ALEX I. SMIRNOV
Professor of Chemistry, NCSU
PUBLICATIONS
I. Refereed journal articles and book chapters (to date 110) starting with the most recent:
a) Since joining NCSU in summer of 2000:
1. I. V. Borzenets, U. C. Coskun, H. T. Mebrahtu, Yu.V. Bomze, Alex I. Smirnov, and G. Finkelstein, Phonon Bottleneck in Graphene-Based Josephson Junctions at Millikelvin Temperatures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027001 (2013); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.027001
2. Hayley E. Young, Matthew P. Donohue, Tatyana I. Smirnova, Alex I. Smirnov, and Pei Zhou, The UDP-diacylglucosamine pyrophosphohydrolase LpxH in lipid A biosynthesis utilizes A Mn2+ cluster for catalysis, J. Biol. Chem. in press (2013); doi/10.1074/jbc.M113.497636
3. Maxim A. Voinov, Izarys Rivera, Alex I. Smirnov, “Surface Electrostatics of Anionic Bilayers of Mixed Lipid Composition by EPR of a pH-Sensitive Spin-Labeled Lipid”, Biophysical J., 104, 106-116 (2013).
4. Jens O. Lagerstedt, Jitka Petrlova, Silvia Hilt, Antonin Marek, Madhu Budamagunta, Renuka Sriram, Jean F. Desreux, David Thonon, Thomas Jue, Alex I. Smirnov, and John C. Voss, “EPR assessment of protein sites for incorporation of Gd(III) MRI contrast labels”, Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, 8 252–264 (2013).
5. Henok Mebrahtu, Ivan Borzenets, Dong Liu, Huaixiu Zheng, Yuriy Bomze , Alex Smirnov, Harold Baranger, Gleb Finkelstein “Quantum Phase Transition in a Resonant Level Coupled to Interacting Leads”, Nature, 488, 61–64, (02 August 2012), DOI:10.1038/nature11265Nature.
6. Qingbiao Zhao, Saritha Nellutla, Won-Joon Son, Shae A. Vaughn, Longfei Ye, Mark D. Smith, Vincent Caignaert, Michael Lufaso, Thomas M. Pekarek,| Alex I. Smirnov, Myung-Hwan Whangbo, and Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Ba4KFe3O9: A Novel Ferrite Containing Discrete 6-Membered Rings of Corner-Sharing FeO4 Tetrahedra, Inorg. Chem., (2011); dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic201374g.
7. Maxim A. Voinov, Jason O. Sosa Pagán, Erin Morrison Tatyana I. Smirnova, Alex I. Smirnov, “Surface-mediated Production of Hydroxyl Radicals as a Mechanism of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Biotoxicity”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 35–41 (2011), DOI: 10.1021/ja104683w.
8. C. Jin, R. Aggarwal, W. Wei, S. Nori, D. Kumar, D. Ponarin, A. I. Smirnov, J. Narayan, R. J. Narayan, “Intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetic properties Ni-doped ZnO thin films”, Metallurgical And Materials Transactions A-Physical Metallurgy And Materials Science, V. 42A Issue: 11 Pages: 3250-3254 DOI: 10.1007/s11661-010-0479-9 Published: NOV 2011.
9. Alex I. Smirnov, “EPR Studies of Nano Materials” Chapter 20 in “Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Theory and Applications”, Sushil K. Misra, Ed. Wiley, NY, pp.825-843, ICBN: 978-3527407798 (2011).
10. Tatyana I. Smirnova, Maxim A. Voinov and Alex I. Smirnov "Spin Probes and Spin Labels" in “Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory, and Instrumentation" 18 Volume Set Robert A. Meyers (Editor-in-Chief) John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp.1595-1625 (2011). ISBN: 978-0-470-97333-2.
11. Maxim A. Voinov and Alex I. Smirnov, “Spin Labels and Spin Probes for Measurements of Local pH and Electrostatics by EPR”, in "Electron Spin Resonance Specialist Periodical Reports", V. Chechik, Ed. Volume 22, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, pp.71-106, DOI: 10.1039/9781849730877-00071 (2010).
12. S. Mal, S. Nori, C. Jin, J. Narayan, S. Nellutla, A. I. Smirnov, and J. T. Prater, “Reversible room temperature ferromagnetism in undoped zinc oxide: Correlation between defects and physical properties”, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 073510 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3491037.
13. Wei Wei, Sudhakar Nori, Chunming Jin, Jagdish Narayan, Roger J. Narayan, Dmtri Ponarin, Alex I. Smirnov, “Mott transition in Ga-doped MgxZn1−xO: A direct observation”, Materials Science and Engineering B, 171, 90–92 (2010).
14. A. Banerjee, R. Perez-Castillejos, D. Hahn, Alex I. Smirnov, and H. Grebel, “Micro-fluidic channels on nanopatterned substrates: Monitoring protein binding to lipid bilayers with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 489, 121–126, doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.02.053 (2010).
