Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles 

Quantum dot attachment and morphology control by carbon nanotubes, Nano Letters, 7, 12, 3457, (2007)

Reversible Attachment of Platinum Alloy Nanoparticles to Nonfunctionalized Carbon Nanotubes, ACS Nano 4, 4, 2438, (2010)  

Ultrathin PbS Sheets by two dimensional oriented attachment, Science 329, 550 (2010). (Front cover article)

Interfacing quantum dots and Interfacing quantum dots and graphitic surfaces with chlorine atomic ligands. ACS Nano. 7, 3, 2559 (2013)

Shape Evolution of CdSe Nanoparticles Controlled by Halogen Compounds, Chemistry of Materials, 26, 1813–1821, (2014)

Protective ligand shells for luminescent SiO2 coated alloyed semiconductor nanocrystals ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 7 (12), 6935, (2015)

Shell or dots: Precursor controlled morphology of Au-Se deposits on CdSe nanoparticles, Chemistry of Materials. 28 (8), 2704–2714 (2016)

Size, Shape, and Phase Control in Ultrathin CdSe Nanosheets, Nano Letters, 17 (7), 4165–4171, (2017)

Unexpected Optical Blue Shift in Large Colloidal Quantum Dots by Anionic Migration and Exchange, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9, 3124-3130, (2018)

Influence of the Gap Distance and Morphology on the Plasmon Modes of Gold Nanocube Dimers, Advanced Optical Materials, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/adom.202500042 

Exploring many-body phenomena: biexciton generation and auger recombination in Ag2 S-based nanocrystals, Nanoscale 2025, 

DOI: 10.1039/d5nr00511f

Optically trapped nanoparticles

Plasmon-exciton interactions on single thermo-responsive platforms demonstrated by optical tweezers. Nano Letters, 11, 4742–4747, (2011)

Tunable plasmon coupling in distance-controlled gold nanoparticles. Langmuir  28, 24, 8862-8866, (2012)

Off-resonant irradiation of gold nanoparticles for fine tuning of laser heating. Small, 10, 2,376–384, (2014)

Luminescence Dynamics of Silica Encapsulated Quantum Dots During Optical Trapping. J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (18), 10124–10130, (2017)

Photoluminescence activation of organic dyes via optically trapped quantum dots. ACS Nano, 13, 6, 7223-7230, (2019)

Nanoparticles in nanomedicine 

Ag/Ag2S Nanocrystals for High Sensitivity Near‐Infrared Luminescence Nanothermometry, Adv. Funct. Mater. 27, 6, (2017)

Time resolved spectroscopy of infrared emitting Ag2S nanocrystals for subcutaneous thermometry, Nanoscale, 9, 2505, (2017)

In Vivo Contactless Brain Nanothermometry,  Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201806088, (2018)

Synthesis and characterization of Ag2S and Ag2S/Ag2(S,Se) NIR nanocrystals, Nanoscale, 11, 18, 9194-9200, (2019)

Perspectives for Ag2S NIR-II nanoparticles in biomedicine: from imaging to multifunctionality, Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C9NR05733A, (2019)

Infrared Emitting Multimodal Nanostructures for Controlled In Vivo Magnetic Hyperthermia, Advanced Materials 33 (30), 2100077, (2021)

Ag2S Biocompatible Ensembles as Dual OCT Contrast Agents and NIR Ocular Imaging Probes, Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305026 (2023)

The role of temperature in the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of Ag2 S-based nanocrystals, Mater. Horiz., 11, 6158, (2024)