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Pal Chaudhuri P, Ojha A, Rajasekaran R, Sharma S, Dhara S, Chaudhury K, Chakravarty B. P-466 Decellularization of whole organ human cervix: Physio and biochemical aspects of decellularized extracellular matrix. Hum Reprod 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deac107.438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Study question
Can the whole organ-cervix be decellularized while maintaining its fiber ultrastructure and extracellular matrix (ECM) functionality?
Summary answer
Cervix after decellularization could maintain the physical properties, ECM was found to be intact and functional.
What is known already
ECM-rich bioscaffolds are obtained from the process that utilizes the decellularization of tissues and organs. Cervical bioengineering is needed for clinical cervicovaginal reconstruction and tissue constructs can help women with cervical abnormalities.
Study design, size, duration
Human cervices were obtained from hysterectomized samples from 3 women undergoing surgery for complete hysterectomy during January 2021 to December 2021
Participants/materials, setting, methods
Human cervices were obtained from hysterectomized samples from 3 women undergoing surgery and were subjected to whole organ decellularization. Various physical, chemical methods were employed to remove cellular remnants for a period of 10 days via perfusion of ionic and detergent solutions. Validation of complete decellularization was done via hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, DNA quantification. ECM functionality was observed.
Main results and the role of chance
Well-organized ECM was obtained. Effective complete decellularization was dictated and verified by cervical tissue density, histopathological studies, DNA quantification and biochemical tests. H&E staining reflected the absence of any nuclear material in the endocervical and ectocervical tissues. Tissue microarchitecture and descending uterine artery were intact and could be helpful in the nutrient and gas exchange. DNA was found to be around 70 ng/mg tissue weight. Cell-free tissue-derived scaffolds were obtained along with a combination of growth factors and proteins.
Limitations, reasons for caution
Acellular cervical scaffold as a whole organ with vasculature intact for site-specific transplantation is a bigger question and still unaddressed.
Wider implications of the findings
Our study creates numerous prospects for in-vitro and in-vivo whole cervix tissue engineering. Site-specific tissue holds a promising avenue for the reconstruction of cervical abnormalities.
Trial registration number
Not applicable
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Affiliation(s)
- P Pal Chaudhuri
- Zenith Superspecialty Hospital, Department of obstetrics and gynecology , Kolkata, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Medical Science and Technology , Kokata, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Medical Science and Technology , Kokata, India
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- Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Department of ART , Kolkata, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Medical Science and Technology , Kokata, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Medical Science and Technology , Kokata, India
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- Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Department of ART , Kolkata, India
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Pattanayak AK, Das P, Dhara A, Chakrabarty D, Paul S, Gurnani K, Brundavanam MM, Dhara S. A Steady-State Approach for Studying Valley Relaxation Using an Optical Vortex Beam. Nano Lett 2022; 22:4712-4717. [PMID: 35671461 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Spin-valley coupling in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides gives rise to valley polarization and coherence effect, limited by intervalley scattering caused by exciton-phonon, exciton-impurity, and electron-hole exchange interactions (EHEIs). We explore an approach to tune the EHEI by controlling the exciton center of mass momentum (COM) utilizing the photon distribution of higher-order optical vortex beams. By virtue of this, we have observed exciton-COM-dependent valley depolarization and decoherence, which gives us the ability to probe the valley relaxation time scale in a steady-state measurement. Our steady-state technique to probe the valley dynamics can open up a new paradigm to explore the physics of excitons in two-dimensional systems.
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Basu Achari R, Goyal L, Chakraborty S, Arunsingh M, Arun B, Das S, Bhattacharyya T, Mallick I, Chatterjee S, Chatterjee J, Dhara S, Ghosh N, Mukhopadhyay J. PO-1033 Molecular profile and early MRI changes after chemoradiation in high grade diffuse astrocytoma. Radiother Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)07484-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dhara S, Chhangawala S, Chintalapudi H, Askan G, Aveson V, Massa AL, Zhang L, Torres D, Makohon-Moore AP, Lecomte N, Melchor JP, Bermeo J, Cardenas A, Sinha S, Glassman D, Nicolle R, Moffitt R, Yu KH, Leppanen S, Laderman S, Curry B, Gui J, Balachandran VP, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Chandwani R, Leslie CS, Leach SD. Pancreatic cancer prognosis is predicted by an ATAC-array technology for assessing chromatin accessibility. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3044. [PMID: 34031415 PMCID: PMC8144607 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23237-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Unlike other malignancies, therapeutic options in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are largely limited to cytotoxic chemotherapy without the benefit of molecular markers predicting response. Here we report tumor-cell-intrinsic chromatin accessibility patterns of treatment-naïve surgically resected PDAC tumors that were subsequently treated with (Gem)/Abraxane adjuvant chemotherapy. By ATAC-seq analyses of EpCAM+ PDAC malignant epithelial cells sorted from 54 freshly resected human tumors, we show here the discovery of a signature of 1092 chromatin loci displaying differential accessibility between patients with disease free survival (DFS) < 1 year and patients with DFS > 1 year. Analyzing transcription factor (TF) binding motifs within these loci, we identify two TFs (ZKSCAN1 and HNF1b) displaying differential nuclear localization between patients with short vs. long DFS. We further develop a chromatin accessibility microarray methodology termed "ATAC-array", an easy-to-use platform obviating the time and cost of next generation sequencing. Applying this methodology to the original ATAC-seq libraries as well as independent libraries generated from patient-derived organoids, we validate ATAC-array technology in both the original ATAC-seq cohort as well as in an independent validation cohort. We conclude that PDAC prognosis can be predicted by ATAC-array, which represents a low-cost, clinically feasible technology for assessing chromatin accessibility profiles.
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- S Dhara
- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA
- Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Programme Cartes d'Identité des Tumeurs, Ligue Nationale Contre Le Cancer, Paris, France
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
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- Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
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- Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
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- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA.
