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S Awuku, SJ Bradley, KP Ghiggino, RP Steer, AL Stevens, JM White, C Yeow
2021-12-01
The electronic spectroscopy and photophysics of 1,2-benzazulene (BzAz) have been examined in solution and in thin solid films, wit..
Can Gao, Wallace WH Wong, Zhengsheng Qin, Shih-Chun Lo, Ebinazar B Namdas, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu
2021-10-01
Organic semiconductor materials have been widely used in various optoelectronic devices due to their rich optical and/or electrica..
Riley O'shea, William J Kendrick, Can Gao, Tze Cin Owyong, Jonathan M White, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wallace WH Wong
A series of poly(phenylene-vinylene)-based copolymers are synthesized using the Gilch method incorporating monomers with stericall..
Wei-Long Xu, Jonathan M White, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith
2021-09-29
<jats:p>Surface traps are the main defects in the Cs<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>PbBr<jats:sub>6</jats:sub> particles with smaller size, ..
Robin J Dolleman, Debadi Chakraborty, Daniel R Ladiges, Herre SJ van der Zant, John E Sader, Peter G Steeneken
2021-09-22
The resonance frequency of membranes depends on the gas pressure due to the squeeze-film effect, induced by the compression of a t..
Susanne Seibt, Heyou Zhang, Stephen Mudie, Stephan Foerster, Paul Mulvaney
2021-09-16
Using simultaneous, in situ optical spectroscopy and time-resolved, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), we have directly monitore..
Georgios Katsikis, Jesse F Collis, Scott M Knudsen, Vincent Agache, John E Sader, Scott R Manalis
2021-08-24
Rotational dynamics often challenge physical intuition while enabling unique realizations, from the rotor of a gyroscope that main..
A Manian, RA Shaw, I Lyskov, W Wong, SP Russo
2021-08-07
Here, we present a concise model that can predict the photoluminescent properties of a given compound from first principles, both ..
Sonam Saxena, Philipp Marlow, Jegadesan Subbiah, Alexander Colsmann, Wallace WH Wong, David J Jones
2021-08-04
Bulk-heterojunction nanoparticle dispersions in water or alcohol can be employed as eco-friendly inks for the fabrication of organ..
Jesse F Collis, Selim Olcum, Debadi Chakraborty, Scott R Manalis, John E Sader
2021-06-23
The Navier slip condition describes the motion of a liquid relative to a neighboring solid surface, with its characteristic Navier..
Wenfeng Zhu, James Andell Hutchison, Mingdong Dong, Min Li
2021-05-28
The sensitive and selective detection of biomarkers for human health remains one of the grand challenges of the analytical science..
Qi Hu, Bicheng Yao, Tze Cin Owyong, Sharon Prashanth, Changyu Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Wallace WH Wong, Youhong Tang, Yuning Hong
2021-05-17
Human serum albumin (HSA) is a broadly used biomarker for the diagnosis of various diseases such as chronic kidney disease. Here, ..
Brian Uthe, Jesse F Collis, Mahyar Madadi, John E Sader, Matthew Pelton
2021-05-13
Simple liquids are conventionally described by Newtonian fluid mechanics, based on the assumption that relaxation processes in the..
Debadi Chakraborty, Brian Uthe, Edward W Malachosky, Matthew Pelton, John E Sader
2021-04-08
The interaction between flowing liquids and solid surfaces underpins many physical phenomena and technologies, such as the ability..
Ali Zavabeti, Patjaree Aukarasereenont, Hayden Tuohey, Nitu Syed, Azmira Jannat, Aaron Elbourne, Kibret A Messalea, Bao Yue Zhang, Billy J Murdoch, James G Partridge, Matthias Wurdack, Daniel L Creedon, Joel van Embden, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Salvy P Russo, Chris F McConville, Torben Daeneke
2021-04-05
Wide-bandgap oxide semiconductors are essential for the development of high-speed and energy-efficient transparent electronics. Ho..
Irina Zharinova, Nicolau Saker Neto, Tze Cin Owyong, Jonathan M White, Wallace WH Wong
2021-04-01
<jats:p>Oligo(p-phenylene)s with a donor phenol group and an acceptor pyridinium moiety separated by one and two p-phenylene units..
Siobhan J Bradley, Ming Chi, Jonathan M White, Christopher R Hall, Lars Goerigk, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2021-03-31
Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives have been proposed for both singlet fission and energy upconversion as they meet the energe..
Fei Zheng, Christopher R Hall, Dechan Angmo, Chuantian Zuo, Sergey Rubanov, Zhenchuan Wen, Siobhan J Bradley, Xiao-Tao Hao, Mei Gao, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2021-03-25
The excellent performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites (RPPs) ho..
Riley O'Shea, Can Gao, Tze Cin Owyong, Jonathan M White, Wallace WH Wong
2021-03-21
A series of poly(phenylene-ethynylene) copolymers with various aryl spacer units were synthesized for use as emitters in triplet-t..
Andre Anda, Jared H Cole
Ultra-fast and multi-dimensional spectroscopy gives a powerful looking glass into the dynamics of molecular systems. In particular..
JM Booth, M Klymenko, JH Cole, SP Russo
2021-03-11
In order to realize the significant potential of optical materials such as metal halides, computational techniques which give accu..
Goekalp Engin Akinoglu, James Andell Hutchison
2021-03-01
Plasmonic bilayers fabricated by depositing metal on nanopillar or nanocavity arrays are an effective solution for the industrial ..
Cecilia Huertas-Cerdeira, Andres Goza, John E Sader, Tim Colonius, Morteza Gharib
2021-02-25
The dynamics of a cantilever plate clamped at its trailing edge and placed at a moderate angle to a uniform flow are investigated ..
Arun Ashokan, Paul Mulvaney
2021-02-23
Solution-phase spectroelectrochemistry was used to study electron injection into colloidal CdSe quantum dots (QDs) with sizes rang..
