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All papers listed were supported either primarily or partially by our NSEC. An (X) indicates those papers that were fully or primarily supported by our NSEC (i.e., to a level of greater than 50%). Only papers published or in press are listed. NSEC faculty - level researchers are shown in bold.

  • N. P. Adhihari, X. Peng, A. Alizadeh, S. Ganti, S. K. Nayak, S. K. Kumar , "Multiscale Modeling of the Surfactant Mediated Synthesis and Supramolecular Assembly of Cobalt Nanodots", Phys. Rev. Letts. 93 , 188391 (2004).
  • (X) A. R. Adhikari, M. B. Huang, D. Wu, K. Dovidenko, B. Q. Wei, R. Vajtai, P. M. Ajayan , "Ion-Implantation-Prepared Catalyst Nanoparticles for Growth of Carbon Nanotubes", Applied Physics Letters 86 053104(1-3) (2005).
  • (X) Y. A. Akpalu, D. Ma, Y. Li, R. W. Siegel, L. S. Schadler, "Characterizing the Structure of Titanium Dioxide/Low Density Polyethylene Nanocomposites by Small-Angle Light Scattering", PMSE Prepr., Amer. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 91 , 918-919 (2004).
  • (X) T. Angelini, H. Liang, W. Wriggers, G. C. L. Wong, "Direct Measurement of Counterion Organization in F-actin Polyelectrolyte Bundles", Eur. J. Phys. E (in press, 2005).
  • (X) T. Angelini, L. Sanders, H. Liang, W. Wriggers, G. C. L. Wong, "Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Multivalent Ions within Polyelectrolyte Bundles: A combined X-ray diffraction and solid-state NMR study", J. Phys. Condensed Matter (in press, 2005).
  • (X) B. J. Ash, L. S. Schadler , R. W. Siegel, "Glass Transition Temperature Behavior of Alumina/PMMA Nanocomposites," J . Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 42 , 4371-4383 (2004).
  • (X) B. J. Ash, L. S. Schadler , R. W. Siegel, "Mechanical Behavior of Alumina/Poly (methylmethacrylate) Nanocomposites," Macromolecules 37 , n 4, 1358-1369 (2004).
  • (X) H. Ashbaugh, H. Patel, S. K. Kumar, S. Garde , "Coarse Graining of Polymer Structure to Access Large Length Scales", J. Chem. Phys. (in press, 2005).
  • D. Asthagiri, L. R. Pratt, J. D. Kress , and M. A. Gomez, "Hydration and Mobility of HO - (aq)," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA) 101 , 7229-7233 (2004).
  • (X) J. D. Ballard, L. M. Dell'Acqua-Bellavitis, R. Bizios, R. W. Siegel . "Nanoparticle-decorated Surfaces for the Study of Cell-Protein-Substrate Interactions", Applications of Micron and Nanoscale Materials in Biology and Medicine , Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. (in press, 2005).
  • B. Benicewicz , C. Li, "Low Odor Chain Transfer Agents for Controlled Radical Polymerization", PCT Int. Appl. WO 2004108770 (2004).
  • (X) P. Bhimaraj, D. Burris, J. Action, W. G. Sawyer, C. G. Toney, R. W. Siegel, L. S. Schadler, " Effect of Matrix Morphology on the Wear and Friction Behavior of Alumina Nanoparticles/poly(ethylene) Terephthalate Composites", Wear 258 , 1437-1443 (2005).
  • (X) S. K. Biswas, R. Vajtai, B. Q. Wei, G. W. Meng, L. J. Schowalter, P. M. Ajayan, "Vertically-aligned Conductive Carbon Nanotube Junctions and Arrays for Device Applications", Applied Physics Letters 84 , 2889-2891 (2004).
  • R. Bizios . " Mammalian Cell Interactions with Nanophase Materials". In C. T. Laurencin and E. A. Botchwey (eds.), "Nanoscale Materials Science in Biology and Medicine", Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 845 : AA1.5.1-1.5.4 (2004).
