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2008

• Gorham, N.T., St. Pierre, T.G., Chua-anusorn, W., and Parkinson, G.M. (2008) Magnetic energy-barrier distributions for ferrihydrite  nanoparticles formed by reconstituting ferritin. J. Appl. Phys. 103, 054302

• Mefford, O.T., Carroll, M.R.J., Vadala, M.L., Goff, J.D., Mejia-Ariza, R., Saunders, M., Woodward, R.C., St. Pierre, T.G., Davis, R.M., Riffle, J.S. (2008) Size analysis of PDMS-magnetite nanoparticle complexes: experiment and theory. Chem. Mater., 20, 2184-2191

• Mefford, O.T., Vadala, M. L., Goff, J.D., Carroll, M. R. J., Mejia-Ariza, R., Caba, B. L., St. Pierre, T. G., Woodward, R. C., Davis, R. M. and Riffle, J. S., (2008) Stability of polydimethylsiloxane-magnetite nanoparticle dispersions against flocculation: interparticle interactions of polydisperse materials, Langmuir (accepted 12th Feb 2008)

• Clark, T.E., Makha, M., Sobolev, A.N. Rohrs, H., Atwood, J. L., Raston, C.L. (2008) Engingeering Nanorafts of Calixarene Polyphosphates. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008.

• Suk Fun Chin, K. Swaminathan Iyer, Martin Saunders, Colin L. Raston (2008) Size selective synthesis of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in thin fluids under continuous flow conditions. Advanced Functional Materials, 2008

• Suk Fun Chin, K. Swaminathan Iyer, Colin L. Raston (2008) Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Ultra Fine Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles under Continuous Flow Conditions. Lab on a chip, 2008,

• Nigel W. Cifford, K. Swaminathan Iyer and Colin L Raston (2008) Encapsulation and controlled release of nutraceuticals using mesoporous silica capsules. J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18. 162-165

2007

• K. Swaminathan Iyer, Colin L Raston (2007) Fabrication of laterally sliced metal plated carbon nanotubes under aqueous continuous flow conditions. J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17. 4872-4875

• K. Swaminathan Iyer, Colin L Raston, Martin Saunders (2007) Continuous flow nano-technology: manipulating the size, shape, agglomeration, defects and phases of silver nano-particles. Lab on a Chip, 2007, 7. 1800-1805

• Nicole M. Smith, Colin L Raston, Christopher B. Smith, Alexandre N. Sobolev (2007) PEG mediated synthesis of amino-functionalised 2,4,6-triarylpyridines. Green Chemistry, 2007, 9. 1185-1190

• Karel J. Hartlieb, Colin L. Raston, Martin Saunders (2007) Controlled Scalable Synthesis of ZnO Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials, 2007, 19. 5453-5459

• Thomas E Clark, Mohamed Makha, Alexandre N. Sobolev, Scott J. Dalgarno, Jerry L. Atwood, Colin L. Raston (2007) Structural Diversity of Methyl-Substituted Inclusion Complezes of Calix[5]arene. Crystal Growth & Design, 2007, 7. 2059-2065

• Thomas E. Clarke, Mohamed Makha, Joshua J. McKinnon, Alexandre N. Sobolev, Mark A Spackman, Colin L. Raston (2007) Variable temperature Hirshfeld surface analysis of interdiditated calix[6]arene bearing O-alkyl C18 linear chains. CrstEngComm, 2007, 9. 566-569

• K. Swaminathan Iyer, Colin L. Raston, Martin Saunders (2007) Hierarchical aqueous self-assembly of C60 nano-whiskers and C60-silver nano-hybrids under continuous flow. Lab on a Chip, 2007, 7. 1121-1124

• Lee J. Hubble, Colin L. Raston (2007) Nanofibres of fullerene C60 through interplay of ball-and-socket supermolecules. Chemsitry - a European Journal, 2007, 12. 6755-6760

• Scott J. Dalgarno, Jerry L. Atwood, Colin L. Raston (2007) Structural Versatility of Praseodymium complexes of p-Sulfonatcalix[4]arene (2007) Crsytal Growth & Design, 2007, 7. 1762-1770

• Suk Fun Chin, Mohamed Makha, Colin L. Raston, Martin Saunders (2007) Magnetite ferrofluids stailized by sulfonato-calixarenes. Chemical Communications, 2007, 19, 1948-1950.

• Robert M. McKinlay, Scott J. Dalgarno, Peter J. Nichols, Stavroula Papadopoulos, Jerry L. Atwood, Colin L. Raston (2007) Icosahedral galloxane clusters. Chemical Communications, 2007, 23. 2393-2395

• Mohamed Makha, Joshua J. McKinnon, Alexandre N. Sobolev, Mark A. Spackman, Colin L. Raston (2007) Controlling ine confinement and alignment of fullerene C70 in para-substituted calix[5]arenes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2007, 13. 3907-3912

• Mohamed Makha, Yatimah Alias, Colin L. Raston, Alexandre N. Sobolev (2007) Controlling the interplay of large organic ions: para-sulfonato-calix[4]arene and phosphonium cations. New Journal of Chemistry, 2007, 31. 662-668

