Publications — 2015

Athermal distributed Brillouin sensors utilizing all-glass optical fibers fabricated from rare earth garnets: LuAG
Author(s): Dragic, P. D.; Pamato, M. G.; Iordache, V.; et al.
Source: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS  Volume: 18  Article Number: 015004  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/1/015004  Published: DEC 24 2015  

Pockels Coefficients in Multicomponent Oxide Glasses
Author(s): Ryan, Colin; Furtick, Joshua; Kucera, Courtney J.; et al
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED GLASS SCIENCE  Volume: 6  Issue: 4  Special Issue: SI  Pages: 387-396  DOI:10.1111/ijag.12146  Published: DEC 2015  

One-Step Synthesis of Amphiphilic Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Block Copolymers by Surfactant-Free Heterogeneous Radical Polymerization
Author(s): Lu, Chunliang; Urban, Marek W.
Source: ACS MACRO LETTERS  Volume: 4  Issue: 12  Pages: 1317-1320  DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00745  Published: DEC 2015  

Crystal chemistry of hydrothermally grown ternary alkali rare earth fluorides
Author(s): McMillen, Colin D.; Comer, Sara; Fulle, Kyle; et al.
Source: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS  Volume: 71  Issue: 6  Special Issue: SI  Pages: 768-776  DOI: 10.1107/S2052520615017916  Published: DEC 2015   

Rational Design of Methacrylate Monomers Containing Oxadiazole Moieties for Single-Layer Organic Light Emitting Devices
Author(s): Zdyrko, Bogdan; Bandera, Yuriy; Tsyalkovsky, Volodymyr; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS  Volume: 53  Issue: 23  Pages: 1663-1673  DOI: 10.1002/polb.23813  Published: DEC 1 2015

Highly stable multi-anchored magnetic nanoparticles for optical imaging within biofilms
Author(s): Stone, R. C.; Fellows, B. D.; Qi, B.; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE  Volume: 459  Pages: 175-182  DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.08.012  Published: DEC 1 2015  

Light trapping in horizontally aligned silicon microwire solar cells
Author(s): Martinsen, Fredrik A.; Smeltzer, Benjamin K.; Ballato, John; et al.
Source: OPTICS EXPRESS  Volume: 23  Issue: 24  Pages: A1463-A1471  DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.0A1463  Published: NOV 30 2015  

Residual stress within nanoscale metallic multilayer systems during thermal cycling
Author(s): Economy, D. R.; Cordill, M. J.; Payzant, E. A.; et al.
Source: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING  Volume:648  Pages: 289-298  DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.09.082  Published: NOV 11 2015  

Analysis of oxygen shell splitting in hydrothermally grown single crystal ThO2(200)
Author(s): Kelly, T. D.; Petrosky, J. C.; McClory, J. W.; et al.
Source: PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI-RAPID RESEARCH LETTERS  Volume: 9  Issue: 11  Pages: 668-672  DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201510235  Published: NOV 2015  

Single- and few-moded lithium aluminosilicate optical fiber for athermal Brillouin strain sensing
Author(s): Dragic, P. D.; Ryan, C.; Kucera, C. J.; et al.
Source: OPTICS LETTERS  Volume: 40  Issue: 21  Pages: 5030-5033  DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.005030  Published: NOV 1 2015  
 
Directed-assembly of carbon structures in a nonpolar dielectric liquid under the influence of DC-generated electric fields
Author(s): Oliveira, Luciana; Saini, Deepika; Gaillard, Jay B.; et al.
Source: CARBON  Volume: 93  Pages: 32-38  DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.05.026  Published: NOV 2015   

Enhancing Thermoelectric Properties of Si80Ge20 Alloys Utilizing the Decomposition of NaBH4 in the Spark Plasma Sintering Process
Author(s): Lahwal, Ali; Zeng, Xiaoyu; Bhattacharya, Sriparna; et al.
Source: Energies  Volume: 8  Issue: 10  Pages: 10958-10970  DOI: 10.3390/en81010958  Published: OCT 2015  

Frontiers in nanoscience, technology and applications
Author(s): Rao, Apparao M.
Source: Nanotechnology Reviews  Volume: 4  Issue: 5  Special Issue: SI  Pages: 373-374  DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2015-0047  Published: OCT 2015  
 
Synthesis and superconductivity in spark plasma sintered pristine and graphene-doped FeSe0.5Te0.5
Author(s): Puneet, Pooja; Podila, Ramakrishna; He, Jian; et al.
Source: Nanotechnology Reviews  Volume: 4  Issue: 5  Special Issue: SI  Pages: 411-417  DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2015-0018  Published: OCT 2015  
 
