Publications

Investigating How Vesicle Size Influences Vesicle Adsorption on Titanium Oxide: A Competition between Steric Packing and Shape Deformation

08 Dec 2016

Understanding the adsorption behavior of lipid vesicles at solid-liquid interfaces is important for obtaining fundamental insights into soft matter adsorbates as well as for practical applications such as supported lipid… Read more

Integration of Quartz Crystal Microbalance-Dissipation and Reflection-Mode Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors for Biomacromolecular Interaction Analysis

25 Nov 2016

The combination of label-free, surface-sensitive measurement techniques based on different physical principles enables detailed characterization of biomacromolecular interactions at solid-liquid interfaces. To date, most combined measurement systems have involved experimental… Read more

Peptide Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles with Optimized Particle Size and Concentration for Colorimetric Assay Development: Detection of Cardiac Troponin I

10 Nov 2016

Peptide-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are extensively utilized in colorimetric assays for rapid and sensitive detection of various biomedical and environmental targets. Although extensively used as colorimetric reporting systems, the… Read more

Role of ZnO and CeOx in Cu-Based Model Catalysts in Activation of H2O and CO2 Dynamics Studied by in Situ Ultraviolet–Visible and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

17 Oct 2016

Flat model and powder Cu, ZnO/Cu, and CeOx/Cu catalysts were studied by focusing on the role of the oxide phase as a promoter in the water gas shift (WGS)… Read more

Kinetic discrimination of DNA single-base mutations by localized surface plasmon resonance

14 Oct 2016

Clinical application of DNA microarrays used for screening of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are very important for diagnosis of diseases and appropriate treatment of patients. In this paper localized surface… Read more

Influence of Divalent Cations on Deformation and Rupture of Adsorbed Lipid Vesicles

16 May 2016

The fate of adsorbed lipid vesicles on solid supports depends on numerous experimental parameters and typically results in the formation of a supported lipid bilayer (SLB) or an adsorbed vesicle… Read more

Core–Shell Nanoplasmonic Sensing for Characterization of Biocorona Formation and Nanoparticle Surface Interactions

16 May 2016

Surface properties of nanoparticles imposed by particle size, shape, and surface chemistry are key features that largely determine their environmental fate and effects on biological systems. Consequently, development of… Read more

Plasmonic Nanospectroscopy of Platinum Catalyst Nanoparticle Sintering in a Mesoporous Alumina Support

09 May 2016

In situ plasmonic nanospectroscopy has proven useful to bridge the pressure gap in heterogeneous catalysis. The method has, however, so far been used only for idealized two-dimensional systems without the… Read more

Cu Model Catalyst Dynamics and CO Oxidation Kinetics Studied by Simultaneous in Situ UV–Vis and Mass Spectroscopy

14 Mar 2016

The oxidation state of Cu nanoparticles during CO oxidation… Read more

Graphene Oxide and Lipid Membranes: Size-Dependent Interactions

07 Mar 2016

We have investigated the interaction of graphene oxide (GO) sheets with supported lipid membranes with focus on how the interaction depends on GO sheet size (three samples in the range… Read more