The Molecular Foundry Publications

(October 2007–September 2008)

Internal Research Program

Biological Nanostructures Facility

R.N. Zuckermann
Chongsiriwatana, N. P.; Patch, J. A.; Czyzewski, A. M.; Dohm, M. T.; Ivankin, A.; Gidalevitz, D.;
Zuckermann, R. N.; Barron, A. E., Peptoids that mimic the structure, function, and mechanism of
helical antimicrobial peptides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America 2008, 105, (8), 2794.
Ross, T. M.; Zuckermann, R. N.; Reinhard, C.; Frey, W. H., Intranasal administration delivers peptoids to
the rat central nervous system. Neuroscience Letters 2008, 439, 30.
Lee, B.-C.; Chu, T. K.; Dill, K. A.; Zuckermann, R. N., Biomimetic Nanostructures: Creating a High-Affinity
Zinc-Binding Site in a Folded Nonbiological Polymer. Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008, 130, (27), 8847.

Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility
M.B. Salmeron
Fang, L.; Park, J. Y.; Ma, H.; Jen, A. K.-Y.; Salmeron, M., Atomic force microscopy study of the role of π-π
stacking in molecular films with aromatic groups. Langmuir 2007, 23, (23), 11522.
Fang, L.; Park, J. Y.; Cui, Y.; Alivisatos, A. P.; Schrier, J.; Kee, B.; Wang, K.-W.; Salmeron, M.,
Mechanical and Electrical Properties of CdTe Tetrapods Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy.
Journal of Chemical Physics 2007, 127, (18), 184704.
Ratera, I.; Ashby, P. D.; Qi, Y.; Park, J.; Quek, S. Y.; Neaton, J. B.; Salmeron, M., Mechanical and charge
transport properties of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au (111) surface: The Role of
Molecular Tilt. Langmuir 2008, 24, (5), 2219.
Ketteler, G.; Ashby, P. D.; Mun, B. S.; Ratera, I.; Bluhm, H.; Kasemo, B.; Salmeron, M., In situ
photoelectron spectroscopy study of water adsorption on model biomaterial surfaces. Journal of
Physics: Condensed Matter 2008, 20, 184204.
Qi, Y.; Park, J. Y.; Hendriksen, B. L. M.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M., Electronic contribution to friction
on GaAs: An atomic force microscope study. Physical Review B 2008, 77, 184105.

P.D. Ashby
Ashby, P. D., Gentle imaging of soft materials in solution with amplitude modulation atomic force
microscopy: Q control and thermal noise. Applied Physics Letters 2007, 91, (25), 254102.
Ratera, I.; Ashby, P. D.; Qi, Y.; Park, J.; Quek, S. Y.; Neaton, J. B.; Salmeron, M., Mechanical and charge
transport properties of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au (111) surface: The Role of
Molecular Tilt. Langmuir 2008, 24, (5), 2219.
Ketteler, G.; Ashby, P. D.; Mun, B. S.; Ratera, I.; Bluhm, H.; Kasemo, B.; Salmeron, M., In situ
photoelectron spectroscopy study of water adsorption on model biomaterial surfaces. Journal of
Physics: Condensed Matter 2008, 20, 184204.

D. F. Ogletree
Qi, Y.; Park, J. Y.; Hendriksen, B. L. M.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M., Electronic contribution to friction
on GaAs: An atomic force microscope study. Physical Review B 2008, 77, 184105.

Inorganic Nanostructures Facility
A.P. Alivisatos
Shevchenko, E. V.; Kortright, J.; Talapin, D. V.; Aloni, S.; Alivisatos, A. P., Quasi-ternary nanoparticle
superlattices through nanoparticle design. Advanced Materials 2007, 19, (23), 4183.
Shevchenko, E. V.; Ringler, M.; Schwemer, A.; Talapin, D. V.; Klar, T. A.; Rogach, A. L.; Feldmann, J.;
Alivisatos, A. P., Self-assembled binary superlattices of CdSe and Au nanocrystals and their
fluorescence properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (11), 3274.
E.V. Shevchenko, D.V. Talapin
Shevchenko, E. V.; Kortright, J.; Talapin, D. V.; Aloni, S.; Alivisatos, A. P., Quasi-ternary nanoparticle
superlattices through nanoparticle design. Advanced Materials 2007, 19, (23), 4183.
Shevchenko, E. V.; Ringler, M.; Schwemer, A.; Talapin, D. V.; Klar, T. A.; Rogach, A. L.; Feldmann, J.;
Alivisatos, A. P., Self-assembled binary superlattices of CdSe and Au nanocrystals and their
fluorescence properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (11), 3274.