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Pandey A, Dhara S, Khan FA, Kelkar A, Kumar P, Bhatt RB, Behere PG. Analysis of Th and U in thorium-based mixed-oxide fuel using wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10967-018-6387-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Barrett CD, Hsu AT, Ellson CD, Y.Miyazawa B, Kong Y, Greenwood JD, Dhara S, Neal MD, Sperry JL, Park MS, Cohen MJ, Zuckerbraun BS, Yaffe MB. Blood clotting and traumatic injury with shock mediates complement-dependent neutrophil priming for extracellular ROS, ROS-dependent organ injury and coagulopathy. Clin Exp Immunol 2018; 194:103-117. [PMID: 30260475 PMCID: PMC6156817 DOI: 10.1111/cei.13166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Polymorphonuclear (PMN) leucocytes participate in acute inflammatory pathologies such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) following traumatic injury and shock, which also activates the coagulation system systemically. Trauma can prime the PMN nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase complex for an enhanced respiratory burst, but the relative role of various priming agents in this process remains incompletely understood. We therefore set out to identify mediators of PMN priming during coagulation and trauma-shock and determine whether PMN reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated in this manner could influence organ injury and coagulation. Initial experiments demonstrated that PMN are primed for predominantly extracellular ROS production by products of coagulation, which was abrogated by CD88/C5a receptor(C5aR) inhibition. The importance of this was highlighted further by demonstrating that known PMN priming agents result in fractionally different amounts of extracellular versus intracellular ROS release depending on the agent used. Plasma from trauma patients in haemodynamic shock (n = 10) also primed PMN for extracellular ROS in a C5a-dependent manner, which correlated with both complement alternative pathway activation and thrombin generation. Furthermore, PMN primed by preincubation with products of blood coagulation directly caused loss of endothelial barrier function in vitro that was abrogated by C5aR blockade or NADPH oxidase inhibition. Finally, we show in a murine model of trauma-shock that p47phox knock-out (KO) mice with PMN incapable of generating ROS were protected from inflammatory end-organ injury and activated protein C-mediated coagulopathy. In summary, we demonstrate that trauma-shock and coagulation primes PMN for predominantly extracellular ROS production in a C5a-dependent manner that contributes to endothelial barrier loss and organ injury, and potentially enhances traumatic coagulopathy.
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- C. D. Barrett
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
- Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of SurgeryBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMAUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of California at San FranciscoSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
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- Department of SurgeryMayo ClinicRochesterMNUSA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of California at San FranciscoSan FranciscoCAUSA
- Department of SurgeryDenver Health Medical CenterDenverCOUSA
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchCenter for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and BiologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMAUSA
- Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of SurgeryBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMAUSA
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Mandal M, Dhara S, Basu S. Separation of Carrier-Free 115mIn from Its Parent 115Cd Using the Synthesized TODGA-Impregnated Silica Gel. Radiochemistry 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1066362218050120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Chakraborty C, Qiu L, Konthasinghe K, Mukherjee A, Dhara S, Vamivakas N. 3D Localized Trions in Monolayer WSe 2 in a Charge Tunable van der Waals Heterostructure. Nano Lett 2018; 18:2859-2863. [PMID: 29589758 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently emerged as a host material for localized optically active quantum emitters that generate single photons. (1-5) Here, we investigate fully localized excitons and trions from such TMDC quantum emitters embedded in a van der Waals heterostructure. We use direct electrostatic doping through the vertical heterostructure device assembly to generate quantum confined trions. Distinct spectral jumps as a function of applied voltage bias, and excitation power-dependent charging, demonstrate the observation of the two different excitonic complexes. We also observe a reduction of the intervalley electron-hole exchange interaction in the confined trion due to the addition of an extra electron, which is manifested by a decrease in its fine structure splitting. We further confirm this decrease of exchange interaction for the case of the charged states by a comparative study of the circular polarization resolved photoluminescence from individual excitonic states. The valley polarization selection rules inherited by the localized trions will provide a pathway toward realizing a localized spin-valley-photon interface.
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- Chitraleema Chakraborty
- Materials Science , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
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- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Institute of Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
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- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Institute of Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
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- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Institute of Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
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- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Institute of Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Department of Physics , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India
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- Materials Science , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Institute of Optics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
- Department of Physics , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York 14627 , United States
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Chakraborty C, Goodfellow KM, Dhara S, Yoshimura A, Meunier V, Vamivakas AN. Quantum-Confined Stark Effect of Individual Defects in a van der Waals Heterostructure. Nano Lett 2017; 17:2253-2258. [PMID: 28267348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The optical properties of atomically thin semiconductor materials have been widely studied because of the isolation of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). They have rich optoelectronic properties owing to their large direct bandgap, the interplay between the spin and the valley degree of freedom of charge carriers, and the recently discovered localized excitonic states giving rise to single photon emission. In this Letter, we study the quantum-confined Stark effect of these localized emitters present near the edges of monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2). By carefully designing sequences of metallic (graphene), insulating (hexagonal boron nitride), and semiconducting (WSe2) two-dimensional materials, we fabricate a van der Waals heterostructure field effect device with WSe2 hosting quantum emitters that is responsive to external static electric field applied to the device. A very efficient spectral tunability up to 21 meV is demonstrated. Further, evaluation of the spectral shift in the photoluminescence signal as a function of the applied voltage enables us to extract the polarizability volume (up to 2000 Å3) as well as information on the dipole moment of an individual emitter. The Stark shift can be further modulated on application of an external magnetic field, where we observe a flip in the sign of dipole moment possibly due to rearrangement of the position of electron and hole wave functions within the emitter.
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- Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Rochester , Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Goswami S, Dhara S, Pal M, Nandi A, Panigrahi PK, Ghosh N. Optimized weak measurements of Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts in partial reflection. Opt Express 2016; 24:6041-6051. [PMID: 27136798 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.006041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The spatial and the angular variants of the Imbert-Federov (IF) beam shifts and the angular Goos-Hänchen (GH) shift contribute in a complex interrelated way to the resultant beam shift in partial reflection at planar dielectric interfaces. Here, we show that the two variants of the IF effects can be decoupled and separately observed by weak value amplification and subsequent conversion of spatial ↔angular nature of the beam shifts using appropriate pre and post selection of polarization states. Such optimized weak measurement schemes also enable one to nullify one effect (either the GH or the IF) and exclusively observe the other. We experimentally demonstrate this and illustrate various other intriguing manifestations of optimized weak measurements in elliptical and / or linear polarization basis. We also present a Poincare sphere based analysis on conversion / retention of the angular or spatial nature of the shifts with pre and post selection of states in weak measurement. The demonstrated ability to amplify, controllably decouple or combine the beam shifts via weak measurements may prove to be valuable for understanding the different physical contributions of the effects and for their applications in sensing and precision metrology.
