
Selected Publications
Sharma, K. K.; Buckley, R. P.; Asefa, T. "Polymerization of 1,4-Diethynylbenzene by Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Copper Catalyst Supported on Nanoporous Materials" 2008, In Preparation.
Wang, G.; Blair, E. A.; Otuonye, A.; Asefa, T.* "Multifunctional Mesoporous Materials for Controlled Chemical and Drug Release" 2008, In Preparation.
Sharma, K. K.; Buckley, R. P.; Asefa, T.* "Optimizing Cooperative Acid-Base Bifunctional Mesoporous Catalysts for the Henry Reaction: Effects of Separation Distance of Site-Isolated Groups on Cooperative Catalysis" 2008, Submitted.
Shi, Y.-L.; Asefa, T.* "Corrugated Nanospheres and Nanocages: Synthesis via Controlled Etching and Improving Chemical Delivery and Electrochemical and Biosensing Applications" 2008, Submitted.
Anan, A.; Vathyam, R.; Asefa, T.* "Controlling the Henry Reaction Products: Nitroalcohol versus Nitrostyrene by Simple Change of Amino-Groups of Aminofunctionalized Mesoporous Catalysts" 2008, Submitted.
Xie, Y.; Quinlivan, S.; Asefa, T.* "Tuning Metal Nanostructures within SBA-15 by Changing Metal Complexes Reduced In-situ with Grafted Imines and Hemiaminals" J. Phys. Chem. C., 2008, In Press.
Tao, Z.; Morrow, M. P.; Sharma, K. K.; Duncan, C.; Anan, A.; Asefa, T.; Penefsky, H. S.; Goodisman, J.*, Kader, A.* "Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Inhibit Cellular Respiration" Nano Lett., 2008, In Press (DOI: 10.1021/nl080250u)
Anan, A.; Sharma, K. K.; Asefa, T.* "Selective Efficient Trifunctional Nanoporous Catalysts for Nitroaldol Condensation: Co-Placement of Site-Isolated Multiple Functional Groups on Mesoporous Materials" J. Molecular Catal. A, 2008, In Press (Chosen as an Editor's Choice Article).
Sharma, K. K.; Anan, A.; Buckley, R. P.; Ouellette, W.; Asefa, T.* "Towards Efficient Nanoporous Catalysts: Controlling Site-Isolation and Concentration of Grafted Catalytic Sites on Nanoporous Materials with Solvents and Colorimetric Elucidation of their Site-Isolation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 218-228.
Asefa, T.*; Sharma, K. K.; Anan, A.; Vathyam, R.; Buckley, R. P.; Dam, H. M.; Xie, Y.; Quinlivan, S.; Wang, G.; Duncan, C. "Efficient and Selective Nanoporous Catalysts by Placing Multiple Site-Isolated Functional Groups on Mesoporous Materials" invited chapter In "Nanoporous Materials" (A. Sayari and M. Jaroniec, eds.), World Scientific Publ. Co., Singapore, 2008, pp. 497-508.
Di Pasqua, A. J.; Sharma, K. K.; Shi, Y.-L.; Toms, B. B.; Ouellette, W.; Dabrowiak, J. C.*, Asefa, T.* "Cytotoxicity of mesoporous silica nanomaterials" J. Inorg. Biochem., 2008, In Press (doi:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2007.12.028)
Asefa, T. "Spherical & Anisotropic Non-Magnetic Core-shell Nanomaterials - Synthesis and Characterization" Invited Chapter in a Book "Non Magnetic Bi-Metallic and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Life Sciences", Wiley-VCH, Volume 3, 2008, In Press.
Asefa, T. "Functionalized Nanoporous and Mesoporous Heterogeneous Catalysts – New Synthetic Strategies and Applications" Invited Chapter in a Book "Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Progress", Nova Publishers, New York, 2008, In Press.
Otuonye, A.; Asefa, T.* "Efficient and Selective Nanoscale Catalysts by Solvent-Assisted Site-Isolated Grafting (SASIG) of Multiple Functional Groups on Mesoporous Materials" Chemtracts, 2007, 20, 85-93.
Sharma, K. K.; Asefa, T.* "Efficient bifunctional nanocatalysts by simple postgrafting of spatially-isolated catalytic groups on mesoporous materials" Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 2879-2882.
Shi, Y.-L.; Asefa, T.* "Tailored core-shell-shell nanostructures: Sandwiching gold nanoparticles between silica cores and tunable silica shells" Langmuir, 2007, 23, 9455-9462. (Among the Top Ten Most Accessed Articles in 2007).
Asefa, T.*; Shi, Y.-L. "Super-stable high-quality Fe3O4 dendron-nanocrystals dispersible in both organic and aqueous solutions" Chemtracts, 2006, 19, 299-305.
Asefa, T.; Lennox, R. B. "Synthesis of gold nanoparticles via electroless deposition in SBA-15." Chem. Mater., 2005, 17, 2481-2483.
Asefa, T.; Kruk, M.; Coombs, N.; Grondey, H.; MacLachlan, M. J.; Jaroniec, M.; Ozin, G. A. "Novel routes to periodic mesoporous aminosilcas (PMAs): ammonolysis of periodic mesoporous organosilicas" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 11662-11673.
Asefa, T.; Kruk, M.; MacLachlan, M. J.; Coombs, N.; Grondey, H.; Jaroniec, M.; Ozin, G. A. "Novel bifunctional periodic mesoporous organosilicas, BPMOs: Synthesis, characterization, properties and in-situ selective hydroboration-alcoholysis reactions of functional groups" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 8520-8530. (Cited over 116 times)
Asefa, T.; MacLachlan, M. J.; Coombs, N.; Ozin, G. A. "Periodic mesoporous organosilicas with organic groups inside the channel walls." Nature 1999, 402(6764), 867-871. (Cited over 525 times and Featured in C&EN News in 2000).
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