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(140 refereed publications, ~36 citations per
publication, h-index: 45).
2008:
• F. Tsow, E.Forzani and N.J. Tao,
“Frequency-coded chemical sensors“, Analytical
Chemistry, in press, 2008.
• N. Weibel, A. Błaszczyk, C. von Hänisch, M.
Mayor,Ilya Pobelov, T.Wandlowski, F. Chen, and N.J.
Tao, “Redox-Active Catechol-Functionalized Molecular
Rods: Suitable Protection Groups and Single-Molecule
Transport Investigations”, Euro J. Org. Chem., in
press, 2008.
• A. Diaz, E. Forzani, L. Nagahara, R. Tsui and N.J.
Tao, “Ammonium detection with polymer nanojunctions”.
IEEE Sensors, in press, 2008.
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2007:
• N.J. Tao, “Switching made simple”, News & Views,
Nature Nanotech., 2, 677-677(2007)
• Z.F. Huang, F. Chen, R. D’Agosta, P. A. Bennett,
M. Di Ventra and N.J. Tao, “Local-Heating in Single
Molecule Junctions: Evidence of Electron-Phonon and
Electron-Electron Interactions", Nature
Nanotechnology, 2, 698-703(2007).
• Fang Chen, Zhifeng Huang, N.J. Tao, “Forming
single molecular junctions between ITO electrodes”,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 162106(2007).
• Xiulan Li, Joshua Hihath, Fang Chen, Takuya
Masuda, Ling Zang and N.J. Tao, “Thermally Activated
Electron Transport in Single Redox molecules”, J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 11535-11542(2007).
• Zhifeng Huang, Feng Chen, Peter A. Bennett and
Nongjian Tao, “Single Molecule Junctions Formed via
Au-Thiol Contact: Stability and Breakdown
Mechanism”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129,
13225-13231(2007).
• Tawab Dastagir, Erica S. Forzani, Ruth Zhang,
Islamshah Amlani, Larry A. Nagahara, Raymond Tsui
and Nongjian Tao, “Detection of Hepatitis C Virus
RNA on Single Wall Carbon Nanotube-Field Effect
Transistors” Analyst, 132, 738-740(2007).
• Erica Forzani, Xiulan Li and N.J. Tao “Hybrid
amperometric and conductimetric chemical sensor
based on conducting polymer nanojunctions” Anal.
Chem., 79, 5217-5224(2007).
• Shaopen Wang, Erica Forzani and N.J. Tao,
“Detection of Heavy Metal Ions in Water by High
resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy
Combined with Anodic Stripping Voltammetry”, Anal.
Chem., 79, 4427-4432(2007).
• Francis, Tsow and N.J. Tao, “Microfabricated
Tuning Fork Temperature and Infrared sensor”, Appl.
Phys. Lett., 90, 174102(2007).
• Nguyen, Ly, Kyle Foley and N.J. Tao,"Integrated
Label-free Protein Detection and Separation in
Real-time using Confined SPR-Imaging”, Anal. Chem.,
79, 2546-2551(2007).
• J. Hihath, F. Chen, P.M. Zhang and N.J. Tao,
“Thermal and Electrochemical Gate Effects on DNA
Conductance”, J. Phys., 19, 215202-215221(2007).
• F. Chen, J. Hihath, Z.F. Huang, X.L. Li and N.J.
Tao, “Measurement of single molecule conductance”,
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 58,
535-564(2007).
• X.L. Li, S.Z. Hua, H.D. Chopra and N.J. Tao,
“Formation of atomic point contacts and molecular
junctions with a combined mechanical break junction
and electrodeposition method”, Micro&Nano Letters,
in press, 2007.
• E.S. Forzani, K. Foley, P. Westerhoff and N.J.
Tao, “Detection of Arsenic in Groundwater using a
Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor”, Sensors &
Actuators, B., 123, 82-88(2007).
