Submissions from 2019
Insight into the effect of A-site cations on structural and optical properties of RE2Hf2O7:U nanoparticles, Maya Abdou, Santosh K. Gupta, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Growth Factors in the Human Body: A Conceptual Update, Estefania Alexandre and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Phytochemical investigation of Magnolia grandiflora green seed cones: Analytical and phytoceutical studies, Bo Garza, Alondra Echeverria, Felipe Gonzalez, Orlando Castillo, Thomas Eubanks, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Thermally Induced Disorder-Order Phase Transition of Gd 2 Hf 2 O 7 :Eu 3+ Nanoparticles and its Implication on Photo-and Radioluminescence, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Roles of oxygen vacancies and pH induced size changes on photo- and radioluminescence of undoped and Eu3+-doped La2Zr2O7 nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Jose P. Zuniga, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, Enrique Molina, Ben Xu, Mircea Chipara, and Yuanbing Mao
Samarium-Activated La2Hf2O7 Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Phosphors, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Jose P. Zuniga, Alexander A. Puretzky, and Yuanbing Mao
Visible and ultraviolet upconversion and near infrared downconversion luminescence from lanthanide doped La2Zr2O7 nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia, Jose P. Zuniga, Maya Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
Novel silica filled deep eutectic solvent based nanofluids for energy transportation, Changhui Liu, Hui Fang, Xinjian Liu, Ben Xu, and Zhonghao Rao
Palladium-Catalyzed Direct α‑C(sp3) Heteroarylation of Ketones under Microwave Irradiation, Andrew Quillen, Quynh Nguyen, Matthew Neiser, Kara Lindsay, Alexander Rosen, Stephen Ramirez, Stefana Costan, Oscar Rodriguez, Diego Rivera, Abdurrahman Atesin, and Tülay A. Ateşin
Pharmacological Aspects of Resveratrol, Raisa Ramirez and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
NextGen advises "Trying to Manage", Douglass Steinhauff, Joel Henrique Ellwanger, Monika Lewinska, Edmond Sanganyado, Yongsheng Ji, Buddini Iroshika Karawdeniya, Naike Bochatay, Eric Britt Moore, Aminata Coulibaly, Shaima Ibrahim, Déna Skye Jansen, Joshua I. James, David M. Cole, Anna Lipkin, Beth McKinnon Adamowicz, Science Management Associates, Shervin Fatehi, Maria Helena Holmstrom, and Rosa Li
Investigating the impact of gamma radiation on structural and optical properties of Eu3+ doped rare-earth hafnate pyrochlore nanocrystals, Victoria Trummel, Santosh K. Gupta, Madhab Pokhrel, Donald Wall, and Yuanbing Mao
Size, structure, and luminescence of Nd2Zr2O7 nanoparticles by molten salt synthesis, Jose P. Zuniga, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Hector A. De Santiago, Alexander A. Puretzky, Melonie P. Thomas, Beth S. Guiton, Jue Liu, and Yuanbing Mao
Submissions from 2018
On structure and phase transformation of uranium doped La2Hf2O7 nanoparticles as an efficient nuclear waste host, Maya Abdou, Santosh K. Gupta, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Conformational analysis of a TADDOL-based phosphoramidite P,N ligand in a palladium(II) η3-π-allyl complex, Tülay A. Ateşin, Abdurrahman Atesin, Oscar Rodriguez, Diego Rivera, and Lohany Y. Garcia
Key Enzymes in Cancer: Mechanism of Action and Inhibition With Anticancer Agents, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Gabriel Lopez, Stephanie Cantu, Samantha Balboa, Annabel Garcia, Christina Silva, and Diandra Valdes
EXPEDITIOUS GREEN SYNTHESIS OF VERSATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY DIVERSE METHODS, Bimal K. Banik
SYNTHESIS OF HETEROCYCLES THROUGH BETA LACTAMS RING RUPTURE, Bimal K. Banik
VERSATILE CATALYTIC TRANSFER HYDROGENATIONS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS, Bimal K. Banik, Khaled J. Barakat, and Maghar S. Manhas
Thermodynamic and Kinetic study of the removal of Cu2+ and Pb2+ ions from aqueous solution using Fe7S8 nanomaterial, Jesus Cantu, Diego F. Gonzalez, Yvette Cantu, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
