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Publications by Luna Innovations


Luna Innovations’ employees are frequently published in technical journals and trade magazines. Below are summaries and links to some of those articles.


  • Hydrochalarones: A Novel Endohedral Metallofullerene Platform for Enhancing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast
    Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, June 18, 2008
    Targeted imaging requires contrast agents that remain in the vasculature for extended periods of time. A new contrast agent is described in which gadolinium is encapsulated within an extremely stable carbon sphere, thus allowing for safe extended residence. Water solubility and small particle size is achieved with novel fullerene chemistry, attaching multiple oligoethylene glycol groups through nitrogen chemistry. These new compounds can be used to visualize tissue architecture in vivo with standard MRI techniques.
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  • A Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Additive for Pultrusion
    Composites Research Journal, Spring 2008
    Luna's Frances Davis, Thomas Plaisted, Martin Rogers, Aaron Small and Lisa Sterner co-authored a technical paper titled "A Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Additive for Pultrusion" which was published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Composites Research Journal.
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  • Defect Formation in Graphene Nanosheets by Acid Treatment: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, February 2008
    Brian Holloway and Ron Quinlan of Luna's nanoWorks Division, co-authored (with seven others) a technical paper titled "Defect Formation in Graphene Nanosheets by Acid Treatment: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study" for the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. As of April 10, 2008, the paper had been downloaded 250 times.
    Read the article at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0022-3727/41/6/062001/.

  • A Novel Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant for Composite Materials
    Composites Research Journal, Spring 2007
    Aaron C. Small, Martin Rogers, Lisa Sterner, Thomas Amos, and Ayesha Johnson of the Advanced Materials Group in TDD of Luna Innovations Incorporated, co-authored a technical paper titled "A Novel Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant for Composite Materials" for the ACMA Composites 2006 trade show. The paper was selected to be reprinted in the Spring 2007 issue of Composites Research Journal and examines Luna’s non-halogenated flame retardant development in thermoset composite systems, such as epoxy, vinyl ester, polyester and urethane hybrid.
    Read the article at http://www.acmanet.org/crj/Small.pdf.

  • Characterization of Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Using High-Sensitivity Optical-Frequency-Domain Reflectometry
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, November 2006
    Mark Froggatt, Dawn Gifford, Steven Kreger, Matthew Wolfe and Brian Soller of Luna Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations Incorporated, co-authored a paper titled "Characterization of Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Using High-Sensitivity Optical-Frequency-Domain Reflectometry." The paper, which was published in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, demonstrates how the introduction of commercially available OFDR systems with submillimeter resolution [15]–[17] and the use of autocorrelations in the spectral domain provide a new and more easily implemented method of characterizing fiber birefringence. This paper is available to subscribers of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, or on a pay-per-article basis by visiting http://www.opticsinfobase.org/viewmedia.cfm?id=119675&seq=0.

  • Manufacture and Use of Nanomaterials: Current Status in the UK and Global Trends
    Occupational Medicine, August 2006
    Project Scientist Matt Hull of Luna Innovations Incorporated has co-authored an in-depth review titled "Manufacture and use of nanomaterials: current status in the UK and global trends." The paper, published in the August 2006 issue of the internationally peer-reviewed journal Occupational Medicine, provides an overview of the production and use of nanomaterials, particularly in the United Kingdom, and addresses the global need to collect more information about exposure to nanomaterials in both manufacturing and user scenarios. As the market for nanomaterial-based products grows, the potential for human and environmental exposures will increase. This paper is available to subscribers of Occupational Medicine or on a pay-per-article basis. Internet access is http://occmed.oxfordjournals.org in Volume 56, Number 5, pages. 300-306.

  • Nonlinear Acoustic Concealed Weapons Detections
    Materials Evaluations, December 2005
    Luna authors include Anjani Achanta, Samuel Guy, Ted Lynch, Eugene Malyarenko, Mark McKenna and Joseph Heyman.
    "In this paper, we describe a concealed weapons detection concept, based on nonlinear ultrasonic beam mixing in air, which offers advantages over traditional techniques. Two ultrasonic frequency signals at high sound pressures undergo nonlinear beam mixing to generate audio range difference frequency signals which can probe through thick clothing. While the low frequency beams penetrate, the beam collimation and resolution is determined by the ultrasound."
    This article is no longer availabe at the magazine's Web site.

  • Sensing Shape: Fiber-Bragg Grating Sensor Arrays Monitor Shape at High Resolution
    OEmagazine, September 2005
    By Roger Duncan
    "Within days of the collapse of the twin towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, dozens of urban search and rescue robots were crawling through the rubble to search for survivors. These robots had any number of means to find the survivors: microphones to detect voices or other sounds of possible human presence within the ruins, thermal cameras to register body heat, other cameras to search for colors distinctive from the gray dust that had blanketed the debris, and so on."
    This article is no longer availabe at the magazine's Web site.

  • Ultrasonic Device for the Noninvasive Diagnosis of Compartment Syndrome
    Physiological Measurement, November 2003
    An ultrasonic device for the diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome is described and results on six human cadaveric legs are presented. The ultrasonic device uses a pulsed phase locked loop (PPLL) to measure sub-micrometer displacements of the fascia wall. This paper is available to subscribers of Physiological Measurement or on a pay-per-article basis. You can purchase the article at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0967-3334/25/1/N01.