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Dhara S, Mele EJ, Agarwal R. APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires. Science 2015; 349:726-9. [PMID: 26273053 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac6275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 07/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Electronic bands in crystals can support nontrivial topological textures arising from spin-orbit interactions, but purely orbital mechanisms can realize closely related dynamics without breaking spin degeneracies, opening up applications in materials containing only light elements. One such application is the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE), which is the generation of photocurrents whose magnitude and polarity depend on the chirality of optical excitation. We show that the CPGE can arise from interband transitions at the metal contacts to silicon nanowires, where inversion symmetry is locally broken by an electric field. Bias voltage that modulates this field further controls the sign and magnitude of the CPGE. The generation of chirality-dependent photocurrents in silicon with a purely orbital-based mechanism will enable new functionalities in silicon that can be integrated with conventional electronics.
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- Sajal Dhara
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Biroju RK, Tilak N, Rajender G, Dhara S, Giri PK. Catalyst free growth of ZnO nanowires on graphene and graphene oxide and its enhanced photoluminescence and photoresponse. Nanotechnology 2015; 26:145601. [PMID: 25772263 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/14/145601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We demonstrate the graphene assisted catalyst free growth of ZnO nanowires (NWs) on chemical vapor deposited (CVD) and chemically processed graphene buffer layers at a relatively low growth temperature (580 °C) in the presence and absence of ZnO seed layers. In the case of CVD graphene covered with rapid thermal annealed ZnO buffer layer, the growth of vertically aligned ZnO NWs takes place, while the direct growth on CVD graphene, chemically derived graphene (graphene oxide and graphene quantum dots) without ZnO seed layer resulted in randomly oriented sparse ZnO NWs. Growth mechanism was studied from high resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy of the hybrid structure. Further, we demonstrate strong UV, visible photoluminescence (PL) and enhanced photoconductivity (PC) from the CVD graphene-ZnO NWs hybrids as compared to the ZnO NWs grown without the graphene buffer layer. The evolution of crystalinity in ZnO NWs grown with ZnO seed layer and graphene buffer layer is correlated with the Gaussian line shape of UV and visible PL. This is further supported by the strong Raman mode at 438 cm(-1) significant for the wurtzite phase of the ZnO NWs grown on different graphene substrates. The effect of the thickness of ZnO seed layers and the role of graphene buffer layers on the aligned growth of ZnO NWs and its enhanced PC are investigated systematically. Our results demonstrate the catalyst free growth and superior performance of graphene-ZnO NW hybrid UV photodetectors as compared to the bare ZnO NW based photodetectors.
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- Ravi K Biroju
- Centre for Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India
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Konar A, Mathew J, Nayak K, Bajaj M, Pandey RK, Dhara S, Murali KVRM, Deshmukh MM. Carrier transport in high mobility InAs nanowire junctionless transistors. Nano Lett 2015; 15:1684-1690. [PMID: 25658044 DOI: 10.1021/nl5043165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The ability to understand and model the performance limits of nanowire transistors is the key to the design of next generation devices. Here, we report studies on high-mobility junctionless gate-all-around nanowire field effect transistor with carrier mobility reaching 2000 cm(2)/V·s at room temperature. Temperature-dependent transport measurements reveal activated transport at low temperatures due to surface donors, while at room temperature the transport shows a diffusive behavior. From the conductivity data, the extracted value of sound velocity in InAs nanowires is found to be an order less than the bulk. This low sound velocity is attributed to the extended crystal defects that ubiquitously appear in these nanowires. Analyzing the temperature-dependent mobility data, we identify the key scattering mechanisms limiting the carrier transport in these nanowires. Finally, using these scattering models, we perform drift-diffusion based transport simulations of a nanowire field-effect transistor and compare the device performances with experimental measurements. Our device modeling provides insight into performance limits of InAs nanowire transistors and can be used as a predictive methodology for nanowire-based integrated circuits.
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- Aniruddha Konar
- IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center , Manyata Embassy Business Park, Nagawara, Bangalore 560 045, India
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Zuhail KP, Sathyanarayana P, Seč D, Čopar S, Škarabot M, Muševič I, Dhara S. Topological defect transformation and structural transition of two-dimensional colloidal crystals across the nematic to smectic-A phase transition. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2015; 91:030501. [PMID: 25871035 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.030501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We observe that topological defects in nematic colloids are strongly influenced by the elasticity and onset of smectic layering across the nematic (N) to smectic-A (SmA) phase transition. When approaching the SmA phase from above, the nematic hyperbolic hedgehog defect that accompanies a spherical colloidal inclusion is transformed into a focal conic line in the SmA phase. This phase transformation has a strong influence on the pairwise colloidal interaction and is responsible for a structural transition of two-dimensional colloidal crystals. The pretransitional behavior of the point defect is supported by Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor modeling accounting for the increasing elastic anisotropy.
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- K P Zuhail
- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, India
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- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, India
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- J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, India
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Non-interacting magnetic CoCu nanoparticles with a blocking temperature distribution show strong magnetic memory effect even at room temperature.
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- S. Dhara
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
- Kolkata-700064
- India
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Ghosh S, Ganesan K, Polaki SR, Ilango S, Amirthapandian S, Dhara S, Kamruddin M, Tyagi AK. Flipping growth orientation of nanographitic structures by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra20820c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Nanographitic structures (NGSs) with a multitude of morphological features are grown on SiO2/Si substrates by electron cyclotron resonance-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (ECR-PECVD).
