Publications

• Silver Nanoclusters with Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Properties

  ACS Omega 2025, asap doi: 10.1021/acsomega.5c00163 2025



• A Computational and Experimental Study of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Antimicrobial Agents Against Neisseria gonorrhoeae

  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17(14), 20628-20646



• Reversible Modulation of Plasmonic Coupling of Gold Nanoparticles Confined within Swellable Polymer Colloidal Spheres

  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63(35):e202408020



• Surfactin Conjugated Silver Nanoparticles as an Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Agent against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15 (37), 43321-43331



• Single-cell RNA-sequence analysis of human bone marrow reveals new targets for isolation of skeletal stem cells using spherical nucleic acids

  J. Tissue Eng. 2023, 14, 1-21



• Optical Mie Scattering by DNA-Assembled Three-Dimensional Gold Nanoparticle Superlattice Crystals

  ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 2023, 1(1), 69-77



• A SARS-Cov-2 sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide

  RSC Adv. 2022, 12(29), 18445-18449



• Nanoparticle-Induced Property Changes in Nematic Liquid Crystals

  Nanomater. 2022, 12(3), 341



• An investigation into the resistance of spherical nucleic acids against DNA enzymatic degradation

  Bioconjug. Chem. 2022, 33(1) 219–225



• Chemically modified nucleic acids and DNA intercalators as tools for nanoparticle assembly

  Chem. Soc. Rev. 2021, 50 (23), 13410-13440



• A method for the growth of uniform silica shells on different size and morphology upconversion nanoparticles

  Nanoscale Adv. 2021, 3 (12), 3522-3529



• DNA Gold Nanoparticle Motors Demonstrate Processive Motion with Bursts of Speed Up to 50 nm Per Second

  ACS Nano 2021, 15 (5), 8427–8438



• Exciton effects in perovskite nanocrystals

  J. Phys. Photonics, 2021,3(2),021002



• Enrichment of Skeletal Stem Cells from Human Bone Marrow Using Spherical Nucleic Acids

  ACS Nano 2021, 15 (4), 6909-6916



• A DNA Sensor Based on Upconversion Nanoparticles and Two-Dimensional Dichalcogenide Materials

  Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 2021, 15(4), 935-943



• Nanoparticles-assisted delivery of antiviral-siRNA as inhalable treatment for human respiratory viruses: A candidate approach against SARS-COV-2

  Nano Sel. 2020, 1(6), 612-621



• Bactericidal Effect of 5-Mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic Acid-Coated Silver Nanoclusters against Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12(25), 27994–28003



• Light-Induced Reversible DNA Ligation of Gold Nanoparticle Superlattices

  ACS Nano 2019, 13(5),5771-5777



• The Role of Ligands in the Chemical Synthesis and Applications of Inorganic Nanoparticles

  Chem. Rev. 2019,119(8),4819-4880



• DNA-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for the Detection of mRNA in Live Hydra Vulgaris Animals

  Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019,11(15),13905-13911



• Biosurfactant coated silver and iron oxide nanoparticles with enhanced anti-biofilm and anti-adhesive properties

  J. Hazard. Mater. 2019, 364, 441-448



• Anion exchange in inorganic perovskite nanocrystal polymer composites

  Chem. Sci. 2018, 9 (42), 8121-8126



• In-Depth Analysis of Excitation Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized Upconversion Core and Core/Active Shell Nanoparticles

  J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122(31) 18177-18184



• Colloidal Synthesis of CsX Nanocrystals (X= Cl, Br, I)

  Nanomater. 2018,8,506



• Graphene Oxide–Upconversion Nanoparticle Based Portable Sensors for Assessing Nutritional Deficiencies in Crops

  ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (6), pp 6273–6279



• Multiplexed mRNA Sensing and Combinatorial-Targeted Drug Delivery Using DNA-Gold Nanoparticle Dimers

  ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (4), 3333–3340



• Cells on hierarchically-structured platforms hosting functionalized nanoparticles

  Biomater. Sci., 2018, 6, 1469-1479



• Sensing of Vimentin mRNA in 2D and 3D Models of Wounded Skin Using DNA-Coated Gold Nanoparticles

  Small, 2018, 14(12), 1703489



• Spectroscopic and Hydrodynamic Characterisation of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Dimers in Solution using Two-Photon Photoluminescence

  ChemPhysChem 2018, 19(7), 827-836



• Potentiating angiogenesis arrest in vivo via laser irradiation of peptide functionalised gold nanoparticles

  J. Nanobiotechol.2017, 15:85, 1-8



• The sedimentation of Colloidal Nanoparticles in Solution and Its Study Using Quantitative Digital Photography

  Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2017, 34(10), 1700095



• Giant Bandgap Renormalization and Exciton-Phonon Scattering in Perovskite Nanocrystals

  Adv. Opt. Mater. 2017, 5 (17), 1700231



• Graphene oxide-upconversion nanoparticle based optical sensors for targeted detection of mRNA biomarkers present in Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer

  ACS Sens. 2017, 2017, 2 (1), 52-56



• Selective killing of cells triggered by their mRNA signature in the presence of smart nanoparticles