S. Aloni
Kuykendall, T.; Ulrich, P.; Aloni, S.; Yang, P., Complete composition tunability of InGaN nanowires using
a combinatorial approach. Nature Materials 2007, 6, (12), 951-956.
Shevchenko, E. V.; Kortright, J. B.; Talapin, D. V.; Aloni, S.; Alivisatos, A. P., Quasi-ternary nanoparticle
superlattices through nanoparticle design. Advanced Materials 2007, 19, (23), 4183-+.
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.
Zhang, T. R.; Ge, J. P.; Hu, Y. X.; Zhang, Q.; Aloni, S.; Yin, Y. D., Formation of hollow silica colloids
through a spontaneous dissolution-regrowth process. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
2008, 47, (31), 5806-5811.

T. Mokari
Habas, S. E.; Yang, P.; Mokari, T., Selective Growth of Metal and Binary Metal Tips on CdS Nanorods. J.
Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, (11), 3294.

Nanofabrication Facility
S. Cabrini
Hao, Z.; Martin, M. C.; Harteneck, B.; Cabrini, S.; Anderson, E. H., Negative Index of Refraction
Observed in a Single Layer of Closed Ring Magnetic Dipole Resonators. Applied Physics Letters
2007, 91, (25), 253119.

Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis of Nanostructures Facility
F. Svec
Germain, J.; Fréchet, J. M. J.; Svec, F., Hypercrosslinked polyanilines with nanoporous structure and high
surface area: Potential adsorbents for hydrogen storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2007,
17, (47), 4989.
Svec, F.; Kurganov, A. A., Less Common Applications of Monoliths III: Gas Chromatography. J.
Chromatography A 2008, 1184, 281.
Geiser, L.; Eeltink, S.; Svec, F.; Frechet, J. M. J., In-line System Containing Porous Polymer Monoliths for
Protein Digestion with Immobilized Pepsin, Peptide Preconcentration and Nano-liquid
Chhromatography Separation Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectroscopy. J.
Chromatography A 2008, 1188, 88.
Svec, F.; Krenkova, J., Rigid Porous Polymer Monoliths as Stationary Phases and Supports. LC-GC
America 2008, 26, ((S4)), 24.
Svec, F., Stellan Hjerten's Contribution to the Development of Monolithic Stationary Phases.
Electrophoresis 2008, 29, (8), 1593.
Levkin, P. A.; Eeltink, S.; Stratton, T. R.; Brennen, R.; Robotti, K.; Killeen, K.; Svec, F.; Frechet, J. M. J.,
Monolithic Porous Polymer Stationary Phases in Polyamide Chips for the Fast High-performance
Liquid Chromatography Separation of Proteins and Peptides. J. Chromatography A 2008, 1200,
55.
Augustin, V.; Stachowiak, T. B.; Svec, F.; Frechet, J. M. J., CEC Separation of Peptides using Poly(hexyl
acrlyate-co-1,4-butanediol diacrylate-co-[2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl]trimethyl ammonium chloride)
Monolithic Column. Electrophoresis 2008, 29, (18 - SI), 3875.

Y. Liu
Liu, Y.; Bruneau, A.; He, J.; Abliz, Z., Palladium(II) Directed Self Assembly of Dynamic Donor-Acceptor
[2]Catenanes. Organic Letters 2008, 10, (5), 765.

B. Ma
Ma, B.; Djurovich, P. I.; Yousufuddin, M.; Bau, R.; Thompson, M. E., Phosphorescent Platinum Dyads
with Cyclometalated Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photophysical Studies. J. Phys.
Chem. C. 2008, 112, (21), 8022.