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- Subrata Ghosh
- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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- Materials Science Group
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603102
- India
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Majumdar P, Singh SB, Dhara S, Chakraborty M. Influence of boron addition to Ti-13Zr-13Nb alloy on MG63 osteoblast cell viability and protein adsorption. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl 2014; 46:62-8. [PMID: 25491960 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2014.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2013] [Revised: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Cell proliferation, cell morphology and protein adsorption on near β-type Ti-13Zr-13Nb (TZN) alloy and Ti-13Zr-13Nb-0.5B (TZNB) composite have been investigated and compared to evaluate the effect of boron addition which has been added to the Ti alloy to improve their poor tribological properties by forming in situ TiB precipitates. MG63 cell proliferation on substrates with different chemistry but the same topography was compared. The MTT assay test showed that the cell viability on the TZN alloy was higher than the boron containing TZNB composite after 36 h of incubation and the difference was pronounced after 7 days. However, both the materials showed substantially higher cell attachment than the control (polystyrene). For the same period of incubation in fetal bovine serum (FBS), the amount of protein adsorbed on the surface of boron free TZN samples was higher than that in the case of boron containing TZNB composite. The presence of boron in the TZN alloy influenced protein adsorption and cell response and they are lower in TZNB than in TZN as a result of the associated difference in chemical characteristics.
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- P Majumdar
- School of Mechanical Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- School Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- School of Mechanical Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
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Qasim M, Ananthaiah J, Dhara S, Paik P, Das D. Synthesis and Characterization of Ultra-Fine Colloidal Silica Nanoparticles. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1166/asem.2014.1578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nukala P, Agarwal R, Qian X, Jang MH, Dhara S, Kumar K, Johnson ATC, Li J, Agarwal R. Direct observation of metal-insulator transition in single-crystalline germanium telluride nanowire memory devices prior to amorphization. Nano Lett 2014; 14:2201-2209. [PMID: 24628625 DOI: 10.1021/nl5007036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Structural defects and their dynamics play an important role in controlling the behavior of phase-change materials (PCM) used in low-power nonvolatile memory devices. However, not much is known about the influence of disorder on the electronic properties of crystalline PCM prior to a structural phase-change. Here, we show that the application of voltage pulses to single-crystalline GeTe nanowire memory devices introduces structural disorder in the form of dislocations and antiphase boundaries (APB). The dynamic evolution and pile-up of APBs increases disorder at a local region of the nanowire, which electronically transforms it from a metal to a dirty metal to an insulator, while still retaining single-crystalline long-range order. We also observe that close to this metal-insulator transition, precise control over the applied voltage is required to create an insulating state; otherwise the system ends up in a more disordered amorphous phase suggesting the role of electronic instabilities during the structural phase-change.
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- Pavan Nukala
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Jampani VSR, Skarabot M, Takezoe H, Muševič I, Dhara S. Laser-driven microflow-induced bistable orientation of a nematic liquid crystal in perfluoropolymer-treated unrubbed cells. Opt Express 2013; 21:724-729. [PMID: 23388965 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.000724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We demonstrate laser-driven microflow-induced orientational change (homeotropic to planar) in a dye-doped nematic liquid crystal. The homeotropic to planar director alignment is achieved in unrubbed cells in the thermal hysteresis range of a discontinuous anchoring reorientation transition due to the local heating by light absorption in dye-doped sample. Various bistable patterns were recorded in the cell by a programmable laser tweezers. The width of the patterns depend on the scanning speed of the tightly focussed laser beam and the minimum width obtained is approximately equal to 0.57μm which is about 35 times smaller than the earlier report in the rubbed cells. We show that the motion of the microbeam spot causes local flow as a result the liquid crystal director is aligned along that direction.
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Majumdar P, Singh S, Dhara S, Chakraborty M. Influence of in situ TiB reinforcements and role of heat treatment on mechanical properties and biocompatibility of Ti-alloys. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2012; 10:1-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2011] [Revised: 02/13/2012] [Accepted: 02/19/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Pal SS, Dhara S, Wu JJ, Sundar CS, Magudapathy P, Nair KGM. UV induced zener diode characteristic in a single n-ZnO/p++-Si nanoheterojunction. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2012; 12:3879-3883. [PMID: 22852320 DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2012.6144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Rectification is observed in a single n-ZnO/p++-Si nanoheterojunction using ultra high vacuum compatible scanning tunneling microscope. The nanohetrojunctions have been grown using catalyst free vapor-solid growth of ZnO nanorods on p++-Si substarte. A high rectification ratio approximately 100 at 2 V is observed in the current voltage measurements. Temperature dependent study in these nanohetero-junctions showed activation energy for carrier conduction approximately 66 meV, which is primarily associated to the presence of heterojunction induced interface states. Role of ultra violet excitation on these finite sized (approximately 500 nm) nanoheterojunction is also studied with photo-generated electron-hole pairs. A Zener breakdown is observed in this photo-excitation process. Increase in the concentration of minority carriers and corresponding decrease in barrier width and height at the junction have been identified for the observed tunneling behavior under UV illumination. The large carrier concentration in the finite sized device with large diffusion length of electron (approximately 2 microm) is made responsible for the observed voltage regulation.
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- S Sarkar Pal
- Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India
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Rajeswari M, Molugu TR, Dhara S, Venu K, Sastry V, Dabrowski R. Multinuclear NMR relaxometry studies in singly fluorinated liquid crystal. Chem Phys Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Sathyanarayana P, Jampani VSR, Skarabot M, Musevic I, Le KV, Takezoe H, Dhara S. Viscoelasticity of ambient-temperature nematic binary mixtures of bent-core and rodlike molecules. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 85:011702. [PMID: 22400578 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.011702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report measurements of the temperature variations of physical parameters in ambient-temperature nematic liquid crystal mixtures of bent-core (BC) and rodlike molecules (5CB): birefringence Δn; static dielectric constants ε(||) and ε(⊥); splay K(11) and bend K(33) elastic constants; rotational viscosity γ(1); and diffusion coefficients D(||) and D(⊥) of a microsphere. Both Δn and ε(||) decreases rapidly with increasing BC concentration, whereas ε(⊥) remains almost constant. At a shifted temperature (e.g., T-T(NI)=-10 °C), K(11) increases by ~50% and K(33) decreases by ~80% compared to pure 5CB when the BC concentration is increased to ~43 mol % in the mixture. Viscosities parallel and perpendicular to the director, η(||), η(⊥), which are nearly equal to the Miesowicz viscosities η(2) and η(3), respectively, were obtained by D(||) and D(⊥) using the Stokes-Einstein relation. Both the viscosities at room temperature increase by 60 and 50 times, respectively, whereas γ(1) increases by 180 times (at ~43 mol %) compared to the corresponding values of pure 5CB. The stiffening of K(11) and exorbitantly large enhancement in all the viscosities at a higher mol % of BC indicate that the viscoelastic properties are highly impacted by the presence of smectic clusters of BC molecules that results from the restricted free rotation of the molecules along the bow axis in the nematic phase. A possible attachment model of smectic type clusters of BC molecules surrounding the microparticle is presented.
