Publications

Chen, Y.; Guo, F.; Jachak, A.; Kim, S.-P.; Datta, D.; Liu, J.; Kulaots, I.; Vaslet, C.; Jang, H. D.; Huang, J.; Kane, A.; Shenoy, V. B.; Hurt, R. H., "Aerosol Synthesis of Cargo-Filled Graphene Nanosacks". Nano Lett. 2012.

Sanchez V, Jachak A., Hurt R.H., Kane A.B., "Invited review article for Chemical Research in Toxicology, Biological Interactions of Graphene-Family Nanomaterials" – An Interdisciplinary Review, 2011.

Fei Guo, Franklin Kim, Tae Hee Han, Vivek Shenoy, Jiaxing Huang, Robert H. Hurt, “ Hydration-Responsive Folding and Unfolding in Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystal Phases ” ACS Nano 5 (10), 8019–8025, 2011.

Jodie R. Pietruska, Xinyuan Liu, Ashley Smith, Kevin McNeil, Paula Weston, Anatoly Zhitkovich, Robert Hurt, Agnes B. Kane, “ Bioavailability, intracellular mobilization of nickel, and HIF-1 activation in human lung epithelial cells exposed to metallic nickel and nickel oxide nanoparticles ,” Toxicological Sciences, 2011

Liu X, Sen S, Liu J, Kulaots I, Geohegan D, Kane A, Puretzky AA, Rouleau CM, More KL, Palmore GTR, Hurt RH, “ Antioxidant deactivation on graphenic nanocarbon surfaces ”, Small, 2011

Jingyu Liu, Kelly Pennell, Robert H. Hurt, “ Kinetics and Mechanisms of Nanosilver Oxysulfidation ,” Environmental Science and Technology, 2011.

Vanesa C Sanchez, Paula Weston, Ahiui Yan, Robert H Hurt and Agnes B Kane, “ A 3-dimensional in vitro model of epithelioid granulomas induced by high aspect ratio nanomaterials ” Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 8:17 2011.

Guo F, Mukhopadhyay A, Sheldon BW, and Hurt RH, “ Vertically Aligned Graphene Layer Arrays from Chromonic Liquid Crystal Precursors ,” Advanced Materials, 23(4) 508–513 (2011)

Tran PA, Sarin L, Hurt RH, Webster TJ, “Titanium surfaces with adherent selenium nanoclusters as a novel anticancer orthopedic material”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 93A(4) 1417–1428 (2010).

Liu X, Hurt RH, Kane AB., “ Biodurability of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Depends on Surface Functionalization ,” Carbon, 48:7 1961-1969 (2010).

Liu J, Hurt RH, “ Ion Release Kinetics and Particle Persistence in Aqueous Nano-Silver Colloids ,” Env. Sci. & Tech., 44:6, 2169–2175 (2010).

Sarin L, Sanchez V, Yan A, Kane AB, Hurt RH, " Selenium-Carbon Bifunctional Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Malignant Mesothelioma ,” Advanced Materials, in press, 2010.

Liu J, Sonshine D, Shervani S, Hurt RH, “ Controlled Release of Biologically Active Silver from Nanosilver Surfaces ,” ACS Nano, 4(11) 6903–6913 (2010).

Lee B, Sarin L, Johnson NC, Hurt RH, “ A nano-selenium reactive barrier approach for managing mercury over the life-cycle of compact fluorescent lamps ”, Environmental Science and Technology, 43 5915–5920 (2009).

Tran P, Sarin L, HurtRH, and Webster TJ, “Titanium surfaces with adherent selenium nanoclusters as a novel anti-cancer orthopedic material” J. Biomedical Research A, 15 93(4):1417-28 (2010).

Liu X, Abt D., Vison, D., Hurt RH, Rand D, Differential toxicity of carbon nanomaterials in Drosophila: Larval dietary uptake is benign but adult exposure causes locomotor impairment and mortality, Environmental Science & Technology, 43 (16), 6357–6363 (2009).

