Physical Chemistry of Semiconducting Nanocrystals Publications

(October 2008–September 2009)

A. Cabot, A. P. Alivisatos, V. F. Puntes, L. Balcells, O. Iglesias, A. Labarta, “Magnetic Domains and Surface Effects in Hollow Maghemite Nanoparticles,” Phys. Rev. B., 79 (9): 094419 (2009).
A.Cabot received support from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de l’Informació. V.F. Puentes received support from Spanish MCyT though Contract No. MAT2006-13572-C02-02. L.Balcells received support from Spanish MCyT under Contract No. MAT2006-13572- C02-01 and Consolider–Ingenio under Contract No. 2010 CSD2007-00041.  O.Iglesias and A.Labarta  received support from Spanish MCyT through Projects No. MAT2006–03999 and No. NAN2004-08805-CO4-01/02 and Consolider–Ingenio under Contract No. 2010 CSD2006–00012. 
A. Cabot, M. Ibanez, P. Guardia, A.P. Alivisatos, “Reaction Regimes on the Synthesis of Hollow Particles by the Kirkendall Effect,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 11326-11328   (Published on Web July 24, 2009).
A. Cabot, R. K. Smith, Y. Yin, H. Zheng, B. M. Reinhard, H. Liu, and A. P. Alivisatos, “Sulfidation of Cadmium at the Nanoscale, ACS Nano, 2 (7):1452-1458 (on Web, July 2008).
D. O. Demchenko, R. D. Robinson, B. Sadtler, C. K. Erdonmez, A. P. Alivisatos, and L.W. Wang, “Formation Mechanism and Properties of CdS-Ag2S Nanorod Superlattices,” ACS Nano, 2 (4):627-636  (2008). 
K. J. Koski, N. M. Kamp, R. K. Smith, M. Kunz, J. K. Knight, and A. P. Alivisatos, “Structural Distortions in 5-10 nm Silver Nanoparticles Under High Pressure,” Phys. Rev. B., 78: 165410-165420 (on Web, October 2008).
J.  Park, H. Zheng, Y-W. Jun and A. P. Alivisatos, “Hetero-Epitaxial Anion Exchange Yields Single-Crystalline Hollow Nanoparticles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131:13943-13945 (Published on Web 09/09/2009). 
A grant from DAF AFOSR under Award No. FA9550-07-1-0334 funded examination of the nanomaterials for energy absorbing properties.  
M.T. Sheldon, P.E. Trudeau, L.W. Wang, A.P. Alivisatos, “Enhanced Semiconductor Nanocrystal Conductance via Solution Grown Contacts.  Nano Lett, 9(11):3676-3682 (August 2009).
M.T. Sheldon received a fellowship (Grant No. 0425914) from the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. P.E. Trudeau is supported by a fellowship from Canada’s National Science and Engineering Research Council.  
P,E. Trudeau, M. Sheldon, V. Altoe, and A. P. Alivisatos, “Electrical Contacts to Individual Colloidal Semiconductor Nanorods,”  Nano Lett.,  8 (7):1936-1939 (2008). 
P.E. Trudeau  receives a fellowship from Canada’s National Science and Engineering Research Council.  M.Sheldon received a fellowship from the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical (Grant No. 0425914).
H. Zheng, S.A. Claridge, A.M. Minor, A.P. Alivisatos, and U. Dahmen, “Nanocrystal Diffusion in a Liquid Thin Film Observed by In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy,” Nano Lett., 9(6):2460-2465 (May 2009). 
S.Claridge is supported by an NSF-IGERT predoctoral fellowship. A. Minor and J. Turner performed initial liquid cell testing with support from the National Center for Electron Microsopy.
H. Zheng, R. K. Smith, Y.W. Jun, C. Kisielowski, U. Dahmen, and A. P. Alivisatos, “Observation of Single Colloidal Platinum Nanocrystal Growth Trajectories,” Science, 324: 1309-1312 (June 2009).

(October 2007–September 2008)

Cabot, A.; Smith, R. K.; Yin, Y. D.; Zheng, H. M.; Reinhard, B. M.; Liu, H. T.; Alivisatos, A. P., Sulfidation
of cadmium at the nanoscale. ACS Nano 2008, 2, (7), 1452-1458.
Chan, E. M.; Marcus, M. A.; Fakra, S.; ElNaggar, M.; Mathies, R. A.; Alivisatos, A. P., Millisecond kinetics
of nanocrystal cation exchange using microfluidic X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Journal of
Physical Chemistry A 2007, 111, (49), 12210-12215.
Talapin, D. V.; Nelson, J. H.; Shevchenko, E. V.; Aloni, S.; Sadtler, B.; Alivisatos, A. P., Seeded growth of
highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanoheterostructures with rod and tetrapod morphologies. Nano
Letters 2007, 7, (10), 2951-2959.
Trudeau, P. E.; Sheldon, M.; Altoe, V.; Alivisatos, A. P., Electrical contacts to individual colloidal
semiconductor nanorods. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (7), 1936-1939.
Wu, Y.; Wadia, C.; Ma, W. L.; Sadtler, B.; Alivisatos, A. P., Synthesis and photovoltaic application of
copper(I) sulfide nanocrystals. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (8), 2551-2555.

(October 2006–September 2007)

D. M. Aruguete, M. A. Marcus, L. S. Li, A. Williamson, S. Fakra, F. Gygi, G. A. Galli and A. P. Alivisatos, "Surface Structure of Cdse Nanorods Revealed by Combined X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Measurements and Ab Initio Calculations", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 (1), 75-79 (2007).
A. Cabot, V. F. Puntes, E. Shevchenko, Y. Yin, L. Balcells, M. A. Marcus, S. M. Hughes and A. P. Alivisatos, "Vacancy Coalescence During Oxidation of Iron Nanoparticles", Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (34), 10358-+ (2007).
S. H. Kim, Y. D. Yin, A. P. Alivisatos, G. A. Somorjai and J. T. Yates, "Ir Spectroscopic Observation of Molecular Transport through Pt@Coo Yolk-Shell Nanostructures", Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (30), 9510-9513 (2007).
S. G. Prilliman, S. M. Clark, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Karvankova and S. Veprek, "Strain and Deformation in Ultra-Hard Nanocomposites Nc-Tin/a-Bn under Hydrostatic Pressure", Materials Science and Engineering a-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 437 (2), 379-387 (2006).
D. H. Son, J. S. Wittenberg, U. Banin and A. P. Alivisatos, "Second Harmonic Generation and Confined Acoustic Phonons in Highly Excited Semiconductor Nanocrystals", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 (40), 19884-19890 (2006).
J. Tang and A. P. Alivisatos, "Crystal Splitting in the Growth of Bi2s3", Nano Letters 6 (12), 2701-2706 (2006).