Publications

(75) Tereshchuk, Polina L., Zokhirkon M. Khakimov, and Mark T. Swihart, "Energetically Competetive Growth Patterns of Silicon Clusters: Quasi-One-Dimensional Clusters versus Diamond-Like Clusters, submitted to Physical Review B. (download PDF)

(74) Zhang, Hongwang and Mark T. Swihart, “Synthesis of Tellurium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Spray Pyrolysis”, Chemistry of Materials, in press (2007).

(73) Yong, Ken-Tye, Yudhisthira Sahoo, Mark T. Swihart, and Paras N. Prasad, “Shape Control of CdS Nanocrystals in One Pot Synthesis”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, in press (2007).

(72) 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). (download PDF)

(71) Sato, Seiichi and Mark T. Swihart, “Propionic acid terminated silicon nanoparticles: Synthesis and optical characterization”, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 4083-4088 (2006). (download PDF)

(70) 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). (download PDF)

(69) 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. (download PDF)

(68) 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). (download PDF)

(67) 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). (download PDF)

(66) 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). (download PDF)

(65) 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). (download PDF)

(64) 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). (download PDF)

(63) Zhang, Hongwang, and Mark T. Swihart, “Synthesis of Tellurium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Spray Pyrolysis”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 2 (7), 239-248 (2006).

(62) Zhang, Hongwang, Ken-Tye Yong, and Mark T. Swihart, “Synthesis of Zinc Sulfide Nanoparticles by Spray Pyrolysis”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 2 (7), 249-254 (2006).

(61) Dang, Hongyi, and Mark T. Swihart, “Computational Modeling of Silicon Nanoparticle Formation”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 2 (7), 255-266 (2006).

(60) Swihart, Mark T., Yuanqing He, and Suddha S. Talukdar, “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling of a Laser-Driven Aerosol Reactor”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 2 (7), 267-278 (2006).

(59) Khakimov, Z. M., P. L. Tereshchuk, N. T. Sulaymanov, F. T. Umarova, A. P. Mukhtarov, and Mark T. Swihart, “Non-Conventional Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Bare Silicon and Silicon-Hydrogen Clusters”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 2 (7), 279-288 (2006).

(58) Kim, Sung Jin, V.P. Chodavarapu, F. Kamal, V.K.S. Hsiao, and A.N. Cartwright, “Tunable porous photonic bandgap structures for chemical and biological sensing” Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 6322, 632201 (2006).

(57) 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). (download PDF)

(56) 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). (download PDF)

(55) Hua, Fengjun, Mark T. Swihart, and Eli Ruckenstein, “Efficient surface grafting of luminescent silicon quantum dots by photoinitiated hydrosilylation”, Langmuir, 21, 6054-6062 (2005). (download PDF)

(54) 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). (download PDF)

(53) He, Yuanqing, Xuegeng Li, and Mark T. Swihart, “Laser-Driven Aerosol Synthesis of Nickel Nanoparticles”, Chemistry of Materials, 17, 1017-1026 (2005). (download PDF)

(52) 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). (download PDF)

(51) 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). (download PDF)

(50) 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). (download PDF)

(49) 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). Part of a special issue containing the proceedings of The IUPAC Conference on High Temperature Materials Chemistry – XI, May 19-23, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. (download PDF)

(48) 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). (download PDF)

(47) Khakimov, Z.M., P.L. Tereshchuk, F.T. Umarova, and Mark T. Swihart, “Improved Parameterization of Non-Conventional Tight-Binding Method for Simulation of Silicon Nanoclusters”, Uzbek Journal of Physics, 6, 264-269 (2004).

