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Mark T. Swihart

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Director, Integrated Nanostructured Systems

506 Furnas Hall
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Refereed Journal Publications (2003-2007)

  • Osmon, Antoine, Laurent Catoire, Iskender Gökalp, and Mark T. Swihart, "Thermochemistry of C-C and C-H Bond Breaking in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters," Energy & Fuels, In Press.
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yuhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, "Shape Control of CdS Nanocrystals in One Pot Synthesis," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 2447-2458 (2007).
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Jun Qian, Indrajit Roy, Hoon Hi Lee, Earl J. Bergey, Kenneth M. Tramposch, Sailing He, Mark T. Swihart, Anirban Maitra, and Paras N. Prasad, "Quantum Rod Bioconjugates as Targeted Probes for Confocal and Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging of Cancer Cells," Nano Letters, 7, 761-765 (2007).
  • Zhang, Hongwang and Mark T. Swihart, "Synthesis of Tellurium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Spray Pyrolysis," Chemistry of Materials, 19, 1290-1301 (2007).
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Kaushik Roy Choudhury, Mark T. Swihart, John R. Minter and Paras N. Prasad, “Control of the Morphology and Size of PbS Nanowires using Gold Nanoparticles”, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 5965-5972 (2006).
  • Sato, Seiichi and Mark T. Swihart, “Propionic acid terminated silicon nanoparticles: Synthesis and optical characterization”, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 4083-4088 (2006).
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Growth of CdSe Quantum Rods and Multipods Seeded by Noble Metal Nanoparticles”, Advanced Materials, 18, 1978-1982 (2006).
  • Shi, Weili, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Hao Zeng, Yong Ding, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Anisotropic Growth of PbSe Nanocrystals on Au-Fe3O4 Hybrid Nanoparticles”, Advanced Materials, 18, 1889-1894 (2006), also featured on the inside front cover, Advanced Materials, 18 (14), July 18, 2006.
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Synthesis and Plasmonic Properties of Silver and Gold Nanoshells on Polystyrene Cores of Different Size and of Gold-Silver Core-Shell Nanostructures”, Colloids and Surfaces A, 290, 89-105 (2006)
  • Shi, Weili, Hao Zeng, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Tymish Ohulchanskyy, Yong Ding, Zhong Lin Wang, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “A General Approach to Binary and Ternary Hybrid Nanocrystals”, Nano Letters, 6, 875-881 (2006).  Highlighted in Science Magazine’s Editor’s Choice:  Highlights of the Recent Literature column.  Science, 311, 1675 (March 24, 2006).
  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Kaushik Roy Chaudhury, Mark T. Swihart, John R. Minter, and Paras N. Prasad, “Shape Control of PbSe Nanocrystals Using Noble Metal Seed Particles”, Nano Letters, 6, 709-714 (2006).
  • Hua, Fengjun, Folarin Erogbogbo, Mark T. Swihart, and Eli Ruckenstein, “Organically capped silicon nanoparticles with blue photoluminescence prepared by hydrosilylation followed by oxidation”, Langmuir, 22, 4363-4370 (2006).
  • He, Yuanging, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Shumin Wang, Hong Luo, Paras N. Prasad, and Mark T. Swihart, “Laser-Driven Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Iron Nanoparticles”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 8, 335-342 (2006).
  • Sahoo, Yudhisthira, Yuanqing He, Mark T. Swihart, Shumin Wang, Hong Luo, Edward P. Furlani, and Paras N. Prasad, "An aerosol-mediated magnetic colloid: Study of nickel nanoparticles", Journal of Applied Physics, 98, 054308 (2005).
  • Khakimov, Z.M., P.L. Tereshchuk, F.T. Umarova, M.T. Swihart, "Non-conventional tight-binding method for calculation of total energy and spectroscopic energies of atomic clusters. Transferable parameters for silicon", Phys. Rev. B., 72 115335 (2005).
  • Hua, Fengjun, Mark T. Swihart, and Eli Ruckenstein, “Efficient surface grafting of luminescent silicon quantum dots by photoinitiated hydrosilylation”, Langmuir,  21, 6054-6062 (2005).
  • Kirkey, William D., Yudhisthira Sahoo, Xuegeng Li, Yuanqing He, Mark T. Swihart, Alexander N. Cartwright, Stanley Bruckenstein, and Paras N. Prasad, “Quasi-Reversible Photoluminescence Quenching of Stable Dispersions of Silicon Nanoparticles”, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, 2028-2034 (2005).
  • He, Yuanqing, Xuegeng Li, and Mark T. Swihart, “Laser-Driven Aerosol Synthesis of Nickel Nanoparticles”, Chemistry of Materials, 17, 1017-1026 (2005).
  • Shi, Weili, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Gold Nanoshells on Polystyrene Cores for Control of Surface Plasmon Resonance”, Langmuir, 21, 1610-1617 (2005).
  • Sahoo, Yudhisthira, Alireza Goodarzi, Mark T. Swihart, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Navjot Kaur, Edward P.  Furlani, and Paras N. Prasad, “Aqueous ferrofluid of magnetite nanoparticles: Fluorescence labeling and magnetophoretic control”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 3879-3885 (2005).
  • Liu, Gang, Mark T. Swihart, and Sriram Neelamegham, “Sensitivity, principal component and flux analysis applied to signal transduction: The case of epidermal growth factor mediated signaling”, Bioinformatics, 21, 1194-1202 (2005).
  • Swihart, Mark T., “Assembling gas-phase reaction mechanisms for high temperature inorganic systems based on quantum chemistry calculations and reaction rate theories”, Journal of the Chemistry and Physics of Solids, 66, 364-371 (2005).
  • Wong, Hsi-Wu, Xuegeng Li, Mark T. Swihart, and Linda J. Broadbelt, “Detailed Kinetic Modeling of Silicon Nanoparticle Formation Chemistry via Automated Mechanism Generation”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 10122-10132 (2004).
  • Shi, Weili, Y. Sahoo, and Mark T. Swihart, “Gold nanoparticles surface-terminated with bifunctional ligands”, Colloids and Surfaces, A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 246, 109-113 (2004).
  • Talukdar, Suddha S., and Mark T. Swihart, “Aerosol dynamics modeling of silicon nanoparticle formation during silane pyrolysis: a comparison of three solution methods”, Journal of Aerosol Science, 35, 889-908 (2004).
  • Li, Xuegeng, Yuanqing He, and Mark T. Swihart, “Surface Functionalization of Silicon Nanoparticles Produced by Laser-Driven Pyrolysis of Silane followed by HF-HNO3 Etching”, Langmuir , 20, 4720-4727 (2004).
  • Li, Zhifeng, Mark T. Swihart, and Eli Ruckenstein, “Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles Capped by Conductive Polyaniline through the Self-assembly Method”, Langmuir, 20, 1963-1971, (2004).
  • Wong, Hsi-Wu, Juan Carlos Alva Nieto, Mark T. Swihart, and Linda J. Broadbelt, “Thermochemistry of Silicon-Hydrogen Compounds Generalized from Quantum Chemical Calculations”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 874-897, (2004).
  • Li, X., Y. He, S.S. Talukdar and M.T. Swihart, "A process for preparing macroscopic quantities of brightly photoluminescent silicon nanoparticles with emission spanning the visible spectrum", Langmuir, 19, 8490-8496.
  • Wong, H.-W.,X. Li, M.T. Swihart, and L.J. Broadbelt, “Encoding of Polycyclic Si-Containing Molecules for Determining Species Uniqueness in Automated Mechanism Generation”, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 43, 735-742 (2003).
  • Swihart, M.T., "Vapor Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles (Invited Review)", Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (2003) 8, 127-133 (2003).
  • Catoire, L., M. T. Swihart, S. Gail, and P. Dagaut, "Anharmonic Thermochemistry of Cyclopentadiene Derivatives", The International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 35, 453-463 (2003).
  • Nijhawan, S., P. H. McMurry, M. T. Swihart, S.-M. Suh, 
    S. L. Girshick, S. A. Campbell, and J. E. Brockmann"An Experimental and Numerical Study of Particle Nucleation and Growth During Low-Pressure Thermal Decomposition of Silane", The Journal of Aerosol Science, 34, 691-711 (2003).
  • Swihart, M.T., L. Catoire, B. Legrand, I. Gökalp, and C. Paillard, "Rate Constants for the Homogeneous Gas-Phase Al/HCl Combustion Chemistry", Combustion and Flame, 132, 91-101 (2003).
  • Talukdar, S.S., and M.T. Swihart, "An Improved Data Inversion Program for Obtaining Aerosol Size Distributions from Differential Mobility Analyzer Data", Aerosol Science and Technology, 37, 145-161 (2003).