Discovery and Characterization of Chemical Compounds That Inhibit the Function of Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Araceli Corona, Stephanie O. Palmer, Regina Zamacona, Benjamin Mendez, Frank B. Dean, and James M. Bullard
Three-dimensional carbon nanotube yarn based solid state solar cells with multiple sensitizers exhibit high energy conversion efficiency, Glenn Grissom, Jared Jaksik, Monica McEntee, Erin M. Durke, Sayeeda TJ Aishee, Margaret Cua, Okenwa Okoli, Ahmed Touhami, H. Justin Moore, and M. Jasim Uddin
Functional materials, device architecture, and flexibility of perovskite solar cell, Istiak Hussain, Hoang Phong Tran, Jared R. Jaksik, Justin Moore, and Mohammed Jasim Uddin
Identification of Chemical Compounds That Inhibit the Function of Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yanmei Hu, Stephanie O. Palmer, Sara Robles, Tahyra Resto, Frank Dean, and James M. Bullard
Advanced cotton fibers exhibit efficient photocatalytic self-cleaning and antimicrobial activity, Jared Jaksik, Phong Tran, Veronica Galvez, Isaac Martinez, Darian Ortiz, Andy Ly, Monica McEntee, Erin M. Durke, Sayeeda TJ Aishee, Margaret Cua, Ahmed Touhami, H. Justin Moore, and M. Jasim Uddin
STEREOSELECTIVITY OF PHTHALIMIDO β-LACTAMS FORMATION: SYNTHESIS OF 3-AMINO β-LACTAMS THROUGH A FACILE DEPROTECTION REACTION, Armando Paniagua, Ram Naresh Yadav, Sunena Chandra, and Bimal K. Banik
Glutathione: A small molecule with big sense, Cristina E. Raya and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Vitamin D: Controversy Cancer and Beyond, Cristian J. Rosales and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Microwave Popped Co(II)-Graphene Oxide Hybrid: Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Storage, Lin Wei, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao
MICROWAVE-INDUCED BISMUTH NITRATE-IMPREGNATED CLAYMEDIATED NOVEL DINITRATION OF 9,10- DIHYDROPHENANTHRENE: A PRECURSOR FOR NEW HETEROCYCLES, Ram Naresh Yadav, Leonardo Salazar, Amrendra Kumar Singh, and Bimal K. Banik
Removal of Cu2+ and Ni2+ from Aqueous Solution using SnO2 Nanomaterial effect of: pH, Time, Temperature, interfering cations, Abigail M. Zepeda, Daisy Gonzalez, Luis Gonzalez Heredia, Karina Marquez, Cesar Perez, Erika Pena, K. Flores, Carolina Valdes, Thomas Eubanks, Jason Parsons, and J. Cantu
Molten-Salt Synthesis of Complex Metal Oxide Nanoparticles, Jose P. Zuniga, Maya Abdou, Santosh K. Gupta, and Yuanbing Mao
Effect of Molten Salt Synthesis Processing Duration on the Photo- and Radioluminescence of UV- Visible- and X-Ray-Excitable La 2 Hf 2 O 7 :Eu 3+ Nanoparticles, Jose P. Zuniga, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
Submissions from 2017
Cytidine deaminase as a molecular target in cancer: an insight, Claudia A. Almaraz and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
AMMONIUM CHLORIDE-INDUCED SYNTHESIS OF PYRROLES VIA PAALKNORR REACTION, Debasish Bandyopadhyay and Bimal K. Banik
MICROWAVE-INDUCED PAAL-KNORR REACTION WITH AMMONIUM CHLORIDE: SYNTHESIS OF PYRROLES, Debasish Bandyopadhyay and Bimal K. Banik
NON-TRADITIONAL EXAMINATION: A STUDY TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH PERFORMANCE OF UNDERGRADUATE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY STUDENTS#, Bimal K. Banik, Ram Naresh Yadav, and Sunena Chandra
MICROWAVE-INDUCED BISMUTH TRIIODIDE-CATALYZED FACILE SYNTHESIS OF OCTAHYDROXANTHENES, Ashlee Chavez, Jessica Cruz, Alexdra Munoz, Ram Naresh Yadav, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, and Bimal K. Banik
Niclosamide Induces Protein Ubiquitination and Inhibits Multiple Pro-Survival Signaling Pathways in the Human Glioblastoma U-87 MG Cell Line, Benxu Cheng, Liza Doreen Morales, Yonghong Zhang, Shizue Mito, and Andrew Tsin
An Extended Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian for Large-Amplitude Motion: Application To Vibrational Conical Intersections in CH3SH and CH3OH, Mahesh B. Dawadi, Bishnu P. Thapaliya, and David S. Perry
Synthesis of low energy sensitive hybrid photovoltaic cells using carbon nanotubes: A 3D application device, Phong Tran Hoang, Sayeeda TJ Aishee, Glenn Grissom, Ahmed Touhami, and H. Justin Moore
Calmodulin Lobes Facilitate Dimerization and Activation of Estrogen Receptor-Alpha, Zhigang Li, Yonghong Zhang, Andrew C. Hedman, James B. Ames, and David B. Sacks