(46) 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). (download PDF)

(43) 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). (download PDF)

(42) 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). (download PDF)

(41)Kirkey, W.D., A.N. Cartwright, X. Li, Y. He, M.T. Swihart, Y. Sahoo, and P.N. Prasad, “Optical Properties of Polymer-Embedded Silicon Nanoparticles”, Proceedings of the Materials Research Society, 789, N.15.30.1-N.15.30.6, (2004). (download PDF)

(40)Goodarzi, A., Y. Sahoo, M.T. Swihart, and P.N. Prasad, “Aqueous Ferrofluid of Citric Acid Coated Magnetite Particles”, Proceedings of the Materials Research Society, 789, N.6.6.1-N.6.6.6, (2004). (download PDF)

(39) Li, X., Y. He, S.S. Talukdar, M.T. Swihart, “Preparation of luminescent silicon nanoparticles by photothermal aerosol synthesis followed by acid etching”, Phase Transitions: A Multinational Journal, 77, 131-137 (2004).Part of a special issue containing proceedings of the International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Heterogeneous Systems, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, November 29, 2002, Duisburg, Germany. (download PDF)

(38) 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. (download PDF)

(37) 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). (download PDF)

(36) Swihart, M.T., "Vapor Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles (Invited Review)", Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (2003) 8, 127-133 (2003). (download PDF)

(35) 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). (download PDF)

(34) Swihart, M.T., X. Li, Y. He, W.D. Kirkey, A.N. Cartwright, Y. Sahoo, and P.N. Prasad, "High-rate synthesis and characterization of brightly luminescent silicon nanoparticles with applications in hybrid materials for photonics and biophotonics" Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5222, 108-117 (2003).

(33) Cartwright, A.N., W.D. Kirkey, M.L. Furis, X. Li, Y. He, D. MacRae, Y. Sahoo, M.T. Swihart, and P.N. Prasad, "Ultrafast dynamics in nanostructured materials", Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5222, 134-139 (2003).

(32) 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). (download PDF)

(31) S.S. Talukdar, C.A. Ng, and M.T. Swihart, “Aerosol Dynamics Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Laser-Driven Nanoparticle Synthesis Reactor”, Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, PV 2003-08, 235-242 (2003).

(30) X. Li, Y. He, and M.T. Swihart, “Photothermal Aerosol Synthesis of and Photoluminescence from Silicon Nanoparticles”, Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, PV 2003-08, 1161-1167 (2003).

(29) 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). (download PDF)

(28) 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). (download PDF)

(27) Catoire, L., and M.T. Swihart, "Thermochemistry of species produced from monomethylhydrazine (MMH) in propulsion and space-related applications", The Journal of Propulsion and Power, 18, 1242-1253, (2002).

(26) Catoire, L., and M.T. Swihart, "High Temperature Kinetics of AlCl₃ Decomposition in the Presence of Additives for Chemical Vapor Deposition", The Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 129, C261-C267, (2002). (download PDF)

(25) Jalbout, A.F., Swihart, M.T., and Jursic, B.S., “Corrigendum to "Potential energy surface for H2Si2 isomers explored with complete basis set ab initio method" [J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 459 (1999) 221-228]”, The Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 571, 231-232, (2001).

(24) Li, X., and M.T. Swihart, "Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Homogeneous Nucleation of Hydrogenated Silicon Particles during Silane Decomposition", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 2001-13, 455-461, (2001).

(23) Talukdar, S., X. Li and M.T. Swihart, "Photothermal Aerosol Synthesis and Characterization of Silicon Nanoparticles", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 2001-13, 448-454, (2001).

(22) Bhandarkar, U.V., S.L. Girshick, M.T. Swihart, and U.R. Kortshagen, "Gas-Phase Nucleation in Low-Pressure Silane Plasmas", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 2001-13, 481-487, (2001).

(21) Catoire, L., and M.T. Swihart, "High Temperature Kinetics of AlCl₃ Decomposition in the Presence of Additives for Chemical Vapor Deposition", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 2001-13, 1-8, (2001).

(20) Swihart, M.T, and L. Catoire, "Reactions in the Al-H-Cl System Studied by ab Initio Molecular Orbital and Density Functional Methods", The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 105, 264-273 (2001). (download PDF)

(19) Li, X, and M.T. Swihart, "Modeling Particle Nucleation during Thermal CVD of Silicon from Silane using Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 2000-13, 60-66 (2000).