  • (X) A. Cao, R. Baskaran and K. Turner, P. M. Ajayan , G. Ramanath , "Silicon Oxide Thickness-dependent Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition", Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (1), 109-111 (2004).
  • (X) A. Cao, S. Talapatra, Y. Choi, R. Vajtai, P. M. Ajayan , A. Filin, P. Persans, A. Rubio, "Recovered Bandgap Absorption of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Acetone and Alcohols", Advanced Materials 17 (2) 147-150 (2005).
  • (X) N. Chakrapani, B. Wei, A. Carrillo, P. M. Ajayan , R. S. Kane, "Capillarity Driven Assembly of Two-dimensional Cellular Carbon Nanotube Foams," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101 , 4009. Featured on the cover (2004).
  • (X) S. Chang, R. H. Doremus, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel , "Hot-Pressing of Nano-Size Alumina Powder and the Resulting Mechanical Properties", Int. J. Appl. Ceramic Technol. 1 , 172-179 (2004).
  • S. D. Chao, J. D. Kress , and A. Redondo , "An Alternative Multipolar Expansion for Intermolecular Potential Functions," J. Chem. Phys. 120 , 5558-65 (2004).
  • (X) Q. Chen , C. Saltiel, S. Manickavasagam, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel, "Aggregation Behavior of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Dilute Aqueous Suspension," J. Colloidal and Interface Science 280 , no. 1, 91-97 (2004).
  • C. H. Choi, N. A. Sabourin, D. W. Reagor, A. Redondo and A. Usheva, Biophys, "Capacitance-derived Dielectric Constants Demonstrate Differential Preinitiation Complexes in TBP-independent and TBP-dependent Transcription", Chem. 111, 9-14 (2004).
  • (X) S. A. Curran, A. V. Ellis, A. Vijayaraghavan, P. M. Ajayan, "Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Phenosafranin," J. Chem. Phys. 120 , 4886 (2004).
  • (X) L. M. Dell'Acqua-Bellavitis, J. D. Ballard, P. M. Ajayan, R. W. Siegel , "Kinetics for the Synthesis Reaction of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: A Study Based on In Situ Diffractography", Nano Letters 4 , 1613 (2004).
  • (X) T. M. Dellinger, P. V. Braun , "Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Nanoreactors for Nanoparticle Synthesis", Chem. Mater. 16 , 2201-2207 (2004).
  • (X) P. L. Dickrell, W. G. Sawyer, N. R. Raravikar , L. S. Schadler, P. M. Ajayan , "Measurements of Coefficient of Friction on a Bed of Aligned Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes," Tribology Letters (in press, 2005).
  • L. Ferreira, M. H.Gil, A. M. S. Cabrita, J. S. Dordick , "Biocatalytic Synthesis of Highly Ordered Biocompatible and Degradable Dextran-Based Hydrogels", Biomaterials (in press, 2005).
  • L. Ferreira, A. Rafael, M. Lamghari, M.A. Barbosa, M.H. Gil, A.M. Cabrita, J.S. Dordick , " Biocompatibility of Chemoenzymatically Derived Dextran-acrylate Hydrogels", J. Biomed. Mater. Res. 68A , 584-596 (2004).
  • (X) S. Garde, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel, "Molecularium Explores the World of Materials", Mater. Res. Soc. Bulletin 30 , 132-133 (2005).
  • Z. Ge, D. G. Cahill, P. V. Braun, "AuPd Metal Nanoparticles as Probes of Nanoscale Thermal Transport in Aqueous Solution", J. Phys. Chem. B 108 , 18870-18875 (2004).
  • (X) J-I. Hong, P. Winberg, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel , "Dielectric Properties of Zinc Oxide/Low Density Polyethylene Nanocomposites", Mater. Letters 59 , 473-476 (2005).
  • Z. Ge, Y. Kang, T. A. Taton, P. V. Braun , D. G. Cahill, "Thermal Transport in Au-core Polymer-shell Nanoparticles", Nano Letters (in press, 2005).
  • G. M. Gratson, M. Xu, J. A. Lewis, "Direct Writing of Three Dimensional Webs", Nature 428 , 386 (2004).
