Departmental Papers (MSE)

Papers from 2009

Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: A Window into Electromechanical Behavior at the Nanoscale, Dawn A. Bonnell, S V. Kalinin, A L. Kholkin, and A Gruverman

Computing the viscosity of supercooled liquids, Akihiro Kushima, Xi Lin, Lu Li, Jacob Eapen, John C. Mauro, Xiaofeng Qian, Phong Diep, and Sidney Yip

A wide-band-gap p-type thermoelectric material based on quaternary chalcogenides of Cu2ZnSnQ4 (Q=S,Se), Min-Ling Liu, Fu-Qiang Huang, Li-Dong Chen, and I-Wei Chen

Pressure-temperature phase diagram for shapes of vesicles: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics study, Ping Liu, Ju Li, and Yong-wei Zhang

Rectifying junctions of tin oxide and poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers fabricated via electrospinning, N J. Pinto, K V. Carrasquillo, Christopher M. Rodd, and Ritesh Agarwal

Simulations and electrical conductivity of percolated networks of finite rods with various degrees of axial alignment, Sadie I. White, Brian A. DiDonna, Minfang Mu, Tom C. Lubensky, and Karen I. Winey

Papers from 2008

Probing Physical Properties at the Nanoscale, Matthew J. Brukman and Dawn A. Bonnell

Unusually low thermal conductivity of gallium nitride nanowires, Csaba Guthy, Chang-Yong Nam, and John E. Fischer

Hydrogenation of Mg film and Mg nanoblade array on Ti coated Si substrates, Yuping He, Yiping Zhao, Liwei Huang, Howard Wang, and Russell J. Composto

Evolution of the Structure and Thermodynamic Stability of the BaTiO3(001) Surface, Alexie M. Kolpak, Dongbo Li, Rui Shao, Andrew M. Rappe, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Thermochemical and Mechanical Stabilities of the Oxide Scale of ZrB2+SiC and Oxygen Transport Mecha, Ju Li, Thomas J. Lenosky, Clemens J. Först, and Sidney Yip

The effect of silica nanoparticle-modified surfaces on cell morphology, cytoskeletal organization and function, Anna M. Lipski, Christopher J. Pino, Frederick R. Haselton, I-Wei Chen, and V. Prasad Shastri

Biomedical nanoparticle carriers with combined thermal and magnetic responses, Ting-Yu Liu, Shang-Hsiu Hu, Dean-Mo Liu, San-Yuan Chen, and I-Wei Chen

Temperature-Sensitive Nanocapsules for Controlled Drug Release Caused by Magnetically Triggered Structural Disruption, Ting-Yu Liu, Kun-Ho Liu, Dean-Mo Liu, San-Yuan Chen, and I-Wei Chen

Cellular Structures of Carbon Nanotubes in a Polymer Matrix Improve Properties Relative to Composites with Dispersed Nanotubes, Minfang Mu, Amanda M. Walker, John M. Torkelson, and Karen I. Winey

Self-branching in GaN Nanowires Induced by a Novel Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism, Chang-Yong Nam, Douglas Tham, and John E. Fischer

High-resolution characterization of defects in oxide thin films, Maxim N. Nikiforov, Matthew J. Brukman, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Hydrostatic compression and high-pressure elastic constants of coesite silica, Shigenobu Ogata, Hajime Kimizuka, and Ju Li

Quasiatomic orbitals for ab initio tight-binding analysis, Xiaofeng Qian, Ju Li, Liang Qi, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Tzu-Liang Chan, Yong-Xin Yao, Kai-Ming Ho, and Sidney Yip

Near Neutrality of an Oxygen Molecule Adsorbed on a Pt(111) Surface, Liang Qi, Xiaofeng Qiang, and Ju Li

Plastic flow and failure resistance of metallic glass: Insight from in situ compression of nanopillars, Z. W. Shan, Ju Li, Y. Q. Cheng, A. M. Minor, S. A. Syed Asif, O. L. Warren, and E. Ma

Real-Time TEM Imaging of the Formation of Crystalline Nanoscale Gaps, Douglas R. Strachan, Danvers E. Johnston, Beth S. Guitton, Sujit S. Datta, Peter K. Davies, Dawn A. Bonnell, and Alan T. Johnson

Sintering Metal Nanoparticle Films, Howard Wang, Liwei Huang, Zhiyong Xu, Congkang Xu, Russell J. Composto, and Zhihao Yang

Control of strain relaxation in tensile and compressive oxide thin films, Yudi Wang, Soo Gil Kim, and I-Wei Chen

Dispersion of polymer-grafted magnetic nanoparticles in homopolymers and block copolymers, Chen Xu, Kohji Ohno, Vincent Ladmiral, and Russell J. Composto

Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependence of Surface Dislocation Nucleation, Ting Zhu, Ju Li, Amit Samanta, Austin Leach, and Ken Gall

Two-dimensional photonic crystals with anisotropic unit cells imprinted from poly(dimethylsiloxane) membranes under elastic deformation, Xuelian Zhu, Ying Zhang, Dinesh Chandra, Shih-Chieh Cheng, James M. Kikkawa, and Shu Yang

Bulk dense fine-grain (1-x)BiScO3–xPbTiO3 ceramics with high piezoelectric coefficient, Tingting Zou, Xiaohui Wang, Han Wang, Caifu Zhong, Longtu Li, and I-Wei Chen

Papers from 2007

Intrinsic Lifetime of Polyethylene Pipelines, Norman Brown

Slow Crack Growth-Notches-Pressurized Polyethylene Pipes, Norman Brown

Controlling the In Vitro Release Profiles for a System of Haloperidol-Loaded PLGA, Avinash Budhian, Steven J. Siegel, and Karen I. Winey

Systematic study of contact annealing: Ambipolar silicon nanowire transistor with improved performance, Kumhyo Byon, Douglas Tham, John E. Fischer, and Alan T. Johnson

Strain responsive concave and convex microlens arrays, Dinesh Chandra, Shu Yang, and Pei-Chun Lin

Relationship between Local Structure and Relaxor Behavior in Perovskite Oxides, Ilya Grinberg, Pavol Juhás, Peter K. Davies, and Andrew M. Rappe

Structure and Polarization in the High Tc Ferroelectric Bi(Zn,Ti)O3-PbTiO3 Solid Solutions, Ilya Grinberg, Matthew R. Suchomel, Wotjek Dmowski, Sara E. Mason, Hui Wu, Peter K. Davies, and Andrew M. Rappe

Tuning the resonant frequency of single-walled carbon nanotube bundle oscillators through electron-beam-induced cross-link formations, Popat Jaroenapibal, David E. Luzzi, and Stephane Evoy

Relationship Between Dispersion Metric and Properties of PMMA/SWNT Nanocomposites, Takashi Kashiwagi, Jeffrey Fagan, Jack F. Douglas, Kazuya Yamamoto, Alan N. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Jan Obrzut, Fangming Du, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Minfang Mu, Karen I. Winey, and Reto Haggenmueller

Adhesion of MC3T3-E1 cells to RGD peptides of different flanking residues: Detachment strength and correlation with long-term cellular function, Mark H. Lee, Christopher S. Adams, David Boettiger, William F. DeGrado, Irving M. Shapiro, Russell J. Composto, and Paul Ducheyne

Spontaneous Formation of One-dimensions Ripples in Transit to Highly Ordered Two-dimensional Herringbone Structures Through Sequential and Unequal Biaxial Mechanical Stretching, Pei-Chun Lin and Shu Yang

Nanoscale Engineering for Biomaterial Surfaces, Anna Marie Lipski, Claude Jaquiery, Hoon Choi, Daniel Eberli, Molly Stevens, Ivan Martin, I-Wei Chen, and V. Prasad Shastri

A promising p-type transparent conducting material: Layered oxysulfide, Min-Ling Liu, Li-Bin Wu, Qiang Chen, Li-Dong Chen, and I-Wei Chen

Pharmacokinetic and behavioral characterization of a longterm antipsychotic delivery system in rodents and rabbits, Kayla L. Metzger, Jody M. Shoemaker, Jonathan B. Kahn, Christina R. Maxwell, Yuling Liang, Jan Tokarczyk, Stephen J. Kanes, Meredith Hans, Anthony M. Lowman, Nily Dan, Karen I. Winey, Neal R. Swerdlow, and Steven J. Siegel

Triply periodic bicontinuous structures as templates for photonic crystals: a pinch-off problem, Jun Hyuk Moon, Yongan Xu, Yaping Dan, Seung-Man Yang, Alan T. Johnson, and Shu Yang

Bond-order potential for simulations of extended defects in tungsten, M. Mrovec, Roman Gröger, A. G. Bailey, D. Nguyen-Manh, C. Elsässer, and Vaclav Vitek

Atomic structure and charge-density waves of blue bronze K0.3MoO3 (20[overline 1]) by variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, Maxim P. Nikiforov, Abdel Isakovic, and Dawn A. Bonnell

RGDS peptides immobilized on titanium alloy stimulate bone cell attachment, differentiation and confer resistance to apoptosis, Antonino G. Secchi, V Grigoriou, Irving M. Shapiro, E. A. Cavalcanti-Adam, Russell J. Composto, Paul Ducheyne, and Christopher S. Adams

Nucleation and growth mechanism of ferroelectric domain-wall motion, Young-Han Shin, Ilya Grinberg, I-Wei Chen, and Andrew M. Rappe