(18) Bhandarkar, U.V., M.T. Swihart, S.L. Girshick and U.R. Kortshagen, "Modeling of Silicon Hydride Clustering in a Low Pressure Silane Plasma", The Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 33, 2731-2746 (2000). (download PDF)

(17) Swihart, M.T., "Electron Affinities of Selected Hydrogenated Silicon Clusters (Si_xH_y, x = 1-7, y = 0-15) from Density Functional Theory Calculations", The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 104, 6083-6087 (2000). (download PDF)

(16) Girshick, S.L., M.T. Swihart, S.-M. Suh, M.R. Mahajan, and S. Nijhawan, "Numerical Modeling of Gas-Phase Nucleation and Particle Growth during Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon", The Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 147, 2303-2311 (2000). (download PDF)

(15) Swihart, M.T. and L. Catoire, "Thermochemistry of Aluminum Species for Combustion Modeling from Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations", Combustion and Flame, 121, 210-222 (2000). (download PDF)

(14) Larson, J.M., M.T. Swihart, and S.L. Girshick, "Characterization of the Near-Surface Gas Phase Chemical Environment in Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond", Diamond and Related Materials, 8, 1863-1874 (1999). (download PDF)

(13) Bhandarkar, U.V., M.T. Swihart, U.R. Kortshagen, and S.L. Girshick, "Modeling of Plasma Chemistry for Silicon Hydride Clustering in PECVD Processes", Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR; Prague, Czech Republic, August 2-6, 1999) vol. IV, pp. 2205-2210.

(12) Kortshagen, U.R., U.V. Bhandarkar, M.T. Swihart, and S.L. Girshick, "Generation and Growth of Nanoparticles in Low-Pressure Plasmas", Pure and Applied Chemistry, 71, 1871-1877 (1999). (download PDF)

(11) Swihart, M. T., and S.L. Girshick, "Ab Initio Structures and Energetics of Selected Hydrogenated Silicon Clusters Containing Six to Ten Silicon Atoms", Chemical Physics Letters, 307, 527-532 (1999). (download PDF)

(10) Girshick, S.L., M.T. Swihart, S.-M. Suh, M.R. Mahajan, and S. Nijhawan, "Numerical Modeling of Gas-Phase Nucleation and Particle Growth during Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon", Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society, 98-23, 215-226 (1999).

(9) Swihart, M.T., and S.L. Girshick, "An Analysis of Flow, Temperature and Chemical Composition Distortion in Gas Sampling through an Orifice during Chemical Vapor Deposition", Physics of Fluids,11, 821-832 (1999). (download PDF)

(8) Swihart, M.T., and S.L. Girshick, "Thermochemistry and Kinetics of Silicon Hydride Cluster formation during Thermal Decomposition of Silane", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 103, 64-76 (1999). (download PDF)

(7) Swihart, M.T., S. Nijhawan, M. Mahajan, S.-M. Suh, and S.L. Girshick, "Modeling the Nucleation Kinetics and Aerosol Dynamics of Particle Formation during CVD of Silicon from Silane", The Journal of Aerosol Science, 29, Suppl. 1, S77-S78 (1998). (download PDF)

(6) Swihart, M.T., and R. W. Carr, "On the Mechanism of Homogeneous Decomposition of the Chlorinated Silanes. Chain Reactions Propagated by Divalent Silicon Species", The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 102, 1542-1549 (1998). (download PDF)

(5) Swihart, M.T., and R.W. Carr, "Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study of the Thermochemistry and Reactions of Chlorinated Disilenes and Their Isomers (Si2HnCl4-n)", The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 102, 785-792 (1998). (download PDF)

(4) Swihart, M.T., and R.W. Carr, "Thermal Decomposition of Dichlorosilane Investigated by Pulsed Laser Powered Homogeneous Pyrolysis", The Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 144, 4257-4361 (1997). (download PDF)

(3) Swihart, M.T., and R.W. Carr, "Thermochemistry and Thermal Decomposition of the Chlorinated Disilanes (Si2HnCl6-n, n=0-6) Studied by ab Initio Molecular Orbital Methods", The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 101, 7434-7445 (1997). (download PDF)

(2) Swihart, M.T., and R.W. Carr, "Pulsed Laser Powered Homogeneous Pyrolysis for Reaction Kinetic Studies: Probe Laser Measurement of Reaction Time and Temperature", International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 28, 817-828 (1996). (download PDF)

(1) Swihart, M.T., and R.W. Carr, "Pulsed Laser Powered Homogeneous Pyrolysis: A Computational Analysis", International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 26, 779-799 (1994). (download PDF)