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- P Sathyanarayana
- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Chakraborty R, Dhara S, Sarkar S, Basu S, Chattopadhyay P. Preparation, characterization, and evaluation of an inorganic ion exchanger in separation of carrier-free 137m Ba from 137Cs. Radiochemistry 2011. [DOI: 10.1134/s1066362211050158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ananthaiah J, Rajeswari M, Sastry VSS, Dabrowski R, Dhara S. Effect of electric field on the rheological and dielectric properties of a liquid crystal exhibiting nematic-to-smectic-A phase transition. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2011; 34:74. [PMID: 21805394 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2011-11074-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Revised: 05/08/2011] [Accepted: 07/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report simultaneous measurements of shear viscosity (η) and dielectric constant (ε) of octyloxy cyanobiphenyl (8OCB) in the nematic (N) and smectic-A (SmA) phases as functions of temperature and electric field. With increasing electric field η increases in the N phase whereas it decreases in the SmA phase and saturates beyond a particular field in both the phases. The flow curves in the intermediate-field range show two Newtonian regimes in the N phase. The temperature-dependent behavior of η and ε at zero or at small electric field suggests the occurrence of several structures that results from precessional motion of the director along the neutral direction as reported in similar other system. We show that the precessional motions are gradually suppressed with increasing electric field and the effective viscosity resembles with the Miesowicz viscosity η1 at high enough electric field. In the intermediate field range the temperature-dependent η exhibits anomalous behavior across the N-SmA phase transition which is attributed to the large contribution of Leslie coefficient α1.
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- J Ananthaiah
- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, 500046, Hyderabad, India
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Sasaki Y, Ema K, Le KV, Takezoe H, Dhara S, Sadashiva BK. Calorimetric study of the effect of bent-shaped dopant molecules on the critical behavior at the nematic-smectic-Ad phase transition. Phys Rev E 2011; 83:061701. [PMID: 21797381 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.061701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2010] [Revised: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We report results of calorimetric studies for the binary mixture of rodlike host n-alkyloxy-cyanobiphenyl (nOCB, n=8,9) and bent-shaped guest 1,3-phenylene-bis[4-(3-methylbenzoyloxy)]-4'-n-dodecylbiphenyl-4'-carboxylate (BC12). The effect of bent-shaped dopant molecules on the critical behavior associated with the nematic-smectic-A(d) phase transition has been studied in detail. The transition temperature for the nematic-smectic-A(d) phase sharply decreases as the increase of the mole fraction of the dopant concentration (denoted X for the BC12/9OCB mixture and Y for the BC12/8OCB mixture). The dependence of the critical exponent α on X and Y is well explained in terms of the McMillan ratio. A nearly tricritical exponent has been obtained for the X=0.01 mixture. X=0.02-0.03 mixtures, pure 8OCB, and Y=0.01-0.03 mixtures exhibit nonuniversal behaviors with effective exponents lying between the 3D-XY and tricritical exponents. The heat capacity anomaly for Y=0.05 has been well described with the 3D-XY exponent. The critical amplitude ratio A(-)/A(+) is close to 1 and insensitive to the dopant concentration. No Fisher renormalization of the critical exponent has been observed even for nearly tricritical compositions, which indicates the smallness of the concentration plays a decisive role rather than the steepness of the N-SmA(d) phase boundary.
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- Y Sasaki
- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro, Japan
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Sathyanarayana P, Varia MC, Prajapati AK, Kundu B, Sastry VSS, Dhara S. Splay-bend elasticity of a nematic liquid crystal with T-shaped molecules. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2010; 82:050701. [PMID: 21230425 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.050701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2010] [Revised: 09/14/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We measured the splay (K11) and bend (K33) elastic constants in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal with T-shaped molecules. We find that the ratio, K33/K11 ≃1 in the entire nematic range except very close to the nematic to Sm-A (SN) transition. Both K33 and K11 show pretransitional divergence as the SN transition is approached from higher temperature. The ratio, K33/K11 suggests that the length (L) to effective width (D) ratio (i.e., L/D ) is significantly smaller due to the presence of long and flexible lateral group, compared to that of rigid rodlike molecules. It is argued that apart from the extra contribution to the elasticity the long and flexible lateral group also has a significant contribution to the suppression of the splay fluctuations in the onset of smectic short-range fluctuation. The structure of the Sm-A phase is investigated by using small angle x-ray diffraction, and a possible arrangement of the molecules in the Sm-A layer is proposed.
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- P Sathyanarayana
- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Sasaki Y, Ema K, Le KV, Takezoe H, Dhara S, Sadashiva BK. Critical behavior at transitions from uniaxial to biaxial phases in a smectic liquid-crystal mixture. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2010; 82:011709. [PMID: 20866637 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.011709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We report results of calorimetric and optical investigations of binary mixtures of rodlike and bent-shaped molecules. We find that the observed critical heat anomaly associated with the smectic-A2 to biaxial smectic-A2b transition is well described with a Fisher-renormalized form of the usual scaling expression. The effect of renormalization is large in this system in part because of the moderately steep slope of the phase boundary (dT(c)/ dX∼100 K, where X is the mole fraction of the bent-core molecules) and in part because of the proximity to the tricritical point. The magnitude of heat anomaly at the smectic-A2-smectic-A2b transition showed a drastic decrease as X becomes smaller. Moreover, the nematic-smectic-A2 transitions investigated turned out to be always first order and the transition enthalpy showed only weak dependence on the concentration X. The results imply that the energy fluctuations around the smectic-A2-smectic-A2b transition are very sensitive to the underlying ordering of the smectic-A2 background.
