Latha Gearheart

Presbyterian College — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications(10), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques(4), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry(4), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties(3), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies(3)

Publications18 total

Role of Monovalent Counterions in the Ultrafast Dynamics of DNA
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B·2006· 28 cited
Aspect ratio dependence on surface enhanced Raman scattering using silver and gold nanorod substrates
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics·2005· 463 cited
Effect of Protein Binding on Ultrafast DNA Dynamics: Characterization of a DNA:APE1 Complex
Biophysical Journal·2005· 29 citedOpen Access
Self-Organization of Metallic Nanorods into Liquid Crystalline Arrays
2005
Electrophoretic Analysis and Purification of Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fragments
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2004· 5.0k cited
Synthesis, Assembly and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods
2004· 5 cited
Sodium-Ion Binding to DNA:  Detection by Ultrafast Time-Resolved Stokes-Shift Spectroscopy
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2003· 33 cited
Liquid crystalline assemblies of ordered gold nanorods
Journal of Materials Chemistry·2002· 189 cited
Anisotropic Chemical Reactivity of Gold Spheroids and Nanorods
Langmuir·2002· 230 cited
Oligonucleotide Adsorption to Gold Nanoparticles:  A Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Study of Intrinsically Bent DNA
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B·2001· 191 cited
Seeding Growth for Size Control of 5−40 nm Diameter Gold Nanoparticles
Langmuir·2001· 1.3k cited
Seed-Mediated Growth Approach for Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Spheroidal and Rod-like Gold Nanoparticles Using a Surfactant Template
Advanced Materials·2001· 1.7k citedOpen Access
Evidence for Seed-Mediated Nucleation in the Chemical Reduction of Gold Salts to Gold Nanoparticles
Chemistry of Materials·2001· 701 cited
<title>Inorganic nanoparticles as optical sensors of DNA</title>
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE·2001· 1 cited
Wet Chemical Synthesis of High Aspect Ratio Cylindrical Gold Nanorods
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B·2001· 2.5k cited
Wet chemical synthesis of silver nanorods and nanowires of controllable aspect ratio
Chemical Communications·2001· 1.2k cited
Recognition of hypermethylated triplet repeats in vitro by cationic nanoparticles
Journal of Biomedical Optics·2001· 9 citedOpen Access
Quantum Dots as Inorganic DNA-Binding Proteins
MRS Proceedings·1996· 17 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Catherine J. Murphy(16), Nikhil R. Jana(11), Sherine O. Obare(4), Christopher J. Johnson(3), Karen J. Edler(3), Stephen Mann(3), Robert S. Coleman(3), Mark A. Berg(3), K. K. Caswell(3), Harry J. Ploehn(2), Sobhan Sen(2), Xiaoyou Xu(1), Robert Ray(1), Yunlong Gu(1), K. O. Räker(1), Walter A. Scrivens(1), Christopher J. Orendorff(1), Mark M. Somoza(1), W. Evan Rivers(1), Nicole A. Paraggio(1)