15. A. Banerjee, D. Moeller, Alex I. Smirnov, and H. Grebel, “Graphenated IR Screens”, IEEE Sensors J., 10 (3), 419 - 422 (2010); doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2037356.
16. Tatyana I. Smirnova, Maxim A. Voinov and Alex I. Smirnov "Spin Probes and Spin Labels" in “Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory, and Instrumentation" 15 Volume Set Robert A. Meyers (Editor-in-Chief) ISBN: 978-0-471-97670-7 John Wiley & Sons Inc. (2009).
17. E. Nazaretski, D.V. Pelekhov, I. Martin, M. Zalalutdinov, D. Ponarin, A. Smirnov, P. C. Hammel, and R. Movshovich, “Detection of localized excitations in a continuous ferromagnetic film via magnetic resonance force microscopy”, Phys. Rev. B, 79, 132401 (2009).
18. Maxim A. Voinov, Igor A. Kirilyuk, and Alex I. Smirnov, “Spin-labeled pH-sensitive Phospholipids for Interfacial pKa Determination: Synthesis and Characterization in Aqueous and Micellar Solutions”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 3453–3460 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/jp810993s.
19. J. Narayan, Sudhakar Nori, D. K. Pandya, D. K. Avasthi, and Alex I. Smirnov, “Defect Dependent Ferromagnetism in MgO Doped with Ni and Co”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 082507 (2008).
20. R-Q Li, A. Marek, Alex I. Smirnov, and H. Grebel, “Polarization-dependent fluorescence of proteins bound to nanopore-confined lipid bilayers”, J. Chem. Phys., 129, 095102 (2008).
21. Maxim A. Voinov, Andres Ruuge, Vladimir A. Reznikov, Igor A. Grigor’ev and Alex I. Smirnov. “Mapping Local Protein Electrostatics by EPR of pH-Sensitive Thiol-Specific Nitroxide”, Biochemistry, 47, 5626-5637 (2008).
22. Alex I. Smirnov, “Post-processing of EPR Spectra by Convolution Filtering: Calculation of a Harmonics’ Series and Automatic Separation of Fast Motion Components from Spin-label EPR Spectra”, J. Magn. Reson., 190, 154-159 (2008).
23. Alex I. Smirnov, “Recent Advances in ESR Techniques And Methods Employed In Nitroxide Experiments’, Chapter 4, in G. I. Likhtenshtein, J. Yamauchi, S. Nakatsuji, A. I. Smirnov, R. Tamura, Nitroxides. Applications in Chemistry, Biomedicine, and Materials Science, Wiley VCH, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-527-31889-6, pp. 121-159 (2008).
24. Tatyana I. Smirnova, Alex I. Smirnov, T. Gray Chadwick, and Kenneth L. Walker, “Characterization of magnetic and electronic properties of trimetallic nitride endohedral fullerenes by SQUID magnetometry and electron paramagnetic resonance”, Chem. Phys. Lett., 453, 233-237 (2008).
25. Vadim K. Khlestkin, Julya F. Polienko, Maxim Voynov, Alex Smirnov, Victor Chechik “Acid-base Equlibrium at the Surface of Au Nanoparticles by EPR of pH-Sensitive Spin-Labeled Ligands”, Langmuir, 24, 609-612 (2008).
26. C. Zhang, A. I. Smirnov, D. Hahn, and H. Grebel “Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering of Biospecies on Anodized Aluminum Oxide Films” Chem. Phys. Lett. 440, 239-243 (2007).
27. T. I. Smirnova, A. I. Smirnov, S. Pachtchenko, O. G. Poluektov, “Geometry of Hydrogen Bonds Formed by Lipid Bilayer Nitroxide Probes: A High Frequency Pulsed ENDOR/EPR Study”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 3476-3477 (2007).
28. T. I Smirnova and Alex I. Smirnov, “High-field ESR Spectroscopy In Membrane And Protein Biophysics”, in “ESR Spectroscopy in Membrane Biophysics”, Biological Magnetic Resonance, Vol. 27, Hemminga, Marcus A., and Berliner, Lawrence Eds. Springer, New York, pp.165-253 (2007).
29. Alex I. Smirnov, “EWVOIGT and EWVOIGTN: Inhomogeneous Line Shape Simulation And Fitting Programs, in “ESR Spectroscopy in Membrane Biophysics”, Biological Magnetic Resonance, Hemminga, Marcus A., and Berliner, Lawrence Eds. Springer, New York, Vol. 27, pp.289-297 (2007).
30. K. Jagannadham, M. L. Reed, M. J. Lance, T. R. Watkins, K. Verghese, J. E. Butler, and A. I. Smirnov, “Neutron Transmutation of 10B doped Diamond”, Diamond Related Materials, 16: 50-62, (2007).