• Christopher B. Smith, Mohamed Makha, Colin L. Raston, Alexandre N. Sobolev (2007) Solution and solid state interplay of isometric 4'-(pyridyl)-3,2':6',3"-terpyridines with p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene. New Journal of Chemistry, 2007, 31. 535-542

• Scott J. Dalgarno, Jerry L. Atwood, Colin L. Raston (2007) The Synthesis and structural characterization of two polynuclear hafnium(IV) complexes. Inorganica Chimica, 2007, 360. 1344-1348

• Igor Sokolov, Swaminathan Iyer, Venkatesh Subba-Rao, Ravi M. Gaikwad, Craig D. Woodworth (2007) Detection of surface brush on biological cells in vitro with atomic force microscopy. Applied Physics Letters, 2007, 91, 023902

• Yee-Kwong Leong (2007)Particle bridging in dispersions be small charged molecules: chain length and rigidity, architecture and functional groups spatial position. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 9, 5505.

• Zalich, M.A., Vadala, M.L., Riffle, J.S., Saunders, M., St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) Structural and magnetic properties of cobalt nanoparticles complexed with a polysiloxane block copolymer. Chem. Mater.

• Hackett, S., Chua-anusorn, W., Pootrakul, P., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) The magnetic susceptibilities of iron deposits in thalassaemic spleen tissue. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1772, 330-337.

• House, M.J., St. Pierre, T.G., Kowdley, K., Montine, T., Connor, J., Beard, J., Siddaiah, N., Berger, J., Shankland, E., Jin, L.-W. (2007) Correlation of proton transverse relaxation rates (R2) with iron concentrations in post-mortem brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease patients. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 57, 172-180.

• Kirby, N., Cookson, D., Buckley, C., Bovell, E., St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) Iron K-edge anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering at 15-ID-D at the Advanced Photon Source. J. Appl. Cryst. 40, in press.

• Mefford, O.T., Woodward, R.C., Goff, J.D., Vadala, T.P., St. Pierre, T.G., Dailey, J.P., and Riffle, J.S. (2007) Field-induced motion of ferrofluids through immiscible viscous media: Testbed for restorative treatment of retinal detachment, J. Magn. Mag. Mat., 331, 347-353

• Woodward, R.C., Heeris, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Saunders, M., Gilbert, E.P., Rutnakornpituk, M., Zhang, Q., Riffle, J.S. (2007) A comparison of methods for the measurement of particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles, J. Appl. Crystallography, 40, S495-S500.

• Jehanathan, N., Saunders, M., Liu, Y. and Dell, J. (2007) Crystallization of of silicon nitride thin films by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition, Scripta Materialia 57, 739-742.

• Ren YP, SM Wong, LY Lim, Folic-acid conjugated protein cages of a plant virus: a novel delivery platform for doxorubicin, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 18 (2007) 836 - 843

2006


• Green chemistry and the health implications of nanoparticles,
M. A. Albrecht, C. W. Evans and C. L. Raston., 2006.

• House, M.J., St Pierre, T.G., Foster, J.K., Martins, R.N. and Clarnette, R. (2006) Quantitative MRI R2 relaxometry in elderly participants reporting memory loss. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 27, 430-439.

• Zalich, M.A., Baranauskas, V.V., Riffle, J.S., Saunders, M., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2006) Structural and Magnetic Properties of Oxidatively-Stable Cobalt Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Graphitic Shells. Chem. Mater., 18, 2648-2655

• Yan, L., Lopez, C.M., Shrestha, R.P, Irene, E.A., Suvorova, A.A. and Saunders, M. (2006) Magnesium Oxide as a candidate high-k gate dielectric, Applied Physics Letters 88, 142901.

• Jehanathan, N., Walmsley, B., Liu, Y., Dell, J. and Saunders, M. (2006) Effect of oxidation on the chemical bonding structure of PECVD SiNx thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 100, 123516.

• Anantachoke, N., Makha, M., Raston, C.L., Reutrakul, V., Smith, N.C. and Saunders, M. (2006) Fine Tuning The Production of Nanosized b-Carotene Using Spinning Disc Processing, Journal of the American Chemical Society 128(42), 13847-13853.

• Richmond, W., Cowley, J,, Parkinson, G. and Saunders (2006) M., An electron microscopy study of beta-FeOOH (Akaganeite) Nanotubes. Cryst. Eng. Comm. 8, 36-40.

• Dodd, A.C., McKinley, A.J., Saunders, M. and Tsuzuki, T. (2006) Mechanochemical synthesis of nanocrystalline SnO2-ZnO photocatalysts, Nanotechnology 17, 692-698.

• Dodd, A.C., McKinley, A.J., Saunders, M. and Tsuzuki, T. (2006) Effect of Particle Size on the Photocatalytic Activity of Nanoparticulate Zinc Oxide, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 8, 43-51

• Host-guest complexes with p-sulfonatocalix-[4,5]arenas charged crown ethers and lanthanides: Factors affecting molecular capsule formation, S. J. Dalgarno, J. L. Atwood, and C. L. Raston, Crystal Growth & Design, 2006, 6, 174 - 180.

