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Catherine Murphy

Interim Director, Beckman Institute, Professor

Primary Affiliation

Extracellular Vesicle Imaging and Therapy

Affiliations

Status Administrative Staff

Home Department of Chemistry

Phone 333-7680

Email murphycj@illinois.edu

Address 1327A Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue

  • Biography

    Catherine Murphy a professor in the Department of Chemistry. She is the Larry Faulkner Endowed chair in chemistry at Illinois. She also is associate director of the Materials Research Lab and is affilated with the Beckman Institute, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, and the Cancer Center.

    From 1990-1993, she was first an NSF and then an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. From 1993-2009 Professor Murphy was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. She joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in August 2009.

    Education

    • B.S., Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986

    • B.S., Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986

    • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1990

    • NSF & NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1990-1993

  • Honors

    • 2022: Centernary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry

    • 2020: ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 2020: PROTEOMASS Scientific Society Career Award, Portugal

    • 2019: Remsen Award

    • 2019: Linus Pauling Medal

    • 2019: MRS Medal

    • 2019: Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    • 2017: Fellow of the Materials Research Society

    • 2015: Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

    • 2015: TREE Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

    • 2014: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

    • 2013: Carol Tyler Award, International Precious Metals Institute

  • Research

    Research interests:

    • Synthesis and properties of inorganic nanomaterials

    • Chemical sensing and biological imaging applications of colloidal inorganic nanomaterials

    • Environmental implications of inorganic nanomaterials

    Our research is at the interface of materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry and nanotechnology. Our primary goal is to develop inorganic nanomaterials for biological and energy-related applications and understand the chemical interactions of these nanomaterials with their surroundings. A diverse range of projects are currently pursued in the groups: Inorganic Nanoparticle Fabrication and Functionalization, Cellular Imaging, Chemical Sensing, and Photothermal Therapy Using Gold Nanorods, and Environmental Implications of Nanoparticles.

  • 2022

    • Alkilany, A. M.; Rachid, O.; Alkawareek, M. Y.; Billa, N.; Daou, A.; Murphy, C. J.; “PLGA-Gold Nanocomposite: Preparation and Biomedical Applications,” Pharmaceutics 2022, 14, 660. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14030660.
    • Foreman-Ortiz, I. U.; Ma, T. F.; Hoover, B. M.; Wu, M.; Murphy, C. J.; Murphy, R. M.; Pedersen, J. A. “Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis and Statistical Mixture Distribution Analysis Allows Quantification of Binding Interactions,” J. Coll. Interfac. Sci. 2022, 615, 50-58.
    • Hoang, K. N. L.; McClain, S. M.; Meyer, S. M.; Jalomo, C. A.; Forney, N. B.; Murphy, C. J. “Site- Selective Modification of Metallic Nanoparticles,” Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 9728 – 9741.
    • Hoang, K. N. L.; Wheeler, K. E..; Murphy, C. J. “Isolation Methods Influence Protein Corona Composition on Gold-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles,” Anal. Chem. 2022, 94, 4737-4746.
    • Medeghini, F.; Pettine, J.; Meyer, S. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Nesbitt, D. J. “Regulating and Directionally Controlling Electron Emission from Gold Nanorods with Silica Coatings,” Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 644-651.
    • Meyer, S. M.; Murphy, C. J. “Anisotropic Silica Coating on Gold Nanorods Boosts Their Performance as SERS Sensors,” Nanoscale 2022, 14, 5214-5226.
    • Zhu, Q.; Murphy, C. J.; Baker, L. R. “Opportunities for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Enabled by Surface Ligands,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 2829-2840.

