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  1. Spectroscopic Determination of Ion-Binding Environment in Alkali-Driven Ionically Cross-Linked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels

    Article • Macromolecules, December 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  2. Leveraging flexible pipette-based tool changes to transform liquid handling systems into dual-function sample preparation and imaging platforms

    Article • HardwareX, June 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  3. Photocatalysis and phosphorus drive organic production in algal-bacterial co-cultures treating oil sands process affected water

    Article • Chemosphere, May 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  4. Rapid Colorimetric Indicator for Oil Sands Process-Affected Water: An Alternative to Vertebrate Assays for Whole Effluent Toxicity Determination

    Article • ACS ES&T Water, April 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  5. Lighting the Path to Practical Applications of Single‐Atom Catalysts in Photocatalysis: The Role of Platinum Group Single Atoms in Enhancing Catalytic Activity

    Article • Solar RRL, March 2025, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  6. In situ formed Se–TiO2 as a highly reusable photocatalyst for selenium reduction and removal from industrial wastewater

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  7. Ambient solar-driven selenate reduction and removal from industrial brine using TiO2-based buoyant photocatalysts

    Article • Water Research, January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  8. RAISE: A self-driving laboratory for interfacial property formulation discovery

    Article • Digital Discovery, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  9. Ion-Mediated Cross-Linking of Hyaluronic Acid into Hydrogels without Chemical Modification

    Article • Biomacromolecules, November 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  10. Lateral Assessment of Mucomimetic Hydrogels to Evaluate Correlation between Microscopic and Macroscopic Properties

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  11. Photocatalytic treatment of diverse contaminants of potential concern in oil sands process-affected water

    Article • Chemosphere, October 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  12. Investigating Molecular Interactions between Mucin and Contact Lens Thin Films Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, September 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  13. Leveraging Flexible Pipette-based Tool Changes to Transform Liquid Handling Systems into Dual-Function Sample Preparation and Imaging Platforms

    Article • August 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  14. Floating reactive barriers to mitigate secondary organic aerosol formation from oil sands tailings ponds

    Article • Environmental Technology & Innovation, February 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  15. From contaminant to commodity: a critical review of selenium usage, treatment, and recovery

    Article • Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  16. Photocatalytic nanoparticles in flow-through annular photoreactors for continuous selenate reduction in industrial wastewater

    Article • Environmental Science Nano, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  17. Mild Photocatalysis Removes Microbial Inhibition and Enables Effective Biological Treatment of Naphthenic Acids

    Article • ACS ES&T Water, August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  18. Sizing up feature descriptors for macromolecular machine learning with polymeric biomaterials

    Article • npj Computational Materials, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  19. Photocatalytic treatment of organoselenium in synthetic mine-impacted effluents

    Article • Water Science & Technology Water Supply, February 2023, IWA Publishing

    Professor Frank Gu

  20. An interpretable machine learning framework for modelling macromolecular interaction mechanisms with nuclear magnetic resonance

    Article • Digital Discovery, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  21. Transfer-based nuclear magnetic resonance uncovers unique mechanisms for protein–polymer and protein–nanoparticle binding behavior

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  22. Tunable production of elemental Se vs. H2Se through photocatalytic reduction of selenate in synthetic mine impacted brine: engineering a recoverable Se product

    Article • Environmental Science Water Research & Technology, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  23. Asymmetric Interfacet Adatom Migration as a Mode of Anisotropic Nanocrystal Growth

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  24. Polymer Co‐Coating of Gold Nanoparticles Enables Their Integration Into Contact Lenses for Stable, Selective Ocular Light Filters

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, October 2022, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  25. Mechanistic Influence of Polymer Species, Molecular Weight, and Functionalization on Mucin–Polymer Binding Interactions

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, September 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  26. Untangling Mucosal Drug Delivery: Engineering, Designing, and Testing Nanoparticles to Overcome the Mucus Barrier

    Article • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, March 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  27. Selective photocatalytic reduction of selenate over TiO2 in the presence of nitrate and sulfate in mine-impacted water

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  28. Theoretical framework and experimental methodology to elucidate the supersaturation dynamics of nanocrystal growth

    Article • Nanoscale Horizons, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  29. Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of Protein–Polymer Binding with Direct Saturation Compensated Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

    Article • Biomacromolecules, October 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  30. SARS-CoV-2 shedding dynamics across the respiratory tract, sex, and disease severity for adult and pediatric COVID-19

    Article • eLife, August 2021, eLife

    Professor Frank Gu

  31. Heterogeneity in transmissibility and shedding SARS-CoV-2 via droplets and aerosols

    Article • eLife, April 2021, eLife

    Professor Frank Gu

  32. SARS-CoV-2 shedding dynamics across the respiratory tract, sex and disease severity for adult and pediatric COVID-19

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  33. Inside Cover

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  34. Heterogeneity in transmissibility and shedding SARS-CoV-2 via droplets and aerosols