• Interplay of p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene and crown ethers en route to molecular capsules and , S. J. Dalgarno, J. Fischer and C. L. Raston, Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 12, 2722 - 2777. (Front cover)

• Structural diversity of host-guest and intercalation complexes of fullerene C60, M. Makha, A. Purich, C. L. Raston, and A. N. Sobolev, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 507 - 517.

• Direct synthesis of p-phenylylcalix[4]arene in Poly(Ethylene Glycol and its Self Association in the Solid State, M. Mahka, C. L. Raston and A. N. Sobolev, Aust. J. Chem., 2006, 59, 260 - 262. (Front cover).

• Recovery of elasticity of aged human epithelial cells in-vitro, I. Sokolov, S. Iyer and C. Woodworth, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2006, 2, 31-36.

• "Unary" polymer brushes with active anchoring layer, Iyer, K. S and Luzinov, I. Chapter 6 in "Responsive Polymer Materials: Designs and Applications". Editor: Sergiy Minko, Blackwell Publishing, Ames,101-114, 2006, INVITED.

• Ren YP, SM Wong, LY Lim, In vitro reassembled plant virus-like particles for loading of polyacids. Journal of General Virology 87 (2006) 2749 - 2754.

2005

• Lopez, C.M., Suvorova, N.A., Irene, E.A., Suvorova, A.A. and Saunders, M. (2005) A Study of the ZrO2 Film Interfaces with Si and SiO2, Journal of Applied Physics 98(3), art. no. 33506.

• Poly(ethyleneglycol) (PEG): a versatile reaction medium in gaining access to 4(pyridyl)-terpyridines, C. B. Smith, C. L. Raston, and A. N. Sobolev, Green Chemistry, 2005, 7, 650 - 654.

• Baranauskas, V.V., Zalich M.A., Saunders M., St. Pierre T.G., and Riffle J.S. (2005) Poly(styrene-b-4-vinylphenoxyphthalonitrile)-cobalt complexes and their conversion to oxidatively-stable cobalt nanoparticles, Chem. Mater., 17, 5246-5254.

• Connolly, J., St. Pierre, T.G., and Dobson, J (2005) Experimental evaluation of the magnetic properties of commercially available magnetic microspheres. Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, 15, 421-431.

• Gorham, N.T., Woodward, R.C., St. Pierre, T.G., Terris, B.D., and Sun, S. (2005) Apparent magnetic energy-barrier distribution in FePt nanoparticles. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 295, 174 - 176.

• Harris, L.A., Riffle, J.S., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2005) Principles of design and synthesis of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications. J. Aust. Ceramic Soc., 41, 23-42.

• Hackett, S.L. and St Pierre, T.G. (2005) Thales: an instrument to measure the low field magnetophoretic mobility of microscopic objects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 17, 181-184.

• Kim, B.J., Lee, H.I., Cho, S.-B., Yoon, S., Suh, B.J., Jang, Z.H., St. Pierre, T.G., Kim, S.-W., Kim, K.-S. (2005) Magnetic properties of artificially synthesized ferritins. J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10M524.

• St Pierre, T.G., Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., Fleming, A., Pardoe, H., Jeffrey, G.P., Olynyk, J.K., Pootrakul, P., Jones, S., Moroz, P. (2005) Non-invasive measurement and imaging of tissue iron oxide nanoparticle concentrations in vivo using proton relaxometry. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 17, 122-126.

• Wilson, K.S., Goff, J.D., Riffle, J.S., Harris, L.A., St. Pierre, T.G. (2005) Polydimethylsiloxane-magnetite nanoparticle complexes and dispersions in polysiloxane carrier fluids. Polym. Adv. Technol., 16, 200-211.

• Vadala, M.L., Zalich, M.A., Fulks, D.B., St. Pierre, T.G., Dailey, J.P., Riffle, J.S. (2005) Cobalt-silica magnetic nanoparticles with functional surfaces. J. Magn. Magn. Mat. , 293, 162-170.

• Ma ZS, TM Lim, LY Lim, Pharmacological activity of peroral chitosan-insulin nanoparticles in diabetic rats. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 293 (2005): 271 - 280.

• Huang M, CW Fong, E Khor, LY Lim, Transfection efficiency of chitosan vectors: effect of polymer molecular weight and degree of deacetylation. Journal of Controlled Release, 106 (2005): 391 - 406.

• Luangtana-anan M, P Opanasopit, T Ngawhirunpat, J Nunthanid, P Sriamornsak, S Limmatvapirat, LY Lim, Effect of chitosan salts and molecular weight on a nanoparticulate carrier for therapeutic protein. Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 10 (2005): 189 - 196.

• Mo Y, LY Lim, Preparation and in vitro anticancer activity of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-conjugated PLGA nanoparticles loaded with paclitaxel and isopropyl myristate. Journal of Controlled Release, 107 (2005): 30 - 42.

• Mo Y, LY Lim, Paclitaxel-loaded PLGA nanoparticles: Potentiation of anticancer activity by surface conjugation with wheat germ agglutinin. Journal of Controlled Release, 108 (2005): 244 - 262.

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