Publications (Chronological)

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2023

39. Sun Y, Zhong X, AM Dennis.
Minimizing near-infrared autofluorescence in preclinical imaging with diet and wavelength selection.
Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2023, 28 (9), 094805 28(9) 094805. 10.1117/1.JBO.28.9.094805. PDF

2022

38. Kuszynski JE, Kays JC, Conti CR III, McGill SA, AM Dennis, Strouse GF.
Effective Mass for Holes in Paramagnetic, Plasmonic Cu5FeS4 Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, 126 (30), 12669-12679. 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03459. PDF SI

37. An X, Kays JC, Lightcap IV, Ouyang T, AM Dennis, Reinhard BM.
Wavelength-Dependent Bifunctional Plasmonic Photocatalysis in Au/Chalcopyrite Hybrid Nanostructures.
ACS Nano, 2022, 16 (4), 6813-6824. 10.1021/acsnano.2c01706. PDF SI

36. Grazon C, Chern M, Lally P, Baer RC, Fan A, Lecommandoux S, Klapperich C, AM Dennis, Galagan JE, Grinstaff MW.
The quantum dot vs. organic dye conundrum for ratiometric FRET-based biosensors: which one would you chose?
Chemical Science, 2022, 13 (22), 6715-6731, 10.1039/D1SC06921G. PDF SI

35. Rendos A, Cao W, Chern M, Lauricella M, Succi S, Werner JG, AM Dennis, Brown KA.
Electric field induced macroscopic cellular phase of nanoparticles.
Soft Matter, 2022, 18 (10), 1991-1996, 10.1039/D1SM01650D. PDF SI

2021

34. Kays JC, Conti III CR, Margaronis A, Kuszynski JE, Strouse GF, and AM Dennis.
Controlled synthesis and exploration of CuxFeS4 bornite nanocrystals.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 18, 7408–7416. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02029. PDF SI

33. Toufanian R, Zhong X, Kays JC, Saeboe AM, and AM Dennis.
Correlating ZnSe Quantum Dot Absorption with Particle Size and Concentration.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 18, 7527–7536. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02501PDF SI

32. Saeboe AM, Nikiforov AY, Toufanian RKays JCChern MCasas JPHan K, Piryatinski A, Jones D, and AM Dennis.
Extending the Near-Infrared Emission Range of Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots for Multiplexed In Vivo Imaging.
Nano Letters, 2021, 21(7):3271–3279. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00600.  PDF  SI

31. Toufanian R, Chern MKong VH, and AM Dennis.
Engineering Brightness-Matched Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33(6):1964–1975. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03181. PDF SI

2020

30. Chern M, Garden PM, Baer RC, Galagan JE, and AM Dennis.
Transcription Factor Based Small Molecule Sensing with a Rapid Cell Phone Enabled Fluorescent Bead Assay.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(48):21597-21602. 10.1002/ange.202007575. PDF SI

29. Chern M, Toufanian R, and AM Dennis.
Quantum Dot to Quantum Dot Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Engineering Materials for Visual Color Change Sensing.
Analyst, 2020, 145 (17):5754 – 5767. 10.1039/d0an00746c. PDF SI

28. Chen M, Grazon C, Sensharma P, Nguyen TT, Feng Y, Chern M, Baer RC, Varongchayakul N,  Cook K, Lecommandoux S, Klapperich CM*, Galagan JE*, Dennis AM*, and MW Grinstaff*.
Hydrogel embedded quantum dot-transcription factor sensor for quantitative progesterone detection.
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020, 12(39):43513 43521.  10.1021/acsami.0c13489  PDF SI

27. Chen M, Nguyen TT, Varongchayakul N, Grazon C, Chern M, Baer RC, Lecommandoux S, Klapperich CM*, Galagan JE*, Dennis AM*, and MW Grinstaff*.
Surface Immobilized Nucleic Acid – Transcription Factor Quantum Dots for Biosensing.
Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2020, 2000403. 10.1002/adhm.202000403

