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Hydrophobic-induced surface reorganization: molecular dynamics simulations of water nanodroplets on perfluorocarbon self-assembled monolayers

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Nanoscience in Space  
 
Space  

Pre-Solar SiC Nanoparticles Analyzed by APT

David N. Seidman, et. al.

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Multifunctional Oxides  
 
ZnO  

In-Plane Oriented ZnO Thin Films

Blake Stevens and Scott Barnett

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BufferLayer  

Buffer-Layer Approach to High-Quality Fe3O4/BaTiO3 Thin Films on MgO

Sujing Xie, G.E. Sterbinsky, Bruce Wessels and Vinayak P. Dravid

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Multilayer  

Design of Bifunctional Oxide Multilayers

D.E. Ellis, N.M. Tubman, and D.M. Wells, "Theoretical Modeling of Bifunctional Multilayer Systems," Hyperfine Interactions 179, p. 23-32 (2008).

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tcocomp  

Computational Simulation for Transport Properties of Transparent Conducting Oxides

Jung-Hwan Song, Giancarlo Trimarchi, A. J. Freeman

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The nano-Grain Composite Model

N.J. Kidner, N.H. Perry, T.O. Mason, and E.J. Garboczi, “The Brick Layer Model Revisited: Introducing the Nano-Grain Composite Model,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 91 [6] 1733-1746 (2008).

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LnMnO  

Rare-Earth Manganites: LnMnO3 (Ln=Ho-Lu and Y)

Evan Stampler, Cathleen Hoel, Kenneth Poeppelmeier

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Superlattice  

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ferrite Superlattices and Their Properties

Ji Cheng and Bruce W. Wessels

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perovskite  

Predicting Stability and Thermodynamics of Perovskite Surfaces

Eugene Kotomin, Yuri Zhukovskii, Sergej Piskunov, Don Ellis

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Mixed Metal Oxide Chalcogenides

Evan Stampler , Kenneth Poeppelmeier

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Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ferroic and Multiferroic Thin Films

Ji Cheng, G. Sterbinsky, B. W. Wessels, Sujing Xie and Vinayak P. Dravid

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Structural Engineering and Site-specific Characterization of Multifunctional Oxide Nanostructures

Zixiao Pan, Tao Sun, Vinayak P. Dravid

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In Situ Real-Time Investigation of Nucleation Kinetics in Sol-Gel-Derived Functional Oxide Thin Films

Tao Sun, Zixiao Pan, Vinayak P. Dravid

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Theoretical Modeling of Bifunctional Multilayer Systems

D. Ellis, D. Wells, N. Tubman

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Transparent Conducting Oxide Work Function Calculations by FLAPW

J.-H. Song and A. J. Freeman

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Transparent Conducting Oxide Based High Speed Organic Electro-Optic Modulator

Shuai Wu, Fei Yi, Boyang Liu, Yingyan Huang, Seng-Tiong Ho, Yiliang Wang, Jun Liu, Hu Kang, Tobin J. Marks Jingdong Luo, Neil Tucker, and Alex K. –Y. Jen, “Transparent Conducting Oxide (TCO) Electrode Based High-speed Organic Electro-optic (EO) Modulator” Proc. CLEO2007 (May 6, 2007). More>

 
   
 

Electrical Conductivity of Polymorphic Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystalline Powders

“Synthesis and Electrical Characterization of the Polymorphic Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystalline Powders.” Kyung-Han Seo, Joon-Hyung Lee, Jeong-Joo Kim, M. I. Bertoni, B. J. Ingram, and T. O. Mason. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 89, 3431 (2006). More>

 
   
 

Multiferroic Multilayer Thin Film Strategy

G. Sterbinsky, J. Cheng and B. W. Wessels

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First-Principles Study of Multiferroic Fe3O4 / BaTiO3 Superlattice

Min Sik Park and A. J. Freeman

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Polymers and Macromolecules  
   
nanocomposite  

Interphase Creation in Polymer Nanocomposites

Karl W. Putz, Marc J. Palmeri, Rachel B. Cohn, Rodney Andrews, L. Catherine Brinson, “Effect of Crosslink Density on Interphase Creation in Polymer Nanocomposites," Macromolecules, 41(18), 6752-6756 (2008).

