Contents

  1. Preprints
  2. Peer-reviewed Publications

Preprints

  1. Jonghae Youn, Peiyuan Kang, Blake A. Wilson, Chen Xie, Lokesh Basavarajappa, Qingxiao Wang, Moon Kim, Kenneth Hoyt, and Zhenpeng Qin (2022) Significantly amplified photoacoustic effect for silica-coated gold nanoparticles by interface heat transfer mechanisms, bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.28.509922

Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Oscar O. Ortega, Mustafa Ozen, Blake A. Wilson, James C. Pino, Michael W. Irvin, Geena V. Ildefonso, Shawn P. Garbett, and Carlos F. Lopez (2024) Signal execution modes emerge in biochemical reaction networks calibrated to experimental data, iScience, In Press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109989
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  2. Chen Xie, Blake Wilson, and Zhenpeng Qin (2024) Regulating nanoscale directional heat transfer with Janus nanopartilces, Nanoscale Adv. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NA00781B
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  3. Hejian Xiong*, Blake A. Wilson*, Xiaoqian Ge*, Xiaofei Gao, Qi Cai, Xueqi Xu, Robert Bachoo, and Zhenpeng Qin (2024) Glioblastoma Margin as a Diffusion Barrier Revealed by Photoactivation of Plasmonic Nanovesicles, Nano Lett. 24 (5), 1570-1578. (*=co-first authors) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04101
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  4. Hejian Xiong, Blake A. Wilson, Paul A. Slesinger, Zhenpeng Qin (2023) Optical uncaging and release for understanding neuropeptide transmission in the brain, ACS Chem. Neurosci., 14, 4, 516-523. (Special Issue on ‘Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience 2023’) https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00684
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  5. Xiaoqing Li, Qi Cai, Blake A. Wilson, Hanwen Fan, Harsh Dave, Monica Giannotta, Robert Bachoo, and Zhenpeng Qin (2023) Calcium-Mediated Modulation of Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability by Laser Stimulation of Endothelial-Targeted Nanoparticles, Nanoscale, 15, 3387-3397. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR05062E
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  6. Blake A. Wilson, Steven O. Nielsen, Jaona H. Randrianalisoa, and Zhenpeng Qin (2022) Curvature and temperature-dependent thermal interface conductance between nanoscale gold and water, J. Chem. Phys. 157, 054703. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0090683
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  7. Hejian Xiong, Emre Lacin, Hui Ouyang, Aditi Naik, Xueqi Xu, Chen Xie, Jonghae Youn, Blake A. Wilson, Krutin Kumar, Tyler Kern, Erin Aisenberg, Daniel Kircher, Xiuying Li, Joseph A. Zasadzinski, Celine Mateo, David Kleinfeld, Sabina Hrabetova, Paul A. Slesinger, Zhenpeng Qin (2022) Probing Neuropeptide Volume Transmission In Vivo by Simultaneous Near-Infrared Light Triggered Release and Optical Sensing, Angew. Chem., e202206122. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202206122
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  8. Peiyuan Kang, Yang Wang, Blake A. Wilson, Jaona Randrianalisoa, and Zhenpeng Qin (2021) Nanoparticle fragmentation below the melting point under single picosecond laser pulse stimulation, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125, 48, 26718-26730. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06684
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  9. Blake A. Wilson, Arvind Ramanathan, and Carlos F. Lopez (2019) Cardiolipin-Dependent Properties of Model Mitochondrial Membranes from Molecular Simulations, Biophysical Journal, 117, 3, 429-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.06.023
    (Cover image appeared on the August 6th Issue with a corresponding BPS Blog post)

  10. Candace E. Benjamin, Zhuo Chen, Peiyuan Kang, Blake A. Wilson, Na Li, Steven O. Nielsen, Zhenpeng Qin, and Jeremiah J. Gassensmith (2018) Site Selective Nucleation and Size Control of Gold Nanoparticle Photothermal Antennae on the Pore Structures of a Virus, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, 49, 17226-17233. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b10446
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  11. Blake A. Wilson, Amir T. Nasrabadi, Lev D. Gelb, and Steven O. Nielsen (2018) Computing free energies using nested sampling-based approaches, Molecular Simulation, 44:13-14, 1108-1123. (Special Issue on ‘Free Energy Simulations’) https://doi.org/10.1080/08927022.2017.1416113
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  12. Blake A. Wilson, Lev D. Gelb, and Steven O. Nielsen (2015) Nested Sampling of isobaric phase for direct evaluation of the isothermal-isobaric partition function of atomic systems, J. Chem. Phys., 143, 154108, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933309
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  13. David Speed, Paul Westerhoff, Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, Rockford Draper, Paul Pantano, Shyam Aravmudhan, Kai Loon Chen, Kiril Hristovski, Pierre Herckes, Xiangyu Bi, Yu Yang, Chao Zeng, Lila Otero-Gonzalez, Carole Mikoryak, Blake A. Wilson, Karshak Kosaraju, Mubin Tarannum, Steven Crawford, Peng Yi, Xitong Liu, S. V. Babu, Mansour Moinpour, James Ranville, Manuel Montano, Charlie Corredor, Jonathan Posner, and Farhang Shadman (2015) Physical, chemical, and in vitro toxicological characterization of nanoparticles in chemical mechanical planarization suspensions used in the semiconductor industry: towards environmental health and safety assessments, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2, 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EN00046G
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  14. Jingbo Wu, Blake A. Wilson, Dennis W. Smith Jr., and Steven O. Nielsen (2014) Towards and understanding of structure-nonlinearity relationships in triarylamine-based push-pull eletro-optic chromophores: the influence of substituent and molecular conformation on molecular hyperpolarizabilities, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 2591-2599. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TC32510E
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  15. R. J. K. Udayana Ranatunga, Chuong T. Nguyen, Blake A. Wilson, Wataru Shinoda, and Steven O. Nielsen (2011) Molecular dynamics study of nanoparticales and non-ionic surfactant at an oil water interface, Soft Matter, 7, 6942-6952. https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SM05145H
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