Heyou Zhang, Yawei Liu, Muhammad Faris Shahin Shahidan, Calum Kinnear, Fatemeh Maasoumi, Jasper Cadusch, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Timothy D James, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Ann Roberts, Paul Mulvaney
2021-02-03
Although many nanoscale materials such as quantum dots and metallic nanocrystals exhibit size dependent optical properties, it has..
MV Klymenko, JA Vaitkus, JS Smith, JH Cole
2021-02-01
We present a novel open-source Python framework called NanoNET (Nanoscale Non-equilibrium Electron Transport) for modeling electro..
G Andersson, ALO Bilobran, M Scigliuzzo, MM de Lima, JH Cole, P Delsing
2021-01-29
Microscopic two-level system (TLS) defects at dielectric surfaces and interfaces are among the dominant sources of loss in superco..
Man-Nung Su, Behnaz Ostovar, Niklas Gross, John E Sader, Wei-Shun Chang, Stephan Link
2021-01-28
Acoustic vibrations in plasmonic nanostructures provide deep insight into mechanical properties at the nanoscale for potential app..
MJ Cyster, JS Smith, N Vogt, G Opletal, SP Russo, JH Cole
Aluminium oxide (AlOx) tunnel junctions are important components in a range of nanoelectric devices including superconducting qubi..
Wenping Yin, Hanchen Li, Anthony SR Chesman, Ben Tadgell, Andrew D Scully, Mingchao Wang, Wenchao Huang, Christopher R McNeill, Wallace WH Wong, Nikhil Medhekar, Paul Mulvaney, Jacek J Jasieniak
2021-01-26
The extensive use of halomethanes (CH3X, X = F, Cl, Br, I) as refrigerants, propellants, and pesticides has drawn serious concern ..
Amy L Stevens, Colleen Yeow, Jonathan M White, Siobhan J Bradley, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Ronald P Steer
2021-01-15
Calix[4]azulene is a non-alternant aromatic calixarene composed of four azulene chromophores linked by methylene groups. Its photo..
Kyra N Schwarz, Valerie D Mitchell, Saeed-Uz-Zaman Khan, Calvin Lee, Adam Reinhold, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, David J Jones, Barry P Rand, Gregory D Scholes
2021-01-14
The morphology of organic semiconductors is critical to their function in optoelectronic devices and is particularly crucial in th..
DI Pullin, John E Sader
2021-01-10
We consider the trailing-edge vortex produced in an inviscid fluid by the start-up motion of a two-dimensional flat plate. A gener..
Pei-Qing Jin, Jan Jeske, Andrew D Greentree, Jared H Cole
2021-01-07
We show theoretically that a quantum dot circuit quantum electrodynamics device can be used as a probe of the Overhauser field in ..
M Barzegar Amiri Olia, PS Donnelly, LCL Hollenberg, P Mulvaney, DA Simpson
2021-01-01
Nanodiamonds (NDs) represent an emerging class of nanomaterials that have been used for a variety of applications including biosen..
Weilong Xu, Mengsi Niu, Xiaoyu Yang, Haiyue Chen, Xiaohong Cai, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Xiaotao Hao
Inorganic lead halide perovskites are attractive optoelectronic materials owing to their relative stability compared to organic ca..
Wenxin Mao, Christopher R Hall, Stefano Bernardi, Yi-Bing Cheng, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Trevor A Smith, Udo Bach
Bandgap instability due to light-induced phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites presents a major challenge for their future..
Amy L Stevens, Stephen Awuku, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Ying Hao, Sacha Novakovic, Ronald P Steer, Jonathan M White
2020-12-24
A zinc porphyrin-pendant norbornene polymer with a rigid backbone characterized by a 2:1 E/Z isomeric structure ratio has been syn..
Wei-Long Xu, Siobhan J Bradley, Yang Xu, Fei Zheng, Christopher R Hall, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith
2020-12-07
Zero-dimensional (0D) quantum confinement can be achieved in perovskite materials by the confinement of electron and hole states t..
Tze Cin OwYong, Siyang Ding, Na Wu, Thomas Fellowes, Sijie Chen, Jonathan M White, Wallace WH Wong, Yuning Hong
Molecular rotors exhibit fluorescence enhancement in a confined environment and thus have been used extensively in biological imag..
Hui Yang, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Lijing Guo, Mingliang Jin, Guofu Zhou, Michael Giersig, Lingling Shui, Paul Mulvaney
2020-12-01
We propose a simple and inexpensive SiO2 submicron particle synthesis method based on a PTFE helical capillary microreactor. The d..
Zhengsheng Qin, Can Gao, Wallace WH Wong, Moritz K Riede, Tianyu Wang, Huanli Dong, Yonggang Zhen, Wenping Hu
2020-11-21
For semiconductors, doping is an efficient approach to tune their energy bandgaps, charge transport, and optical properties which ..
Ekaterina Ponomareva, Kirsten Volk, Paul Mulvaney, Matthias Karg
2020-11-17
Surface lattice resonances are optical resonances composed of hybridized plasmonic and diffractive modes. These collective resonan..
Huimin Gu, Lingpeng Yan, Sonam Saxena, Xueliang Shi, Xuning Zhang, Zerui Li, Qun Luo, Huiqiong Zhou, Yongzhen Yang, Xuguang Liu, Wallace WH Wong, Chang-Qi Ma
2020-10-26
“Burn-in” degradation occurs in many polymer solar cells, which dramatically reduces the overall power output of the cells at the ..
Harini Hapuarachchi, Jared H Cole
2020-10-16
We develop an analytical framework to study the influence of a weakly intercoupled in-plane spherical metal nanoparticle (MNP) ass..
Eser Metin Akinoglu, Jingchao Song, Calum Kinnear, Yafei Xue, Heyou Zhang, Ann Roberts, Juergen Koehler, Paul Mulvaney
2020-10-14
Unusual structural colors are demonstrated in thin-film coatings due to a combination of optical interference and light scattering..
