Patents by Inventor Jill E. Millstone

Jill E. Millstone 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).

  • 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
  • CONTROLLED AGENT RELEASE AND SEQUESTRATION
    Publication number: 20100294952
    Abstract: Disclosed are nanostructures having nanoprisms and agents, such as diagnostic and/or therapeutic agents. Nanoprisms with a surface plasmon resonance in the near-infrared convert irradiation, such as from a laser into heat selectively to allow the dissociation, such as dehybridization of oligonucleotide duplexes, of agents associated with the nanoprism surface. These nanostructures show morphological, chemical, and functional stability under hours of irradiation. Further disclosed are methods of selectively releasing agents from nanostructures after directed surface plasmon resonance mediated heating of the nanoprisms. Released agents, such as oligonucleotides, are unharmed by this process and can be repeatedly released and sequestered under spatiotemporal control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Matthew R. Jones, Jill E. Millstone, David A. Giljohann, Dwight S. Seferos, Kaylie L. Young
  • HALIDE ION CONTROL OF SEED MEDIATED GROWTH OF ANISOTROPIC GOLD NANOPARTICLES
    Publication number: 20100092372
    Abstract: Methods of forming nanoprisms or nanorods from gold seed particles by adding controlled amounts of iodide ion to the growth solution are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Jill E. Millstone, Wei Wei, Matthew R. Jones, Hyojong Yoo
  • Method of producing gold nanoprisms
    Patent number: 7588624
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing gold nanoprisms. In particular, gold nanoprisms having uniform shapes and edge lengths and thickness are produced utilizing a three step growth process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Jill E. Millstone, Sungho Park, Gabriella Metraux
  • 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
  • NANODISK CODES
    Publication number: 20080293588
    Abstract: The invention relates to nanodisk codes and methods of using the nanodisk codes in encoding and detection schemes. In one aspect, the invention relates to nanodisk codes having a binary encoding scheme and functionalized such that the encoding of the nanodisk codes is detectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Jill E. Millstone, Lidong Qin, Matthew J. Banholzer