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115 Bioengineering,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook,
NY 11794-5281

 

 

Balaji Sitharaman, Pramod Avti, Yahfi Talukdar, Kenneth Schaefer and Jon P.Longtin, , “A Nanoparticle-Enhanced Photoacoustic Stimulus for Bone Tissue Engineering”, Tissue Engineering Part A, 2011, 17, 1851-1858.

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Balaji Sitharaman, Saathyaki Raajmani, Pramod Avti, “Time-resolved red luminescence from europium catalyzed single walled carbon nanotubes”, Chem. Comm., 47, 1607-1609, 2011.

 

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Meike van der Zande, Balaji Sitharaman, X. Frank Walboomers, Lesa Tran, Andor Veltien, Lon J. Wilson, J. Iñaki Álava, Arend Heerschap, Antonios G. Mikos, John A. Jansen, “In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Distribution Pattern of Gadonanotubes Released from A Degrading Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Scaffold”, Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 17, 19-26, 2011.

 

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Alireza Mashal, Balaji Sitharaman, Li Xu, Alan V. Sahakian, Pramod Avti ,John H. Booske, and Susan C. Hagness, “ Towards Carbon-Nanotubes-Based  Theranostic Agents for Microwave detection and Treatment Treatment of Breast Cancer: Enhanced Dielectric and Heating Response of Tissue-Mimicking Materials”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2010, 57, 1831-1834.

 

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Adam Derosa,  Saathyaki Raajamani, Kristen Greco, Balaji Sitharaman, “Recent patents on single-walled carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications,” Recent Patents on Biomedical Engineering, 2010, 3, 86-94.

 

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Balaji Sitharaman, Meike Van Der Zande,  Jeyarama S. Ananta, Xinfeng Shi, Andor Veltien, X. Frank Walboomers, Lon J. Wilson, Antonios G. Mikos, Arend Heerschap, John J. Jansen,  “Magnetic resonance imaging studies on gadonanotube-reinforced biodegradable polymer nanocomposites ”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2010, 93A, 1454-1462.

 

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Danielle Green, Jon Longtin, Balaji Sitharaman, “The Effect of Nanoparticle Enhanced Photoacoustic Stimulation on Multipotent Marrow Stromal Cells”, ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 2065–2072.                    

 

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Magdalena Swierczewska, Irene Rusakova, Balaji Sitharaman, “Gd and Eu Catalysted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube growth,” Carbon, 2009, 47, 3139-3142.

 

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Manojit Pramanik, Kwang Hyun Song, Magdalena Swierczewska, Danielle Green, Balaji Sitharaman, Lihong V Wang “In vivo carbon nanotube-enhanced non-invasive photoacoustic mapping of the sentinel lymph node”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2009, 54, 3291–3301.

 

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Manojit Pramanik, Magdalena Swierczewska, Danielle Green, Balaji Sitharaman, Lihong V. Wang  “Carbon nanotubes as a multimodal — thermoacoustic and photoacoustic — contrast agent”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2009, 14, 034018.

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Balaji Sitharaman, Xinfeng Shi, G J. Meijer, Hongbing Liao, Frank Walboomers, John J. Jansen, Lon J. Wilson, Antonios G. Mikos “In Vivo Biocompatibility of Ultra-Short Single Walled Carbon Nanotube /Biodegradable Polymer Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering”, Bone, 2008, 43, 362–370.

 

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Balaji Sithamaran, Tatiana Y. Zakharian, Jared Ashcroft, Lon J. Wilson, Antonios G. Mikos “Carbon Nanostructures as Artificial Vectors for Transfection”, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2008, 5, 567-578.

 

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Xinfeng Shi, Balaji Sitharaman, Quynh Pham, Jared L. Hudson, Lon J. Wilson, James M. Tour, Antonios G. Mikos ‘In Vitro Cytotoxicity of  Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Biodegradable Polymer Nanocomposites” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 2008  86A, 813-823.

                                              

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Anita Saraf, Michael C. Hacker, Balaji Sitharaman, Jane Grande-Allen, Michael A. Barry, Antonios G. Mikos “Synthesis and Conformational Evaluation of a Novel Gene Delivery Vector for Human Mesenchymal Cells”, Biomacromolecules, 2008, 9 (3), 818–827.

 

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Balaji Sitharaman, Lon J. Wilson “Gadofullerenes and Gadonanotubes: A New Paradigm for High-Performance MRI Contrast Agent Design”, Invited Review in Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 2007, 3, 342-352.

 

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Xinfeng Shi, Balaji Sitharaman, Quynh P. Pham, Katherine Wu, W. Edward Billups, Lon J. Wilson, Antonios G. Mikos “ Fabrication of Porous Ultra-Short Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” Biomaterials, 2007, 28, 4078-4090.