• B.Q. Xu and N.J. Tao, “Measurement of Single
Molecule Conductance”, Edited by M. Reed, 2007.
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2006:
• F. Chen, X.L. Li, J. Hihath, Z.F. Huang and N.J.
Tao, “Effect of Anchoring Groups in Single Molecule
Conductance A Comparative Study of Thiol-, Amine-
and Carboxylic Acid-Terminated Molecules”, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 128, 15874-15881 (2006)
• J. Tian, B. Liu, X.L. Li, Z.L. Yang, B. Ren, S.T.
Wu, N.J. Tao and Z.Q. Tian, “Study of molecular
junctions with combined surface-enhanced Raman and
mechanically controllable break junction method”, J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 14748-14749(2006).
• N.J. Tao, “Electron transport in molecular
junctions”, Nature Nanotech., 1, 173-181(2006).
• E.S. Forzani, X.L. Li, P.M. Zhang and N.J. Tao,
“Tuning the chemical selectivity of SWNT-FET for
detection of heavy metal ions”, Small, 2,
1283-1291(2006).
• Z.F. Huang, B.Q. Xu, Y.C. Chen, M. Di Ventra and
N.J. Tao, “Current Induced Local heating in Single
Molecule Junctions”, NanoLett., 6, 1240-1244(2006).
• X.Y. Xiao, D. Brune, J. He, S.M Lindsay, C. B
Gorman; N.J. Tao, “Redox-Gated Electron Transport in
Electrically Wired Ferrocene Molecules” Chemical
Physics, 326, 138-143(2006).
• Nguyen, Ly and N.J. Tao, “Scalable dope-coded biosensing particles for protein detection”. Applied
Physics Letters, 88, 043901/1-043901/3(2006).
• X.L. Li, J. He, J. Hihath, B.Q, Xu, S.M. Lindsay
and N.J. Tao, “Conductance of Single Alkanedithiols:
Conduction Mechanism and Effect of
Molecule-Electrode Contacts”. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
128, 2135-2141(2006).
• J. He, O. Sankey, M. Lee, X.L., Li, N.J. Tao and
S.M. Lindsay, “Measuring
single molecule conductance with break junctions”. Faraday Discussions, 131,
145-154(2006).
• X.L. Li, B.Q. Xu, X.Y. Xiao, X.M. Yang, L. Zang
and N.J. Tao, “Controlling Charge Transport in
Single Molecules using Electrochemical Gate”,
Faraday Discussions, 131, 11-120(2006).
• Fang Chen and N.J. Tao, “Electrochemical
Fabrication of Metal Nanocontacts and Nanogaps”, in
Electrocrystallization in Nanotechnology, Edited by
G. Staikov, Wiley-VCH, 2006.
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2005:
• J. Hihath, B.Q. Xu, P.M. Zhang, and N.J. Tao,
“Study of Nucleotide Polymorphisms via Electrical
Conductance Measurements”, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.,
102, 16979-16983(2005).
• A.D. Aguilar, E.S. Forzani, X.L. Li, L. A.
Nagahara, I. Amlani, R. Tsui, N.J. Tao, “Chemical
Sensors using Peptide-Functionalized Conducting
Polymer Nanojunction Arrays”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 87,
193108/1-193108/3(2005).
• B.Q. Xu, X.L. Li, X.Y. Xiao, H. Sakaguchi and N.J.
Tao “Electromechanical and Conductance Switching
Properties of Single Oligothiophene Molecules”,
NanoLett., 5, 1491-1495(2005).
• X.Y. Xiao, L. A. Nagahara, A. Rawlett and N.J.
Tao, “Electrochemical Gate Controlled Conductance of
Single Oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s”, J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 127, 9235-9240(2005).
• X.L. Li, B.Q. Xu, X.Y. Xiao, J. Hihath and N.J.
Tao, “Measurement of Electron Transport Properties
of Single Molecules”, J. Jpn. Appl. Phys., 44,
5344-5347(2005).
