2015 Publications Utilizing the AIF

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Publications that include results obtained at AIF should acknowledge the Facility with this statement:

This work was performed in part at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) at North Carolina State University, which is supported by the State of North Carolina and the National Science Foundation (award number ECCS-1542015). The AIF is a member of the North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a site in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

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2015
93. Sommer, S.; Wegmann-Herr, P.; Wacker, M.; Fischer, U. “Rationale for a Stronger Disposition of Chardonnay Wines for Stuck and Sluggish Fermentation.” South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 36 (1): 180-190 (2015).  
92. Lin, Yiliang; Cooper, Christopher; Wang, Meng; Adams, Jacob J.; Genzer, Jan; Dickey, Michael D. “Handwritten, Soft Circuit Boards and Antennas Using Liquid Metal Nanoparticles.” Small, 11 (48): 6397-6403 (2015).
91. Lomenzo, Patrick D.; Takmeel, Qanit; Zhou, Chuanzhen; Chung, Ching-Chang; Moghaddam, Saeed; Jones, Jacob L.; Nishida, Toshikazu. “Mixed Al and Si doping in ferroelectric HfO2 thin films.” Applied Physics Letters, 107 (24): 242903 (2015). 
90. Hu, Quanyin; Sun, Wujin; Qian, Chengen; Wang, Chao; Bomba, Hunter N.; Gu, Zhen. “Anticancer Platelet-Mimicking Nanovehicles.” Advanced Materials, 27 (44): 7043 (2015).
89. Shafiefarhood, Arya; Hamill, Joseph Clay; Neal, Luke Michael; Li, Fanxing. “Methane partial oxidation using FeOx@La0.8Sr0.2FeO3-delta core-shell catalyst – transient pulse studies.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17 (46): 31297-31307 (2015).
88. Singamaneni, Srinivasa Rao; Narayan, Jay; Prater, John T. “Multifunctional heterostructures integrated on Si (100).” Emerging Materials Research, 4(1): 50-70 (2015).
87. Eaton, Craig; Moyer, Jarrett A.; Alipour, Hamideh M.; Grimley, Everett
D.; Brahlek, Matthew; LeBeau, James M.; Engel-Herbert, Roman. “Growth of SrVO3 thin films by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy.” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 33 (6): Article no 061504 (2015).
86. Zhang, Xu A.; Bagal, Abhijeet; Dandley, Erinn C.; Zhao, Junjie; Oldham, Christopher J.; Wu, Bae-Ian; Parsons, Gregory N.; Chang, Chih-Hao. “Ordered 3D Thin-Shell Nanolattice Materials with Near-Unity Refractive Indices.”Advanced Functional Materials, 25 (42):6644-6649 (2015).
85. Stewart, Ian E.; Ye, Shengrong; Chen, Zuofeng; Flowers, Patrick F.; Wiley, Benjamin J. “Synthesis of Cu-Ag, Cu-Au, and Cu-Pt Core-Shell Nanowires and Their Use in Transparent Conducting Films.” Chemistry of Materials, 27 (22): 7788-7794 (2015).
84. Mertens, Brittany S.; Velev, Orlin D. “Characterization and control of surfactant-mediated Norovirus interactions.” Soft Matter, 11 (44): 8621-8631 (2015).
83. Chen, Hui; Han, Qiang; Venditti, Richard A.; Jameel, Hasan. “Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pretreated Newspaper Having High Lignin Content for Bioethanol Production.” Bioresources, 10 (3): 4077-4098 (2015).
82. Li, Lulu; Xu, Weizong; Saber, Mostafa; Zhu, Yuntian; Koch, Carl C.; Scattergood, Ronald O. “Long-term stability of 14YT-4Sc alloy at high temperature.” Materials Science and Engineering A, 647: 222-228 (2015).
81. Neal, Luke; Shafiefarhood, Arya; Li, Fanxing. “Effect of core and shell compositions on MeOx@LaySr1-yFeO3 core-shell redox catalysts for chemical looping reforming of methane.” Applied Energy, 157: 391-398 (2015).
80. Galinsky, Nathan; Mishra, Amit; Zhang, Jia; Li, Fanxing. “Ca(1-x)A(x)MnO(3) (A = Sr and Ba) perovskite based oxygen carriers for chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling (CLOU).” Applied Energy, 157: 358-367 (2015).
79. Zaddach, A. J.; Niu, C.; Oni, A. A.; Fan, M.; LeBeau, J. M.; Irving, D. L.; Koch, C. C. “Structure and magnetic properties of a multi-principal element Ni-Fe-Cr-Co-Zn-Mn alloy.” Intermetallics, 68: 107-112 (2015).
78. Lin, Lin; Lopez, Rene; Ramon, Guy Z.; Coronell, Orlando. “Investigating the void structure of the polyamide active layers of thin-film composite membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science, 497: 365-376 (2015).
77. Moattia, A.; Bayatib, R. and Narayana, J. “Epitaxial growth of rutile TiO2 thin films by oxidation of TiN/Si{100} heterostructure.” Acta Materialia, 103, 502-511 (2015).  
76. Yildiz, Ozkan; Stano, Kelly; Faraji, Shaghayegh; Stone, Corinne; Willis, Colin; Zhang, Xiangwu; Jur, Jesse S.; Bradford, Philip D. “High performance carbon nanotube – polymer nanofiber hybrid fabrics.” Nanoscale, 7 (40): 16744-16754 (2015).
75. Faraji, Shaghayegh; Stano, Kelly L.; Yildiz, Ozkan; Li, Ang; Zhu, Yuntian; Bradford, Philip D. “Ultralight anisotropic foams from layered aligned carbon nanotube sheets.” Nanoscale, 7 (40): 17038-17047 (2015).
74. Lee, Y. F.; Kumar, R.; Hunte, F.; Narayan, J.; Schwartz, J. “Microstructure and transport properties of epitaxial topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin films grown on MgO (100), Cr2O3 (0001), and Al2O3 (0001) templates.” Journal of applied Physics, 118 (12): 125309 (2015).
73. Singamaneni, Srinivasa Rao; Prater, John T.; Narayan, Jagdish. “Magnetic exchange coupling in bilayers of two epitaxial ferromagnetic oxides.” Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, 19 (5):301-304 (2015).
72. Kasanaboina, Pavan Kumar; Ojha, Sai Krishna; Sami, Shifat Us; Reynolds, C. Lewis, Jr.; Liu, Yang; Iyer, Shanthi. “Bandgap tuning of GaAs/GaAsSb core-shell nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy.”Semiconductor Science and Technology, 30 (10): 105036 (2015)
71. Zhou, Jinling; Vu Thanh Tra; Dong, Shuai; Trappen, Robbyn; Marcus, Matthew A.; Jenkins, Catherine; Frye, Charles; Wolfe, Evan; White, Ryan; Polisetty, Srinivas; Lin, Jiunn-Yuan; LeBeau, James M.; Chu, Ying-Hao; Holcomb, Mikel Barry. “Thickness dependence of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/ PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 magnetoelectric interfaces.” Applied Physics Letters, 107 (14): 141603 (2015).
70. Sun, Wujin; Ji, Wenyan; Hall, Jordan M.; Hu, Quanyin; Wang, Chao; Beisel, Chase L.; Gu, Zhen. “Self-Assembled DNA Nanoclews for the Efficient Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Editing.” Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 54 (41): 12029-12033 (2015).
69. Narayanan, Ganesh; Gupta, Bhupender S.; Tonelli, Alan E. “Enhanced mechanical properties of poly (ε-caprolactone) nanofibers produced by the addition of non-stoichiometric inclusion complexes of poly(ε-caprolactone) and α-cyclodextrin.” Polymer, 76, 321-330 (2015).
68. Daubert, James S.; Lewis, Neal P.; Gotsch, Hannah N.; Mundy, J. Zachary; Monroe, David N.; Dickey, Elizabeth C.; Losego, Mark D.; Parsons, Gregory N. “Effect of Meso- and Micro-Porosity in Carbon Electrodes on Atomic Layer Deposition of Pseudocapacitive V2O5 for High Performance Supercapacitors.” Chemistry of Materials, 27 (19): 6524-6534 (2015).
