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

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  2. Characterizing internal cavity modulation of corn starch microcapsules

    Article • Heliyon, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  5. Transmission of aerosols through pristine and reprocessed N95 respirators

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Frank Gu

  6. 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

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

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  8. 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

  9. Low-Fouling Characteristics of Ultrathin Zwitterionic Cysteine SAMs

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  10. 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

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

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  12. Magnetic flocculation for nanoparticle separation and catalyst recycling

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Bacterial Networks on Hydrophobic Micropillars

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  16. 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

  17. 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

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

    Article • Chemosphere, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  20. Colorimetric biosensing of pathogens using gold nanoparticles

    Article • Biotechnology Advances, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  21. 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

  22. “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

  23. 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

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

    Article • Biomaterials, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  26. 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

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

    Article • Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, March 2014, OAhost

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. Mesoporous Magnetically Recyclable Photocatalysts for Water Treatment

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  36. Photocatalytic Activity of Hydrogenated TiO2

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  37. 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

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  39. Hydrogenation processing of TiO2nanoparticles

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  40. 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

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. Nanomaterials for Ocular Drug Delivery

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu, Professor Lyndon Jones

  46. Iron oxide nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging and diagnostics

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  47. Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  49. 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

  50. 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

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

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  52. 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

  53. Emerging nanomaterials for targeting subcellular organelles

    Article • Nano Today, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  55. 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

  56. Early diagnosis of sepsis using serum biomarkers

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  57. Special series of articles on Nanotechnology

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Nanomedicine, April 2010, Future Medicine

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Frank Gu

  61. 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

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

    Article • ChemMedChem, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  63. Microfluidic Platform for Controlled Synthesis of Polymeric Nanoparticles

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  65. Biofunctionalized targeted nanoparticles for therapeutic applications

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

    Professor Frank Gu

  66. 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

  67. Microfluidic Synthesis of Polymeric Nanoparticles

    Article • January 2008, ASME International

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Biomaterials, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  69. Nanoparticles in Medicine: Therapeutic Applications and Developments

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • ChemMedChem, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Frank Gu

  71. Targeted nanoparticles for cancer therapy

    Article • Nano Today, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  72. 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

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

    Article • Biomaterials, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

  75. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu

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

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

    Professor Frank Gu

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

    Article • Journal of Controlled Release, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Frank Gu