• N.J. Tao, “Measurement and Control of Single
Molecule Conductance”, J. Material Chem., invited
Highlight article, 5, 3260-3263(2005).
• B.Q. Xu, X.Y. Xiao, X.M. Yang, L. Zangand N.J.
Tao, “Large Gate Current Modulation in a Room
Temperature Single Molecule Transistor”, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 127, 2386-2387(2005).
• M.H. Ren, E.S. Forzani and N.J. Tao, “A Chemical
Sensor Based on Microfabricated Wristwatch Tuning
Forks”, Anal. Chem., 77, 2700-2707(2005).
• E. S. Forzani, H.Q. Zhang, W. Chen and N.J. Tao,
“Detection of heavy metal ions in drinking water
using a high-resolution differential Surface Plasmon
Resonance Sensor”, Environmental Science &
Technology, 39, 1257-1262(2005).
• N.J. Tao, “Electrochemical Fabrication of Metallic
Quantum Wires”, J. Chem. Edu., 82, 720-726(2005).
• V. Rajagopalan, S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao, “A
Nanocontact Sensor for Heavy Metal Ion Detection”,
in Nanotechnology and Environment, Edited by Karn et
al., Oxford University Press, 173-179(2005).
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2004:
• X. Xiao and N. J. Tao, “Metal Ion Binding Induced
Changes in Single Peptide Conductance”, Angewandte.
Chem., Intl., 43, 6148-6152(2004).
• E.S. Forzani, H.Q. Zhang, L.A. Nagahara, I.Amlani,
R. Tsui, N.J. Tao “Conducting Polymer Nanojunction
Sensor for Glucose Detection”, NanoLett., 4,
1785-1788(2004).
• B.Q. Xu, P.M. Zhang, X.L. Li and N. J. Tao,
“Direct Conductance Measurement Of Single DNA
Molecules In Aqueous Solution”, NanoLett., 4,
1105-1108(2004).
• X. Xiao, B.Q. Xu and N. J. Tao, “Conductance
Titration of Single Peptide Molecules”, J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 126, 5370-5371(2004).
• X. Yao, J.X. Wang, F.M. Zhou, N.J. Tao,
“Quantification of Redox-Induced Thickness Changes
of 11-Ferrocenylundecanethiol Self-Assembled
Monolayers by Electrochemical
Surface Plasmon Resonance”, J. Phys. Chem., 108,
7206-7212(2004).
• X.L.Li, H.X. He, B.Q. Xu, X. Xiao R. Tsui, L.A.
Nagahara, I. Amlani, N. J. Tao, “Electron Transport
Properties of Electrochemically and Mechanically
Formed Molecular Junctions”, Surface Science, 573,
1-10(2004).
• X. Xiao, B.Q. Xu and N. J. Tao, “Measurement of
Single Molecule Conductance: Benzenedithiol and
Benzenedimethanethiol.”, NanoLett., 4,
267-271(2004).
• H. Zhang, S. Boussaad, N. Ly and N. J. Tao,
“Magnetic Field-Assisted Assembly of Metal /
Polymer/Metal Junction Sensor”, Appl. Phys. Lett.,
84, 133-135(2004).
• B. Ashcroft.; B. Takulapalli; Yang, J.; Laws, G.
M.; Zhang, H. Q.; Tao, N. J.; Lindsay, S.; Gust, D.;
Thornton, T. J. “Calibration of a pH sensitive
buried channel silicon-on-insulator MOSFET for
sensor applications.” Physica Status Solidi B: Basic
Research 241, 2291-2296(2004).
• H.X. He and N.J. Tao, “Electrochemical fabrication
of metal nanowires” in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology, Eds., N.S. Nalwa, American
Scientific Publishers, 2004
• H.X. He, S. Boussaad, B.Q. Xu and N.J. Tao,
“Molecular and Ionic Adsorption onto Atomic-Scale
Metal Wires”, in Nanowires and Nanobelts –
Materials, Properties and Devices, Ed. Z.L. Wang,
Kluwer Academic Press, 2004.