Theoretical and experimental study of polycyclic aromatic compounds as β-tubulin inhibitors, Fabian E. Olazarán, Carlos A. García-Pérez, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Isaias Balderas-Rentería, Angel D. Reyes-Figueroa, Lars Henschke, and Gildardo Rivera-Sanchez
Stereochemical Preference Toward Oncotarget: Design Synthesis and in Vitro Anticancer Evaluation of Diastereomeric B-Lactams, Fabian Olazarán-Santibáñez, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Pilar Carranza-Rosales, Gildardo Rivera, and Isias Balderas-Rentería
Identification and Characterization of a Chemical Compound that Inhibits Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Sara Robles, Yanmei Hu, Tahyra Resto, Frank Dean, and James M. Bullard
Dihydropyridines as Calcium Channel Blockers: An Overview, Thelma Salazar, Andres Gonzalez, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Isolation, Purification and Partial Characterization of Crotalaria pallida Aiton Seed Proteins, Sushobhan Ukil, Subrata Laskar, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to K2Mn4O9 nanomaterial a study of the effect of pH, time, temperature and interferences, J. P. Valle, B. Gonzalez, J. Schulz, D. Salinas, U. Romero, Diego F. Gonzalez, Carolina Valdes, J. M. Cantu, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
CARBON DIOXIDE-MEDIATED PREPARATION OF PYRROLES IN WATER FOLLOWING PAAL KNORR METHOD, Ram Naresh Yadav and Bimal K. Banik
CARBON DIOXIDE-MEDIATED SYNTHESIS OF PYRROLES IN WATER, Ram Naresh Yadav and Bimal K. Banik
Submissions from 2016
Forcespinning: A new method for the mass production of Sn/C composite nanofiber anodes for lithium ion batteries, Victor Agubra, Luis Zuniga, David De la Garza, Luis Gallegos, Madhab Pokhrel, and Mataz Alcoutlabi
Anti-cancer Parasporin Toxins are Associated with Different Environments: Discovery of Two Novel Parasporin 5-like Genes, David Ammons, John D. Short, Jeffery Bailey, Gabriela Hinojosa, Lourdes Tavarez, Martha Salazar, and Joanne Rampersad
Removal of Arsenic from water using synthetic Fe7S8 nanoparticles, Jesus Cantu, Louis E. Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goodship, Monica Contreras, Meera Joseph, Cameron Garza, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
Ultrasound assisted one-pot synthesis of benzo-fused indole-4, 9-dinones from 1,4-naphthoquinone and α-aminoacetals, Quang H. Luu, Jorge D. Guerra, Cecilio M. Castañeda, Manuel A. Martinez, Jong Saunders, Benjamin A. Garcia, Brenda V. Gonzales, Anushritha R. Aidunuthula, and Shizue Mito
Effect of Polymer Concentration Rotational Speed and Solvent Mixture On Fiber Formation Using Forcespinning®, Nancy Obregon, Victor Agubra, Madhab Pokhrel, Howard Campos, David Flores, David De la Garza, Yuanbing Mao, Javier Macossay-Torres, and Mataz Alcoutlabi
Microwave Measurements of the Tropolone-Formic Acid Doubly Hydrogen Bonded Dimer, Aaron M. Pejlovas, Agapito Serrato, Wei Lin, and Stephen G. Kukolich
Plant-based green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles: scientific curiosity or a realistic alternative to chemical synthesis?, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, Yuxiong Huang, Jason Parsons, Lijuan Zhao, Laura Lopez-Moreno, Jose A. Hernandez-Viezcas, and Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey
Removal of Cu (II) and Pb (II) from Aqueous Solution using engineered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Carlos Tamez, Rebecca Hernandez, and Jason Parsons
Self-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Yarns for Multifunctional Optoelectronic Applications, Mohammed Uddin, Glenn Grissom, Miguel Leal, Veronica Galvez, Tarek Trad, Ahmed Touhami, Nazmul Islam, Jason Parsons, and H. Justin Moore
Functional Triboluminescent Nanophase for Use in Advanced Structural Materials: A Smart Premise with Molecular and Electronic Definition, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, David O. Olawale, Jin Yan, Justin Moore, and Okenwa Okoli
3D Sensing Using Solid-State Wire-Shaped Photovoltaic Sensor in TL-Based Structural Health Monitoring, Jin Yan, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, David O. Olawale, Tarik J. Dickens, and Okenwa Okoli