26. Nguyen TT, M Chern, RC Baer, J Galagan, and AM Dennis.
A Förster Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Ratiometric Sensor with the Allosteric Transcription Factor TetR.
Small, 2020, 1907522 (6 pgs). 10.1002/smll.201907522   PDF   SI

25. Kays JC, Saeboe AM, Toufanian R, Kurant DE, and AM Dennis.
Shell-Free Copper Indium Sulfide Quantum Dots Induce Toxicity in Vitro and in Vivo.
Nano Letters, 2020, 20(3):1980-1991. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05259   PDF   SI

24. Grazon C,^ Baer RC,^ Kuzmanovic, Nguyen TT, Chen M, Zamani M, Chern M, Aquino P, Zhang X, Lecommandoux S, Fan A, Cabodi M, Klapperich C, Grinstaff MW, Dennis AM, and J Galagan. ^co-first authors
A Novel Progesterone Biosensor Derived from Microbial Screening.
Nature Communications, 2020, 11: 1276 (10 pgs).  10.1038/s41467-020-14942-5   PDF   SI

23. Wang X, Li Y, Toufanian R, Kogos LC, Dennis AM, and R Paiella.
Tunable beamed light emission from a quantum-dot ensemble near a gradient metasurface.
Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 1901951 (8 pgs). 10.1002/adom.201901951   PDF

2019

22. Grazon C,* Chern M,* Ward K, Lecommandoux S, Grinstaff MW, AM Dennis. *co-first authors.
A versatile and accessible polymer coating for functionalizable zwitterionic quantum dots with high DNA grafting efficiency.
Chemical Communications, 2019, 55:11067-11070.  10.1039/C9CC04856A   PDF   SI

21. Cao W, Chern M, Dennis AM, and K Brown.
Measuring Nanoparticle Polarizability using Fluorescence Microscopy.
Nano Letters, 2019, 19(8):5762-5768. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02402   PDF   SI

20. Bhuckory S, Kays JC, and AM Dennis.
In Vivo Biosensing using Resonance Energy Transfer.
Biosensors, 2019, 9(2):76 (35 pgs). 10.3390/bios9020076   PDF

19. Chern M, Kays JC, Bhuckory S, and AM Dennis.
Sensing with Photoluminescent Semiconductor Quantum Dots.
Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 2019, 7: 012005 (36 pgs). 10.1088/2050-6120/aaf6f8    PDF

18. Dennis AM, Buck MR, Wang F, Hartmann NF, Majumder S, Casson J, Doorn SK, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Role of Interface Chemistry in Opening New Radiative Pathways in InP/CdSe Giant Quantum Dots with Blinking-Suppressed Two-Color Emission.
Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 1809111 (10 pgs). 10.1002/adfm.201809111  PDF  SI

17. Johnson CA, Chern M, Nguyen TT, Dennis AM*, and JL Goldfarb*.
Ligands and media impact interactions between engineered nanomaterials and clay minerals. 
NanoImpact, 2019, 13:112-122. 10.1016/j.impact.2019.01.004    PDF    SI

2018

16. Toufanian R, Piryatinski A, Hollingsworth JA, and AM Dennis.
Bandgap Engineering of InP Heterostructured Quantum Dots: Tailoring Emission with Shell Composition and Thickness. 
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018, 6:587 (12 pages). 10.3389/fchem.2018.00567   PDF   SI

15. Dawood F, Wang J, Schulze PA, Sheehan CJ, Buck MR, Dennis AM, Majumder S, Krishnamurthy S, Ticknor M, Staude I, Brener I, Goodwin PM, Amro NA, and JA Hollingsworth.
The Role of Liquid Ink Transport in the Direct Placement of Quantum Dot Emitters onto Sub-Micrometer Antennas by Dip-Pen Nanolithography.
Small, 2018, 14(31):1801503 (10 pages). 10.1002/smll.201801503   PDF   SI

2017

14. Chern M, Nguyen TT, Mahler AH, and AM Dennis.
Quantifying Shell Thickness Effects on Quantum Dot Brightness and Energy Transfer.
Nanoscale, 2017, 9(42):16446-16458. 10.1039/C7NR04296E   PDF   SI