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  35. Characterizing internal cavity modulation of corn starch microcapsules

    Article • Heliyon, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  36. Light propagation within N95 filtered face respirators: A simulation study for UVC decontamination

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  37. Light propagation within N95 Filtered Face Respirators: A simulation study for UVC decontamination

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  38. Transmission of aerosols through pristine and reprocessed N95 respirators

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  39. Enhanced photocatalytic selectivity of noble metallized TiO2 nanoparticles for the reduction of selenate in water: tunable Se reduction product H2Se(g)vs. Se(s)

    Article • Environmental Science Nano, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  40. From Prevention to Diagnosis and Treatment: Biomedical Applications of Metal Nanoparticle-Hydrogel Composites

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  41. Targeted nanoparticle binding & detection in petroleum hydrocarbon impacted porous media

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  42. Sensing Coated Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles with Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP): Experiments in Natural Sand Packed Flow-Through Columns

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  43. Low-Fouling Characteristics of Ultrathin Zwitterionic Cysteine SAMs

    Article • Langmuir, August 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  44. Petroleomic analysis of the treatment of naphthenic organics in oil sands process-affected water with buoyant photocatalysts

    Article • Water Research, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  45. Structure-reactivity relationship of naphthenic acids in the photocatalytic degradation process

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  46. Magnetic flocculation for nanoparticle separation and catalyst recycling

    Article • Environmental Science Nano, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  47. Scanning Surface Plasmon Microscope for Sensing Lipid Array and Au Film Defect

    Article • Applied Mechanics and Materials, September 2017, Trans Tech Publications

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Chii-Wann Lin

  48. Controllable Microfluidic Production of Drug-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles Using Partially Water-Miscible Mixed Solvent Microdroplets as a Precursor

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Nature

    Professor Frank Gu, Dr Olivier Sandre

  49. Bacterial Networks on Hydrophobic Micropillars

    Article • ACS Nano, January 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  50. Photocatalytic degradation kinetics of naphthenic acids in oil sands process-affected water: Multifactorial determination of significant factors

    Article • Chemosphere, December 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  51. Towards point-of-care detection of polymicrobial infections: Rapid colorimetric response using a portable spectrophotometer

    Article • Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  52. Solar photocatalytic degradation of naphthenic acids in oil sands process-affected water

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  53. Emerging nanomaterials for the application of selenium removal for wastewater treatment

    Article • Environmental Science Nano, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  54. Colorimetric biosensing of pathogens using gold nanoparticles

    Article • Biotechnology Advances, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  55. Nanostructured and spiky gold in biomolecule detection: improving binding efficiencies and enhancing optical signals

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu

  56. “Chemical nose” for the visual identification of emerging ocular pathogens using gold nanostars

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  57. Nonfouling Property of Zwitterionic Cysteine Surface

    Article • Langmuir, May 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Chii-Wann Lin, Professor Chii-Wann Lin, Professor Frank Gu

  58. Responses of Staphylococcus aureus bacterial cells to nanocrystalline nickel nanostructures

    Article • Biomaterials, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  59. Recyclable Graphene Oxide-Supported Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts with Tunable Properties

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  60. Effect of SAM chain length and binding functions on protein adsorption: β-Lactoglobulin and apo-transferrin on gold

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  61. Magnetic Force Microscopy Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (SPIONs)

    Article • Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, March 2014, OAhost

    Professor Frank Gu

  62. Programmable Redox State of the Nickel Ion Chain in DNA

    Article • Nano Letters, February 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  63. Branching and size of CTAB-coated gold nanostars control the colorimetric detection of bacteria

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  64. In vitrouptake and release of natamycin Dex-b-PLA nanoparticles from model contact lens materials

    Article • Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  65. Improving biocompatibility by surface modification techniques on implantable bioelectronics

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Chii-Wann Lin, Professor Chii-Wann Lin, Professor Frank Gu

  66. Magnetically Separable Water Treatment Technologies and their Role in Future Advanced Water Treatment: A Patent Review

    Article • CLEAN - Soil Air Water, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  67. Synthesis of Magnetic Rattle-Type Nanostructures for Use in Water Treatment

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  68. Mesoporous Magnetically Recyclable Photocatalysts for Water Treatment

    Article • Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, April 2013, American Scientific Publishers

    Professor Frank Gu

  69. Development of a colorimetric, superparamagnetic biosensor for the capture and detection of biomolecules

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  70. Photocatalytic Activity of Hydrogenated TiO2

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, March 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  71. In vitro and ex vivo evaluation of silica-coated super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) as biomedical photoacoustic contrast agent

    Article • March 2013, SPIE

    Professor Frank Gu

  72. Human Serum Lipoproteins Influence Protein Deposition Patterns on Nanoparticle Surfaces

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, February 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  73. Hydrogenation processing of TiO2nanoparticles