Submissions from 2015
The Use of Polystyrene Beads to Prepare Arrayed Samples of Bacillus thuringiensis for Microscopic Examination, David Ammons and Joanne Rampersad-Ammons
Curcumin: A Folklore Remedy from Kitchen on the Way to Clinic As Cancer Drug, Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Multiple-Time Step Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Based on Two-Electron Integral Screening, Shervin Fatehi and Ryan P. Steele
An Acid-Bath Technique to Break Seed Dormancy in Common Sunflower, Helianthus L. annuus (Asteraceae), Yuridia Patricia Gandy, Michael W. Persans, and Kenneth R. Summy
TiO 2 Fibers: Tunable Polymorphic Phase Transformation and Electrochemical Properties, Edna Garcia, Qiang Li, Xing Sun, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao
Enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed Nazarov-type cyclization, Kei Kitamura, Naoyuki Shimada, Craig Stewart, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, and Marcus A. Tius
Internal dynamics in the molecular complex of CF3CN and H2O, Wei Lin, Anan Wu, Xin Lu, Xiao Tang, Daniel A. Obenchain, and Stewart E. Novick
A comparative study of polyurethane nanofibers with different patterns and its analogous nanofibers containing MWCNTs, Javier Macossay-Torres, Faheem A. Sheikh, Hassan Ahmad, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Microwave Spectra and Structure of the Cyclopropanecarboxylic Acid-Formic Acid Dimer, Aaron M. Pejlovas, Wei Lin, and Stephen G. Kukolich
Long-Range PCR Amplification of DNA by DNA Polymerase III Holoenzyme From Thermus Thermophilus, Wendy Ribble, Shawn D. Kane, and James M. Bullard
Imaging, Spectroscopy, Mechanical, Alignment and Biocompatibility Studies of Electrospun Medical Grade Polyurethane (Carbothane™ 3575A) Nanofibers and Composite Nanofibers Containing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Faheem A. Sheikh, Javier Macossay-Torres, Travis Cantu, Xujun Zhang, M. Shamshi Hassan, M. Esther Salinas, Chakavak S. Farhangi, Hassan Ahmad, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Palladium-Catalyzed C8-Selective C-H Arylation of Quinoline N-Oxides: Insights into the Electronic, Steric and Solvation Effects on the Site-Selectivity by Mechanistic and DFT Computational Studies, David E. Stephens, Johant Lakey-Beitia, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, Gabriel Chavez, Hadi D. Arman, and Oleg V. Larionov
The Requisite Electronic Structure Theory To Describe Photoexcited Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Nonadiabatic Derivative Couplings and Diabatic Electronic Couplings, Joseph E. Subotnik, Ethan Alguire, Qi Ou, Brian R. Landry, and Shervin Fatehi
Submissions from 2014
Analysis of Localized Diabatic States beyond the Condon Approximation for Excitation Energy Transfer Processes, Ethan Alguire, Shervin Fatehi, Yihan Shao, and Joseph E. Subotnik
Farmer to Pharmacist: Curcumin as an Anti-Invasive and Antimetastatic Agent for the Treatment of Cancer, Debasish Bandyopadhyay
An expeditious green route toward 2-aryl-4- phenyl-1H-imidazoles, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Lauren C. Smith, Daniel R. Garcia, Ram Naresh Yadav, and Bimal K. Banik
Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Activation energy Studies of the sorption of chromium(III) and chromium(VI) to a Mn 3 O 4 nanomaterial, Yvette Cantu, Abril Remes, Alejandra Reyna, Denise Martinez, Jahaziel Villarreal, Hilda Ramos, Samantha Trevino, C Tamez, A Martinez, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
Communication: Conical Intersections Between Vibrationally Adiabatic Surfaces in Methanol, Mahesh B. Dawadi and David S. Perry
Biodegradable electrospun nanofibers coated with platelet-rich plasma for cell adhesion and proliferation, Luis Diaz-Gomez, Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, Angel Concheiro, Maite Silva, Fernando Dominguez, Faheem A. Sheikh, Travis Cantu, Raj Desai, Vanessa L. Garcia, and Javier Macossay-Torres
Study of As(III) and As(V) Oxoanion Adsorption onto Single and Mixed Ferrite and Hausmannite Nanomaterials, Sandra Garcia, Saima Sardar, Stephanie Maldonado, Velia Garcia, C Tamez, and Jason Parsons
