Selected MRSEC Publications

"Magnetic, Electronic and Structural Characterization of Non-Stoichiometric Iron Oxides at the Nanoscale," F. X. Redl, C. T. Black, G. C. Papaefthymiou, R. L. Sandstrom, M. Yin, H. Zeng, C. B. Murray, S. P. OfBrien, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 14583-14599 (2004). PDF

"Comparative Study of Cerium Oxidation State in Ceria Nanoparticles Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy," F. Zhang, P. Wang, J. Koberstein, S. Khalid and S. W. Chan, Surf. Sci. 563, 74-82 (2004). PDF

"Influence of Capping Groups on the Synthesis of gamma-Fe₂O₃ Nanocrystals," M. Yin, A. Willis, F. Redl, N.J. Turro, and S.P. OfBrien, J. Mater Res., 19, 1208-1215 (2004). PDF

"Solid-Solution Nanoparticles: Use of a Nonhydrolytic Sol-Gel Synthesis To Prepare HfO₂ and Hf_xZr_1-xO₂ Nanocrystals," J. Tang, J. Fabbri, R. D. Robinson, Y. Zhu, I. P. Herman, M. L. Steigerwald, and L. E. Brus, Chem. Mater. 16, 1336 -1342 (2004). PDF

"Theory of Optical Second-harmonic Feneration from a Sphere of Centrosymmetric Material: Small-particle Limit," J. I. Dadap, J. Shan, and T. F. Heinz, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 1328-1347 (2004). PDF

"Three-dimensional Binary Superlattices of Magnetic Nanocrystals and Semiconductor Quantum Dots," F. X. Redl, K.-S. Cho, C. B. Murray, and S. O'Brien, Nature, 423, 968-971 (2003). PDF

"Addition, Suppression, and Inhibition in the Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanocrystal Mixture Films for CdSe Nanocrystals with gamma-Fe₂O₃ and Au Nanocrystals," M. A. Islam, Y. Xia, M. L. Steigerwald, M. Yin, Z. Liu, S. OfBrien, R. Levicky, and I. P. Herman, Nano Letters. 3, 1603-1606 (2003). PDF

"Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanocrystals of Manganese Oxides," M. Yin and S. O'Brien. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 10180-10181 (2003). PDF

"Photoionization of Individual CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Nanocrystals on Silicon with 2nm Oxide Depends upon Surface Band Bending," O. Cherniavskaya, L. Chen, M. Islam, and L. Brus, Nano Letters, 3, 497-501 (2003). PDF

Drying-Mediated Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles, E. Rabani, D. R. Reichman, P. L. Geissler, and L. E. Brus, Nature 426, 271-274 (2003). PDF

Quantitative Noncontact Electrostatic Force Imaging of Nanocrystal Polarizability,h O. Cherniavskaya, L. Chen, V. Weng, L. Yuditsky, and L. Brus, J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 1525-1531 (2003).* PDF

"Cooperative Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Block Copolypeptides in Aqueous Media," L. E. Euliss, S. G. Grancharov, S. O.Brien, T. J. Deming, G. D. Stucky, C.B. Murray, and G.A. Held, Nano Letters, (Communication), 3, 1489-1493, (2003). PDF

"Microwave absorption by nanostructural ferric oxide encapsulated within MCM-41," H. Guo, W. Xu, M.-H. Cui, N.-L. Yang, and D. L. Akins, Chem. Commun. 12, 1432-1433 (2003).

"Morphology Selection of Nanoparticle Dispersions by Polymer Media," J. U. Kim and B. O'Shaughnessy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 238301(1-4)(2002). PDF

"Electrodeposition of Patterned CdSe Nanocrystal Films using Thermally Charged Nanocrystals," M. A. Islam and I. P. Herman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 3823-3825 (2002). PDF

"Organization of Nanoparticles on Soft Polymer Surfaces," Z. Liu, K. Pappacena, J. Cerise, J. Kim, C. J. Durning, B. O'Shaughnessy, and R. Levicky, Nano Letters 2, 219-224 (2002). PDF

"Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles: Size-selective Formation and Structure Analysis," F. Zhang, S.-W. Chan, J. E. Spanier, E. Apak, Q. Jin, R. D. Robinson, and I. P. Herman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 127-129 (2002). PDF

"Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Barium Titanate: Towards a Generalized Strategy of Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis," S. O'Brien, L. Brus, and C. B. Murray, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 12085-12086 (2001). PDF This article was also cited in "Science Editor's Choice Section:" Science 294, 2251 (2001). PDF

"Fast Surface Diffusion of Large Disk Nanocrystal Aggregates," G. Ge and L. E. Brus, Nano Letters 1, 219-222 (2001). PDF

"Size-Dependent Properties of CeO_2-y Nanoparticles as Studied by Raman Scattering," J. E. Spanier, F. Zhang, R. D. Robinson, S.-W. Chan, and I. P. Herman, Phys. Rev. B 64, 245407(1-8) (2001). PDF

"Enforced Stacking in Crowded Arenes," M. L. Bushey, A. Hwang, P. W. Stephens, and C. Nuckolls, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 8157-8158 (2001). PDF "This article was also cited in "Science Editor's Choice Section:" Science 293, 1225 (2001)..

"Charge and Photoionization Properties of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals," T. D. Krauss, S. OfBrien, and L. E. Brus, J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 1725-1733 (2001). PDF

"Interdot Interactions and Band Gap Changes in CdSe Nanocrystal Arrays at Elevated Pressure," B. Kim, M. Islam, L. Brus, and I. P. Herman, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 8127-8140 (2001).PDF

"Evidence for Spinodal Phase Separation in Two-Dimensional Nanocrystal Self-Assembly," G. Ge and L. E. Brus, J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 9573-9575 (2000). PDF

"Adsorption of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers on Gold", K. M. A. Rahman, C. J. Durning, N.J. Turro and D. A. Tomalia, Langmuir, 16, 10154-10160 (2000).PDF

"Organic Ligand and Solvent Kinetics during the Self Assembly of CdSe Nanocrystal Arrays using Infrared Attenuated Total Reflection," B. Kim, L. Avila, L. Brus, and I. P. Herman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 3715-3717 (2000). PDF

"Use of Hybrid Phenomenological and Statistical Effective- Medium Theories of Dielectric Functions to Model the Infrared Reflectance of Porous Silicon Carbide," J. E. Spanier and I. P. Herman, Phys. Rev. B 61, 10437 (2000). PDF

"Charge, Polarizability, and Photoionization of Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals," T. D. Krauss and L. E. Brus, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4840-4843 (1999) PDF