Jakubek L, Marangoudakis S, Raingo J, Liu X, Lipscombe D, Hurt RH, “ The inhibition of neuronal calcium-ion channels by trace levels of yttrium released from carbon nanotubes ,” Biomaterials, 30 (31) 6351-6357 (2009).

Kothari AK, Konca E, Sheldon BW, Jian K, Xia Z,, Ni W, and Hurt RH, “Mechanical behavior of anodic alumina coatings reinforced with carbon nanofibers”, J. Materials Science, 44:22 6020-6027 (2009).

Hower JC, Senior CL, Suuberg EM, Hurt RH, Wilcox JL, Olson ES, “Mercury capture by native fly ash carbons in coal-fired power plants,” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, in press 2009.

Pietruska JR, Sanchez VC, Miselis NR, Hurt RH, Kane AB, Biopersistence and potential adverse health impacts of fibrous nanomaterials: What have we learned from asbestos? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine, 1(5) 511-529 (2009).

Hoover, E., Brown, P. Averick, M., Kane, A., Hurt, R.H., “Teaching Small and Thinking Large: Effects of Including Social and Ethical Implications in an Interdisciplinary Graduate Nanotechnology Course,” Journal of Nano-Education, 1 86-95 (2009).

Kane AB, Hurt, RH, "Nanotoxicology: The Asbestos Analogy Revisited" Nature Nanotechnology,3(7) 378 (2008).

Johnson NC, Manchester S, Sarin L, Gao Y, Kulaots I, Hurt RH, "Mercury Vapor Release from Broken Compact Fluorescent Lamps and In Situ Capture by New Nanomaterial Sorbents", Environmental Science & Technology, 42(15) 5772 - 5778 (2008).

Guo, L., Von Dem Bussche, A., Buechner, M., Kane, A.B., Hurt, R.H., Adsorption of Essential Micronutrients by Carbon Nanotubes and its Implications for Nanotoxicity Testing, Small, 4(6) 721-727 (2008).

Liu, X., Guo, L., Morris, D., Kane, A., Hurt, R.H., Targeted Removal of Bioavailable Metal as a Detoxification Strategy for Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon, 46(3) 489-500 (2008).

Bulut, L., Yan, A., Hurt, R.H., Catalytic Combustion as a Synthesis Tool for Micropatterned Carbon Materials, Combustion and Flame, 154 206-216 (2008).

Manchester, S., Wang, X., Kulaots, I., Gao, Y., Hurt, R.H., High Activity Mercury Capture on Freshly Ozone-Treated Carbon Surfaces, Carbon 46(3) 518-524 (2008).

X. Liu, V. Gurel, D. Morris, D. W. Murray, A. Zhitkovich, A. B. Kane, R. H. Hurt, "Bioavailability of Nickel in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes", Advanced Materaials, 19(19) 2790-2796 (2007)

Jian K, Kulaots I, Yan A, Crawford GP, Hurt RH. "Reconstruction and hydrophobicity of nanocarbon surfaces composed solely of graphene edges," Carbon, 44(10) 2102-2106 (2006).

Hurt, R.H., Monthioux, M., Kane, A., "Toxicology of Carbon Nanomaterials: Status, Trends, and Perspectives on the Special Issue," Carbon, 44(6) 1028-1033 (2006).

Kengqing Jian, Robert H. Hurt, Brian W. Sheldon, Gregory P. Crawford, "Visualization of Liquid Crystal Director Fields within Carbon Nanotube Cavities," Applied Physics Letters, 88, 163110 (2006).