John Elie Sader
2020-10-01
Interatomic-force measurements are regularly performed using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy. This requires conversio..
Debora Monego, Thomas Kister, Nicholas Kirkwood, Paul Mulvaney, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Tobias Kraus
2020-09-15
While preparing another manuscript, we found an error in the code used to calculate the average dihedral angle of the ligands give..
Chanon Talodthaisong, Wissuta Boonta, Saengrawee Thammawithan, Rina Patramanon, Nuntaporn Kamonsutthipaijit, James A Hutchison, Sirinan Kulchat
2020-09-01
Biomaterial-based hydrogels incorporating antibacterial agents may provide sustainable solutions to biomedical device failures and..
Randy P Sabatini, Fatemeh Maasoumi, Shyamal KK Prasad, Bolong Zhang, Caspar Clark, Timothy W Schmidt, Wallace WH Wong, Girish Lakhwani
2020-07-27
A dye immersed in a polymer matrix represents a promising material class for organic polariton lasers. While polariton condensatio..
Igor Lyskov, Andre Anda, Yee X Wong, Andrew J Tilley, Christopher R Hall, Joel Thia, Salvy P Russo, Wallace WH Wong, Jared H Cole, Trevor A Smith
2020-07-21
A series of phycobilin analogues have been investigated in terms of coupled excitonic systems. These compounds consist of a monome..
Elham M Gholizadeh, Shyamal KK Prasad, Zhi Li Teh, Thilini Ishwara, Sarah Norman, Anthony J Petty, Jared H Cole, Soshan Cheong, Richard D Tilley, John E Anthony, Shujuan Huang, Timothy W Schmidt
2020-07-20
Photochemical upconversion is a strategy for converting infrared light into more energetic, visible light, with potential applicat..
Bolong Zhang, Igor Lyskov, Lachlan J Wilson, Randy P Sabatini, Anjay Manian, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Jonathan M White, Trevor A Smith, Girish Lakhwani, David J Jones, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Salvy P Russo, Wallace WH Wong
2020-07-14
The photoluminescence quantum yield (ϕPL) of perylene diimide derivatives (PDIs) is often limited by aggregation caused quenching ..
Hareem Khan, Nasir Mahmood, Ali Zavabeti, Aaron Elbourne, Md Ataur Rahman, Bao Yue Zhang, Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Paul Atkin, Mohammad B Ghasemian, Jiong Yang, Guolin Zheng, Anil R Ravindran, Sumeet Walia, Lan Wang, Salvy P Russo, Torben Daeneke, Yongxiang Li, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
2020-07-10
The predicted strong piezoelectricity for monolayers of group IV monochalcogenides, together with their inherent flexibility, make..
Bolong Zhang, Hanbo Yang, Timothy Warner, Paul Mulvaney, Gary Rosengarten, Wallace WH Wong, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2020-07-01
A Monte-Carlo ray tracing simulator with a graphical user interface (MCRTS-GUI) has been developed to provide a quantitative descr..
Tze Cin Owyong, Pramod Subedi, Jieru Deng, Elizabeth Hinde, Jason J Paxman, Jonathan M White, Weisan Chen, Begoña Heras, Wallace WH Wong, Yuning Hong
2020-06-15
Tze Cin Owyong, Pramod Subedi, Jieru Deng, Elizabeth Hinde, Jason J Paxman, Jonathan M White, Weisan Chen, Begona Heras, Wallace WH Wong, Yuning Hong
Environmental polarity is an important factor that drives biomolecular interactions to regulate cell function. Herein, a general m..
DL Cortie, MJ Cyster, TA Ablott, C Richardson, JS Smith, GN Iles, XL Wang, DRG Mitchell, RA Mole, NR de Souza, DH Yu, JH Cole
2020-06-11
Bulk glasses exhibit extra vibrational modes at low energies, collectively known as the boson peak. The vibrational dynamics in na..
Fei Zheng, Chuantian Zuo, Mengsi Niu, Chunhua Zhou, Siobhan J Bradley, Christopher R Hall, Weilong Xu, Xiaoming Wen, Xiaotao Hao, Mei Gao, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2020-06-10
Layered perovskite films, composed of two-dimensional (2D) Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites (RPPs), show improved stability compared ..
Chuantian Zuo, Andrew D Scully, Wen Liang Tan, Fei Zheng, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Doojin Vak, Hasitha Weerasinghe, Christopher R McNeill, Dechan Angmo, Anthony SR Chesman, Mei Gao
2020-06-05
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Introducing layered quasi-2D perovskite phases into a conventional 3D perovskite light-ab..
Saghar Masoomi-Godarzi, Christopher R Hall, Bolong Zhang, Mark A Gregory, Jonathan M White, Wallace WH Wong, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith, David J Jones
2020-05-28
Developing photostable compounds that undergo quantitative singlet fission (SF) is a key challenge. As SF necessitates electron tr..
Debora Monego, Thomas Kister, Nicholas Kirkwood, David Doblas, Paul Mulvaney, Tobias Kraus, Asaph Widmer-Cooper
2020-05-26
We report on the colloidal stability of nanoparticles with alkanethiol shells in apolar solvents. Small-angle X-ray scattering and..
Behnaz Ostovar, Man-Nung Su, David Renard, Benjamin D Clark, Pratiksha D Dongare, Chayan Dutta, Niklas Gross, John E Sader, Christy F Landes, Wei-Shun Chang, Naomi J Halas, Stephan Link
2020-05-14
Acoustic vibrations in plasmonic nanoparticles, monitored by an all-optical means, have attracted significant increasing interest ..
Arunkumar Kathiravan, Annasamy Gowri, Venkatesan Srinivasan, Trevor A Smith, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi
2020-05-07
This work addresses the synthetic optimization of carbon dots (CDs) and their application in sensing picric acid from latent finge..
