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Omar K. Zahr and Amy Szuchmacher Blum*. Solution Phase Gold Nanorings on a Viral Protein Template, Nano Letters, in press (2012).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Kim E. Sapsford, Charmaine D. Wilson, Martin H. Moore, and Banahalli R. Ratna*. Molecular Electronics Based Nanosensors on a Viral Scaffold. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 26, 2852 (2011).

Michael A. Bruckman, Carissa M. Soto, Heather McDowell, Jinny L. Liu, Banahalli R. Ratna*, Katalin V. Korpany, Omar K. Zahr, and Amy Szuchmacher Blum*. Role of Hexa-Histidine in Directed Nano Assemblies of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein, ACS Nano, 5, 1606 (2011).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Gary J. Vora, Kim E. Sapsford, and Banahalli R. Ratna, "Virus Nanoparticles for Signal Enhancement in Microarray Biosensors" in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense, ACS Press (2009).

Stanislav Tsoi, Igor Griva, Scott A. Trammell, Amy S. Blum, Joel M. Schnur, and Nikolai Lebedev*, Molecular conductance switching via controlled alteration of electron delocalization: Quinone-modified oligo(phenylenevinylene). Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, B27, 817 (2009).

Natalya Zimbovskaya*, Mark R. Pederson, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, Banahalli R. Ratna, and Reeshemah Allen, Nanoparticle networks as chemoselective sensing devices. Journal of Chemical Physics, 130, 094702 (2009).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Martin H. Moore, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Alkyl Chain Length and Quantum Dot Fluorescence in Aqueous Environments, Langmuir, 24, 9194 (2008).

Stanislav Tsoi, Igor Griva, Scott A. Trammell, Amy S. Blum, Joel M. Schnur, and Nikolai Lebedev*, Electrochemically-controlled conductance switching in a single molecule: Quinone-modified oligo(phenylenevinylene), ACS Nano, 2, 1289 (2008).

Carissa M. Soto*, Brett D. Martin, Kim E. Sapsford, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Towards Single Molecule Detection of SEB- A Mobile Sandwich Immunoassay on Gliding Microtubules, Analytical Chemistry, 80, 5433 (2008).

Raviraja N Seetharam, Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Jessica L. Whitley, Kim E. Sapsford, Anju Chatterji, Tianwei Lin, John E. Johnson, Charles Guerra, Peter Satir and Banahalli R. Ratna, Long Term Storage of Biotemplated Materials for Sensing Applications, Nanotechnology, 19, 105504 (2008).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Charmaine D. Wilson, Christian Amsinck, Paul Franzon, and Banahalli Ratna, Self-assembly of Molecular Memory Circuits on a Nanoscale Scaffold, (invited), IEEE Transactions in Nanobiosciences, 6, 270 (2007).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Charmaine D. Wilson, Kim E. Sapsford, Martin H. Moore, Anju Chatterji, Tianwei Lin, John E. Johnson, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Templated Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots from Aqueous Solution Using Protein Scaffolds, Nanotechnology, 17, 5073 (2006).

Dwight S. Seferos, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, James G. Kushmerick*, and Guillermo C. Bazan*, Single-Molecule Charge Transport Measurements Reveal Technique-Dependant Perturbations, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 11260 (2006).

Brett D. Martin*, Carissa M. Soto, Amy S. Blum, K. E. Sapsford, Jessica M. Whitley, John E. Johnson, Anju Chatterji, and Banahalli R. Ratna*, An Engineered Virus as a Bright Fluorescent Tag for Cargo Proteins – Capture and Transport by Gliding Microtubules, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 6, 2451 (2006).

Carissa M. Soto*, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, Nikolai Lebedev, Gary J. Vora, Carolyn E. Meador, Angela P. Won, Anju Chatterji, John E. Johnson, and Banahalli R. Ratna*, Fluorescent Signal Amplification of Carbocyanine Dyes Using Engineered Viral Nanoparticles, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 5184 (2006).

James G. Kushmerick*, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, and David P. Long, Metrology for Molecular Electronics, Analytica Chimica Acta, 568, 20 (2006).