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  74. Controlled root targeted delivery of fertilizer using an ionically crosslinked carboxymethyl cellulose hydrogel matrix

    Article • SpringerPlus, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  75. Mesoporous Hollow Sphere Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts through Hydrothermal Silica Etching

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  76. Development of Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery System Using Phenylboronic Acid Functionalized Poly(D,L-lactide)-b-Dextran Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  77. Silica-coated super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) as biocompatible contrast agent in biomedical photoacoustics

    Article • Biomedical Optics Express, September 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Frank Gu

  78. Study of Tissue Phantoms, Tissues, and Contrast Agent with the Biophotoacoustic Radar and Comparison to Ultrasound Imaging for Deep Subsurface Imaging

    Article • International Journal of Thermophysics, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  79. Nanomaterials for Ocular Drug Delivery

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  80. Iron oxide nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging and diagnostics

    Article • Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  81. Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  82. Microwave-enhanced reductive amination via Schiff's base formation for block copolymer synthesis

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  83. Materials for Sustained and Controlled Release of Nutrients and Molecules To Support Plant Growth

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  84. Synthesis of curdlan-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) and formulation of doxorubicin-loaded core–shell nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Frank Gu

  85. Multi-phase ionotropic liquid crystalline gels with controlled architecture by self-assembly of biopolymers

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  86. Size-tunable nanoparticles composed of dextran-b-poly(D,L-lactide) for drug delivery applications

    Article • Nano Research, November 2011, Tsinghua University Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  87. Emerging nanomaterials for targeting subcellular organelles

    Article • Nano Today, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  88. Surface Functionalization of Silica Nanoparticles with Cysteine: A Low-Fouling Zwitterionic Surface

    Article • Langmuir, September 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  89. Pharmacological, Structural, and Drug Delivery Properties and Applications of 1,3-β-Glucans

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  90. Early diagnosis of sepsis using serum biomarkers

    Article • Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Frank Gu

  91. Special series of articles on Nanotechnology

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  92. Nanotechnology and Diagnostic Imaging: New Advances in Contrast Agent Technology

    Article • Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology, January 2011, OMICS Publishing Group

    Professor Frank Gu

  93. ChemoRad nanoparticles: a novel multifunctional nanoparticle platform for targeted delivery of concurrent chemoradiation

    Article • Nanomedicine, April 2010, Future Medicine

    Professor Frank Gu

  94. Formulation/Preparation of Functionalized Nanoparticles for In Vivo Targeted Drug Delivery

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  95. Targeted delivery of cisplatin to prostate cancer cells by aptamer functionalized Pt(IV) prodrug-PLGA–PEG nanoparticles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Frank Gu

  96. Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Aptamer Bioconjugates for Combined Prostate Cancer Imaging and Therapy

    Article • ChemMedChem, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  97. Microfluidic Platform for Controlled Synthesis of Polymeric Nanoparticles

    Article • Nano Letters, September 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  98. Self-Assembled Lipid−Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles: A Robust Drug Delivery Platform

    Article • ACS Nano, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  99. Biofunctionalized targeted nanoparticles for therapeutic applications

    Article • Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, July 2008, Informa Healthcare

    Professor Frank Gu

  100. Precise engineering of targeted nanoparticles by using self-assembled biointegrated block copolymers

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Frank Gu

  101. Microfluidic Synthesis of Polymeric Nanoparticles

    Article • January 2008, ASME International

    Professor Frank Gu

  102. Tetanus toxin C fragment-conjugated nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to neurons

    Article • Biomaterials, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  103. Nanoparticles in Medicine: Therapeutic Applications and Developments

    Article • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  104. Co-Delivery of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Drugs from Nanoparticle–Aptamer Bioconjugates

    Article • ChemMedChem, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  105. Targeted nanoparticles for cancer therapy

    Article • Nano Today, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  106. Maintenance of vascular endothelial growth factor and potentially other therapeutic proteins bioactivity during a photo-initiated free radical cross-linking reaction forming biodegradable elastomers

    Article • European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, April 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  107. Formulation of functionalized PLGA–PEG nanoparticles for in vivo targeted drug delivery

    Article • Biomaterials, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  108. Sustained release of bioactive therapeutic proteins from a biodegradable elastomeric device

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  109. Osmotic-Driven Release Kinetics of Bioactive Therapeutic Proteins from a Biodegradable Elastomer are Linear, Constant, Similar, and Adjustable

    Article • Pharmaceutical Research, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  110. Sustained interferon-γ delivery from a photocrosslinked biodegradable elastomer

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  111. Synthesis and Characterization of A Photo-Cross-Linked Biodegradable Elastomer

    Article • Biomacromolecules, November 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Frank Gu

  112. Sustained delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor with alginate beads

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu