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When Like Destabilizes Like: Inverted Solvent Effects in Apolar Nanoparticle Dispersions
Debora Monego, Thomas Kister, Nicholas Kirkwood +4
We report on the colloidal stability of nanoparticles with alkanethiol shells in apolar solvents. Small angle X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics simulations were used to chara…
Predicting Contact Angle Hysteresis on Surfaces with Randomly and Periodically Distributed Cylindrical Pillars via Energy Dissipation
Pawan Kumar, Paul Mulvaney, Dalton J. E. Harvie
Hypothesis: Understanding contact angle hysteresis on rough surfaces is important as most industrially relevant and naturally occurring surfaces possess some form of random or stru…
Memory in quantum dot blinking
Roberto N. Munoz, Laszlo Frazer, Gangcheng Yuan +3
The photoluminescence intermittency (blinking) of quantum dots is interesting because it is an easily-measured quantum process whose transition statistics cannot be explained by Fe…
Quantum-Probe Field Microscopy of Ultrafast Terahertz Excitations
Moritz B. Heindl, Nicholas Kirkwood, Tobias Lauster +4
Rapid evolutions of microscopic fields govern the majority of elementary excitations in condensed matter and drive microelectronic currents at increasing frequencies. Beyond nomina…
On the colloidal stability of apolar nanoparticles: The role of ligand length
Debora Monego, Thomas Kister, Nicholas Kirkwood +3
Inorganic nanoparticle cores are often coated with organic ligands to render them dispersible in apolar solvents. However, the effect of the ligand shell on the colloidal stability…
On the colloidal stability of apolar nanoparticles: The role of particle size and ligand shell structure
Thomas Kister, Debora Monego, Paul Mulvaney +2
Being able to predict and tune the colloidal stability of nanoparticles is essential for a wide range of applications, yet our ability to do so is currently poor due to a lack of u…