Selected Recent Publications

• Y. Choi, G. Wang, M. Nayfeh and S.-T. Yau, "Electrooxidation of organic fuels using ultrasmall silicon nanoparticles",Applied Physics Letters, 93, 164103 (2008). [PDF]
  
  
• Gang Wang and Siu-Tung Yau “Spatial confinement induced enzyme stability for bioelectronic applications”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C,  111, 11921-11926 (2007). [PDF]
  
  
• Y. Choi, G. Wang and S.-T. Yau, "An electronic composite material with room temperature negative differential resistance", Applied Physics Letters, 89, 233116 (2006). [PDF]
  
  
• G.Wang, K. Manty, M. Nayfeh and S.-T. Yau, "Amperometric Detection of Bio-Medically Important Substances Using Si29 Particles", Applied Physics Letters, 89, 243901 (2006). [PDF]
  
  
• G. Wang and S.-T. Yau, "Preserved enzymatic activity of glucose oxidase immobilized on unmodified electrodes for glucose detection", Biosensors and Bioelectronics, accepted.
  
  
• G. Wang and S.-T. Yau, "Preserved enzymatic activity of glucose oxidase immobilized on an unmodified electrode", Electrochemistry Communications, 8, 987-992 (2006).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau, Iris Thai, Ela Strauss, Narender Rana and Gang Wang., "Inlaying nanoscale surface recess structures with nanoscale objects", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 6, 796-801 (2006).
  
  
• G. Wang and S.-T. Yau, "Enzyme-immobilized Si-SiO2 electrode: fast electron transfer with preserved enzymatic activity", Applied Physics Letters 87, 253901 (2005).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau and G. Qian, "A prototype Protein Field-Effect Transistor", Applied Physics Letters 86, 103508 (2005).
  
  
• E. Strauss, B. Thomas and S.-T. Yau, "Enhancing electron transfer at the cytochrome c-immobilized microelectrode and macroelectrode", Langmuir 20, 8768-8772 (2004).
  
• N. Rana and S.-T. Yau, "Constructing low-dimensional assemblies of nanoparticles", Nanotechnology 15, 275-278 (2004).
  
  
• H. Lin, S.-T. Yau and P. G. Vekilov, "Dissipating step bunches during crystallization under transport control", Physical Review E 67, 031606 (2003).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau and P.G. Vekilov, "Direct observation of nucleus structure and nucleation pathways", Journal of American Chemical Society 123, 1080-1089 (2001).
  
  
• M.D. Serrano, O. Galkin, S.-T. Yau, B.R. Thomas, R.L. Nagel, R.E. Hirsch, and P.G. Vekilov, "Are protein crystallization mechanisms relevant to understanding and control of polymerization of deoxyhemoglobin S?", Journal of Crystal Growth 232, 368-375 (2001).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau and P.G. Vekilov, "Quasi-planar nucleus structure in apoferritin crystallization", Nature 406, 494-497 (2000).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau, B.R. Thomas, and P.G. Vekilov, "Molecular mechanisms of crystallisation and defect formation", Physical Review Letters 85, 353-356 (2000).
  
  
• S.-T. Yau, C. Zhang, and P. Innis, "Asymmetry and rectification of tunnel current in a nanometer metal-conjugated polymer-metal junction", Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 6774-6778(2000).