13. Atha DH, Nagy A, Steinbruck A, Dennis AM, Hollingsworth JA, Dua V, Iyer R, and BC Nelson.
Quantifying Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity: Comparison of Common Cytotoxicity and Gene Expression Measurements.
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2017, 15(1):79 (9 pages). 10.1186/s12951-017-0312-3   PDF   SI

2014-2016

12. Dennis AM, Delehanty J, and I Medintz.
Emerging Physicochemical Phenomena along with New Opportunities at the Biomolecular–Nanoparticle Interface.
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016, 7(11):2139-2150. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00570   PDF

11. Chou K and AM Dennis.
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer between Quantum Dot Donors and Quantum Dot Acceptors.
Sensors, 2015, 13(6):13288-13325. 10.3390/s150613288   PDF

10. Magnum BD, Wang F, Dennis AM, Gao Y, Ma X, Hollingsworth JA, and H Htoon.
Competition between Auger Recombination and Hot-Carrier Trapping in PL Intensity Fluctuations of Type II Nanocrystals.
Small, 2014, 10:2892-2901. 10.1002/smll.201302896   PDF   SI

Prior to 2012

9. Dennis AM, Rhee WJ, Sotto D, Dublin SN, and G Bao.
Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein FRET Probes for Sensing Intracellular pH.
ACS Nano, 2012, 6(4):2917-2924. 10.1021/nn2038077   PDF   SI

 

8. Dennis AM, Mangum BD, Piryatinski A, Park YS, Hannah DC, Casson JL, Williams DJ, Schaller RD, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Suppressed Blinking and Auger Recombination in Near-Infrared Type-II InP/CdS Nanocrystal Quantum Dots.
Nano Letters, 2012, 12(11):5545-5551. 10.1021/nl302453x   PDF   SI

 

7. Kundu J, Ghosh Y, Dennis AM, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Giant Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Stable Down-Conversion Phosphors that Exploit a Large Stokes Shift and Efficient Shell-to-Core Energy Relaxation.
Nano Letters, 2012, 12(6):3031-3037. 10.1021/nl3008659   PDF   SI

 

6. Dennis AM, Sotto DC, Mei BC, Medintz IL, Mattoussi H, and G Bao.
Surface Ligand Effects on Metal-Affinity Coordination to Quantum Dots: Implications for Nanoprobe Self-Assembly.
Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2010, 21(7):1160-1170. 10.1021/bc900500m   PDF   SI

 

5. Boeneman K, Mei BC, Dennis AM, Bao G, Deschamps JR, Mattoussi H, and IL Medintz.
Sensing Caspase 3 Activity with Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein Assemblies.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(11):3828-3829. 10.1021/ja809721j   PDF   SI

 

4. Medintz IL, Pons T, Susumu K, Boeneman K, Dennis AM, Farrell D, Deschamps JR, Melinger JS, Bao G, and H Mattoussi.
Resonance Energy Transfer Between Luminescent Quantum Dots and Diverse Fluorescent Protein Acceptors.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113(43), 18552-18561. 10.1021/jp9060329   PDF   SI

 

3. Dennis AM and G Bao.
Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein Pairs as Novel Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Probes.
Nano Letters, 2008, 8(5):1439-1445. 10.1021/nl080358+   PDF   SI

 

2. Drotleff S, Lungwitz U, Breunig M, Dennis AM, Blunk T, Tessmar J, and A Göpferich.
Biomimetic Polymers in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences.
European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 2004, 58(2):385-407. 10.1016/j.ejpb.2004.03.018   PDF

 

1. Dokas LA, Haas MA, Lilly SM, Ting S, and AM Dennis.
In Vitro Modulation of Protein Kinase CK2-mediated Phosphorylation of the Neuronal Growth-associated Protein B-50 (GAP-43).
Neuroscience Research Communications, 2003, 33(3):189-199. 10.1002/nrc.10095