    2021

    • Gari, M. K.; Lemke, P.; Lu, K. H.; Laudadio, E. D.; Henke, A. H.; Green, C. M.; Pho, T.; Hoang, K. N. L.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Feng, Z. V. “Dynamic Aqueous Transformations of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles Induce Distinct Oxidative Stress Responses of B. subtilis,” Environ. Sci.: Nano 2021, 8, 1614-1627.
    • Gole, M. T.; Yin, Z.; Wang, M. C.; Lin, W.; Zhou, Z.; Leem, J.; Takekuma, S.; Murphy, C. J.; Nam, S. “Large Scale Self-Assembly of Plasmonic Nanoparticles on Deformed Graphene Templates,” Sci. Rep. 2021, 11, art. no. 12232.
    • Hatfield, K.; Gole, M. T.; Schorr, N.; Murphy, C. J.; Rodriguez-Lopez, J. “SERS-SECM: Real-Time Observation of Electrochemically-Triggered Perturbations via Surface-Sensitive pH Measurement,” Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 7792-7796.
    • Henke, A.; Laudadio, E.; Hedlund-Orbeck, J.; Tamijani, A.; Hoang, K. N. L.; Mason, S.E.; Murphy, C. J.; Feng, Z. V.; Hamers, R. J. "Reciprocal Redox Interactions of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NADH) and Glutathione (GSH) with Lithium Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles: Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Nanoparticle-Biological Interactions," Environ. Sci.: Nano 2021, 8, 1749-1760.
    • Meyer, S. M.; Pettine, J.; Nesbitt, D. J.; Murphy, C. J. “Size Effects in Gold Nanorod Light-to- Heat Conversion under Femtosecond Illumination,” J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 16268-16278.
    • Pettine, J.; Meyer, S. M.; Medeghini, F.; Murphy, C. J.; Nesbitt, D. J. "Controlling the Spatial and Momentum Distributions of Plasmonic Carriers: Volume versus Surface Effects," ACS Nano 2021, 15, 1566-1578.
    • Shang, H.; Kim, D.; Wallentine, S. K.; Kim, M.; Hofmann, D. M.; Dasgupta, R.; Murphy, C. J.; Asthagiri, A.; Baker, L. R. “Ensemble Effects in Au/Cu Ultrasmall Nanoparticles Control the Branching Point for C1 Selectivity During CO2 Electroreduction,” Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 9146-9152.
    • Turner, J. G.; Murphy, C. J. “How Do Proteins Associate with Nanoscale Metal-Organic- Framework Surfaces?” Langmuir 2021, 37, 9910-9919.
    • Zhang, X.; Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Murphy, C. J. “Nanoparticles Interfere with Chemotaxis: An Example of Nanoparticles as ‘Molecular Knockouts’ at the Cellular Level,” ACS Nano 2021, 15, 8813-8825.
    • Zhi, B.; Yao, X.; Wu, M.; Mensch, A.; Cui, Y.; Deng, J.; Duchimaza-Heredia, J. J.; Trerayapiwat, K. J.; Niehaus, T.; Nishimoto, Y.; Frank, B. P.; Zhang, Y.; Lewis, R. E.; Kappel, E. A.; Hamers, R. J.; Fairbrother, D. H.; Orr, G.; Murphy, C. J.; Cui, Q.; Haynes, C. L. “Multicolor Polymeric Carbon Dots: Synthesis, Separation and Polyamide-Supported Molecular Fluorescence,” Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 2441-2455.

    2020

    • Chang, H.-H.; Gole, M. T.; Murphy, C. J. “A Golden Time for Nanotechnology,” MRS Bulletin 2020, 45, 387-393.
    • Daley, C. A.; Allen, C. R.; Rozanov, N. D.; Chong, G.; Melby, E. S.; Kuech, T. R.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Hernandez, R. “Surface Coating Structure and Its Interaction with Cytochrome c in Eg6 Coated Nanoparticles Varies with Surface Curvature,” Langmuir 2020, 36, 5030-5039.
    • Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Murphy, C. J. “Network-based Analysis Implies Critical Roles of microRNAs in the Long-term Cellular Responses to Gold Nanoparticles,” Nanoscale 2020, 12, 21172-21187.
    • Liang, D.; Dahal, U.; Wu, M.; Murphy, C. J.; Cui, Q. “Ligand Length and Surface Curvature Modulate Nanoparticle Surface Heterogeneity and Electrostatics,” J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 24513-24525.
    • McClain, S. M.; Ojoawo, A.; Lin, W.; Rienstra, C. M.; Murphy, C. J. “Interaction of Alpha-Synuclein and its Mutants with Rigid Lipid Vesicle Mimics of Varying Surface Curvature,” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 10153-10167.
    • Ortiz-Foreman, I. U.; Liang, D.; Laudadio, E. D.; Calderin, J. D.; Wu, M.; Keshri, P.; Zhang, X.; Schwartz, M. P.; Hamers, R. J.; Rotello, V. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Cui, Q.; Pedersen, J. A. “Anionic Nanoparticle-Induced Perturbation to Phospholipid Membranes Affects Ion Channel Function,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2020, 117, 27854-27861.
    • Shang, H.; Wallentine, S.; Hofmann, D. M.; Zhu, Q.; Murphy, C. J.; Baker, L. R. “Effect of Surface Ligands on Gold Nanocatalysts for CO2 Reduction,” Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 12298-12306.
    • Sinclair, W. E.; Chang, H-H.; Dan, A.; Kenis, P. J. A.; Murphy, C. J.; Leckband, D. E. “Gold Nanoparticles Disrupt Actin Organization and Pulmonary Endothelial Barriers,” Sci. Rep. 2020, 10, art. no. 13320.
    • Turner, J. G.; Og, J. H.; Murphy, C. J. “Gold Nanorod Impact on Mechanical Properties of Stretchable Hydrogels,” Soft Matter 2020, 16, 6582-6590.

