Publications in 2011

The role of hydrocarbon concentration on the synthesis of large area few to multi-layer graphene structures (January 7, 2011)
Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Jimmy Shyaka, Fumiya Watanabe, Abhijit Biswas, jean Luc Umwungeri, Aurelie Courte, Alexandru R. Biris, Omina Kebdani, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Physics letters, vol. 501, no. 4-6, pp. 390-395.

Photovoltaic devices based on high density boron-doped single-walled carbon nanotube/n-Si heterojunctions (January 13, 2011)
Viney Saini, Zhongrui Li, Shawn Bourdo, Vasyl P. Kunets, Steven Trigwell, Arthur Couraud, julien Rioux, Cyril Boyer, Valens Nteziyaremye, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru R. Biris, Gregory J. Salamo, Tito Viswanathan, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 109, no. 1, online, doi: 10.1063/1.3531112.

Complex genetic, photothermal and photoacoustic analysis of nanoparticle-plant interactions (January 18, 2011)
Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Kanishka de Silva, Dmitry A. Nedosekin, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru S. Biris, Evgeny V. Shashkov, Ekaterina I. Galanzha, Vladmir P. Zharov.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 1028-1033.

Electrochemical investigation of atenolol oxidation and detection by using a multicomponent nanostructural assembly of amino acids and gold nanoparticles (February 28, 2011)
Stela Pruneanu, Florina Pogacean, Camelia Grosan, Elena Maria Pica, Liviu Calin Bolundut, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 504, no. 1-3, pp. 56-61.

Enhanced bone cells growth and proliferation on TiO2 nanotubular substrates treated by RF plasma discharge (March 2011)
Meena W. Mahmood, Philip Fejleh, Alokita Karmakar, Ashley Fejleh, yang Xu, Ganesh K. Kannarpady, Hidetaka Ishihara, Rejesh Sharma, Li Zhongrui, Anindya Gohosh, Steve Trigwell, Franklin D. Hardcastle, Dan Casciano, Guna Selvaduray, Alexandru S. Biris.
Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. B95-B101.

Design and fabrication of Teflon-coated tungsten nanorods for tunable hydrophobicity (March 15, 2011)
Khedir R. Khedir, Ganesh K. Kannarpady, Hidetaka Ishihara, Justin Woo, Charles Ryerson, Alexandru S. Biris.
Langmuir, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 4661-4668.

Photoelectroactivity and Raman spectroscopy of anodized titania (TiO2) photoactive water-splitting catalysts as a function of oxygen-annealing temperature (March 17, 2011)
Franklin D. Hardcastle, Hidetaka Ishihara, Rajesh Sharma, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 17, pp. 6337-6345.

Ethylenediamine functionalized-single-walled nanotube (f-SWNT)-assisted in vitro delivery of the oncogene suppressor p53 gene to breast cancer MCF-7 cells (May 18, 2011)
Alokita Karmakar, Stacie M. Bratton, Enkeleda Dervishi, Anindya Ghosh, Meena W. Mahmood, Yang Xu, Lamya Mohammed Saeed, Thikra Mustafa, Dan Casciano, Anna Radominska-Pandya, Alexandru S. Biris.
International Journal of Nanomedicine, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1045-1055.

Electrically conductive gold-coated collagen nanofibers for placental-derived mesenchymal stem cells enhanced differentiation and proliferation (May 24, 2011)
Anamaria Orza, Olga Soritau, Liliana Olenic, Mircea Diudea, Adtrian Florea, Dan Rus Ciuca, Carmen Mihu, Danial Casciano, Alexandru S. Biris.
ACS Nano, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 4490-4503.

Controlled growth of self-organized hexagonal arrays of metallic nanorods using template-assisted glancing angle deposition for superhydrophobic applications (June 6, 2011)
Ganesh K. Kannarpady, Khedir R. Khedir, Hidetaka Ishihara, Justin Woo, Olumide D. Oshin, Steve Trigwell, Charles Ryerson, Alexandru S. Biris.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 2332-2340.

Co doped ZnO semiconductor materials: structural, morphological and magnetic properties (June 21, 2011)
Adriana Popa, Dana Toloman, Oana Raita, Alexadru R. Biris, Gheorghe Borodi, Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru S. Biris, Alexandru Darabont, Liviu Mihail Giurgiu.
Central European Journal of Physics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1446-1451.