Explanation of the discrepancy between the measured and atomistically calculated yield stresses in body-centered cubic metals, Vaclav Vitek and Roman Groger

Distortion of 3D SU8 Photonic Structures Fabricated by Four-beam Holographic Lithography with Umbrella Configuration, Xuelian Zhu, Shu Yang, and Yongan Xu

Papers from 2006

Construction, assessment, and application of a bond-order potential for iridium, Marc J. Cawkwell, Duc Nguyen-Manh, David G. Pettifor, and Vaclav Vitek

Titanium Carbide Derived Nanoporous Carbon for Energy-Related Applications, Ranjan Dash, John Chmiola, Gleb Yushin, Yury Gogotsi, Giovanna Laudisio, Jonathan Singer, John E. Fischer, and Sergei Kucheyev

An infiltration method for preparing single-wall nanotube/epoxy composites with improved thermal conductivity, Fangming Du, Csaba Guthy, Takashi Kashiwagi, John E. Fischer, and Karen I. Winey

Interfacial in situ polymerization of single wall carbon nanotube/nylon 6,6 nanocomposites, Reto Haggenmueller, Fangming Du, John E. Fischer, and Karen I. Winey

Tunable Microfluidic Optical Devices with Integrated Microlens Array, Kuang-Sheng Hong, Jing Wang, Alexey Sharonov, Dinesh Chandra, Joanna Aizenberg, and Shu Yang

Strained relaxation in buried SrRuO3 layer in (Ca1-xSrx) (Zr1-xRux)O3/SrRuO3/SrTiO3 System, Soo Gil Kim, Yudi Wang, and I-Wei Chen

Polarization reorientation in ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films with electron beams, D. B. Li, Douglas R. Strachan, J. H. Ferris, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Increased Flexural Modulus and Strength in SWNT / Epoxy Composites by a New Fabrication Method, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Fangming Du, Naiffer Romero, and Karen I. Winey

Fabricating Three-Dimensional Polymeric Photonic Structures by Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, Jun Hyuk Moon, Jamie Ford, and Shu Yang

Core-shell diamond-like silicon photonic crystals from 3D polymer templates created by holographic lithography, Jun Hyuk Moon, Shu Yang, Wenting Dong, Joseph W. Perry, Ali Adibi, and Seung-Man Yang

Photonic Bandgap Structures of Core-Shell Simple Cubic Crystals from Holographic Lithography, Jun Hyuk Moon, Shu Yang, and Seung-Man Yang

One-dimensional Diffusion-limited Relaxation of Photoexcitations in Suspensions of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes, Richard M. Russo, Eugene J. Mele, Charles L. Kane, I. V. Rubtsov, Michael Therien, and David E. Luzzi

Photo-induced Charge Dynamics on BaTIO3 (001) Surface Characterized by Surface Probe Microscopy, Rui Shao, Maxim P. Nikiforov, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Machinable α-SiAlON/BN Composites, Roman Shuba and I-Wei Chen

Refractory α-SiAlON Containing La2O3, Roman Shuba and I-Wei Chen

A-site substitution of SrRuO3 using La, K and Pb, Svetlana Shuba, Alexander Mamchik, and I-Wei Chen

Enhanced Tetragonality in (x)PbTiO3-(1-x)Bi(B′B″)O3 systems: Bi(Zn3/4WN1/4)O3, David M. Stein, Matthew R. Suchomel, and Peter K. Davies

Applications of electron microscopy to the characterization of semiconductor nanowires, Douglas Tham, Chang-Yong Nam, Kumhyo Byon, Jinyong Kim, and John E. Fischer

Defects in GaN Nanowires, Douglas Tham, Chang-Yong Nam, and John E. Fischer

Two-Step Sintering of Ceramics with Constant Grain-Size, II: BaTiO3and Ni–Cu–Zn Ferrite, X.-H. Wang, X.-Y. Deng, Hai-Lin Bai, H. Zhou, Wei-Guo Qu, L.-T. Li, and I-Wei Chen

Two-Step Sintering of Ceramics with Constant Grain-Size, I. Y2O3, Xiao-Hui Wang, Pei-Lin Chen, and I-Wei Chen

Influence of Non-Stoichiometry on the Structure and Properties of Ba(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 Microwave Dielectrics: II. Compositional Variations in Pure BZN, Hui Wu and Peter K. Davies

Influence of Non-Stoichiometry on the Structure and Properties of Ba(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 Microwave Dielectrics: III. Effect of the Muffling Environment, Hui Wu and Peter K. Davies

Influence of Non-Stoichiometry on the Structure and Properties of Ba(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 Microwave Dielectrics: I. Substitution of Ba3W2O9, Hui Wu and Peter K. Davies