B. Helms
Zhao, M.; Helms, B.; Slonkina, E.; Friedle, S.; Lee, D.; Dubois, J.; Hedman, B.; Hodgson, K. O.; Frechet,
J. M. J.; Lippard, S. J., Iron complexes of dendrimer-appended carboxylates for activating
dioxygen and oxidizing hydrocarbons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, (13), 4352.
Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility
J.B. Neaton
Ratera, I.; Qi, Y.; Park, J. Y.; Ashby, P. D.; Quek, S. Y.; Neaton, J. B.; Salmeron, M., Mechanical and
charge transport properties of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au (111) surface: The
Role of Molecular Tilt. Langmuir 2008, 24, (5), 2219.
Khoo, K. H.; Neaton, J. B.; Choi, H. J.; Louie, S. G., Contact dependence of the conductance of H2
molecular junctions from first principles. Physical Review B 2008, 77, 115326.
Wu, Z.; Neaton, J. B.; Grossman, J. C., Quantum Confinement and Electronic Properties of Tapered
Silicon Nanowires. Physical Review Letters 2008, 100, 246804.
Sau, J.; Neaton, J. B.; Choi, H. J.; Louie, S. G.; Cohen, M. L., Electronic Energy Levels of Weakly
Coupled Nanostructures: C60-Metal Interfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008, 101, 026804.
Khoo, K. H.; Neaton, J. B.; Son, Y. W.; Cohen, M. L.; Louie, S. G., Negative Differential Resistance in
Carbon Atomic Wire-Carbon Nanotube Junctions. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (9), 2900.
J. Grossman
Wu, Z.; Grossman, J. C., Prediction of Ultra-High Aspect Ratio Nanowires from Self-Assembly. Nano
Letters 2008, 8, (9), 2697.

User Research

Biological Nanostructures Facility
Carrico, Z. M.; W.Romanini, D.; Mehl, R. A.; Francis, M. B., Oxidative Coupling of Peptides to a Virus
Capsid Containing Unnatural Amino Acids. Chemical Communications 2008, 1205.
Ballister, E. R.; Lai, A. H.; Zuckermann, R. N.; Cheng, Y.; Mougous, J. D., In vitro Self-assembly of
Tailorable Nanotubes from a Simple Protein Building Block. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences of the United States of America 2008, 105, (10), 3733.
Bidault, S.; Garcia de Abajo, F. J.; Polman, A., Plasmon-based Nanolenses Assembled o a Well-Defined
DNA Template. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, (9), 2750.
Ezashi, T.; Das, P.; Gupta, R.; Walker, A.; Roberts, R. M., The Role of Homeobox Protein Distal-Less 3
and its Interaction with ETS2 in Regulating Bovine Interferon-Tau Gene Expression - Synergistic
Transcriptional Activation with ETS2. Biology of Reproduction 2008, 79, 115.
Jaworski, J. W.; Raorane, D.; Huh, J. H.; Majumdar, A.; Lee, S.-W., Evolutionary Screening of Biomimetic
Coatings for Selective Detection of Explosives. Langmuir 2008, 24, 4938.
Shu, J. Y.; Tan, C.; DeGrado, W. F.; Xu, T., New Design of Helix Bundle Peptide−Polymer Conjugates.
Biomacromolecules 2008, 9, (8), 2111.
Pearce, C. I.; Coker, V. S.; Charnock, J. M.; Pattrick, R. A. D.; Mosselmans, J. F. W.; Law, N.; Beveridge,
T. J.; Lloyd, J. R., Microbial Manufacture of Chalcogenide-based Nanoparticles via the Reductioin
of Selenite using Veillonella atypica: an in situ EXAFS study. Nanotechnology 2008, 19, 155603.

Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility
Garcia, M.; Ali, M.; Parsons-Moss, T.; Ashby, P.; Nitsche, H., Metal Oxide Films Produced by Polymer-
Assisted Deposition (PAD) for Nuclear Science Application. Thin Solid Films 2007, 516, 6261.
Farshchi, R.; Ashby, P. D.; Hwang, D. J.; Grigoropoulos, C. P.; Chodekar, R. V.; Suzuki, Y.; Dubon, O. D.,
Hydrogen patterning of Ga1-xMnxAs for planar spintronics. Physica B 2007, 401-402, 447.
Alsem, D. H.; Dugger, M. T.; Stach, E. A.; Ritchie, R. O., Micron-Scale Friction and Sliding Wear of
Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Structural Films in Ambient Air. Journal of Microelectromechanical
Systems 2008, 17, (5), 1144.
Jamshidi, A.; Pauzauskie, P.; Schuck, P. J.; Ohta, A.; Chiou, P.-Y.; Chou, J.; Yang, P.; Wu, M., Dynamic
manipulation and separation of individual semiconducting and metallic nanowires (cover).
Nature Photonics 2008, 2, 85
Farshchi, R.; Dubon, O.; Hwang, D.; Misra, N.; Grigoropoulos, C.; Ashby, P., Laser activation of
ferromagnetism in hydrogenated Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As. Applied Physics Letters 2008, 92, 012517.
Hou, P. Y., Segregation Phenomena at Thermally Grown Al2O3/Alloy Interfaces. Annual Review of
Materials Research 2008, 38, 275.
Garcia, M. A.; Ali, M. N.; Chang, N. N.; Parsons-Moss, T.; Ashby, P. D.; Gates, J. M.; Stavsetra, L.;
Gregorich, K. E.; Nitsche, H., Heavy-ion irradiation of Thulium(III) oxide targets prepared by
polymer-assisted Deposition. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 2008,
592, 483.
Brown, M. A.; Ashby, P. D.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M. B.; Hemminger, J. C., Reactivity of ozone with
solid potassium iodide investigated by atomic force microscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2008, 112, (22), 8110.
Wang, F.; Cho, D.; Kessler, B.; Deslippe, J.; Schuck, J.; Louie, S.; Zettl, A.; Heinz, T.; Shen, R.,
Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Physical
Review Letters 2007, 99, (22), 227401.
Pearce, C. I.; Coker, V. S.; Charnock, J. M.; Pattrick, R. A. D.; Mosselmans, J. F. W.; Law, N.; Beveridge,
T. J.; Lloyd, J. R., Microbial Manufacture of Chalcogenide-based Nanoparticles via the Reductioin
of Selenite using Veillonella atypica: an in situ EXAFS study. Nanotechnology 2008, 19, 155603.

Inorganic Nanostructures Facility
Wang, R. Y.; Feser, J.; Lee, J.-S.; Talapin, D. V.; Segalman, R. A.; Majumdar, A., Enhanced
Thermopower in PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Superlattices. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (8), 2283.

Nanofabrication Facility
Batra, A.; Weis, C. D.; Reijonen, J.; A. Persaud; Schenkel, T.; Cabrini, S.; Lo, C. C.; Bokor, J., Detection
of low energy single ion impacts in micron scale transistors at room temperature. Applied Physics
Letters 2007, 91, (19), 193502.
Schmid, G. M.; Resnick, D. J.; LaBrake, D.; Gauzner, G.; Lee, K., Manufacturing patterned media with
step and flash imprint lithography. Solid State Technology 2008, Sept.
Valentine, J.; Zhang, S.; Zentgraf, T.; Ulin-Avila, E.; Genov, D. A.; Bartal, G.; Zhang, X., Threedimensional
Optical Metamaterial with a Negative Refractive Index. Nature Letters 2008, 455,
(7211), 376-U32.

Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis Facility
Scully, S. R.; Armstrong, P. B.; Edder, C.; Frechet, J. M. J.; McGehee, M., Long-Range Resonant Energy
Transfer for Enhanced Exciton Harvesting for Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials 2007, 19,
2961.
Chen, G.; Svec, F.; Knapp, D. R., Light-Actuated High Pressure-Resisting Microvalve for On-chip Flow
Control Based on Thermo-responsive Nanostructured Polymer. Lab on a Chip 2008, 8, (7), 1198.
Potter, O. G.; Hilder, E. F., Porous polymer monoliths for extraction: Diverse applications and platforms.
J. Sep. Sci. 2008, 31, (11), 1881.

Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility
Quek, S. Y.; Venkatachalam, G.; Choi, I.-H.; Louie, S. G.; Hybertsen, M.; Neaton, J. B., Amine-Gold
Linked Single Molecule Circuits: Experiment and Theory. Nano Letters 2007, 7.
Kong, L.; Chelikowsky, J. R.; Neaton, J. B.; Louie, S. G., Real-space pseudopotential calculations of spindependent
electron transport in magnetic molecular junctions. Physical Review B 2007, 76, (23).
Wang, F.; Cho, D.; Kessler, B.; Deslippe, J.; Schuck, J.; Louie, S.; Zettl, A.; Heinz, T.; Shen, R.,
Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Physical
Review Letters 2007, 99, (22), 227401.
Chan, K. T.; Neaton, J. B.; Cohen, M. L., First-principles Study of Metal Adatom Adsorption on Graphene.
Phys. Rev. B 2008, 77, 235430.
Zayak, A. T.; Huang, X.; Neaton, J. B.; Rabe, K. M., Manipulating Magnetic Properties of SrRuO3 and
CaRuO3 with Epitaxial and Uniaxial Strains. Phys. Rev. B. 2008, 77, 214410.


(October 2006–September 2007)

The Internal Reseach Program
Inorganic Nanostructures Facility

P. Alivisatos

G. L. Liu, Y. D. Yin, S. Kunchakarra, B. Mukherjee, D. Gerion, S. D. Jett, D. G. Bear, J. W. Gray, A. P. Alivisatos, L. P. Lee and F. Q. F. Chen, "A Nanoplasmonic Molecular Ruler for Measuring Nuclease Activity and DNA Footprinting", Nature Nanotechnology 1 (1), 47-52 (2006).

D. Talapin and E. Shevchenko

J.H. Ahn, C. Bertoni, S. Dunn, C. Wang, D.V. Talapin, N. Gaponik, A. Eychmüller, Y. Hua, M.R. Bryce, and M.C. Petty, "White organic light emitting devices incorporating nanoparticles of II-VI semiconductors," Nanotechnology 18, p.335202 (2007).
D.V. Talapin, C.T. Black, C.R. Kagan, E.V. Shevchenko, A. Afzali, and C.B. Murray, "Alignment, Electronic Properties, Doping, and On-Chip Growth of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires," J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (35), p.13244 (2007).
D.V. Talapin, C.T. Black, C.R. Kagan, E.V. Shevchenko, A. Afzali, and C.B. Murray, "Time-Resolved Förster Energy Transfer from Individual Semiconductor Nanoantennae to Single Dye Molecules," J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (31), p.11511 (2007).
D.V. Talapin, J.H. Nelson, E.V. Schevchenko, S. Aloni, B. Sadtler, and A.P. Alivisatos, "Seeded Growth of Highly Luminescent CdSe/CdS Nanoheterostruuctures with Rod and Tetrapod Morphologies," Nano Lett. 7 (10), p.2951 (2007).
D.V. Talapin, H. Yu, E.V. Shevchenko, A. Lobo, and C.B. Murray, "Synthesis of Colloidal PbSe/PbS Core-Shell Nanowires and PbS/Au Nanowire-Nanocrystal Heterostructures," J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (38), p.14049 (2007).
J.J. Urban, D.V. Talapin, E.V. Shevchenko, C.R. Kagan, and C.B. Murray, "Synergism in binary nanocrystal superlattices leads to enhanced p-type conductivity in self-assembled PbTe/Ag2Te thin films," Nat. Mats. 6 (1826), p.115 (2007).

S. Aloni

T.D. Yuzvinsky, W. Mickelson, S. Aloni, G.E. Begtrup, A. Kis, and A. Zettl, "Shrinking a Carbon Nanotube," Nano Lett. 6 (12), p.2718 (2006).

Biological Nanostructures Facility

R. Zuckermann

B.-C. Lee, M. D. Connelly and Zuckermann, R. N., "Bio-Inspired Polymers for Nanoscience Research.", Proc. NSTI Nanotech 2, 28-31 (2007).

