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Eugene R. Zubarev

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Rice University
6100 Main Street, MS-60
Houston, Texas 77005

Office: BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC), Room 325
Phone: 713-348-3761
Fax: 713-348-5155

Email: EZ@rice.edu

Current CV

Eugene Zubarev was born on May 4, 1971 and grew up in Astrakhan, Russia. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Moscow State University (1993, GPA 5.0/5.0) and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Russian Academy of Sciences (Dec. 25, 1996). He worked as a research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University before moving to Iowa State University where he spent 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. In 2005 he moved to Rice University Chemistry Department and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2009. His current research is focused on molecular self-assembly, synthesis of gold nanocrystals, and hybrid materials.

Former Graduate Students

Dr. Bishnu Prasad Khanal

BS: Tribhuvan University, Nepal

MS : Tribhuvan University , Nepal

PhD Rice University, Houston ,Texas, USA

e mail : khanal@rice.edu

Synthesis and self assembly of hybrid nanorods

Large scale synthesis of monodisperse gold nanorods

Synthesis of high aspect ratio gold nanords

Publications

1. Solis, D.; Chang, W.-S.; Khanal, B. P.; Bao, K.; Nordlander, P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Link, S. ""Bleach Imaged Plasmon Propagation (BlIPP) in Single Gold Nanowires" Nano. Lett. 2010, 10, 3482-3485.

2. Critchley, K.; Khanal, B. P.; Gorzny, M. L.; Vigderman, L.; Evans, S. D.; Zubarev, E. R.; Kotov, N. A. ""Near-Bulk Conductivity of Gold Nanowires as Nanoscale Interconnects and the Role of Atomically Smooth Interface" Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 2338-2342.

3. Slaughter, L. S.; Chang, W.-S.; Swanglap, P.; Tcherniak, A.; Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Link, S. ""Single-Particle Spectroscopy of Gold Nanorods beyond the Quasi-Static Limit: Varying the Width at Constant Aspect Ratio" J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114,4934-4938..

4. Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R. ""Polymer Functionalized Platinum-On-Gold Bimetallic Nanorods" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. 2009, 48, 6888-6891.

5. Chang, W.-S.; Slaughter, L. S.; Khanal, B. P.; Manna, P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Link, S. "One-Dimensional Coupling of Gold Nanoparticle Plasmons in Self-Assembled Ring Superstructures" " Nano. Lett. 2009, 9, 1152-1157.

6. Kozlovskaya, V.; Kharlampieva, E.; Khanal, B. P.; Manna, P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Tsukruk, V. V. "Ultrathin Layer-by-Layer Hydrogels with Incorporated Gold Nanorods as pH-Sensitive Optical Materials"" Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 7474-7485.

7. Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R. "Purification of High Aspect Ratio Gold Nanorods: Complete Removal of Platelets" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 12634-12635.

8. Gibson, J. D.; Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R. "Paclitaxel-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11653-11661.

9. Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R. "Rings of Nanorods" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 2195-2198. (Inside Cover Article).

Dr. Jacob D. Gibson

BS: Austin College, Sherman, TX

PhD: Rice University, Houston ,Texas, USA

e mail : jacob.d.gibson@rice.edu

Synthesis of Paclitaxel Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and Studying Their Anticancer Property

Self-Assembly of Au-Taxol in water

Publications

1. Gibson, J. D.; Khanal, B. P.; Zubarev, E. R. "Paclitaxel-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11653-11661.

2 . Zubarev, E. R.; Xu, J.; Sayyad, A.; Gibson, J. D. "Amphiphilicity-Driven Organization of Nanoparticles into Discrete Assemblies" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 15098-15099.

3. Zubarev, E. R.; Xu, J.; Sayyad, A.; Gibson, J. D. "Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles with V-Shaped Arms" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4958-4959.

4. Zubarev, E. R.; Xu, J.; Gibson, J. D.; Sayyad, A. "From Small Building Blocks to Complex Molecular Architecture" Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 1367-1370.

5. Genson, K. L.; Holzmueller, J.; Jiang, C.; Xu, J.; Gibson, J. D.; Zubarev, E. R.; Tsukruk, V. V. "Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers of Gold Nanoparticles with Amphiphilic Shells from V-Shaped Binary Polymer Arms" Langmuir 2006, 22, 7011-7015.

Graduate Students

Pramit Manna

BS: Jadavpur University, India

MS : Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , India

PhD (currently pursuing): Rice University, Houston ,Texas, USA

e mail : pramit@rice.edu

Synthesis, Surface Modification and Colloidal Crystallization of Monodisperse Gold Nanoparticles

Colloidal Crystallization of monodisperse Gold Nanorods

Surface Modification of Gold Nanorods to Make Them Biocompatible

Publications

1. Khatua, S.; Manna, P.; Chang, W.-S.; Tcherniak, A.; Friedlander, E.; Zubarev, E. R.; Link, S. "Plasmonic Nanoparticles – Liquid Crystal Composites" " J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 9, 7251-7257.

2. Chang, W.-S.; Slaughter, L. S.; Khanal, B. P.; Manna, P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Link, S. "One-Dimensional Coupling of Gold Nanoparticle Plasmons in Self-Assembled Ring Superstructures" " Nano. Lett. 2009, 114, 1152-1157.

3. Kozlovskaya, V.; Kharlampieva, E.; Khanal, B. P.; Manna, P.; Zubarev, E. R.; Tsukruk, V. V. "Ultrathin Layer-by-Layer Hydrogels with Incorporated Gold Nanorods as pH-Sensitive Optical Materials"" Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 7474-7485.

Leonid Vigderman

BS: University of Colorado at Denver

PhD (currently pursuing): Rice University, Houston ,Texas, USA

e mail : lv2@rice.edu

Multi-component Assembly of Gold and Silica Nanoparticles

Synthesis and Self-assembly of Mesoscopic Gold Particles