Publications

Independent Research Group

2009

                 ML Usrey, A Chaffee, ES Jeng, MS Strano: Application of Polymer Solubility Theory to Solution Phase Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113 (2009) 9532-9540. 

                 YJ Lee, H Yi, WJ Kim, K Kang, DS Yun, MS Strano, G Cedar, AM Belcher: Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes. Science, 324 (2009) 1051-1055.

                JH Choi, KH Chen, JH Han, AM Chaffee, MS Strano: DNA Aptamer-Passivated Nanocrystal Synthesis: A Facile Approach for Nanoparticle-Based Cancer Cell Growth Inhibition. Small, 4 (2009) 672-675.

                WJ Kim, CY Lee, KP O'brien, JJ Plombon, JM Blackwell, MS Strano: Connecting Single Molecule Electrical Measurements to Ensemble Spectroscopic Properties for Quantification of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Separation. Journal of the American Chemical Soceity. 131 (2009) 3128-3129.

                DA Heller, H Jin, BM Martinez, BM Miller, D Patel, TK Yeung, PV Jena, C Hobartner, TJ Ha, SK Silverman, MS Strano: Multi-modal optical sensing and analyte specificity via single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Nanotechnology. 4 (2009) 114-120.

                MH Ham, BS Kong, WJ Kim, HT Jung, MS Strano: Unusually Large Franz-Keldysh Oscillations at Ultraviolet Wavelengths in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Pysical Review Letters. 102 (2009) 407402.

                 H Jin, DA Heller, R Sharma, MS Strano: Size dependent cellular uptake and expulsion of single-walled carbon nanotubes: single particle tracking and a generic uptake model for nanoparticles. ACS Nano, 3 (2009) 149-58. 

                R Sharma R, MS Strano: Centerline Placement and Alignment of Anisotropic Nanotubes in High Aspect Ratio Cylindrical Droplets of Nanometer Diameter. Advanced Materials, 21 (2009) 60-65. 

                 JY Sung, PW Barone, HJ Kong, MS Strano: Sequential delivery of dexamethasone and VEGF to control local tissue response for carbon nanotubes fluorescence based micro-capillary implantable sensors. Biomaterials, 30 (2009) 622-31.

 

2008

                 H Jin, DA Heller, J-H Kim, MS Strano: Stochastic analysis of stepwise fluorescence quenching reactions on single-walled carbon nanotubes: single molecule sensors. Nano Letters, 8 (2008) 4299-304.

                 MS Strano, H Jin, Where is it heading? Single-particle tracking of single-walled carbon nanotubes. ACS Nano, 2 (2008) 1749-52.

                 C Fantini, MA Pimenta, MS Strano: Two-phonon combination Raman modes in covalently functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes. J. Phys Chem C, 112 (2008) 13150-55.

                 CY Lee, R Sharma, AD Radadia, RI Masel, MS Strano: On-chip micro gas chromatograph enabled by a noncovalently funcationalied single-walled carbon nanotube sensor array. Angewante Chemie-International Edition, 47 (2008) 5018-21.

                 H Jin, DA Heller, MS Strano: Single-particle tracking of endocytosis and exocytosis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in NIH-3T3 cells. Nano Letters, 8 (2008) 1577-85.

                 A Rajan, MS Strano, DA Heller, T Hertel, K Schulten: Length-dependent optical effects in single-walled carbon nanotubes. J Phys Chem B, 112 (2008) 6211-13.

                 WJ Kim, N Nair, CY Lee, MS Strano: Covalent functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes alters their densities allowing electronic and other types of separation. J Phys Chem C, 112 (2008) 7326-31.

                 JT Abrahamson, N Nair, MS Strano: Modeling anisotropic reaction rate increase in metal nanoparticle using carbon nanotubes as thermal conduits. Nanotechnology, 19 (2008) 195701-08.

                  RA Graff, TM Swanson, MS Strano: Synthesis of nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid coupled single-walled carbon nanotubes for directed self-assembly with polyhistidine-tagged proteins. Chemistry of Materials, 20 (2008) 1824-29.

