University at Buffalo (SUNY) – TechConnect Briefs

Flame-based Aerosol Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles and Supported-Metal Nanostructures

Liu S., Swihart M.T., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Commercialization of inorganic nanomaterials is often limited by scale-up. Our group developed a unique flame- based aerosol process for scalable, continuous, and low-cost production of various nanomaterials, the High Temperature Reducing Jet (HTRJ) Reactor. Over [...]

Numerical Modelling of a Sinusoidal Grating-Based Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission Biosensor

Sukhotskiy V., Cady N.C., Reddy I.V.A.K., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

We present a full-wave computational model to study the optical behavior of a versatile sinusoidal grating-based surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE) biosensor. Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent oscillations of conduction electrons on a metal surface excited [...]

Giant Enhancement of the Chiro-Optic Response of Chiral Plasmonic Media using Structured Light

Reddy I.V.A.K., Sukhotskiy V., Baev A., Furlani E.P., Prasad P.N., Haus J.W., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

We propose an approach to achieve a great enhancement and broad spectral tunability of the chiro-optic response of plasmonic metasurfaces by exploiting their interaction with light of complex polarization, endowed with both spin (SAM) and [...]

Advances in Magnetohydrodynamic Molten Metal Jet Printing

Vader S., Vader Z., Vader S., Vader Z., Karampelas I.H., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

At present, most metal 3D printing applications involve deposited metal powder sintering or melting under the influence of an external energy source such as a laser (e.g. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) [1] and Direct Metal [...]

Field-directed Self-assembly of Multifunctional Magnetic-Plasmonic Core-shell Nanoparticles with Applications to Photonics

Xue X., Liu K., Wang J., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Interest in the manipulation and self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles has grown in recent years due to advances in particle synthesis and functionalization, which have led to a proliferation of applications that include the biomolecular transport, [...]

Plasmonic Nanocages as Photothermal Transducers for Nanobubble Cancer Therapy

Karampelas I.H., Liu K., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

The ability to generate and control thermal energy with nanoscale resolution is finding increasing use in a variety of applications spanning the fields of nanoparticle synthesis, nanofabrication, bio-imaging and medical therapy [1, 2]. One of [...]

Analysis of Permeance vs. Support Porosity for Thin Film Composite Membranes

Karampelas I.H., Zhu L., Jia W., Yavari M., Lin H., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Membranes are an important technology for industrial gas separation and seawater desalination and emerging applications such as CO2 capture. The key to the steady growth of membrane applications is high performance thin film composite (TFC) [...]

Plasmon-enhanced Optical Rotation in Nanostructured Metasurfaces

Kim Y.H., Alali F., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled the realization of unique artificial materials for applications in the field of nanophotonics. Such metamaterials are engineered with sub-wavelength features to provide extraordinary optical properties such as negative refraction1, slow [...]

Numerical Analysis of Laser Induced Photothermal Effects using Colloidal Plasmonic Nanostructures

Karampelas I.H., Kim Y.H., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Colloidal plasmonic nanostructures are finding increasing use in a variety of applications that range from nanoparticle synthesis to bioimaging to medical therapy. In many such applications, a pulsed laser is used to heat plasmonic nanostructures [...]

Magneto-plasmonic Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Bioimaging and Photothermal Cancer Therapy

Kopwitthaya A., Ohulchanskyy T.Y., Jeon M., Law W-C., Xie Q., Chada R.R., Xue X., Furlani E.P., Kim C., Prasad P.N., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Multifunctional nanoplatforms are finding increasing use in a host of emerging applications in the fields of biophotonics and nanomedicine where they are used to target, probe, image and treat tissue at the cellular and subcellular [...]