Energy and our future: a perspective from the Clemson Nanomaterials Center
Author(s): Rao, Apparao M.
Source: Nanotechnology Reviews  Volume: 4  Issue: 5  Special Issue: SI  Pages: 479-484  DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2015-0046  Published: OCT 2015   

Hydrothermal synthesis, structure, and property characterization of rare earth silicate compounds: NaBa(3)Ln(3)Si(6)O(20) (Ln = Y, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd)
Author(s): Sanjeewa, Liurukara D.; Fulle, Kyle; McMillen, Colin D.; et al.
Source: SOLID STATE SCIENCES  Volume: 48  Pages: 256-262  DOI: 10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2015.08.019  Published: OCT 2015

Chemical and physical aspects of self-healing materials
Author(s): Yang, Ying; Ding, Xiaochu; Urban, Marek W.
Source: PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE  Volume: 49-50  Pages: 34-59  DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2015.06.001  Published: OCT-NOV 2015

Phosphonium polyelectrolytes: influence of diphosphine spacer on layer-by-layer assembly with anionic conjugated polymers
Author(s): Conrad, Catherine A.; Bedford, Monte S.; Buelt, Ashley A.; et al. 
Source: POLYMER INTERNATIONAL  Volume: 64  Issue: 10  Pages: 1381-1388  DOI: 10.1002/pi.4930  Published: OCT 2015

Entamoeba histolytica Dmc1 Catalyzes Homologous DNA Pairing and Strand Exchange That Is Stimulated by Calcium and Hop2-Mnd1
Author(s): Kelso, Andrew A.; Say, Amanda F.; Sharma, Deepti; et al.
Source: PLOS ONE  Volume: 10  Issue: 9  Article Number: e0139399  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139399  Published: SEP 30 2015  

Thermoelectric properties of spark plasma sintered lead telluride nanocubes
Author(s): Khasimsaheb, Bayikadi; Neeleshwar, Sonnathi; Srikanth, Mandava; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH  Volume: 30  Issue: 17  Pages: 2638-2648  DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2015.227  Published: SEP 14 2015

Stability of Grafted Polymer Nanoscale Films toward Gamma Irradiation
Author(s): Borodinov, Niko Lay; Giarnmarco, James; Patel, Neil; et al.
Source: ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES  Volume: 7  Issue: 34  Pages: 19455-19465  DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05863  Published: SEP 2 2015  

Preparation of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) derivatives by a debromination-chain polymerization-debromination sequence
Author(s): Laughlin, Brynna J.; Htet, Yamin; He, Susan; et al.
Source: EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL  Volume: 70  Pages: 197-202  DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2015.05.012  Published: SEP 2015  

Luminescence and scintillation enhancement of Y2O3:Tm transparent ceramic through post-fabrication thermal processing
Author(s): Chapman, M. G.; Marchewka, M. R.; Roberts, S. A.; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE  Volume: 165  Pages: 56-61  DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.03.041  Published: SEP 2015  

Heterogeneous microring and Mach-Zehnder modulators based on lithium niobate and chalcogenide glasses on silicon
Author(s): Rao, Ashutosh; Patil, Aniket; Chiles, Jeff; et al.
Source: OPTICS EXPRESS  Volume: 23  Issue: 17  Pages: 22746-22752  DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.022746  Published: AUG 24 2015  

Net charge effects in N-heterocyclic carbene-ruthenium complexes with similar oxidation states and coordination geometries
Author(s): Mangalum, Anshuman; Htet, Yamin; Roe, Dallas A.; et al.
Source: INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA  Volume: 435  Pages: 320-326  DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2015.06.025  Published: AUG 24 2015 

Microwave interrogated large core fused silica fiber Michelson interferometer for strain sensing
Author(s): Hua, Liwei; Song, Yang; Huang, Jie; et al.
Source: APPLIED OPTICS  Volume: 54  Issue: 24  Pages: 7181-7187  DOI: 10.1364/AO.54.007181  Published: AUG 20 2015

Deposition of Ge23Sb7S70 chalcogenide glass films by electrospray
Author(s): Novak, Spencer; Johnston, Danvers E.; Li, Cheng; et al.
Source: THIN SOLID FILMS  Volume: 588  Pages: 56-60  DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2015.04.049  Published: AUG 3 2015

Subwavelength grating based metal-oxide nano-hair structures for optical vortex generation
Author(s): Srimathi, Indumathi Raghu; Li, Yuan; Delaney, William F.; et al.
Source: OPTICS EXPRESS  Volume: 23  Issue: 15  Pages: 19056-19065  DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.019056  Published: JUL 27 2015 