31. Ali M. Alaouie and Alex I. Smirnov, “Ultra-stable temperature control in EPR experiments: thermodynamics of gel-to-liquid phase transition in spin-labeled phospholipid bilayers and bilayer perturbations by spin-labels”, J. Magn. Reson., 182, 229–238 (2006).
32. Ali M. Alaouie and Alex I. Smirnov, "Formation of a Ripple Phase in Nanotubular Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Bilayers Confined inside Nanoporous Aluminum Oxide Substrates Observed by DSC”, Langmuir, 22, 5563-5565 (2006).
33. Eduard Y. Chekmenev, Peter L. Gor’kov, Timothy A. Cross, Ali M. Alaouie, and Alex I. Smirnov, “Flow-through lipid nanotube arrays for structure-function studies of membrane proteins by solid-state NMR spectroscopy”, Biophysical J., 91: 3076-3084 (2006).
34. Alex I. Smirnov, Tatyana I. Smirnova, Ryan L. MacArthur, Jeremy A. Good and Renny Hall, “Cryogen-Free Superconducting Magnet System for Multifrequency EPR up to 12.1 Tesla”, Review Scientific Instruments, 77, 035108 (2006). Note: This article was also selected and published in: a) Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity, April 1, 2006, Volume 10, Issue 7.b) Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, April 1, 2006, Volume 11, Issue 7.
35. W. Craighead Tennant, Rodney F. C. Claridge, Catherine A. McCammon, Alex I. Smirnov, and Russell J. Beck, “Structural studies of New Zealand pounamu using Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance”, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 35(4): 385–398 (2005).
36. Maxim A. Voinov, Julia F. Polienko, Thomas Schanding, Andrei Bobko, Valery V. Khramtsov, Y. V.Gatilov, T. V. Rybalova, Alex I. Smirnov, Igor A. Grigor'ev, “Synthesis, Structure, and X-Band (9.5 GHz) EPR Characterization of the New Series of pH-Sensitive Spin Probes: N,N-Disubstituted 4-Amino-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-3-imidazoline 1-Oxyls”, J. Org. Chem., 70(24); 9702-9711 (2005).
37. Nikolai M. Kocherginsky, Yuriy Yu. Kostetski, and Alex I. Smirnov, “Antioxidant Pool in Beer and Kinetics of EPR Spin-Trapping”, J. Agric. Food Chem. 53: 6870-6876 (2005).
38. Ali M. Alaouie and Alex I. Smirnov, “Cooperativity and Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Nanopore-confined Bilayers Studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry”, Biophys. J. 88(2): L11-L13 (2005).
39. Eduard Y. Chekmenev, Jun Hu, Peter L. Gor’kov, William W. Brey, Timothy A. Cross, Andres Ruuge, and Alex I. Smirnov, “15N and 31P solid-state NMR study of transmembrane domain alignment of M2 protein of influenza A virus in hydrated cylindrical lipid bilayers confined to anodic aluminum oxide nanopores”, J. Magn. Reson. 173(2): 322-327 (2005).
40. Nikolai M. Kocherginsky , Yuriy Yu. Kostetski, and Alex I. Smirnov "SH-groups, Reducing Power and Antioxidant Pool in Beer Assessed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Reactions of Spin Probes and Spin Traps", J. Agric. Food Chem., 53(4): 1052-1057, (2005).
41. V. O. Grinberg, Alex I. Smirnov, Oleg Y. Grinberg, S. A. Grinberg, J. A. O'Hara, and H. M. Swartz., Practical Conditions and Limitations for High Spatial Resolution Multi-Site EPR Oximetry”, Applied Magn. Reson., 28, 69-78 (2005).
42. Alex I. Smirnov, A. Ruuge, V. A. Reznikov, M. A. Voinov, and I. A. Grigor’ev, “Site-directed Electrostatic Measurements with a Thiol-specific pH-sensitive Nitroxide: Differentiating Local pK and Polarity Effects by High Field EPR”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126(29), 8872-8873 (2004).
43. A. Ammar, M. Ménétrier, A. Villesuzanne, S. Matar, G. Villeneuve, B. Chevalier, J. Etourneau, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, H.-J. Koo, A. I. Smirnov and M.-H. Whangbo, "Investigation of the electronic and structural properties of potassium hexaboride KB6 by transport, magnetic susceptibility, EPR and NMR measurements, temperature-dependent crystal structure determination, and electronic band structure calculations", Inorg. Chemistry, 43(16); 4974-4987 (2004).
44. Smirnov, A. I., and Smirnova, T. I, "Convolution-Based Algorithm: from Analysis of Rotational Dynamics to EPR Oximetry and Protein Distance Measurements”, Biological Magnetic Resonance, (L. J. Berliner and C. Bender, Eds.), vol. 21, pp. 277 348 (2004).