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gradient kmc  

Sequence of Gradient Copolymers

Lin Wang and Linda J. Broadbelt

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nanoporous  

Template-free Synthesis of Nanoporous Metals

Rafal Klajn, Timothy P. Gray, Paul J. Wesson, Benjamin D. Myers, Vinayak P. Dravid, Stoyan K. Smoukov, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, “Bulk Synthesis and Surface Patterning of Nanoporous Metals and Alloys from Supraspherical Nanoparticle Aggregates," Adv. Funct. Mater., 18, 2763 (2008).

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homopolymer  

The Self-Assembly of Functional Homopolymers

Jun-Hyun Kim and SonBinh T. Nguyen

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triblock  

Ionic Crosslinking of Acrylic Triblock Copolymer Hydrogels for Enhanced Mechanical Performance

Kevin J. Henderson, Tian C. Zhou, Kenneth R. Shull

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pasac  

Structure–Property Relationships in Hierarchically Ordered Self-Assembled Systems

Ronit Bitton, Daniel Carvajal, Jason Mantei, Yuri Velichko, Kenneth R. Shull, Samuel I. Stupp

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confinement  

New Nanoconfinement Effect on Glass Transition Temperature

S. Kim, C. Roth, R. Priestley and J. Torkelson

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A Reliable Strategy for Designing Functional Polymer Nanoparticles Using Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Jun-Hyun Kim and SonBinh T. Nguyen

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Moldable Supraspheres Made of Metal Nanoparticles

R. Klajn, K.J.M. Bishop, M. Fialkowski, M. Paszewski, C.J. Campbell, T.P. Gray, B.A. Grzybowski, “Plastic and moldable metals by self-assembly of sticky nanoparticle aggregates”, Science, 316, 261 (2007).

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Interphase Percolation Effect

R. Qiao, H. Liu, and L. C. Brinson

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Designing Novel Polymeric Materials Using Mechanistic Modeling

Lin Wang, Andrew C. Cho, and Linda J. Broadbelt

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Flow-Induced Alignment of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersions in Shear Flow

Saswati Pujari and Wesley R. Burghardt

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Soft Routes to Hard Porous Materials

N. Shanti, S. Stock, J. Fife and K. T. Faber

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Rate-Dependent Fracture of Polymer Gels

M. Seitz, D. Martina, T. Baumberger, K.R. Shull

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Crosslinking Self-Assembled Peptide Amphiphile Nanofibers

Lorraine Hsu and Samuel I. Stupp

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Synergistic Polymer Nanocomposites Using As-Received Graphite

K. Wakabayashi, C. Pierre, D.A. Dikin, R.S. Ruoff, T. Ramanathan, L.C. Brinson, and J.M. Torkelson, “Polymer-Graphite Nanocomposites: Effective Dispersion and Major Property Enhancement via Solid-State Shear Pulverization.” Macromolecules 41, 1905-1908 (2008).

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Polymer Gel/Carbon Nanotube Composites

Andrew B. Schoch, L. Catherine Brinson, Kenneth R. Shull

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1-Dimensional Nanopatterned Polymers for Future Use in Microelectronics

Manish K. Mundra, Suresh K. Donthu, Vinayak P. Dravid, and John M. Torkelson

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Gelcasting of Ceramics

Katherine Faber and Kenneth Shull

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Plasmonics  
 
metalnano  

Correlated Studies of Nanostructures and Optical Properties in Metallic Nanoparticles

S.K. Eswara Moorthy, Y. Wang, E. Ringe, G.C. Schatz, R.P. Van Duyne and L.D. Marks

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rodsheath  

Rod-Sheath Heterostructures for Plasmonic Focusing

Xiaodong Chen, Shuzou Li, Can Xue, Matthew J. Banholzer, Chad A. Mirkin, George C. Schatz, “Plasmonic Focusing in Rod-Sheath Heteronanostructures” ACS Nano, 3, 87-91 (2009).

