Research Associate
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), 2009
- Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Dissertation: “Gold Nanomaterial Based NSET for RNA Sensing and Folding”.
- Master of Science 2006
- Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Thesis: “Role of Inert Gas with Hydrogen Mixtures in the Growth of Nano-crystalline Diamond Films”
- Bachelor of Science, 2005
- Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Characterization of gold nanoclusters and its applications
- Practical application of two-photon absorption gold nanoclusters
- Singh, Anant, Dulal Senapati, Shuguang Wang, Jelani Griffin, Adria Neely, Candice Perry, Khaleah Naylor, Birsen Varisli, Jhansi Kalluri and Paresh Chandra Ray, “Gold Nanorod Based Selective Identification of Escherichia coli Bacterial Using Two-Photon Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy.” ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 1906-1912.
- Griffin, Jelani, Anant Singh, Dulal Senapati, Paresh Chandra Ray. “Nanorod Based Optical Ruler for Probing Ribozymes Folding Pathways.” 2009. (Submitted for Publication)
- Griffin, Jelani, Anant Singh, Dulal Senapati, Eumin Lee, Kevin Gaylor, Jeanette Jones-Boone, and Paresh Ray. “Sequence-Specific Hepatitis C Virus RNA Quantification Using the Size-Dependent Nonlinear Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles.” Small, 2009, 5, 839-845.
- Griffin, Jelani and Paresh Chandra Ray. “Gold Nanoparticle Based NSET for Monitoring Mg 2+ Dependent RNA Folding.” J. Phys. Chem. B., 2008, 112, 11198.
- Griffin, Jelani, Anant Singh, Dulal Senapati, Patsy Rhodes, Kanieshia Mitchell, Brianica Robinson, Eugene Yu, and Paresh Ray. “Size and Distance Dependence NSET Ruler for Selective Sensing of Hepatitis C virus RNA.” Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 342-351.
- Kim, Chan Kyu, Rajamohan R. Kalluru, Jagdish P. Singh, Angela Fortner, Jelani Griffin, Gopala K. Darbha, Paresh Chandra Ray. “Gold-nanoparticle-based Miniaturized Laser-induced Fluorescence Probe for Specific DNA Hybridization Detection: Studies on Size-dependent Optical Properties.” Nanotechnology. 17 (2006) 3085-3093. this article has been highlighted in nanotech web., http://nanotechweb.org/articles/journal/5/6/1/1