  • (X) J. B. Hooper, K. S. Schweizer, T. G. Desai, R. Koshy, P. Keblinski, "Structure and Effective Interactions in Model Polymer Nanocomposites Melts and Concentrated Solutions," J. Chemical Physics 121 , 6986 (2004).
  • (X) K. Jiang, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel, H. Zhang, M. Terrones, "Protein Immobilization on Carbon Nanotubes via a Two-step Process of Diimide-activated Amidation," Journal Materials Chemistry 14 , 37-39 (2004).
  • (X) G. John, M. Mason, P. M. Ajayan , J. S. Dordick , "Lipid-Based Nanotubes as Functional Architectures with Embedded Fluorescence and Recognition Capabilities", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 , 15012-15013 (2004).
  • Y. J. Jung, Y. Homma, R. Vajtai, Y. Kobayashi, T. Ogino, P. M. Ajayan , "Straightening Suspended Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Ion Irradiation", Nano Letters 4 (6) 1109-1113 (2004).
  • (X) A. Kalra, G. Hummer, S. Garde , "Selective Partitioning and Transport of Methanes in Hydrated Carbon Nanotubes", J. Phys. Chem. B 108 , 544-549 (2004).
  • (X) S. Karajanagi, A. Vertegel, R. S. Kane , J. S. Dordick , "Structure and Function of Enzymes Adsorbed onto Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes", Langmuir 20 , 11594-11599, (2005).
  • (X) G. H. Kirby, D. J. Harris, Q. Li, J. A. Lewis, "PAA/PEO Comb Polymer Effects on Stability of BaTiO3 Nanoparticle Suspensions", J. Am. Ceram. Soc . 87 [2] 181-86 (2004).
  • (X) V. Kobelev, K. S. Schweizer, "Strain Softening, Yielding and Shear Thinning in Glassy Colloidal Suspensions," Physical Review E (in press, 2005).
  • (X) N. Koratkar, A. Modi, J. Kim, B. Q. Wei, R. Vajtai, S. Talapatra, P. M. Ajayan , "Mobility of Carbon Nanotubes in High Electric Fields", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 4 (1/2) 69-71 (2004).
  • (X) S. Lastella, Y. J. Jung, H. C. Yang, R. Vajtai, P. M. Ajayan , C. Ryu , D. A. Rider, I. Manners, "Density Control of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Patterned Iron Nanoparticle Catalysts Derived from Phase-separated Thin Films of a Polyferrocene Block Copolymer", Journal of Materials Chemistry 14 (12) 1791-1794 (2004).
  • C. Li, B. C. Benicewicz , "a-Cyanobenzyl Dithioester RAFT Agents for Controlled Radical Polymerizations", J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 43 , 1535-1543 (Cover, 2005).
  • (X) H. Liang, T. E. Angelini, P. V. Braun , G. C. L. Wong , "Roles of Anionic and Cationic Template Components in Biomineralization of CdS Nanorods Using Self-assembled DNA - Membrane Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 , 14157-14165 (2004).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Detecting Metal Ions with Fluorescent DNAzyme Biosensors," Methods in Molecular Biology (in press, 2005).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Multi-fluorophore FRET for Probing Nucleic Acids Folding and Structure," Methods in Molecular Biology (in press, 2005).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Accelerated Color Change of Gold Nanoparticles Assembled by DNAzymes for Simple and Fast Colorimetric Pb 2+ Detection," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 , 12298-12305 (2004).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Optimization of Pb 2+ -directed Gold Nanoparticle/ DNAzyme Assembly and its Application as a Colorimetric Biosensor for Pb 2+ " Chem. Mater. 16 , 3231-3238 (2004).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Colorimetric Biosensors Based on DNAzyme-Assembled Gold Nanoparticles," J. Fluoresc. 14 , 343-354 (2004).
  • (X) J. Liu, Y. Lu , "Adenosine-dependent Assembly of Aptazyme-functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and their Application as a Colorimetric Biosensor," Anal. Chem. 76 , 1627-32 (2004).