    2019

    • Abtahi, S. M. H.; Trevisan, R.; Di Giulio, R.; Murphy, C. J.; Saleh, N. B.; Vikesland, P. J. “Implications of Aspect Ratio on the Uptake and Nanotoxicity of Gold Nanomaterials,” NanoImpact 2019, 14, 100153.
    • Alkilany, A. M.; Abulateefeh, S. R.; Murphy, C. J. “Facile Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles with PLGA Polymer Brushes and Efficient Encapsulation into PLGA Nanoparticles: Toward Spatially Precise Bio-imaging of Polymeric Nanoparticles,” Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2019, 36, 1800414.
    • Chong, G.; Foreman-Ortiz, I. U.; Wu, M.; Bautista, A.; Murphy, C. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Hernandez, R. “Defects in Self-Assembled Monolayers on Nanoparticles Prompt Phospholipid Extraction and Bilayer Curvature-Dependent Deformations,” J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 27951-27958.
    • Hinman, J. G.; Hinman, J. J.; Janicek, B. E.; Huang, P. Y.; Suslick, K. S.; Murphy, C. J. “Ultrasonic Nebulization for TEM Sample Preparation on Single-Layer Graphene Grids,” Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 1938-1943.
    • Hofmann, D. M.; Fairbrother, D. H.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J. “Two-phase Synthesis of Gold-Copper Bimetallic Nanoparticles of Tunable Composition: Toward Optimized Catalytic CO2 Reduction,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 3989-3998.
    • Janicek, B. E.; Hinman, J. G.; Hinman, J. J.; Bae, S. H.; Wu, M.; Turner, J. G.; Chang, H-H.; Park, E.; Lawless, R.; Suslick, K. S.; Murphy, C. J.; Huang, P. Y. "Quantitative Imaging of Organic Ligand Density on Anisotropic Inorganic Nanocrystals," Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 6308-6314.
    • Murphy, C. J.; Chang, H-H.; Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Gole, M. T.; Hofmann, D. M.; Hoang, K. N. L..; Meyer, S.M.; McClain, S. M.; Turner, J. G.; Unnikrishnan, M.; Wu, M.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, Y. “Virus-Sized Gold Nanorods: Plasmonic Particles for Biology,” Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 2124- 2135.
    • Tollefson, E.J.; Allen, C. R.; Chong, G.; Zhang, X.; Rozanov, N. D.; Bautista, A.; Cerda, J. J.; Pedersen, J.A.; Murphy, C. J.; Carlson, E.E.; Hernandez, R. "Preferential Binding of Cytochrome c to an Anionic Ligand-Coated Gold Nanoparticle: A Complementary Computational and Experimental Approach," ACS Nano 2019, 13, 6856-6866.
    • Wu, M.; Vartanian, A. M.; Chong, G.; Kumar, A.; Hamers, R. J.; Hernandez, R.; Murphy, C. J. “Solution NMR Analysis of Ligand Environment in Quaternary Ammonium-Terminated Self- Assembled Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles: The Effect of Surface Curvature and Ligand Structure,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 4316-4327.