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- Y Sasaki
- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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Singh V, Sengupta S, Solanki HS, Dhall R, Allain A, Dhara S, Pant P, Deshmukh MM. Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene nanoelectromechanical systems resonators. Nanotechnology 2010; 21:165204. [PMID: 20351404 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We use suspended graphene electromechanical resonators to study the variation of resonant frequency as a function of temperature. Measuring the change in frequency resulting from a change in tension, from 300 to 30 K, allows us to extract information about the thermal expansion of monolayer graphene as a function of temperature, which is critical for strain engineering applications. We find that thermal expansion of graphene is negative for all temperatures between 300 and 30 K. We also study the dispersion, the variation of resonant frequency with DC gate voltage, of the electromechanical modes and find considerable tunability of resonant frequency, desirable for applications like mass sensing and RF signal processing at room temperature. With a lowering of temperature, we find that the positively dispersing electromechanical modes evolve into negatively dispersing ones. We quantitatively explain this crossover and discuss optimal electromechanical properties that are desirable for temperature-compensated sensors.
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- Vibhor Singh
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, TIFR, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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Confined acoustic and optical phonons in Si nanoclusters embedded in sapphire, synthesized using ion-beam implantation are investigated using Raman spectroscopy. The l=0 and l=2 confined acoustic phonons, found at low Raman shift, are analyzed using complex frequency model and the size of the nanoparticles are estimated as 4 and 6 nm. For the confined optical phonon, in contrast to expected red shift, the Raman line shape shows a substantial blue shift, which is attributed to size dependent compressive stress in the nanoparticles. The calculated Raman line shape for the stressed nanoparticles fits well to data. The sizes of Si nanoparticles obtained using complex frequency model are consistent with the size estimated from the fitting of confined optical phonon line shapes and those found from X-ray diffraction and TEM.
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- Satyaprakash Sahoo
- Materials Science Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India
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Feldmann G, Habbe N, Dhara S, Bisht S, Alvarez H, Fendrich V, Beaty R, Mullendore M, Karikari C, Bardeesy N, Ouellette MM, Yu W, Maitra A. Hedgehog inhibition prolongs survival in a genetically engineered mouse model of pancreatic cancer. Gut 2008; 57:1420-30. [PMID: 18515410 PMCID: PMC2707354 DOI: 10.1136/gut.2007.148189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Pancreatic cancer is among the most dismal of human malignancies. Current therapeutic strategies are virtually ineffective in controlling advanced, metastatic disease. Recent evidence suggests that the Hedgehog signalling pathway is aberrantly reactivated in the majority of pancreatic cancers, and that Hedgehog blockade has the potential to prevent disease progression and metastatic spread. METHODS Here it is shown that the Hedgehog pathway is activated in the Pdx1-Cre;LsL-Kras(G12D);Ink4a/Arf(lox/lox) transgenic mouse model of pancreatic cancer. The effect of Hedgehog pathway inhibition on survival was determined by continuous application of the small molecule cyclopamine, a smoothened antagonist. Microarray analysis was performed on non-malignant human pancreatic ductal cells overexpressing Gli1 in order to screen for downstream Hedgehog target genes likely to be involved in pancreatic cancer progression. RESULTS Hedgehog inhibition with cyclopamine significantly prolonged median survival in the transgenic mouse model used here (67 vs 61 days; p = 0.026). In vitro data indicated that Hedgehog activation might at least in part be ascribed to oncogenic Kras signalling. Microarray analysis identified 26 potential Hedgehog target genes that had previously been found to be overexpressed in pancreatic cancer. Five of them, BIRC3, COL11A1, NNMT, PLAU and TGM2, had been described as upregulated in more than one global gene expression analysis before. CONCLUSION This study provides another line of evidence that Hedgehog signalling is a valid target for the development of novel therapeutics for pancreatic cancer that might be worth evaluating soon in a clinical setting.
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- G Feldmann
- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Department of Radiology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Department of Surgery, Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, New England, USA
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- DNA Microarray Core Facility, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Dhara S, Lu CY, Nair KGM, Chen KH, Chen CP, Huang YF, David C, Chen LC, Raj B. Mechanism of bright red emission in Si nanoclusters. Nanotechnology 2008; 19:395401. [PMID: 21832595 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/39/395401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A bright photoluminescence around 1.7 eV is observed for post-annealed samples of 1 MeV Si(2+) implanted in an SiO(2) matrix. A super-linear power dependence of photoluminescence intensity accompanied by pulse shortening under continuous wave laser excitation is recorded without any spectral narrowing. An emission process comprised of an initial non-radiative recombination (time constant ∼280-315 ps) of excited carriers in the defect states in SiO(2) matrices to the conduction band minima of nc-Si, followed by a slower process of radiative recombination in the direct band transition for nc-Si along with a non-radiative Auger recombination (time constant ∼2.67 ns) is proposed.
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- S Dhara
- Materials Science Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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Dhara S, Madhusudana NV. Effect of high electric fields on the nematic to isotropic transition in a material exhibiting large negative dielectric anisotropy. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2007; 22:139-49. [PMID: 17356801 DOI: 10.1140/epje/e2007-00020-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We report the experimental high electric field phase diagram of a nematic liquid crystal which exhibits a large negative dielectric anisotropy. We measure simultaneously the birefringence (Deltan) and the dielectric constant (epsilon( perpendicular)) at various applied fields as functions of the local temperature of an aligned sample. We also measure the higher harmonics of the electrical response of the medium. The following experimental results are noted: (i) enhancement of orientational order parameter S in the nematic phase due to both the Kerr effect and quenching of director fluctuations; (ii) enhancement in the paranematic to nematic transition temperature (T(PN)) with field; (iii) divergence of the order parameter susceptibility beyond the tricritical point as measured by third harmonic electrical signal; (iv) a small second harmonic electrical signal which also diverges near T(PN), indicating the presence of polarised domains. Our measurements show that DeltaT(PN)(= T(PN)(E)-T(NI)(0)) varies linearly with |E| whereas the Landau de Gennes theory predicts a dependence on E(2). It is argued that the quenching of director fluctuations by the field makes the dominant contribution to all the observations, including the thermodynamics of the transition.