Hurt R.H., Haynes B.S., "On the Origin of Power-Law Kinetics in Carbon Oxidation," Proc. Comb. Inst., 30 (2) 2161-2168 (2005)

M. E. Sousa, S. G. Cloutier, K. Q. Jian, B. S. Weissman, R. H. Hurt, and G. P. Crawford, "Patterning Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Precursors for Carbon Nanotube Arrays," Applied Physics Letters, 87, 173115 (2005)

Chan, C., Crawford, G., Gao, Y., Hurt, R.H.., Jian, K., Li, H., Sheldon, BM., Sousa, M., Yang, "Liquid Crystal Engineering of Carbon Nanofibers and Nanotubes," Carbon, 43 (12) 2431-2440 (2005)

Jian K., Xianyu H., Eakin J., Gao Y., Crawford G.P., Hurt R.H., "Orientationally Ordered and Patterned Discotic Films and Carbon Films from Liquid Crystal Precursors," Carbon, 43 (2) 407-415 (2005).

Khanna, R., Sahajwalla, V., Hurt ,R.H., "An atomistic technique for simulating non-covalent interactions in large ensembles of high-molecular-weight polyaromatics ," Carbon, 43(1) 67-77 (2004)

M. E. Sousa, C, Chan, K. Jian, Y. Gao, N Yang, R. Hurt, and G. P. Crawford, “Micro-Patterned Carbon Nanotube Arrays Using Pen-Writable Lyotropic Liquid Crystals,” Society for Information Display Digest of Technical Papers 35, 936-939 (2004)

Jian, K. Shim, H.S., Tuhus-Dubrov, D., Woodward, C., Bernstein, S. Pfeffer, M. Steingart, D., Sachsmann, S., Gournay, T., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Liquid Crystal Surface Anchoring of Mesophase Pitch," Carbon, 41 (11) 2073-2083 (2003)

Chen, X., Farber, M., Gao, Y., Kulaots, I., Suuberg, E.M., Hurt, R.H., "Mechanisms of Surfactant Adsorption on Nonpolar, Air-Oxidized, and Ozone-Treated Carbon Surfaces," Carbon 41 (8) 1489-1500 (2003).

Yang, N.Y.C., Jian, K.J., Kulaots, I., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H. "Template Synthesis of Nanophase Mesocarbon," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology," 3 (5) 386-391 (2003).

Jian, K., Shim, H.-S., Schwartzman, A., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Orthogonal Carbon Nanofibers by Template-Mediated Assembly of Discotic Mesophase Pitch," Adv. Materials, 15 (2) 164-167 (2003).

Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Nanomaterials from Discotic Liquid Crystals" in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" Vol 10 pp. 1-27 (H.S. Nalwa Ed.). American Scientific Publishers, 2003.

Hurt, R.H., Krammer, G., Crawford, G., Jian, K., Rulison, C., "Polyaromatic Assembly Mechanisms and Structure Selection in Carbon Materials," Chemistry of Materials, 14 4558-4565 (2002).

Shim, H.S., Hurt, R.H., Yang, N.Y.C. "A Methodology for Analysis of 002 LF Fringe Images and Its Application to Combustion-Derived Carbons", Carbon, 38 29-45 (2000).

Shim, H., Hurt, R.H. "Thermal Annealing of Chars from Diverse Organic Precursors under Combustion-Like Conditions" Energy and Fuels, 14 pp. 340-348 (2000).

Hu, Y., Calo, J.M., Hurt, R.H., Kerstein, A. "Kinetics of Orientational Order / Disorder Transitions and Their Application to Carbon Material Synthesis," Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 7 275-288 (1999).

Hurt, R.H., Structure, Properties, and Reactivity of Solid Fuels (Invited Topical Review Paper), Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, 2887-2904.

Freeman, E., Gao, Y.M., Hurt, R.H., Suuberg, E.S. "Interactions of Carbon-Containing Fly Ash with Commercial Air Entraining Agents for Concrete," Fuel, 76 (8) 761-765 (1997).

Hurt, R. H. and Davis, K. A., "Near-Extinction and Final Burnout in Coal Combustion," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth (International) Symposium on Combustion, 1994, pp. 561-568. (Silver Medal Paper).