Juan Wang, Hai Le-The, Lingling Shui, Johan G Bomer, Mingliang Jin, Guofu Zhou, Paul Mulvaney, Pepijn WH Pinkse, Albert van den Berg, Loes I Segerink, Jan CT Eijkel
2020-05-01
Spherical photonic crystals (SPCs) with tailorable multiscale structure, versatile surface morphology, and controllable optical pr..
Riley O'shea, Wallace WH Wong
2020-04-28
The solvent and temperature used in the Gilch synthesis of poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) wer..
Camino Martin-Sanchez, Ana Sanchez-Iglesias, Paul Mulvaney, Luis M Liz-Marzan, Fernando Rodriguez
2020-04-23
The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of gold nanospheres dispersed in methanol-ethanol 4:1 was measured as a function of..
Nicholas Z Liu, Daniel R Ladiges, Jason Nassios, John E Sader
2020-04-06
The Boltzmann equation provides a rigorous description of gas flows at all degrees of gas rarefaction. Asymptotic analyses of this..
Man Xu, Mengna Yu, Bin Liu, Jinyi Lin, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Trevor A Smith, Xuehua Ding, Lubing Bai, Yamin Han, Linghai Xie, Wei Liu, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Zongqiong Lin, Tao Yu, Chunxiang Xu, Wei Huang
2020-03-25
The realization of robust luminescence in crystalline and anisotropic nanowires of wide bandgap light-emitting conjugated polymers..
Kenji Hirai, Rie Takeda, James A Hutchison, Hiroshi Uji‐i
2020-03-23
Can Gao, Bolong Zhang, Christopher R Hall, Li Li, Yeqin Chen, Yi Zeng, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong
2020-03-21
Improving the efficiency of triplet fusion upconversion (TF-UC) in the solid-state is still challenging due to the aggregation and..
AK Schenk, MJ Sear, N Dontschuk, A Tsai, KJ Rietwyk, A Tadich, BCC Cowie, L Ley, A Stacey, C Pakes
2020-02-18
We report the preparation of a silicon terminated (111) diamond surface. Low energy electron diffraction and core level photoemiss..
Kenji Hirai, Rie Takeda, James A Hutchison, Hiroshi Uji-i
Light-molecule strong coupling has emerged within the last decade as a new method to control chemical reactions. A few years ago i..
MJ Cyster, JS Smith, JA Vaitkus, N Vogt, SP Russo, JH Cole
2020-01-31
Many nanoelectronic devices rely on thin dielectric barriers through which electrons tunnel. For instance, aluminium oxide barrier..
Nicolau Saker Neto, David John Jones, Wallace Wing Ho Wong
2020-01-20
A conceptual study of iterative coupling (IC) is performed, providing a unified description and new research directions. IC chain ..
David T Nitneth, James A Hutchison, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2020-01-01
In aqueous solution, a di-sulfonated phenylenevinylene polymer (DPS-PPV) forms a complex with non-ionic poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) ..
Robi S Datta, Nitu Syed, Ali Zavabeti, Azmira Jannat, Md Mohiuddin, Md Rokunuzzaman, Bao Yue Zhang, Md Ataur Rahman, Paul Atkin, Kibret A Messalea, Mohammad Bagher Ghasemian, Enrico Della Gaspera, Semonti Bhattacharyya, Michael S Fuhrer, Salvy P Russo, Chris F McConville, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Torben Daeneke
Indium tin oxide (ITO) is a transparent conductor used in applications such as touch screens, smart windows and displays. A key li..
Timothy J O'Sullivan, Sridhar K Kannam, Debadi Chakraborty, Billy D Todd, John E Sader
2019-12-26
Real liquids exhibit a viscoelastic response when excited mechanically to deform at sufficiently high frequency. We use classical ..
Yang Xu, Jian Zhou, Trevor A Smith
2019-12-23
Photon pressure has been used to induce the aggregation from solution of a series of photoluminescent conjugated polyelectrolytes ..
Julian A Lloyd, Yawei Liu, Soon Hock Ng, Thibaut Thai, Daniel E Gomez, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Udo Bach
2019-12-21
The controlled positioning of spherical gold nanoparticles and gold nanorods upon self-assembly on a substrate is of great interes..
Clemens Mueller, Jared H Cole, Juergen Lisenfeld
2019-12-01
Amorphous solids show surprisingly universal behaviour at low temperatures. The prevailing wisdom is that this can be explained by..
Yannic Brasse, Charlene Ng, Michele Magnozzi, Heyou Zhang, Paul Mulvaney, Andreas Fery, Daniel E Gomez
2019-11-29
Anti-reflective surfaces are of great interest for optical devices, sensing, photovoltaics, and photocatalysis. However, most of t..
Yong Shi, Daniel R Ladiges, John E Sader
2019-11-25
Oscillatory noncontinuum gas flows at the micro and nanoscales are characterized by two dimensionless groups: a dimensionless mole..
Igor Lyskov, Egor Trushin, Ben Q Baragiola, Timothy W Schmidt, Jared H Cole, Saly P Russo
2019-11-07
In this article, we present multiscale modeling of triplet exciton energy migrating through the archetypical poly(p-phenylene viny..
Lachlan M Oberg, Eric Huang, Prithvi M Reddy, Audrius Alkauskas, Andrew D Greentree, Jared H Cole, Neil B Manson, Carlos A Meriles, Marcus W Doherty
2019-11-01
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond has rapidly emerged as an important solid-state system for quantum information p..
Christian Blauth, Paul Mulvaney, Tadahiko Hirai
2019-10-21
We report a ligand-dependent, trap state memory effect in a purple quantum dot light emitting diode. The measured, bistable curren..
Reece D Crocker, Bolong Zhang, Domenic P Pace, Wallace WH Wong, Thanh V Nguyen
2019-10-04
Tetrabenzo[5.7]fulvalene, one of the first recognized stable members of mixed fulvalenes, has attracted widespread interest for it..
Heyou Zhang, Calum Kinnear, Paul Mulvaney
2019-10-01
To realize the full potential of nanocrystals in nanotechnology, it is necessary to integrate single nanocrystals into addressable..