67. Yang, Xiangyu; Lee, Bongmook and Misra, Veena. “High Mobility 4H-SiC Lateral MOSFETs Using Lanthanum Silicate and Atomic Layer Deposited SiO2.” IEEE Electron Device Letters, 36 (4), 312-314 (2015).
66. Rost, Christina M.; Sachet, Edward; Borman, Trent; Moballegh, Ali; Dickey, Elizabeth C.; Hou, Dong; Jones, Jacob L.; Curtarolo, Stefano and Maria, Jon-Paul. “Entropy-stabilized oxides.” Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8485 (2015).
65. Usher, Tedi-Marie; Levin, Igor; Daniels, John E. and Jones, Jacob L. “Electric-field-induced local and mesoscale structural changes in polycrystalline dielectrics and ferroelectrics.” Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 14678 (2015).
64. Zhao, Junjie; Nunn, William T.; Lemaire, Paul C.; Lin, Yiliang; Dickey, Michael D.; Oldham, Christopher J.; Walls, Howard J.; Peterson, Gregory W.; Losego, Mark D. and Parsons, Gregory N. “Facile Conversion of Hydroxy Double Salts to Metal−Organic Frameworks Using Metal Oxide Particles and Atomic Layer Deposition Thin-Film Templates.” Journal of American Chemical Society, 137 (43): 13756-13759 (2015).
63. Kasanaboina, Pavan Kumar; Ahmad, Estiak; Li, Jia; Reynolds, C. Lewis, Jr.; Liu, Yang; Iyer, Shanthi. “Self-catalyzed growth of dilute nitride GaAs/GaAsSbN/GaAs core-shell nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy.” Applied Physics Letters, 107 (10), 103111 (2015). 
62. Ge, Yeqian; Zhu, Jiadeng; Lu, Yao; Chen, Chen; Qiu, Yiping; Zhang, Xiangwu. “The study on structure and electrochemical sodiation of one-dimensional nanocrystalline TiO2@C nanofiber composites.” Electrochimica Acta, 176, 989-996 (2015).
61. Narayanan, Ganesh; Ormond, Bryan R.; Gupta, Bhupender S.; Tonelli, Alan E. “Efficient wound odor removal by β-cyclodextrin functionalized poly (ε-caprolactone) nanofibers.” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 132 (45), 42782 (2015).
60. Patil, Rohan R.; Turgman-Cohen, Salomon; Šrogl, Jiří; Kiserow, Douglas and Genzer, Jan. “On-Demand Degrafting and the Study of Molecular Weight and Grafting Density of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Brushes on Flat Silica Substrates.” Langmuir, 31 (8), 2372–2381 (2015). 
59. Ma, Xiaolong; Zhou, Hao; Narayan, Jagdish and Zhu, Yuntian “Stacking-fault energy effect on zero-strain deformation twinning in nanocrystalline Cu–Zn alloys.” Scripta Materialia 109: 89-93 (2015).
58. Zhang, Nanshan; Shen, Jialong; Pasquinelli, Melissa A.; Hinks, David; Tonelli, Alan E. “Formation and characterization of an inclusion complex of triphenyl phosphate and b-cyclodextrin and its use as a flame retardant for polyethylene terephthalate.” Polymer Degradation and Stability, 120, 244-250 (2015).
57. Kasanaboina, P. Kumar; Ojha, S. Krishna; Sami, S. Us; Reynolds, L.; Liu, Y.; and Lyer S. “Bandgap tuning of GaAs/GaAsSb core-shell nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy.” Semicond. Sci. Technol. 30, 105036 (10pp) (2015).
56. Delgadillo, Erika; Corona, Rosa I.; Toriz, Guillermo; Contreras, Hector J.; Sadeghifar, Hasan; Wang Baobing; Yang, Guihua; Lucia, Lucian A.; Delgado, Ezequiel. “Coacervated liposoluble fructan-based host-guest microspheres as unique drug delivery materials.” RSC Advances, 5 (83): 67759-67766 (2015).