Influence of Non-Stoichiometry on the Structure and Properties of Ba(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 Microwave Dielectrics. IV. Tuning τf and the Part Size Dependence of Q × f, Hui Wu and Peter K. Davies

Carbide-Derived Carbons: Effect of Pore Size on Hydrogen Uptake and Heat of Adsorption, Gleb Yushin, Ranjan Dash, Jacek Jagiello, John E. Fischer, and Yury Gogotsi

Papers from 2005

Ionic Aggregates in Zn- and Na-neutralized Poly(ethylene-ran-methacrylic acid), Nicholas M. Benetatos and Karen I. Winey

Production of haloperidol loaded PLGA nanoparticles for extended controlled drug release of haloperidol, Avinash Budhian, Karen I. Winey, and Steven J. Siegel

Synthesis and Post-growth Doping of Silicon Nanowires, Kumhyo Byon, Douglas Tham, John E. Fischer, and Alan T. Johnson

Effect of nanotube alignment on percolation conductivity in carbon nanotube/polymer composites, Fangming Du, John E. Fischer, and Karen I. Winey

Dielectrophoretic Assembly of Carbon Nanofiber Nanoelectromechanical Devices, Stephane Evoy, Michael A. Riegelman, Nevin Naguib, Haihui Ye, Papot Jaroenapibal, David E. Luzzi, and Yury Gogotsi

Local Phenomena in Oxides by Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy, Sergei V. Kalinin, Rui Shao, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Nanoparticle Networks Reduce the Flammability of Polymer Nanocomposites, Takashi Kashiwagi, Fangming Du, Jack F. Douglas, Karen I. Winey, Richard H. Harris Jr., and John R. Shields

In situ deposition/positioning of magnetic nanoparticles with ferroelectric nanolithography, Xiaojun Lei, Dongbo Li, Rui Shao, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Optical evidence for transient photoinduced magnetization in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3, S. A. McGill, R. I. Miller, O. N. Torrens, Alexander Mamchik, I-Wei Chen, and J. M. Kikkawa

Creating Three-Dimensional Polymeric Microstructures by Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, Jun Hyuk Moon and Shu Yang

Creating Three-Dimensional Polymeric Microstructures by Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, Jun Hyuk Moon and Shu Yang

Focused Ion Beam Platinum Nanopatterning for GaN Nanowires: Ohmic Contacts and Patterned Growth, Chang-Yong Nam, J. Y. Kim, and John E. Fischer

Low-Temperature Resistance Anomaly at SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries: Evidence for an Interface-Induced Phase Transition, Rui Shao, Matthew F. Chisholm, Gerd Duscher, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Elimination of Grain Boundary Glass in α-Sialon by Adding Aluminium, Roman Shuba and I-Wei Chen

The Effect of Powder Mixing Procedures on α-SiAlON, Roman Shuba and I-Wei Chen

Ba8ZnTa6O24: A New High Q Dielectric Perovskite, M. Thirumal and Peter K. Davies

Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Juraj Vavro, J. M. Kikkawa, and John E. Fischer

Self-Actuated, Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel Valves for Lab on a Chip, Jing Wang, Zongyuan Chen, Michael Mauk, Kuang-sheng Hong, Mengyan Li, Shu Yang, and Haim H. Bau

Porous Biomimetic Microlens Arrays as Multifunctional Optical Structures, Shu Yang and Joanna Aizenberg

Synthesis of photoacid crosslinkable hydrogels for the fabrication of soft, biomimetic microlens arrays, Shu Yang, Jamie Ford, Chada Ruengruglikit, Qingrong Huang, and Joanna Aizenberg

Single-walled carbon nanotubes in superacid: X-ray and calorimetric evidence for partly ordered H2SO4, Wei Zhou, John E. Fischer, P. A. Heiney, H. Fan, Virginia A. Davis, M. Pasquali, and Richard E. Smalley

Charge transfer and Fermi level shift in p-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes, Wei Zhou, Juraj Vavro, Norbert M. Nemes, John E. Fischer, F. Borondics, K. Kamarás, and D. B. Tanner

Papers from 2004

Correlation of properties with preferred orientation in coagulated and stretch-aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes, Stéphane Badaire, Vincent Pichot, Cécile Zakri, Philippe Poulin, Pascale Launois, Juraj Vavro, Csaba Guthy, Michelle Chen, and John E. Fischer

Effect of V2O5 Doping on the Sintering and Dielectric Properties of M-Phase Li1+x-yNb1-x-3yTix+4yO3 Ceramics, Albina Y. Borisevich and Peter K. Davies

Silicon Nanowires: Doping Dependent N- And P- Channel FET Behavior, Kumhyo Byon, John E. Fischer, Kofi W. Adu, and Peter C. Eklund