Contact Information

 

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: 08/31/2009

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

P. J. J. Alvarez, J. Lee, L. J. Wilson, Y. Mackeyev, "Novel Photocatalytic Fullerenes for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Disinfection," Provisional U. S. Patent Application No. 11321/P189V1, filed June 24, 2009.

A. A. Hassan, B. Chan, K. B. Hartman, J. S. Ananta, Y. Mackeyev, L. Hu, R. G. Pautler, L. J. Wilson, and A. V. Lee, "Serine-Derivatized Gadonanotubes as Magnetic Nanoprobes for Intracellular Labeling," Contrast Media Mol. Imaging, submitted (2009).

J. Kolosnjaj, K. B. Hartman, S. Boudjemaa, J. S. Ananta, G. Morgant, H. Szwarc, L. J. Wilson and F. Moussa, "In vivo behaviour of ultra-short and full-length single-walled carbon nanotubes after oral and intra-peritoneal administration to Swiss mice," J. Biomater., submitted (2009).

K. K. Wong, A. M. Tang, J. S, Ananta, I. Muradyan, E. Y. Lam, S. Patz, L. J. Wilson, S. T. Wong, "Molecular Imaging in low field MRI via Gadolinium Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Nature Nanotechnol., submitted (2009).

J. Ananta, M. Matson, A. Tang, T. Mandal, S. Lin, K. Wong, S. Wong, L. J. Wilson, "Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Materials as T2-weighted MRI Contrast Agents," Nano Lett., submitted (2009).

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

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

A. A. Hassan, B. Chan, K. B. Hartman, L. Hu, R. G. Pautler, L. J. Wilson, A. V. Lee, "Biological evaluation of the gadonanotubes as high-performance MRI contrast agents: First cellular and in vivo imaging studies," Nature Nanotechnol., submitted (2008).

B. Sitharaman, M. van der Zande, J. S. Ananta, X. Shi, A. Veltien, X. F. Walboomers, L. J. Wilson, A. G. Mikos, A. Heerschap, J. A. Jansen, "Gadonanotube Reinforced Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds," Biomaterials, submitted (2008).

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

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

B. Sitharaman, X. Shi, F. Walboomers, H. Liao, V. Cuijpers, L. J. Wilson, A. G. Mikos, and J. A. Jansen, "In Vivo Biocompatibility of Ultra-Short Single Walled Carbon Nanotube/Biodegradable Polymer Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering," Bone 2008 43, 362-370.

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

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

A. Hirsch, U. Sagman, S. R. Wilson, M. G. Rosenblum and L. J. Wilson, "Use of Carbon Nanotube for Drug Delivery," U. S. Patent Application, Serial No. 11/841,087, filed August 20, 2007.

B. Sitharaman, A. G. Mikos, L. J. Wilson, X. Shi, "Carbon nanotube based nanocomposites," Provisional Patent Application filed January 11, 2007, Reg. No. 37,733.

K. B. Hartman and L. J. Wilson, "Carbon Nanostructures as a New High-performance Platform for MR Molecular Imaging," invited book chapter in Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications, Warren Chan, Ed., Landes Bioscience and Eurekah, Georgetown, Texas, 2007, 74-84.

B. Sitharaman, L. J. Wilson, "Gadofullerenes and Gadonanotubes: A New Paradigm for High-Performance MRI Contrast Agent Probes," invited book chapter in Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Labhasetwar, P., Leslie-Pelecky, D. L., Eds., John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 2007, Vol. 3, 1-11.

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

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

B. Sitharaman, L. A. Tran, Q. P. Pham, R. D. Bolskar, R. Muthupillai, S. D. Flamm, A. G. Mikos, L. J. Wilson, "Gadofullerenes as Nanoscale Magnetic Labels for Cellular MRI,"Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging 2007, 2, 139-146.

S. Laus, B. Sitharaman, E. Toth, R. D. Bolskar, L. Helm, L. J. Wilson and A. E. Merbach, "Understanding Paramagnetic Relaxation Phenomenon for Water-soluble Gadofullerenes," J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 5633-5639.

B. Sitharaman, X. Shi, L. A. Tran, P. P. Spicer, I. Rusakova, L. J. Wilson and A. G. Mikos, "Injectable in Situ Cross-linkable Nanocomposites of Biodegradable Polymers and Carbon Nanostructures for Bone Tissue Engineering," J. Biomater. Sci., Polym. Ed. 2007, 18, 655-671.

Y. Mackeyev, S. Bachilo, K. B. Hartman and L. J. Wilson, "The Purification of HiPCo SWCNTs with Liquid Bromine at Room Temperature," Carbon 2007, 45, 1013-1017.

J. M. Ashcroft, K. B. Hartman, K. R. Kissell, Y. Mackeyev, S. Pheasant, S. Young, P. A. van der Heide, A. G. Mikos and L. J. Wilson, "Single-molecule I2@US-tube Nanocapsules: A New X-ray Contrast Agent Design," Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 573-576.