55. Cheng, Guangming; Miao, Chunyang; Qin, Qingquan; Li, Jing; Xu, Feng; Haftbaradaran, Hamed; Dickey, Elizabeth C.; Gao, Huajian; Zhu, Yong. “Large anelasticity and associated energy dissipation in single-crystalline nanowires.” Nature Nanotechnology, 10 (8): 687-691 (2015).
54. Dycus, J. Houston; Harris, Joshua S.; Sang, Xiahan; Fancher, Chris M.; Findlay, Scott D.; Oni, Adedapo A.; Chan, Tsung-ta E.; Koch, Carl C.; Jones, Jacob L.; Allen, Leslie J.; Irving, Douglas L.; LeBeau, James M. “Accurate Nanoscale Crystallography in Real-Space Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy.” Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21 (4): 946-952 (2015).
53. Boltersdorf, Jonathan; Maggard, Paul A. “Structural and electronic investigations of PbTa4O11 and BiTa7O19 constructed from alpha-U3O8 types of layers.” Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 229: 310-321 (2015).
52. Xu, Weizong; Li, Lulu; Saber, Mostafa; Koch, Carl C.; Zhu, Yuntian; Scattergood, Ronald O. “Microstructures and Stabilization Mechanisms of Nanocrystalline Iron-Chromium Alloys with Hafnium Addition.” Metallurgical and materials Transactions A. 46A (9): 4394-4404 (2015).
51. Bagal, Abhijeet; Dandley, Erinn C.; Zhao, Junjie; Zhang, Xu A.; Oldham, Christopher J.; Parsons, Gregory N. and Chang, Chih-Hao. “Multifunctional nano-accordion structures for stretchable transparent conductors.” Materials Horizons, 2 (5): 486-494 (2015).
50. Pacardo, Dennis B.; Neupane, Bhanu; Rikard, S. Michaela; Lu, Yue; Mo, Ran; Mishra, Sumeet R.; Tracy, Joseph B.; Wang, Gufeng; Ligler, Frances S.; Gu, Zhen. “A dual wavelength-activatable gold nanorod complex for synergistic cancer treatment.” Nanoscale, 7 (28): 12096-12103 (2015).
49. Jones, Jacob L.; LeBeau, James M.; Nikkel, Jason; Oni, Adedapo A.; Dycus, J. Houston; Cozzan, Clayton; Lin, Fang-Yin; Chernatynskiy, Aleksandr; Nino, Juan C.; Sinnott, Susan B.; Mhin, Sungwook; Brennecka, Geoff L.; Ihlefeld, Jon. “Combined Experimental and Computational Methods Reveal the Evolution of Buried Interfaces during Synthesis of Ferroelectric Thin Films.” Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2 (10): article no. 1500181 (2015).
48. Sweet, William J., III; Parsons, Gregory N. “In Situ Conductance Analysis of Zinc Oxide Nucleation and Coalescence during Atomic Layer Deposition on Metal Oxides and Polymers.” Langmuir, 31 (26): 7274-7282 (2015).
47. Yu, Jicheng; Zhang, Yuqi; Ye, Yanqi; DiSanto, Rocco; Sun, Wujin; Ranson, Davis; Ligler, Frances S.; Buse, John B.; Gu, Zhen. “Microneedle-array patches loaded with hypoxia-sensitive vesicles provide fast glucose-responsive insulin delivery.” Proceedings of the NAS of the United States of America, 112 (27): 8260-8265 (2015).
46. Harris, David T.; Burch, Matthew J.; Li, Jing; Dickey, Elizabeth C.; Maria, Jon-Paul. “Low-Temperature Control of Twins and Abnormal Grain Growth in BaTiO3.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 98 (8): 2381-2387 (2015).
45. Tambe, Nisarg; Di, Jin; Zhang, Ze; Bernacki, Susan; El-Shafei, Ahmed; King, Martin W. “Novel genipin-collagen immobilization of polylactic acid (PLA) fibers for use as tissue engineering scaffolds.” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B, 103 (6): 1188-1197 (2015).
