Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry                                           expected Dec 20o9  Rice University, Houston, TX  
  • Master of Science, Chemistry                                                                     May, 2007
    Rice University, Houston, TX
  • Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry and Mathematics                                    May, 2005
    Westminster College, Fulton, MO

Publications 

  • R. Bardhan, O. Neumann, N. Mirin, H. Wang and N. J. Halas, " Au Nanorice Assemble Electrolytically into Mesostars " ACS Nano, 3 (2), 2009, 266-272. ** ACS Nano Cover, February 2009
  • R. Bardhan, N.K. Grady, J.R. Cole, A. Joshi, and N. J. Halas, " Fluorescence enhancement by Au nanostructures: nanoshells and nanorods" ACS Nano, 2009, 3 (3), 744-752.
  • R. Bardhan*, W. Chen*, C. Perez-Torres, M. Bartels, R. M. Huschka, L. Zhao, E. Morosan, R. Pautler, A. Joshi, and N. J. Halas, "Nanoshells Engineered for Targeted, Simultaneous Enhancement of Magnetic and Optical Imaging and Photothermal Therapeutic Response" submitted (* equal contribution).
  • A. Barhoumi, R. M. Huschka, R. Bardhan, M. W. Knight, and N. J. Halas, "Characteristics of light-controlled release of ssDNA from plasmonic nanoparticle vectors" submitted
  • W. Chen*, R. Bardhan*, M. Bartels, C. Perez-Torres, R. Pautler, A. Joshi, and N. J. Halas, "Molecularly targeted gold nanoshell based diagnostic and therapeutic probe for ovary cancer treatment" in preparation (* equal contribution)
  • R. Bardhan,  T. Ali, N. K. Grady, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas, " Plasmonic properties of Cu2O/Au  metallodielectric nanoshells"  in preparation.
  • M. Bartels, R. Bardhan, W. Chen, A. Haldipur, W. Bangerth, N. J. Halas, A. Joshi, "Fluorescence optical tomography of nanoshell enhanced NIR fluorophores in breast tissue model" in preparation.
  • M. Bartels, W. Chen, R. Bardhan, S. Ke, N. J. Halas, T. Wareing, J. Mc Ghee, and A. Joshi, "Multimodal Optical Molecular Image Reconstruction with Frequency Domain Measurements" IEEE EMBC, 2009, accepted.
  • A. Joshi, R. Bardhan, M. Bartels, W. Chen, and N. J. Halas, " Nanoshell enhanced NIR fluorescent contrast agents for small animal imaging" submitted.
  • R. Bardhan, N.K. Grady, and N. J. Halas, " Nanoscale Control of Near-Infrared Fluorescence Enhancement via Gold Nanoshells " Small, 4 (10), 2008, 1716–1722.
  • B.E. Brinson, J.B. Lassiter, C. S. Levin, R. Bardhan, N. Mirin, N. J. Halas, " Nanoshells made easy: Improving Au layer growth on nanoparticle surfaces" Langmuir, 2008, 24 (24), 14166-14177.
  • Mi-Ran Choi, Katie J. Stanton-Maxey, C. S. Levin, R. Bardhan, Demir Akin, Jennifer Sturgis, J. Paul Robinson, Rashid Bashir, Naomi J. Halas and Susan E. Clare, " A Cellular  Trojan Horse  for Delivery of  Therapeutic Nanoparticles  into Tumors ",  Nano Letters , 7 (12) , 2007 , 3759 - 3765
  • R. Bardhan, H.Wang, F. Tam, and N.J. Halas, " A Facile Chemical Approach to ZnO Submicron Particles with Controllable Morphologies ", Langmuir, 23 (11), 2007, 5843 -5847
  • M. W. Knight, N.K. Grady, R. Bardhan, F. Hao, P. Norlander, N. J. Halas, "Nanoparticle mediated Coupling of Light into a Nanowire", Nano Letters, 7 (8), 2007, 2346 - 2350
  • C. S. Levin, B. G. Janesko, R.Bardhan, G. E. Scuseria, J. D. Hartgerink, N. J. Halas, " Chain Length Dependent Vibrational Resonances in Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers Observed on Plasmonic Nanoparticle Substrates ", Nano Letters, 6(11), 2006, 2617 – 2621 
Awards  (at Rice)

Harry B. Weiser Research Excellence Award                                       May 09

Robert A. Welch Scholarship                                                                 Aug 05 – Present 

RQI Best Oral Presentation Award                                                      Aug 08

Chemistry-GSA Research Award                                                         April 07

 For more information, please see my Curriculum Vitae