                  N Nair, WJ Kim, RD Braatz, MS Strano: Dynamics of surfactant-suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes in a centrifugal field. Langmuir, 24 (2008) 1790-95.

                  CY Lee, MS Strano: Amine basicity (pK(b)) controls the analyte blinding energy on single walled carbon nanotube electronic sensor arrarys. JACS, 130 (2008) 1766-73.

                  JH Han, RA Graff, B Welch, CP MArsh, R Franks, MS Strano: A mechanochemical model of growth termination in vertical carbon nanotube forests. ACS Nano, 2 (2008) 53-60.

2007

                  KD Harris, S Xiao, CY Lee, MS Strano, C Nuckolls and GB Blanchet: High Mobility, air-stable organic transistors from Hexabenzocoronene/carbon naanotube bilayers. J. Phys. Chem. C, 111 (2007) 17947-51.

                  JU Park, M Hardy, SJ Kang, K Barton, K Adair, DK Mukhopadhyay, CY Lee, MS Strano, AG Alleyne, JG Georgiadis, PM Ferreira, JA Rogers: High-resolution electrohydrodynamic jet printing. Nature Materials 6 (2007) 782-89.

                  ML Usrey, N Nair, DE Agnew, CF Pina, MS Strano: Controlling the electrophoretic mobility of single-walled carbon nanotubes: A comparison of theory and experiment. Langmuir 23 (2007) 7768-76.

                  ES Jeng, PW Barone, JD Nelson, MS Strano: Hybridization kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA adsorbed to individually dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes. Small 3 (2007) 1602-09.

                  R Sharma, CY Lee, JH Choi, K Chen, MS Strano: Nanometer positioning, parallel alignment, and placement of single anisotropic nanoparticles using hydrodynamic forces in cylindrical droplets. Nano Letters 7 (2007) 2693-2700.

                  H Jin, ES Jeng, DA Heller, PV Jena, R Kirmse, J Langowski, MS Strano: Divalent ion and thermally induced DNA conformational polymorphism on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Macromolecules 40 (2007) 6731-39.

                  C Fantini, ML Usrey, MS Strano: Investigation of electronic and vibrational properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with diazonium salts. Phys Chem C 111 (2007) 17941-46.

                  MS Strano: Carbon nanotubes - sortion out left from right. Nature Nanotechnology 2 (2007) 340-41.

                  JH Choi, MS Strano: Solvatochromism in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007) Art No. 22314.

                  JH Choi, FT Nguyen, PW Barone, DA Heller, AE Moll, D Patel, SA Boppart, MS Strano: Multimodal biomedical imaging with asymmetric single-walled carbon nanotube/iron oxide nanoparticle. Nano Letters 7 (2007) 861-67.

                  D Karaiskaj, A Mascarenhas, JH Choi, RA Graff, MS Strano: Temperature behavior of the photoluminescence decay of semiconducting carbon nanotubes: the effective lifetime. Physical Review B 75 (2007) Art No. 113409

                  N Nair, WJ Kim, ML Usrey, MS Strano: A structure-reactivity relationship for single walled carbon nanotubes reacting with 4-hydroxybenzene diazonium salt. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (2007) 3946-54.

                  WJ Kim, ML Usrey, MS Strano: Selective functionalization and free solution electrophoresis of single-walled carbon nanotubes: separate enrichment of metallic and semiconducting SWNT. Chemistry of Materials 19 (2007) 1571-1576.

2006

                  N Nair, ML Usrey, WJ Kim, RD Braatz, MS Strano: Estimation of the (n,m) concentration distribution of single-walled carbon nanotubes from photoabsorption spectra. Analytical Chemistry 78 (2006) 7689-96.

                  J Maultzsch, R Pomraenke, S Reich, E Chang, D Prezzi, A Ruini, E Molinari, MS Strano, C Thomsen, C Lienau: Excitons in carbon nanotubes. Physica Status Solidi B - Basic Solid State Physics 243 (2006) 3204-08.