  Nanoscale 2016,8 (38), 16857-16861



• Polymer-Enhanced Stability of Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Application in Color Conversion LEDs

  ACS Appl.Mater.Interfaces 2016, 8 (30), 19579–19586



• Manganese doped-iron oxide nanoparticle clusters and their potential as agents for magnetic resonance imaging and hyperthermia

  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016 18 (25), 16848-16855



• Peptide-coated gold nanoparticles for modulation of angiogenesis in vivo

  Int. J. Nanomedicine 2016,11,2633-2639



• The adsorbed state of a thiol on palladium nanoparticles

  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18 (26), 17265-17271



• Fast Assembly of gold nanoparticles in large-area 2d nanogrids using a one step, near infrared radiation assisted evaporation process

  ACS Nano 2016,10 (2), 2232-2242



• Plasmonic Backscattering Effect in High-Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Devices

  Adv. Energ. Mater. 2016, 6 (2), 1501640



• Programming the assembly of gold nanoparticles on graphene oxide sheets using DNA

  J. Mater. Chem. C 2015,3,9379-9384



• Reversible Ligation of Programmed DNA-Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (29), 9242-9245



• Plasmonic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: The Role of Nanoparticle Ligand Coating

  ACS Photonics 2015, 2 (6), 714-723



• Nanoparticles for inhibition of in vitro tumour angiogenesis: Synergistic actions of ligand function and laser irradiation

  Biomater. Sci. 2015, 3, 733-74



• Highly Sensitive DNA Sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide

  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7 (23), 12422-12429



• Interactions of Skin with Gold Nanoparticles of Different Surface Charge, Shape and Functionality

  Small 2015, 11 (6), 713-721



• Elastic constants, Viscocity and Response Time in Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Ferroelectric Nanoparticles

  RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 46068-46074



• Assembly of quantum dots on peptide nanostructures and their spectroscopic properties

  Appl. Phys. A, 2014, 116 (3), 977-985



• Interaction of stable colloidal nanoparticles and cellular membranes

  Biotechnol.Adv. 2014, 2014, 32, 679-692



• Gold Nanoparticles and Fluorescently-Labelled DNA as a Platform for Biological Sensing

  Nanoscale 2013,5 (20), 9503–9510



• Copper-free Click Chemistry as an Emerging Tool for the Programmed Ligation of DNA-functionalised Gold Nanoparticles

  Nanoscale 2013, 5 (16), 7209-7212



• Manipulation of In Vitro Angiogenesis Using Peptide-Coated Gold Nanoparticles

  ACS Nano 2013, 7 (6), pp 5628–5636



• Porosity-moderated ultrafast electron transport in Au nanowire networks

  Appl. Phys. A 2013, 111 (3), 711-717



• Colloidal Branched Semiconductor Nanocrystals: State of the Art and Perspectives

  Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46 (7), 1387–1396



• Directed organization of gold nanoparticles in polymer coatings through infrared-assisted evaporative lithography

  Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 4253-4255



• Hyperspectral darkfield microscopy of single holow gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications

  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 4163-4168



• Exocytosis of peptide functionalized gold nanoparticles in endothelial cells

  Nanoscale 2012, 4 (15), 4470 - 4472



• Spatial Modulation Microscopy for Real-Time Imaging of Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Cells

  Opt. Lett. 2012, 37, (15), 3015–3017



• High Optical Nonlinearity of Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Gold Nanoparticles

  J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116 (23) 12934-12939



• Formation and Plasmonic Response of Self-Assembled Layers of Colloidal Gold Nanorods and Branched Gold Nanoparticles

  Langmuir 2012, 28 (24), 8874–8880



• Interactions of Human Endothelial Cells with Gold Nanoparticles of Different Morphologies

  Small 2012, 8(1), 122-130



• Preparation of Peptide Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles Using One Pot EDC/sulfo-NHS Coupling

  Langmuir 2011, 27 (16), 10119–10123



• Chemically-induced self-assembly of spherical and anisotropic inorganic nanocrystals

  J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21 (42), 16694-16703



• Laser-Induced Damage and Recovery of Plasmonically Targeted Human Endothelial Cells

  Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (3), 1358–1363



• Receptor-Mediated Interactions between Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles and Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

  Small, 2011, 7, No. 3, 388–394



• Ligand-mediated self-assembly of polymer-enveloped gold nanoparticle chains and networks

  ChemComm 2010, (46), 7602-7604



• Controlling the three-dimensional morphology of nanocrystals

  CrystEngComm 2010, (12), 4312-4316



• Programmed Assembly of Peptide-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles on DNA Templates

  Langmuir 2010, 26 (17),13760–13762



• Enzymatic Activity of Lipase-Nanoparticle Conjugates and the Digestion of Lipid Liquid Crystalline Assemblies

  Langmuir 2010, 26 (16),13590-13599



• Diacetylene-Containing Ligand As a New Capping Agent for the Preparation of Water-Soluble Colloidal Nanoparticles of Remarkable Stability