Advanced studies of water evaporation kinetics over Teflon-coated tungsten nanorod surfaces with available hydrophobicity and morphology (June 13, 2011)
Khedir R. Khedir, Ganesh K. Kannarpady, Hidetaka Ishihara, Justin Woo, Steve Trigwell, Charles Ryerson, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 115, no. 28, pp. 13804-13812.

Physiological responses induced in tomato plants by a two-component nanostructural system composed of carbon nanotubes conjugated with quantum dots and its in vivo multimodal detection (June 14, 2011)
Mohammed Alimohammadi, Yang Xu, Daoyuan Wang, Alexandru S. Biris, Mariya V. Khodakosvkaya.
Nanotechnology, vol. 22, no. 29, online, doi: 10.1088/0975-4484-22-29-295101.

Chirality-enriched semiconducting carbon nanotubes synthesized on high surface area Mg)-supported catalyst (June 30, 2011)
Yang Xu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru R. Biris, Alexandru S. Biris.
Materials Letters, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 1878-1881.

Mineral concentration dependent modulation of mechanical properties of bone inspired bionanocomposite scaffold (July 8, 2011)
Abhijit Biswas, Timothy C. Ovaert, Constance Slaboch, He Zhao, Ilker S. Bayer, Alexandru S. Biris, Tao Wang.
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 99, no. 1, online, doi: 10.1063/1.3607283.

Exceptional superhydrophobicity and low velocity impact icephobicity of acetone-functionalized carbon nanotube films (July 11, 2011)
Liqui Zheng, Zhongrui Li, Shawn Bourdo, Khedir R. Khedir, Madhu P. Asa, Charles C. Ryerson, Alexandru S. Biris.
Langmuir, vol. 27, no. 16, pp. 9936-9943.

Hierarchical ZnO structure with superhydrophobicity and high adhesion (July 12, 2011)
Liqui Zheng, Zhongrui Li, Shawn Bourdo, Viney Saini, Charles Ryerson, Alexandru S. Biris.
ChemPhysChem, vol. 12, no. 13, pp. 2412-2414.

Characterization of plasmid DNA location within chitosan/PLGA/pDNA nanoparticle complexes designed for gene delivery (July 25, 2011)
Hali Bordelon, Alexandru S. Biris, Cristina M. Sabliov, W. Todd Monroe.
Journal of Nanomaterials, vol. 2011, online, doi: 10.1155/2011/952060.

Radio-frequency induced in vitro thermal ablation of cancer cells by EGF functionalized carbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles (July 27, 2011)
Alokita Karmakar, Yang Xu, Meena W. Mahmood, Yongbin Zhang, Lamya Mohammed Saeed, Thickra Mustafa, Syed Ali, Alexandru R. Biris, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 34, pp. 12761-12769.

C-H O hydrogen bonding in a 4-fluorobenzoate multilayer induced by silver nanoparticles (August 5, 2011)
Donald A. Perry, Elizabeth M. Schiefer, James S. Cordova, Ashley M. Bonde, Taylor M. Razer, Katherine M. Primm, Tsung Yen Chen, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 511, no. 4-6, pp. 348-350.

Novel multicomponent and biocompatible nanocompiste materials based on few-layer graphenes synthesized on a gold/hydroxyapatite catalytic sytem with applications in bone regeneration (August 24, 2011)
Alexandru R. Biris, Meena Mahmood, Mihaela D. Lazar, Enkeleda Dervishi, Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Grigore Baciut, Mihaela Baciut, Simion Bran, Syed Ali, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 115, no. 39, pp. 18967-18976.

Mechanistic toxicity evaluation of uncoated and PEGylated single-walled carbon nanotubes in neuronal PC12 cells (August 25, 2011)
Yongbin Zhang, Yang Xu, Zhiguang Li, Tao Chen, Susan M. Lantz, Paul C. Howard, Merle G. Paule, William Slikker, Jr., Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru S. Biris, Syed F. Ali.
ACS Nano, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 7020-7033.