B. Cohen

P. Abbyad, X. Shi, W. Childs, T.B. McAnaney, B.E. Cohen, and S.G. Boxer, "Measurement of solvation responses at multiple sites in a globular protein," J. Phys. Chem. B 111, p.8269 (2007).

Imaging And Manipulation Facility

M. Salmeron

L. Fang, J.Y. Park, H. Ma, A.K.-Y. Jen, and M. Salmeron, "Atomic force microscopy study of the role of π-π stacking in molecular films with aromatic groups," Langmuir 23 (23), p.11522 (2007).

Nanofabrication Facility

D. Olynick

D. L. Olynick, J. A. Liddle, A. V. Tivanski, M. K. Gilles, T. Tyliszczak, F. Salmassi, K. Liang and S. R. Leone, "Scanning X-Ray Microscopy Investigations into the Electron-Beam Exposure Mechanism of Hydrogen Silsesquioxane Resists", Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 24 (6), 3048-3054 (2006).

Organic And Macromolecular Synthesis Facility

F. Svec

S. Eeltink and F. Svec, "Recent Advances in the Control of Morphology and Surface Chemistry of Porous Polymer-Based Monolithic Stationary Phases and Their Application in Cec", Electrophoresis 28 (1-2), 137-147 (2007).
J. Germain, J.M.J. Frechet, and F. Svec, "Nanoporous Polymers for Hydrogen Storage. ", Polym. Mat., Sci. Eng. 97, 272-273 (2007).
D. A. Mair, M. Rolandi, M. Snauko, R. Noroski, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Room-Temperature Bonding for Plastic High-Pressure Microfluidic Chips", Analytical Chemistry 79 (13), 5097-5102 (2007).
T. B. Stachowiak, D. A. Mair, T. G. Holden, L. J. Lee, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Hydrophilic Surface Modification of Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Microfluidic Chips Using Sequential Photografting", Journal of Separation Science 30 (7), 1088-1093 (2007).
S. Eeltink, L. Geiser, F. Svec and J.M.J. Fréchet, "Optimization of the porous structure and polarity of polymethacrylate-based monolithic capillary columns for the LC-MS separation of enzymatic digests," J. Sep. Sci. 30 (17), p.2814 (2007).

Y. Liu

Y. Liu, "Self-Assembled Ring-in-Ring Complexes from Metal-Ligand Coordination Macrocycles and Beta-Cyclodextrin", Tetrahedron Letters 48 (22), 3871-3874 (2007).
Y. Liu, L. M. Klivansky, S. I. Khan and X. Y. Zhang, "Templated Synthesis of Desymmetrized [2]Catenanes with Excellent Translational Selectivity", Organic Letters 9 (13), 2577-2580 (2007).

Theory Of Nanostructured Materials Facility

S. Louie

F. J. Ribeiro, P. Tangney, S. G. Louie and M. L. Cohen, "Hypothetical Hard Structures of Carbon with Cubic Symmetry", Physical Review B 74 (17), 172101 (2006).
P. Tangney, M. L. Cohen and S. G. Louie, "Giant Wave-Drag Enhancement of Friction in Sliding Carbon Nanotubes", Physical Review Letters 97 (19), 195901 (2006).

