As of July 2022, Prof. Dennis joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University. This site is no longer maintained, but you can check out our more recent activity at thedennislab.com.

Publications

2021

34. Kays JC, Conti III CR, Margaronis A, Kuszynski JE, Strouse GF, and AM Dennis.
Controlled synthesis and exploration of Cu_xFeS₄ bornite nanocrystals.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 18, 7408–7416. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02029. PDF SI

33. Toufanian R, Zhong X, Kays JC, Saeboe AM, and AM Dennis.
Correlating ZnSe Quantum Dot Absorption with Particle Size and Concentration.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 18, 7527–7536. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02501. PDF SI

32. Saeboe AM, Nikiforov AY, Toufanian R, Kays JC, Chern M, Casas JP, Han K, Piryatinski A, Jones D, and AM Dennis.
Extending the Near-Infrared Emission Range of Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots for Multiplexed In Vivo Imaging.
Nano Letters, 2021, 21(7):3271–3279. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00600. PDF SI

31. Toufanian R, Chern M, Kong VH, and AM Dennis.
Engineering Brightness-Matched Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots.
Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33(6):1964–1975. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03181. PDF SI

2020

30. Chern M, Garden PM, Baer RC, Galagan JE, and AM Dennis.
Transcription Factor Based Small Molecule Sensing with a Rapid Cell Phone Enabled Fluorescent Bead Assay.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(48):21597-21602. 10.1002/ange.202007575. PDF SI

29. Chern M, Toufanian R, and AM Dennis.
Quantum Dot to Quantum Dot Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Engineering Materials for Visual Color Change Sensing.
Analyst, 2020, 145 (17):5754 – 5767. 10.1039/d0an00746c. PDF SI

28. Chen M, Grazon C, Sensharma P, Nguyen TT, Feng Y, Chern M, Baer RC, Varongchayakul N, Cook K, Lecommandoux S, Klapperich CM*, Galagan JE*, Dennis AM*, and MW Grinstaff*.
Hydrogel embedded quantum dot-transcription factor sensor for quantitative progesterone detection.
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020, 12(39):43513–43521. 10.1021/acsami.0c13489 PDF SI

27. Chen M, Nguyen TT, Varongchayakul N, Grazon C, Chern M, Baer RC, Lecommandoux S, Klapperich CM*, Galagan JE*, Dennis AM*, and MW Grinstaff*.
Surface Immobilized Nucleic Acid – Transcription Factor Quantum Dots for Biosensing.
Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2020, 2000403. 10.1002/adhm.202000403

26. Nguyen TT, M Chern, RC Baer, J Galagan, and AM Dennis.
A Förster Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Ratiometric Sensor with the Allosteric Transcription Factor TetR.
Small, 2020, 1907522 (6 pgs). 10.1002/smll.201907522 PDF SI

25. Kays JC, Saeboe AM, Toufanian R, Kurant DE, and AM Dennis.
Shell-Free Copper Indium Sulfide Quantum Dots Induce Toxicity in Vitro and in Vivo.
Nano Letters, 2020, 20(3):1980-1991. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05259 PDF SI

24. Grazon C,^ Baer RC,^ Kuzmanovic, Nguyen TT, Chen M, Zamani M, Chern M, Aquino P, Zhang X, Lecommandoux S, Fan A, Cabodi M, Klapperich C, Grinstaff MW, Dennis AM, and J Galagan. ^co-first authors
A Novel Progesterone Biosensor Derived from Microbial Screening.
Nature Communications, 2020, 11: 1276 (10 pgs). 10.1038/s41467-020-14942-5 PDF SI

23. Wang X, Li Y, Toufanian R, Kogos LC, Dennis AM, and R Paiella.
Tunable beamed light emission from a quantum-dot ensemble near a gradient metasurface.
Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 1901951 (8 pgs). 10.1002/adom.201901951 PDF

Book Chapters:

2. Chern M, Grazon C, and AM Dennis.
Phase transfer and DNA functionalization of quantum dots using and easy to prepare, low-cost zwitterionic polymer.
In Fontes A and BS Santos (Eds.), Quantum Dots. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2135. Humana, New York, NY. (2020).
10.1007/978-1-0716-0463-2_7 PDF

1. Saeboe AM, Kays JC, and AM Dennis.
Encapsulating Quantum Dots in Lipid-PEG Micelles and Subsequent Copper-Free Click Chemistry Bioconjugation.
In Fontes A and BS Santos (Eds.), Quantum Dots. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2135. Humana, New York, NY. (2020).
10.1007/978-1-0716-0463-2_5 PDF

2019

22. Grazon C,* Chern M,* Ward K, Lecommandoux S, Grinstaff MW, AM Dennis. *co-first authors.
A versatile and accessible polymer coating for functionalizable zwitterionic quantum dots with high DNA grafting efficiency.
Chemical Communications, 2019, 55:11067-11070. 10.1039/C9CC04856A PDF SI

21. Cao W, Chern M, Dennis AM, and K Brown.
Measuring Nanoparticle Polarizability using Fluorescence Microscopy.
Nano Letters, 2019, 19(8):5762-5768. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02402 PDF SI

20. Bhuckory S, Kays JC, and AM Dennis.
In Vivo Biosensing using Resonance Energy Transfer.
Biosensors, 2019, 9(2):76 (35 pgs). 10.3390/bios9020076 PDF

19. Chern M, Kays JC, Bhuckory S, and AM Dennis.
Sensing with Photoluminescent Semiconductor Quantum Dots.
Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 2019, 7: 012005 (36 pgs). 10.1088/2050-6120/aaf6f8 PDF