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2003:
• B.Q. Xu, X. Xiao and N. J. Tao, “Measurement of
Single Molecule Electromechanical Properties”, J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 16164-16165(2003).
• B.Q. Xu, and N.J. Tao, “Measurement of Single
Molecule Conductance by Repeated Formation of
Molecular Junctions”, Science, 301, 1221-1223(2003).
• S. Boussaad, N.J. Tao, “A Polymer Wire Chemical
Sensor using Microfabricated Tuning Fork”, Nano Lett.
3, 1173-1176(2003).
• S. Boussaad, N.J. Tao, L. Nagahara, R. Zhang and
R. Tsui, “Detection of Protein Adsorption with
Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Device”, Chem.
Communications, 1502 - 1503(2003).
• H.X. He, N.J. Tao, L.A. Nagahara, I. Amlani, and
R. Tsui, “Discrete conductance switching in
conducting polymer wires “, Phys. Rev. B 68,
045302-1-6(2003).
• V. Rajagopalan, S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao,
“Detection of Heavy Metal Ions Based on Quantum
Point Contacts”, Nano Lett., 3, 851-855(2003).
• B.Q. Xu, H.X. He, S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao,
“Electrochemical Properties of Atomic-Scale Metal
Wires”, Electrochemica Acta, 48, 3085-3091(2003).
• S. Boussaad, B.Q. Xu, L.A. Nagahara, I. Amlani, W.
Schmickler, R. Tsui and N. J. Tao, “Discrete
Tunneling Current Fluctuations in Metal-Water-Metal
Tunnel Junctions”, J. Chem. Phys., 118,
8891-8897(2003).
• S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao, “Kinetics of Electron
Transfer-Induced Conformational Changes in Cytochrome c Immobilized on Electrodes Studied with
Surface Plasmon Resonance”, J. Electroanal. Chem.,
554-555, 233-239(2003).
• H.Q. Zhang, S. Boussaad and N. J. Tao, “A
High-Performance Differential Surface Plasmon
Resonance Sensor Using Quadrant Cell Photodetector”,
Rev. Sci. Instrum., 74, 150-153 (2003).
• N.J. Tao, “Spectroscopic Applications of SPM in
Electrochemistry” in “Encyclopedia of
electrochemistry", Volume 2, edited by Bard and Stratmann, Wiely-VCH, 2003.
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2002:
• B. Xu, H.X. He and N.J. Tao, “Controlling the
Conductance of Atomically Thin Metal Wires with
Electrochemical Potential”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124,
13568-13575(2002).
• F. Song, F. Zhou, J. Wang, N.J. Tao, J. Lin, R.L.
Vellanoweth, Y. Morquecho and J. Wheeler-Laidman,
“Detection of oligonucleotide hydridization at
femtomolar level and sequence-specific gene analysis
of the Arabidopsis thalianana leaft extract with an
ultrasensitive surface plasmon resonance
spectrometer”, Nucleic Acids Research, 30,
e75(2002).
• S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao, “Atom-Size Contacts and
Gaps Between Electrodes Fabricated with a
Self-Terminated Electrochemical Method”, Appl. Phys.
Lett., 80, 2398-2400(2002).
• H.X. He, S. Boussaad, B. Xu, S. Bousssaad and N.
J. Tao “Electrochemical Fabrication of Nanowires and
Nanogaps”, J. Electroanal. Chem., 522,
167-172(2002).
• H. X. He and N. J. Tao “Interaction of Molecules
with Metallic Quantum Wires”, Adv. Mat., 14,
161-164(2002).
• H. X. He, C. Shu, C. Z. Li and N. J. Tao,
“Adsorbate Effect on the Mechanical Stability of
Atomically Thin Metallic Wires”, J. Electroanal.