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grating  

Screening Plasmonic Materials using Pyramidal Gratings

Hanwei Gao, Joel Henzie, Min Hyung Lee, and Teri W. Odom

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photon  

Imaging a Photon

Shengli Zou and George C. Schatz

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nanocube  

Correlating the Structure, Optical Spectra, and Electrodynamics of Single Silver Nanocubes

McMahon, J., Wang, Y., Sherry, L., Van Duyne, R., Marks, L., Gray, S. and Schatz, G; “Correlating the Structure, Optical Spectra, and Electrodynamics of Single Silver Nanocubes,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 2731–2735 (2009).

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Plasmonic Properties of Aluminum Nanoparticles Fabricated by Nanosphere Lithography

George H. Chan, Jing Zhao, George C. Schatz, and Richard P. Van Duyne

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Nanodisk Codes

Lidong Qin, Matthew J. Banholzer, Jill E. Millstone, and Chad A. Mirkin, "Nanodisk Codes." Nano Lett., 7, 3849 (2007).

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Using Photonic Nanojet for Surface Plasmon Excitation in Metallic Nanoparticles

Hesso Noh, Hui Cao, Mark Anderson, Robert P. H. Chang, Allen Taflove, Alex Heifetz, Vadim Backman

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High Resolution, Subwavelength Distance Measurements: a Variable-Angle, Standing-Wave, Total-Internal-Reflection Optical Microscope

A. Haynie, T-j Min, L. Luan, W-q Mu and J. B. Ketterson

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“Locating” A Single Molecule By Electron Microscopy

Y. Wang, J.A. Dieringer, J. Camden, R.P. Van Duyne and L.D. Marks

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Multiscale Patterning of Plasmonic Metamaterials

J. Henzie, M.H. Lee, and T.W. Odom, "Multiscale Patterning of Plasmonic Metamaterials." Nature Nanotech. 2, 549-554 (2007).

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Squeezing Light Through Nanoholes

Jeff McMahon and George C. Schatz

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Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Arrays and their Application to Control Light

Maxim Sukharev, Joseph Yelk and Tamar Seideman

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Finding a Needle in a Haystack?

Y. Wang, L. Sherry, R. Van Duyne and L. D. Marks

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Manipulating the Optical Properties of Pyramidal Nanoparticle Arrays

Joel Henzie and Teri Odom

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Nanoelectronics  
 
 

Self-Assembled Gallium Nanoclusters on Silicon

Q. H. Wang and M. C. Hersam, "Atomically Resolved Charge Redistribution for Ga Nanocluster Arrays on the Si(111)-7 × 7 Surface" Small, 4, 915 (2008).

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transistor  

Aligned, Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Transistors

M. Engel, J. P. Small, M. Steiner, M. Freitag, A. A. Green, M. C. Hersam, and Ph. Avouris, “Thin film nanotube transistors based on self-assembled, aligned, semiconducting carbon nanotube arrays,” ACS Nano, 2, 2445 (2008).

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photocurrent  

Potential Profiling of a Nanowire Transistor

Allen, J. E.; Hemesath, E. R.; Perea, D. E.; and L. J. Lauhon; "Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy Analysis of Si Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated by Surface Etching of the Channel," Nano Letters, ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nl803924z.

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dipole  

Energy Level and Dipole Trends in Self-assembled Single-molecule Electronics

C. Risko, C.D. Zangmeister, Y. Yao, T.J. Marks, J.M. Tour, M.A. Ratner, R. D. van Zee, "Experimental and Theoretical Identification of Valence Energy Levels and Interface Dipole Trends for a Family of (Oligo)Phenylene-ethynylenethiols Adsorbed on Gold,“ Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 13215-13225 (2008). More>

 
   
Xray  

X-ray Characterization of Self-Assembled Nanoscale Dielectrics

Jonathan D. Emery, Young-Geun Ha, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Michael J. Bedzyk

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junction  

Toward Control of Junctions with Light

Matthew G. Reuter, Maxim Sukharev, and Tamar Seideman, "Laser Field Alignment of Organic Molecules on Semiconductor Surfaces: Toward Ultrafast Molecular Switches," Physical Review Letters, 101, 208303 (2008).