                 JH Choi, KH Chen, MS Strano: Aptamer-capped nanocrystal quantum dots: A new method for label-free protein detection. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (2006) 15584-85.

                 PW Barone, MS Strano: Reversible control of carbon nanotube aggregation for a glucose affinity sensor. Angewante Chemie 45 (2006) 8138-41.

_______    R Pomraenke, J Maultzsch, S Reich, E Chang, D Prezzi, A Ruini, E Molinari, MS Strano, C Thomsen, C Lienau: Two-photon photoluminescence and exciton binding energies in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Physica Status Solidi B - Basic Solid State Physics 243 (2006) 2428-35

_______    J Maultzsch, R Pomraenke, S Reich, E Chang, D Prezzi, A Ruini, E Molinari, MS Strano, C Thomsen, C Lienau: Exciton binding energies in carbon nanotubes from two-photon photoluminescence. Physical Review B 72 (2006) Article 241402

_______    MS Strano: Polymer wrapped nanotubes. Nature Materials 5 (2006) 433-34

_______    CY Lee, S Baik, J Zhang, RI Masel, MS Strano: Charge Transfer from metallic single-walled carbon nanotube sensor arrays. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 (2006) 11055-61

               ES Jeng, AE Moll, AC Roy, JB Gastala, MS Strano: Detection of DNA hybridization using the near -infrared band-gap flourescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Letters 6 (2006) 371-75

               Y Kim, S Hong, S Jung, MS Strano, J Choi, S Baik: Dielectrophoresis of surface conductance modulated single-walled carbon nanotubes using catanionic surfactants. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 (2006) 1541-45

               JU Park, MA Meitl, SH Hur, ML Usrey, MS Strano, PJA Kenis, JA Rogers: In situ deposition and patterning of single-walled carbon nanotubes by laminar flow and controlled flocculation in microfluidic channels. Angewante Chemie-International Edition 45 (2006) 581-85

               A Jorio, C Fantini, MA Pimenta, DA Heller, MS Strano, MS Dresselhaus, Y Oyama, J Jiang, R Saito: Carbon nanotube population analysis from Raman and photoluminescence intensities. Applied Physical Letters 88 (2006) Article 02109

               DA Heller, ES Jeng, TK Yeung, BM Martinez, AE Moll, JB Gastala, MS Strano: Optical detection of DNA conformational polymorphism on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 311 (2006) 508-11.     

2005              

               ML Usrey, ES Lippmann, MS Strano: Evidence for a two-step mechanism in electronically selective single-walled carbon nanotube reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (2005) 16129-35

               J Maultzsch, R Pomraenke, S Reich, E Chang, D Prezzi, A Ruini, E Molinari, MS Strano, C Thomsen, C Lienau: Exciton binding energies in carbon nanotube from two-photon photoluminescence. Physical Review B 72 (2005) Article 241402

               F Plentz, HB Ribeiro, A Jorio, MS Strano, MA Pimenta: Direct experimental evidence of exciton-phonon bound states in carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Letters 95 (2005) Article 247401

               XZ Bo, NG Tassi, CY Lee, MS Strano, C Nuckolls, GB Blanchet: Pentacene-carbon nanotubes: semiconducting assemblies for thin-film transistor applications. Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) Article 203510.

                DA Heller, S Baik, TE Eurell, MS Strano: Single-walled carbon nanotube spectroscopy in live cells: towards long-term labels and optical sensors. Advanced Materials 17 (2005) 2793-99.

               PW Barone, RS Parker, MS Strano: In vivo fluorescence detection of glucose using a single-walled carbon nanotube optical sensor: design, fluorophore properties, advantages, and disadvantages. Analytical Chemistry 77 (2005) 7556-62.

               Y Sun, RA Graff, MS Strano, JA Rogers: Top-down fabrication of semiconductor nanowires with alternating structures along their longitudinal and transverse axes. Small 1 (2005) 1052-57.

                S Reich, M Dworzak, A Hoffman, C Thomsen, MS Strano: Excited-state carrier lifetime in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Physics Review B 71 (2005) Article 033402.                