Chem., 522, 26-32(2002).
• S. Wang, S. Boussaad, N.J. Tao, “Surface Plasmon
Resonance Spectroscopy: Applications in Protein
Adsorption and Electrochemistry “ in Biomolecular
Films: Design, Function, and Applications, edited by
J. F. Rusling, 2002.
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2001:
• H. X. He, C. Z. Li and N.J. Tao, “Conductance of
Polymer Nanowires Fabricated by a Combined
Electrodeposition and Mechanical Break Junction
Method”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 78, 811-813(2001)
• H. X. He, J.S. Zhu, N.J. Tao, L.A. Nagahara, I.
Amlani and R. Tsui “A Conducting Polymer
Nanojunction Switch”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123,
7730-7731(2001).
• S. Wang, S. Boussaad, and N. J. Tao, “Surface
Plasmon Resonance - Enhanced Optical Absorption
Spectroscopy for Studying Molecular Adsorbates”,
Rev. Sci. Instrum., 72, 3055-3060 (2001).
• A. Bogozi, O. Lam, H. X. He, C.Z. Li, N.J. Tao,
L.A. Nagahara, I. Amlani and R. Tsui “Molecular
Adsorption onto Metallic Quantum Wires”, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 123, 4585-4590(2001).
• J. B. Schenkman, I. Jansson, Y. Lvov, J. Rusling,
S. Boussaad and N. J. Tao, “Charge-dependent
Sidedness of Cytochrome P450 Forms studied by QCM
and AFM”, Archives Biochem. Biophys., 385,
78-87(2001).
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2000:
• C. Z. Li, H. X. He, and N. J. Tao, “Quantized
tunneling current in the metallic nanogaps formed by
electrodeposition and etching”, Appl. Phys. Lett.,
77, 3995-3997(2000).
• N.J. Tao, C.Z. Li and H.X. He, “Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy Applications in Electrochemistry – Beyond
Imaging”, invited feature article, J. Electroanal.
Chem., 492, 81-93(2000).
• S. Wang, S. Boussaad, S. Wong and N.J. Tao,
“High-Sensitivity Stark Spectroscopy Obtained by
Surface Plasmon Resonance Measurement”, Anal. Chem.,
72, 4003-4008(2000).
• C. Shu, C.Z. Li, X. He, A. Bogozi, J. S. Bunch and
N.J. Tao, “Fractional Conductance Quantization of
Metallic Nanowires under Electrochemical Potential
Control”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 5196-5199(2000).
• S. Boussaad, J. Pean and N. J. Tao, “A High
Resolution Multi-wavelength Surface Plasmon
Resonance Spectroscopy for Probing Conformational
and Electronic Changes in Redox Proteins”, Anal.
Chem., 72, 222-226(2000)
• C.Z. Li, H. X. He, A. Bogozi, J. S. Bunch and N.J.
Tao, “Molecular Detection Based on Conductance
Quantization of Nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 76,
1333-1336(2000).
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1999:
• C.Z. Li, A. Bogozi, W. Huang and N. J. Tao
“Fabrication of Stable Metallic Nanowires with
Quantized Conductance”, Nanotechnology, 10,
221-223(1999).
• N.J. Tao, S. Boussaad, W. L. Huang, R. A
Arechabaleta and J. D’Agnese, “A High Resolution
Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy”, Rev. Sci.
Instrum.,70, 4656-4660(1999).
• N. J. Tao, C. Z. Li, F. Cunha and Q. Jing,
“Potential Controlled Ordering and Reaction in
Organic Monolayers at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Studied by in situ STM and AFM”, Scanning
Microscopy, 1999, in press.
• M.J. Giz, B. Duong, N.J. Tao, "In situ STM Study of
Self-assembled Mercaptopropionic Acid Monolayers for
Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine". J. Electroana.
Chem., 465, 72-79(1999).
