A. Paul Alivisatos

Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells.

Sorting fluorescent nanocrystals with DNA.

Epitaxial growth and photochemical annealing of graded CdS/ZnS shells on colloidal CdSe nanorods.

Synthesis of hcp-Co Nanodisks.

Shape control and applications of nanocrystals.

Origin and scaling of the permanent dipole moment in CdSe nanorods.

Controlled growth of tetrapod-branched inorganic nanocrystals.

Room-temperature single-nucleotide polymorphism and multiallele DNA detection using fluorescent nanocrystals and microarrays.

Surfactant-assisted elimination of a high energy facet as a means of controlling the shapes of TiO2 nanocrystals.

Quantum dot-based cell motility assay.

Collective behaviour in two-dimensional cobalt nanoparticle assemblies observed by magnetic force microscopy.

Multielectron ionization of CdSe quantum dots in intense femtosecond ultraviolet light.

Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale Kirkendall effect.

Employing end-functional polythiophene to control the morphology of nanocrystal-polymer composites in hybrid solar cells.

Colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures with linear and branched topology.

Isotropic-liquid crystalline phase diagram of a CdSe nanorod solution.

Discrete nanostructures of quantum dots/Au with DNA.

Integrated semiconductor nanocrystal and epitaxical nanostructure systems: structural and optical behavior.

Gold nanorods as novel nonbleaching plasmon-based orientation sensors for polarized single-particle microscopy.

Semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots on single crystal semiconductor substrates: high resolution transmission electron microscopy.

A molecular ruler based on plasmon coupling of single gold and silver nanoparticles.

Quantum-dot-based cell motility assay.

Quantum dots as cellular probes.

A beamline for high-pressure studies at the Advanced Light Source with a superconducting bending magnet as the source.

Semiconductor nanocrystals for biological imaging.

Femtosecond spectroscopy of carrier relaxation dynamics in type II CdSe/CdTe tetrapod heteronanostructures.

Electrical transport through a single nanoscale semiconductor branch point.

Colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and the organic-inorganic interface.

High-temperature microfluidic synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals in nanoliter droplets.

Air-stable all-inorganic nanocrystal solar cells processed from solution.

Controlled synthesis of hyperbranched inorganic nanocrystals with rich three-dimensional structures.

Calibration of dynamic molecular rulers based on plasmon coupling between gold nanoparticles.

The concept of delayed nucleation in nanocrystal growth demonstrated for the case of iron oxide nanodisks.

Cellular effect of high doses of silica-coated quantum dot profiled with high throughput gene expression analysis and high content cellomics measurements.

Continuous distribution of emission states from single CdSe/ZnS quantum dots.

Two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays show the organizational power of robust DNA motifs.

First-principles modeling of unpassivated and surfactant-passivated bulk facets of wurtzite CdSe: a model system for studying the anisotropic growth of CdSe nanocrystals.

Faceting of nanocrystals during chemical transformation: from solid silver spheres to hollow gold octahedra.

Second harmonic generation and confined acoustic phonons in highly excited semiconductor nanocrystals.

Crystal splitting in the growth of Bi2S3.

Controlled assembly of hybrid bulk-heterojunction solar cells by sequential deposition.

Mechanistic study of precursor evolution in colloidal group II-VI semiconductor nanocrystal synthesis.

Semiconductor quantum rods as single molecule fluorescent biological labels.

Measuring cell motility using quantum dot probes.

Hybrid solar cells with prescribed nanoscale morphologies based on hyperbranched semiconductor nanocrystals.

Use of plasmon coupling to reveal the dynamics of DNA bending and cleavage by single EcoRV restriction enzymes.

IR spectroscopic observation of molecular transport through Pt@CoO yolk-shell nanostructures.

Spontaneous superlattice formation in nanorods through partial cation exchange.

Optical properties of ZnO/ZnS and ZnO/ZnTe heterostructures for photovoltaic applications.

Vacancy coalescence during oxidation of iron nanoparticles.

SnTe nanocrystals: a new example of narrow-gap semiconductor quantum dots.

Seeded growth of highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanoheterostructures with rod and tetrapod morphologies.

High-resolution EM of colloidal nanocrystal growth using graphene liquid cells.

Millisecond kinetics of nanocrystal cation exchange using microfluidic X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

Self-assembled binary superlattices of CdSe and Au nanocrystals and their fluorescence properties.

Isolation of discrete nanoparticle-DNA conjugates for plasmonic applications.

TiO2 nanoparticles as a soft X-ray molecular probe.

Electrical contacts to individual colloidal semiconductor nanorods.

Enzymatic ligation creates discrete multinanoparticle building blocks for self-assembly.

Metallic nanoparticles used to estimate the structural integrity of DNA motifs.

Synthesis and photovoltaic application of copper(I) sulfide nanocrystals.

A nanoplasmonic molecular ruler for measuring nuclease activity and DNA footprinting.

Protein-nanocrystal conjugates support a single filament polymerization model in R1 plasmid segregation.

Correlation analysis of TEM images of nanocrystal molecules.

Reaction chemistry and ligand exchange at cadmium-selenide nanocrystal surfaces.

How does solar power work?

Sulfidation of cadmium at the nanoscale.

Birth of a nanoscience building block.

Formation mechanism and properties of CdS-Ag2S nanorod superlattices.

Pyramidal and chiral groupings of gold nanocrystals assembled using DNA scaffolds.