    2018

    • Buchman, J. T.; Rahnamoun, A.; Landy, K. M.; Zhang, X.; Vartanian, A. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Hernandez, R.; Haynes, C. L. “Using an Environmentally-Relevant Panel of Gram-Negative Bacteria to Assess the Toxicity of Poly(allylamine) hydrochloride-wrapped Gold Nanoparticles,” Environ. Sci.: Nano 2018, 5, 279-288.
    • Chang, H-H.; Murphy, C. J. “Mini Gold Nanorods with Tunable Plasmonic Peaks beyond 1000 nm,” Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 1427-1435.
    • Chong, G.; Laudadio, E.; Wu, M.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Hernandez, R. “Density, Structure, and Stability of Citrate3- and H2Citrate- on Bare and Coated Gold Nanoparticles,” J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 28393-28404.
    • Dennison, J. M.; Xue, X.; Murphy, C. J.; Cahill, D. G. “Density, Elastic Constants, and Thermal Conductivity of Interfacially-Polymerized Polyamide Membranes for Reverse Osmosis,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2018, 1, 5008-5018.
    • Hinman, J. G.; Turner, J. G.; Hofmann, D. M.; Murphy, C. J. “Layer-by-Layer Synthesis of Conformal Metal-Organic Framework Shells on Gold Nanorods,” Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 7255-7261.
    • Melby, E. S.; Allen, C.; Foreman-Ortiz, I. U.; Caudill, E. R.; Kuech, T. R.; Vartanian, A. M.; Zhang, X.; Murphy, C. J.; Hernandez, R.; Pedersen, J. A. “Peripheral Membrane Proteins Facilitate Nanoparticle Binding at Lipid Bilayer Interfaces,” Langmuir 2018, 34, 10793-10805.
    • Metch, J. W.; Burrows, N. D.; Murphy, C. J.; Vikesland, P. J.; Pruden, A. “Metagenomic Analysis of Microbial Communities Yields Insight into Impacts of Nanoparticle Design,” Nature Nanotechnol. 2018, 13, 253-259.
    • Olenick, L. L.; Troiano, J. M.; Vartanian, A.; Melby, E. S.; Mensch, A. C.; Zhang, L.; Hong, J.; Mesele, O.; Qiu, T.; Bozich, J.; Lohse, S.; Zhang, X.; Kuech, T. R.; Millevolte, A.; Gunsolus, I.; McGeachy, A. C.; Dongangun, M.; Li, T.; Hu, D.; Walter, S. R.; Mohaimani, A.; Schmoldt, A.; Torelli, M. D.; Hurley, K. R.; Dalluge, J.; Chong, G.; Feng, Z. V.; Haynes, C. L.; Hamers, R. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Cui, Q.; Hernandez, R.; Klaper, R.; Orr, G.; Murphy, C. J.; Geiger, F. M. “Lipid Corona Formation from Nanoparticle Interactions with Bilayers,” Chem 2018, 4, 2709-2723.
    • Rasskazov, I. L.; Wang, L.; Murphy, C. J.; Bhargava, R.; Carney, P. S. “Plasmon-Enhanced Upconversion: Balancing Between Enhancement and Quenching at Nano and Macro Scales,” Opt. Mater. Express 2018, 8, 3787-3804.
    • Zhang, X.; Pandiakumar, A. K.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J. “Quantification of Lipid Corona Formation on Colloidal Nanoparticles from Lipid Vesicles,” Anal. Chem. 2018, 90, 14387-14394.

