RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nanoparticle synthesis and processing, chemical modifications of nanostructured and planar surfaces

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Gold nanorods: Their potential for photothermal therapeutics and drug delivery, tempered by the complexity of their biological interactions" Alkilany, A.M.; Thompson, L.B.; Boulos, S.P.; Sisco, P.N.; Murphy, C.J. Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 2011, in press

"Gold nanorod crystal growth: from seed mediated synthesis to nanoscale sculpting" Murphy, C.J.; Thompson, L.B.; Chernak, D.J.; Yang, J.A.; Sivapalan, S.T.; Boulos, S.P.; Huang, J.; Alkilany, A.M.; Sisco, P.N. Curr. Opin. Colloid. Interface Sci. 2011, in press

"Polyelectrolyte Coating Provides a Facile Route to Suspend Gold Nanorods in Polar Organic Solvents and Hydrophobic Polymers," Alkilany, A. M.‡; Thompson, L. B.‡; Murphy, C. J. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfac. 2010, 2, 3417-3421.

"The many faces of gold nanorods" Murphy, C.J.; Thompson, L.B.; Alkilany, A.M.; Sisco, P.N.; Boulos, S.P.; Sivapalan, S.T.; Yang, J.A.; Chernak, D.J.; Huang, J. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1 (19), 2867–2875

“Bifunctional polyacrylamide based polymers for the specific binding of hexahistidine tagged proteins” Thompson, L.B.; Mack, N.H.; Nuzzo, R.G. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 4301-4308 –invited article