  • (X) T. Liu, R. Ozisik, R. W. Siegel, "Nanoporous Polymer Films from Immiscible Polymer Blends: Pore Size and Composition Dependence", Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. (in press, 2005).
  • (X) D. Ma, R. W. Siegel , J-I. Hong, L. S. Schadler , E. Mårtensson, C. Önneby, "Influence of Nanoparticle Surfaces on the Electrical Breakdown Strength of Nanoparticle-filled Low-density Polyethylene," Journal Materials Research 19 , no. 3, 857-863 (2004).
  • (X) D. Ma, Y. A. Akpalu, Y. Li, R. W. Siegel, L. S. Schadler, "Effect of Titania Nanoparticles on the Morphology of Low Density Polyethylene", J. Polymer Science B: Polym. Phys. 43 , 488-497 (2005).
  • (X) D. Ma, T. A. Hugener, R. W. Siegel, A. Christerson, E. Mårtensson, C. Onneby and L. S. Schadler, "Influence of Nanoparticle Surface Modification on Electrical Behavior of Polyethylene Nanocomposites", Nanotechnology 16 , 724-731 (2005).
  • (X) T. Maddanimath, A. Kumar, J. D'Arcy-Gall, P.G. Ganesan, K. Vijayamohanan, G. Ramanath, Wet-chemical Templateless Assembly of Metal Nanowires from Nanoparticles", Chem. Comm . 11 , 1435 (2005).
  • (X) T. Maddanimath, G. Ramanath and K. Vijayamohanan, "Self-assembled Molecular Layers as Nanocathodes for Rechargeable Energy Storage Modules", Chem. Phys. Lett. 396 , 277-281 (2004).
  • A. J. McManus, R. H. Doremus, R. W. Siegel, R. Bizios . "Evaluation of the Cytocompatibility and Bending Modulus of Nanoceramic/polymer Composites," Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 72 , 98-106 (2005).
  • (X) M. S. Raghuveer, P. G. Ganesan, J. Mabon, J. D'Arcy-Gall, and G. Ramanath, " Nanomachining Carbon Nanotubes with Ion Beams", Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (22), 4484-4486 (2004).
  • (X) S. Rajamani, T. Ghosh, S. Garde , "Size Dependent Ion Hydration, its Asymmetry and Convergence to Macroscopic Behavior", Journal of Chemical Physics 120 , 4457-4466 (2004).
  • (X) S. Ramakrishnan, Y-L. Chen, K. S. Schweizer, C. F. Zukoski, "Elasticity and Clustering in Concentrated Depletion Gels," Physical Review E-Rapid Communications 70 , 040401 (R) (2004).
  • G. Ramanath , J. D'Arcy-Gall, T. Maddanimath, A.V. Ellis, R. Goswami, P. G. Ganesan, A. Kumar, K. Vijayamohanan, "Template-less Assembly of Gold Nanowire Networks from Nanoparticles", Langmuir 20 , 5583-5587 (2005).
  • (X) N. R. Raravikar, A. S. Vijayaraghavan, P. Keblinski, L. S. Schadler, P. M. Ajayan , "Embedded Carbon Nanotube Stiffened Polymer Surfaces," Small (in press, 2005).
  • (X) N. Raravikar, B. Wei, A. Vijayaraghavan, Y. Zhao, L. S. Schadler, P. M. Ajayan , "Synthesis and Characterization of Thickness-aligned Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite Films," Chem. of Materials (in press, 2005).
  • A. Redondo and R. LeSar, "Modeling and simulation of biomaterials", Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 34, 279-314 (2004).
  • (X) C. Saltiel, Q. Chen, S. Manickavasagam, L. S. Schadler, R. W. Siegel , M. P. Mengue, "Identification of the Dispersion Behavior of Surface Treated Nanoscale Powders," Journal of Nanoparticle Research 6 , 35-46 (2004).
  • (X) L. Sanders, C. Guaqueta, T. Angelini, J. W. Lee, S. Slimmer, E. Luijten, G. C. L. Wong, "Self-assembly of Lysozyme-actin Complexes in Salty Water" (in press, 2005).
