Nano Interfaces Lab

Select Publications

  1. Moshood K. Morakinyo, Shankar B. Rananvare, "Reducing the effect of shot Noise using nanoparticles,"  Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, 955-959( 2015) Cover Page Article;  b) Joo C Chan, Nicole Hannah-Moore, Shankar B. Rananavare, "Controlled Deposition of Tin Oxide and Silver Nanoparticles Using Microcontact Printing," Crystals, 5(1) 116-142 (2015).                                                                                                                                                                    
  2. Geniece L. Hallett-Tapley ,  Tse-Luen (Erika) Wee ,  Hoang Tran ,  Shankar B. Rananavare ,  James M. Blackwell and Juan C. Scaiano, “Single component photoacid/photobase generators: potential applications in double patterning photolithography,” J. Mater. Chem. C, 1,2657 (2013).

  3. Chaparazda, A., Tran H. A., Rananavare S. B., "Doped Tin Oxide Nanomaterials for Chlorine and Hydrogen Gas Detection. Chapter in "Oxide Nanostructures: Growth, Microstructures and Properties,  Avanish Kumar Srivastava Ed., Pan Stanford Publishing, CRC Press Boca Raton 2013. 

  4. Mariya Chavarha, Ryan W. Loney, Shankar B. Rananavare, Stephen B. Hall, " An Anionic Phospholipid Enables the Hydrophobic Surfactant Proteins Alter Spontaneous Curvature," Biophysical Journal, 104(3), 594-603 (2013).

  5.  Mariya Chavarha, Ryan W. Loney, Shankar B. Rananavare, Stephen B. Hall, "Differential effects of the Hydrophobic Surfactant Protein on formation of Inverse Bicontinuous Cubic Phases," Langmuir 28(48), 16596-16604 (2012).

  6. Hopkins, M.; Morakinyo, M.K.; Rananavare, S.B.; La Rosa A.; Freeouf J. L.; "Coaxial tips for infrared NSOM,"Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) 2011, 11th IEEE Conference, pp 531-534 15-18 August  2011.

  7. Chan Joo, Tran, Hoang; Pattison, James W.; Rananavare, Shankar B. “ Facile pyrolytic synthesis of silicon nanowires,” Solid-State Electronics,  54(10), 1185-1191 (2010)

  8. Allen Chaparadza, Shankar B. Rananavare '' Towards p-type conductivity in lithium doped tin oxide,”                  Nanotechnology, 21 035708 (2010)

  9. Chaparadza, S. B. Rananavare "Room temperature Cl2 sensing using thick nanoporous films of Sb-doped SnO2", Nanotechnology 19 245501 (2008); 

  10. Samares C. Biswas , Shankar B. Rananavare and Stephen B. Hall, “Differential Effects of Lysophosphatidylcholine on the Adsorption of Phospholipids to an Air/Water Interface,” Biophys. J., 81 1536–1546 (2007) 

  11.  Winner, S. W., Winter R. W., Smith, J. A, Gard,G. L, Hannah, N.A., Rananavare, S. B., Piknova B., and Hall S.B.,"Aromatic pentafluoro-?6-sulfanyl (SF5) surfactants: m-SF5(CF2)nC6H4SO3K,"Mendeleev Commun. 16(3) 182 2006

  12. Jeremy A. Smith, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Nicole A. Hannah, Rolf W. Winter, Timothy J. R. Weakley, Gary L. Gard, and Shankar B. Rananavare, “SF5-Terminated Fluorinated Schiff Base Liquid Crystals,” J. Phys. Chem. B 108(52), 19940-19948 (2004).

  13. S. B. Rananavare, C. D. Meglio, S. Svenson,  and D. H. Thompson, "Bolamphilphilic  phosphocholines: Structure and Phase Behavior in Aqueous Media," Langmuir, Vol. 16, 128 (2000).

  14. S. B. Rananavare, V. G. K. M. Pisipati, E. W. Wong, "A Lifshitz Point in  Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals," in Liquid Crystal Materials Devices and Applications III, (R. Shashidhar, ed.), 2175, pp. 108-119, SPIE-94, San Jose, February 8-10 (1994). S. B. Rananavare, V. G. K. M. Pisipati, E. W. Wong, "The ACC Multicritical Point in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3558 (1994)

  15. D. H. Thompson, K. F. Wong, R. Humphry-Baker, J. J. Wheeler, J. M. Kim, and S. B. Rananavare  "Tetraether Bolaform Amphiphiles as Models of Archaebacterial Membrane Lipids:  Raman Spectroscopy, 31P-NMR, X-ray Scattering, and Electron Microscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114 9035 (1992)