Imaging, Spectroscopic, Mechanical and Biocompatibility Studies of Electrospun Tecoflex® EG 80A Nanofibers and Composites Thereof Containing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Javier Macossay-Torres, Faheem A. Sheikh, Travis Cantu, Thomas Eubanks, M. Esther Salinas, Chakavak S. Farhangi, Hassan Ahmad, M. Shamshi Hassan, Myung-seob Khil, Shivani K. Maffi, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Derivative couplings between TDDFT excited states obtained by direct differentiation in the Tamm-Dancoff approximation, Qi Ou, Shervin Fatehi, Ethan Alguire, Yihan Shao, and Joseph Subotnik
Publisher’s Note: “Derivative couplings between TDDFT excited states obtained by direct differentiation in the Tamm-Dancoff approximation” [J. Chem. Phys. 141, 024114 (2014)], Qi Ou, Shervin Fatehi, Ethan Alguire, Yihan Shao, and Joseph Subotnik
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to High and Low Pressure Synthetic Nano-Magnetite (Fe3O4)Particles, Jason Parsons, Jeffrey Hernandez, Christina M. Gonzalez, and J. L. Gardea-Torresdey
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to High and Low Pressure Synthetic Nano-Magnetite (Fe3O4)Particles, Jason Parsons, Jeffrey Hernandez, Christina M. Gonzalez, and J. L. Gardea-Torresdey
The cytotoxic effect of 2-acylated-1,4-naphthohydroquinones on leukemia/lymphoma cells, Diego A. Pedroza, Fernando De Leon, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Carolina Lerma, Renato J. Aguilera, and Shizue Mito
SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL C-4 DISUBSTITUTED β-LACTAMS THROUGH STAUDINGER CYCLOADDITION REACTION, Robert Rodriguez, Anjali Nambiar, Ram N. Yadav, and Bimal K. Banik
Advances in molecular quantum chemistry contained in the Q-Chem 4 program package, Yihan Shao, Zhengting Gan, Evgeny Epifanovsky, Andrew T. B. Gilbert, Michael Wormit, and Shervin Fatehi
Crucial Positively Charged Residues for Ligand Activation of the GPR35 Receptor, Pingwei Zhao, Tom R. Lane, Helen G.L. Gao, Dow P. Hurst, Evangelia Kotsikorou, Long Le, Eugen Brailoiu, Patricia H. Reggio, and Mary E. Abood
Submissions from 2013
A Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Cry-Like Protein from a Rare Filamentous Strain Promotes Crystal Localization within the Exosporium, David Ammons, Antonio Reyna, Jose C. Granados, Antonio Ventura-Suárez, Luz I. Rojas-Avelizapa, John D. Short, and Joanne Rampersad-Ammons
Nitroxide-Functionalized Graphene Oxide from Graphite Oxide, Yazmin I. Avila-Vega, Cesar C. Leyva-Porras, Marcela Mireles, Manuel Quevedo-Lopez, Javier Macossay-Torres, and Jose Bonilla-Cruz
Evaluation of single electron transfer reduction products of 3-oxoindoles as antibacterial agents, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Irani Biswas, Subrata Laskar, and Bidyut Basak
A Green Chemoselective and Practical Approach Toward N-(2-Azetidinonyl) 25-Disubstituted Pyrroles, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Elvira Rhodes, and Bimal K. Banik
Novel Patterns of Torsion-Inversion-Rotation Energy Levels in the ν11 Asymmetric CH-Stretch Spectrum of Methylamine, Mahesh B. Dawadi, C. Michael Lindsay, Andrei Chirokolava, David S. Perry, and Li Hong Xu
Derivative couplings and analytic gradients for diabatic states, with an implementation for Boys-localized configuration-interaction singles, Shervin Fatehi, Ethan Alguire, and Joseph Subotnik
Facile, Green Synthesis of Large Single Crystal Copper Micro and Nanoparticles with Ascorbic Acid and Gum Arabic, Preston B. Landon, Alexander H. Mo, Carlos T. Ramos, Jose J. Gutierrez, and Ratnesh Lal
Asymmetric Supercapacitors With Dominant Pseudocapacitance Based on Manganese Oxide Nanoflowers in a Neutral Aqueous Electrolyte, Qiang Li, Xing Sun, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao
Study of the thermodynamics of chromium(III) and chromium(VI) binding to iron(II/III)oxide or magnetite or ferrite and magnanese(II) iron (III) oxide or jacobsite or manganese ferrite nanoparticles, Steven Luther, Nathan Brogfeld, Jisoo Kim, and Jason Parsons
Magnetic properties of double perovskite La2BMnO6 (B = Ni or Co) nanoparticles, Yuanbing Mao, Jason Parsons, and John S. Mccloy