45. Earle, K. A., and Smirnov, A. I., “High Field ESR: Applications to Protein Structure and Dynamics”, Biological Magnetic Resonance, (L. J. Berliner and O. G. Grinberg, Eds.), vol. 22, pp.469-517 (2004).
46. Smirnov, A. I., and Poluektov O. G., “Substrate-Supported Lipid Nanotube Arrays”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125(28); 8434-8435 (2003).
47. Smirnova, T. I. and Smirnov A. I., “Effect of Molecular Oxygen on Continuous Wave EPR Spectra of Mn2+ in Solution - a High Field EPR Experiment to Probe Ion Microenvironment”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 107(29); 7212-7215 (2003).
48. Smirnov, A. I., "Spin Labeling in High Field ESR", in "Electron Spin Resonance Specialist Periodical Reports", M. Davies, B. Gilbert, and N. Atherton, Eds. Volume 18, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, pp. 109-136 (2002).
49. Eaton, G. R., Eaton, S. S., Stoner, J. W., Quine, R. W., Rinard, G. A., Smirnov, A. I., Weber, R. T., Krzystek, J., Hassan, A., Brunel, L.-C., and Demortier, A. “Multifrequency EPR of Ultramarine Blue”, Appl. Magn. Reson. 21, 563-570 (2001).
50. Smirnov, A. I., and Smirnova T. I. “Resolving Domains of Interdigitated Phospholipid Membranes with 95 GHz Spin Labeling EPR”, Appl. Magn. Reson. 21, 453-467 (2001).
51. Smirnov, A. I., Sen, S. “High field EPR of Gd3+-doped glasses: line shapes and average ion distances in silicates”, J. Chem. Phys. 115 (6): 7650-7656 (2001).
52. Breitzer, J. G., Smirnov, A. I., Szczepura, L. F., Wilson, S. R., and Rauchfuss, T. B. “Redox Properties of C6S8n- and C3S5n- (n=0, 1, 2): Stable Radicals and Unusual Structural Properties for C-S-S-C Bonds”, Inorg. Chem. 40(7): 1421-1429 (2001).
53. Grinberg, O. Ya., Smirnov, A. I., and Swartz, H. M. “High Resolution Multi-Site EPR Oximetry: The Use of Convolution-Based Fitting Method”, J. Magn. Reson., 152: 247-258 (2001).
54. Baker, M. G., Granger, E. L., and Smirnov, A. I. “Studies of Cetylpyridium Chloride and Cetylpyridinium Salicylate in Solution and Adsorbed on Silica Surfaces using X- and W-band Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”, Langmuir, 17(8): 2346-2356 (2001).
55. Mangels, M. L., Harper, A. C., Smirnov, A. I., Howard, K. P., and Lorigan, G. A. “Investigation of Magnetically Aligned Phospholipid Bilayers with EPR Spectroscopy at 94 GHz”, J. Magn. Reson., 151(2): 253-259, 2001.
56. Clarkson, R. B, Smirnov, A. I., Smirnova, T. I., Belford, R. L. “Multi-Frequency EPR of High-Spin S-state Ions: Examples from Gd3+ Chelates, in The Chemistry of Contrast Agents” in Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, A. Merbach, ed., Chapter 9; Wiley, New York, pp. 383-415 (2001).
b) Before joining NCSU in summer of 2000:
57. Bottle, S. E., Gillies, D. G., Hughes, D. L., Micallef, A. S., Smirnov, A. I., Sutcliffe, L. H. “Synthesis, Characterisation, Single Crystal X-ray Structure and W-band EPR Spectroscopy of a New Anionic Isoindoline Nitroxide: Synthesis and Characterization of Some Derivatives”, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1285-1291 (2000).
58. Smirnova, T. I., Smirnov, A. I., Belford, R. L., Clarkson, R. B., "Interaction of Gd(III) MRI Contrast Agent with Membranes: a Review of Recent EPR Studies", Magn. Reson. Materials in Physics, Biology, Medicine, 8, 214-229 (1999).
59. Kurth, T. L., Brown, E. C., Smirnov, A. I., Reiter, R. C., and Stevenson, C. D., “Solution Electron Affinity Perturbation due to the Deuteriation of 16annulene”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 103 (42): 8566-8572 (1999).
60. Smirnov, A.I., Belford, R. L., and Morse, II, P. D., “Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Hands-on Student Experiment using an EPR Spectrometer”, Concepts Magn. Reson., 11, 277-290 (1999).
61. Venturelli, A., Nilges, M.J., Smirnov, A.I., Belford, R.L., and Francesconi, L.C., “Synthesis and Characterization of ReV, ReVI and ReVII Complexes of the [α2P2W17O61]O10- Isomer”, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Transactions, 3, 301-310 (1999).