Meng-Na Yu, Jin-Yi Lin, Yin-Xiang Li, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Chang-Jin Ou, Lu-Bing Bai, Bin Liu, Wei Liu, Qi Wei, Yi-Fan Bo, Trevor A Smith, Dave E Dunstan, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Ling-Hai Xie, Chun-Xiang Xu, Donal DC Bradley, Wei Huang
2019-09-12
Well-defined crystalline condensed superstructures of conjugated molecules are required for light-emitting optoelectronic devices...
Boyu Fan, Cecilia Huertas-Cerdeira, Julia Cosse, John E Sader, Morteza Gharib
2019-09-10
The stability of a cantilevered elastic sheet in a uniform flow has been studied extensively due to its importance in engineering ..
Stefano Stassi, Giulia De laurentis, Debadi Chakraborty, Katarzyna Bejtka, Angelica Chiodoni, John E Sader, Carlo Ricciardi
2019-09-09
Nanomechanical mass spectrometry is a recent technological breakthrough that enables the real-time analysis of single molecules. I..
D Holmes, WIL Lawrie, BC Johnson, A Asadpoordarvish, JC McCallum, DR McCamey, DN Jamieson
2019-08-29
The bismuth (Bi) substitutional donor in silicon (Si) is an attractive qubit candidate for quantum computing proposals due to its ..
Can Gao, Shyamal KK Prasad, Bolong Zhang, Miroslav Dvorak, Murad JY Tayebjee, Dane R McCamey, Timothy W Schmidt, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong
2019-08-22
Photon upconversion is a process that creates high-energy photons under low photon energy excitation. The effect of molecular geom..
2019-08-21
Quantum dot light emitting diodes (QLEDs) emitting at 410 nm were studied by time-resolved electroluminescence measurements. A tra..
Jianing Lu, Shaoding Liu, Sean SE Collins, Linlong Tang, Xingzhan Wei, Paul Mulvaney
2019-08-15
We have assembled a three-dimensional (3D) plasmon ruler using an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to manipulate single gold nano..
Bolong Zhang, Pengjun Zhao, Lachlan J Wilson, Jegadesan Subbiah, Hanbo Yang, Paul Mulvaney, David J Jones, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wallace WH Wong
2019-08-09
A high-performance large-area luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is demonstrated, fabricated via careful choice of the fluoropho..
Yue Dong, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Heyou Zhang, Fatemeh Maasoumi, Jinping Zhou, Paul Mulvaney
2019-08-07
Stimuli-responsive optical etalons are an exciting class of next-generation sensors because they are scalable, cost-effective and ..
B Tan, SR Raga, ASR Chesman, SO Fürer, F Zheng, DP McMeekin, L Jiang, W Mao, X Lin, X Wen, J Lu, YB Cheng, U Bach
2019-08-01
To date, the most efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) employ an n–i–p device architecture that uses a 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis(N,N-d..
Mykhailo Klymenko, Jesse A Vaitkus, Jared H Cole
Understanding movement of charge carriers within organic semiconductor films is crucial for applications in photovoltaics and flex..
Peng Qing Bi, Christopher R Hall, Hang Yin, Shu Kong So, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Xiao Tao Hao
The ultralow band gap small-molecule IEICO-4F has been employed as a secondary acceptor in both fullerene-based (PTB7-Th:PC71BM) a..
Resonant amplification of vibrational amplitude underpins the application of nanomechanical sensors. For cantilever sensors, this ..
Robin J Dolleman, Mick Hsu, Sten Vollebregt, John E Sader, Herre SJ van der Zant, Peter G Steeneken, Murali K Ghatkesar
2019-07-29
Current wafer-scale fabrication methods for graphene-based electronics and sensors involve the transfer of single-layer graphene b..
Julian Sindram, Kirsten Volk, Paul Mulvaney, Matthias Karg
2019-07-02
Noble metal nanoparticles show pronounced extinction peaks in the visible wavelength range due to their localized surface plasmon ..
John E Sader, Melanie Delapierre, Sergio Pellegrino
2019-07-01
The stability of a spinning thin elastic disk has been widely studied due to its central importance in engineering. While the plas..
Hamid Soleimaninejad, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith, Matthew F Paige
2019-06-01
UV-illumination of phase-separated surfactant films prepared from mixtures of photopolymerizable 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid and p..
Can Gao, Jia Yi Seow, Bolong Zhang, Christopher R Hall, Andrew J Tilley, Jonathan M White, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong
A series of tetraphenylethene 9,10-diphenylanthracene (TPE-DPA) derivatives have been synthesized, and their photophysical propert..
Shuang Zhao, Frank Caruso, Lars Daehne, Gero Decher, Bruno G De Geest, Jinchen Fan, Neus Feliu, Yury Gogotsi, Paula T Hammond, Mark C Hersam, Ali Khademhosseini, Nicholas Kotov, Stefano Leporatti, Yan Li, Fred Lisdat, Luis M Liz-Marzan, Sergio Moya, Paul Mulvaney, Andrey L Rogach, Sathi Roy
Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly is a widely used tool for engineering materials and coatings. In this Perspective, dedicated to the ..
Fei Zheng, Weijian Chen, Tongle Bu, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Fuzhi Huang, Yibing Cheng, Patrick Tapping, Tak W Kee, Baohua Jia, Xiaoming Wen
Potassium (K+) doping has been recently discovered as an effective route to suppress hysteresis and improve the performance stabil..
Zhixing Gan, Xiaoming Wen, Weijian Chen, Chunhua Zhou, Shuang Yang, Guiyuan Cao, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Hua Zhang, Baohua Jia
2019-05-23
Photon recycling and carrier diffusion are the two plausible processes that primarily affect the carrier dynamics in halide perovs..
2019-05-21
Impedance spectroscopy is a powerful and nondestructive tool for studying charge carrier dynamics in quantum dot light-emitting di..