Photovoltaic devices employing ternary PbSxSe1-x nanocrystals.

Selective facet reactivity during cation exchange in cadmium sulfide nanorods.

Materials availability expands the opportunity for large-scale photovoltaics deployment.

Nanocrystal diffusion in a liquid thin film observed by in situ transmission electron microscopy.

Observation of single colloidal platinum nanocrystal growth trajectories.

Reaction regimes on the synthesis of hollow particles by the Kirkendall effect.

Strain-dependent photoluminescence behavior of CdSe/CdS nanocrystals with spherical, linear, and branched topologies.

Enhanced semiconductor nanocrystal conductance via solution grown contacts.

Probing the conformational distributions of subpersistence length DNA.

Hetero-epitaxial anion exchange yields single-crystalline hollow nanoparticles.

Wurtzite to rocksalt phase transformation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals via laser-induced shock waves: transition from single to multiple nucleation.

Continuous imaging of plasmon rulers in live cells reveals early-stage caspase-3 activation at the single-molecule level.

Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites.

Synthesis of PbS nanorods and other ionic nanocrystals of complex morphology by sequential cation exchange reactions.

Device-scale perpendicular alignment of colloidal nanorods.

From artificial atoms to nanocrystal molecules: preparation and properties of more complex nanostructures.

Modular inorganic nanocomposites by conversion of nanocrystal superlattices.

Quantification of thin film crystallographic orientation using X-ray diffraction with an area detector.

Coupling of optical resonances in a compositionally asymmetric plasmonic nanoparticle dimer.

Transition from isolated to collective modes in plasmonic oligomers.

Nanoheterostructure cation exchange: anionic framework conservation.

Luminescent nanocrystal stress gauge.

Precursor conversion kinetics and the nucleation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals.

Self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles in evaporating solution.

Controlled synthesis and size-dependent polarization domain structure of colloidal germanium telluride nanocrystals.

Size-dependent polar ordering in colloidal GeTe nanocrystals.

Assembled monolayer nanorod heterojunctions.

Localized surface plasmon resonances arising from free carriers in doped quantum dots.

Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus.

Spatially indirect emission in a luminescent nanocrystal molecule.

Three-dimensional plasmon rulers.

Observation of transient structural-transformation dynamics in a Cu2S nanorod.

Graphene veils and sandwiches.

Observations of shape-dependent hydrogen uptake trajectories from single nanocrystals.

Photovoltaic performance of ultrasmall PbSe quantum dots.

Structural and electronic study of an amorphous MoS3 hydrogen-generation catalyst on a quantum-controlled photosensitizer.

Highly luminescent nanocrystals from removal of impurity atoms residual from ion-exchange synthesis.

Tunable localized surface plasmon resonances in tungsten oxide nanocrystals.

Probing redox photocatalysis of trapped electrons and holes on single Sb-doped titania nanorod surfaces.

Direct observation of nanoparticle superlattice formation by using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy.

Size-controlled model Co nanoparticle catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation: synthesis, characterization, and catalytic reactions.

Near-field manipulation of spectroscopic selection rules on the nanoscale.

Design of nanostructured solar cells using coupled optical and electrical modeling.

Metallic adhesion layer induced plasmon damping and molecular linker as a nondamping alternative.

Dielectric core-shell optical antennas for strong solar absorption enhancement.

The brain activity map project and the challenge of functional connectomics.

Ferroelectric order in individual nanometre-scale crystals.

Metastability in pressure-induced structural transformations of CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals.

Controlled chemical doping of semiconductor nanocrystals using redox buffers.

Determination of the quantum dot band gap dependence on particle size from optical absorbance and transmission electron microscopy measurements.

Probing the interaction of single nanocrystals with inorganic capping ligands: time-resolved fluorescence from CdSe-CdS quantum dots capped with chalcogenidometalates.

Ion exchange synthesis of III-V nanocrystals.

Selective Placement of Faceted Metal Tips on Semiconductor Nanorods.

Anisotropic formation and distribution of stacking faults in II-VI semiconductor nanorods.

Size-dependent assemblies of nanoparticle mixtures in thin films.

Size-dependent dissociation of carbon monoxide on cobalt nanoparticles.

Neuroscience. The brain activity map.

Nanotools for neuroscience and brain activity mapping.

Tetrapod nanocrystals as fluorescent stress probes of electrospun nanocomposites.

Controlling electron beam-induced structure modifications and cation exchange in cadmium sulfide-copper sulfide heterostructured nanorods.

Nonmonotonic size dependence in the hole mobility of methoxide-stabilized PbSe quantum dot solids.

Luminescence studies of individual quantum dot photocatalysts.

Controlling localized surface plasmon resonances in GeTe nanoparticles using an amorphous-to-crystalline phase transition.

3D motion of DNA-Au nanoconjugates in graphene liquid cell electron microscopy.

End-to-end alignment of nanorods in thin films.

DNA conformations in mismatch repair probed in solution by X-ray scattering from gold nanocrystals.

Correction to tetrapod nanocrystals as fluorescent stress probes of electrospun nanocomposites.

Revealing bismuth oxide hollow nanoparticle formation by the kirkendall effect.

Doped Nanocrystals as Plasmonic Probes of Redox Chemistry.

Direct Work Function Measurement by Gas Phase Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Its Application on PbS Nanoparticles.

Toward plasmonics-enabled spatiotemporal activity patterns in three-dimensional culture models.

Inorganic Micelles as Efficient and Recyclable Micellar Catalysts.