In vivo plant flow cytometry: A first proof of concept (September 8, 2011)
Dmitry A. Nedosekin, Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Alexandru S. Biris, Daoyuan Wang, Yang Xu, Hector Villagarcia, Ekaterina I. Galanzha, Vladimir P. Zharov.
Cytometry Part A, vol. 79A, no. 10, pp. 855-865.

A novel tungsten trioxide (WO3)/ITO porous nanocomposite for enhanced photo-catalytic water splitting (October 4, 2011)
Hidetaka Ishihara, Ganesh K. Kannarpady, Khedir R. Khedir, Justin Woo, Steve Trigwell, Alexandru S. Biris.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 13, no. 43, pp. 19553-19560.

Few-layer nano-graphene structures with large surface areas synthesized on a multifunctional Fe:Mo:MgO catalyst system (October 12, 2011)
Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru R. Biris, Fumiya Watanabe, Jean L. Umwungeri, Thikra Mustafa, Joshua A. Driver, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Materials Science, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 1910-1919.

Novel graphene-gold nanoparticle modified electrodes for the high sensitivity electrochemical spectroscopy detection and analysis of carbamazepine (October 18, 2011)
Stela Pruneanu, Florina Pogacean, Alexandru R. Biris, Stefania Ardelean, Valentin Canpean, Gabriela Blanita, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 115, no. 47, pp. 23387-23394.

Nanostructural materials increase mineralization in bone cells and affect gene expression through miRNA regulation (November 2011)
Meena W. Mahmood, Zhiguang Li, Dan Casciano, Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Tao Chen, Alokita Karmakar, Enkeleda Dervishi, Yang Xu, Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Ashley Fejleh, Morgan Whitlow, Mustafa Al-Adami, Anindya Ghosh, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 2297-2306.

Studies on infrared optical absorption, Raman scattering and corresponding thermal properties of single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes for possible cancer targeting and laser-based ablation (November 2011)
Alexandru R. Biris, Stefania Ardelean, Dan Lupu, Ioan Misan, Cornel Iancu, Dana Monica Bartos, Ioana Rada Ilie, Enkeleda Dervishi, Yang Xu, Abhijit Biswas, Alexandru S. Biris.
Carbon, vol. 49, no. 13, pp. 4403-4411.

Genotoxicity of silver nanoparticles evaluated using the Ames test and in vitro micronucleus assay (November 25, 2011)
Yan Li, David H. Chen, Jian Yan, Ying Chen, Roberta A. Mittelstaedt, Yongbin Zhang, Alexandru S. Biris, Robert H. Heflich, Tao Chen.
Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, vol. 745, no. 1-2, pp. 4-10.

Raman spectroscopy as a detection and analysis tool for in vitro specific targeting of pancreatic cancer cells by EGF-conjugated, single-walled carbon nanotubes (December 6, 2011)
Alokita Karmakar, Cornel Iancu, Dana Monica Bartos, Meena W. Mahmood, Aninya Ghosh, Yang Xu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Samuel L. Collom, Mariya Khodakovskaya, Thickra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru R. Biris, Yongbin Zhang, Syed F. Ali, Dan Casciano, Samar Hassen, Zeid Nima, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Applied Toxicology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 365-375.

Supported nickel catalysts for low temperature methane steam reforming comparison between metal additives and support modification (December 6, 2011)
Monica Dan, Maria Mihet, Alexandru R. Biris, Petru Marginean, Valer Almasan, George Borodi, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru S. Biris, Mihaela D. Lazar.
Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysts, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 173-193.

Effect of 45 nm silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) upon the smooth muscle of rat trachea: role of nitric oxide (December 15, 2011)
Carmen González, Samuel Salazar-García, Gabriela Palestino, Pedro P. Martínez-Cuevas, Manuel A. Ramírez-Lee, Brenda B. Juardo-Manzano, Héctor Rosas-Hernández, Noemí Gaytán-Pacheco, Guadalupe Martel, Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma, Alexandru S. Biris.
Toxicology Letters, vol. 207, no. 3, pp. 306-313.

Multifunctional nanomaterials for bio-medical applications: The onset of nanomedicine (2011)
Yang Xu, Meena W. Mahmood, Alexandru S. Biris.  Eds. Daniel A. Casciano and Saura C. Sahu.
Handbook of Systems Toxicology, vol. 1, part 9, chapter 42. Chichester: Wiley & Sons, Ltd.