Patents by Inventor Can Xue

Can Xue has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for forming a bimetallic core-shell nanostructure
    Patent number: 9441301
    Abstract: A method forms a bimetallic core-shell nanostructure. The bimetallic core-shell nanostructure comprises a core comprising silver and a shell comprising gold. The bimetallic core-shell nanostructure may be used in various technical fields, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), photovoltaic cells, biomedical, bioimaging and biosensing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali, Can Xue, Yin Chiang Freddy Boey
  • METHOD FOR FORMING A BIMETALLIC CORE-SHELL NANOSTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20140162067
    Abstract: A method forms a bimetallic core-shell nanostructure. The bimetallic core-shell nanostructure comprises a core comprising silver and a shell comprising gold. The bimetallic core-shell nanostructure may be used in various technical fields, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), photovoltaic cells, biomedical, bioimaging and biosensing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali, Can Xue, Yin Chiang Freddy Boey
  • Coated colloidal materials
    Patent number: 8735174
    Abstract: Coated colloidal materials, methods for making coated colloidal materials, and methods of using coated colloidal materials are disclosed. The method yields coated colloidal materials where the optical characteristics of the core is not adversely affected. The coated colloidal materials can be self-assembled into films, layers, or structures and used in the detection of analytes through detection assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Xiaodong Chen, Can Xue, Sarah J. Hurst
  • ENERGY TRANSFER THROUGH SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EXCITATION ON MULTISEGMENTED NANOWIRES
    Publication number: 20120006674
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is energy transfer on multisegmented nanowires via surface plasmon resonance excitation of visible light, such as solar energy, absorbed by metals sensitive to visible light and transferred to metals insensitive to visible light. The nanowires are prepared with controllable gap sizes between different segments by on-wire lithography (OWL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Wei Wei, Lidong Qin, Can Xue, Jill E. Millstone, Xiaoyang Xu
  • Plasmonic-Driven Synthesis of Nanoprisms from Isotropic and Anisotropic Gold Cores
    Publication number: 20100304173
    Abstract: A nanoprism having a prismatic silver shell formed about a gold core and a process of forming the same are disclosed. The process includes irradiating a mixture of gold and silver nanoparticles with a narrow band of wavelengths capable of exciting the surface plasmon resonance of the gold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Can Xue, Jill E. Millstone
  • Coated Colloidal Materials
    Publication number: 20100291697
    Abstract: Coated colloidal materials, methods for making coated colloidal materials, and methods of using coated colloidal materials are disclosed. The method yields coated colloidal materials where the optical characteristics of the core is not adversely affected. The coated colloidal materials can be self-assembled into films, layers, or structures and used in the detection of analytes through detection assays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Can Xue, Xiaodong Chen, Sarah J. Hurst
  • pH-controlled photosynthesis of silver nanoprisms
    Patent number: 7776130
    Abstract: Silver nanoprisms having a unimodal size distribution are disclosed. The size of the nanoprisms can be controlled by adjusting the pH during irradiation of silver nanocrystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Can Xue
  • ENERGY TRANSFER THROUGH SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EXCITATION ON MULTISEGMENTED NANOWIRES
    Publication number: 20090145742
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is energy transfer on multisegmented nanowires via surface plasmon resonance excitation of visible light, such as solar energy, absorbed by metals sensitive to visible light and transferred to metals insensitive to visible light. The nanowires are prepared with controllable gap sizes between different segments by on-wire lithography (OWL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Wei Wei, Lidong Qin, Can Xue, Jill E. Millstone, Xiaoyang Xu
  • Analyte detection using nanowires produced by on-wire lithography
    Patent number: 7466406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of detecting analytes using nanowires having nanodisk arrays. In particular, the present invention discloses methods of detecting analytes via surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and employing nanowires prepared using on-wire lithography (OWL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Lidong Qin, Can Xue, Sungho Park, Ling Huang
  • ANALYTE DETECTION USING NANOWIRES PRODUCED BY ON-WIRE LITHOGRAPHY
    Publication number: 20080225287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of detecting analytes using nanowires having nanodisk arrays. In particular, the present invention discloses methods of detecting analytes via surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and employing nanowires prepared using on-wire lithography (OWL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Lidong Qin, Can Xue, Sungho Park, Ling Huang
  • pH-controlled photosynthesis of silver nanoprisms
    Publication number: 20080029382
    Abstract: Silver nanoprisms having a unimodal size distribution are disclosed. The size of the nanoprisms can be controlled by adjusting the pH during irradiation of silver nanocrystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad Mirkin, Can Xue