Metal Nanostructures Laboratory (MNL)
Personnel
Yaowu Hao, Ph.D. Associate Professor
•Postdoc Fellow:
Chien-Wen Huang
• Graduate students
Chivarat Muangphat (Ph. D.)
Orathai Thumthan (Ph. D.)
Jiaqi Wu (Ph. D.)
Lin Lin (Ph. D.)
Research Activities
Research at MNL involves the fabrication, characterization and applications of novel magnetic nanostructures, including multilayer films, nanorods, nanodisks and nanotubes. The current projects include:
- Large area simple nanopattern generation tools - sphere lithography, anodic alumina, and polystyrene colloidal crystal
- Magnetophoresis using multilayered magnetic nanodisks.
- Synthesis of hollow Au nanoparticles and their bioapplications in diagnostic imaging and photothermal therapy.
- Synthesis of core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles and their catalytic applications.
Facilities
*General wet chemistry facility
*Princeton Applied Research 273A Potentiostat/Galvanostats
*Three eDAQ EA161 Potentiostat /Galvanostats controlled with e-Corder 821
*Homemade anodization system
*KLA-Tencor EV7 Vibrating Sample Magnetometer.
Selected Publications
Huang, C., Y.-J. Li, C. Muangphat, and Y. Hao, Electroless deposition of Au around electrochemically evolved hydrogen bubbles. Electrochimica Acta. 56(24): 8319-8324 (2011).
Huang, C., J. Jiang, C. Muangphat, X Sun, and Y. Hao, Trapping iron oxide into hollow Au nanoparticles. Nanoscale Research Letters. 6(1): 43 (2011).
Huang, C. and Y. Hao, Plasmonic properties of polycrystalline hollow Au nanoparticles: a surface roughness effect. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 11(4): 3701-3705 (2011).
Punnakitikashem, P., S. Chang, C. Huang, J.P. Liu, and Y. Hao., Design and Fabrication of Non-Superparamagnetic High Moment Magnetic Nanoparticles for Bioapplications. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 12: 1101-1106 (2010)
Huang, C.W., J.C. Jiang, M.Y. Lu, L. Sun, E.I. Meletis, and Y.W. Hao, Capturing Electrochemically Evolved Nanobubbles by Electroless Deposition. A Facile Route to the Synthesis of Hollow Nanoparticles. Nano Letters, 9(12): 4297-4301 (2009)
Huang, C.W. and Y.W. Hao, The fabrication of short metallic nanotubes by templated electrodeposition. Nanotechnology, 20(44): 445607 (2009) (Featured on the cover)