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- S Dhara
- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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Martin ST, Sato N, Dhara S, Chang R, Hustinx SR, Abe T, Maitra A, Goggins M. Aberrant methylation of the Human Hedgehog interacting protein (HHIP) gene in pancreatic neoplasms. Cancer Biol Ther 2005; 4:728-33. [PMID: 15970691 DOI: 10.4161/cbt.4.7.1802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Hedgehog pathway overactivity has been implicated in the development of a variety of human cancers. The Human Hedgehog interacting protein (HHIP), a negative regulator of hedgehog signaling, has been shown to be underexpressed in pancreatic cancers. In this study we determined if the HHIP gene is a target for genetic and epigenetic alterations. While no mutations of HHIP were identified, we found complete methylation of the HHIP promoter CpG island in three pancreatic cancer cell lines, and partial hypermethylation in 13/17 (80%) pancreatic cancer cell lines, 35/75 (46%) primary pancreatic cancers and 14/18 (78%) pancreatic cancer xenografts, but no methylation in 13 normal pancreata. In pancreatic cancer cell lines, complete methylation was associated with absent or reduced HHIP expression by real-time RT-PCR. HHIP expression could be restored in methylated cell lines using epigenetic modifier drugs. Restoring the expression of HHIP in pancreatic cancer cells by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine led to a decrease in Gli reporter activity, consistent with downregulation of Hedgehog signaling. These results indicate in some pancreatic adenocarcinomas that HHIP is epigenetically inactivated by promoter methylation, and its silencing could contribute to the increased Hedgehog signaling observed in pancreatic neoplasms.
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- S T Martin
- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Dhara S, Sundaravel B, Ravindran T, Nair K, David C, Panigrahi B, Magudapathy P, Chen K. ‘Spillout’ effect in gold nanoclusters embedded in c-Al2O3(0001) matrix. Chem Phys Lett 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Sui G, Bonde P, Dhara S, Marti G, Freguson M, Wang J, Jaffee E, Duncan M, Montgomery E, Maitra A, Harmon J. Inhibition of the EGFR and hedgehog signaling pathways demonstrate potent growth inhibition in an animal model of esophageal carcinogenesis. J Surg Res 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.07.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Parker AR, Leonard CP, Hua L, Francis RO, Dhara S, Maitra A, Eshleman JR. A subgroup of microsatellite stable colorectal cancers has elevated mutation rates and different responses to alkylating and oxidising agents. Br J Cancer 2004; 90:1666-71. [PMID: 15083201 PMCID: PMC2409721 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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An early step in the carcinogenesis of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and some sporadic colorectal cancers (CRCs) is the acquisition of a ‘mutator phenotype’ resulting from defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes, which normally maintain genomic stability. This mutator phenotype causes an approximately 100–1000-fold increase in base substitutions and small insertion/deletion mutations thereby driving carcinogenesis. It also causes genome-wide microsatellite instability (MSI) due to the inability to repair mutations within these small, hard to replicate, repetitive DNA elements. In contrast, less is known about the role of mutator phenotypes in microsatellite stable (MSS) CRC. In this report, we have measured the mutation rates in 11 MSS CRC cell lines to obtain an estimate of the prevalence of mutator phenotypes in MSS carcinogenesis. Of the 11 cell lines, three of them (27%) possess spontaneous hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase mutation rates approximately 10–100-fold above background. When challenged with alkylating and oxidising agents, the degree of survival and apoptotic responses are different, indicating that these cell lines may represent more than one mutator phenotype. These data demonstrate that a significant portion of MSS CRC cell lines has increased mutation rates and that this may play a role in MSS CRC carcinogenesis.
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- A R Parker
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, 632 Ross Building, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail:
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Dhara S, Chandra S, Magudapathy P, Kalavathi S, Panigrahi BK, Nair KGM, Sastry VS, Hsu CW, Wu CT, Chen KH, Chen LC. Blue luminescence of Au nanoclusters embedded in silica matrix. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:12595-9. [PMID: 15606282 DOI: 10.1063/1.1814939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Photoluminescence study using the 325 nm He-Cd excitation is reported for the Au nanoclusters embedded in SiO(2) matrix. Au clusters are grown by ion beam mixing with 100 KeV Ar(+) irradiation on Au [40 nm]/SiO(2) at various fluences and subsequent annealing at high temperature. The blue bands above approximately 3 eV match closely with reported values for colloidal Au nanoclusters and supported Au nanoislands. Radiative recombination of sp electrons above Fermi level to occupied d-band holes are assigned for observed luminescence peaks. Peaks at 3.1 and 3.4 eV are correlated to energy gaps at the X- and L-symmetry points, respectively, with possible involvement of relaxation mechanism. The blueshift of peak positions at 3.4 eV with decreasing cluster size is reported to be due to the compressive strain in small clusters. A first principle calculation based on density functional theory using the full potential linear augmented plane wave plus local orbitals formalism with generalized gradient approximation for the exchange correlation energy is used to estimate the band gaps at the X- and L-symmetry points by calculating the band structures and joint density of states for different strain values in order to explain the blueshift of approximately 0.1 eV with decreasing cluster size around L-symmetry point.
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- S Dhara
- Materials Science Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India.
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Dhara S, Kesavamoorthy R, Magudapathy P, Premila M, Panigrahi B, Nair K, Wu C, Chen K, Chen L. Quasiquenching size effects in gold nanoclusters embedded in silica matrix. Chem Phys Lett 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(03)00104-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Reddy RA, Sadashiva BK, Dhara S. Banana-shaped mesogens: observation of a direct transition from the antiferroelectric B2 to nematic phase. Chem Commun (Camb) 2001:1972-3. [PMID: 12240245 DOI: 10.1039/b106458b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis and characterisation of the first banana-shaped mesogens which exhibit a direct transition from the antiferroelectric B2 phase to the nematic phase are reported.