Bolong Zhang, Can Gao, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Jonathan M White, Trevor A Smith, David J Jones, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wallace WH Wong
2019-04-23
Vertically aligning fluorophores to the surface of a waveguide is known to be an effective approach to improve the optical quantum..
Camino Martin-Sanchez, Guillermo Gonzalez-Rubio, Paul Mulvaney, Andres Guerrero-Martinez, Luis M Liz-Marzan, Fernando Rodriguez
2019-04-04
The effects of hydrostatic pressure on the surface plasmon resonances (SPRs) of aqueous dispersions of monodisperse gold nanorods ..
Yi-Fan Bo, Yu-Yu Liu, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Meng-Na Yu, Ling-Hai Xie, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wei Huang
Blue-light-emitting semiconductors based on polyfluorenes often exhibit an undesired green emission band. In this report, three we..
Junzhong Wang, Kuai Yu, Yang Yang, Gregory Hartland, John E Sader, Guo Ping Wang
Strong vibrational coupling has been realized in a variety of mechanical systems. However, there have been no experimental observa..
Seth Richard Price, Calum Kinnear, Sandor Balog
2019-03-28
Computational particokinetics models become essential in the design and interpretation of in vitro nanoparticle toxicology assays ..
Cameron Ritchie, Anthony Sidney Richard Chesman, Jacek Jasieniak, Paul Mulvaney
2019-03-26
Copper zinc tin selenide (CZTSe) nanocrystal inks show promise as a candidate for developing cheap, scalable, efficient, and nonto..
G Jain, A Ahnood, A Chanaewa, K Fox, P Mulvaney
2019-03-25
Solution processing of CdTe nanocrystals is a promising approach for the fabrication of low cost photovoltaic devices at low proce..
Shouxiang Zhang, Mengjie Liu, Lewis Yi Fong Tan, Quentin Hong, Ze Liang Pow, Tze Cin Owyong, Siyang Ding, Wallace WH Wong, Yuning Hong
2019-03-15
Collapse of the protein homeostasis (proteostasis) can lead to accumulation and aggregation of unfolded proteins, which has been f..
Randy P Sabatini, Bolong Zhang, Akhil Gupta, Julien Leoni, Wallace WH Wong, Girish Lakhwani
2019-03-14
Strong coupling in organic media holds the promise of efficient room temperature polariton lasing with solution-processed material..
M Javaid, Salvy P Russo, K Kalantar-Zadeh, Andrew D Greentree, Daniel W Drumm
2019-03-01
We present a comprehensive study of the electronic structures of 192 configurations of 39 stable, layered, transition-metal dichal..
Charlene Ng, Peng Zeng, Julian A Lloyd, Debadi Chakraborty, Ann Roberts, Trevor A Smith, Udo Bach, John E Sader, Timothy J Davis, Daniel E Gomez
When plasmonic nanoparticles are coupled with semiconductors, highly energetic hot carriers can be extracted from the metal-semico..
Wenxin Mao, Christopher R Hall, Anthony SR Chesman, Craig Forsyth, Yi‐Bing Cheng, Noel W Duffy, Trevor A Smith, Udo Bach
2019-02-25
Wenxin Mao, Christopher R Hall, Anthony SR Chesman, Craig Forsyth, Yi-Bing Cheng, Noel W Duffy, Trevor A Smith, Udo Bach
Mixed organolead halide perovskites (MOHPs), CH3 NH3 Pb(Brx I1-x )3 , have been shown to undergo phase segregation into iodide-ric..
Susanne Seibt, Paul Mulvaney, Stephan Foerster
2019-02-05
Microfluidic methods allowing fast mixing allow studying fast chemical reactions on the millisecond time scale. Here the kinetics ..
Camino Martin-Sanchez, Jose Antonio Barreda-Argueso, Susanne Seibt, Paul Mulvaney, Fernando Rodriguez
2019-01-01
The surface plasmon resonances of gold nanospheres and nanorods have been measured as a function of hydrostatic pressure up to 17 ..
Kate L Flint, J Grant Collins, Siobhan J Bradley, Trevor A Smith, Christopher Sumby, F Richard Keene
A diruthenium(ii) complex involving the di(terpyridine) ligand 1,2-bis{5-(5″-methyl-2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridinyl)}ethane was synthesise..
Florian Enders, Arne Budweg, Peng Zeng, Jannika Lauth, Trevor A Smith, Daniele Brida, Klaus Boldt
2018-12-21
Charge carrier dynamics of semiconductor nano-heterostructures are determined by band alignment and lattice mismatch of the adjace..
AL Stevens, S Novakovic, JM White, WWH Wong, TA Smith, KP Ghiggino, MF Paige, RP Steer
2018-12-20
Several new polymers with rotatable zinc porphyrin pendants have been synthesized and their optical spectroscopic and photophysica..
Shaun Mills, Chiara Rotella, Eoin K McCarthy, David J Hil, Jing-Jing Wang, John F Donegan, James F Cahoon, John E Sader, John J Boland
2018-12-19
Nanoscale materials are frequently coated with surface stabilization layers during growth that prevent flocculation in solution an..
John E Sader, Barry D Hughes, Ferdinand Huber, Franz J Giessibl
2018-12-01
Measurement of the force between two atoms is performed routinely with the atomic force microscope. The shape of this interatomic ..
David Burnand, Ana Milosevic, Sandor Balog, Miguel Spuch-Calvar, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Jorn Dengjel, Calum Kinnear, Thomas L Moore, Alke Petri-Fink
2018-11-15
Amino groups presented on the surface of nanoparticles are well-known to be a predominant factor in the formation of the protein c..
Mark A Gregory, Bolong Zhang, Andrew J Tilley, Tamika Scheerlinck, Jonathan M White, Wallace WH Wong
2018-11-01
A series of amine-substituted diazocines were synthesized in three steps from methyl 2-aminobenzoate or methyl 3-aminonaphtholate...
