Light-triggered release of photocaged therapeutics-Where are we now?

JM Silva, E Silva, RL Reis - Journal of Controlled Release, 2019 - Elsevier
The current available therapeutics face several challenges such as the development of ideal
drug delivery systems towards the goal of personalized treatments for patients benefit. The …

And then there was light: perspectives of optogenetics for deep brain stimulation and neuromodulation

J Delbeke, L Hoffman, K Mols, D Braeken… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has evolved into a well-accepted add-on treatment for
patients with severe Parkinsons disease as well as for other chronic neurological conditions …

Optical detection of brain cell activity using plasmonic gold nanoparticles

J Zhang, T Atay, AV Nurmikko - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
Metal nanoparticles are being actively explored for applications that use localized surface
plasmon (LSP) resonance for optical sensing. Here we report an electrostatic field sensing …

Highly efficient, spectrally pure 340 nm ultraviolet emission from AlxGa1− xN nanowire based light emitting diodes

Q Wang, AT Connie, HPT Nguyen, MG Kibria… - …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
High crystal quality, vertically aligned Al x Ga 1− x N nanowire based double heterojunction
light emitting diodes (LEDs) are grown on Si substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. Such Al x …

Caged siRNAs for spatiotemporal control of gene silencing

JP Casey, RA Blidner, WT Monroe - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2009 - ACS Publications
Various strategies have been employed to achieve control over delivery of siRNA molecules
to intended target cells. Photocaging is one specific class of modifications for silencing …

The effect of pH on the photonic efficiency of the destruction of methyl orange under controlled periodic illumination with UV-LED sources

O Tokode, R Prabhu, LA Lawton… - Chemical engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
The nature of photon interaction and reaction pH can have significant impacts on
semiconductor photocatalysis. This paper describes the effect of pH on the photonic …

Application of blue–green and ultraviolet micro-LEDs to biological imaging and detection

H Xu, J Zhang, KM Davitt, YK Song… - Journal of Physics D …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews authors' laboratory's work on the development of nitride-based blue–
green and ultraviolet microscale LED devices with particular classes of imaging and …

Neuroplasmonics: From Kretschmann configuration to plasmonic crystals

F Sohrabi, SM Hamidi - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2016 - Springer
Recently, a worldwide attempt for understanding the functions of brain and nervous system
has been made. Hence, various aspects of neuroscience have been investigated through …

Passivation of Surface States of AlGaN Nanowires Using H3PO4 Treatment To Enhance the Performance of UV-LEDs and Photoanodes

M Biswas, V Chavan, S Zhao, Z Mi… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Surface states serve as additional charge-carrier-trapping centers and create an energy
barrier at the semiconductor–electrolyte interface. This in turn may severely reduce the …

Optical suppression of seizure-like activity with an LED

SM Rothman, G Perry, XF Yang, K Hyrc, BF Schmidt - Epilepsy research, 2007 - Elsevier
The therapy of focal epilepsy remains unsatisfactory for as many as 25% of patients. We
tested the hypothesis that an efficient, ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV LED), coupled with …