44. Lee, Y. F.; Kumar, R.; Hunte, F.; Narayan, J.; Schwartz, J. “Control of intrinsic defects and magnetotransport properties of Bi2Se3/c-sapphire epitaxial heterostructures.” Acta Materialia, 95, 57-64 (2015).
43. Moering, Jordan; Ma, Xiaolong; Chen, Guizhen; Miao, Pifeng; Li, Guozhong; Qian, Gang; Mathaudhu, Suveen and Zhu, Yuntian. “The role of shear strain on texture and microstructural gradients in low carbon steel processed by Surface Mechanical Attrition Treatment.” Scripta Materialia, 108, 100-103 (2015). 
42. Kombaiah, B. and K. Murty. “Coble, Orowan Strengthening, and Dislocation Climb Mechanisms in a Nb-Modified Zircaloy Cladding.” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: 46 (10), 4646-4660 (2015).
41.Kombaiah, B. and K. Linga Murty “High temperature creep and deformation microstructures in recrystallized Zircaloy-4.” Philosophical Magazine 95(15): 1656-1679 (2015). 
40. Liu, Lili; Liu, Yi; Wu, Wenjun; Miller, Christopher M.; and Dickey Elizabeth C. “Visualization of film-forming polymer particles with a liquid cell technique in a transmission electron microscope.” Analyst, 140, 6330-6334 (2015). 
39. Zaddach, A. J.; Scattergood, R. O.; Koch, C. C. “Tensile properties of low-stacking fault energy high-entropy alloys.” Materials Science and Engineering A, 636 373-378 (2015).
38. Li, Lulu; Xu, Weizong; Saber, Mostafa; Zhu, Yuntian; Koch, Carl C.; Scattergood, Ronald O. “Influence of scandium addition on the high-temperature grain size stabilization of oxide-dispersion-strengthened (ODS) ferritic alloy.” Materials Science and Engineering A, 636, 565-571 (2015).
37. Parish, Chad M. “When will low-contrast features be visible in a STEM X-ray spectrum image?” Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21, 706-724 (2015).
36. Sweet, William J., III; Oldham, Christopher J.; Parsons, Gregory N. “Conductivity and touch-sensor application for atomic layer deposition ZnO and Al:ZnO on nylon nonwoven fiber mats.” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 33 (1), 01A117 (2015).
35. Singamaneni, Srinivasa Rao; Prater, J. T.; Nori, S.; Kumar, D.; Lee, Bongmook; Misra, V.; Narayan, J. “Ferroelectric and magnetic properties of multiferroic BiFeO3-La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures integrated with Si (100).” Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (17), 17D908 (2015).
34. Punugupati, Sandhyarani; Narayan, Jagdish; Hunte, Frank. “Room temperature ferromagnetism in epitaxial Cr2O3 thin films grown on r-sapphire.” Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (19), 193907 (2015).
33. Cakmak, Enes; Fang, Xiaomeng; Yildiz, Ozkan; Bradford, Philip D.; Ghosh, Tushar K. “Carbon nanotube sheet electrodes for anisotropic actuation of dielectric elastomers.” Carbon, 89, 113-120 (2015).
32. Parish, Chad M.; Field, Kevin G.; Certain, Alicia G.; Wharry, Janelle P. “Application of STEM characterization for investigating radiation effects in BCC Fe-based alloys.” Journal of Materials Research, 30 (9), 1275-1289 (2015).
31. Lomenzo, Patrick D.; Takmeel, Qanit; Zhou, Chuanzhen; Fancher, Chris M.; Lambers, Eric; Rudawski, Nicholas G.; Jones, Jacob L.; Moghaddam, Saeed;
Nishida, Toshikazu. “TaN interface properties and electric field cycling effects on ferroelectric Si-doped HfO2 thin films.” Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (13), 134105 (2015).
30. Sang, Xiahan; Grimley, Everett D.; Schenk, Tony; Schroeder, Uwe; LeBeau, James M. “On the structural origins of ferroelectricity in HfO2 thin films.” Applied Physics Letters, 106 (16), 162905 (2015).