Book Chapters

  • Mark T. Swihart, "Silicon Nanoparticles for Biophotonics," Chapter 4 in Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine:  Methods, Devices, and Applications, edited by Tuan Vo Dinh, CRC Press, 2007.
  • Mark T. Swihart, "Constructing Reaction Mechanisms," Chapter 5 in Modelling of Chemical Reactions, edited by Robert W. Carr, Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Vol. 42, pp. 189-246, Elsevier, 2007, In Press.

Patents

  • Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Facile High-Yield Production of Semiconductor Quantum Rods and Multipods using Noble Metal Nanoparticles“, pending application, submitted December 21, 2006.
  • Ruckenstein, Eli, Mark T. Swihart, and Fengjun Hua, “Production of Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles having Surfaces that are Essentially Free of Residual Oxygen”, pending application, serial number 60/672,808, filed April 19, 2006.
  • He, Yuanqing, Xuegeng Li, and Mark T. Swihart, “Production of Nickel Nanoparticles from Nickel Carbonyl via Laser Pyrolysis”,pending application, serial number 60/618,288, filed October 13, 2005.  Exclusive license from UB to INCO of Toronto, Canada executed May 2005.
  • Li, Xuegeng, Yuanqing He, and Mark T. Swihart, “Process for Producing Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles”, pending application, Serial No. 10/796,442, filed March 9, 2004.
  • Li, Xuegeng, Yuanqing He, and Mark T. Swihart, 'Process for Producing Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles', pending application, Serial No. 10/796,442, filed March 9, 2004.
  • Becker, C.L., J.R. Lattner, and M.T. Swihart, "Fluidized Bed Reactor and Process for Producing 5-Ethylidene-2-Norbornene", U.S. Patent No. 6,294,707 (2001).

Last Updated: October 2007

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