The Molecular Foundry Publications

(October 2006–September 2007)

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).

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).

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).

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, "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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).