                RA Graff, JP Swanson, PW Barone, S Baik, DA Heller, MS Strano: Achieving individual-nanotube dispersion at high loading in single-walled carbon nanotube composites. Advanced Materials 17 (2005) 980-84.                

                CY Lee, MS Strano: Understanding the dynamics of signal transduction for adsorption of gases and vapors on carbon nanotube sensors. Langmuir 21 (2005) 5192-96.

                XZ Bo, CY Lee, MS Strano, M Goldfinger, C Nuckolls, GB Blanchet: Carbon nanotubes-semiconductor networks for organic electronics: the pickup stick transistor. Applied Physics Letters 86 (2005) Article 182102.

                GB Blanchet, XZ Bo, CY Lee, MS Strano, C Nuckolls: The pick-up stick transistor. Solid State Communications 135 (2005) 638-44.

                DA Heller, PW Barone, MS Strano: Sonication-induced changes in chiral distribution: A complication to the use of single-walled carbon nanotube fluorescence for determining species distribution. Carbon 43 (2005) 651-53.           

                PW Barone, S Baik, DA Heller, MS Strano: Near-infrared optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Materials 4 (2005) 86-92.

2004

                DA Heller, RM Mayrhofer, S Baik, YV Grinkove, ML Usrey, MS Strano: Concomitant length and diameter separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes.  Journal of the American Chemical Society 126 (2004) 14567-73.

                S Baik, ML Usrey, L Rotkina, MS Strano: Using the selective functionalization of metallic singled-walled carbon nanotubes to control dielectrophoretic mobility.  Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 15560-64.

                MA Meitl, YX Zhou, A Gaur, S Jeon, ML Usrey , MS Strano, JA Rogers: Solution casting and transfer printing single-walled carbon nanotube films. Nano Letters 4 (2004) 1643-47.

               DA Heller, PW Barone, JP Swanson, RM Mayrhofer, MS Strano: Using Raman spectroscopy to elucidate the aggregation state of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 6905-09.

                MS Strano, M Zheng, A Jagota, GB Onoa, DA Heller, PW Barone, ML Usrey: Understanding the nature of the DNA-assisted separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes using fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy. Nano Letters 4 (2004) 543-50.

                SK Doorn, DA Heller, PW Barone, ML Usrey, MS Strano: Resonant Raman excitation profiles of individually dispersed single walled carbon nanotubes in solution. Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 78 (2004) 1147-55.

                C Fantini, A Jorio, M Souza, MS Strano, MS Dresselhaus, MA Pimenta: Optical transition energies for carbon nanotubes from resonant Raman spectroscopy: Environment and temperature effects. Physical Review Letters 93 (2004) Article 147406.               

2003

                MS Strano: Probing chiral selective reactions using a revised Kataura plot for the interpretation of single-walled carbon nanotube spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (2003) 16148-53.

                M Zheng, A Jagota, MS Strano, AP Santos, P Barone, SG Chou, BA Diner, MS Dresselhaus, RS McLean, GB Onoa, GG Samsonidze, ED Semke, M Usrey, DJ Walls: Structure-based carbon nanotube sorting by sequence-dependent DNA assembly. Science 302 (2003) 1545-48.

                ST Huxtable, DG Cahill, S Shenogin, LP Xue, R Ozisik, P Barone, M Usrey, MS Strano, G Siddons, M Shim, P Keblinski: Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions. Nature Materials 2 (2003) 731-34.

                MS Strano, CA Dyke, ML Usrey, PW Barone, MJ Allen, HW Shan, C Kittrell, RH Hauge, JM Tour, RE Smalley: Electronic structure control of single-walled carbon nanotube functionalization. Science 301 (2003) 1519-22.

Postdoctoral Research at Rice University

2004 

                GN Ostojic, S Zaric, J Kono, MS Strano, VC Moore, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: Interband recombination dynamics in resonantly excited single-walled carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Letters 92 (2004) Article 117402.

