble Electrodes - Effects of Particle Coverage", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 15707.

2004

Dorsey, C. W., A. P, Tomaras, P. L. Connerly, M. E. Tolmasky, J. H. Crosa, and L. A. Actis, The siderophore-mediated iron acquisition systems of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 and Vibrio anguillarum 775 are structurally and functionally related. Microbilogy, 150, 3657-3667, 2004.

Leah Boyd and C.L.B. Almquist The application of photocatalysis on anatase TiO2 for degrading COD and toxicity in pulp and paper mill wastewaters. TAPPI Journal, (2004), 3(9) pp 9-15.

S. Rodriguez, C.L.B. Almquist, T.G. Lee and E. Hedrick, A mechanistic model for mercury capture with in situ generated titania particles: Role of water vapor. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, 2004, 54(2), pp 149-156.

J.A. Cox, K.W. Kittredge, D.V. Ca, Measurement Platforms Fabricated by Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Crown Ether Functionalized Gold Nanoclusters, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 8, 722-726, 2004.

J.L. Cohen, J.A. Cox, Role of Pore Size on the Electrochemical Oxidation of 5-Hydroxytryptophan in a Silica Sol-Gel Matrix, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 8, 886-891, 2004.

Kim, J.W., Dong, H., Seabaugh, J., Newell, S.W., and Eberl, D.D. (2004) Role of Microbes in the Smectite to Illite Reaction. Science, 303, 830-832. ^: equal contribution.

Chengtao Yu, Michael J. Pechan, Wesley A. Burgei and Gary J. Mankey, "Lateral standing spin waves in permalloy antidot arrays." J. Appl. Phys., 95, 6648 (2004).

Losey*, A., Rakovan, J., Hughes, J.M., Francis, C.A. and Dyar, M.D. (2004) Structural Variation in the lithiophilite-triphylite series and other olivine-group structures. Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1105-1115.

 

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