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- R A Reddy
- Raman Research Institute, C.V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560 080, India
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Das A, Dhara S, Patnaik A. Electron transport across fractal-like nanocrystalline clusters in N+ ion-beam induced poly(phenylene oxide). J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1364704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dhara S, Lalitkumar PG, Sengupta J, Ghosh D. Immunohistochemical localization of insulin-like growth factors I and II at the primary implantation site in the Rhesus monkey. Mol Hum Reprod 2001; 7:365-71. [PMID: 11279299 DOI: 10.1093/molehr/7.4.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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There are various cellular mediators which can affect the process of blastocyst implantation by regulating the proliferation and differentiation of conceptus and maternal endometrial cells. Insulin-like growth factors I (IGF-I) and II (IGF-II) are potent mitogenic and differentiation-promoting growth factors. However, the role of IGF peptides at implantation in primate species is not well understood. The objective of the present study was to immunohistochemically localize IGF-I and IGF-II peptides in trophoblast cells and maternal endometrial cells during lacunar and villous stages of placentation in the Rhesus monkey. Female animals (n = 10) were laparotomized on estimated days 13-16 after fertilization to collect primary implantation sites which were subjected to immunohistochemical staining for IGF-I and IGF-II peptides. Cell-type specificity for IGF-I and IGF-II was evident with a very low level of IGF-I peptide immunolocalized in trophoblast cells lining lacunae, and primary and secondary villi, while moderate to high amounts of IGF-II peptide were detected in lamellar syncytiotrophoblast cells lining lacunae, early villi and cell columns, as well as in migrating trophoblast cells in the extravillous compartment and in endovascular trophoblast cells. The observed presence of IGF-II peptide in differentiated lamellar syncytiotrophoblast cells during the very early stages of implantation and placentation in the Rhesus monkey may be important in their transition to this differentiated cell population. Maternal endometrial cells showed similar distribution profiles for IGF-I and IGF-II. In conclusion, we report differential distribution of IGF-I and IGF-II peptides in trophoblast cell populations at the feto-maternal interface during lacunar and villous stages of gestation in the Rhesus monkey.
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- S Dhara
- Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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Ghosh D, Sharkey AM, Charnock-Jones DS, Dhawan L, Dhara S, Smith SK, Sengupta J. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placental growth factor (PlGF) in conceptus and endometrium during implantation in the rhesus monkey. Mol Hum Reprod 2000; 6:935-41. [PMID: 11006323 DOI: 10.1093/molehr/6.10.935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to analyse the expression of transcripts and proteins for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placenta growth factor (PlGF) in different compartments of the early conceptus at primary implantation sites during lacunar (n = 6), early villous (n = 9) and villous placenta (n = 6) stages of gestation in the rhesus monkey. During the lacunar stage, VEGF expression was observed in the cytotrophoblast cells lining the extraembryonic cavity, but these cells did not express PlGF. With further development, cytotrophoblast cells lining villi, forming columns, and constituting anchoring villi, expressed both VEGF and PlGF during early villous and villous placenta stages. In addition, chorion, amnion and villous stromal cells expressed both VEGF and PlGF proteins and mRNA. During the lacunar stage, all epithelial cells in maternal endometrium generally expressed VEGF, while PlGF expression was observed in the plaque epithelium only. As gestation advanced, the expression of VEGF and PlGF from plaque cells decreased, and in surface and glandular epithelium the expression of VEGF increased, while the expression of PlGF remained unaltered. Decidual stromal cells expressed VEGF and PlGF only at low levels during the lacunar stage, while the expression of both increased during the early villous and the villous placenta stages of implantation. It appears from the present study that the expression of VEGF and PlGF are regulated in a temporal and spatial manner during early stages of implantation and that their concerted actions in placental and maternal compartments play a critical role in the evolving pregnancy in the rhesus monkey.
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- D Ghosh
- Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110 029, India
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Lagziel A, DeNise S, Hanotte O, Dhara S, Glazko V, Broadhead A, Davoli R, Russo V, Soller M. Geographic and breed distribution of an Msp I PCR-RFLP in the bovine growth hormone (bGH) gene. Anim Genet 2000; 31:210-3. [PMID: 10895313 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.2000.00622.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Information is presented on the frequency of the Msp I (-) allele in the third intron of the bovine growth hormone gene in a large number of cattle breeds. Consideration of the breed frequencies in relation to their geographic origin shows a low frequency for breeds originating in Northern Europe, moderate frequencies for breeds originating in Eastern Europe or the countries surrounding the Mediterranean basin, and very high frequencies for breeds originating in the Indian subcontinent. Consideration of breed frequencies in relation to breed type, shows low to moderate frequencies for the humpless breeds, high frequencies for the humped breeds. Various explanations for this distribution are discussed, among them the possibility that the Msp I (-) allele originated in the Bos indicus breeds of the Indian subcontinent, from which it diffused through the humpless Bos taurus breeds of Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, eventually reaching Western, Northern Europe, Western Africa in low frequencies.
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- A Lagziel
- Department of Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Sarkar D, Dhara S, Gupta A, Nair K, Chaudhury S. Structural instability of the ion beam-mixed Au/Si(111) systems at elevated temperatures. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2000; 168:21-28. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-583x(99)00635-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/19/2023]
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Sarkar D, Dhara S, Nair K, Chaudhury S. Ion beam mixing and room temperature silicidation of Cu/Si(111) system by Ar+ ion irradiation. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2000; 161-163:992-996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-583x(99)00774-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/19/2023]
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Ghosh D, Dhara S, Kumar A, Sengupta J. Immunohistochemical localization of receptors for progesterone and oestradiol-17 beta in the implantation site of the rhesus monkey. Hum Reprod 1999; 14:505-14. [PMID: 10100002 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.2.505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The aim of the present study was to examine the cellular basis of the involvement of oestradiol and progesterone in blastocyst implantation in the primate. To this end, the cellular distribution of receptors for oestradiol (ER) and progesterone (PR) in fetal trophoblast cells and in endometrial compartments of timed lacunar (pre-villous) and villous stages of placentation in primary implantation sites collected on days 13-22 of gestation were investigated in rhesus monkeys. Both in pre-villous stage tissue and in villous stage tissue, cytotrophoblast cells and syncytiotrophoblast cells and other trophoblast derived cells were PR positive, while they were generally ER negative. Maternal endometrial cells were ER negative, while epithelial cells, stromal cells and vascular endothelial cells in maternal endometrium showed heterogeneous staining patterns for PR depending on their relative location; these patterns, however, correlated well with glandular hyperplasia and differentiation, stromal-decidual transformation and vascular response seen during blastocyst implantation.
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- D Ghosh
- Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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