29. Niu, C.; Zaddach, A. J.; Oni, A. A.; Sang, X.; Hurt, J. W., III; LeBeau, J. M.; Koch, C. C.; Irving, D. L. “Spin-driven ordering of Cr in the equiatomic high entropy alloy NiFeCrCo.” Applied Physics Letters, 106 (16), 161906 (2015).
28. Wu, Wei-Chen; Tracy, Joseph B. “Large-Scale Silica Overcoating of Gold Nanorods with Tunable Shell Thicknesses.” Chemistry of Materials, 27 (8), 2888-2894 (2015).
27. Mikijelj, Biljana; Nawaz, Zubair; Kruzic, Jamie J.; Idrobo, Juan; Swab, Jeffrey J.; Oezcoban, Husseyin; Jelitto, Hans; Schneider, Gerold A.; Fett, Theo; Liu, Yi. “Intergranular Nanostructure Effects on Strength and Toughness of Si3N4.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 98 (5), 1650-1657 (2015).
26. Ge, Yeqian; Jiang, Han; Zhu, Jiadeng; Lu, Yao; Chen, Chen; Hu, Yi; Qiu, Yiping; Zhang, Xiangwu. “High cyclability of carbon-coated TiO2 nanoparticles as anode for sodium-ion batteries.” Electrochimica Acta, 157, 142-148 (2015).
25. Ma, Χiaolong; Xu, Weizong; Zhou, Hao; Moering, Jordan; Narayan, Jagdish; Zhu, Yuntian. “Alloying effect on grain-size dependent deformation twinning in nanocrystalline Cu–Zn alloys.” Philos. Mag. 95, 301-310 (2015).
24. Ma, Xiaolong; Huang, Chongxiang; Xu, Weizong; Zhou, Hao; Wu, Xiaolei; Zhu, Yuntian. “Strain hardening and ductility in a coarse-grain/nanostructure laminate material.” Scripta Materialia,103, 57-60(2015).
23. Elek J. E.; Zhang Xu A.; Dai Bin; Xu Zhiyuan and Chang Chih-Hao. “Fabrication of three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures using template-directed colloidal assembly.” Nanoscale, 7, 4406-4410 (2015).
22. Zhang Xu, A.;  Dai Bin; Xu Zhiyuan and Chang Chih-Hao. “Sculpting Asymmetric, Hollow-Core, Three-Dimensional Nanostructures using Colloidal Particles.” Small, 11(11), 1285-1292 (2015).
21. Sahoo, Prangya P.; Zoellner, Brandon; Maggard, Paul A. “Optical, electronic, and photoelectrochemical properties of the p-type Cu3-xVO4 semiconductor.”Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3 (8):4501-4509 (2015). 
20. Padbury, Richard P.; Halbur, Jonathan C.; Krommenhoek, Peter J.; Tracy, Joseph B.; Jur, Jesse S. “Thermal Stability of Gold Nanoparticles Embedded within Metal Oxide Frameworks Fabricated by Hybrid Modifications onto Sacrificial Textile Templates.” Langmuir, 31 (3), 1135-1141 (2015).
19. Rasic, Goran and Schwartz, Justin. “On the origin of coercivity reduction in surface patterned magnetic thin films.” Physical Status Solidi A, 212 (2), 449-458 (2015).
18. King, Nacole; Sommer, Roger D.; Watkins-Curry, Pilanda; Chan, Julia Y.; Maggard, Paul A. “Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal Instability of the Cu2Ta4O11 Phase.” Crystal Growth & Design, 15 (2):552-558 (2015).
17. Sang, Xiahan; Grimley, Everett D.; Niu, Changning; Irving, Douglas L.; LeBeau, James M. “Direct observation of charge mediated lattice distortions in complex oxide solid solutions.” Applied Physics Letters, 106 (6) 061913 (2015).
16. Moballegh, Ali and Dickey, Elizabeth C. “Electric-field-induced point defect redistribution in single-crystal TiO2-x and effects on electrical transport” Acta Materialia, 86 352-360 (2015).
