Conferences

1. A.M. Craciun*, M. Focsan*, S. Suarasan*, D. Zaharie-Butucel*, L. Gaina*, S. Astilean*, Investigation of one-photon induced photoluminescence of gold nanoparticles by fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), NANOSMAT 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, 6 – 9 September 2016 - poster presentation

2. S. Suarasan*, E. Licarete, M. Focsan*, A. M. Craciun*, S. Astilean*, Different shaped and sized gold nanoparticles as non-photobleaching optical probes for two-photon excited photoluminescence imaging, NANOSMAT 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, 6 – 9 September 2016 - poster presentation

3. A.M. Craciun*, S. Suarasan*, M. Focsan*, S. Astilean*, Probing the one-photon excited intrinsic photoluminescence of gold nanoparticles in solution by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy towards biosensing applications, HYMA 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 6 - 10 March 2017 - poster presentation

4. A.M. Craciun*, S. Suarasan*, E. Licarete*, S. Astilean*, Nonbleaching gelatin-coated gold nanoparticles with two-photon excited FLIM/dark-field dual-modality imaging capability, EuroNanoForum 2017, Valletta, Malta, 20 - 23 June 2017 - poster presentation

Articles/Book chapters

        1. A. M. Craciun*, S. Suarasan*, M. Focsan*, S. Astilean*, One-photon excited photoluminescence of gold nanospheres and its application in prostate specific antigen  detection via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) - Talanta, 2020, 228, 122242  (IF=5.339, Q1).

2. S. Suarasan*, E. Licarete, S. Astilean*, A. M. Craciun*, Probing cellular uptake and tracking of differently shaped gelatin-coated gold nanoparticles inside of ovarian cancer cells by two-photon excited photoluminescence analyzed by fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) – Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2018, 166, 135-143 (IF=3.887, Q1).

3. A. M. Craciun*, M. Focsan*, K. Magyari, A. Vulpoi, Z. Pap, Surface plasmon resonance and biocompatibility – two key properties for determining the applicability of noble metal nanoparticles, Materials, 2017, 10(7), 836 (IF=2.64, Q2) - All authors contributed equally to this work

4. T. Nagy-Simon, A. S. Tatar, A. M. Craciun*, A. Vulpoi, M. A. Jurj, A. Florea, C. Tomuleasa, I. Berindan-Neagoe, S. Astilean*, S. Boca, Antibody Conjugated, Raman Tagged Hollow Gold–Silver Nanospheres for Specific Targeting and Multimodal Dark-Field/SERS/Two Photon-FLIM Imaging of CD19(+) B Lymphoblasts, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (25), 21155–21168 (IF=7.504, Q1)

5.  M. Potara, M. Focsan*, A.M. Craciun*, I. Botiz and S. Astilean*, Polymer-coated plasmonic nanoparticles for environmental remediation: synthesis, functionalization and properties, invited chapter in New Polymer Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation, eds. C. M. Hussain and M. Ajay, Elsevier, 2018, ISBN:9780128110331 - All authors contributed equally to this work

6. L.C. Susu, A.M. Craciun* and S. Astilean*,  Synthesis and characterization of polydopamine-coated gold nanorods, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Physica (BDI indexed) - accepted

* member of the project team