Cheng-Kun Lyu, Fei Zheng, B Hari Babu, Meng-Si Niu, Lin Feng, Jun-Liang Yang, Wei Qn, Xiao-Tao Hao
Novel functionalized graphene oxide π-π stacking with conjugated polymers (P-GO) is fabricated via a simple ethanol-mediated mixin..
Joseph Pearson, Lam Nguyen Tich, Helmut Colfen, Paul Mulyaney
Virtually all dynamic methods for determining particle size on the nanoscale use the Stokes-Einstein-Sutherland (SES) equation to ..
2018-10-30
Inorganic nanoparticle cores are often coated with organic ligands to render them dispersible in apolar solvents. However, the eff..
Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Calum Kinnear, Jorge Perez-Juste, Paul Mulvaney, Luis M Liz-Marzan
2018-10-01
The optical properties of metal nanoparticles, particularly their localized surface plasmon effects, are well established. These p..
Jan Jeske, Angel Rivas, Muhammad H Ahmed, Miguel A Martin-Delgado, Jared H Cole
2018-09-18
The dynamics and thermal equilibrium of spin waves (magnons) in a quantum ferromagnet as well as the macroscopic magnetisation are..
Ari D Mayevsky, Timothy J Davis, Patrycja M Ballard, Clare A Henderson, Alison M Funston
2018-09-03
Meso-scale plasmons are supported by structures with dimensions on the order of tens of plasmon wavelengths. Metal structures at t..
Ken Ghiggino, Sacha Novakovic, Ronald Steer, Jonathan White, Wallace Wong
2018-08-19
Heyou Zhang, Jasper Cadusch, Calum Kinnear, Timothy James, Ann Roberts, Paul Mulvaney
2018-08-01
A major goal of nanotechnology is the assembly of nanoscale building blocks into functional optical, electrical, or chemical devic..
Zijian Zhang, Zicheng Ding, David J Jones, Wallace WH Wong, Bin Kan, Zhaozhao Bi, Xiangjian Wan, Wei Ma, Yongsheng Chen, Xiaojing Long, Chuandong Dou, Jun Liu, Lixiang Wang
The development of molecular donor/polymer acceptor blend (MD/PA)-type organic solar cells (OSCs) lags far behind other type OSCs...
Tuphan Devkota, Debadi Chakraborty, Kuai Yu, Gary Beane, John E Sader, Gregory V Hartland
2018-07-14
The mechanical resonances of metal nanostructures are strongly affected by their environment. In this paper the way the breathing ..
Gangcheng Yuan, Cameron Ritchie, Maria Ritter, Sean Murphy, Daniel E Gomez, Paul Mulvaney
2018-06-28
We demonstrate using single molecule spectroscopy that inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) undergo an irreversible, ph..
Debadi Chakraborty, Gregory V Hartland, Matthew Pelton, John E Sader
Recent measurements on the gigahertz vibration of nanoparticles immersed in simple liquids, such as glycerol, show that the liquid..
Calum Kinnear, Jasper Cadusch, Heyou Zhang, Jianing Lu, Timothy D James, Ann Roberts, Paul Mulvaney
2018-06-26
The assembly of nanoscale materials into arbitrary, organized structures remains a major challenge in nanotechnology. Herein, we r..
Thomas Kister, Debora Monego, Paul Mulvaney, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Tobias Kraus
2018-06-01
Being able to predict and tune the colloidal stability of nanoparticles is essential for a wide range of applications, yet our abi..
Chongyue Yi, Man-Nung Su, Pratiksha D Dongare, Debadi Chakraborty, Yi-Yu Cai, David M Marolf, Rachael N Kress, Behnaz Ostovar, Lawrence J Tauzin, Fangfan Wen, Wei-Shun Chang, Matthew R Jones, John E Sader, Naomi J Halas, Stephan Link
The study of acoustic vibrations in nanoparticles provides unique and unparalleled insight into their mechanical properties. Elect..
Daniel R Ladiges, John E Sader
2018-05-16
Nanomechanical resonators and sensors, operated in ambient conditions, often generate low-Mach-number oscillating rarefied gas flo..
Robert G Ryan, Alastair Stacey, Kane M O'Donnell, Takeshi Ohshima, Brett C Johnson, Lloyd CL Hollenberg, Paul Mulvaney, David A Simpson
2018-04-18
Nanoscale quantum probes such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamonds have demonstrated remarkable sensing capabilities ov..
Gangcheng Yuan, Daniel E Gomez, Nicholas Kirkwood, Klaus Boldt, Paul Mulvaney
2018-04-01
Many potential applications of quantum dots (QDs) can only be realized once the luminescence from single nanocrystals (NCs) is und..
Yinan Wang, Hongming Yao, Jian Zhou, Yuning Hong, Bin Chen, Bolong Zhang, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong, Zujin Zhao
2018-03-15
A new conjugated polyelectrolyte containing tetraphenylethene units in the backbone is synthesized and characterized. This polyele..
Bolong Zhang, James L Banal, David J Jones, Ben Zhong Tang, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wallace WH Wong
2018-03-01
The light-harvesting efficiency of luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) is encumbered by reabsorption of emission and concentrat..
John E Sader, M Selim Hanay, Adam P Neumann, Michael L Roukes
The mass measurement of single molecules, in real time, is performed routinely using resonant nanomechanical devices. This approac..
N Kukharchyk, D Sholokhov, O Morozov, SL Korableva, JH Cole, AA Kalachev, PA Bushev
2018-02-15
We present optical vector network analysis (OVNA) of an isotopically purified Er1663+:LiYF47 crystal. The OVNA method is based on ..
Cheng-Kun Lv, Fei Zheng, Xiao-Yu Yang, Peng-Qing Bi, Meng-Si Niu, Yu-Zhu Wang, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Xiao-Tao Hao
2018-02-08
A facile method is proposed to obtain modified shorn graphene oxide (DDAB-sGO) with improved dispersion in organic solvents. Didod..