  Langmuir 2010, 26 (10), 7072–7077



• TiO₂ nanoparticles as a soft X-ray molecular probe

  ChemComm 2008, (21), 2471-2473



• Shaping Supramolecular Nanofibers with Nanoparticles Forming Complementary Hydrogen Bonds

  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47 (10), 1861-1865



• Site-Specific Ligation of DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles Activated by the Restriction Enzyme StyI

  Small 2007, 3 (1), 67-70



• Enzymatic Disassembly of DNA–Gold Nanostructures

  Small 2007, 3 (4), 590-594



• Hybrid Solar Cells with Prescribed Nanoscale Morphologies Based on Hyperbranched Semiconductor Nanocrystals

  Nano Lett. 2007, 7 (2), 409-414



• Controlled Synthesis of Hyperbranched Inorganic Nanocrystals with Rich Three-Dimensional Structures

  Nano Lett. 2005, 5 (11), 2164-2167



• Enzymatic DNA processing on gold nanoparticles

  J. Mater. Chem., 2004, 14 (4), 578-580



• Towards Multistep Nanostructure Synthesis: Programmed Enzymatic Self-Assembly of DNA/ Gold Systems

  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42 (2), 191-194



• Thioalkylated tetraethylene glycol: a new ligand for water soluble monolayer protected gold clusters

  Chem. Comm. 2002, 20, 2294-2295

Conference Proceedings, Editorials and Books

• Interaction of DNA and Peptide-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles with Biological Systems

  World Scientific Reference on Plasmonic Nanomaterials: Principles, Design and Bio-applications: Volume 4: Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions, 2022, 135-180



• Silver nanoclusters as antimicrobial agents against a range of antimicrobial resistant pathogens

  Proc. SPIE, 12859, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications 2024 XIX, doi: 10.1117/12.3001507



• Detection of viral oligonucleotides using nanoparticles

  Proc. SPIE, 12395, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XVII 2023 1239504. doi: 10.1117/12.2647376



• Engineering functional nanoparticles for delivery in cells

  Proc. SPIE,11255 , Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIV; 2020, 112550K doi: 10.1117/12.2538470



• High intensity photodegradation of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals

  Proc. SPIE, 11302, Light-Emitting Devices, Materials, and Applications XXIV; 2020,1130208 doi: 10.1117/12.2544170



• Resonant energy transfer properties of perovskite nanocrystals

  Proc. SPIE, 11291, Quantum Dots, Nanostructures, and Quantum Materials: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling XIV; 2020,112910H doi: 10.1117/12.2544187



• Optical response of gold and upconversion nanoparticles assembled via DNA interaction

  Proc. SPIE, 10892, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIV; 2019,108920A doi: 10.1117/12.2504970



• DNA-Gold nanoparticles designed for mRNA sensing in cells: imaging of the gold nanoparticles using two photon photoluminescence spectroscopy

  Proc. SPIE, 10892, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIV; 2019,108920A doi: 10.1117/12.2502724



• Investigating the stability of DNA-coated gold nanoparticles

  Proc. SPIE, 10507, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIII; 2018, 105070A doi:10.1117/12.2285833



• Interactions of DNA coated upconversion nanoparticles with 2D materials

  Proc. SPIE, 10507, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIII; 2018, 105070U doi: 10.1117/12.2282413



• How can nanodelivery stystems selectively kill cancerous cells?

  Ther. Deliv., 2017, 8, 171-173 (Editorial)



• Effects of biomolecules on the electrokinetics of colloidal nanoparticles in liquid suspension

  Proc. SPIE 10078, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XII; 2017, 100780T doi: 10.1117/12.2252470.



• Functionalized Nanoparticles and Applications

  Proc. SPIE 10078, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XII; 2017, 100780P doi:10.1117/12.2245441.



• Nanoparticles in Sensing

  Proc. SPIE 9722, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XI, 2016, 97220H doi:10.1117/12.2206108



• Programming Nanoparticle Assembly

  Proc. SPIE 9338, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications X, 2015, 93380D doi:10.1117/12.2075804



• Thin film mesoscale organization of nanoparticles using biomolecular peptide tools

  Proc. SPIE 8955, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications IX, 2014, 89551W doi:10.1117/12.2048292



• Interactions of gold nanoparticles with biological structures

  Proc. SPIE 8955, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications IX, 2014, 89550P doi:10.1117/12.2036326



• Nanoparticulate drugs for the manipulation of angiogenesis

  Ther. Deliv. 2013, 4(10), 1217-1219 (Editorial)



• Single-nanoparticle detection and spectroscopy in cells using a hyperspectral darkfield imaging technique

  Proc. SPIE 8595, Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VIII, 2013, 859501 doi: 10.1117/12.981941



• Functional Nanoparticles in Cells

  Proc. SPIE 8232, Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VII, 2012, 823202 doi:10.1117/12.905082



• Gold nanoparticles in biomedical applications

  Proc. SPIE 7909, Colloidal Quantum Dots/Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VI, 2011, 79090J doi: 10.1117/12.871602