Kim E. Sapsford*, Carissa M. Soto, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, Anju Chatterji, John E. Johnson, Frances S. Ligler, and Banahalli R. Ratna, A Cowpea Mosaic Virus Nanoscaffold for Multiplexed Antibody Conjugation: Application as an Immunoassay Tracer, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 21, 1668 (2006).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Tong Ren*, Damon A. Parish, Scott A. Trammell, Martin H. Moore, James G. Kushmerick, Guo-Lin Xu, Jeffrey R. Deschamps, Steven K. Pollack, and Ranganathan Shashidhar, Ru2(ap)4(σ-oligo(phenyleneethynylenyl)) Molecular Wires: Synthesis and Electronic Characterization, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 10010 (2005).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Charmaine D. Wilson, Tina L. Brower, Steven K. Pollack, Terence L. Schull, Anju Chatterji, Tianwei Lin, John E. Johnson, Christian Amsinck, Paul Franzon, Ranganathan Shashidhar and Banahalli Ratna*, An Engineered Virus as a Scaffold for Three-Dimensional Self-Assembly on the Nanoscale, Small, 1, 702 (2005).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, James G. Kushmerick, David P. Long, Charles H. Patterson, John C. Yang, Jay C. Henderson, Yuxing Yao, James M. Tour, Ranganathan Shashidhar, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Molecularly Inherent Voltage Controlled Conductance Switching, Nature Materials, 4, 167 (2005).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, James G. Kushmerick, John C. Yang, Martin Moore, Steven K. Pollack, Jawad Naciri, Ranganathan Shashidhar, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Charge Transport and Scaling in Molecular Wires, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108, 18124 (2004).

Carissa M. Soto*, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, Charmaine D. Wilson, Jason Lazorcik, John E. Johnson, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Separation and Recovery of Intact Gold-Virus Complex by Agarose Electrophoresis and Electroelution: Application to the Purification of Cowpea Mosaic Virus and Colloidal Gold Complex, Electrophoresis, 25, 2901 (2004).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Carissa M. Soto, Charmaine D. Wilson, John D. Cole, Moon Kim, Bruce Gnade, Tianwei Lin, Anju Chatterji, Wendy F. Ochoa, John E. Johnson, Banahalli R. Ratna, Cowpea Mosaic Virus as a Scaffold for 3-D Patterning of Gold Nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 4, 867 (2004).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, John Yang, Ranganathan Shashidhar, and Banahalli R. Ratna, Comparing the Conductivity of Molecular Wires with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Applied Physics Letters, 82, 3322 (2003).

Amy Szuchmacher Blum*, Adam J.D. Schafer, and Thomas Engel, An AC-STM Study of Mineral Sulfides and the Tip Induced Oxidation of PbS, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106, 8197 (2002).

Mingyan He, Amy Szuchmacher Blum, G. Overney and Rene M. Overney*, Effect of Interfacial Liquid Structuring on the Coherence Length in Nanolubrication. Physical Review Letters, 88, 154302 (2002).

Mingyan He, Amy Szuchmacher, Eric Aston, Cynthia Buenviaje, Reto Luginbühl, and Rene M. Overney*, Critical Phenomena of Water Bridges in Nanoasperity Contacts. Journal of Chemical Physics, 114, 1355 (2001).

Bede Pittenger, Samuel C. Fain, Jr.*, M.J. Cochran, J.M.K. Donev, B.E. Robertson, Amy Szuchmacher, and Rene M. Overney, Premelting at Ice-Solid Interfaces Studied Via Velocity Dependent Indentation with Force Microscope Tips. Physical Review B, 63, (2001).

Reto Luginbühl, Amy Szuchmacher, Michael D. Garrison, J-B. Lhoest, Rene M. Overney, and Buddy D. Ratner*, Comprehensive Analysis of the Functionalization of SFM with Hydrophobic Coatings. Ultramicroscopy, 82, 171 (2000).

David Brinkley, Michelle Dietrich, Thomas Engel*, Paul Farrall, Gerhard Gantner, Adam Schafer, and Amy Szuchmacher. A Modulated Molecular Beam Study of the Extent of H2O Dissociation on TiO2(110). Surface Science, 395, 292 (1998).