    2017

    • Abtahi, S.M.H.; Burrows, N. D.; Idesis, F. A.; Murphy, C. J.; Saleh, N. B.; Vikesland, P. J. "Sulfate Mediated End-to-End Assembly of Gold Nanorods," Langmuir 2017, 33, 1486-1495.
    • Abtahi, S.M.H.; Burrows, N. D.; Idesis, F. A.; Murphy, C. J.; Saleh, N. B.; Vikesland, P. J. Sulfate Mediated End-to-End Assembly of Gold Nanorods, Langmuir 2017, 33, 1486-1495.
    • Alkilany, A. M.; Mansour, S.; Amro, H. M.; Pelaz, B.; Soliman, M. G.; Hinman, J.; Dennison, J.; Parak, W. J.; Murphy, C.J. “Introducing Students to Surface Modification and Phase Transfer of Nanoparticles with a Laboratory Experiment,” J. Chem. Educ. 2017, 94, 769-774.
    • Burrows, N. D.; Harvey, S.; Idesis, F. A.; Murphy, C. J. “Understanding the Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanorods through a Fractional Factorial Design of Experiments,”Langmuir 2017, 33, 1891-1906.
    • Burrows, N. D.; Harvey, S.; Idesis, F. A.; Murphy, C. J. Understanding the Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanorods through a Fractional Factorial Design of Experiments, Langmuir, 2017 in press.
    • Dennison, J. M.; Zupancic, J.; Lin, W.; Dwyer, J.; Murphy, C. J. “Protein Adsorption to Charged Gold Nanospheres as a Function of Protein Deformability,” Langmuir 2017, 33, 7751-7761.
    • Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Grzincic, E. M.; Murphy, C. J. “New Advances in Nanotechnology-based Diagnosis and Therapeutics for Breast Cancer: An Assessment of Active-Targeting Inorganic Nanoplatforms,” Bioconjugate Chem. 2017, 28, 135-152.
    • Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Grzincic, E. M.; Murphy, C. J. New Advances in Nanotechnology-based Diagnosis and Therapeutics for Breast Cancer: An Assessment of Active-Targeting Inorganic Nanoplatforms, Bioconjugate Chem. 2017, 28, 135-152.
    • Hinman, J. G.; Eller, J. R.; Lin, W.; Li, J.; Li, J.; Murphy, C. J. “Oxidation State of Capping Agent Affects Spatial Reactivity on Gold Nanorods,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 9851-9854.
    • Lin, W.; Murphy, C. J. “A Demonstration of LeChatelier’s Principle on the Nanoscale,” ACS Central Science 2017, 3, 1096-1102.
    • Lohse, S. E.; Abadeer, N. S.; Zoloty, M.; White, J. C.; Newman, L. A.; Murphy, C. J. “Nanomaterial Probes in the Environment: Gold Nanoparticle Soil Retention and Stability as a Function of Surface Chemistry,” ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2017, 5, 11451-11458.
    • Melby, E. S.; Lohse, S. E.; Park, J. E.; Vartanian, A. M.; Putans, B. A.; Abbott, H. B.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J.; Pedersen, J. A. “Cascading Effects of Nanoparticle Coatings: Surface Functionalization Dictates the Assemblage of Complexed Proteins and Subsequent Interaction with Model Cell Membranes,” ACS Nano 2017, 11, 5489-5499.
    • Moore, K. A.; Pate, K. M.; Solo-Ortega, D. D.; Lohse, S.; van der Munnik, N.; Lim, M.; Jackson, K. S.; Lyles, V. D.; Jones, L.; Glassgow, N.; Napumecheno, V. M.; Mobley, S.; Uline, M. J.; Mahtab, R.; Murphy, C. J.; Moss, M. A. “Influence of Gold Nanoparticle Surface Chemistry and Diameter upon Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid-b Protein Aggregation,” J. Biol. Eng. 2017, 11, 5: DOI: 10.1186/s13036-017-0047-6.
    • Qiu, T. A.; Nguyen, T.H. T. ; Hudson-Smith, N. V.; Clement, P. L.; Forester, D.; Frew, H.; Hang, M.N.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Feng, Z. V.; Haynes, C. L. Growth-Based Bacterial Viability Assay for Interference-free and High-Throughput Toxicity Screening of Nanomaterials, Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 2057-2064.
    • Qiu, T. A.; Nguyen, T.H. T.; Hudson-Smith, N. V.; Clement, P. L.; Forester, D.; Frew, H.; Hang, M.N.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Feng, Z. V.; Haynes, C. L. "Growth-Based Bacterial Viability Assay for Interference-free and High-Throughput Toxicity Screening of Nanomaterials," Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 2057-2064.
    • Qiu, T. A.; Torelli, M. D.; Vartanian, A. M.; Rackstraw, N. B.; Buchman, J. T.; Jacob, L. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Haynes, C. L. “Quantification of Free Polyelectrolytes Present in Colloidal Suspension Reveals Source of Toxic Responses for Polyelectrolyte-wrapped Gold Nanoparticles,” Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 1823-1830.
    • Qiu, T. A.; Torelli, M. D.; Vartanian, A. M.; Rackstraw, N. B.; Buchman, J. T.; Jacob, L. M.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Haynes, C. L. Quantification of Free Polyelectrolytes Present in Colloidal Suspension Reveals Source of Toxic Responses for Polyelectrolyte-wrapped Gold Nanoparticles, Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 1823-1830.