User Research

Inorganic Nanostructures Facility

M. V. Kovalenko, W. Heiss, E. V. Shevchenko, J. S. Lee, H. Schwinghammer, A. P. Alivisatos and D. V. Talapin, "Snte Nanocrystals: A New Example of Narrow-Gap Semiconductor Quantum Dots", Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (37), 11354-+ (2007).
H. J. Liu, J. H. Guo, Y. D. Yin, A. Augustsson, C. L. Dong, J. Nordgren, C. L. Chang, P. Alivisatos, G. Thornton, D. F. Ogletree, F. G. Requejo, F. de Groot and M. Salmeron, "Electronic Structure of Cobalt Nanocrystals Suspended in Liquid", Nano Letters 7 (7), 1919-1922 (2007).
A. Cabot, V.F. Puntes, E.V. Schevchenko, Y. Yin, L. Balcells, M.A. Marcus, S.M. Hughes, and A.P. Alivisatos, " Vacancy Coalescence during Oxidation of Iron Nanoparticles," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (34), p.10358 (2007).
J. Chen, Y. Xiong, Y. Yin and Y. Xia, "Pt Nanoparticles Surfactant-Directed Assembled into Colloidal Spheres and used as Substrates in Forming Pt Nanorods and Nanowires," Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed.: Small 2 (11), p.1340 (2006).
T. Franzl, J. Müller, T.A. Klar, A.L. Rogach, J. Feldmann, D.V. Talapin, and H. Weller, "CdSe:Te Nanocrystals: Band-Edge versus Te-Related Emission," J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (7), p.2974 (2007).
W. Kim, M. Quan, P. Yang and D. Wang, "Microfabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters for nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry," Anal. Chem. 79, p.3703 (2007).
R.M. Kraus, P.G. Lagoudakis, A.L. Rogach, D.V. Talapin, H. Weller, J.M. Lupton, and J. Feldmann, "Room-Temperature Exciton Storage in Elongated Semiconductor Nanocrystals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (1), p.017401 (2007).
E.V. Shevchenko, D.V. Talapin, C.B. Murray and S. O'Brien, "Structural Characterization of Self-Assembled Multifunctional Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (11), p.3620 (2006).
A.G. Skirtach, C. Déjugnat, D. Braun, A.S. Susha, A.L. Rogach, and G.B. Sukhorukov, "Nanoparticles Distribution Control by Polymers: Aggregates versus Nonaggregates," J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (2), p.555 (2006).
D.V. Talapin, E.V. Shevchenko, C.B. Murray, A.V. Titov, and P. Král, "Dipole-dipole interactions in nanoparticle superlattices," Nano Lett. 7 (5), p.1213 (2007).
D.V. Talapin, E.V. Shevchenko, C.B. Murray, A.V. Titov, and P. Král, "Dipole-dipole interactions in nanoparticle superlattices," Science 316, p.342 (2007).
Y. Xiong, J. McLellan, Y. Yin and Y. Xia, "Synthesis of Palladium Icosahedra with Twinned Structure by Blocking Oxidative Etching with Citric Acid or Citrate Ions," Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 46 (5), p.642 (2007).

Biological Nanostructures Facility

C. Pearce, V. Coker, R. Pattrick, N. Law, J. Charnock, J. Lloyd and R. Zuckermann, "Investigating the Biogenic Synthesis of Chalcogenide-Based Nanomaterials", Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (15), A768-A768 (2007).
X. Chen, A. Kis, A. Zettl and C. R. Bertozzi, "A Cell Nanoinjector Based on Carbon Nanotubes", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (20), 8218-8222 (2007).

Imaging And Manipulation Facility

R. Farshchi, R.V. Chopdekar, Y. Suzuki, P.D. Ashby, I.D. Sharp, J.W. Beeman, E.E. Haller, and O.D. Dubon, "2D-patterned ferromagnetic III-Mn-V semiconductors for planar spintronics," Phys. Stat. Solidi B 4 (5), p.1755 (2007).

Nanofabrication Facility

A. Barman, S. Wang, J. Maas, A. R. Hawkins, S. Kwon, J. Bokor, A. Liddle and H. Schmidt, "Size Dependent Damping in Picosecond Dynamics of Single Nanomagnets", Applied Physics Letters 90 (20), 202504 (2007).
S. Wang, A. Barman, H. Schmidt, J. D. Maas, A. R. Hawkins, S. Kwon, B. Harteneck, S. Cabrini and J. Bokor, "Optimization of Nano-Magneto-Optic Sensitivity Using Dual Dielectric Layer Enhancement", Applied Physics Letters 90 (25), 252504 (2007).
A. Barman, S. Q. Wang, J. D. Maas, A. R. Hawkins, S. Kwon, A. Liddle, J. Bokor and H. Schmidt, "Magneto-Optical Observation of Picosecond Dynamics of Single Nanomagnets", Nano Letters 6 (12), 2939-2944 (2006).
A. M. Contreras, X. M. Yan, S. Kwon, J. Bokor and G. A. Somorjai, "Catalytic Co Oxidation Reaction Studies on Lithographically Fabricated Platinum Nanowire Arrays with Different Oxide Supports", Catalysis Letters 111 (1-2), 5-13 (2006).
F.R. Bradbury, A.M. Tyryshkin, G. Sabouret, J. Bokor, T. Schenkel, and S.A. Lyon, "Stark Tuning of Donor Electron Spins in Silicon," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, p.176404 (2006).