Gangcheng Yuan, Daniel Gomez, Nicholas Kirkwood, Paul Mulvaney
2018-02-01
The photoluminescence of single quantum dots fluctuates between bright (on) and dark (off) states, also termed fluorescence interm..
Cameron Ritchie, Anthony SR Chesman, Mark Styles, Jacek J Jasieniak, Paul Mulyaney
2018-01-30
Copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) nanocrystal inks are promising candidates for the development of cheap, efficient, scalable, and no..
Meng-Na Yu, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Jin-Yi Lin, Zong-Yan Zuo, Bin Liu, Yi-Fan Bo, Lu-Bing Bai, Ya-Min Han, Trevor A Smith, Man Xu, Xiang-Ping Wu, Dave E Dunstan, Rui-Dong Xia, Ling-Hai Xie, Donal DC Bradley, Wei Huang
2018-01-18
We demonstrate a systematic visualization of the unique photophysical and fluorescence anisotropic properties of polyfluorene copl..
Hareem Khan, Ali Zavabeti, Yichao Wang, Christopher J Harrison, Benjamin J Carey, Md Mohiuddin, Adam F Chrimes, Isabela Alves De Castro, Bao Yue Zhang, Ylias M Sabri, Suresh K Bhargava, Jian Zhen Ou, Torben Daeneke, Salvy P Russo, Yongxiang Li, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
2017-12-28
Attributing to their distinct thickness and surface dependent physicochemical properties, two dimensional (2D) nanostructures have..
Michael J Walsh, Wenming Tong, Hadas Katz-Boon, Paul Mulvaney, Joanne Etheridge, Alison M Funston
2017-12-01
The phenomenon of symmetry breaking-in which the order of symmetry of a system is reduced despite manifest higher-order symmetry i..
Wei-Long Xu, Meng-Si Niu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Peng-Qing Bi, Kang-Ning Zhang, Chao Xiong, Hong-Chun Yuan, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Xiao-Tao Hao
2017-11-30
Perovskite microplates have important implications in the fields of functional electronics and optoelectronics. We report a facile..
Torben Daeneke, Paul Atkin, Rebecca Orrell-Trigg, Ali Zavabeti, Taimur Ahmed, Sumeet Walia, Maning Liu, Yasuhiro Tachibana, Maria Javaid, Andrew D Greentree, Salvy P Russo, Richard B Kaner, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
2017-11-01
Atomically thin semiconductors are one of the fastest growing categories in materials science due to their promise to enable high-..
Jingjing Xu, Bolong Zhang, Marina Jansen, Lars Goerigk, Wallace WH Wong, Chris Ritchie
2017-10-23
We report the findings of our experimental and theoretical investigations into the properties of pyridinium enolates and their pot..
Bolong Zhang, Hamid Soleimaninejad, David J Jones, Jonathan M White, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong
2017-10-10
A series of four perylene diimide (PDI) chromophores were prepared with increasing steric bulk on the imide substituents with the ..
Ranjana Rautela, Neeraj K Joshi, Sacha Novakovic, Wallace WH Wong, Jonathan M White, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Matthew F Paige, Ronald P Steer
2017-09-14
Spectroscopic, photophysical and computational studies designed to expose and explain the differences in the efficiencies of non-c..
M Javaid, Daniel W Drumm, Salvy P Russo, Andrew D Greentree
2017-08-29
Novel physical phenomena emerge in ultra-small sized nanomaterials. We study the limiting small-size-dependent properties of MoS2 ..
Tokuhisa Kawawaki, Heyou Zhang, Hiroyasu Nishi, Paul Mulvaney, Tetsu Tatsuma
2017-08-03
Single plasmonic nanoparticles can potentially serve as optical sensors for detecting local refractive index changes. However, sim..
JS Smith, A Budi, MC Per, N Vogt, DW Drumm, LCL Hollenberg, JH Cole, SP Russo
2017-07-20
The s manifold energy levels for phosphorus donors in silicon are important input parameters for the design and modeling of electr..
Mengxia Gao, Yuning Hong, Bin Chen, Yinan Wang, Wenjun Zhou, Wallace WH Wong, Jian Zhou, Trevor A Smith, Zujin Zhao
2017-07-14
A series of new conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) containing tetraphenylethene units are synthesized and characterized. They show..
Maja Gajic, Fabio Lisi, Nicholas Kirkwood, Trevor A Smith, Paul Mulvaney, Gary Rosengarten
2017-07-01
Luminescent solar concentrators offer the ability to architecturally integrate solar energy harvesting devices into the urban envi..
Robert D Breukers, Gerald J Smith, Hedley L Stirrat, Adam J Swanson, Trevor A Smith, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Sebastiampillai G Raymond, Nicola M Winch, David J Clarke, Andrew J Kay
2017-04-01
The reductions in the transmission of emission originating from a fluorophore dissolved in a polymer matrix due to light scatterin..
2017-03-24
We report the multi-scale modeling and design of a gate-defined single-electron transistor in a MoS2 bilayer. By combining density..
James L Banal, Bolong Zhang, David J Jones, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Wallace WH Wong
2017-01-17
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are light harvesting devices that are ideally suited to light collection in the urban envir..
Fei Zheng, Xiao-Yu Yang, Peng-Qing Bi, Meng-Si Niu, Cheng-Kun Lv, Lin Feng, Xiao-Tao Hao, Kenneth P Ghiggino
2017-01-01
2-Chlorophenyl isocyanate (CI) reacts with didodecyl dimethyl ammonium bromide (DDAB) functionalized graphene oxide (DDAB-GO) disp..
James L Banal, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Fadi M Jradi, Maoyuan Liu, Jonathan M White, Andrew W Blakers, Matthew W Cooper, David J Jones, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Seth R Marder, Trevor A Smith, Wallace WH Wong
2016-06-23
Maintaining high incident light absorption while minimizing luminescence reabsorption is a key challenge for organic luminescent s..