Research Interests

My research is focused on using nanotechnology and super-resolution optical imaging to investigate the trafficking of cellular compartments, such as caveolae. We are developing therapeutic nanoparticle carriers that can cross endothelial barriers via caveolae in vivo.

• Yong Zhang, Zhenjia Wang, Man-kit Ng, Lewis, J. Rothberg, Conformational Reorganization and Solvation Dynamics of Dendritic Oligothiophenes”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111, 13211
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Lewis J. Rothberg, “Structure and Dynamics of Single Conjugated Polymer Chromophores by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” ACS Nano. 2007, 1(4), 299-306
  
  
• Shanlin Pan, Zhanjia Wang, Lewis J. Rothberg, “Fluorescence enhancement of adsorbed dye monolayers by a silver nanoparticle overlayer” J. Phys. Chem. B. 2006, 110, 173831.
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Hermen Pedrosa, Todd Krass, Lewis Rothberg, “Exciton binding energy in single walled carbon nanotubes” Physical Review Letters, 2006, 96, 047403.
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Lewis J. Rothberg, “Correlations between silver nanostructure density and surface enhanced Raman scattering” Appl. Phys. B 2006, 84, 289.
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Ifor D. W. Samuel “Energy transfer from a polymer host to a europium complex in Light-Emitting Diodes” J. Luminescence 2005, 111, 199.
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Lewis J. Rothberg “Origins of Blinking in Single Molecule Raman Spectroscopy” J. Phys. Chem. B. 2005, 109, 3387.
  
  
• Zhenjia Wang, Shanlin Pan, Todd D. Krauss, Hui Du and Lewis, J. Rothberg, “ The strucutural basis for giant enhancement enabling single-molecule Raman scattering” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2003, 100, 8638.
  
  
• Andrew Beeby; Sylvia Bettington, Ifor D. W. Samuel; Zhenjia Wang, “Tuning the emission of cyclometalated iridium complexes by simple ligand modification.” Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2003, 13(1), 80..