  • J.-M. Sansinena, C. K. Yee, A. Sapuri, B. Swanson, A. Redondo , A. N. Parikh, "Micro-Patterning of Ionic Reservoirs within a Double Bilayer Lipid Membrane to Fabricate a 2D Array of Ion-Channel Switch Based Electrochemical Biosensors", Technical Proceedings of the 2004 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show (Nanotech 2004) 1; Ch.6: Bio Micro Sensors and Systems; p.221-223 (2004).
  • (X) K. S. Schweizer , E. J. Saltzman, "Activated Hopping, Barrier Fluctuations and Heterogeneity in Glassy Suspensions and Liquids," J. Phys. Chem. B 108 , 19729 (2004).
  • (X) R. G. Shimmin, A. B. Schoch, P. V. Braun , "Polymer Size and Concentration Effects on the Size of Gold Nanoparticles Capped by Polymeric Thiols", Langmuir 20 , 5613-5620 (2004).
  • (X) W. E. Smith and C. F. Zukoski , "Flow Properties of Hard Structured Particle Suspensions", J. Rheol. 48 , 1375 (2004).
  • (X) A. Srivastava, O. N. Srivastava, S. Talapatra, R. Vajtai, P. M. Ajayan , "Carbon Nanotube Filters", Nature Materials 3 , 610 (2004).
  • A. Srivastava, O. N. Srivastava, S. Talapatra, R. Vajtai, P.M. Ajayan , "Carbon Nanotube Filters", Nature Materials 3 (9) 610-614 (2004).
  • G. E. Sroga, J. S. Dordick , "Periplasmic Expression as a Basis for Whole-cell Kinetic Screening of Unnatural Enzyme Reactivities", Meth. Enzymol. 388 , 145-156 (2004).
  • J. Suhr, N. Koratkar, P. Keblinski, P. M. Ajayan , "Viscoelasticity in Carbon Nanotube Composites," Nature Materials (in press, 2005).
  • C. B. Swearingen, D. P. Wernette, D. M. Cropek, Y. Lu , J. V. Sweedler, and P. W. Bohn, "Immobilization of a Catalytic DNA Molecular Beacon on Au for Pb(II) Detection," Anal. Chem. (in press, 2005).
  • D. Therriault, R. F. Shepherd, S. R. White, J. A. Lewis, "Fugitive Inks for Direct-write Assembly of 3-D Microvascular Networks," Adv. Mater. (in press, 2005).
  • (X) R. Vajtai, B. Q. Wei, P. M. Ajayan , "Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 362 (1823) 2143-2160 (2004).
  • (X) R. Vajtai, B. Wei, Y. J. Jung, A. Cao, S. K. Biswas, G. Ramanath , P. M. Ajayan, "Building and Testing Organized Architectures of Carbon Nanotubes", IEEE Trans. Nanotech. 2 (2), 355-361 (2004).
  • (X) A. Vertegel, R. W. Siegel , J. S. Dordick , "The Size of Nanoparticles Influences the Structure and Enzymatic Activity of Adsorbed Lysozyme", Langmuir 20 , 6800-6807. Cover Article (2004).
  • (X) G. C. L. Wong, "The Soft Sector in Condensed Matter Physics", Science 305 , 948 (2004).
  • (X) L. Yang, H. Liang, T. Angelini, J. Butler, R. Coridan, J. X. Tang, G. C. L. Wong, "Self-assembly of Virus Membrane Complexes", Nature Materials 3 , 615-619 (2004).
  • (X) L. Yang, J. S. Dordick, S. Garde, "Hydration of Enzyme is Consistent with its Activity in Non-aqueous Solutions", Biophysical Journal 87 , 812-821 (2004).
  • (X) S. J. Yoon, C. F. Zukoski, J. A. Lewis, "Flow Instability and Jamming in the Extrusion of Nanoparticle Suspensions," Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rheology, Seoul , Korea (2004).
  • (X) J. Zhao, S. Granick, "Polymer Lateral Diffusion at the Solid-Liquid Interface," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 , 6242 (2004).