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Physical Address

Dell Butcher Hall Rm. 360

Rice University

Houston, TX 77005

 

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1892, MS-60

Houston, TX 77251-1892

 

Phone: (713) 348-3476

Fax: (713) 348-5155

 

Rice University

 

Department of Chemistry

 

 

Last Updated: 06/17/2011

Recent Publications (For a complete list, click here.)

 

Berger, C. S.; Marks, J.; Bolskar, R. D.; Rosenblum, M. G.; Wilson, L. J. Cell Internalization Studies of Gadofullerene-(ZME-018) Immunoconjugates into A375m Melanoma Cells. Bioconjugate Chem. (Submitted).

Tang, A. M.; Ananta, J. S.; Zhao, H.; Cisneros, B. T.; Lam, E. Y.; Wong, S. T.; Wilson, L. J.; Wong, K. K. Cellular uptake and imaging studies of gadolinium-loaded single-walled carbon nanotubes as MRI contrast agents. Contrast Media Mol. Imaging 2011, 6(2), 93-99.

Ananta, J. S.; Godin, B.; Sethi, R.; Moriggi, L.; Liu, X.; Serda, R. E.; Krishnamurthy, R.; Muthupillai, R.; Bolskar, R. D.; Helm, L.; Ferrari, M.; Wilson, L. J.; Decuzzi, P. Geometrical confinement of gadolinium-based contrast agents in nanoporous particles enhances T₁ contrast. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010, 5, 815-821.

Tran, L. A.; Krishnamurthy, R.; Muthupillai, R.; Cabreira-Hansen, M. G.; Willerson, J. T.; Perin, E. C.; Wilson, L. J. Gadonanotubes as magnetic nanolabels for stem cell detection. Biomaterials 2010, 31(36), 9482-9491.

Hassan, A. A.; Chan, B. T-Y.; Tran, L. A.; Hartman, K. B.; Ananta, J. S.; Mackeyev, Y.; Hu, L.; Pautler, R. G.; Wilson, L. J.; Lee, A. V. Serine-Derivatized Gadonanotubes as Magnetic Nanoprobes for Intracellular Labeling. Contrast Media Mol. Imaging 2010, 5(1), 34-38.

Kolosnjaj-Tabi, J.; Hartman, K. B.; Boudjemaa, S.; Ananta, J. S.; Morgant, G.; Szwarc, H.; Wilson, L. J.; Moussa, F. In Vivo Behavior of Large Doses of Ultrashort and Full-Length Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes after Oral and Intraperitoneal Administration to Swiss Mice. ACS Nano 2010, 4(3), 1481-1492.

Matson, M. L.; Wilson, L. J. Nanotechnology and MRI contrast enhancement. Future Med. Chem. 2010 2(3), 491-502.

Van der Zande, M.; Sitharaman, B.; Walboomers, X. F.; Tran, L.; Ananta, J. S.; Veltien, A.; Wilson, L. J.; Alava, J. I.; Heerschap, A.; Mikos, A. G.; Jansen, J. A. In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Distribution Pattern of Gadonanotubes Released from a Degrading Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) Scaffold. Tissue Eng., Part C Methods 2011, 17(1), 19-26.

Sitharaman, B.; Van der Zande, M.; Ananta, J. S.; Shi, X.; Veltien, A.; Walboomers, X. F.; Wilson, L. J.; Mikos, A. G.; Heerschap, A.; Jansen, J. A. Magnetic resonance imaging studies on gadonanotube-reinforced biodegradable polymer nanocomposites. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A 2010, 93(4), 1454-1462.

Ananta, J. S.; Wilson, L. J. Gadonanostructures as Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents, in Chemistry of Nanocarbons (eds T. Akasaka, F. Wudl, and S. Nagase), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK. 2010, doi: 10.1002/9780470660188.ch11.

Ananta, J. S.; Matson, M. L.; Tang, A. M.; Mandal, T.; Lin, S.; Wong, K.; Wong, S. T.; Wilson, L. J. Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Materials as T₂-weighted MRI Contrast Agents. J.Phys. Chem. C., 2009, 113(45), 19369-19372.

Lee, J.; Mackeyev, Y.; Cho, M.; Li, D.; Kim, J-H., Wilson, L. J.; Alvarez, P. J. J. Photochemical and Antimicrobial Properties of Novel C₆₀ Derivatives in Aqueous Systems. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43(17), 6604-6610.

Mackeyev, Y.; Hartman, K. B.; Ananta, J. S.; Lee, A. V.; Wilson, L. J. Catalytic Synthesis of Amino Acid and Peptide Derivatized Gadonanotubes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131(24), 8342-8343.

Faridis, S.; Mitchell, D.; Smith, K. D. B.; Ananta, J. S.; Wilson, L. J.; Pautler, R. G. Assessing transneuronal dysfunction utilizing manganese-enhanced MR (MEMRI). Magn. Res. Med. 2008, 60(1), 169-175.

Sitharaman, B.; Zakharian, T.; Saraf, A.; Misra, P.; Ashcroft, J.; Pan, S.; Pham, Q. P.; Mikos, A. G.; Wilson, L. J.; Engler, D. A. Water-Soluble Fullerene (C₆₀) Derivatives as Nonviral Gene-Delivery Vectors. Mol. Pharm. 2008 5(4), 567-578.

Shi, X.; Sitharaman, B.; Pham, Q. P.; Spicer, P. P.; Hudson, J. L.; Wilson, L. J.; Tour, J. M.; Raphael, R. M.; Mikos, A. G. In vitro cytotoxicity of single-walled carbon nanotube/biodegradable polymer nanocomposites. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A 2008, 86A(3), 813-823.

Sitharaman, B.; Shi, X.; Walboomers, F.; Liao, H.; Cuijpers, V.; Wilson, L. J.; Mikos, A. G.; Jansen, J. A. In Vivo Biocompatibility of ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube/biodegradable polymer nanocomposites for bone tissue engineering. Bone 2008, 43(2), 362-370.

Hartman, K. B.; Laus, S.; Bolskar, R. D.; Muthupillai, R.; Helm, L.; Toth, E.; Merbach, A. E.; Wilson, L. J. Gadonanotubes as Ultrasensitive pH-Smart Probes for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Nano Lett. 2008, 8(2), 415-419.

Hartman, K. B.; Wilson, L. J.; Rosenblum, M. G. Detecting and Treating Cancer with Nanotechnology. Mol. Diagn. Ther. 2008, 12(1), 1-14.

Hartman, K. B.; Wilson, L. J. Carbon Nanostructures as a New High-performance Platform for MR Molecular Imaging, in Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications, (ed W. Chan), Landes Bioscience, Austin, TX, 2007, 74-84.

Sitharaman, B.; Wilson, L. J. Gadofullerenes and Gadonanotubes: A New Paradigm for High-performance MRI Contrast Agent Probes. J. Biomed. Nanotechnol., 2007, 3(4), 342-352(11).

Hartman, K. B.; Hamlin, D. K.; Wilbur, D. S.; Wilson, L. J. ²¹¹AtCl@US-tube Nanocapsules: A New Concept in Radiotherapeutic-Agent Design. Small 2007, 3(9), 1496-1499.

Shi, X.; Sitharaman, B.; Pham, Q. P.; Liang, F.; Wu, K.; Billups, W. E.; Wilson, L. J.; Mikos, A. G. Fabrication of porous ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Biomaterials 2007, 28(28), 4078-4090.