18. Dennis AM, Buck MR, Wang F, Hartmann NF, Majumder S, Casson J, Doorn SK, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Role of Interface Chemistry in Opening New Radiative Pathways in InP/CdSe Giant Quantum Dots with Blinking-Suppressed Two-Color Emission.
Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 1809111 (10 pgs). 10.1002/adfm.201809111 PDF SI

17. Johnson CA, Chern M, Nguyen TT, Dennis AM*, and JL Goldfarb*.
Ligands and media impact interactions between engineered nanomaterials and clay minerals.
NanoImpact, 2019, 13:112-122. 10.1016/j.impact.2019.01.004 PDF SI

2018

16. Toufanian R, Piryatinski A, Hollingsworth JA, and AM Dennis.
Bandgap Engineering of InP Heterostructured Quantum Dots: Tailoring Emission with Shell Composition and Thickness.
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018, 6:587 (12 pages). 10.3389/fchem.2018.00567 PDF SI

15. Dawood F, Wang J, Schulze PA, Sheehan CJ, Buck MR, Dennis AM, Majumder S, Krishnamurthy S, Ticknor M, Staude I, Brener I, Goodwin PM, Amro NA, and JA Hollingsworth.
The Role of Liquid Ink Transport in the Direct Placement of Quantum Dot Emitters onto Sub-Micrometer Antennas by Dip-Pen Nanolithography.
Small, 2018, 14(31):1801503 (10 pages). 10.1002/smll.201801503 PDF SI

2017

14. Chern M, Nguyen TT, Mahler AH, and AM Dennis.
Quantifying Shell Thickness Effects on Quantum Dot Brightness and Energy Transfer.
Nanoscale, 2017, 9(42):16446-16458. 10.1039/C7NR04296E PDF SI

13. Atha DH, Nagy A, Steinbruck A, Dennis AM, Hollingsworth JA, Dua V, Iyer R, and BC Nelson.
Quantifying Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity: Comparison of Common Cytotoxicity and Gene Expression Measurements.
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2017, 15(1):79 (9 pages). 10.1186/s12951-017-0312-3 PDF SI

2014 – 2016

12. Dennis AM, Delehanty J, and I Medintz.
Emerging Physicochemical Phenomena along with New Opportunities at the Biomolecular–Nanoparticle Interface.
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016, 7(11):2139-2150. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00570 PDF

11. Chou K and AM Dennis.
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer between Quantum Dot Donors and Quantum Dot Acceptors.
Sensors, 2015, 13(6):13288-13325. 10.3390/s150613288 PDF

10. Magnum BD, Wang F, Dennis AM, Gao Y, Ma X, Hollingsworth JA, and H Htoon.
Competition between Auger Recombination and Hot-Carrier Trapping in PL Intensity Fluctuations of Type II Nanocrystals.
Small, 2014, 10:2892-2901. 10.1002/smll.201302896 PDF SI

– 2012

9. Dennis AM, Rhee WJ, Sotto D, Dublin SN, and G Bao.
Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein FRET Probes for Sensing Intracellular pH.
ACS Nano, 2012, 6(4):2917-2924. 10.1021/nn2038077 PDF SI

8. Dennis AM, Mangum BD, Piryatinski A, Park YS, Hannah DC, Casson JL, Williams DJ, Schaller RD, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Suppressed Blinking and Auger Recombination in Near-Infrared Type-II InP/CdS Nanocrystal Quantum Dots.
Nano Letters, 2012, 12(11):5545-5551. 10.1021/nl302453x PDF SI

7. Kundu J, Ghosh Y, Dennis AM, Htoon H, and JA Hollingsworth.
Giant Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Stable Down-Conversion Phosphors that Exploit a Large Stokes Shift and Efficient Shell-to-Core Energy Relaxation.
Nano Letters, 2012, 12(6):3031-3037. 10.1021/nl3008659 PDF SI

6. Dennis AM, Sotto DC, Mei BC, Medintz IL, Mattoussi H, and G Bao.
Surface Ligand Effects on Metal-Affinity Coordination to Quantum Dots: Implications for Nanoprobe Self-Assembly.
Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2010, 21(7):1160-1170. 10.1021/bc900500m PDF SI

5. Boeneman K, Mei BC, Dennis AM, Bao G, Deschamps JR, Mattoussi H, and IL Medintz.
Sensing Caspase 3 Activity with Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein Assemblies.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(11):3828-3829. 10.1021/ja809721j PDF SI

4. Medintz IL, Pons T, Susumu K, Boeneman K, Dennis AM, Farrell D, Deschamps JR, Melinger JS, Bao G, and H Mattoussi.
Resonance Energy Transfer Between Luminescent Quantum Dots and Diverse Fluorescent Protein Acceptors.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113(43), 18552-18561. 10.1021/jp9060329 PDF SI

3. Dennis AM and G Bao.
Quantum Dot-Fluorescent Protein Pairs as Novel Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Probes.
Nano Letters, 2008, 8(5):1439-1445. 10.1021/nl080358+ PDF SI

2. Drotleff S, Lungwitz U, Breunig M, Dennis AM, Blunk T, Tessmar J, and A Göpferich.
Biomimetic Polymers in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences.
European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 2004, 58(2):385-407. 10.1016/j.ejpb.2004.03.018 PDF

1. Dokas LA, Haas MA, Lilly SM, Ting S, and AM Dennis.
In Vitro Modulation of Protein Kinase CK2-mediated Phosphorylation of the Neuronal Growth-associated Protein B-50 (GAP-43).
Neuroscience Research Communications, 2003, 33(3):189-199. 10.1002/nrc.10095