    2016

    • Abadeer, N. S.; Murphy, C. J. Recent Progress in Cancer Thermal Therapy Using Gold Nanoparticles. J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 4691-4716.
    • Afrooz, A. R. M. N.; Das, D.; Murphy, C. J.; Vikesland, P.; Saleh, N. B. Co-Transport of Gold Nanospheres with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Saturated Porous Media, Water Res. 2016, 99, 7-15.
    • Burrows, N. D.; Lin, W.; Hinman, J. G.; Dennison, J. M.; Vartanian, A. M.; Abadeer, N. S.; Grzincic, E. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Li, J.; Murphy, C. J. Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanorods, Langmuir 2016, 32, 9905-9921.
    • Burrows, N. D.; Vartanian, A. M.; Abadeer, N.S.; Grzincic, E. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Lin, W.; Li, J.; Dennison, J. M.; Hinman, J. G.; Murphy, C. J. Anisotropic Nanoparticles and Anisotropic Surface Chemistry, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 632-641.
    • Falagan-Lotsch, P.; Grzincic, E. M.; Murphy, C. J. One Low-Dose Exposure of Gold Nanoparticles Induces Long-Term Changes in Human Cells, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2016, 113, 13318-13323.
    • Gao, Z.; Burrows, N. D.; Valley, N. A.; Schatz, G. C.; Murphy, C. J.; Haynes, C. L. In Solution SERS Sensing Using Mesoporous Silica-Coated Gold Nanorods, Analyst 2016, 141, 5088-5095.
    • Grassian, V.H.; Haes, A. J.; Mudunkotuwa, I. A.; Demokritou, P.; Kane, A. B.; Murphy, C. J.; Hutchison, J. E.; Issacs, J. A.; Jun, Y.-S.; Karn, B.; Khondaker, S. I.; Larsen, S. C.; Lau, B. L. T.; Pettibone, J.; Sadik, O. A.; Saleh, N. B.; Teague, C. NanoEHS – Defining Fundamental Science Needs: No Easy Feat when the Simple Itself is Complex, Environ. Sci.: Nano 2016, 3, 15-27.
    • Hinman, J. G.; Stork, A. J.; Varnell, J. A.; Gewirth. A. A.; Murphy, C. J. Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanorods: Towards Nanorod Matryoshkas, Faraday Disc. 2016, 191, 9-33.
    • Holden, P. A.; Gardea-Torresdey, J.; Klaessig, F.; Turco, R. F.; Mortimer, M.; Hund-Rinke, K.; Hubal, E. A. C.; Avery, D.; Barcelo, D.; Behra, R.; Cohen, Y.; Deydier-Stephan, L.; Ferguson, P. L.; Frenandes, T. F.; Harthorn, B. H.; Henderson, W. M.; Hoke, R. A.; Hristozov, D.; Johnston, J. M.; Kane, A. B.; Kapustka, L.; Keller, A. A.; Lenihan, H. S.; Lovell, W.; Murphy, C. J.; Nisbet, R. M.; Petersen, E. J.; Salinas, E. R.; Scheringer, M.; Sharma, M.; Speed, D. E.; Sultan, Y.; Westerhoff, P.; White, J. C.; Wiesner, M. R.; Wong, E. M.; Xing, B.; Horan, M. S.; Godwin, H. A.; Nel, A. E. Considerations of Environmentally Relevant Test Conditions for Improved Evaluation of Ecological Hazard of Engineered Nanomaterials, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, 50, 6124-6145.
    • Mahmoud, M.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. Identification of Nanoparticles with a Colorimetric Sensor Array, ACS Sensors 2016, 1, 17-21.
    • Melby, E.; Mensch, A.; Lohse, S. E.; Peng, D.; Orr, G.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Pedersen, J. Formation of Supported Lipid Bilayers Containing Model Rafts and Their Interaction with Gold Nanoparticles, Environ. Sci.: Nano 2016, 3, 45-55.
    • Troiano, J. M.; Kuech, T. R.; Vartanian, A. M.; Torelli, M. D.; Sen, A.; Jacob, L. M.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Geiger, F. M. On Electronic and Charge Interference in Second Harmonic Generation Reponses from Gold Metal Nanoparticles at Supported Lipid Bilayers, J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 20659-20667.
    • Wu, X.; Ni, Y.; Zhu, J.; Burrows, N. D.; Murphy, C. J.; Dumitrica, T.; Wang, X. Thermal Transport across Surfactant Layers on Gold Nanorods in Aqueous Solution, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfac. 2016, 8, 10581-10589.