Scavenger receptor B1 facilitates macrophage uptake of silver nanoparticles and cellular activation
Author(s): Aldossari, Abdullah A.; Shannahan, Jonathan H.; Podila, Ramakrishna; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH  Volume: 17  Issue: 7  Article Number: 313  DOI: 10.1007/s11051-015-3116-0  Published: JUL 21 2015

Hydrothermal Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Brackebuschite-Type Transition Metal Vanadates: Ba2M(VO4)(2)(OH), M = V3+, Mn3+, and Fe3+, with Interesting Jahn-Teller and Spin-Liquid Behavior
Author(s): Sanjeewa, Liurukara D.; McGuire, Michael A.; Garlea, Vasile O.; et al.
Source: INORGANIC CHEMISTRY  Volume: 54  Issue: 14  Pages: 7014-7020  DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01037  Published: JUL 20 2015

Self-Assembled Recyclable Hierarchical Bucky Aerogels
Author(s): Karakaya, Mehmet; Saini, Deepika; Podila, Ramakrishna; et al.
Source: ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS  Volume: 17  Issue: 7  Pages: 990-994  DOI: 10.1002/adem.201400414  Published: JUL 2015

Microwave Interrogated Sapphire Fiber Michelson Interferometer for High Temperature Sensing
Author(s): Huang, Jie; Lan, Xinwei; Song, Yang; et al.
Source: IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS  Volume: 27  Issue: 13  Pages: 1398-1401  DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2422136  Published: JUL 1 2015

Infrared fibers
Author(s): Tao, Guangming; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike; Stolyarov, Alexander M.; et al.
Source: ADVANCES IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS  Volume: 7  Issue: 2  Pages: 379-458  DOI: 10.1364/AOP.7.000379  Published: JUN 30 2015  

Kerr nonlinear switching in a hybrid silica-silicon microspherical resonator
Author(s): Suhailin, F. H.; Healy, N.; Franz, Y.; et al.
Source: OPTICS EXPRESS  Volume: 23  Issue: 13  Pages: 17263-17268  DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.017263  Published: JUN 29 2015

Solution-Processed Planar Perovskite Solar Cell Without a Hole Transport Layer
Author(s): Jin, Yi; Chumanov, George
Source: ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES  Volume: 7  Issue: 22  Pages: 12015-12021  DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02124  Published: JUN 10 2015   

Preparation of biphenyl perfluorocyclobutyl (BP-PFCB) polyethylene glycol (PEG) copolymers by the formation of fluorinated arylene vinylene ether (FAVE)
Author(s): Brown, Dakarai K.; Cracowski, Jean-Marc; Iacono, Scott T.; et al.
Source: POLYMER BULLETIN  Volume: 72  Issue: 6  Pages: 1393-1405  DOI: 10.1007/s00289-015-1344-1  Published: JUN 201

Crystal Chemistry of Alkali Thorium Silicates Under Hydrothermal Conditions
Author(s): Mann, J. Matthew; McMillen, Colin D.; Kolis, Joseph W.
Source: CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN  Volume: 15  Issue: 6  Pages: 2643-2651  DOI: 10.1021/cg5017164  Published: JUN 2015

Conjugated polymers with regularly spaced m-phenylene units and post-polymerization modification to yield stimuli-responsive materials
Author(s): Buelt, Ashley A.; Conrad, Catherine A.; Mackay, William D.; et al.
Source: POLYMER INTERNATIONAL  Volume: 64  Issue: 6  Pages: 730-739  DOI: 10.1002/pi.4877  Published: JUN 2015 

400-W near diffraction-limited single-frequency all-solid photonic bandgap fiber amplifier
Author(s): Pulford, Benjamin; Ehrenreich, Thomas; Holten, Roger; et al.
Source: OPTICS LETTERS  Volume: 40  Issue: 10  Pages: 2297-2300  DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.002297  Published: MAY 15 2015  
 
Luminescence and thermal lensing characterization of singly Eu3+ and Tm3+ doped Y2O3 transparent ceramics
Author(s): Poma, P. Y.; Kumar, K. Upendra; Vermelho, M. V. D.; et al.
Source: Journal of Luminescence Volume: 161 Pages: 306-312  DOI:10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.01.003 Published: MAY 2015

X-Ray Excited Luminescence Chemical Imaging of Bacterial Growth on Surfaces Implanted in Tissue
Author(s): Wang, Fenglin; Raval, Yash; Tzeng, Tzuen-Rong J.; et al.
Source: ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS  Volume: 4  Issue: 6  Pages: 903-910  DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201400685  Published: APR 22 2015