15. Rasic, Goran and Schwartz, Justin. “Coercivity Reduction in Nickel Ferrite (NiFe2O4) Thin Films Through Surface Patterning.” IEEE Magnetics Letters, 5, Article No. 5000104 (2015). 
14. Qin, Qingquan; Yin, Sheng; Cheng, Guangming; Li, Xiaoyan; Chang, Tzu-Hsuan; Richter, Gunther; Zhu, Yong; Gao, Huajian. “Recoverable plasticity in penta-twinned metallic nanowires governed by dislocation nucleation and retraction.” Nature Communications, 6, Article No. 5983  (2015)
13. Gonzalez, Carlos M.; Wu, Wei-Chen; Tracy, Joseph B. and Martin, Benjamin “Photochemical synthesis of size-tailored hexagonal ZnS quantum dots.” Chemical Communications, 51 (15), 3087-3090 (2015).
12. Oni A. A., Sang X., Raju S. V., Dumpala S., Broderick S., Kumar A., Sinnott S., Saxena S., Rajan K., LeBeau J. M. “Large area strain analysis using scanning transmission electron microscopy across multiple images.” Applied Physics Letters, 106 (1), Article No. 011601 (2015).
11. McClure C. D., Oldham C. J. and Parsons G. N. “Effect of Al2O3 ALD coating and vapor infusion on the bulk mechanical response of elastic and viscoelastic polymers.” Surface & Coatings Technology, 261, 411-417 (2015).
10. Kombaiah B. and Murty K. L. “Dislocation cross-slip controlled creep in Zircaloy-4 at high stresses.” Materials Science and Engineering A, 623, 114-123 (2015).
9. Pacardo D. B., Neupane B., Wang G., Gu Z., Walker G. M. and Ligler F. S. ” A temperature microsensor for measuring laser-induced heating in gold nanorods.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 407 (3), 719-725 (2015).  
8. Biancoli A., Fancher C. M., Jones J. L. and Damjanovic D. ” Breaking of macroscopic centric symmetry in paraelectric phases of ferroelectric materials and implications for flexoelectricity.” Nature Materials, 14, 224-229 (2015).
7. Boyd D. A., Bezares F. J., Pacardo D. B., Ukaegbu M., Hosten C. and Ligler F. S. “Small-Molecule Detection in Thiol-Yne Nanocomposites via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” Analytical Chemistry, 86 (24), 12315-12320 (2015).
6. Zhao J. J., Gong B., Nunn W. T., Lemaire P. C., Stevens E. C., Sidi F. I., Williams P. S., Oldham C. J., Walls H. J., Shepherd S. D., Browe M. A., Peterson G. W., Losego M. D. and Parsons G. N. “Conformal and highly adsorptive metal–organic framework thin films via layer-by-layer growth on ALD-coated fiber mats.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, 1458-1464 (2015).
5. Jiang H., Ge Y., Fu K., Lu Y., Chen C., Zhu J., Dirican M. and Zhang X. “Centrifugally-spun tin-containing carbon nanofibers as anode material for lithium-ion batteries” Journal of Materials Science, 50 (3), 1094-1102 (2015).
4. Li Y., Yu Y., Huang Y., Nielsen R. A., Goddard W. A., Li Y. and Cao L. ” Engineering the Composition and Crystallinity of Molybdenum Sulfide for High-Performance Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution.” ACS Catal., 5 (1), 448–455 (2015). 
3. Yu Y., Hu S., Su L.,Huang L., Liu Y., Jin Z., Purezky A. A., Geohegan D. B., Kim K. W., Zhang Y. and Cao L. “Equally Efficient Inter layer Exciton Relaxation and Improved Absorption in Epitaxial and Nonepitaxial MoS2/WS2 Heterostructures.” Nano Letter, 15 (1), 486–491 (2015).
2. Shafiefarhood A., Stewart A. and Li F. X. “Iron-containing mixed-oxide composites as oxygen carriers for Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU)” Fuel, 139, 1-10 (2015).
1. Galinsky N. L., Shafiefarhood A., Chen Y., Neal L. and Li F. “Effect of support of redox stability of iron oxide for chemical looping conversion of methane.” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 164, 371-379 (2015).