O'Neal, D.P., Hirsch, L.R., Halas, N.J., Payne, J.D., West, J.L. "Photo-thermal tumor ablation in mice using near infrared-absorbing nanoparticles." Cancer Letters. 2004 Jun 25;209(2):171-6.

Hirsch, L.R., Stafford, R.J., Sershen, S.R., Halas, N.J., Hazle, J.D., West, J.L. "Nanoshell-assisted tumor ablation using near infrared light under magnetic resonance guidance." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100 (2003): 113549-54.

Loo, C., Lin, A., Hirsch, L., Lee, M.H., Barton, J., Halas, N., West, J., Drezek, R. "Nanoshell-enabled photonics-based imaging and therapy of cancer." Cancer Res. Treat, 3:33-40 (04).

Drezek, R., West, J., Halas, N. "Emerging optical technologies for noninvasive functional and molecular imaging: Applications for breast cancer." Breast Diseases, 14 (2003): 18-20.

West, J.L., Halas, N.J. "Engineered Nanomaterials for Biophotonics Applications: Improving Sensing, Imaging, and Therapeutics." Ann. Rev. Biomed. Eng, 5 (2003): 285-92.

Drezek, R., West, J., Halas, N. "Emerging Optical Technologies for Breast Cancer Imaging." a chapter in Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Disease, (2004).

Loo, C., Hirsch, L., Lee, M.H., Chang, E., West, J., Halas, N., Drezek, R. "Gold nanoshell biocomjugates for molecular imaging in living cells." Optics Lett., 30 (2005): 1012-4.

Loo, C., Lowery, A., Halas, N., West, J., Drezek, R. "Immunotargeted Nanoshells for Integrated Cancer Imaging and Therapy." NanoLetters, 5 (2005): 709-11.

Hirsch, L.R., Gobin, A.M., Lowery, A., Drezek, R.A., Halas, N.J., West, J.L. "Metal nanoshells: diagnostic and therapeutic applications of nanotechnology." Ann. Biomed. Eng. (2005).

Diagnostic Testing

Hirsch, L.R., Jackson, J.B., Lee, A., Halas, N.J., West, J.L. "A whole blood immunoassay using gold nanoshells." Analyt. Chem, 75 (2003): 2377-81.

Hirsch, L.R., Halas, N.J., West, J.L. "Whole-blood immunoassay facilitated by gold nanoshell-conjugate antibodies." Methods Mol. Biol., 303 (2005): 101-12.

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering

Jackson, J.B., Westcott, S.L., Hirsch, L.R., West, J.L., Halas, N.J. "Controlling the surface enhanced Raman effect via the nanoshell geometry." Appl. Phys. Lett, 82 (2003): 257-9.

J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on tunable plasmonic nanoparticle substrates," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 17930-17935 (2004).

Chad E. Talley, Joseph B. Jackson, Chris Oubre, Nathaniel K. Grady, Christopher Hollars, Stephen M. Lane, Thomas R. Huser, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi. J. Halas, "Surface Enhanced Ramann Scattering from Individual Au Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Dimer Substrates," Nano Letters 5, 1569-1574 (2005).

Other Applications

Sershen, S.R., Bankson, J.R., Hazel, J.J., Halas, N.J., West, J.L. "Light-triggered protein release from hydrogel drug delivery systems." Nature Materials (2003).

Sershen, S.R., Ng, M.A., Halas, N.J., Beebe, D., West, J.L. "Optically controlled valves for microfluidics devices." Nature Materials (2003).

Sershen, S.R., Ng, M.A., Halas, N.J., Beebe, D., West, J.L. "Optically controlled valves for microfluidics devices." Advanced Materials, 17 (2005): 1366-8.

Properties of AuroShell™ Particles

S. Oldenburg, R. D. Averitt, S. Westcott, and N. J. Halas, "Nanoengineering of Optical Resonances", Chem. Phys. Lett. 288, 243 (1998).

S. J. Oldenburg, G. D. Hale, J. B. Jackson, and N. J. Halas, "Light scattering from dipole and quadrupole nanoshell antennas", Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1063 (1999).

S. J. Oldenburg, J. B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, and N. J. Halas, "Infrared Extinction Properties of Gold Nanoshells", Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 2897 (1999).

J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, "Silver Nanoshells: Variations in Morphologies and Optical Properties", J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 2743 (2001).

G. D. Hale, J. B. Jackson, O. E. Shmakova, T. R. Lee, and N. J. Halas, "Enhancing the Active Lifetime of Luminescent Semiconducting Polymers Via Doping With Metal Nanoshells", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1502 (2001).