Organic And Macromolecular Synthesis Facility

S. Eeltink, E. F. Hilder, L. Geiser, F. Svec, J. M. J. Frechet, G. P. Rozing, P. J. Schoenmakers and W. T. Kok, "Controlling the Surface Chemistry and Chromatography Properties of Methyacrylate-Ester-Based Monolithic Capillary Colums Via Photografting", Journal of Separation Science 30 (3), 407-413 (2007).
D. A. Mair, E. Geiger, A. P. Pisano, J. M. J. Frechet and F. Svec, "Injection Molded Microfluidic Chips Featuring Integrated Interconnects", Lab on a Chip 6 (10), 1346-1354 (2006).
S. Eeltink, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Open-Tubular Capillary Columns with a Porous Layer of Monolithic Polymer for Highly Efficient and Fast Separations in Electrochromatography", Electrophoresis 27 (21), 4249-4256 (2006).
L. Geiser, S. Eeltink, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Stability and Repeatability of Capillary Columns Based on Porous Monoliths of Poly(Butyl Methacrylate-Co-Ethylene Dimethacrylate)", Journal of Chromatography A 1140 (1-2), 140-146 (2007).
T. C. Logan, D. S. Clark, T. B. Stachowiak, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Photopatterning Enzymes on Polymer Monoliths in Microfluidic Devices for Steady-State Kinetic Analysis and Spatially Separated Multi-Enzyme Reactions", Analytical Chemistry 79 (17), 6592-6598 (2007).
T. B. Stachowiak, F. Svec and J. M. J. Frechet, "Patternable Protein Resistant Surfaces for Multifunctional Microfluidic Devices Via Surface Hydrophilization of Porous Polymer Monoliths Using Photografting", Chemistry of Materials 18 (25), 5950-5957 (2006).
R. Bakry, G. K. Bonn, D. Mair and F. Svec, "Monolithic Porous Polymer Layer for the Separation of Peptides and Proteins Using Thin-Layer Chromatography Coupled with Maldi-Tof-Ms", Analytical Chemistry 79 (2), 486-493 (2007).
S. Nygaard, Y. Liu, P. Stein, A. H. Flood, J. O. Jeppesen, "Using Molecular Force to Overcome Steric Barriers in a Spring-Like Molecular Ouroborous", Advanced Functional Materials 17, 751-762 (2007).
D. Savin, K. Gebhardt, S. Ahn and G. Venkatachalam, "Rod-Sphere Transition in Polybutadiene-Poly(L-lysine) Block Copolymer Assemblies," Langmuir, 23 (5) p.2851, (2007).
B. Schwenzer, J.R. Gomm and D.E. Morse, "Substrate-Induced Growth of Nanostructured Zinc Oxide Films at Room Temperature Using Concepts of Biomimetic Catalysis," Langmuir 22 (24), p.9829 (2006).
S. Sharma, "Smart Interfaces: Improving pattern fidelity with the gain enhancing underlayers, APPAG," J. Macro-molecular Sci. 45 (6), (2006).

Theory Of Nanostructured Materials Facility

J. B. Neaton, M. S. Hybertsen and S. G. Louie, "Renormalization of Molecular Electronic Levels at Metal-Molecule Interfaces", Physical Review Letters 97 (21), 216405 (2006).
S. Y. Quek, J. B. Neaton, M. S. Hybertsen, E. Kaxiras and S. G. Louie, "Negative Differential Resistance in Transport through Organic Molecules on Silicon", Physical Review Letters 98 (6), 066807 (2007).
I.-H. Choi, P.Y. Yu, P. Tangney and S.G. Louie, "Vibrational properties of single walled carbon nanotubes under pressure from Raman scattering experiments and molecular dynamics simulations," Phys. Stat. Solidi B 244 (1), p.121 (2006).