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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year 3-5 Investigator Grants (RFP-II)

Project Publications & Presentations

Novel Sensor System for the Early Detection and Monitoring of Offshore Oil Spills

Journal Articles - 5

2016

Shih, W. - C., Santos, G. M., Zhao, F., Zenasni, O., & Arnob, M. M. P. (2016). Simultaneous Chemical and Refractive Index Sensing in the 1-2.5 μm Near-Infrared Wavelength Range on Nanoporous Gold Disks. Nano Lett., 16(7), 4641–4647.

2015

Zeng, J., Zhao, F., Li, M., Li, C. - H., Lee, T. R., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Morphological control and plasmonic tuning of nanoporous gold disks by surface modifications. J. Mater. Chem. C, 3(2), 247–252.
Zhao, F., Zeng, J., Santos, G. M., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). In situ patterning of hierarchical nanoporous gold structures by in-plane dealloying. Materials Science and Engineering: B, 194, 34–40.

2014

Zeng, J., Zhao, F., Qi, J., Li, Y., Li, C. - H., Yao, Y., et al. (2014). Internal and external morphology-dependent plasmonic resonance in monolithic nanoporous gold nanoparticles. RSC Adv., 4(69), 36682–36688.
Zhao, F., Zeng, J., Parvez Arnob, M. M., Sun, P., Qi, J., Motwani, P., et al. (2014). Monolithic NPG nanoparticles with large surface area, tunable plasmonics, and high-density internal hot-spots. Nanoscale, 6(14), 8199.

Conference Presentations - 23

2015

Arnob, M., Zhao, F., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Modeling Nanoporous Gold Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Calculation of Optical Properties. In Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) , 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on. Rome : 07/27/15-07/30/15.
Bhave, G., Zhao, F., Li, J., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Wavelength tunable plasmon enhanced photoluminescence from quantum dots. In Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2015 International Conference on. Jerusalem : 08/02/15-08/05/15.
Li, M., Du, Y., Zhao, J., Santos, G. M., Mohan, C., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Stamping SERS for creatinine sensing. In Proc. SPIE 9340, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XII, 934004. San Francisco, CA : 03/11/1502/.
Li, M., Zhao, F., Zeng, J., Santos, G. M., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Label-free, multiplexed, molecular sensing and imaging by stamping SERS. In Proc. SPIE 9332, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, 93320E. San Francisco, CA : 02/07/15.
Li, M., Zhao, F., Zeng, J., Santos, G. M., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Monolithically integrated microfluidic nanoporous gold disk (NPGD) surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor for rapid and label-free biomolecular detection. In Proc. SPIE 9320, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XIII, 93200K. San Francisco, CA : 02/07/15.
Qi, J., Sudheendran, N., Liu, C. - H., Santos, G. M., Young, E. D., Lazar, A. J., et al. (2015). Raman spectroscopy complements optical coherent tomography in tissue classification and cancer detection. In Proc. SPIE 9318, Optical Biopsy XIII: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 931807. San Francisco, CA : 02/07/15.
Qi, J., Zeng, J., Zhao, F., Santos, G. M., Lin, S. H., Raja, B., et al. (2015). Label-free monitoring of individual DNA hybridization using SERS. In Proc. SPIE 9337, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XII, 93370D. San Francisco, CA : 02/07/15.
Santos, G. M., Zhao, F., Zeng, J., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Santos, G.M.; Zhao, F.; Zeng, J.; Shih, W.-C. In Proc. SPIE 9322, Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics XII, 93220J. San Francisco, CA : 02/07/15.
Zhao, F., Zeng, J., Arnob, M. M. P., Santos, G. M., & Shih, W. - C. (2015). Monolithic nanoporous gold disks with large surface area and high-density plasmonic hot-spots. In Proc. SPIE 9340, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XII, 93400B. San Francisco, CA : 03/11/1502/.

2014

Li, M., Lu, J., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for label-free, multiplexed, molecular sensing and imaging. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.
Lu, J., Liu, L., Santos, G., Han, Z., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Novel sensor development for offshore oil spill monitoring. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Lu, J., Zeng, J., Zhao, F., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Label-free molecular sensing by SERS on nanoporous gold substrates. In SPIE Photonics West. San Francisco, CA : 1/31/14-2/6/14 /14 San Francisco, CA.
Qi, J., Li, J., Sung, Y., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Hyperspectral Raman imaging (HSRI) for multiplexed molecular imaging. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.
Qi, J., Liu, P., Larin, K. V., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Improvement of tissue analysis and classification using optical coherence tomography combined with Raman spectroscopy. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.
Qi, J., Zeng, J., Zhao, F., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Microfluidic label-free monitoring of DNA hybridization. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.
Santos, G. M., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Nanoporous gold disks for photothermal light harvesting and lightgated. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.
Shih, W. - C. (2014). Biomimetic Plasmonic Quasi-NanoCrystals. In Duke Fitzpatrick Photonics Center Seminar West. Duke FitzDurhan, NC : 4/16/2014.
Shih, W. - C., Gheewala, M. M., Purushothaman, G., Dani, J., & Wolfe, J. C. (2014). Integrated neural probe for localized light delivery and electrical recording. In SPIE Photonics West. San Francisco, CA : 1/31/14-2/6/14.
Shih, W. - C., Qi, J., Li, J., & Lu, J. (2014). Hyperspectral Raman imaging (HSRI) by active-illumination for molecular imaging. In SPIE Photonics West. San Francisco, CA : 1/31/14-2/6/14 Francisco, CA.
Shih, W. - C., Qi, J., Zeng, J., Zhao, F., & Willson, R. (2014). Ultrasensitive DNA hybridization monitoring on nanoporous gold disks in microfluidics. In SPIE Photonics West. San Francisco, CA.
Zeng, J., Zhao, F., & Shih, W. - C. (2014). Monolithic nanoporous gold disks with large specific surface area, tunable plasmon resonance, and high-density, internal plasmonic hot-spots. In SPIE Translational Biophotonics 2014. Houston, TX : 5/19/2014 - 5/20/2014: Poster.

2013

Lu, J., Liu, L., Han, Z., & Shih, W. (2013). Hyperspectral imaging and analytics using compressive sensing. In UH Graduate Student Confenrence. Houston, TX, April 26, 2013: Poster.
Shih, W. (2013). Novel sensor for offshore oil spill monitoring. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org