    2015

    • Abadeer, N. S.; Fulop, G.; Chen, S.; Kall, M.; Murphy, C. J. Interactions of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides with Gold Nanorod Surfaces Investigated by Refractometric Sensing, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfac. 2015, 7, 24915-24925.
    • DeVetter, B. M.; Mukherjee, P.; Murphy, C. J.; Bhargava, R. Measuring binding kinetics of aromatic thiolated molecules with nanoparticles via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 8766-8775.
    • Dominguez, G. A.; Lohse, S. E.; Torelli, M. D.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Orr, G.; Klaper, R. D. Effects of Charge and Surface Ligand Properties of Nanoparticles on Oxidative Stress and Gene Expression within the Gut of Daphnia magna, Aquatic Toxicology 2015, 162, 1-9.
    • Feng, Z. V.; Gunsolus, I. L.; Qiu, T. A.; Hurley, K. R.; Nyberg, L. H.; Johnson, K. P.; Vartanian, A. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Lohse, S. E.; Torelli, M. D.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J.; Haynes, C. L. Impacts of Gold Nanoparticle Charge and Ligand Type on Surface Binding and Toxicity to Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 5186-5196.
    • Grzincic, E. M.; Murphy, C. J. Gold Nanorods Indirectly Promote Migration of Metastatic Human Breast Cancer Cells in Three-Dimensional Cultures, ACS Nano 2015, 9, 6801-6816.
    • Grzincic, E. M.; Yang, J. A.; Drnevitch, J.; Lotsch, P. F.; Murphy, C. J. Global Transcriptometic Analysis of Model Human Cell Lines Exposed to Surface-Modified Gold Nanoparticles: The Effect of Surface Chemistry, Nanoscale 2015, 7, 1349-1362.
    • Jacobson, K. H.; Gunsolus, I. L.; Kuech, T.R., Jr.; Troiano, J. M.; Melby, E. S.; Lohse, S. E.; Hu, D.H.; Chrisler, W. B.; Murphy, C. J.; Orr, G.; Geiger, F. M.; Haynes, C. L.; Pedersen, J. A. Lipopolysaccharide Density and Structure Governs the Extent and Distance of Nanoparticle Interaction with Actual and Model Bacterial Membranes, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2015, 49, 10642-10650.
    • Lin, W.; Insley, T.; Tuttle, M. D.; Zhu, L.; Berthold, D. A.; Kral, P.; Rienstra, C. M.; Murphy, C. J. Control of Protein Orientation on Gold Nanoparticle Surfaces, J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 21035-21043.
    • Murph, S.; Murphy, C. J.; Leach, A.; Gall, K. A Possible Oriented Attachment Growth Mechanism for Silver Nanowire Formation, Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 1968-1974.
    • Murphy, C. J.; Buriak, J. M. Best Practices for the Reporting of Colloidal Inorganic Nanomaterials, Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 4911-4913.
    • Murphy, C. J.; Vartanian, A. M.; Geiger, F. M.; Hamers, R. J.; Pedersen, J.; Cui, Q.; Haynes, C. L.; Carlson, E. E.; Hernandez, R.; Klaper, R. D.; Orr, G.; Rosenzweig, Z. Biological Responses to Engineered Nanomaterials: Needs for the Next Decade, ACS Central Science 2015, 1, 117-123
    • Qiu, T. A.; Bozich, J. S.; Lohse, S. E.; Vartanian, A. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Meyer, B. M.; Gunsolus, I. L.; Niemuth, N. J.; Murphy, C. J.; Haynes, C. L.; Klaper, R. D. Gene Expression as an Indicator of the Molecular Response and Toxicity in the Bacterium Shewanella oneidensis and the Water Flea Daphnia magna Exposed to Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles, Environ. Sci.: Nano 2015, 2, 615-629.
    • Rankin, J.; Neelakantan, N.; Lundberg, K.; Grzincic, E.; Murphy, C. J.; Suslick, K. Magnetic, Fluorescent, and Copolymeric Silicone Microspheres, Adv.Sci. 2015, 2, 1500114.
    • Torelli, M. D.; Putans, R. A.; Tan, Y.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J. Quantitative Determination of Ligand Densities on Nanomaterials by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfac. 2015, 7, 1720-1725.
    • Troiano, J. M.; Olenick, L. L.; Kuech T. R.; Melby, E. S.; Hu, D.; Lohse, S. E.; Mensch, A. C.; Dogangun, M.; Vartanian, A. M.; Torelli, M. D.; Ehimiaghe, E.; Walter, S. R.; Fu, L.; Anderton, C. R.; Zhu, Z.; Wang, H.; Orr, G.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Geiger, F. M. Direct Probes of 4-nm Diameter Gold Nanoparticles Interacting with Supported Lipid Bilayers, J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 534-546.

