PMID- 32260656 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200408 IS - 2055-6764 (Electronic) IS - 2055-6756 (Linking) VI - 2 IP - 3 DP - 2017 May 1 TI - Engineering dendrimers to produce dendrimer dipole excitation based terahertz radiation sources suitable for spectrometry, molecular and biomedical imaging. PG - 127-134 LID - 10.1039/c7nh00010c [doi] AB - Two critical nanoscale design parameters (CNDPs); namely, surface chemistry and interior compositions of poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers were systematically engineered to produce unique hyperpolarizable, electro-optical substrates. These electro-optically active dendritic films were demonstrated to produce high quality, continuous wave terahertz radiation when exposed to a suitable pump laser that could be used for spectrometry and molecular imaging. These dendrimer based dipole excitation (DDE) terahertz sources were used to construct a working spectrometer suitable for many practical applications including THz imaging and analysis of encapsulated hydrogen species in fullerenes. FAU - Rahman, Anis AU - Rahman A AD - Applied Research and Photonics, Harrisburg, PA 17111, USA. FAU - Rahman, A K AU - Rahman AK FAU - Tomalia, Donald A AU - Tomalia DA LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170320 PL - England TA - Nanoscale Horiz JT - Nanoscale horizons JID - 101712576 SB - IM EDAT- 2017/05/01 00:00 MHDA- 2017/05/01 00:01 CRDT- 2020/04/09 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/05/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/05/01 00:01 [medline] AID - 10.1039/c7nh00010c [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nanoscale Horiz. 2017 May 1;2(3):127-134. doi: 10.1039/c7nh00010c. Epub 2017 Mar 20.