 

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Balaji Sitharaman, Lesa A. Tran, Robert D. Bolskar, Raja Muthupillai, Scott D. Flamm, Antonios G. Mikos, Lon J. Wilson “Gadofullerenes as Nanoscale Magnetic Labels for Cellular Magnetic Resonance Imaging” Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging, 2007, 2, 139-146.

 

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Balaji Sitharaman, Lesa A.Tran, Patrick P. Spicer, Irene Rusakova, Antonios G. Mikos, Lon J. Wilson “Injectable In Situ Crosslinkable Nanocomposites of Biodegradable Polymers and Carbon Nanostructures for Bone Tissue Engineering”, Journal of Biomaterial Science, Polymer Edition, 2007, 18, 655–671.

 

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Sabrina Laus, Balaji Sitharaman, Éva Tóth, Robert D. Bolskar,  Lothar Helm, Lon J. Wilson, André E. Merbach “Understanding Paramagnetic Relaxation Phenomena for Water-Soluble Gadofullerenes”, J. Phys. Chem. C  2007, 111, 5633-5639.

 

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Balaji Sitharaman, Lon J. Wilson “Gadonanotubes as New High-Performance MRI Contrast Agents” Invited Review in International Journal of Nanomedicine 2006, 1(3), 291-295.

 

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Tatiana Y. Zakharian, Balaji Sitharaman, Alexander Seryshev, Brian E. Gilbert, Vernon Knight, Lon J. Wilson “A Fullerene (C60)-Paclitaxel Chemotherapeutic: Synthesis, Characterization and Study of Biological Activity in Tissue Culture”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005; 127(36), 12508-12509.


                                                   
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Balaji Sitharaman, Kyle Kissell, Keith Hartman, Lesa A. Tran, , Andrei Baikalov, Irene Rusakova, Yanyi Sun, Htet A Khant, Steven J Ludtke, Wah Chiu, Sabrina Laus, Éva Tóth, Lothar Helm, André E. Merbach, Lon J. Wilson “Superparamagnetic Gadonanotubes Are High-Performance MRI Contrast Agents” Chem. Commun. 2005, (31), 3915 – 3917.


                                                    
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Sabrina Laus, Balaji Sitharaman, Éva Tóth, Robert D. Bolskar, Lothar Helm, Subashini Asokan, Michael S. Wong, Lon J. Wilson, André E. Merbach “Destroying Gadofullerene Aggregates by Salt Addition in Aqueous Solution of Gd@C60(OH)x and Gd@C60[C(COOH2)]”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127(26), 9368 – 9369.


                                                   
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Éva Tóth, Robert D. Bolskar, Alain Borel, Gabriel González, Lothar Helm, André E. Merbach, Balaji Sitharaman and Lon J. Wilson “Water soluble Gadofullerenes: Towards High relaxivity, pH-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127(1), 799-805.


                                                     
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Balaji Sitharaman, Éva Tóth, Robert D. Bolskar, Gabriel González, Lothar Helm, André E. Merbach, and Lon J. Wilson, “Dynamic Light Scattering and Relaxometric Studies of Water-Soluble Gd@C60 Derivatives as pH-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents”, Fullerenes and Nanotubes; P. V. Kamat, F. D’Souza, D. M. Guldi, and S. Fukuzumi, Eds.; The Electrochemical Society, 2004, 14, 330-338.


                                                     
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Balaji Sitharaman, Robert D. Bolskar, Irene Rusakova, Lon J. Wilson, “Gd@C60[C(COOH)2]10 and Gd@C60(OH)x: Nanoscale Aggregation Studies of Two Metallofullerene MRI Contrast Agents in Aqueous Solution”, Nano Lett.; 2004; 4(12), 2373 – 2378.


                                                    
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Christie M. Sayes, John D. Fortner, Wenh Guo, Delina Lyon, Adina M. Boyd, Kevin D. Ausman, Yizhi J. Tao, Balaji Sitharaman, Lon J. Wilson, Joseph B. Hughes, Jennifer L. West, and Vicki L. Colvin, “The Differential Cytotoxicity of Water-Soluble Fullerenes” Nano Lett.; 2004; 4(10), 1881 – 1887.


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Lars Husebo, Balaji Sitharaman, Lon J. Wilson, “Fullerenols Revisited: Stable Radical Anions” J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2004; 126(38), 12055 – 12064.


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Balaji Sitharaman, Subashini Asokan, Irene Rusakova, Michael S. Wong, Lon J. Wilson, “Nanoscale Aggregation Properties of Neuroprotective Carboxyfullerene (C3) in Aqueous Solution”, Nano Letters; 2004; 4(9), 1759 – 1762.

 

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