    2014

    • Abadeer, N. S.; Brennan, M. R.; Wilson, W. L.; Murphy, C. J. Distance and Plasmon Wavelength Dependent Fluorescence of Molecules Bound to Silica-Coated Gold Nanorods, ACS Nano 2014, 8, 8392-8406.
    • Alkilany, A. M.; Bani Yaseen, A. I.; Park, J.; Eller, J. R.; Murphy, C. J. Facile Transfer of Gold Nanoparticles from Aqueous Solutions to Organic Solvents with Thiolated Poly(ethylene glycol), RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 52676-52679.
    • Alkilany, A. M.; Boulos, S. P.; Lohse, S. E.; Thompson, L. B.; Murphy, C. J. Homing-Peptide- Conjugated Gold Nanorods: How Good is Molecular Targeting and Display for Controlling Cellular Uptake and Proliferation? Bioconjugate Chem. 2014, 25, 1162-1171.
    • Bishop, L. M.; Tillman, A. S.; Geiger, F. M.; Haynes, C. L.; Klaper, R. D.; Murphy, C. J.; Orr, G.; Pedersen, J. A.; DeStefano, L.; Hamers, R. J. Enhancing Graduate Student Communication to General Audiences through Blogging about Nanotechnology and Sustainability, J. Chem. Ed. 2014, 91, 1600-1605.
    • Bogart, L. K,; Pourroy, G.; Murphy, C. J. Puntes, V.; Pellegrino, T.; Rosenblum, D.; Peer, D.; Levy, R. Nanoparticles for Imaging, Sensing, Therapeutic Intervention, ACS Nano 2014, 3107–3122.
    • Bozich, J. S.; Lohse, S. E.; Torelli, M. D.; Murphy, C. J.; Hamers, R. J.; Klaper, R. D. Surface Chemistry, Charge, and Ligand Type Impact the Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles to Daphina magna, Environ. Sci.: Nano 2014, 1, 260-270.
    • DeVetter, B. M.; Bhargava, R.; Murphy, C. J., Computational Study of the Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Silica-Coated Silver Nanowires. Photochemistry and Photobiology 2014, 90, (2), 415-418, DOI: 10.1111/php.12205.
    • DeVetter, B. M.; Sivapalan, S. T.; Patel, D.; Schlumerich, M.; Murphy, C. J.; Bhargava, R. Observation of Molecular Diffusion in Polyelectrolyte-Wrapped SERS Nanoprobes, Langmuir 2014, 30, 8931-8937.
    • Gunsolus, I.; Hu, D.; Mihai, C.; Lohse, S. E.; Lee, C-S.; Torelli, M.; Hamers, R. J.; Murphy, C. J.; Orr, G.; Haynes, C. L. Facile Method to Stain the Bacterial Cell Surface for Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy, Analyst 2014, 139, 3174-3178.
    • Kim, D.; Campos, A. R.; Datt, A.; Gao, Z.; Rycenga, M.; Burrows, N. D.; Greeneltch, N. G.; Mirkin, C. A.; Murphy, C. J.; van Duyne, R. P.; Haynes, C. L. Microfluidic-SERS Devices for One Shot Limit-of-Detection, Analyst 2014, 3227-3234.
    • Mahmoudi, M.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Fathizadeh, A.; Montazeri, A.; Suslick, K. S., Variation of Protein Corona Composition of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic Heating. Nano Letters 2014, 14, (1), 6-12, DOI: 10.1021/nl403419e.
    • Yang, J. A.; Lin, W.; Woods, W. S.; George, J. M.; Murphy, C. J. a-Synuclein’s Adsorption, Conformation and Orientation on Cationic Gold Nanoparticle Surfaces Seeds Global Conformational Change, J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 3359-3571.

    2013

    • Boulos, S. P.; Prigozhin, M. B.; Liu, Y.; Wirth, A. J.; Boppart, S. A.; Gruebele, M.; Murphy, C. J. The Gold Nanorod-Biology Interface: From Proteins to Cells to Tissue, Curr. Phys. Chem. 2013, 3, 128-135. DOI:10.2174/1877946811303020002.
    • Shah, A. B.; Sivapalan, S. T.; DeVetter, B. M.; Yang, T. K.; Wen, J.; Bhargava, R.; Murphy, C. J.; Zuo, J-M. High-Index Facets in Gold Nanocrystals Elucidated by Coherent Electron Diffraction, NanoLetters 2013, 13, 1840-1846. DOI:10.1021/nl400609t.
    • Sivapalan, S. T.; DeVetter, B. M.; Yang, T. K.; Schulmerich, M. V.; Bhargava, R.; Murphy, C. J., Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Polyelectrolyte-Wrapped Gold Nanoparticles in Colloidal Suspension. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117, (20), 10677-10682, DOI: 10.1021/jp402392y.
    • Sivapalan, S. T.; DeVetter, B. M.; Yang, T. K.; van Dijk, T.; Schulmerich, M. V.; Carney, P. S.; Bhargava, R.; Murphy, C. J. Off-resonance surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy from gold nanorod suspensions as a function of aspect ratio: not what we thought, ACS Nano 2013, 7, 2099-2105. DOI:10.1021/nn305710k.
    • van Dijk, T.; Sivapalan, S. T.; DeVetter, B. M.; Yang, T. K.; Schulmerich, M. V.; Murphy, C. J.; Bhargava, R.; Carney, P. S. Competition Between Extinction and Enhancement if Surface- Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 3, 1193-1196. DOI: 10.1021/jz4005043.