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Atomic Force Photovoltaic Microscopy

B. J. Leever, M. F. Durstock, M. D. Irwin, A. W. Hains, T. J. Marks, L. S. C. Pingree, and M. C. Hersam, “Spatially resolved photocurrent mapping of operating organic photovoltaic devices using atomic force photovoltaic microscopy.” Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 013302 (2008).

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Detection of Single Gold Atoms in Silicon Nanowires

Allen, J. E.; Hemesath, E. R.; Perea, D. E.; Lensch-Falk, J. E.; Li, Z. Y.; Yin, F.; Gass, M. H.; Weng, P.; Bleloch, A. L.; Palmer, R. E. and L. J. Lauhon; "High-resolution detection of Au catalyst atoms in Si nanowires," Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 168 (2008).

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Self-Assembled Nanodielectric Device Deployed to Space: a Partnership with NASA

Tobin J. Marks

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Constructing the Pathway of an Electron Through a Molecule

Mark Ratner

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Polymer Surface Viscoelasticity Affects Organic Thin-Film Transistor Performance

“Polymer Gate Dielectric Surface Viscoelasticity Modulates Pentacene Transistor Performance.” Choongik Kim, Antonio Facchetti and Tobin J. Marks. Science 318 , 76 (2007).

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Optimizing Frequency Dependent Charge Transport in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)

Pingree, L.S.C.; Russell, M.T.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C. Field Dependent Negative Capacitance in Small-Molecule Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, J. Appl. Phys., 2006, 100, 044502-1-10.

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Novel Materials for the “Information Highway”

Tobin J. Marks and Seng-Tiong Ho

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Enhancing the Reliability of Silicon-Based Molecular Electronic Devices

Mark Hersam and Tamar Seideman

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Energy  
   
tomography  

X-ray Computed Microtomography of Porous Ceramics:
Models for SOFC Anode Supports

Noah O. Shanti, Scott A. Barnett, and Katherine T. Faber

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Mixed-Conducting Oxygen Membrane

Manoj Pillai, David Bierschenk, Blake Stevens, and Scott Barnett

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Biologically-Relevant Materials  
   
chromosome  

Monitoring Chromosome Dynamics in a Living Bacterial Cell

Nastaran Hadizadeh, John F. Marko

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Network-based Design of Microbial Strains for the Production of Biomaterials

A.E. Motter, N. Gulbahce, E. Almaas, and A.-L. Barabasi,”Predicting synthetic rescues in metabolic networks,” Molecular Systems Biology, 4, 168 (2008).

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Magnetic Tweezer System for Single-DNA Experiments: A Summer Undergraduate Project

James Kath, John Graham and John F. Marko

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A Porous poly(1,8 octanediol-co-citrate) Biodegradable Elastomer for Drug Delivery

R. Hoshi and G. Ameer

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Art Conservation  
   
AIC  

The Art of Science and the Science of Art

Katherine Faber

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Analyzing Ancient Colors

"A Chinese stone kneeling figure in the Art Institute of Chicago: new evidence from archaeological finds and scientific investigations," F. Casadio, J.Xu, E. Pearlstein, K. T. Faber A. Knowles, Jing Zhichung, to appear in Studies of the Sculptural Arts of Asia using Scientific Methods, J. Douglas, Ed., Archetype Press.

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Charged Systems  
   
 

Mystery of Charge Asymmetry: Anionic Macroions in Periodic Lattices Held by Hydrated Cations and Not Vice-versa

William Kung, Dongsheng Zhang, Pedro Gonzales-Mozuelos, Monica Olvera de la Cruz

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Electrostatic Attraction Between Cationic-Anionic Assemblies with Surface Compositional Heterogeneities

Y. S. Velichko and M. Olvera de la Cruz “Electrostatic attraction between cationic-anionic assemblies with surface compositional heterogeneities” ” J. Chem. Phys. 124, 214705-11 (2006).

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Phase Diagrams for Self Assembly

George Schatz

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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number DMR-1121262. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.
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