                J Kono, GN Ostojic, S Zaric, MS Strano, VC Moore, J Shaver, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: Ultra-fast optical spectroscopy of micelle-suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics a-Materials Science & Processing 78 (2004) 1093-98.

                S Zaric, GN Ostojic, J Kono, J Shaver, VC Moore, MS Strano, RH Hauge, RE Smalley, X Wei: Optical signatures of the Aharonov-Bohm phase in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 304 (2004) 1129-31.

2003

                VC Moore, MS Strano, EH Haroz, RH Hauge, RE Smalley, J Schmidt, Y Talmon: Individually suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes in various surfactants. Nano Letters 3 (2003) 1379-82.

                MS Strano, SK Doorn, EH Haroz, C Kittrell, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: Assignment of (n, m) Raman and optical features of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Letters 3 (2003) 1091-96.

                MS Strano, CB Huffman, VC Moore, MJ O'Connell, EH Haroz, J Hubbard, M Miller, K Rialon, C Kittrell, S Ramesh, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: Reversible, band-gap-selective protonation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in solution. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 (2003) 6979-85.

                MS Strano, VC Moore, MK Miller, MJ Allen, EH Haroz, C Kittrell, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: The role of surfactant adsorption during ultrasonication in the dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 3 (2003) 81-86.

                SK Doorn, MS Strano, MJ O'Connell, EH Haroz, KL Rialon, RH Hauge, RE Smalley: Capillary electrophoresis separations of bundled and individual carbon nanotubes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 (2003) 6063-69.

                S Zaric, GN Ostojic, AD Engroff, J Kono, J Shaver, VC Moore, MS Strano, RH Hauge, RE Smalley, X Wei: Interband magneto-optics in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Superlattices and Microstructures 34 (2003) 413-18.

2002

                SM Bachilo, MS Strano, C Kittrell, RH Hauge, RE Smalley, RB Weisman: Structure-assigned optical spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 298 (2002) 2361-66.

                MJ O'Connell, SM Bachilo, CB Huffman, VC Moore, MS Strano, EH Haroz, KL Rialon, PJ Boul, WH Noon, C Kittrell, JP Ma, RH Hauge, RB Weisman, RE Smalley: Band gap fluorescence from individual single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 297 (2002) 593-96.

Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Delaware

2005

                MS Strano, J Wyre, HC Foley: Novel heteropolyacid nanoporous carbon reactive barriers for supra-equillibrium conversion and in situ component separation. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 44 (2005) 6414-22.                

2003

                MS Strano, H Agarwal, J Pedrick, D Redman, HC Foley: Templated pyrolytic carbon: the effect of poly(ethylene glycol) molecular weight on the pore size distribution of poly(furfuryl alcohol)-derived carbon. Carbon 41 (2003) 2501-08.

                 MS Strano, HC Foley: Modeling ideal selectivity variation in nanoporous membranes. Chemical Engineering Science 58 (2003) 2745-58.

2002

                MS Strano, HC Foley: Temperature- and pressure-dependent transient analysis of single component permeation through nanoporous carbon membranes. Carbon 40 (2002) 1029-41.

                MS Strano, AL Zydney, H Barth, G Wooler, H Agarwal, HC Foley: Ultrafiltration membrane synthesis by nanoscale templating of porous carbon. Journal of Membrane Science 198 (2002) 173-86.

2001

                MS Strano, HC Foley: Synthesis and characterization of heteropolyacid nanoporous carbon membranes. Catalysis Letters 74 (2001) 177-84.

                MS Strano, HC Foley: Synthesis and characterization of catalytic nanoporous carbon membranes. AIChE Journal 47 (2001) 66-78.

2000

                MS Strano, HC Foley: Deconvolution of permeance in supported nanoporous membranes. AIChE Journal 46 (2000) 651-58.

1999

                M Acharya, MS Strano, JP Mathews, JL Billinge, V Petkov, S Subramoney, HC Foley: Simulation             of nanoporous carbons: a chemically constrained structure. Philosophical Magazine B-Physics of             Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Properties 79 (1999)             1499-518.


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