• Q. Jin, J.A. Rodriguez, C.Z. Li, Y. Darici and
N.J. Tao, "Self-assembly of Aromatic Thiols on
Au(111)". Surf. Sci., 425, 101-111(1999).
• S. Boussaad and N. J. Tao, “Electron Transfer and
Adsorption of Myoglobin on Self-assembled Surfactant
Films: An Electrochemical Tapping-Mode AFM Study”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 4510-4515(1999).
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1998:
• O. Dominguez, L. Echegoyen, F. Cunha and N.J. Tao,
“A new approach to self-assembled fullerene
derivative monolayers”. Langmuir, 14, 821(1998).
• B. Duong, R. Arechabaleta and N. J. Tao, “In situ AFM/STM Characterization of Porphyrin Electrode
Films for Electrochemical Detection of
Neurotransmitters”, J. Electroanal. Chem. 447,
63(1998).
• C.Z. Li and N.J. Tao, “Quantum Transport in
Metallic Nanowires Fabricated by Electrochemical
Deposition/Dissolution”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 72,
894(1998).
• Y. Ke, S. Milano, X. Wang, N.J. Tao and Y. Darici,
“Structural studies of sulfur passivated GaAs(100)
surfaces with LEED and AFM”, Surf. Sci., 415,
29(1998).
• L. Dziri, S. Boussaad, N.J. Tao and R.M. Leblanc,
“Acetycholinesterase compexation with
acetylthiocholine or organophosphate at the
air/aqueous interface: a tapping mode AFM and UV-Vis
study”, Langmuir, 14, 4853(1998).
• C.Z. Li, H. Sha and N. J Tao, “Adsorbate effect on
conductance quantization of metallic nanowires”,
Phys. Rev. B., 58, 6775-6778(1998).
• L. Dziri, S. Boussaad, N.J. Tao and R.M. Leblanc,
“Effect of pH on acetylcholinesterase Langmuir and
Langmuir-Blodgett films studied by surface potential
and atomic force microscopy” Thin Solid Films,
327-329, 56-59(1998).
• S. Boussaad, L. Dziri, R. Arechabalea, N.J. Tao
and R. M. Leblanc."Electron Transfer Properties of Cytochrome c Langmuir-Blodgett films and
Interactions of Cytochrome c with Lipids". Langmuir,
14, 6215-6219(1998).
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1997:
• W. Schmickler and N.J. Tao, "Measuring the
inverted region of an electron transfer reaction
with an STM", Electrochimica Acta, 42, 2809(1997).
• F. Cunha, Q. Jin, N. J. Tao and C. Z. Li,
“Structural phase transition in self-assembled 1,10' phenanthroline monolayer on Au(111)", Surf. Sci.,
389, 19-28(1997).
• L. Shao, N. J. Tao and R. M. Leblanc, “Probing the Microelastic Properties of Nanobiological Particles
with Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy”, Chem.
Phys. Lett., 273, 37(1997).
• W. Han, E.N. Durantini, T.A. Moore, A. L. Moore,
D. Gust, P. Rez, G. Leatherman, G.R. Seely, N.J. Tao
and S.M. Linsay, “STM contrast, Electron-Transfer
Chemistry and Conduction in Molecules”, J. Phys.
Chem., 101, 10719(1997).
• S. Boussaad, N. J. Tao and R. Arechabaleta,
“Structural and Electron Transfer Properties of
Cytochrome c Adsorbed on Graphite Electrode Studied
by in-situ STM and Tapping Mode AFM”, Chem. Phys.
Lett., 280, 397(1997).
• H.Z Cummins, G. Li, Hwang Y.H., Shen G.Q., Du WM.,
Hernandez, J and N.J. Tao, “Dynamics of supercooled
liquids and glasses: comparison between experiments
with theoretical predictions”, Zeitschrift fur
physik. b, condensed matter, 103, 501(1997).
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